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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-06-10

III every nuuureu nave
failed of a perfect and
permanent cure. And
even these two in every
hundred have been bene.
fitted, their pains eased,
their burdens lightened,
their lives made happier.
DR.. Pierce's Favorits
Prescription establishes
regularity, dries enfee
bling and unhealthy
drains, heals infiamma.
ton and liberation and
cures female weakness
From the first change OF
life, when the girl be-
comes a woman to the
last change of life it is a
"Godsend to women" "a
a preservative of health
and a cure for womanly
ills.
vYour letter just re-
ceived," writes Miss Rose
Kilfether, of 43 West
Sharpnack ST., German.
town, Philadelphia, Pa.
"Words fail to express
how thankful I am to you
for y,O,,r aJu;oa r ,,,,,et
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-06-10
Home DisconlfOrts

"No." grumbled the husband in a
spasm of confidence to a friend, Il
have no place at all for my books. The
storage room is kept exclusively for
my WIFE"
''Oh, she puts away those things that
are trifie too good to be destroyed,
yet scarcely good enough to be of USE"
Brooklyn Life.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-06-10
Accounted For.

Barnes-There goes Stavers. l never
saw anybody who could stand the
hard knocks of life as he can. He's a
man Of iron.
Howes-That accounts for 1t.
thought he looked rather rusty.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-06-10
Her Cali.

IL ran into town today to do some
shopping, dear" said Mrs. Subbubs,
entering her husbands office. 'and
r.
81 see," he interrupted. land you just
ran IN here because you ran OUT
Ran out?"
"Yes; of money" = Philadelphia
Press.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-06-10

The fool sits down and worries about
the living the world owes him. but the
wise guy hustles around and collects
the interest on the debt. - Chicago
News.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-06-10

You feel mean, cross, ugly down
IN the mouth, nothing goes right
Bad liver. Better take Rocky Noun
tain Tea. Drives away the blues. 80
cents. r. A. Engbretson.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-06-10

One Of the hard things to under
stand Is how such nice grandmothers
a. everybody has ever could have been
nnther-in-lawa
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11
Game Wardens Amounted.

State Game and Fish Commissioner
]. M. Woodard has appointed five chief
game wardens, as follows: w. ID. Will
son, Creede; Thomas G. Higgins,
Grand Junction.; Fred A. Gordon,
Glenwood Springs; Henry Lehman.
Steamboat Springs; ]. l.. Nightingale.
Fort Collins.
Seventy-two special game wardens.
distributed all over the state, have
also been commissioned. All Of these
special wardens serve without pay, but
under the new law they will be enti-
tied to one-third of the fines and costs
collected by them. The fine for a mis-
demeanor is from S25 to $500, and the
maximum 1000 (the latter for staying
a buffalo or bison). Former Commits
sioner Harris had In the neighborhood
of 400 special wardens. but Commis-
sioner Woodard will probably not have
more than $50 when all are appointed.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL
EXPLAINS NEW MILITIA LAW

pate In the maneuvers or operations do
so for the purpose of improving their
discipline and efficiency, and that In
such participation they act under the
orders Of their respective governors.
While SO engaged the several organiza-
tions of the national guard, he says re-
main under the control of their several
ommanders-in-chief. and not having
been called forth" in the manner pre-
scribed in the constitution, do not pass
under the command and control Of the
President as commander-in-chief of the
land and naval forces of the United
States.
He holds that the enlisted men of the
national guard are not entitled to in
creased pay in virtue of previous SER
vice in the militia, but says that off,
GERS who have served five years in the
militia are entitled under the law to
the same ten per cent. increase in pay
that is provided for officers Of the
army.
The judge advocate general says that
in applying section Is, the drills and en-
campments which took place in any
state or territory during the year ended
December 81, 1902. should be consid-
cred in determining the right of the
state or territory to participate in the
benefit conferred by previous and pres
ent laws.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Columbia, S. c., June Though
the great flood of water is passing on
to the ocean laden with debris of ev-
cry description and the swollen
streams are subsiding in the Piedmont
region, the losses of life and property
are increasing and a conservative es-
innate tonight places the property loss
at not less than $3,50O,OOO The most
conservative estimate of the dead is
eighty. At Clifton alone 100 mill op-
eratives are missing from the village,
and all are believed to have been lost.
To-day's development in the devas-
tated mill settlements at Pacolet and
Clifton, on the Pacolet river in South
Carolina, magnify the horrors of the
situation there.
The town of Union. South Carolina,
is to-day totally isolated.
At Converse thirteen dead are re-
ported and forty-one at Clifton No.
mill. At Clifton No. twenty-six
homes are destroyed. thirteen at Cliff
ton No. l and twenty at Clifton No. 3.
The loss at Clifton's three mills will
approximate 81, ,OO0, 900. At Pacolet the
loss is near $1.OOO.0O0. The greatest
want among the survivors is at Clifton,
where 500 are destitute.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Washington, June 8.-Judge Advo-
cate General Davis has sent to the sec
retary of war an opinion relative to
various disputed matters of construc-
tion of the new militia law. One point
raised was whether section IA of the
militia act, relating to expenditure Of
money for the militia, was not in con-
flict with the federal constitution, the
contention being that it would take the
militia from the control of the states.
General Davis points out that the new
militia law does not differ materially
from the present law, and that all that
will be necessary is change in the
forms for accounting to be made to
the Treasury Department
A more important point raised con-
Germs section Is, which provides for
the participation of the militia of the
several states in maneuvers and field
instructions of the regular army, but
with a further proviso that the COM
mand of a military post or camp and
of the officers and troops of the United
States stationed where such maneuvers
occur shall remain with the regular
command of the post, without regard
to 'the rank of the commanding or
other officers of the militia tenn ora
rily encamped there.
General Davis holds that such por-
tions of the national guard as partici-
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11
Attacked by a Wildcat.

Cripple Creek, Colo, June 7.-F'ilius
Franks, a ranchman residing near Mar
igold. in the southern part of the coun-
ty, had an exciting but unpleasant ad-
venture with wildcat yesterday af-
ternoon. Franks was coming to town
for medicine for a sick child. He was
making a shortcut, taking the trail over
the hills. At one point the trail is SO
steep that the ranchman dismounted
and was leading his horse when he
spied young kitten on the path in
front OF him. He kicked 1t out Of the
road, when the infuriated mother. who
was crouching In some rocks nearby,
sprang at him.
Franks was unarmed and had to,
fight the beast of with his fists. which
he finally succeeded In doing. He was
badly scratched about the face and
hands and his coat was torn to rib.
b0ns.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11
IMMENSE LOSS INFLICTED BY
SOUTH CAROLINA CLOUDBURST

Following is the summary of the
damage to the cotton mills:
Pacolet Nos. l and 2. totally de-
stroyed; Pacolet No. 3. badly damaged.
These mills operated $4,000 spindles
and 10000 looms. Clifton mill No. 3.
at Converse, 81 900 spindles, totally de-
stroyed.
Dexter mills, 80 500 spindles. half de-
stroyed; Clifton mills, 27,500 spindles.
half destroyed; Glendale mills. badly
damaged; Pacolet warehouse, totally
destroyed, $500 bales of cotton and
1000 bales Of yarn swept down stream.
At Pacolet Presbyterian church.
hotel and a number of mill cottages
were entirely demolished. The prop
erty damage Is in the neighborhotd OF
$5OO0O0.
The mayor of Charlotte to-day Issued
an official call for relief. About $500
has already been raised here by private
subscription.
The flood was due to mighty cloud
burst along the headwaters OF the
Pacolet river. in Polk county, North
Carolina. The crest of the flood when
it reached Pacolet was sixty feet high.
The mills were located along the
banks of the stream in deep valley
and they caught the full force OF the
food.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11
Water Supply Inspection.

Enos A. Mills, a special deputy of
State Engineer Carpenter, returned to
Denver June 4th from an inspection Of
the water supply of the state gener-
ally, although he paid special atten-
to the headwaters of the Platte. The
trip occupied six days, and during this
time Mr.. Mills walked 120 miles over
snow-covered mountain ranges and
passes. Several times he was caught in
severe snow storms, and, as he was
travelling in light order, the nights that
he was forced to stay in the mountains
were spent by camp fire, but with
out covering.
Mr.. Mills lives at Estes Park. He
started on his tour of inspection from
Leadville, where he went by train, and
walked from that place across the Mos
quito range, to Alma, a distance OF
twenty miles. He rode up Buckskin
gulch as far as possible and found the
snow above timber line for some dis
tance
He walked through Hoosier and Bo-
reas passes and from Jefferson post
Office he walked to timber line to view
the headwaters of the Michigan. He
walked on top of the range two miles
each way. Afterwards he visited the
headwaters of Jefferson creek and
Geneva creek. From the summit,
where the headwaters of Geneva creek
lie, he walked ten miles to the south
west. Passing over Mosquito pass he
encountered severe snowstorm at an
altitude of 5000 feet. During the trip
he saw bands of elk and deer and two
bears.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11
COLORADO STATE AFFAIRS AND
DOINGS AT THE CAPITAL CITY
Coal by Trolley Cars.

The Leyden Coal Company has be-
gun operations this week as an active
rival of other companies doing business
in the Denver market. The company
is owned by the same interests which
control the Denver Tramway and the
Denver & Northwestern Railroad Com
pany, and has the advantage of their
electric lines in reaching local markets
with its product.
A second shaft has been driven at
the Leyden mine and the machinery
has been put in operation. The COM
pany is prepared to deliver a large
daily output. Big coal yards have been
established opposite Elitch's Gardens
on the land adjoining the old West
End power house. Several additional
side tracks have been put in and the ia
cilities are now available for any
amount of traffic.
Thirty of the fifteen-ton Ingoldsby
dump cars, delivered some time ago to
the Tramway and Denver G. North
western, have been fitted with electric
motors and trolleys, and are now In
use hauling coal from the Leyden mine
to the West End yards. Coal is also
hauled direct to the various Tramway
power houses over the electric lines,
saving much expense for carriage.
The system of hauling the coal to
the city, as now adopted in supplying
the Tramway power houses, is this
An Ingoldsby patent dump car, fitted
with four powerful motors, is used as
the motor car for train of six of these
dump cars and proves powerful enough
to pull the load easily over the grades
from Leyden to the city. This train
is run up on the elevated track at the
power house and the automatic dump
ing apparatus quickly deposits the coal
in the bins below. If the Tramway
company is permitted to run these
trains over it's city tracks, it is expect
ed that the same system will be used
to supply various retail coal yards and
branch depots may be established in
various parts of the city. from which
neighborhoods can be supplied with
fuel at small carriage cost.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11
TERRORS OF THE
ST. LOUIS FLOOD

St. Louis. June Sword has been
received here at / o'clock that leveo
near Madison on which gangs of men
were working gave way and fifteen
men. employees of the American Car
and Foundry works, lost their lives
About $50 men, 1t is reported. are i'm
prisoned on a section of the levee that
is slowly crumbling. and all means Of
escape has been cut Off. Word has
been sent to the st. Louis side to rush
the private yacht Annie Russell, to
the rescue. The Annie Russell started
to Black Walnut this afternoon, but
could not force her way against the
current. 1t is feared she cannot make
her way to Madison.
A small steamer from st. Charles
succeeded in reaching Black Walnut
tonight and the 200 imperilled people.
terrified and in great distress for food
and shelter. were taken from the ISL
and in safety. All were rescued.
st. Louis, June Like n millrace
the swollen Mississippi is surging pas,.
st. Louis with stage of 36.9 feet at
Z O'Clock tonight. E,aking rise OF one
and one-half feet since the same hour
last night.
All Venice, Madison, portions OF
Granite City and 1900 acres OF rich
bottom farming land are in the grip
of the food north Of East st. Louis.
Houses have been swept from their
foundations and sent adrift. The dam
age already done is enormous and the
flood hourly reaches further inland.
more and more crippling railroad traf-
1c and engulfng additional homes.
farms and factories. The east approach
to Merchants bridge is reported to be
severely damaged.
All the farm houses and barns occu-
pying the lowlands across the river
from st. Charles have been swept away
with but few exceptions. Three women
in one farm house refused to leave un-
til they had ripped new carpet from
the floor. They could not be again
reached.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11
Pardoned After Twenty Years.

After serving full score of years
behind the bars of the penitentiary,
at Canon City, Jose Munez. Mexican,
the Oldest convict in point of imprison-
ment in that institution, was liberated
by the state board Of pardons.
At sixty-eight years. broken in
health and tottering with age. Munez
steps out to spend the remainder of his
days a free man. No one but convict
can have felt full conception of the
meaning of twenty years Of penal SER
vitude. Munez has served two months
over that time, or a period equivalent
in the eyes of the law to a term Of
thirty-seven years and ten months,
which is equivalent to a pardon, as it
lets him out Immediately.
Jose Munez-"No. 1884," as he is
known to his keepers-was sentenced
for life from Conejos county, March 20,
1883. for murder. OF late he has been
an inmate of the prison hospital. being
reported last October as entirely broken
down in health. His brother, a we'll
to-do Mexican, has agreed to provide a
home for him.
Judge c. d. Hayt, who presided at
the trial, in 1899 recommended clem-
ency, saying: ION general principles
/ am in favor of an unconditional par
don."
Joe Smith. Indian agent at Ignacio,
was sheriff of Conejos county at the
time of the crime, and in describing it
says Munez had been drinking with
other Mexicans in a little Mexican town
of Ortez. The men left town when
Munez began shooting promiscuously,
firing over his shoulder and killing one
Doran. Manuel Duran, a brother of the
dead man. says he is not sure who fired
the fatal shot.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11
Maxatlan Free Of Plague.

Mexico City. June 8.-The mer-
chants Of Mazatlan have petitioned
the federal government to declare the.
the plague has completely disappeared.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Hard as an American may try to re.
member Russia's historic friendship
for this nation, the frequent repetition
of Incidents like the massacre OF Kishi-
neff have a tendency to cause tempo
rary lapses of memory.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

The officers of the Arkansas say
that they find the fishing in the Missis.
ssippi river tolerably good, but they
would enjoy catching more trout and
fewer catfish.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Here's chance, girls. Personal"
advertisement from Paris in the New
York Herald: For nicelooking,
strong, well-educated marquis. aged
twenty-three. seek young. iich.
well-educated, nice.looking American
lady" Ask papa to buy him for you.
quick!
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Agricultural dreamer,you may not be
able to hitch your wagon to star, but
you can hitch your plow to an auto
mobile.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

There is strong ground for the sus-
picion that somebody connected with
the Colombian government thinks
Uncle Sam has not yet been properly
shaken down for the canal building
privileges.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

But if Ralph Waldo Emerson had
never written things, would he have
gone down in history as the discov'
erer of the great truth that pie is a
breakfast food?
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

The Paris Journal des Debates sug-
gests that citizens of the United States
bo called "Unistatistes" instead of
Americans" The rank and nle of
Frenchmen will probably continue,
however, to call us Holsters.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

A man named Peter Schwartz has
been dismissed from the New York
police force because he neglected duty
in order to parade with the Irish vol
unteers on st. Patrick's day. There
seems to be something wrong here.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

There were eleven people killed in
the late revolution in Honduras. That
is almost as bad as wounding man in
q French duel.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Now that a Chicago publisher has
had the Bible set in type. for the first
time in that city and the first time in
twenty years in America, will the
Chicago papers review it as new litera-
ture.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

The Boston Globe MARBLES spring
madrigal beginning thus: April
freezes hurt the treeses." The Hub
still has firm grip on the literary
primacy of this country.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

The story that Los Angeles news
paperman's house has been entered
and robbed of "a number of valuables"
looks like sarcastic dig at the pro-
fession.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Andrew Carnegie has left London
for Skibo Castle, to which place all
mendicant appeals should for the
present be addressed.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

1t is evident that Andrew Carnegie
will have to give it away faster, un-
less something happens to clog his in
take.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Now that the smallpox germ has
been discovered. steps should be taken
to vaccinate him at once.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Peter Stanley, aged 10, died the
other day in Ohio. He waited as long
as he could, but the presidency did
not get around to him.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Mrs. Sage says that she is proud be-
cause Russell never smoked. But is
that virtue, when man can't afford
to smoke?
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Blessed are the women who do not
talk and thrice blessed are those who
are in the same room with them.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Birds are said to be Hetty Green's
favorite pets. But she is not throw
ing money at them.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Better the barking of kennel full
of dogs than the wrath of one Richard
Harding Davis" say the natives of
Marion, Mass. And Mr.. Davis is in
the far-off Balkans at that
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

The New York stock exchange has
moved into its new building, where it
is hoped the wind will be tempered
to the shorn lamb.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Why is it that so many really pret
ty girls seemingly cannot keep theil
shoes from running over at the heel
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Russia doesn't want Manchuria. So
many people are looking that it isn't
convenient.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

There is strike in a Philadelphia
Bible printing house. Next we shall
hear of labor troubles in an arbitration
factory.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11
Grand Recorder Commits suicide.

Denver, June 7.-Rather than turn
over the records of his office, which
would show a shortage. Francis Ma
rion Roberts fired bullet into his
brain yesterday morning and died in
stantly. The suicide occurred about 8
o'clock in the rear of No. 2010 Market
street, resort kept by Nellie Will
liams. The body was not found until
nearly 10 o'clock.
Roberts was grand recorder OF the
Ancient Order of United Workmeh
and was to have turned over the rec
ords of the office to his successor yes
terday afternoon. A committee OF the
order is now engaged in checking over
the accounts of the office and It is
given out lnofiicially that the amount
of the shortage will be about $1,000.
Roberts had been missing since
Wednesday and committee had been
appointed to search the city for him.
The police were not asked to aid in
the search. Where he has been dur
ing the past two days none Of the
members Of the lodge has been able
to md out
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Mr.. Carnegie denies with some heat
that he belongs to New York's smart
set" Possibly Andrew considers Mr..
Harry Lehr 'puir fule body, after
{"
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

When men get together they talk
shop; when women meet they talk
shopping.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Shamrock doesn't seem to be very
lucky name for yacht.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11

Don't give up. AS a usual thing,
Fate is kindest to the man that fights
back.
Gilpin observer., 1903-06-11
o. e. HEr1ENWAY
COMMITS SUICIDE

Denver, June IA Republican spe-
cial from Colorado Springs last night
says:
Lying dead in a pool OF its own
blood, shot through the head and the
revolver a few inches from its right
hand, the body of Alvaro Hemenway
was found at 2:40 o'clock this after
noon by a searching party in some
brush behind a group Of cottonwood
trees in the Fountain Creek flats. The
place is called the Portland pasture.
and the location of the body was about
$50 yards southwest of the Midland
bridge over Fountain creek and a quar-
ter of a mile east of the Portland mill.
William Myers, one Of the searching
party employed by o. 2. Hemenway,
son Of the deceased, discovered the
body.
No inquest will be held. as the case
is clearly one of suicide. The bullet, n
3S-calibre, had entered the head one
inch above the tip of the right ear. and
had left the skull the same distance
above the left ear, but an inch farther
front
Alvaro Hemenway had been missing
since Wednesday morning. and his
perturbance over business affairs, to-
gether with the fact that the revolver
was missing from its accustomed place
in the safe at the Hemenway grocery
store, led to the theory of suicide on
the part of Orin Z. Hemenway. the son.
The latter employed searching par
ties since Thursday, and the canons
and other neighboring points were be-
ing secured when the discovery was
made.
The deceased was one Of the Oldest
and most respected citizens of Colo
RADIO Springs. He came to this city
about twenty years ago, first conduct
ing a feed business on East Huerfano
street. About three years ago he sold
out. devoting all his attention to the
carriage business of A. II. Hemenway
& Co.. which had gradually been in
creasing each year.
All his business interests flourished,
but n Is said that he lost heavily In
Cripple Creek mining. His estate is
now rated at about $4,000.