davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Holbrook argus., 1903-10-17
A BATTLE WITH CONNECTS
ATTEMPTED BREAK OF PRISONERS
 PARTLY SUCCESSFUL
A Well-Laid Plan to Gain Liberty from the Utah
 State Prison Resulted in the Killing of One Convict. While Two Eseaped-0ae Guard Shot

attempt at wholesale delivery or prisoners at the Utah state prison last Friday night one prisoner was killed, one guard was shot and wounded, another was beaten almost into in sensibility, three prisoners were wounded and two others under death sentences escaped.
 The dead: Frank Dayton, serving twelve year term for attempted high way robbery.
 The wounded Guard Wilkins, shot in the leg; Guard Jacobs, badly beaten by convicts; Convict Ed Null len, serving a three-year term for burglary, shot in the leg; Convict Abe Majors, serving live term for the murder of Captain Brown of the Ogden police, shot in the arm; Harry Waddell, serving seven year term for burglary.
 The escaped: Nick Haworth, sen tenced to death for the murder of Night Watchman Sandal in Layton, Utah; James Lynch, sentenced to death for the murder of Colonel Prowse in a gambling house in Salt Lake City three years ago.
 None of the wounded, it is believed, are seriously hurt
 A posse of prison guards with sev- eral bloodhounds was promptly started on the trail of the two escaped con- victs, but owing to darkness and the wild nature of the country in the i'm mediate vicinity of the prison no re- suits are looked for tonight.
 The outbreak occurred about 6 80 o'clock, just as the prisoners were being placed in their cells for the night by Guards Wilkins and Jacobs. Two of the prisoners overpowered Wilkins and Jacobs, the former was shot and slightly wounded and the latter was frigthfully beaten. The convicts took the prison keys from the guards and released five other prison CTS who had already been locked up. The seven prisoners then compelled Guard Wilkins, notwithstanding his injuries, to march at their head, and with the assistance of ladders found near the workshop, proceeded to scale the wall, Wilkins was made to ascend first.
 As the first convict reached the top, Guard Naylor, who was on the south wall, opened fire. This was the signal for general alarm and several guards who were in the office quickly seized their rifles and hastened to the scene. Guard Driggs reached the wall just as Datyon and Mullan were ordered them to halt, but as they paid no attention to the command, he fired, killing Dayton. A second shot struck MuIlan in the leg as he was going down the ladder and he dropped to the ground, his body falling over the corpse of Dayton.
 The other five convicts had suc- ceeded in reaching the ground outside the wall when they were fired upon by the other guards. Abe Majors was shot in the arm and fell to the ground, crying with pain. Haworth was also shot and fell, but quickly arose and continued his flight. Waddell was shot in the leg. Lynch escaped un- injured, it is believed. After running about 100 yards from the wall, Ha- worth dropped rope made from blankets which was found stained with blood. At the foot of the wall wer found several cartridges which
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23
HOW HOSPITALS GROW.

The needs and possibilities of hos
pital are thus told in a news item in
the Burlington Hawkeye:
Great oaks from little acorns
grow" 1t is an old story, but it will
bear repeating. Not so many years
ago there were no hospitals in Burling-
ton. The sisters of st. Francis open
ed small institution and almost ev-
erybody shook his head and predicted
that the enterprise would prove a nat
failure. Burlington had gotten along
for some forty or fifty years without
a hospital. That was the very best
proof for the assertion that she need
ed no hospitals and would not encour-
age enterprises of that kind. The
good sisters had met the wise men be-
fore. They went their way, and soon
more commodious quarters were re-
quired and by and by great institu-
ton arose on South Hill. Then the
wise men said, now that is enough
for Burlington for all eternity" And
when second hospital was started,
there was more shaking of heads ana
more predicting Of ruin. And by and
by a number of good people got to-
gether and founded Burlington hospi-
tai. And the tongues of the wise men
wagged furiously and they shook their
heads with increasing vigor. And the
third enterprise soon outgrew it's orr
ginal quarters and soon occupied a
modern and commodious home Of its
own. And under careful and wise
management it has proven a blessing
indeed. 1t is appreciated far and wide
and 1t has again outgrown its quar-
tiers. And to the CONSERVATION of the
wise men the third hospital is now
having plans for an addition drawn
and expects to build this season. The
success of the enterprise it due in no
small manner to the executive ability
OF Miss Keller and to the untiring
work Of such staunch friends as Mr..
Theo. Blaul.
Architect Harry w. Jones, of Mime
apolis, has about completed the plans
for large addition to the original
structure and for nurses home. The
cost of the contemplated Improvement
will be about $4,000. 1t is the inten-
ton of the management to have work
commenced at the earliest possible
moment and to have the new struc-
ture completed this season. Hundreds
Of friends and well-wishers will aid
and encourage this meritorious enter
prise. ..
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23

1t might not be a paying innoya-
ton for the Rock Island System but
1t would surely be an appreciated
change for Oskaloosa and every other
town from Davenport to Des Moines
If that road would put on through SER
vice from Des Moines to Chicago via
oskaloosa, and maintain it seven days
in the week. The change could be
made without the addition of any new
train, simply switching one Of the
trains from the Des Moines-O kaloosa
service to the Oskaloosa-Knoxville run
and let the Chicago train that now
stops at Evans go on through to Des
Moines. This would undoubtedly in
crease the patronage in every way,
give the road more mail to carry, and
by maintaining a Chicago sleeping
car service would insure to the Rock
Island its share OF eastern business
from big stretch Of country.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23
A BROKEN BOTTLE.
Causes a Serious Accident to a Nine
Year-old Boy.

A nine-year-old son of Dave Black
burn, residing at the intersection of
K avenue and K street, met with a Sc
rious and painful accident Of some
what unusual character. The lad
was playing about on a grassy lot. He
sat down with perhaps little more
than ordinary force and placed HIM
self fairly upon the upturned point OF
a broken whiskey flask that was hid
den in the grass or weeds. The glass
made a deep wound just at the juno
ture OF the bullock and the thigh
The glass penetrated the flesh the dis
tanse OF an inch OF more, an artery
was severed and the dow OF blood was
profuse. DR.. Coveny wns called and
he hurried to the reflex Of the little Eel.
low az rapidly as possible The trou'
BILE IL all over now and the had 10 get
ting along al well ~ could be expected
under the circumstances.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23
POPE LEO XIII.

Pope Leo XIII was 68 years ola
when he was elected to the pontifcate
Of which he recently celebrated the
twenty-ffth anniversary. He was in
feeble health, and one of the chief ar
guments Of his supporters was that
being old, and not strong, he could NOT
live long, and therefore would soon
make room for some of the younger
and more ambitious cardinals. Bulle-
tins on the state of Leo's health be-
gan to be issued almost Immediately
upon his induction into Office, and
from that day to his death they have
come with uninterrupted regularity.
1t is difficult to realize the vast
stretch of years over which Pope
Leo'B activities have extended. He
belonged to the day Of Bismarck and
Of William I. of Germany; to the day
Of Victoria and Gladstone and Disrasli
in England, all names linked INSOFAR
ably with the past. Napoleon was
at the height Of his power when Leo
was born. He was five years old
when Waterloo was fought. He was
81 years old, already man advanced
in years, when Fort Sumter fell. Truly
his is a remarkable life, and his years
fuller than are given to most men.
Thou shalt not see the years OF
Peter" has again not been fulfilled in
his case, it was not in that OF his i'm
mediate predecessor, Plus TX, VINO
occupied the pontifical chair for thir-
ty-one years. According to tradition,
Peter came to Rome in the SECOND
year OF the reign of Claudius, A. D. AZ,
and held the see twenty-five years. So
fixed became the idea of the quater-
century limit that one Of the warnings
pronounced at the papal coronation
is Non videbis amos 4'etri."
During the long twenty-five years of
his papacy, Leo, as was Plus TX. be-
fore him, had been a voluntary pris-
oner Of the vatican, beyond the limits
of which he had not once set foot. In
1870, when the papacy was stripped
of its temporal sovereignty, and Rome
was made the capital Of the new king
dom of Italy, Plus TX. announced his
self-imprisonment in the vatican
grounds. His successor, in this re-
gard has rigidly followed in his steps.
In everything else, however, there is
little similarity between Leo AND Pope
Plus. The striking contrast between
the two men is notably seen in their
various public papers. The syllabus
of eighty-two errors and the encycl-
cal asserting the infallibility OF the
pope have little in common with the
progressive, statesmanlfke utterances
Of the late pope. The labor question,
socialism, true relation Of the church
and the state-sueh have been the VI
tai questions occupying the far-saeine
mind of Leo XIII. -- ..-........ ...
In fact, Pope Leo.s life has been
such as to sndear him to men OF all
countries and all creeds, for whom he
stands as an example of wisdom, VIZ
tue, self-sacrifce and high moral pur-
pose worthy Of emulation in all times
and by all men.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23

-Grinnell Herald: "On the streets
of Searsboro Monday a young man
was offered four dollars day for lab
or in the hay field. Think of it! $3.50
year for unskilled labor!" This of
course is a wonderful showing, but the
statement is likely to be misleading.
The hay harvest lasts only few days
and then the 81 man is out Of job.
The man with steady employment at
$3.50 per day is better off and happier
than the fellow who is always looking
for a short job at big pay. "A rolling
stone" ct caetera.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS.

Editors Herald:-If it were not for
the essential elements that exist in
the physical world, life would be ex-
tinct to the vegetable as well as to the
animal kingdom. .. .......... .-v.
One of the great and essential ele-
ments distributed throughout nature
is oxygen. 1t was discovered by
Priestly, Of Scotland, in the year 1774,
also by Chelle, of Sweden; but Lavois-
Ter, the French chemist, named it
oxygen,--i. e., II produce"
If it were not for oxygen nothing
would grow or burn; as in it all live
and have their being. The atmosphere
is composed by weight of % parts of
oxygen and II parts of nitrogen. By
volume it contains 81 parts of oxygen
and 70 parts Of nitrogen. Nitrogen is
the great drying property of our at
mosphere. The washerwomen I can
thank nitrogen for drying their clothes
but the fellow who drinks would pre-
fer the gin straight with no nitrogen
attached.
Hydrogen is a gas that is generated
in marshy places, that superstitious
old fellow known as Will-o'the-wisp
or Jack-o' lantern, seen at night in
marshy places, also in grave yards.
When a body is first buried it con-
tains a great deal of hydrogen and as
this gas escapes to the surface it
makes the lights that the boys and
or;rIo coll Will tho ruicn~ or TonL ~
lanterns. So don't be afraid, they are
only a part of all our physical bodies,
from Mother Earth it came, and so it
returns:
Light carbonated hydrogen" is a
gas that generates in coal mines, bat
not in our Iowa mines. We miners
call this gas fire damp. When mixed
with common air it becomes an ex-
plosive compound. To prevent gas
explosions in mines safety lamps are
used, such as the Davey lamp and 9TH
ers. Sir Humphrey Davey, the invent
or Of the first safety lamp, was born in
Cornwall, England, in 1888, and died
in Geneva in 1899. v,..
Fire damp alone will not explode or
is not explosive, but when mixed with
eight or ten volumes Of air 1t besomes
highly explosive and dangerous. Now
the great object of the safety lamp is
to protect the miners while at work
in this frey element. 1t iS simply an
Oil lamp surrounded by gauge cylin-
der wire, which has no less than 400
apertures to the square inch Of gauge.
When a lamp of tbs kind Is used no
explosion will take place. The aery
gas traverses the holes in the gauge
cylinder and burns inside the lamp,
but the flame will not pass outside the
gauge to ignite the atmospheric gas,
so the safety lamp makes an explosion
impossible. The gauge does not pre-
vent the gas from coming into the
lamp, but prevents the flame of the
lamp reaching the gas outside of the
lamp, because the wire gauge is a
great conductor Of heat
wv. j., An Old Miner.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23

raised, and generally there has been
no complaint of the increase made
last year.
The argument of the railroad at
torneys and tax commissioners for the
companies this year is that the assess
ment OF last year is excessive, was not
warranted at that time, is not war
ranted now, cannot be sustained on
any just ground, and that while there
should be some readiustment of val
ues as between the different systems
and branches there should not be any
addition to the gross assessment of
the railroads.
The council had before 1t the tabu-
lated returns from all the railroads
in the state showing at glance what
each system and each branch has done
the past year and as compared with
other years. From this it was seen
that the mileage had increased 285
miles to total for main lines of 1921.
At the same time there was increase
in gross receipts to $56,466,S05 and a
decrease in operating expenses to
$39, 1888, zoe, making the net earnings
on Iowa business $17,134, 1o2 or $1,S07
per mile. When the council met last
to make the railroad assessments it
did not have before it the real estate
and other assessments for the year,
because assessment Of railroad compa-
MES prior to this year was made in
March and not in July. The total of
railroad assessments of the previous
year had been about $47,000,000. It
was found that the net increase OF
business on the Iowa roads in 1901
over 1900 was $1,219,293. The assess
ment of the railroads was increased
by $4,500,000 to a total Of $51, SOC, 900.
This year the reports Of the compa-
MES show that the total increase in
net earnings for the year 1902 over
1901 was 673,126.69, or about half
what the increase was last year. The
problem for the council is to deter
mine how much Of an increase to
make this year, if any, and how to dis
tribute it among the various compa-
MES.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23

their hours of work or closed altogeth.
er; wages were reduced on all hands
and a panic was "on." This condition
Of things impelled Mr.. Cleveland to-
call congress in extra session and it
met on August z, 1898.
A widely different condition prevails
today all over the country. D1stead Of
the declining gold reserve and the runs
on the treasury, we have larger
hoard OF gold in that depository than
was ever in it at any time past. In
addition to the regular reserve fund
of gold, which was flxed at $3.50, 000,-
600 by the law Of 1900, over S72,000,-
600 Of gold coin and gold bullion is In
the treasury vaults now. President
Cleveland was obliged to sell bonds
four times during that fateful second
administration OF his in order to pro-
tect the gold reserve. He increased
the interest bearing debt Of the gov
eminent to the extent of $262, 100000
in this way, but he was unable to keep
the gold, which was fixed at $3.50, 000,-
900. Greenbacks were rushed into the
treasury and gold was forced out by
them almost as fast as the gold could
be gathered there by bond sales. A.
general feeling of depression prevail
ed all over the land. There was al
fear that the country would have to
drop to silver basis. For time
there was alarm lest the republicans
gold resumption law, which went into
effect in 1879, under which Cleveland
made his bond sales, would be made
qlate to protect the country against
the assaults which were being made on
the treasury's gold fund.
The situation in 1903 is strikingly
different in all respects from thar
which prevailed in 1893. Not only Is
the gold hoard in the treasury the
largest which has ever been known,
but the general tendency is upward.
Instead Of buying gold to-day the treas
ury officials would be glad to sell some
OF it or to get rid of 1t in some other
legitimate way. The endless chain"
which Mr.. Cleveland talked about
by which greenbacks, after displacing
gold in the treasury, were used to force
more gold out-has been abolished.
Nobody is going to the treasury these
days with greenbacks to exchange for
gold. The current is in the reverse
direction. 1t gives gold In exchange
for greenbacks. The financial dis
trust and fear" which Cleveland men.
toned in his message to congress
when 1t met In called session ten
years ago has been succeeded by pros
perity and confidence. Everybody in
the country to-day who wants work
has it. AL the great interests and &C.
tivities are busy. The country is
happy, prosperous and hopeful. Where
President Cleveland found Calamity,
President Roosevelt sees good times
in . higher degree than the country
has ever known. Here Is a tale Of
two administrations which carries its
own moral to the minds Of the Ameri-
can people. ....
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23
A SuwufcaI Operation

is always dangerous--do not submit to
the surgeons knife until you have
tried DeWitt's Witch Hazel SaNe. It
will cure when everything else fails.
1t has done this in thousands of cases.
Here is one of them: l suffered from
bleeding and protruding piles for TWEEN.
ty years. Was treated by different
specialists and used many remedies,
but obtained no relief until l used De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve. Two boxes
of this salve cured me eighteen months
ago and l have not had touch Of the
piles since.-H. A. Tisdale, Summer.
ton, S. c. For Blind, Bleeding Itching
and Protruding Piles no remedy equals
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Sold by
Green & Bentley Drug Co.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23
TALE OF TWO ADMINISTRATIONS.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat: At this
time ten years ago an extra session Of
congress had been called by President
Cleveland and that body was soon to
assemble. In April, 1893, for the first
time after the republicans specie re-
sumption law took effect in 1879 the
gold in the treasury available for
greenback redemption dropped below
the 100,0O0,000 mark. This was a
month after Cleveland's second term
began. The decline continued, and at
one time the free gold in the treasury
was down rs far as 100000. Alarm
seized the people; runs" were made
on the banks in many cities; many
banks suspended and others collapsed;
great business houses went down, in
some OF the big centers, and carried
many smaller concerns down with
them; mills and factories shortened
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23
-Keokuk County News:

and this the Sixth district stood to-
gether and both years were successful
in landing the nominations they went
after. The past two years is the first
time in many that the district did
work together. 1t goes to show that
when we work together We can accom-
plish something. We should remem-
Der this in the future and then we win
not go home from the convention
growing because we are not fairly
treated.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23
catarrh Of the stomach.

When the stomach Is overloaded;
when food is taken into it that fails
to digest, it decays and inflames the
mucous membrane, exposing the
nerves, and causes the glands to Sc
crete mucin, instead Of the naturai
juices Of digestion. This Is called Ca
tarrh of the Stomach. For years I
suffered with Catarrh OF the Stomach,
caused by Indigestion. Doctors and
medicines failed to benefit me until
used Kodol Dyspepsia Cure.--J n.
Rhea, Coppell, Tex Sold BY
Cfnf q Bnnflnx Is "
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23
WHERE is MARY7

Mary Mac, the girl from Butte,
Who at this world turned up her smut,
And called it all a sham,
Has gone away, alas, alack!
We long to see our Mary Mac,
With her Dam, dam, dami'
Q, has some hero caused this lack
And Hobsonized the Mary Mac,
And hushed her like clam?
1t may be true. 1t may, we fear
We shall no longer Mary hear,
With her Dam, dam, dam!"
0, Mary Mac, we pray come back,
The heat is making an attack
1t is the heat that am.
Come back and all our pulses stir
BY greeting the thermometer
With your Dam, dam, dam!"
Chicago Tribune.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23

Royal W. Marsh, of Des Moines,
a boy Of twenty years, was on Friday
married for the second time. Each
bride was. but II years of age. The
first secured a divorce from him May
4 because he was cigarette fiend, and
Friday while the clerk made out his
license to wed the second he calmly
stood at the counter and rolled and
smoked a cigarette. Here is case
where the law should step in and sup
ply some sense to girls who seem to
have none, by preventing such tray
estes on a bond that should be sur
rounded with a little sacredness.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23

-Des NoiAes has eighty-nine. sa-
looms. The city receives 5000 per year
from each saloon and Polk county re-
ceives $500. The city's share for the
saloons now running in Des Moines
amounts to $S0,100. Two men own Al
most half Of the saloons in the city.
There has been q tendency to consos-
idation in the saloon business OF late.
The B. r. Parker company pays for
the permits on twenty-four saloons in
Des Noines and Lorenz Ill takes out
fourteen permits. This makes Ben
Parker's bin TO the city OF Dies Moines
every year s2t 800, and he must also
pay one-third that SUM to the county.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23

The Eagle notes that "the Keota
churches have pooled issues and viii
unite during the heated term" and en-
quires: But why during the heated
term only? Why not during the frigid
term, too, and save light and fuel and
janitor bills? They're all working for
the same cause and 'twould be much
less expensive" T s"-".a.t s
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-23
BROWN 10 SETTER.
Man VINO Was shot In The Arm No 10
covering Nicely.

ChAs. Brown, sf Mtch&kiRoek, who
was severely shot In the right arm on
the morning Il July 5, Is progressing
nicely and is now able TO use the
wounded arm almost a. wen as though
it had never been hurt. The ball
which was Sired from a thirty-etgAt
ealibre revolver, entered the arm about
four inches above the elbow, passed
through the joint and down through
the forearm. It was taken out about
two and q half inches above the wrist.
The ball had passed through four
thicknesses Of cloth, perforating them.
1t carried the perforations along with
1t through its entire course and the
cloth was found lying with the bali
when it was found by the surgeons
knife. Brown viii be able to use the
arm again shortly and it is thought
that he will experience no inconyeni-
ence on account of the hurt.