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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12


Miss Edith Harris, daughter of
Rev. Fred Harris who resided in
this city previous to a few years
ago, was married in Greenfield Ia.
this week to Mr. Roy Williams.
They will make their future home
in Newport Neb.
Mira. John L. SHELTON and Mrs.
Frank Adams visited here last
night with Mrs VIM II Withrow.
They we're eproute home, after
several days sojourn at the Priest
D'sr sanitarium neariCsnova, g. ID.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12
Friday, June 6

Earl jackson who has been
working in Sioux City for the past
several weeks returned to Mis-
souri, Valley last night.
The base ball team of the Mis-.
souri, Valley High School and a
crowd of loyal !. rooters depa1ted
this morning for Blair where they
will play a game with the team Of
the Blair High School this after
noon.
b Wick returned today to Gretna
Neb. after spending few days
here looking after his business
interests.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12
Carpet Weaving

Price for weaving carpets Brick
work carpet l5c per yard Hit. and
miss carpet l0c per yard. Rugs
three quarter wide, lOc per yard.
Mrs. Rebecca Campbell living one
mile East of Loveland, at David
Campbell place.
CT Alcott departed last night
for Denver, Col, where he goes to
look after the arrangements for
bringing home the remains of VIM
Larson, a Missouri Valley boy who
died in Denver hospital yester-
day afternoon.
Mrs w M Clark, who has been
the guest of Donnelly, 10. rela.
tives for the past several weeks,
will return home tomorrow,
Mr. and Mrs Pierce Welch are
paying Omaha acquaintance a
short visit.
Mr. and Mrs Frank Kellogg af-
ter several days visit here with
the c. w. Kellogg and b j Moore
families, departed yesterday even
ing for their home in Connecticut.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12
Residence Property for Sale.

My residence property on North
McGavren street. also four lots on
Crown Hill and two lots on North
Fourth street, all in Missouri Valley
are now offered for sale az real:bargain
prices. For further particulars cal
at state Savings Bank or address
Arthur Mooney,
" j 30 Remsen, la.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12
Cottonwood Lumber for Sale

! have plenty of cottonwood
lumber always on hand at my
mill near Mobiles Lake. Call or
address me at Grabil, la.
jwl7 M e Meyers
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12
NORTH WESTERN HOLDS AN.
NUAL ELECTION
Marvin HuShitt Elected President
and Beard Remains the
Same.

Despite the oft repeated rumors
to the contrary the annual meet
ing of the Stockholders of the Chi
cago and North Western system
held in Chicago yesterday was
without incident. Marvin Hugh
lit was reelected TO the Presidency
of the great corporation and the
Board of Directors remains I'M
changed
The financial statement
ending May 81, 1902, shows gross
earnings from operating, SAG,
S36; operating expenses, S2S, 1884,
674; taxes, etc, ST, 4l0, ll8; interest
etc, Sc, 46O,O3S; construction and
improvement expenses, 81, $685. 65;
total expenditures aside from di.
vidends, $4l,242,l9l; dividends,
g per cent on preferred and Z per
cent on common stock, So, 524, 469;
surplus, Sl,34O,257. The percent
age of operation expenses, includ-
ing taxes, to earnings, was 81 2G
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12
COLORADOSPECIAL STRIKES
A LAND SLIDE AT Cries.
CENT.
Ran Clear Through Obstruction
Before Stopping.

The Chicago auu North West
ern's Limited passenger train,
known MS the Colorado speciui"
due t" leave Missouri Valley west
bound Mt lO:D5 p m struck land
slide at Crescent City this morn
ing at $3.50 and but for the ex-
tremely fortunate trend of cir
cumstnuces there might have been
j, a serious wreck
Lust nights heavy rain locsen4d
a large quantity Of clay on the
bunk running alongside the right
of way ner Crescent City AMI
several toms OF the s,ggv mass
|slid onto the track covering the
rails completely. The presence
|Ot the obstruction on the track
was unknown tn the train men
and when the Colorado Special
struck the landslide il WAS pro-
ceeding under full head uf steam
in the effort to make up some of
the tive h .urs time Loaf at a wash
Tout near Carroll. When the en-
gino struck the mass Of clay the
mud WAS thrown i'm every direction,
theengIne and heavy train plough-
ing clear through the several cars
lengths of mud before tho engi-
neer could bring the engine to a
standst.ll. Several steps were
broken from thu cars, the engine
partially disabeled and the pas
sengers given severe scare but
aside from those, nothing serious
resulted.
"Meet me at the Valley ON the
Fourth"
Policeman August Kiss leaves
this evening at six o'clock for
Chicago whore ho will spend
several days at the Pasteur In
.titute having his wounds, receiv-
ed while killing mad dog, treated
by specialist. The City of Mis-
souri, Valley will pay the expenses
of the trip and treatment as the
authorities think it is due Mr. Kiss
as he was injured while in pre-
Torrance of his duty.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12

ii L Harvey is in Dubuque
this week attending the Masonic
grand Lodge, and Mrs Harvey is
visiting in Mo Valley with her
parents during his absence. Mr.
Harvey will go from Dubuque to
Des Moines to attend a state meet
ing of County Recorde. s.-Ob-
server.
Mrs FL ID Alice and children
arrived from Omaha yesterday
evening and will visit here over
Sunday, the guests of DR. and Mrs
Colt.
Mrs Pearl Weir of Omaha ia in
the city visiting her sister, Mrs r
w Schnurr.
Miss Vera Foss arrived home
yesterday from Lincoln Neb.
j. 81. Patterson, Architect in
charge of the improvements on the
old Bump & Smith building, will
leave this evening for Chicago on
a short business trip.
Three or four boys between the
ages of fifteen and eighteen,
whose names we will not mention
this time, managed to surround
enough money to acquire keg of
beer last Saturday night and what
a time they had and how drunk
they got. Don't act that way boys
just because you see older fellows
doing it. You ought to have more
sense, even if your elders haven't.
observer.
Mrs. A Il French, of Blair, Neb.
is in the Valley the guest of Mrs
Norton for few days.
Miss Adde Barnhart has for
over Sunday guests, Misses Vera
VanScoy and Lucy Hyde of Lo-
gan.
Mrs j Vickers and mother went
to Castana and will visit there
with relatives for few days.
r Newton has six teams busy
this week hauling sidewalk brick
from Rode.
Bruce Fleming, student in the
law classes at the Nebraska Uni
versity in Lincoln, arrived in the
city yesterday and will spend the
summer here with his father r g
Fleming.
ii g Kelsey and Miss Kate Sci
berg, both former residents of
this city were married in Omaha
this week and are now located in
Cheyenne Wyoming.
Miss Bina Oviatt has resigned
her position at Baldwin's bakery.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12
Passenger Service on Fast
Mall Discontinued.


Because of pressure brought to
bear own the management of the
North Western by representatives
of the other four trunk lines be-
tween Omaha and Chicago the
North Western announces it will
discontinue its passenger service
on the East bound fast mail train
after next Sunday.
This service, innaugurated a few
weeks ago by the North Western
in meeting the competition offered
by the Rock Island took away the
breath of all the passenger agents
as they had nothing to offer that
would in any way compete with
the North Westerns guarantee to
land Omaha passengers in Chica-
go in about ten hours. With the
discontinuance of the Fast Mail
passenger service, the North
Western still maintains the fastest
regular passenger train, the Over
land limited making the run in
Ii hours and forty-five minutes.
Peter Larson, of Sioux City, ar
rived here last night, called here
by a telegram announcing the
death of his brother.
Alex Moore having completed
the terms course of study at Grin
nell, arrived homo last night, and
will spend the summer vacation
here with his parents Mr. and Mrs
B. j. Moore.
Zen Moore arrived from Dun.
lap today and will visit here over
Sunday with his mother, Mrs B J
Moore. He leaves the first of next
week for a pleasure trip to the
Pacific coast.
Prosecuting Witness did not Pros.
eCute.
The case against August Wal
ton, charged with Grand Larceny,
on call in Justice French's
Court this morning, failed to come
to trial. Nike Coyle, of Loveland,
the prosecuting witness in the &C.
ton, appeared in court aud asked
that the case against Walton be
dismissed, the complaining wit
ness to pay all costs incurred.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12
Crop Bulletin.

Week Ending june 9, 1902, Des
Moines, lathe average tempera-
ture of the past seven days was
from two to four degrees below
normal, with light rainfall, except
in scattered localities. The week
closed with higher temperature
and showery weather. The con-
ditions were generally favorable
For farm work, and the dry weather
afforded opportunity to cultivate
the corn fields, which we're becom-
ing very weedy in all sections
where rainfall had been excessive.
The northwestern counties need
copious rains, but the bulk of the
state would be benefited by week
or two OF warm, dry weather, to
facilitate the cultivation of corn
and prevent damage to small grain
by growing too rank. The corn
acreage is practically all planted,
and generally good stand has
been secured, with fair prospects,
it conditions are favorable for
timely and thorough cultivation.
Pastures, meadows, potatoes and
garden vegetables are making fine
growth. There are variable re-
ports as to apples plums and cher
ries, but the average is below nor
NAL.
Frank Kirk and Joe Pinnell, of
Council Bluffs, are spending this
week at Mobiles Lake. They are
in the Valley today visiting
friends and report some marvel
Gus basscatches out there.
Mrs j = Benedict went to Sioux
City this morning and is enjoying
visit with friends there today.
The town is yours, come get it
on the Fourth of July.
Special sale on light dress goods
all this week at the Leader.
South Omaha j ourn al Stookmen:
An old hog man was calling atten-
ton this morning to the absence
of sickness among hogs now COM
ing forward to market. He said
that during all his experience he
could not remember time when
there were so few sick or broken
down hogs. His theory is that
feeders have been more careful of
the corn owing to its high price
and have fed their hogs judi
ciously. During the seasons when
corn is in abundance and cheap,
farmers and feeders throw out all
that the hogs can eat, and with the
result that they get too much and
their constitutions are under
mined, rendering them especially
liable to disease.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12
Women as Well as Men
Are Made Miserable by
Kidney Trouble.

Kidney trouble prcys upon the mind. dis
courages and lessons ambition; beauty, vigor
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12

Mrs M l. Graft has gone to Lo-
gan to pay relatives there weeks
visit
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12
Good ADVICE.


The most miserable beings in the
world are those suffering from dyspep-
STA and liver complaint. More than
seventy five per cent of the people In
the United States are afflicted with
these two diseases and their effects;
such as sour stomach, sick headache
habitusl costivsness, palpitation of the
heart, heartburn, water brash, gnawing
and burning pains at the pit of the
stomach, yellow skin, coated tongue
and disagreeable taste i'll the mouth
coming up of food after eating, low
spirits, etc. Go to your druggist and
get bottle of August Flower for 75c
Two doses will relieve you. Try it.
q. s. OsbOrne.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12

and cheerfulness soon
disappear when the kid
neys are out of order
or diseased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
thatit is notuncommon
for a child to be born
afflicted with weak kid
neys. 1.-THE child urin-
afes too often il the
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12
Rebekah Degree lodge.

Lillian Lodge No. 20, will meet
in regular session on Saturday
evening June 9TH, at O'clock.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-06-12

The town is yours, come get j,
on the Fourth of July.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-07-12

After the rope comes -. the wire
about the thickness of a telegraph
wire it is, and six yards long. It is
suspended from the teeth of the men
standing on the pedestals,> as shown
in the illustration. The lady treads
it, passes herself through a hoop while
on it, luEggles on it, plays the guitar
On It, while the men Accompany her
On mandolins. The men next got on
their heads as seen in the illustration.
Their heads rest on pads inserted in
steep pipes and receive the downward
force exercised by the lady performer,
the horizontal force she exercises he
ing resisted by the men grasping the
handles of the supports in front of
them and keeping up a continuous
push backwards, as it were. In this
act the lady has to play her guitar
unaccompanied, and for ever will so
long as human beings are endowed
with only one pair Of hands. The
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-07-12
Madame on the Wire.

the Outlaws are booked right into the
middle of 1908.
What they do is in a measure shown
in the illustrations. One of their
tricks IS with a rope, the ends of
which are held by the teeth of the
male performers, who project in a
horizontal position from steel bars
three yards long inserted into the ped
estals seen in the photographs. The
horizontal position of the performers
is maintained in the only way posi-
bic, viz: by the insertion of the up
per foot in a loop, the other, a good
stride lower down, planted against the
bar, providing the reactionary force
The lady, who, by the way, weighs
100 pounds, vaults into the dip of the
rope, and after a few graceful poises
to show that she is quite happy and
at home, sits upon it as one might
sit upon a swing rope, and performs
the "whirlpool," which is not a very
accurate designation, for a whirlpool
revolves in horizontal plane, where
as Madame revolves in a vertical
plane, turning thirty somersaults, as
it were, only she is on the rope. all
the time, her hands grasping the
sides.
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Some Marvellous lQire Hets:
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poise, and pfrouette, and juggle on the
wire all at once as soon as her huus-
band put the end of it in his mouth;
she simply leant across the wire for
the first day, and gave him an. idea of
her weight, and how it would operate
upon his teeth. Thus, step by step,
they went on the sinews Of his jaw
getting stronger and stronger and
Madame acquiring sufficient conf
dence to enable her to go through her
usual exercises. Then, thought Onl-
law, <<if can hold one end Of the wire
in my mouth, another man can be
similarly trained to hold the other
end. We can then have wire act
with human pedestals. It is a new
show!.. It will astonish the world"
1t has astonished the world, and proof
Of this is furnished by the fact that
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RuBlEs THAT ARE NOT GENUINE

"Reconstructed'' Stones That Have Lit
tie Monetary Value.
Between two and three years ago
there appeared on the market what
is now known to the trade as ire
constructed" ruby. 1t is not an imi'
tation gem. 1t has all the chemical
and physical properties Of the real
thing. 1t is as hard. 1t possesses the
same specific gravity and is as genu-
inely beautiful in color. Even the
cleverest of experts will admit; if he
be pressed, that he distinguishes it
rather by the absence of flaws than
by the presence of defects. A recon-
structed ruby is apt to be too perfect.
Of course. as soon as these stones
began to be sold, people in the jew
elry trade began to try to find out
where. they came from. They discov-
cred that Frenchman had learned
how to fuse small rubies, or fragments
of rubies, in an. electric furnace and
mold the resultant product into one
perfect whole.
In time the purchasing public got
to know this also and the price of the
quasi-artifcial gems dropped by de-
grees from 500 carat to about $50.
Nevertheless, at this reduced price
the manufacturer" and his wife and
son are rapidly accommodating a huge
fortune, and their "pile" will continue
to grow doubtless until either the pub
lie tires of his stones or some one
gets hold of the family secret.
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me during one of my visits. It was
as hard as pebble, his facial mus
Giles being developed as no other mans
are. So with the muscles of his neck.
He offers to lift me from the ground.
sit on the floor; he puts leather
that he bites in his mouth. grab
the projecting end, and he raises me
without an effort. He can raise a
man sitting in chair, tandem cycle
with two men on it, and he can pull
against three men. He could raise
three hundredweight.
AS to how the wire is held, at each
end there is an eye which is grasped
by a hook attached to strong piece
of leather about five inches long. This
leather mouth-piece is shaped at one
end to fit the interior of the mouth,
and has an extra thickness on each
surface here, forming pads or. projec-
tons for the upper and lower front
teeth to catch in case of slip, for it
is by the back teeth that the work is
done. y
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form in each, sometimes as contor-
zionist, sometimes as rider in the ring,
sometimes on the trapeze, and some
times in general acrobating. Then he
had to do the cooking for the others,
who all belonged to Sunny Italy, and,
indeed, to one family. When they
came to St. Petersburg he went to the
Austrian Consul and revealed the
plight he was inflow he worked and
yet had no money, and SO could do
nothing for himself. The consul
promised to assist him and between
them Outlaws flight was arranged. He
led to Odessa and there joined an
other circus as an accomplished all
round performer, at the magnificent
salary of twenty-five cents a day and
his food. 1t was magnificent to him,
who had for eight years shaved for
nothing; and in two years he: foufd
himself the proud possessor of $50.
He now quit circus life and with an
other acrobat began to perform in
halls at gradually increasing prices.
Soon after came his marriage to an
expert French wire performer.
Meanwhile there was nothing in
Outlaws show that differed from what
many other acrobats were doing;
Five years ago, however, he and his
wife were out of an engagement. At
such times :acrobats have to work just
as hard as when they are engaged,
Tor they must keep up their practice.
The gymnasium the Outlaws went to
was too large tor Madame Outlaws
wire to stretch across It, 80. Onllaw
suggested that: he should hold fone
end Of it, the other end being attached
to the wall. This plan proved unsat-
isfactory, a sufficient height not being
attainable, the center of the wire
when Madame was on 7 it, dipping to
the ground. Madame's practice must
be kept up else her occupa ion would
be gone. \. What was ito be done? j: TIA IT,
T In searching for an. answer to this
question it occurred to OnllaWs that he
would try to hold the end Of the wire
II his 4 mout TIT hat would raise st
!. HIGHER. Madame did Il not Il begin Is
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wheels y e on this and mounts. Then the
men men raise their heads and bodies, lift
ing the wire and Madame with. out
stretched arms seated on her machine,
AS they raise their heads and bodies
the combined weight of Madame and
the machine lifts them from their feet
and polses them by their hand and
arms on the supports they are grasp
ing. II Madame falls off they imme-
lately fall to their feet. They achieve
a perfect balance, the weight of the
lady on the wire acting as pound OF
sugar placed in a pair of scales acts
lifting the opposing pound weight.
Altogether the Onllaw performance
is a thoroughly genuine show. and a
most arduous show. 1t seems to re-
fleet the severity of Outlaws early
training: Feel my face" he said to
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The world Of entertainment is more
exacting than the. world of everyday
life. We tolerate late trains, badly
built houses, indifferently cooked
food, imperfectly fitting garments, but
let public performer exhibit the
slightest crudeness in his art, let him
fall short, to the. smallest extent no
ticeable, of displaying an easy COM
mand over his work and accuracy in
executing it and we promptly extin-
guish him with ridicule. These re-
marks receive ample support from the
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career of Gustave On1law, leader of the
Great Onllaw Trio.
Gustave had reached the tender age
of eight when he stealthily quilted
his fathers house in Vienna and at
taehed himself to travelling Italian
circus. This step he bitterly regretted
for the next eight dreadful years,
while he travelled with the show
through Poland, Russia, the Caucasus
and Siberia. During all that period
he never knew what a bed was. His
master gave him a sack and told him
he wanted anything softer than the
round to sleep on to go and steal
traw. This he used to do regardless
II the cuffs and kicks he received
Ehen caught.
Five shows a day they sometimes
rave, and young Onllaw would per-
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climax I'm {. OF the Onl1aw show, however,
Is "a pretty little speech il. broken
English p s. i. aides ana gentlemen. I
viii. now perform "a trick on the wire
which 4 9, ] IL has ever been attempted by
any other lady IN the world 4 The
men ne are stand ling on heir pedestals,
the Il ,5 ends ends of the wire ia their teethSas
lsn lt leaning over the sup ports lin
front iron, of them so sto a How the bi,ccy-
:cle''s length off5 wire 4to slie on the
ground our aces n tthe bicycles
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Highness ordered q boat to i be
brought, and assisted in bringing IT
with her own hands, offering . reward
to the rescuers: The excit ement was
Increased when q man. who had gone
to the help Of the submerged skaters.
himself Isl disapp After !. IS few
minutes Vork three 81 the men we're
rescued alive, but the fourth had al
ready uccumbed. The Princess was
heartily cheered for Ter part III the
rescue
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PeFf0ct1v So<,seod

PERFECTLY Satisfied.
fapa-1s the teacher satisfied with
you?
Toby-O, quite.
Fapa-D1d he tell you so?.
Toby:-Yes. After a close examjna.
lion ne said to me the other day, IF
All my scholars were like you I
would shut up my school this verv
aay! That shows that l know
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THE !: B! HUM o B o LIZ 8 &.
LITTLE. JEsTs. THAT TEND 70 DRIVE
+ .3:5. Tx, s AWAY DULl CARE. :: /s \.
Tho Latest and Best Definition Of 4 !
! soeiable Man why one, L,tt,s i. 10y =
/ Did Net Fish on the Sabbath Bless.
I inKs OF Poverty. +. r. II s+=.3 @3~E;5 Z +
Truth VIII Out.

n Y ~~r Truth VIII Out. -. ...:s>,< u
" Sunday School Teacher---1 was very
sorry to hear, Sandy that you went
fishing last: Sunday; you should Ger
tainly set a better example than. that.
Now, here's q little boy Cunning to
newcomer) who does, not go fishing
on the Lords Day. Do you, little
boy? l. - -
Newcomer-No, sir. -. 3D..
Sunday School Teacher-Ah! l
thought as much. One look in that
innocent face was convincing. And
why don't you go fishing on Sunday?
Newcomer-'Cause there amt no
fishing where I live.