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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-24

The other day lifelong friend Of
the editor dropped into the office and
actually had the audacity to fire off
the following original conundrum at
short range: "Say, why ought two
persons never to engage in any serious
argument on board of a ship?' AT
first we thought of submitting it to
the Secretary of the Navy, and then
to Admiral Togo or Fighting Bob
Evans" but remembering that the dog
days are on us and that sea dogs are
pretty badly stirred up already. what
with the troubles of the Vladivostok
and Port Arthur fleets. the seizures of
British and German Merchantmen, and
that little commotion about the ports
of the Pasha, we concluded to give her
up, then the answer came with a
chuckle, because neither of them can
have any ground to stand on.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-24
Current Comment.

Gov. Cummins says observe Labor
Day. Sept. 9TH.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-24

The Iowa State Fair is celebrating
its fiftieth anniversary this week.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-24

King Edward may set the pace in
four creased trousers but when it comes
to four creased and four dented Pana'
ma hats we have the drop on him,
b'gosh.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-24

"A few articles of furniture, win
dow shades, kitchen utensils and cut
lery left for sale. Mrs. j. A. McKin-
ney, 405 Broadway.
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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
H. J. GREEN.
Editor and Proprietor.

Official Paper of Winnesheik County
and the City Of Decorah.
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Entered at the post Office in Decorah
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The Washington times., 1904-03-13

Then the reaction set in. People up
Moosehead Lake way began to write
letters TO me, saying that if was going
to devote my whole paper to crazy Peo-
pie they had some up there who could
write hotter stuff than Train, and it
would be nearer home, too.
The circulation began to drop OF 1
took the hint, and dropped Train like a
hot potato. The next week 1 got long
er and more sensational letter from
him. but, steeling my heart, L sent 1t
back with a note-my first to him-that
1 had printed all of his excellent philoso-
ply that l could.
BY return mail came a thin. fiimsy
envelope that mystified me till l had
opened il, and then terrified me 1t was
a bill for $1,000 for his labor and time IN
writing for my paper.
''Of course, after I got over the shock
I wrote him and told him that country
papers never paid for contributions. and
that anyway $1,000 was considerably IN
excess of the total value of my paper
and plant He wrote me very sharp
letter in which he told me that he did
not write for nothing, and that ought
TO know il; that though l might not
like il 1 should now set the example 10
country editors by paying for his stun
The Washington times., 1904-03-13
HOW CITIZEN TRAIN WON FAME IN MAINE
Days Weekly Paper Dexter and Asked
$4,000 for His Work. but Fattered Into RecePtng Bill

and paying promptly. It was a cruel
letter and cut to the quick.
Then, as a last resort. 1 determined
to try diplomacy. I decided that his
biggest bump was vanity. ] sat down
and wrote the masterpiece of my life
1t was a personal letter to Train telling
him of the furore his stuff had made
in my locality, the good he had done
to lonely farmer folk hidden away IN
the Maine hills, and the hearts he had
cheered and the lives eEaObled-
Il told him that II was impossible to
pay him, but that he had already been
paid by making thousands Of converts
to his idea of existence 1t was SOUL
stirring letter.
by the next mail came back from
New York a crisp, short receipt for four
thousand dollars for value received It
was signed by Train, and closed the in
cident- I SUPPOSE that it was my letter
telling him of the good his articles had
done that was the value referred TO-
Ten years afterward. when visited
Train in his room at the Mills Hotel,
he reached up to his shelf and took
down the files OF my country weekly
with his stories in 1t carefully marked.
He told me that I was the only editor
in the world who knew anything, be-
cause I had never mangled his copy.
but had printed every word he wrote
without reference to whether l could
understand it or not
The Washington times., 1904-03-13
CUBAN HERO STOLE FOR STARVING, WIFE
Arthur Gomez Nephew of the Famous General and Veteran OF
the War With Spain, Forced by Starvation Commit Theft

had not had anything to eat for two
days at that. time, and I know that the
temptation must have been very strong,
continued Mrs. Gomez.
He comes Of one OF the finest old
Cuban families. His father, as well as
his uncle. General Gomez, were the most
persistent rebels against the Spanish
rule IN Cuba. He has told me the most
blood-curdling stories OF atrocious treat
ment of the men and women of his
family by the Spanish Government and
officers
He is only twenty-tbree years old
now. but he is the father of a boy baby
who sleeps in Calvary Cemetery, and he
is a veteran OF the Cuban war with
Spain. In 1896 when It became apparent
that the war in Cuba was coming and
that it was going TO De a very bitter
one. his father sent him to relatives in
Florida that he might be out Of danger.
The war broke out and his father en-
listed with the revolutionary forces,
fighting with General Antonio Maceo as
one Of his trusted lieutenants
His mother joined her son in Flor
ida, and in 1897 came the news that her
husband had been killed in action. This
so inhamed the little boy, Arthur Quin-
tano, that he ran away from Florida
and made his way to Havana. where he
was seized by the Spanish, but escaped
The Washington times., 1904-03-13

10 the camp of the rebels.
There he was welcomed by General
Maceo and was given a commission.
Three times he was wounded, and
once lay in the damp grass OF the
swamps for two days, suffering from
fever and a broken leg. a Spanish rife
having shattered the bone Of his left
leg.
AT the close Of the war with Spain.
and the coming Of Cuba's independence,
came also hard times ana little save
starvation To support his mother he
came to New York to work as a cigar
maker.
For all his scars of battle and his
sunburned. campaign face, and the few
ers that still followed him now and
then, he was a strong man and thor
oughly capable Of supporting wife.
He had a good position in a Canal
street cigar factory. He had still the
prospect Of his back pay from the Gu
ban army. He belonged to a good
family in the island
we lived happily together in lit
tie fat in the Bronx, and every now
and then letters came from his relatives
in Cuba urging him to come back and
collect his back pay and settle down
in the island He feared for my health
konwing that the climate there might
be the death of me, and refused to re-
turn.
The Washington times., 1904-03-13

les, my husband stole for me. be-
NJ cause he feared that I would
starve. He would not have stolen
for himself. and he would not
touch a morsel of food purchased
with the money he received for the
clothing he took. He had done all
any man could possibly do, trying
early and late to find work. He has
the finest sense Of honor. He is a hero.
a soldier and a patriot, who at afteen
years Of age entered the Cuban revolu-
tionary army and fought Spain for the
freedom OF his native land"
He has done everything for me, even
to stealing-which he would not do for
himself"
With these words Mrs. Arthur Gomez
Quintano, Of 1O3 West Sixty-fOurth
street, wife Of a nephew Of the famous
Cuban general and patriot, explained the
incident Of the arrest Of her husband
for the larceny Of clothing He had been
thrown out OF work by a strike in a
Canal street cigar factory. Sickness and
.dleness consequent to the strike had re-
duced the family 10 starvation.
1T breaks my heart to think that he
would do such a thing for me. He
would never have done it for himself.
and he refused point blank to touch any
OF the food that he had bought with the
money he received for the clothes. He
The Washington times., 1904-03-13

soIutely necessary to our complex mod
ern civilization.
Every day we live we realize that the
automobile is taking the place of tire
horse; now we learn that it is going TO
put his noble half-brother, the mule,
out Of business, and soon we may see
It making iaroads on the suburban traf-
nc OF the large railroads all over the
country
The Washington times., 1904-03-13

for the teamsters, grain and hay for
the mules and a tank with an ample
water supply, for there are stretches
of as much as sixty mites between
watering places. Even with these hui
name precautions scores of mules die
annually, and men are killed by long
exposure to the heat and blinded by the
aIkali dust and the glare Of the sun.
Also, this snail-pace transportation
The Washington times., 1904-03-13

trolled by the mOtOrman in the cab
Then it Is provided with powerful
searchlight, which will enable them to
run night well as day.
What a scare the coyotes and vul-
lures will have in a month or two, when
this mammoth automobile train with
it's big searchlight, takes the place of
the heavy wagons with their score Of
The Washington times., 1904-03-13

cannot satisfy the mile-a-minute anbi-
ton Of the American business man
Mr.. Gibbs. OF the Gibbs Engineering
and Manufacturing Company, has in
vented and is now building for the
Pacific Coast Borax Company a three
motor engine and train which will rev
olutionize transportation on the desert
It's power is a 275-horse power triple
cylinder gasoline engine operating a
The Washington times., 1904-03-13

ton viii not only overcome the teTrors
of the desert. but it will open up huge
territories rich in minerals. but mac
cessible up to this time. Railroads could
not be built to them except at great eX-
penses but the automobile train, with
its brOad-tired wheels, will open up vast
tracts that now seem waste, but which,
like Death Valley. contain products alb
The Washington times., 1904-03-13

ing the 165-gallon gasoline tanks cool
He mas done this by an ingenious sys-
TEN Of fans.
This was absolutely necessary, for il
Death Valley the mercury usually
stands at at 100 degrees F, ard often
rises to 14O degrees.
There is an air compressor in the en-
CINE which operates air brakes on each
Of the cars; thus the whole train is con-
The Washington times., 1904-03-13

electric generator. This
engine weighs only six tons. 1t would
have to weigh much more if the seven
or eight trailers of the train offered
dead weight. But on the rear axle Of
each wagon is a motor, to which power
is transmitted throughout the train
from he engine.
One Of the most perplexing problems
which Mr. Gibbs had 20 face was Keep
The Washington times., 1904-03-13

r HE automobile is solving many
problems of transportation. Its
latest achievement is displacing
the mule team in the alkah deserts Of
Utah and California.
Men and horses alike have persisted
there from thirst. heat and the deadly
yellow dust in which they were en-
veloped by the wind storms. Yet those
The Washington times., 1904-03-13

deserts must be traversed for salts. es-
pecially borax, must be transported to
the eastward.
The mule was found to be the only
animal that could drag cars Of ore
across these Western deserts, and the
mule team has been developed to its
greatest possible efficiency by the Pa
cihc Coast Borax Company. which oper-
.ates many mule teams through the
The Washington times., 1904-03-13
GIANT AUTOMOBILES TO
CONQUER THE DESERT

Death Valley of California.
This desert is 167 miles long and can
be covered at the rate of only eighteen
miles a day even by one Of the strongest
teams The way lies through the heavy
white sand which, in the road, is packed
down into deep ruts by the 10000 pounds
of crude borax hauled by each team.
Besides the ore they have to haul food
The Washington times., 1904-03-13

Flooding mules.
One of these trains viii be as powerful
and useful as thirty teams of, mules.
Look at the figures: One team Of
twenty mules can in twenty-four hours
haul 1900 pounds of crude borax only
eighteen miles; an automobile train. in
the same time. will haul 100 tons 100
miles.
This system of automobile transports
The Washington times., 1904-03-13


twenty hauls pounds
eighteen One automobile train in the
ewillha hundred tons hundred miles
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-22
The congregation IN the 1,r,,e

The congregation IN the ntile req
| Bchooihouse at Gray's Corners, Pa
was unusually large on recent Sun.
day, for two popular young people
were to be married by Elder Elkanah
Swift The occasion being an unusual
one, the elder wore his silk hat, which
had been stored in garnet for years.
Elder Hobbs picked up the tile TO re
ceiye an offering for missionaries,
when score of wasps emerged from
its roomy recesses and attacked the
congregation. There was a shrek in
chorus and a rush from the room
Elder Swift was the first to leap
through windoF, closely followed by
Hobbs The brihesroom-to be carried
out his fiancee bodily
Elder Swift ilnped to nearby
swamp and applied some mud to his
aching bald head. His hat was a
wreck beyond rdpair. In the crown
was found the remains of the wasps
nest None of the congregation at
tempted to reentfr the schoolhouse
and the missionaries lost a collection
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-22
THE CHARTER OF INcoRPoRA-
TON OF THE ALEXANDER
LUMBER COMPANY.

H. N. Alexander, T. P. Reynolds,
| ]. F. Barnes and their associates are
hereby created body polite and
corporate, under the name and style
of The Alexander Lumber Company.
I The domicile of said company shall
be in the City of Greenville, in Wash
ington County, Mississippi.
The purposes for which said cor
| poration is created are as follows:
To engage in the wholesale and retail
lumber and builders supply business,
the manufacture or building mater
ial, the buying and selling OF real es-
tate, and the business of building
contractor.
The capital stock OF said corpora
ton shall be 100000, to be divided
into shares of $4,000 each, and said
company may begin business when
$25,ooooo of its capital stock shall
have been subscribed and paid for.
Said corporation shall exist for a
period of fifty years.
The officers of said corporation
shall consist of president, vice
president, general manager and sec
rotary and treasurer, the Offices of
vice-president and general manager
to be filled by one person, and the
Office of secretary and treasurer to
be filled by one person.
The first meeting of the persons in
terested in said corporation may be
called by any person interested there
in as an incorporation on two days
written notice thereof to the other
persons interested, and the meeting,
when assembled on such notice, may !
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-22
Worst of all Experiences.

Can anything be worse than o feel
that every minute will be your last?
Such was the experience of MISS. H.
Newson, Decatur, Ala. "For three
years she writes, 81 endured insult
ferable pain from Indigestion stom-
ach and bowel trouble. Death seemed
inevitable when all doctors and all
remedies failed. AT length | was in
duced ii try Electric Bitters and the
result was miraculous. | improved
at once and now I'm completely re-
covered" For Liver, Kidney, Stom-
ach and Bowel troubles, Electric Bit
tiers is the only medicine. Only soc.
It's guaranteed at Finlay's D r II g
Store.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-22
For Sale.

Nice lot facing New Kings Daugh-
ter's home, roomy corner lot and a
beauty. Terms anything Look at it
right away.
Another one in the same neigh
borhood must be sold. Call on me
and let me show them to you.
Two nice residences on the corner
of Shelby and Percy streets. These
are in choice part of Greenville,
facing the Archer school. For a
limited time both of them will 60
at 5000 each.
Have other choice city properties
in the way of residences and vacant
lots. My motto is Quick Sales and
Small Profits" JESSE OLDHAM
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-22

proceed to organize said corporation.
In addition to the above enume
rated rights, said corporation shall
have all the rights, privileges and
benefits and immunities conferred on
corporations by chapter rs of the
Annotated Code of Mississippi Of
1902
II26 at.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-22
Woman Fihds Rare Sian.

Miss Henrietta 8. Leavitt, of the Har-
ward astronomical staff, has discovered
= new variable star of the Algol type.
These stars are rafe. This one is in the
region of Sagittarihs, and was noted on
Photographic plates. The main feature
of the star is its Sudden comparative
brief drop in brightness. 1t remains OBJ
scured for short ,period, returning to
its normal magnitude. The obscura-
ton generally is repeated at intervals OF
q few days.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-22
YOU GET THE BEST
At Bradley's Studio

1t costs no more Tor good work
that it does for inferior work Then
why do you want TO pay for inferior
and old style work elsewhere when
you can get
The Best Work and New Styles
for the same money?
The majority of the people i n
Greenville are good judges of pho
tographs, and the majority of the
people are also getting their pic
lures taken at
Bradley's Studio.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-22
A Unique Township.

The township of Lucas, ILL.,, is unani-
mously republican, although the county
is democratic by a majority Of LOCO
Lucas township is Unique in that every
man who lives in it owns his own home,
and there is not mortgage on piece
OF property in the district.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-22
The Choicest Of City Real Estat

we HAVE
The confidence of the people, inspired
BY a tenth Of centUrY's honorable
and successful dealings. During that
time we have sold more Delta land
than any one Real Estate firm doing
business in the Delta. Today we
have one.quarter millions of acres OF
4his choice and fertile land In planta-.
tons to soft purchasers. Write US at
once for our little Booklet that will
tel1 you al1, sent free OF charge; a one
cent postal wifi bring It to You.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-22

Fine cut flowers at my greenhouse.
Special attention given to orders. zoo
N, Theobold avenue. Phone $40.
Miss Clara Rowe.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-22
Money to Lend.

Money to lend on improved planta-
ton property at 8 per cent. interest.
Thomas & Rose, Attorneys.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-22
NeQu Butcher Shop

Mr.. A. S. Riggs has opened up new
Butcher Shop at 100 Washington
Avenue, where he will make a special
ty of Pure Pork Sausage, and he So
licits the patronage of all the citizens
with a guarantee of giving them per
feet satisfaction. His terms are
strictly cash and motto, Quick Sales
and Low Prices. Phone 642.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-22

The people always want new
Bradley's studio. nov S tt
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-22
Plantation Labor

The labor question is an important
one to every Planter. The Italian
is the best that can be imported. The
planters that have tried them say they
are squa1 to any. We have imported
over 200 this year. Can we have
yoUrl order for Plantation Labor?,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-22

Remember we have what You want
at prices to please Yes, We Have.
The Arizona sentinel., 1904-09-21
SUM MONS.

In the District Court of the First Judicial
District, Territory of Arizona, in and for
Yuma County.
Grace F. Deeter. Plaintiff, VS.. \. o, Deeter.
Decentralization brought III The District
Court of the First Judicial District of the
Territory of Arizona, in and for Yuma
County, and the complaint filed in said
Yuma County, in the office of the Clerk Of
said District court
III the name of the Territory of Arizona, TO
A. O. Deter, defendant, Greeting:
You are hereby summoned and required to
appear in an action brought against YOU by
the above named plaintiff in the District
Court OF the First judicial District Of the
Territory OF Arizona, in and for the Comfy
of Yuma, and answer the complaint therein
filed with the Clerk Of this said Court, at
Yuma, in said county, within twenty days
after the service upon you of this summons
if served in this setid County, OF il served by
publication within sixty DAYS after the first
publication thereof, or in al other cases with
in thirty days thereafter, the times above
mentioned being exclusive of the day of serv-
ice, or Judgment by default VIII be taken
against you.
Given under my hand and the seal OF the
District Court of the First Judicial District of
the Territory of Arizona, in and for Yuma
County, this 18th, day of September n. D.,
1901 IHQS: ID. MoLhoY-
(SelO Clerk of said District Court.
First publication Sept. y, TJci.-at
The Arizona sentinel., 1904-09-21
Yuma County Republican Convention

The republicans of the county o. YauSa. tor
ritory of Arizona, arc hereby called to meet in
delegate convention il the town Of Yuma on
Monday, October 3, 1864,
ct O'Clock p. NJ, for the following purposes:
First-To nominate candidates for the follow
ing offices: One candidate for member of the
Council of the Legislative Assembly Of thc>ter-
ritory CT Arizona one candidate for member of
the House OF Representatives OF the
Legislative Assembly of the territory of
Arizona: one candidate for Sheriff CT Yuma
county: one candidate for Treasurer OF Yuma
county: one candidate for Recorder of Yuma
county; one candidate for District Attorney CT
Yuma county; one candidate for Probate Judge
of Yuma county; two candidates for SuperTl-
sors Of Yuma county; One candidate for Sur
veyor of Yuma county; one candidate for Just
ice of the Peace OF each precinct in Yuma
county; and one candidate for constable OF
each precinct in Yuma county.
Second-The selection of a central committee
for Yuma county.
Third-The transaction OF such other bust
ness as may come before the said convention.
The basis of representation of the several
precincts in said convention viii be one dele
gate for Empire Flat pTecinct, one delegate for
each precinct and one for each fifteen votes cas-:
for E. T. Sanguinetti for Treasurer at the gen
eral election held in 1902, and ono additional
delegate for each fraction OF such vote over
seven. Such delegates shall be chosen in Yuma
precinct by primary election and in each OF the
other precincts by primary election or mass
meeting, as the republican voters of said pre-
cincts may themselves determine, Upon the
foregoing basis the apportionment will be as