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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Latest Fiat Money Scheme.

The latest scheme in the fiat money
has broken out in Williams, small
town east of Webster City, where alu-
minum dollars, half dollars, quarters,
etc.. are in common use and pass cur
rent. They are redeemable at several
OF the stores. The scheme is local
one of the merchants to increase the
volume of money in circulation in the
community and to move the crops"
1t draws trade from distance to the
town for the reason that there is a
premium on the fiat money, strange as
this may seem.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Rush Was Not Murdered.

John Rush, president of a Waterloo
gas company. was assaulted by tramps
near his home late at night last week
and died of his injuries. His assail-
ants have not been captured. Mr..
Rush was prominent in the Iowa Tray.
cling Mems association, and was we'll
known throughout the state. The
coroners jury found Friday that John
Rush died of injuries accidentally in
fiicted by fall.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Garner the County Seat.

The Hancock county election Tues.
day settled the long disputed county
seat fight in that county. The fight
lasted for seven years and was full of
petitions, remonstrances, court pro-
ceedings, etc. The vote to remove
the county seat from Concord to Gar.
ner resulted in $500 majority in favor
OF removal. The county officers elect
ed We're: D. r. Riehm (Dem.), sher-
IN; W. T. Mitchell (Rep.), treasurer;
A. M. Deyoe (Rep.), superintendent;
A. R. Carton (Rep), coroner, and %.
w. Burgitt (Rep). surveyor. The
fight on sheriff was the only one that
was close.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Consumption
MONK HAS ODD DUTY.
Franciscan Friar Teaches War to
Youth of Britain.
Gives Instructions to Students from
Gunmaker's Shop Who Are Pre-
pairing to Follow u Mill
tary Career.

I A curious mingling of the medieval
with the modern exists at Firth, Eng
land, where articled pupils of Messrs.
Vickers, Sons, and Maxim are coached
by Franciscan friar. Cl1riously
enough, our Roger Bacon, who is said
to have rediscovered gunpowder, was
brother of the same order.
According to the manager of Messrs.
Vickers, Sons and Maxim's works,
some difficulty has been experienced in
finding anyone to read with engineer
ing students for the examinations
which the firm hold-examinations of
the same standard as those passed by
/, engineer students in the royal navy.
At or near Firth there are no educa-
tional establishments with professors
or masters to undertake sucn work.
So Father Edwin-such is the Fran
ciscans name-teaches mathematics,
natural science, and applied mechanics
to apprentices of the machine-gun
firm. The monastery of which the
father is an inmate stands on a hill In
the Carlton road, near Erith-a ten
minutes walk from the works. Here
live seven of the order in building
which has the appearance of new
suburban library, except that it rests
half-hidden amid the trees of it's own
grounds.
The father, tall, robust, elderly
man, has beard worthy Of his call
ing, and wears the brown serge gown
| and hood of his branch of the order
the Capuchins. Possessing university
qualifications, he held for Ia years the
professorship of higher mathematics at
st. Peters college, Agra. This insti-
tuition was affiliated to the Rurki Col
lege of Civil Engineering, which does
the same work as Coopers Hill. Father
Edwin has also published several
mathematical works.
The friar gives five hours day to
teaching his pupils in the parlor of the
monastery Most of them are from the
works and go in the evening.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Train Ditched bv a Cow.

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
freight accommodation train No. 331
was ditcbed two miles east of Dixon,
"a. The train ran into COW on the
track and the engine and seven cars
rolled down fifteen-foot embankment,
brakeman SyWillie of Cedar Rapids
was killed and Engineer Byers leg
was broken.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Sioux clty,s Railway Ambition.

Craig L. Wright. chairman Of the
railroad committee of the Sioux City
Commercial club, is the representa-
tive of the commercial interests at
that point in new negotiations with
President A. B. Stickney, of the Chi
cago Great Western, through which
they hope to secure the extension Of
the Maple Leaf from Fort Dodge to
the river at Sioux City. Sioux City
business interests are anxious to OBJ
tain additional railroad facilities and
are ready to promise the Maple Leaf
substantial favors if it will enter their
city. They are ready to promise an
excellent amount of business and to
give the Maple Leaf their aid in secur-
ing an entrance to the city, terminal
property and the facilities it would re-
uuire
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY
CYCLING STATISTICS.
Decline Of the Use Of Vehicle in
the Cities.
IL More Than balanced by Rural
Gsins and Their Use Is Greater
Than Ever-Figures from
France.

Although 1t is generally known that
the use Of the bicycle by farmers boys
and in small towns, where few years
ago they were seldom seen, has greatly
increased, 1t is hard for those who no.
dee local conditions and note how
much bicycle riding in the city streets
and on the nearby boulevards has
fallen OF to believe it possible that as
many bicycles are, on the whole, in
use as formerly. It was almost in
credible to some persons when the re-
ports Of manufacturers were made up
in the spring, to hear that more than
100000 bicycles were sold in this
country in 1902. The slump after the
boom made SO much more impression
than the steady increase of rural
riders that the figures caused aston
ishment. It is true, however, that in
spite Of the great decline in the popu-
larity Of the bicycle in the big cities,
the total number being used is greater
than ever.
In this country there is no way of
obtaining actual statistics as to the
number in use, but in France every
cyclist has to pay special tax, and
there an oh1cial record is kept. 1t is
generally agreed by those returning
from abroad, and it is well known in
the trade, that in France, as well as in
the other countries of Europe and in
Great Britain, cycling has passed
through much the same history as it
has here, q craze over a novelty. q
boom, reaction, a big slump, and
then q settling to a commonplace
usage. In France, too, there is talk of
big falling off of popularity in cy-
cling, and it is reflected in the French
papers.
In the face of all this come the facts
from the French tax bureau showing
that every year of the last eight there
has been an increase nthe number of
bicycles in use. In 1902 there was an
increase of nearly 100000 over 1901.
The figures of the tax Office show
1,106.76s bicycles in use in 1901 and
1,201, TAI in 1902. To be exact, the gain
was just S4,S74.
The figures for each year since 1895,
showing the steady but fluctuating
gains, are interesting. They are as fol-
lows:
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Thomas F. Ward Set Free.

Thomas F. Ward, former president
OF the LIE Mars National bank. plead
ed guilty month ago to embezzling
$4,000 from the bank, is now a free
man, after having been detained under
9 mittimus issued by the United
States court committing him to the
jail OF Woodbury. county pending the
payment of fine of $4,000.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
One Fare Plus ~. 100, Round Trip Rate

Via Chicago Great Western Railway.
To points in Canadian Northwest,
Old Mexico, New Mexico, Minnesota,
North Dakota. Manitoba, Idaho
Texas, Georgia, Florida and North
Carolina. Ample return limits. Tick
cts on sale Oct. 9th and goth, Nov.
Bed and Nth. For further informa.
fion apply to any Great Western
Agent, or J. P. Elmer, G. p. A., Chi
cage, I'll. nov u
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
What Did She Mean.

She-And are you really so much bet
ter since you returned from your trip
abroad?
He-Yes. indeed! I'm quite another
man, assure you.
she-Well, I'm sure all your friends
will be delighted to hear it.-Chicago
Daily News
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
One-half Fare Plus o.. 90

TO all points in Arizona, Arkansas,
colorado, Indian Territory, Kansas,
louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Ok.
lahoma and Texas. Tickets on Sat.
OCT 9Th and goth; Nov. 3rd and 18th.
For further information apply to any
Ghlcdgo Great Western Agent, or to
.. Z. Elmer, q. 7. A Chicago, Ill.
Nov. 18th.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
VIII Help a Little

An expert accountant has discovered
that New York street railway corpora
lions owe the city $12,1S3, sO5.34 in
beck taxes. 1t is thought, remarks the
Philadelphia North American, that the
"a cents may be collected.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Mrs. EDGAR e. clark Dead.

Mrs. Edgar e. Clark, wife of the
grand chief of the Order Of Railway
Conductors of America and member Of
the coal strike commission, is dead
ct Cedar Rapids. after long illness,
She was forty-five years old,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Prominent Physician Indicted.

Or. W. r. Trotter, prominent ply
sician of Des Moines, was indicted
Friday by the grand jury on a
charge of murder In the second de-
gree as the result of an operation per.
formed upon young girl.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13

The fact that the gain is mainly in
the agricultural districts in France as
well as here is made plain in an analy-
sis made by LIE Monde Sportif of Paris.
which prints the statistics by depart
ments. The average increase is one of
IL per cent, but in the department of
the Seine, which is Paris, the increase
IL only 81 per cent
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
yz.y4z,l
California and Arizona.

The Chicago Great Western Rail
way will sell tickets Sept 18th to
NV. 3Oth. inclusive to points above
named states at reduction Of SIS 90
from usual rates. If you contemp-
late going 1t will pay to inquire Of
any Great Western Agent, or j. p.
Elmer, G. p. a., Chicago, for full par
ticulars. nov 80
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Wary.

Mrs. Farmer-Here, my poor man, are
some cold sausages.
Weary Willie-'scuse me, mum, but
don't your sign say Beware of the dog?"
Judge.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13

Energy all gone? Headache? Stom-
ach out OF order? Simply case Of
torpid liver. Burdock blood Bitters
will make a new man or woman or You
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Leading Him On,

ut is a great mistake, Mabel, to trifle
with the affections of man who loves
you by encouraging someone else"
well, he's little slow, auntie.
think he needs a pacemaker"-Ti t-Bits.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Iowa Central Brakeman Killed.

VIII Giese of Marshalltown, brake.
man on the Iowa Central, was killed
at Fearing while making a coupling.
His body was badly mangled.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Heir to Biz Estate.

Mrs. Hattie R. Van Horn of Des
Moines has unexpectedly been trans
ported from poverty to affluence by the
discovery that she is one Of the eight
heirs to the ten-million-dollar estate
left by James Shellenbarger, an Ore
gon capitalist. Shellenbarger died in
testate recently. The administrators
OF the estate advertised for heirs, and
a young man appeared to claim the
millions. He was about to establish
his claim when Mrs. Van Horn and
several of her relatives, who had been
reared in the vicinity of Galesburg,
ILL.,. learned of Shellenbarger's death,
and recently succeeded in establishing
their right to the estate. Mrs. Van
Horn and her husband belong to the
class termed river rats"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
AUcTloNEERs NOTICE.

II you are thinking of having an
Auction sale, the first thing to decide
is who can sell your goods for the most
money. Remember the best is none
to good. I have had over 25 years
practice. You can reach me by letter
or phone. Call me at my expense.
A. L. Lone,
Sm2 Preston, MINI,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
May Yet Take Place OF Co.I.

May Yet Take Place OF Coal.
Experiments are being made by which
radinm may be used at about one-fourth
OF the original cost. There is hope for
the world yet II the coal trust does not
garner the new metal.
Chgmberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets are becoming q favorite for
stomach troubles and constipation.
Sor sale BY Shuttleworth Drug 90,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13

No matter how long you have had
the cough; If it HASN'T already devel-
oped into consumption, DR.. Woods
Nrrway Pine Syrup will cure it.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
ACCEPTS sH,RAs, RESIGNATION
President Roosevelt Writes the lows
Judge COMPLIMENTARY Letter.

Judge a Complimentary Letter.
President Roosevelt has accept.
ed the resignation of Oliver P.
Shfras, judge of the federal court
or the Northern district of Iowa, to
take effect Nov. 1. In accepting the
resignation, President Roosevelt ex.
pressed himself in the following COM
plimentary letter:
ut is with great regret that l &C.
cept your resignation. cannot allow
the occasion to pass without congrat.
ulating you upon the signal success
which has marked your labors on the
federal bench and trust that the
period of retirment upon which you
are about to enter, and which you
have earned SO we'll, will be as full
of satisfaction to you as the period of
your service was full of usefulness to
the nation,'
Former Iowa Congressman Killed.
Former Congressman Ben T. Fred.
erick, who died recentlykat San Diego,
as the result of fall Tom a house,
was at one time in business in Mar
shalltown. He first ran for congress
against James Wilson, now secretary
OF agriculture. Wilson was declared
elected by majority of twenty-three
votes. but Frederick contested the seat
In the house. The case hung fire I'M
til the very last day of congress, and
would not have been decided then save
that Wilson consented to sacrifice him
self in order that an important meas
ure before congress might be passed.
Wilson sat in congress the entire ses-
sion, but was deprived of his salary
through his unselfish effort to pass the
measure then before the house, and
which would have been defeated II
the election case, which had the right
of way, was not disposed Of.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Will Claim the Tippecanoe Banner

VIII Claim the Tippecanoe Banner.
Hardin county will claim the Tippe-
canoe banner which is given some
county each year for showing the
heaviest per cent of Republican gains.
That county polled the heaviest vote
IN its history, exceeding its Republi-
can majority in 1901 by nearly 1900,
making gain of SO per cent, which it
is believed is better showing than
made by any other county in the state.
This showing refutes the campaign
statement made by the Republican
state central committee through it's
daily press organs that the independ-
ent movement in Hardin county would
disrupt the party.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Sn2

Hundreds Of lives saved every year
by having Or. Thomas Eclectric on
In the house just when 1t is needed
Cures Group, heals burns, outs, wounds
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
Especial Washington Letter.1

7 high noon on Monday, Nov. 8,
"a A. d. 1903, one of the fondly
"a cherished ambitions of Hon.
- X Ionax,h q Gonnan of Illiroin
The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-05-24
rA. rrt,not a.nGru.

The quAgga, the half cousin to ths Wlld ass. has vanished from Africa and only exists HS imperfect specimens n the European muSsumH
 The quagga exists aS a name sdll ln South Africa, for the name has been wrongly applied to Burchells zebra, but the true QuagEs. which took its name from its cry "quRcha." has been extinct since 1872. Whsn the last Of his or. rather. of her race, for this guagRa was a female. died in the Lon. don Geological society's menAgerie.
 Its extinction In South Africa was due solely to the zeal with which the Dutch farmers hunted it for its hide, and it Is saddenlng reflection that thousands Of Kafiirs used to be fed on it by thelr BOer masters.
 The ldlotic wastefuIuess of thus eX. terminating species becomes the more market ,I view of the fact that the Quagga, wbich was midway be tween zebra aud wild ass. could be broken to harness and was tho bIavest as well as the hardest Of ani. mals. Some Boer farmers used to keep tame quaggas on their farms to graze with horses in ordcv Co protect them from beasts of prey.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-05-24
sgseaageReQ saaRaRQaRI
PERSONAL MENTION

Herbert C. welby, assistant engineer of the Marconi Wireless telegraph company arrived on the Dolphin. He will go to the interior with Chief engineer Richard Pflnd of the same company as soon as the condition of Lake La Barge will permit. r. W. Snyder, Judd Williamson and Bill Thompson, returned Friday from Dyea, where they had spent sev- eral days looking for bear. They did not get any bear.
 Mir. and Mrs. Bronson and children came up from Juneau on the Dolphin. Mir. Bronson Is a Seattle attorney, and represents the Alaska Steamship Co. Capt. F. B. Turner of the B. Y. N. O., arrived on the Dolphin yesterday afternoon and is at the Fifth Avenue hotel
 Capt. F. Morris, Of the B. Y. \ Co., arrived on the Dolphin yesterday even- ing
 Mrs. L. NJ. McGrath returned on the Dolphin from a months visit in Tacoma.
 Miss Jennie Lind arrived on the Dolphin from a seven months visit at Portland.
 I.M. Jensen represented the Daily Alaskan at Whitehorse yesterday w. J. Norfork, B. r. N. purser ar rivee on the Dolphin yesterday. Mir and Mrs. Robert W. Jennings arrived from Juneau on the Dolphin.
 -o-
 J. Harmon. of Juneau, is at the Gold eu North hotel.
 -o-
 Eddie Barry returned home on the Dolphin yesterday.
 -o-
 B. F. NOOuan, of TreadweN, was one of the eNcursionists.
 --G
 C. X. Lindstrom, the Douglas mer- chant, went to Whitchorse yesterday.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-05-24
JUST LET US ALONE.

It is said that the United States now has commission. whose special buSi- ness it is to investigate the Canadian Northwest Mounted Police system. with a view Go che organization ota similar force for Alaska. Agood idea. -Valdcz News
 I,isuo such a thing
 Alaskan, do no, want any mounted police OF anything else in the way Of government They only ask recOguit- ion ot their right Co govern themselves. This thing %, sending man or com mission ou, from Washington Co devise some more suitable method ot manag- ing the people ot Alaska |, becoming unbearable. The inhabitants Of this district are uo, Filipiuos OF Samoans. They are Americans, born and reared in country where men govern them selves, and ,bc grea, majority of then. know more abou, just and proper gov ernmeut. than che musJy-,melliug bureau pets who are sent out from Washington arc capable of learning in Che course of their unnatural lives. Alaskan, are lar better qualified to govern che nation than the hungry pap eating. hobby riding experts" Cd whom ha, been delegated che duty oi seeing and studying Alaska or che beuef, of che executive and legislative departments. are of doing suggesting anything A destructive license tax. thc AIexauder.an forest reserve. a miss 6, game law and a bastard govern men, arc the result, oi che idle .magiu- ing, o,,b,,e ,5-,aIed wise men from ,he East. We arc getting sick and ,ired ofi.a'.
 All che people ot Alaska @,S Q. the federal government i, Co release its -jrun grasp from Che throaJs ot the com mercia, and industrial interests of this dis,r.c, and Co permit the people Co manage their own affairs Some thiu- Co which their Amsr.caui>u give, them natural right
The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-05-24
NOTICE OF FINAL REPORT.

In the court of J. J. Rogers, '. s. Commissioner and eX-Onicio Probat, Judge, for the district of Alaska, ai Skagway.
 In re estate of A. A. Anderson.
 Notice is hereby given that Anna N. Anderson, administratriN of the above estate, has presented her final account for settlement, and that the-l2th day of August, 1903, at 10 o'clock m. ai JhD court room of the above entitled court at Skagway, Alaska, is fixed by -lio court as the time and place ior Che hearing and proof of said final account Any persons interested in said c,,a'. may appear and file exception, Co sal, account, before the time SO fixed, ul said account will be allowed and th, said administratriN and her bOud-m.u discharged from their trust.
 Dated at Skagway Alaska, this lltt day of May, 1903.
 J. J ROGERS. U. s. Commissioner and EN-OUcio Pro bate Judge.
 First publication May 10, 1908.
 Last publication June D, 1903.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-05-24
MANY GO
More Than Three Hundred
 Join the Excursion.

There were 3S5 people on the eHcur- sion train to whitehorse yesterday, which pulled out from Skagway on time, at 6 o'clock sharp. It was a merry crowd, too; one that went away to enjoy itself, and there was no doubt existing in the minds of anyone who saw the crowd that got on the train at skagway at 2:9O o'clock this morning, that a good time was had.
 The excursion train was in charge of Conductor Charles Barnes, and Engineer McGee had charge of the en- zine.
 Jerry Quinlan brought the crowd back this morning and w. c. AcKen- zie was In the cab.
 The trip over and back was made without an accident of any kind, and the train was run on schedule.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-05-24
MAN LOST
Philadelphian Seeks Lost
 Relative.

Where is John Toorney. That is a vital question with the gentleman's relatives in Philadelphia. When last heard from he left Seattle for Alaska, but to what part of Alaska is not known, neither is the date of his de- parture known, except that it was sometime in 1899 or early in 1900. Toorney was trigger" by trade, ac- cording to letter received by Deputy Marshal Shook from C. Brown, S3l North Marshal street, Philadelphia, Pa. Mir. Brown states that he would welcome information on the matter.