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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
WHERE THE COMBINATTON!

The Grinnell Herald, following in
the wake of the Montezuma Republl-
can, hints at a secret combination
somehow, somewhere, to deteat Judges
Scott and Clements. In this weeks
issue the Herald says:
"The call for the judicial convention
for this district appears in this issue
OF the Herald. 1t will be held at Grin
nell June 4. Judge Scott, OIL Powe-
shiek, has served but one term and
will be accorded nomination with
out opposition, as he should be. The
same honor will be given Judge
Clements, of Newton. Judge Dewey
will be candidate for fourth term.
Byron Preston, of Oskaloosa, is also
a candidate, as are others. There is
rumor of a combination to prevent
the denomination of Judges Ccott and
Clements, but such a course would be
so repugnant to all principles of fair
ness that we can not give credence to
the report"
The suggestion is probably un-
worthy consideration, but we would
like to know where this combination
was formed, where it now exists, and
who is into it? AS we look on the sit
uation, it is a free-for-all and open
bout, and the man who has the longest
pole is likely to get the persimmon
If there is any dark-dyed, deep-laid
plot in this section, we have been
unable to discover it, but it is no Sc
cret that Mahaska county is going tc
ask and fight for the nomination OF
B. w. Preston, of Oskaloosa, and
speaking for Mahaska republicans, il
we win, it will be with malice toward
none and charity enough to &C
around. If we lose, we are going tc
put up the hardest fight we know how
to make to elect the fellows whom the
Grinnell convention may nominate.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
ALMOST UNANIMOUS.
Our People Vote For Greater 0s-
kaloosa Tuesday.

The Inter Urban Construction Com
pany has been voted franchises by the
citizens of Oskaloosa for an electric
street railway in and about the
city of Oskaloosa, and for an cleo
trio light and power plant in this city
together with contract for lighting
the streets with arc and incandescent
lamps.
Tuesdays vote fell little short OF
fifteen hundred and it was practical
ly unanimous in favor of Mr.. O'Neill
and his propositions, or ordinances
Nos. 226 and 227. In the entire vote
cast there were less than half hum
dred votes unfavorable to the grant
ing of the franchises.
The vote was not as great as was
desired, but it was fair considering
the fact that there was practically no
opposition to the enterprise and every
one conceded that the propositions
would carry. Mr.. O'Neill expresses
himself as pleased with the showings
made by the people of the city. Great
or Oskaloosa is now an assured fact
and work to that end will be COM
menced Immediately.
The vote upon the Electric railway
and the Light ordinances was as fol-
lows:
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
DEFAMER OF WOMEN

President Roosevelt has refused, in
very emphatic manner, to pardon a
man who was sentenced to term of
five years in prison in South Dakota,
for sending obscene Letter through the
mail in which he attacked the charac-
ter of woman. Mr.. Roosevelt's judg-
ment in the matter is so good and so
characteristic of the man that it is in
troduced below:
Denied. In my judgment those
sending this petition, at least the
judge and the district attorney, should
be notified that / sincerely regret that
it is not in my power materially to in
crease the sentence for the scoundrel." :"
Signed by the President.
1t will increase the respect of the
people of the United States and espe-
cially of the women toward Theodore
Roosevelt that he has thus made him.
self the champion of women who have
been slandered and prosecuted by COW.
ardly scoundrels.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27

lie library. And as TO the policy OF
Andrew Carnegie, probably man of
great wealth could have devised no
plan more certain to lay the whole
people under q lasting tribute OF
praise. can think OF only one chance
for rival in the hearts of all the
people, namely, for some one else to
set about building hospitals for cities
after the same plan. And as one who
has sometimes sought to draw the
attention of generous givers to our
community. I wish to unite with
thanks and congratulations to our
fellow-citizens who have the honor of
soliciting this great boon for Oska-
loosa.
But, in fairness to our benefactor
the HERALD will permit me to
make few corrections in dispatch
published Saturday about Mr.. Oar
negie's library endowments. In the
first place, the s25, 900 to Iowa City is
not his largest gift in Iowa. Mount
Vernon received $40, 900. And did not
Ottumwa also receive more than s25,-
900? In the second place, it is very
erroneous to say of Mr.. Carnegie's
gifts, Nothing for the East but two
small sums in New York State"
Pennsylvania towns have not been
neglected. Washington City re-
ceived very large sum, can't re-
call the amount. Pittsburg, the
centre of Mr.. Oarnegie's many man
ufacturing interests, received his
first great gifts in this country.
Within two years he has built
second great institution in Pittsburg.
If my memory serves me rightly, the
two Pittsburg institutions, one
library cost 81 200, 900 each, am not
sure whether one of these was built
before the great Carnegie library in
Edinburgh, Scotland. Mr.. Carnegie's
greatest gift for libraries is 5000, 900
to New York City for number of
sub-libraries to the great central
ilOEdTy buOE0s vi COuNoO uuO hooU
princely gifts by Mr.. Carnegie, for
the largest single gifts by any man of
any age, so far as know, are s10,-
900 900 for the national Carnegie in
stitution at Washington City recently
presented to our government, and
like sum last summer to aid Univers-
ity students in his own native Scot
land. Considering the very remark
able proportion of eminent, influ-
ential Scotchmen in the British
government, in the English churches
and literary life in Great Britain and
over the world, indeed out of all pro-
portion to the number from any other
land, the writer is convinced, that
Mr.. Carnegie's gift to aid the Scotch
youth, whose natural endowment and
talents are of superior order, Is the
wisest single investment ever made
of S10, 900, 900. W. l.. PEARSON.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
IOWA AT THE FRONT.

According to a census bulletin just
issued, Iowa leads the states in the
number of chickens, including guinea
fowls, having 1s,9O7, 1913. Illinois is
second with 16,6OO,72 Texas leads
in the number of turkeys with 64s, ,671
and Missouri second with 466,665.
Kentucky leads in the number of
geese, having 541 $40; Missouri is
second with 42S, 1907. Iowa raises the
largest number of ducks, reporting
4S7 1852; Illinois second with 1872, 1857.
Iowa reports the largest value of
poultry on hand June 1, 1900, being
sc, ,535, ,469; Illinois is second with s6,-
4l5,033. Illinois reports the largest
value of poultry raised in 1899, SILL
3O7 500; Iowa second with SO, ,491 ,s19.
Iowa reported the greatest number
of eggs produced, SO, ,621 ,920 dozen /;
Illinois reports the second largest
number, SO, ,4O2, $40 dozen.
OF the 5,739 ,657 individual farms in
the United States, 5,O96,252 report
poultry. The total number of fowls
months old aud over, we're as fol-
lows: Chickens, including guinea
fowls, 233 ,597 ,Os5; turkeys, 6,599, 1857 /;
geese 5,676, 1858; ducks, 4,s07 1853. The
numbers of nearly all of these classes
of poultry are smaller es reported in
1900 than in 1890, owing to the fact
that in 1890 they reported all fowls
of whatever age, while in 1900 only
those months old and over were re-
ported
The eggs produced in 1899 were l.
293, ,s19 1856 dozen, against 9,722, ,916
dozen in 1889. An increase in the
number of eggs produced, rather
than an increase in the number of
the different kinds of fowls, marks
the progress of this branch of indus
try. The value of poultry on hand
June 1, 1900, was ss5, ,794, 1896; the val
ue of poultry raised in 1899 was $780,
s91 ,S77, and the value of eggs pro-
duced in 1899 was S144 1856, ,15S. The
total income derived by the farmers
from their poultry industry in 1899,
representing the total value of eggs
produced as well as the poultry
raised was s2s1, IFS, OBS This total
makes the poultry industry one OF
the largest connected with agricul-
tura
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
OYERALLS AS AN ISSUE.

Chicago Inter-Ocean: William
Jennings Bryan apparently has en-
tered formally upon his third cam
paign for the democratic presidential
nomination by donning overalls and
jumper and taking up his abode in
barn on his farm, four miles from
Lincoln, Neb. ......
Thus has be stolen a march upon
David Bennett Hill, who carelessly
neglected to don honespun flannel
and corduroys and take up his abode
in hen coop at Wolfert's Roost last
fall. ..........
AS matters stand now, William
Jennings Bryan has the decided ad-
vantage of David Bennett Hill, not
only by being first in the field, but
by establishing his right to claim that
he is the original overalls candidate.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27

-"Great are the comforts of
science" says the Sioux City Journal.
"Hence let no man be disquieted at
the sight of those green spots in his
favorite Roquefort cheese. Let no
suggestion of vulgar mold disturb his
appreciation of this palatable dainty.
Science assures us that the green
spots are the beneficient results of
the labors of a useful bacillus, Pani-
cillium Glaucium by name, provided
by nature for that particular purpose.
Pass the cheese"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
-Colfax Clipper: They don't stay

-Colfax Clipper: They don't stay
with US very long-the boys and girls
we mean. Just few years, first as
household pets and treasures, then
for little while as helpers and COM
panions, and then they are like birds
in the autumn days, and the father
and mother once more sit down and
talk of the boys and girls that are
scattered and gone. Whether you
and mother are left depends upon
how you treated the little folks dur
ing the days when they were with
you. 1t is a sorry proposition when
the only interest children have at
home is that revived when the pro-
bate court divides estate.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
THE ELECTRIC ROAD,
IOGHI.. ], 90 40 81
THE LIGHT CONTRACT,
Yes. No. Defaced. Total.
Total. 1881 81 80 1,4ss


The result of the election means
that the company will now proceed
with it's negotiations toward the build
ing of the necessary plants. 1t will
be in the neighborhood of sixty days
before there will be any marked local
activity, but the plans and prepara-
tions and the contracting for the ma
terial necessary to the carrying out
of the enterprise have been COM
menced and will be pushed by the
company with all possible speed.
Members of the company will be up
on the ground in the immediate future
to complete local arrangements. The
granting of the franchises means that
Oskaloosa will have an improvement
worth in the neighborhood of two
hundred Thousand dollars. The cash
that will be turned loose in the city
by these enterprises will be felt in all
lines of business.
Mr.. O'Neill expresses himself as
highly gratihed with the outcome of
the election and he desires to express
his thanks and appreciation of the
treatment received at the hands of
the people of the city in general and
the assistance and encouragement of
the gentlemen of the city council, the
Board of Trade" and the business
men of the city,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27

-"Barnum was indeed right, says
the Cedar Rapids Republican. "The
American people like to be hum
bugged, and intelligence seems to be
no bar. The average man will al
ways take the something for-nothing
bait, in spite of the experience ofthe
ages. And the worst of it is that the
victims are invariably those who can
i'll afford to lose. They are, more
over, from that class which invests
from no motives which are dishonest
but who are simply misled by an al
Turing prospectus and smooth
agent"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
EASTER STYLES.
millinery Openings Continue During
the Week.

Mrs, j. L. Moore held her annual
millinery opening Monday afternoon
and evening and the same was con-
tinued over Tuesday afternoon; the
great crowd that was in attendance
attested the popularity of Mrs.
Moore's Millinery store, and the
amount of goods sold on the occas-
ion of the opening proved that the
goods shown pleased the many GUS
toners. Mrs. Moore has large fol-
lowing in the city and her spring mil
linery show is always awaited with
much interest by her many patrons.
Miss Luna Walgamod is still at the
head of the department as trimmer
and her work never fails to please.
The understanding that has gained
some circulation to the effect that
Mrs. Moore was going out of the mill
linery business in the city of Oska-
loosa ia entirely erroneous. The lady
has lease upon her present location
that extends through the summer.
She has no intentions of disposing of
her interests In her business and will
continue to serve her many custom
ers as before.
The inclement weather OF the past
week interfered with the Utter Mil.
linery opening to considerable ex-
tent. and hence this popular North
Market Millinery place has been a
place of resort this week for those
seeking spring styles. The Utter
Millinery store has been filling q
place in the Oskaloosa trade that has
made 1t deservedly popular and spe
cial pains have been taken this sea.
son to meet more than ever before
the demands made upon it.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
VOL, SO. NO. 35.
official County Paper.
A WOMAN'S LOVE

~ WOhlkAIN . LON II.
If have fought my baser self and
raised
My thoughts to high ideals, it is due
To this the love have found in you.
AS / in your dear eyes have longing
gazed,
When / look back | find myself
amazed
At what / was; what mire l found
cred through,
So far wandered from the pure and
true,
While all my good intentions fitful
blaZed.
A man is half a savage, and he needs
The woman's presence to arouse his
soul.
Her love has given the world his
noblest deeds;
She is the light that warns him
from the shoal;
The reefs the rocks-where fell des-
truction leads
And dark engulfing waters silent
roll.
EARNEST MoGAFFEY.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27

to be intimately associated with him
for a number OF years in the capacity
OF an humble employe, and we can
assert most sincerely and emphatical-
ly that B. F. Carroll is one of the
cleanest, most honorable and fair
minded men it has ever been our
pleasure to meet. There is no political
machine ever invented that could
turn him from the straight and mar
row path of honesty and uprightness.
A man Of broad intellect, of wide ex-
perience and of good business capa-
city, he will make Iowa an official of
which she may we'll be proud. If you
don't know Frank Carroll, find out
about him before you pledge yourself
to any of the candidates.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
FOR BETTER WATER.
OslSaloosa Water Company Making a
Number OF improvements.

The oskaloosa Water Company has
a number of improvements in pro-
gress in the city aud at the pumping
station at the river. John M. Price
has the contract for the placing of
the new battery of boilers aud is now
engaged in making preparations for
the placing OF the same. In addition
to this piece OF new apparatus call
ed sand catcher is being placed at
the pumping station. This is for the
purpose of gathering the sand par
ticles and silt that gather in the
water at seasons OF the year and
preventing them from getting into
the pumps. Another of these auxii-
iary filters Is being placed at the fl
ter station In this city. bl
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27

The Journal points out as rea-
son why Gus Collard should not be
elected to the council, the fact that
the Armour Packing Company, OF
which Mr.. Collard is local manager,
furnishes Oskaloosa with nearly all
its meat. 1t strikes US that this fact
should be a warm endorsement of
Mr.. Collard's enterprise, and points
out the kind of a man Oskaloosa
needs in the council.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27

-Sigourney News: Hon. r. W..
Clayton, of Oskaloosa, has received
a $4,000 appointment in the treasury
department at Washington. Gov.
Shaw isn't forgetting his Iowa
friends. Mr.. Clayton is competent
to fill the position. The only thing
The News and his friends kick on is
his removal from the Sixth district
and going SO far away from old home
and friends. Yves Clayton has many
friends in the state of Iowa and es-
pecially in the Sixth district.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
The lottery method of disposing

The lottery method of disposing
of government lands will be used in
opening to settlers that portion of the
Red Bud reservation recently pur-
chased by the government from the
Sioux for 81 ,O40,O 200. This method
commands itself from the fact that
the weakest and poorest settler gets
quite as good chance for desirable
claim as his stronger or wealthier
competitor,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
The strawberry plants are in full

The strawberry plants are in full
bloom in central Mississippi. In the
southern part of that state and
northern Louisiana the berries are
ripening rapidly and shipments north
will begin next week. The acreage
in the principal fruit and vegetable
centers in that region is larger this
year than usual. The season there is
a trifle backward But a prosperous
years. business is anticipated.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27

James s. Clarkson, better known
in Iowa as "Ret" is spoken of for the
position of First Assistant Postmast-
er General to succeed Mr.. Johnson
who resigned some time ago and re-
tains his place only until he can be
relieved. Gen. Clarkson held this
same Office when Mr.. Wanamaker
was at the head of the department,
and he made an excellent record.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27

-Oskaloosa property holders came
to the scratch in a splendid way
Monday night when they presented
petition to the city council asking for
an election to vote a tax for the aid
of the Oskaloosa & Tama electric
line. The petition was monster
affair, comprising Il names. There
are only about lao Iividual prop
erty owners in the city, so that three
fourths If them are represented. 1t
was also estimated by memberslof the
Board of Trade aud others who cir
culated the papers, that at least five
sixths of all the property in the city
is represented. This is a most excel
lent exhibit and shows the true
spirit of enterprise possessed by our
people. The election will come April
7, and if it carries, it means that 81
100000 will be expended between
Tama and Buxton, the lions share
of which will be spent in Oskaloosa.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27

ories among the thousands who in
years to come shall make us of the
library. At present the Oskaloosa
public library is housed in the Y. M.
@. A. rooms, but it long since has
outgrown the premises, and now that
the Y. M. O. A. is to have a new
home, the library should be cared
for without delay. The offer is a
chance of a lifetime, and Oskaloosa
should meet Mr.. Carnegie's fair con-
ditions with promptness and graf
itude.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27

-Colfax Clipper: Scott Of
the sixth district, made an over Sun
day visit in the spring city as guest
at the Mason house. He will be a
candidate for denomination by repub-
licans to the same office and stands
a good chance. He has made a good
record on the bench during his first
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27

The Keokuk Gate City suspects
that the story originated by Wash
ington correspondent to the effect
that there is a movement under way
to retire all the Iowa congressman
"was born in the night time after a
late supper in which mince pie and
salads and like comestibles difficult
of digestion were unduly prominent.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
CANDIDATE CARROLL,

Printer and Publisher: B. F. Car
roll, of Bloomfield, has announced
himself as a candidate for state au-
ditor. Mr.. Carroll was formerly q
member of the Iowa senate and is
highly regarded by his old associates.
The writer at one time worked for b.
F. Carroll in our printer days, and
we wish most heartily to endorse his
candidacy. II there Is theIfaintest
streak of "yellow" in man, there is
no way half so good to find 1t out as
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
Swarms of Insects Invade the City on
Monday Night.

The season seems bit early for a
plague of insects, but that is what
happened to the city of Oskaloosa
last evening. A sort of a moth miller
made its appearance about the cleo
trio lights by the tens of hundreds.
They few into the stores and into
residences and wherever a light was
to be found. 1t was the old story of
the moth and the flame over again.
Great swarms of the insects played
about the arc lamps in the streets.
Where the moths came from Is some-
what of a mystery as 1t has been but
a few days since we were having zero
weather in this vicinity.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
MR. cARNEGIE,S OEEER.

The proffered gift by Hon. Andrew
Carnegie, to the citizens of Oskaloosa
should be accepted in the same gen.
erous spirit in which 1t has been
offered. 1t is an institution that Oska-
loosa is sadly in need of, and the
$50, 900 will erect an elegant building,
one that will be credit to the city,
and will stand throughout the COM
ing years living monument alike to
the generosity of the donor and to
the public spiritedness of the people
of today.
The tax necessary to its support
has already been provided. Two
years ago, in accordance with the
state law, the library board was voted
permission to levy a 2 mill tax for
the support of public library. The
board in its wisdom did not abuse its
power, and concluded that one
mill tax for the present would be
sufficient. This yields an income OF
about s14O0 per year. BY increasing
the levy one-third of a mill,-which
the board has the power to do, and
which would never be noticed by
anyone, the necessary $4,000 would
be raised. Or if the city is enlarged
! this spring, as is contemplated, the
levy would not have to be increased
! at all.
The only contingency therefore tc
be met is the provision of suitable
site. This will be Forthcoming In
some generous way. In other places
leading citizens have contributed
sites, thus perpetuating their mem
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27
The New Sharon Star offers thii

The New Sharon Star offers this
sensible advice: Ladies, if you get
an invitation to go to any reception
and time is designated see that you
go at the stated time, and show that
you do appreciate the favor. If you
wait an hour after the time to go,
you are not treating the hostess
right, as she has prepared for your
entertainment
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-03-27

attitude of the nations of the world,
and the outcome will depend on the
answers received from Germany and
the United States. II these two pow
ers favor the same side that will set
tie the matter, but il they disagree,
the end cannot be foreseen.