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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-12

For an all round primary school you
can't beat the little country school
house, ten or more little folk and a
sweet little woman to teach them. Ev-
cry child may represent a separate
class, but that doesn't matter Each
child has the patient, careful aid in it's
studies which is so largely denied it
when attending the larger and graded
school.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-12

The neatly built stack or the now
full of nice shredded corn fodder has
this year become a common thing all
through the corn belt.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-12

Late rulings OF the postoffice depart
ment shut out the circulation of fake
weather forecasts from the privileges
Of second class matter, and as result
the country at large is benefited. We
shall have just the same kind Of wealth
er as before. but the government will
not be the agent whereby the fakir Is
able to catch and swallow the sucker.
II you wish to destroy the; grove
around your homestead and the fruit
trees in your orchard, turn the stock
loose and let them have the run Of
grove. and orchard. You may charge
the death of the trees up. to borers,
drought or Providence, just as you
please, but the truth is that you killed
the trees the day you turned the stock
in.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-12

1t is pretty well settled that corn
planted on fall blowing will ripen from
a week to ten days earlier than when
planted on spring blowing.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
News in Brief.

Osborn Diegnan, Stuart's Merrimac
hero, arrived in Stuart quite une1-
pectedly. He will be in Iowa about
month, spending his time in Stuart,
Valley Junction and Des Moines.
The Dixon creamery was totally de-
stroyed by fire in SIOUX City. Loss,
$4,000. 1t is believed incendiarism
caused the fire.
w. f. Reynolds, accused of the muir
der of Rev. Samuel Crofton, a blind
negro preacher, near Ireton, August
2, 1901, was acquitted at Orange City.
x naval recruiting station has been
opened in Dubuque under charge of
Lieut.. Blamer.
The first convention of the CONNER
cial teachers of Iowa will be held in
Cedar Falls May 10.
Cleveland S. Cox, 16-year-old boy
of Harlan township, is out of Jail on
bond awaiting trial for attempted
train wrecking.
The death of Rev. William NJ. Fore
man, aged 50, occurred in MARSHALL
town. He was one of the Oldest
Methodist ministers in the state.
The barns and 60 head of cattle and
ten horses of John Neimand, a farm
er living north of Sioux Rapids, were
destroyed by fire, entailing loss of
| SIS, 900.
The University of Iowa defeated the
University of Wisconsin in the annual
debate held at Iowa City.
At Sioux Falls Louis Mass, an in
surance solicitor, was killed in quar-
rel in saloon.
Francis Varga, the well-known Hun
garian patriot, passed away at his
home in Leon. aged about SIS years.
DR.. w. d. Middleton, surgeon in chief
of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railway and dean of the medical de-
partment of the Iowa state univer-
sity, died in Davenport.
| Charles w. Doyle, a travelling sales
man for an eastern drug house, and
, whose residence was Des Moines, fell
i dead as he entered the store of GUS
toner in Adair.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
WRONG MAN AT THE KEY.
Odd Sequel of n "Wire Scrap" BE-
tween Telegraph Operators
Many Miles Apart.

Fighting" over telegraph wire
with a man several hundred miles
away is not an unusual occurrence
among telegraph operators. w. H.
LIE Hew, a Seaboard Air Line train dis
patcher, tells of fight he once had
over the Wire, with an odd sequel,
says the New York Tribune He was
quarreling with an operator. j. H.
Chapman. many miles out on the road,
and as the quarrel waXed warm lie
Hew declared he would go down the
next day and personally whip his an
tagonist. Chapman thought it would
result as most "wire scraps" do-in
nothing-and did not worry any more
about it, believing he and LIE Hew
would be as good friends as ever the
next time they worked together over
wire. The next day, however, LIE
Hew boarded local freight train, and,
according to promise, got off at the
distant station to whip Chapman. He
walked into the telegraph office and
demanded:
care you the operator here?"
eyes, sir" replied the man att The
instrument.
Without further ado lie Hew sailed
in and whipped him.
That night Chapman called up LIE
Hew, saying he was surprised that lie
Hew had come there while he was
away at dinner and had whipped his
substitute.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
Children Murdered.

The mutilated bodies of two of the
children of Peter j. Peterson, Mary,
aged Is, and Thomas, aged II, were
found on the north outskirts of Des
Moines. The girl was dead and the
boy died Is minutes after the discov-
cry without giving any clew to the
murderer. The girl had been ASSAULT
ed, and, presumably, killed with her
brother to prevent discovery. The po-
lice arrested negro, James Hutch
ms, aged 81, but he proved an alibi.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
IOWA STATE NEWS.
Loves an Unknown Girl.

Lieut.. Charles A. Barron, of Cleve-
land, O., has fallen desperately in love
with Council Bluffs girl whom he
never met, whom he saw but once, and
whose name he does not know. He
went to Council Bluffs from Pittsburg,
Pa, and took position as motor con-
ductor in order to find her and win
her hand. Barron was private in
battery o, Third Ohio artillery, which
passed through Council Bluffs en- route
to the Philippines four years ago, and
saw the young woman in the crowd on
the depot platform.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
Latter Day Saints.

The u. r. L. society, an auxiliary of
the Latter Day Saints, operated chiefly
by the younger members of the church
for literary improvement, met in La
moni. A committee on revision of con-
stitution and bylaws was appointed,
and also one on religious quarterlies.
which it is urged should be issued.
The following officers for the ensuing
year were chosen: President, j. A.
Gonsollay; vice president, ANON
White: secretary, Mrs. Ella Hitch
cock; treasurer, w. J. Matter.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
Death of n Veteran.

Col. Elliott Shurtz, one of the best
known war veterans in Iowa, died
at the soldiers home at Marshall
town, aged IA years. AS a boy he
served through the Mexican war. In
the civil war he served in the Thir-
teenth Iowa infantry and was COM
missioned colonel for conspicuous
gallantry on the field of Shiloh. He
was wounded and taken prisoner in
the campaign before Atlanta.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
Convicted of Murder.

The jury in the Louis Busse murder
case at Waverly returned verdict of
guilty in the first degree and ordered
a sentence of death by hanging. There
has been no legal execution in Iowa
for eight years. Busse was charged
with fracturing his wife's skull, cut
ting her throat, and then placing her
on a feather bed and setting it on
fire.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
Counter Suit.

Mrs. Anna Graves, of Sioux City, has
sued DR.. j. c. Krejci, a well-known ply
sician, for $685. damages. Recently
DR.. Krejci sued Mrs. Graves for $545
alleged to have been paid for some
Nebraska land under misrepresenta-
ton The woman's answer and coun-
terclaim recite that the charges in the
doctors petition are false, slanderous
and libelous.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
Burned to Death,

Returning home late in the evening.
W. d. jacobson, postmaster of the old
town of Lyons, discovered the charred
remains of his mother lying on the
floor in her room. The body was
burned beyond recognition. She was
alone and there is no theory as to
what caused the accident. She was 65
wears old.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
Three Men Killed.

Frank Meyers, Dudley Boyd and
James Shaffer were killed by boiler
explosion at Peoria, small town
south of Grinnell The men were en-
ployed in sawmill. James Carter,
the proprietor, sustained serious in
juries. The three victims were blown
into fragments.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22

The Holland society in New York
will eNpend $1,000 for relief work
among the women and children and
other Boer prisoners.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
Benedict home, Des Moines. .......... 1000
Sioux City mothers and babies home 1000

For laundry building at Mt Pleasant, to
replace one destroyed by lire, $4,000; to
reimburse Greene county for care of Frank
Brainerd, nonresident insane person, $3l;
DR. r. NJ Powell for money expended in
securing vacation of road for the benefit of
institution of feeble minded, Glenwood,
lication of original rotlce in case of Bet
TANNER vs.; Caille, sd; state library com
mission, $1,000 annually. $1,000; to indem-
caused by sewer from Mitchellvile indus
trial school. $500; additional support for
State Historical society. $l,50O annually,
$3.50; Iowa national guard, $57, 200 annually,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
NEW LAWS FOR IOWA
Enacted at Twenty-Ninth Session of
the General Assembly.
Measures Relating to Taxation, Pun-
ishment of Criminals, Salaries of
officials, State Institutions and
Railroads Arc in the List.

Below will be found brief sum-
mary of the laws passed at the Twen-
ty-ninth session Of the Iowa legisla-
ture:
, 1902-05-29

Some persons find as much fun in
reading signboards rs others do in
reading the comic papers. Here are n
few oddities reported by observing
travellers, the first of which evidently
was displayed in front of a butchers
shop:
Il kill myself every Tuesday and
Friday"
Take motifs when his board is out of
site the river is dangerous
"Widow with large family want
washing by the week"
Ladies' and gents sold and healed
This is the old shop just come from
above"
"A large stock of ladies' hose, pure
cashmere. to hc cleared % cents the
pair. They won't last long ut this
price"
"AbomlnahIe belts made TO order"
CLOSED for the day owing TO funeral
of pruprirtor's wife and who will carry
on as usual tomorrow morning New
York Press.
, 1902-05-29
Railroad Companies as IaiorInegs.

Is another column will efouud an ar
ticle ON the new rules adopted 10y the
Chicago and Northwestern railroad com.
panA concerning the use If tobacco by
employees Of that road. There are also
stringent rules as to- the use OF iutuNi-
eating liquors and the frelucuting uf
saloons and gambling houses. These
rules, taken III connection with the new
rule adopted by the Union Pacific road
as To- the use oil Intoxicating liquors and
the frcquentiug Of saloons, brings the
railroad forward as Il a factor IN the rel
urmatiun Of the world. Let a great aud
powerful corporation. employing rnou-
sands O. men, take a stand OF that char
clTec,.
II Is .-lr TO say that at least Two
thirds ui The wages earned 10y railroad
employees IS spent either for strong drink.
tobacco. or at the gambling table. Ii
onc.haIf the loss to the men and their
fami,Ic- from these three sources alone
is topped it means a very great increase
in their prosperity and a corresponding
falling OIL in the saloon and gambling
business. In many Of the towns along
the line OF road and especially terminal
and division stations. many saloons
thrive of the ralliotd trade aud the EN-
forcement Of these orders means a great
falling OFF IN their business as well as a
corresponding increase in other lines.
Il the railroads adhere to aud enforce
these rules 1t cannot help but nave its
influence for good everywhere. II
mean a very long step forward and one
that viii make the world better and
happier. II is too much To hope that
other corporations viii take the matter
up and make the same requirements Of
their employees, but such a thing is pos.
sible aud it may be that our great cor.
porations will prove, III time, to bc the
power which shall solve the problem Of
both intcmpcrancc and gambling.
, 1902-05-29
A BANANA TREE.
ME TrtIt Grows small End Up ard
In Cut While Unripe.

Contrary to popular belief, bananas
do not grow on the tree as they hang in
the grocery, but with the small n OF
the fruit pointing u~pward-to all up
p%earances upside down.
There is probably no other fruit of
such universal consumption about
which so little is known to the average
person as the banana. Something like
l00,000.0O0 lunches are annually eaten
In this country alone, but scarcely one
man in a thousand not connected with
the business knows what a banana tree
looks like.
The fruit is never allowed to ripen on
the tree, but is cut half or three-quar-
tiers ''full"-that is, half to three-quar-
tiers MISUNDERSTANDING to the dis
lance it is to be shipped. and ome TO
maturity by feeding from the stalk,
which contains u large amoun of sap.
Bananas cut in this way attain prac-
tically the same size as II allowed TO
remain on the tree. in which case the
bunch becomes too much of n burden
for its support and either falls or
breaks the tree and ripens on the
ground.
After the cutting the plantation is
Cleaned which merely consists of
severing the standing trunks within a
few feet of the ground. and n new tree
comes forth from the remains of its
predecessor. so that the fruit in all
stages of growth is to he found at the
same time and the yield is continuous.
, 1902-05-29

The total of the suns heat is equal
to that which would he required to
keep up 10000 millions of millions
of millions of horsepower. or about 49,
600 horsepower for every square yard.
and yet the modern dynamical theory
of heat shows hat the suns mass
must fail In Or contract ~thirty-five
meters per u" TO keep up that ire
mendous enci-.
AT this rate of contraction the solar
radius will be on per cen less in 1000
years from now than it is today. Ac-
cording to these deductions, II time
must come when the temperature must
fall. This being the case. it is incon-
ceivablc that the sun will continue to
emit heat sufficient to sustain animal
life for more than 100000 years
longer.
, 1902-05-29
Notice for Publication.

TAKE NOTICE. On request Of Jas.
W. Wilson. A. B. Clampet, Milo j.
Luther, and other owners of a major
ity of the capital stock of the kuy-
kendall Wilson Development Co,
a corporation chartered by the state
of Wyoming, in accordance with Sec.
Bob of the statutes of Wyoming, |
hereby call a special meeting of the
stockholders of said corporation to be
held at the offices of the company at
Saratoga, Wyoming, ON the 3lst day
of May, A. d. 1902, at 10 o'clock Il. IN.
The object of said meeting is for
the purpose of amending the charter
and by laws of the said company by
increasing the number of the Board
of Trustees from five trustees to seven
trustees, and for the purpose of elect
ing the two additional members to
said Board should the proposed
amendment he adopted.
(Signed.) NJ. }. LUTHER,
President
Dated Chicago, April -, 1902.
, 1902-05-29

Ihc expression "knockcd into Il cock
ed nat" is familiar to every one. but
perhaps its origin is not so generally
known. Cooked hat was q variety OF
the game vt bowls in which only three
pins were used. set up ut the angles of
a triangle. When, in bowling urupins,
all were knocked down except the
three at the orucrs the set vas said
to Ice knocked into IL cooked hat"
whence the popular expression for de.
priying anything Of its main body.
character or purpose.
, 1902-05-29

IL nearly every city in China women
are to hc found sitting in the streets
busily plying their trade us members of
clothing. Their knowledge of needle
craft IS generally limited TO what is
called running and therefore they
are not much patronized 10y English or
ever. never without patrons among Chi
ncse tradcsmen. who are often natives
of other districts and have no II else
in tho city to mend II rent for them.
their wives ana children being left at
home. For this class of customers the
skill Of the itincrant sewing woman is
sufficient, and TO them it is IL great con
vcnicuco to have the necess ry repairs
rapidly made while they stand by and
wait.
, 1902-05-29

The Cody Enterprise is cne of the
neatest, hes edited and most interest
ing Of our exchanges. 1t is full Of snap
and sparkle and has a breezy st! .e that
is refreshing as compared to the hum
drum style OF some of the allcdged news
papers %, the state. 1t uses good paper
and printers ink-apple butter and the
blacksmith shop are not in evidence
We cannot have too many papers like
the Cody Enterprise.
, 1902-05-29
ONE OF NATURES LAWS.


probobIv f., t,vo c,sqs ont of three
the brros ore c,,,,saa Inv ones nhysIcuI
srata n ~ m,r has oyrryorked or
has toon u,igr INV nn,,s,,.I strain or
eycitemont or has worried - rrcat deal
or has hoeu ror , ybiIp in n stute of
inv and oIot,or-ou of which require nm
aynondftrrc OF nperey-be Is very likely
to bora rho hines and to he in low
sn;rits Inv u.ov of rooctiop
rho nod Is 81 machine which c,n do
a cortoin amount Of work and no more.
If II dos :, orcot deal tofov. If must
, 1902-05-29

thing depended upon the vote Of ri e
Zig Horn county. One o. the candi-
dates for the supreme court WIS was es-
p~ecially anxious.
How are you coming out?' III
one asked the judge while we were all
waiting for the returns.
II think said the judge. that | am
coming out Of the little end # the Big
Horn"
, 1902-05-29
THURSDAY, MAY -, 1902.
u. y. Trains III Wnlcott-
WEST.
4 War Time "Reminiscences.

Tur Sun bas eninyed a rlapsant visit
the mast week from an nId.time war
friend in the person of DIR II i. NJ, Cain.
of WaIdrou. Ind who was accomparied
Nv Cpr,y d Holm. Of I'm, law firm nr
YnrIiug A. Holm ,r SnnIhyviIl. Ind.
There rrubHLIv is no. spor nn earth so
dear ia every man us that where ne
snent his bnyhoud Life WIS g, full
of interest. and so much int,ortaucc WAS
attached TO ~unimportapt events: his boy.
hood friends and places Of local interest:
the church. tbe scbooihouse. the swim.
ming hole. the Mace where the largest
fab wore caugbt. the woods where the
largest sbellbark hickory nuts grew and
the dozen dark stain. that Iinycred for
many DAYS after the interesting but In
borious process Of hulling black wal
nuts. all these and more thiugs were
talked aver with the good doctor. But
these THINGS nailed into iusigpitlcanre
when the early davs or tbc War of the
Rebellion were auuroachcd. We were
lads Of immature growth at that time
and we were most seriously concerned
for fear thc war would he over before we
got old enough to carry a musket.
But while we waitcd-and prayed
we couId sit on the graveyard fence
lprayeyard. mind Won. not .cemctCry."
Of moonlight nights and. with the rest
of the village populatiou. watch Old
Captaiu WEIGH drill his compapy ON the
village green. There was nothing so
deeply interestinr as the commando
file right file left right dress.
cleft. left. left" etc. as the good old Can
tam drilled his country bumpkips hy
the hour.
And then there was Old Bob Critzcr
with his fife to stir our Youthful blood
and make if boil until it seemed that
orr hearts would burst all hounds.
Even TO this dav we can hear the IUspir-
ing strains of The Girl | Left Behind
Me" or ..,Jay Bird" ms they thrilled
forth from Old Bob's fife. amid the rat
tie of the snare drum and the thunder
ous boom of the bass drum. Modern
music is charming. but it takes the
piercing screams of a fife aud the rat.u-
tat.tat of the snare drum to re call the
MANIFEST and most blissful perind of
bovish life.
But the good doctor has changed.
He is no longer the beardless youth who
had a strong penchant for maple sugar
and lam and who was sublimcIy indir-
ferent as to whether he combed his hair
, 1902-05-29

The Irrigation Bill is to have q day in
congress and there really looks 20 hr "a
chance that it may pass. II it does
there is no question but what the bulk
Of the credit must go to the Wyoming
representatives. for they have been in
slant in season and out Of season where
ever it was concerned.
, 1902-05-29

SINcE the Press Association has cN
pressed lis intention TO visit the Nation
al Park great interest in the Govern
ment road, from Cody to the Park hur
sprung up. The road has been under
consideration for a long time and 1t Is
hoped that it will bc speedily completed
As soon as it is there lis NO doubt bur
what it will be made use Of by the lray
cling public
, 1902-05-29

sweet Girl am loved by two men.
and l canuo make up my mind which
TO marry What would you advise:
old IHdy-Got both To insure their
lives in your favor and thcn wait until
one OF them dies. That will insure the
coustaucy OF the other New York
Mppkly
, 1902-05-29
Chinese Rcpartcc.

An English sailor was Watching a
Chinumuu who was placing n dish OF
rice Ly n grave when do you expect
your friend &c come out and eat thut?"
the sailor asked. Same time us your
frien' come 10 smcIlre flowers you
fellow put retorted Ii Singapore
Free Press.
, 1902-05-29
A Point.

"lt Gems to mike Scuddiugton's wife
ns mad ms Il hornet every time he
boasts that be began nt the foot and
worked his way up
well. no started In as a %boothlack,
yor, know Chicago Record Herald.
, 1902-05-29

WI have received word from Gap
tain Chittendcu. who has in hand the
work Of constructing the road from
Cody Ia the Yellowstone National Park,
in which he says that it will be impassi
bile to complete the road so it can be
Travelled before the middle of September
and he would not guarantee it to be
ready for use before next year. This
settles the trip VIA Of Cody. The edi-
torial excursion To the Park will nave to
be made by rail To Livingston and from
thence TO the Park with one OF the
transportation companies hat do bust
ness M the Park. We will ali have to
take the advice Of Iago to Cassius and
put money in our purse but the trip
will be worth Il hundred times what il
will cost. Every editor in the state
should have made at least one trip
through this great wonderland Of the
nation. especially when it is situated
within the confines of his own state.
"Put money in thy purse and come
along, every mothers sou land ddugh.
ter OF you.
, 1902-05-29
STATE PRESS CLIPPINGS


7TVTWWIT NtTWTIT'fTT.-
The Hottest Place ON Earth.
The principal Of the Omaha schoJl
objects to the boys appearing in schoo.
in shirt waists without coats. Tic says
they are not properly clothed. AND
Omaha is the hottest place on earth. too.
, 1902-05-29
FRANK WHITE.

GEORGE II. ALLEN.
iJ2EH Cattle branded on left side, horses
left shoulder or left hip. Range. Pass
49, creek. +. o. Saratoga, Wye.
, 1902-05-29

Dated Chicago, April ~, 1902.