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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25
BRICKS OF FRUIT PULP.

Secretary Wilson, the energetic
"Tama Jim" of Iowa, who is accom-
plishing 80 much as the head of the
department of agriculture, says that
bricks made of fruit pulp, done up in
oiled paper, hard, compact and well
nigh imperishable, will furnish mater
ial for the building up of a great
American industry and the creation
of many private fortune during the
next few years. This information
ought to be of great interest to the
people of Iowa as thousands upon
thousands of tons of the finest of
fruit rot in the orchards and gardens
of this state every fall, because the
owners do not think it is worth while
to take care of it. Mr.. Wilson says
that Mr.. Taylor, the departments
pomologist who recently returned
from the Paris exposition, brought
back some new and valuable ideas in
regard to bricks of fruit pulp, and
that the department is going to make
the best of them, 30 that within a
few months bricks of strawberry,
raspberry bricks, plum bricks, cur
rant bricks, gooseperry bricks, etc.,
will be on the market for home con-
sumption as we'll as for foreign ship
ment. These bricks retain their
freshness for surprising length of
time, and are all but proof against
deterioration, being perfectly good
and fit for use in any climate
eighteen months or two years after
their manufacture. Fruit pulp bricks
are already being manufactured in
France and, though as yet we are not
manufacturing them commercially in
this country, Mr.. Wilson says there
is every reason to believe that before
long we shall make and sell them in
great quantities to foreign buyers. In
London alone over 400, 900 tons of
jams and jellies are manufactured
every year, and much of the fruit
pulp used is purchased abroad. What
is the reason that Iowa can not have
a fruit pulp factory? "There is mil
lions in it" for a number of persons.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

In this gubernatorial race it may
be well to remember what "Uncle"
Dick Clarkson frequently says: Keep
your eye on Shaw" You can talk
and write all you please about the
popularity and greatness of the vari-
GUS candidates now in the field, but
none of them are so close to the peo-
pie as Leslie M. Shaw. His able and
business administration has endeared
him to the whole state. He is not
the ''favorite son" of any particular
county, nor of any particular repre-
sentative or senatorial district, nor
of any particular congressional or
judicial district, but he is the ad-
mired and honored representative and
business Governor of the entire COM
monwealth, and when the time for
nomination rolls around again the
people may take hand, and if they
do it will be Leslie M. Shaw regard
less of the ambition of any man or
set of men.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25
No TRTTH IN TT.

A few days since The HERALD pro-
pounded the following question to
the Burlington Hawkeye, knowing it
to be in a position to answer correct
ly and knowing that it would SO do.
"Can the Hawkeye tell us anything
about when the Burlington will broad
en- out the narrow gauge and extend
west from here, as has been prom
ised every few weeks since 1sS4?"
And here is their answer as pub
lished in it's editorial columns of the
18th:
$50 far as the Hawkeye knows the
Burlington road people have never
promised" to broaden out the mar
row gauge and extend it west from
Oskaloosa. AS a matter of fact,
whenever The Hawkeye has attempt
ed to verify the many reports pub
lished by Des Moines, Oskaloosa, OF
tumwa and other Iowa newspapers
in that respect, the Burlington officials
have emphatically stated that there
was no truth in them"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25
SEWERAGE

The Washington Press, in discuss
ing the sewerage of that city, talks
just as though it were Oskaloosa un-
der discussion. Read what it says:
"We have spent mint of money
for the drainage and sewerage we
have and we have nothing commen-
surate to show for it. Nearly all that
money has been wasted. 1t has been
an idiotic policy of put-down and
rip-up for the last fifty years. There
was no plan to begin with and to be
adhered to. There could not be in
the remote days of small things be-
fore town additions were made. But
even now there is no intelligent, sci
entific plan. Common sense would
suggest that general survey should
be made, an elaborate system of
sewerage formed on that basis and
every stroke ordered should be de-
tail in that system, put in perma-
nently, so that when it is finished it
would be as coherent as the system
of veins and arteries in human
body, every drain a part of one CO.
lossal whole"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

About three hundred people have
had their taxable valuation raised by
the Board of Review, who have just
finished the labor of going over the
assessm e1ts as returned by the as
SCISSOR. They have set date for the
hearing of complaints or reasons why
this increase should not be made and
City Clerk Leighton has mailed
notices to each person effected. Most
of the raises have been in business
real estate, though moneys and
credits and stocks of merchandise
have also been increased.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25
cARNEGIE,sc COLOSSAL INCOME

CARN COLOSSAL INCOuE
Leslie's Weekly: 1t is said that
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie will retire from
active business life with an income
of at least $40 900, 900 a year. A few
comparisons may be helpful in an
effort to realize what these figures
men. At the average rate of wages
paid to the soldiers in our regular
army Mr.. Carnegie's yearly income
would maintain standing force of
over so 900 men. The average salary
of clergymen in the leading Protest
ant denominations in this country is
about $500. The Pittsburg capitalist,
therefore, will receive an annual in
come sufficient to pay the stipends of
5000 pastors, number greater than
the entire ministerial force of the
Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal
denominations in this country. At
the average per capita cost of living
in America $40, 100000 would be
sufficient TO maintain city of more
than $4,000 population 1t would pay
what would be accounted large sal
ary (s1O, ,000) to 1000 men, and a fair
ly good annual income to ten times
that number. 1t would give about
5000 young men or women college
education, and allow each one of
them not less thar 81 900 for "a start
in the world" Perhaps the s1O,0OO,-
900 in Mr.. Carnegie's hands will do
the world as much good ultimately
as though it we're divided up for some
of these purposes, especially in view
of the announced fact that he pro-
poses to give away the most of it for
public libraries.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25
THE COST OF BID ROADS.

Keokuk Gate City: For several
weeks past business in many Iowa
communities has been practically at
stand still because of the wretched
condition of the roads. There has
been mud embargo on trade of all
kinds, and the losses to business in
consequence amount in the aggregate
to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
II direct tax of even one half of the
amount were levied upon the people
of Iowa they would consider it
great hardship and would spare no
effort to relieve themselves of the
burden. Yet they continue to tole-
rate the enormous expense of bad
roads year after year with seeming
Indifference.
The interruption of business at Ger.
tain seasons of the year is not the
only loss entailed by poor highways.
The increased cost of transportation
of farm products over poor roads as
compared with good ones is a con-
slant source of expense to farmers
and others. A corps of experts sent
out blythe national agricultural de-
partment to ascertain actual con-
ditions in this respect have estimated
that it costs S496, 100000 year to
haul the farm products of the United
States from the farms to points of
rail or water shipment. This is far
in excess of the freight charges levied
by transportation companies, and the
experts say the amount might be re-
duced by two.thirds in every section
if the country was furnished with
good roads. Furthermore, the ex-
| perts estimate that the value of the
country's farms and farm property
| would be enhanced by $4,000, 900, 900
by the construction of permanent
highways through every county and
township in the United States.
The experts estimate the average
wagon haul from farm to point of
shipment is from so to go miles, and
the cost per wagon load is sos in the
northern and eastern states. In the
prairie and southern states the ave-
rage haul s.s miles, and the cost per
wagon load is s2.72. The average
cost of hauling farm products from
the farms to the point of shipment
over the entire United States is %
cents per ton per mile. The rail-
roads charge less than half cent
per mile for hauling these products
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25
LANES Mattiaon was right in

james Mattison was right in re-
fusing to sign an agreement of early
closing of groceries unless the dumb
brute-man's best friend, the horse
was included. Mr.. Mattison says be-
fore he signs an agreement he wants
it to include that the delivery wagon
be put up at six O'Clock in the winter
and at seven O'Clock in the summer.
He should go still further and insist
that the poor dumb brute be given
the care and feed he deserves, and
that the driver be denied whip.
There is room for work of the HUI
name Society among the deliveries
and drays of this city.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25
GIRLS AT SOLDIERS HOME.
Board Of Control Employs Lady Cooks
and Walters

Marshalltown, April 24-The board
of control recently tried the expert
ment of hiring girls to wait on the
tables at the Soldiers Homel at this
place. The work was formerly done
by members of the home, sufficient.
number being detailed for that duty.
They were paid small sum for the
service performed. The employment
of girls was quite an innovation, but
one to which the old soldiers take
kindly. 1t has been decided to make
it permanent feature as 1T has been
found more satisfactorysand some-
what relieves the monotony of the
home life. Most of the girls en-
ployed are younglgirls from fourteen
to twenty years of age. A lady cook
is also employed at the home where
there was formerly a man.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25
SHOT IN A BOAT.
James Eekles Meets Death near Nevada
sunday Afternoon.

Nevada, April 23.-James Eckles,
the l3-year-old son of F, J. Eekles,
residing seven miles northwest Of this
city, was accidentally shot and in
stantly killed last Sunday;afternoon.
The boy, with his brother and another
companion, was in a rowlboat on q
small lake and carried repeating
shotgun with which they were out
hunting. A mud-hen alighted on the
pond and one of the boys asked James
for the gun. James took hold of the
barrel of the gun, intending to hand
it to his companion stock first, but in
swinging it around the hammer struck
on the side of the boat and the gun
went off. The full contents, heavy
charge of shot, entered the boys
bowels and tore them out, making
death almost instantaneous.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

The Des Moines Leader is now
busy in an attempt to defeat the re-
election of R. w. Clayton as mem
Der of the state central committee
from the Sixth district, because he
would not dance to their music and
do their bidding in regard to the To-
eating of the state convention and
the selection of temporary officers.
We never knew the time yet when
the Leader was not humping itself
for the defeat of some republican.
There is one consolation, however,
and that is the republican party pays
but small attention to the mouthings
of such sheets as the Leader, and the
party in the Sixth district will be far
from listening to its tale of woe when
the time comes for the selection of o
member of the state committee, and
they will return Mr.. Clayton without
dissenting voice. He has ably rep
resented the district during his past
term and the fact that he has, and
that the republican majority has in
creased under his management, is
what has disgruntled the democratic
Leader, and it now desires his de-
feat
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

-Rentable property is very scarce
in the city and the:demand for desir-
able property is far in excess of the
supply. A gentleman in search of a
roomy residence since last October
can find no accommodations within
the city and his case is but one of
many. With the demand for resid-
ences and apartments far exceeding
the supply it would appear that a
large apartment house or row of
"fats" would be paying invest
ment in tie city of Oskaloosa.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

to market, or about one-fifth the
amount it costs the farmers them
selves. These figures alone show
how shortsighted is the policy which
makes the farmers of the country in
different to the subject ofgood roads.
The amount saved by the improve
ment of country roads would more
than repay the cost and would be
money in the farmers, pockets be-
sides. Considerations of self-inter-
est should lead to the prompt better
ment of every public highway in the
state
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

ton Friday morning train COM
posed of twelve refrigerator cars
rolled out of Newton, Kan, for Cali
fornia, and each car was laden with
eggs gathered in the vicinity of that
town by one firm," says the Kansas
City journal. THE twelve cars con-
tanned 144,O 900 dozen, or nearly two
million eggs. The train goes as a
special, and it is the first instance of
train carrying nothing but eggs
which has been reported by any road
running into California.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25
TILE .LALL CONTRACTS

The contracts for the erection and
furni shing of the new Jail for Ma
haska county have been awarded by
the Board of Supervisors to the Pauly
Jail Co. furnishing the steel work, to
j. F. Atkinson of Marshalltown for
the construction of the building and
to Frank Baker, of Oskaloosa, for
steam heating and plumbing. There
we're few bids for the work and this
is surprising after the number of con-
tractors who figured upon it. The
awarding of the contracts was de-
layed from time to time by the Board
in the hope that the field of compe-
tition would be broadened. Mr.. John
M. Price was kept at the court house
to explain obscure points in the
specifications and he gave all infor-
nation that he possibly could. When
the time for the submission of final
figures arrived, there we're bat two
competitors in the field and bat one
of these a home man. 1t is stated
that the contractors found the spec
ifications iron clad and exacting on
one hand, and on the other hand it
was impossible to figure with any de-
gree of certainty. The contracts are
now signed and entered into and the
work will be commenced within the
next few days. At last Mahaska Co.
is to get away from the old building
that has served her for Jail purposes
these many years. Now let the Board
see to it that the work be done in ac-
cordance with the plans and specifi-
cations and not have repetition of
the court house building, or repe-
tition of several other buildings, both
private and public, about the city,
which were let to outside contractors.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25


February 10, 1896, the gold hold
ings of the United States treasury
reached the low level of s94, ,239, ,542
April II, 1901, the holdings were
$500, ,27s, 500, the first time in history
that the half billion mark has been
passed This is the largest amount
of gold now held by any single
financial institution in the world and
it is the largest ever held by any in
stitution with one exception-the I'M
perial Bank of Russia, which in Feb
ruary, 1898, raised its total holdings
to $500, 300, 900. At present, however,
the Russian bank holds only $751;
500 900.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

In his report Major John M. Car.
son of the War Department says:
''Prior to the breaking out of the
Spanish war there were 100000
horses in this country, while now
there are only IL 900, 900. Three years
ago horses for calvary mounts cost
$40 each, while now the government
is paving Sl40 -
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

and convictions for vagrancy, the
men being committed to jail at an ex-
pense to the county of over $500. Ii
Montezuma would try Mayor Wray's
plan and make these lazy vagabonds
work on the streets and alleys they
would soon do as they do with Oska-
loosa give her the go by. With labor
in the demand it is, there is no excuse
for this tramp nuisance. 1t may be fat
thing for the officials but it is ex.
pensive to the tax payers.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

If all the railroads entering Os-
kaloosa and obtaining passenger and
freight patronage from her people
would only do as much for the city
as the Iowa Central has in the past
few years, wouldn't we be "crack-
a-jack?" And, by the way, citizen,
why shouldn't they If they expect
vour Datronape?
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25
CAUGHT IN THEIR OWN TRAP

CAUGHT IN THEIR OWN TRAP.
The Maryland democrats who pass
ed the election law for disfranchising
the illiterate negroes are in danger
of causing more damage to their own
party than to the republicans.
Schools are being opened for the ne
groes and republicans are bending
their energies to SO educate the col
ored voters that they will be able to
stand the required test. On the other
hand the illiterate democrats are
angry because. those of their own
party have disfranchised them and
they are arraying themselves ia Bit
ter opposition. Few of them will
take the pains to secure the needed
education to meet the new tests, IS
they are too proud, and so while the
law was intended to reduce the re-
publican vote, the result may be to
cut deeper into the democratic ranks
than into those of the other party.
The blacks will be benefited anyway
for many of them will be induced to
learn to read and write who might
otherwise have remained illiterate.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25
THE ROUSTABOUT.

Roustabout drifted into Kansas
City the other day, and having few
hours time decided to ascertain what
the Western metropolis looked like
to an eye witness. Leaving the Union
station he followed the street car
lines, thinking they would lead to IL e
business center. Roustabout soon
found himself in streets lined with
weather beaten and tumbled down
houses, inhabited by "dirty white
trash," the off scourings of Europe
and negroes. About every other door
was a saloon and the doors between
led to worse places. The farther he
went the worse the aspect grew, and
Roustabout soon acquired a mighty
poor opinion of Kansas City. Stand
ing on rickety bridge that spanned
the muddy and raging Missouri he
enquired of boy where the respect
able business part of the city was,
and was directed with a point of the
finger, and the suggestion you'd
better take a car" Following the
youngsters advice it was not long
until Roustabout found himself in the
mart of commerce, where elegant
new buildings and fine stores suggest
prosperity and enterprise. Such is
the lesson of life. How much de-
pends on getting start in the right
direction. And again, how many
people, knowingly in ruts, plod along
from day to day either too proud or TOO
shiftless to make change. They go
to their graves in the poverty of this
worlds blessings, when by needing
even a child's advice, they might
have mounted to luxury of useful
ness and good cheer.
~.
Next to Texas, Kansas City has
gone wild on the Texas oil strike.
The railroads, no doubt, are account
able for much of the excitement, as
there are several competing lines, and
each one of them is making desper-
ate effort to take every citizen OF
Missouri to Texas at once. Emigra-
tion is lively, as there are always
many people anxious to seek their
Eldorado in new fields. 1t is being
heralded abroad, and the figures are
not exaggerated, that since the Lucas
oil geyser was struck in the Beau
mont field January 10, 102 oil
companies have been chartered In
Texas, with an aggregate capital o
s2s, ,537 900.
~.
In the museum of the Public Ii
brary at Kansas City Roustabout raj
onto an Indians buckskin JACKIE
that is the envy of every member o
the B.P.O.E. who knows of its exist
ance. 1t Is literally covered wit
elks' teeth and is in itself an affidavi
that 752 OF the noble animals wer
slaughtered for its decoration.
II Roustabout was Roman b
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

Trouble from the bicycle scorch-
er has commenced. The runaway,
the damage to team and property
and the narrow escape from bodily
injury to the driver Monday evening,
was caused by the scorcher. A little
attention from the police would stop
all this, and the people of Oskaloosa
demand this at their hands.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

One of the strongest arguments
that is brought to the support of the
candidacy of R. w. Clayton for re-
election to the state central commit
tee is the fact that he is being SO
generally opposed by the Democratic
state organization and the Demo-
cratic press of the state.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

might be proud of the fact that this
city was built on seven hills, but II
he was compelled to live in Kansas
City he would want portable ele-
vator. There may be more than seven
hills here but there seems to be but
one, ,and that has to be climbed every
time you want to go anywhere.
THE RoUsTABoUT,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

The Des Moines Leader wants to
see R. w. Clayton defeated as mem
Der of the Republican State commit
tee. So does the Democratic Sioux
City Tribune and Cedar Rapids Ga
zette. And what is true of them is
likewise true of every democratic
politician and newspaper in the Sixth
4 liatrint
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25
Iowa City is agitating street pay

Iowa City is agitating street paw
ing and are divided between maca-
dam and brick. If they ever had
any experience between the two they
would soon settle the matter in favor
of the brick, and that even though
1t cost triple what macadam would.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

"A Des Moines paper brags that
"Des Moines has railroads in every
direction except straight up and
straight down." The Boone Repub-
lican is unable to understand why
the devil has omitted such an impor-
tant terminal" But it seems he has?
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

Gasoline street and city lighting
for small towns is the popular thing
just now. 1t wins favor everywhere.
Fairfield voted by an overwhelming
majority to put in such plant. He'd
rick, Winfield, Mediapolis and Morn
Ing Sun are putting in modern easo-
line lighting systems.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

Few farmers are to be seen in the
city these days. The ground is quite
wet in some places in the country,
but operations for getting farm work
well inaugurated and the crops in are
being pushed along rather vigorously.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

-"Six days shalt thou do all that is
possible and on the seventh do the
rest.'' Not exactly as the command
was given but the way it was gener-
ally interpreted.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-04-25

-"If every city in Iowa will go
right out after business there will
not be much the matter with Iowa in
a couple of years." is the wise con-
clusion of the Clinton Herald. That
is pretty we'll put.