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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-01-20

Winnesheik County, Iowa, at the Court
House in said County, at 1:30 o'clock p. m, on
the LIST day of February, A. D., 1904, to serve
as grand Jurors, and then and there to con-
tinue until duly discharged, and have you
then and there this writ.
In Testimony Whereof have here
SEAL unto set my hand and affixed the
zeal of said court at DEBORAH, iowa,
this the 9th day OF January, A. ID. 1904.
3-2 A. L. HAAK BENSON, Clerk.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-01-20
Grand Jurors.

STATE OF IOWA,
Winnesheik County
In District Court, February term, 1904.
To the sheriff of Winnesheik County, Greet
ing:
You are hereby commanded to summon
the following named nersons.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16
THE WAR SITUATION.

| The report from Liaoyang that twelve
| regiments have been sent to Port Ar
| thur shows, among other things, that
| kuroki has the northern situation per-
| fectly in hand. There is now no dan
ger, no matter what happens at the
| fortress, that Kuropatkin can march
that way to raise the siege. Appar-
emily the plan is TO take Port Arthur
at any cost and then, when it is cap
| tured, leave a small garrison and rail-
road the bulk of Nodzu's army north
and, joining it to Kurokis, overwhelm
the Russians with armed strength In
the meantime it would not be surpris-
ing, in view of the Chefoo naval in
cident and the proclamation of the Chi
nese Governor of Mukden, if China
would come into the fray and make
the Russian situation still more criti-
cal. There are many observers who
think China's neutrality will end on the
day Port Arthur falls.
We have not been among those who
regard Port Arthur as vulnerable to an
assault. But things have happened
which seem to prompt despair at st.
Petersburg over the fate of the great
fortress. Plainly the fleet was driven
out by the dropping of siege projectiles.
The Japanese, owing to the careful
Land measurements they have made in
the past, know precisely where to send
their shells. Furthermore siege artillery
has improved faster than the means of
defence against it and it is now pos
sible for the Japanese to make great
forts nearly untenable in advance of an
assault. The Port Arthur garrison has
already lost heavily by wounds and dis
ease and it suffers the decentralization
which all troops feel in a long bonn
bardment. Perhaps, after all. st. Pc
tersburg is right in calling the Port
Arthur situation desperate.
In a naval way the Russians seem
to have made a very bad showing
They have lost the Rurik and two tor
pedo destroyers; the battleship Care
witch, which, like the Retvizan and
some of the cruisers damaged on Feb
ruary s, was repaired with infinite toll,
is laid by for the war; the RetviZan and
some others have been driven back into
port badly wounded; and 1t is reported
that the Novik has been sunk. The
Japanese claim to have suffered no ma
terial damage and as the Russian YES
sells which escaped to Kiauchau, Shang-
hal, Chefoo and Wei-hai-Wei do not
claim to have sunk any of the ships
they fought, the chances are that all
of Togo's vessels that participated in
Wednesdays action, are still atioat.
Meanwhile the Baltic squadron, or a
part of il, is said TO have sailed from
Cronstadt. If its movement appears
serious Japan will strain every nerve to
take not only Port Arthur but Vladivos-
tok in the next five or six weeks and to
make their Formosan ports as invulner-
able as they can. Should these designs
be realized, the Baltic squadron may be
expected to turn around and go home as
Camara's Spanish squadron did after it
had entered the Suez Canal en- route to
Manila.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16
THE NAVAL GAME.

Three months hence Nladivostok will
be frozen in and made practically use
less TO the Russian Navy. In the mean
time if the Japanese take Port Arthur,
neither the Russian Asiatic nor the Bal
tic fleet will have base in Asiatic wa
tiers unless one can be taken from
Japan, which is altogether doubtful. A
try might be made for Formosan
port, but all points of vantage there are
so well fortified as to be scarcely nego-
table save with a cooperating army.
1t may be deemed probable that the
Russian ships, which escaped from Port
Arthur, will so to Vladivostok if they
get chance and augment the flying
squadron there. Were the fuel question
easy to solve they might be expected to
seek the on-coming Baltic fleet, but the
Asiatic squadron burns coal and coal,
by Russian fiat is contraband of war.
nection, that the French ports would
permit the Russian vessels to enjoy
more than the formal hospitality of a
twenty-four hours anchorage.
The unknown factor in the present
equation is the ability of Togo to detach
n strong flying squadron to so in pur-
suit of the enemy. ii his blockading
fleet remains anywhere near intact he
should be able to do it, for there are
fewer vessels than formerly in Port
Arthur to watch.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16
CLEARING REPUBLICAN SKIES.

The movement that most observers
looked for is already coming to pass in
the Presidential campaign-a closing in
Of the whole Republican party about
Mr.. Roosevelt. Whatever objections
there were to him among business men
before his nomination seem to be direct
ed now against the Democratic plat
form. our quadrennial elections do not
end in the triumphNof man but of a
party. People speak with discrimlna-
ton when they use the phrase 'the
party i'm power" a man may be chosen
President. but IT is rightly expected that
he will conform to party usages. Even
Cleveland, obstinate as he was, had to
fall In with them: and johnson, in
fighting them, brought ruin upon his
administration. President Roosevelt
stands for a party which is sane and
safe: and business men know that to
represent 1t he must be sane and safe
also. The party which has given them
protection and prosperity, they nat
urally want to keep in power and they
dread an experiment with a party
which, however respectfully committed
in the matter of a leader, is uncertain
and evasive in it's declaration of prin-
ciples. The silence of the Democratic
platform on the question of a monetary
standard is as impressive as the frank
declaration of Judge Parker that he is
for gold-a committal which is best read
in the light of his two votes for Bryan
and free silver at time when business
men were moving heaven ana earth to
defeat both. Finally IN the matter of
the tariff the Democratic platform gives
no sign that the party intends to de-
part from that policy of attack upon the
manufacturing interests of America
which wrought such disaster to pros
perity in the closing years of Mr.. Cleve-
lands term-a disaster to which the
vote of Judge Parker contributed.
The Republican feeling, therefore, is
to let well enough alone Conditions
of government are satisfactory so why
change them? Mr. Roosevelt may not
be liked in that deep, abiding way in
which the nation held Mckinley and
Lincoln, but Republican principles are
still trusted and revered by the men
who cast the majority of votes in our
Presidential ballotings. AS Repub-
lican, man like Judge Parker might
be invincible against man on the
Democratic ticket like Roosevelt; but
as a Democrat, standing for what
Democracy processes, he cannot hope
to obtain that conservative support
which casts the deciding vote in all our
great elections.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16
THE USUAL GAME.

Having failed in its attack on Gov
ernor Carter's nomination and in its
effort 10 prevent the reappointment of
Chief Justice Frear. the Bulletin Is
now trying its hand against Attorney
General Andrews, whose conviction of
several of its pet boodlers during the
past two years has made ii apprehen-
sive that he will yet jail the rest of
Athem.
AS usual the Bulletin is marshaling
anonymous business men" on its side
OF the case. one of these sorry mask
ers-probably A. V. Gear-is quoted as
saying that if Andrews is going TO dc
politics let him resign as Attorney
General" This same skulking Oush-
whacker, whoever he is, reports "mucf
harsh comment among business mer
on this matter today" which would
seem to indicate that Grocer KumalaS
and some of his clerks and coparceners
had got into the open again as expon.
ents of Bulletin sentiment.
The Bulletin anticipates that some OF
its favorite business men" will pro-
test to the Governor against Mr.. An
drews' pernicious labors for the Repub-
lican party and a decent convention
II they do-whlch we wot not-they
Will probably approach him In the darl
so as not to be recognized or to uu,
duly alarm the public at time wher
the price Of disinfoctants Is so high
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16
Escaped Russian Prisoners.

With regard to the re-captured Rus
sian prisoners il is learnt that they
had intended to return home under a
Cossack captain. The captain had pro-
posed plan OF escape by buying or
stealing a junk on the coast near Mat
suyama al nisht TO sail for Kobe, where
he Was To rely on a certain Jewish resi-
dent Tor further steps, when they
We're arrested, the hyc dcseriers wore
kimanos with their hair cut closely aHd
moustaches shaved looking very li1
Japanese, They Nrrg yarRng Win
them tlnngd meats. afmknH water umr
hrsllaH knives. rtr mar of japan
la fnKllsh Vac found in posafsslun N
che ,arlalp lapAn lafriin
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16

The arrest of young Hawaiian pos
tai clerk 10000 miles from home
charged with a trivial theft from the
Hilo postofiice, will tend to increase
the respect for Federal law which our
delinquent classes are beginning to feel.
1t is coming to be understood here that
Federal law plays no favorites, that it
does not treat crime as an indiscretion
and that its arm is long. Jean Sabate,
Meheula, Tesla, various brutal ship
masters and Illicit liquor-sellers and
now the Hilo youth, are living and
some of them whining witnesses TO the
celebrity efficiency and impartialIty of
the Federal method of imparting JUS
! tice
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16
WIRELESS REVOLUTION.

Wireless telegraphy is just now maxi
ing a great change In the conditions
OF ocean steamship travel. Perhaps the
transition is not an unmixed benefit
to the sea traveller. 1t is liable to take
away too much of oceans solitude for
the good OF people who have hitherto
found in that element most wholesome
respite from business care and social
worry. Lately an Atlantic liner carried
daily Intelligence with her from the
British shore. which was issued in
newspaper form on board, for more
than 1000 miles, only losing the Euro
pean conversation when talk from the
American shore had become voluable.
Thus news from the outside world came
as regularly as their meals to the pas
sengers. Many of them were commune
eating with friends on land all the way
across.
So far It may be that the benefits out
weigh the deprivation of some of the
undoubted charms of isolation hitherto
pertaining to an ocean voyage. This Is
saying a great deal, too, for the loss
of happy exclusion from the things of
dry earth a week or a fortnight, to-
gether with the subtle charm of Won
dering how the rest of creation Is get
ting along without the presence of the
wonderers. is serious enough. But when
1t Is announced that an adjunct of the
wireless telegraph apparatus being in
stalled in all of the big Atlantic liners
Is to be a regular stock ticker the
change of conditions may be set down
as revolutionary in the extreme. Wall
street brokers will establish offices on
board the steamships to deal in stocks
with facility scarcely surpassed on
the floor of the New York stock ex-
change. All of this means that here
after when physicians advise an ocean
trip to wealthy patients they will insist
that 1t be not in an ocean liner carry
ing a wireless telegraph outfit. How
the trade of the brokers afioat may
affect the raw article of gambling car
ried on by card-sharpers upon the ocean
is another question.
The great fact of modern progress is
that 1t is getting more difficult all the
time for anyone to get away from the
world alive. There We're globe-trotters
who declared that Hawaii would lose
the best part of its charms for visitors
If ever connected with the outside world
by cable. The cable has come, but
visitors are coming in greater number
and staying longer than before. Pos
sibly wireless telegraphy with ocean
travel will not make any more differ
ence to the travelling public than the
cable has made to the Hawaiian ISL
ands-just mere incident in the
worlds progress.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16
LOCAL BREvITIES.
cFrom Saturdays Advertiser,

| tFrom saturdays Adve Ftiser)
Sugar. 4.255.
Elmer +. Paxton. of the Dillingham;
| corporation, is going to start business
for himself In San Francisco.
The surf at Waikiki on Thursday ran
very high. often submerging the plat
form off the Hawaiian Hot Annex.
Judge Dole signed decree yesterday
in favor of J. p. Mendonca for a Fire
Claims Commission award of s26S5.69.
Registered Warrants from Nos. sol
to 5677 inclusive will be paid upon pre-
sentation at the Treasurers office to-
day.
A few stragglers from the naval
transport Solace We're arrested by the
police yesterday and sent aboard the
vessel
Advices have been received that the
Oceanic steamer Sierra from Sydney
will arrive here on Monday, August 22,
a day ahead of schedule time.
Josh Tucker, the all-round mason and
keeper of the keys at the Masonic Tenn
pie. returned yesterday on the Ala
media from a short visit on the coast
MIS-. j. r. scott, WIDOW or the late
j. f. Scott. the well known school
teacher, departed yesterday on the Sibe-
ria for California to reside permanently.
Third Assistant Engineer Kerr of the
transport Buford, held at San Francisco
for assault upon the high seas, is rely
ing on self-defense for his defense If
brought to Honolulu for trial.
hp
Macfarlane was held from the Catholic
cathedral at 3:45 D. IN. yesterday. Rev.
Father Valentin conducting the services
following private services for the fami-
ly at the Waikiki residence. The pail
bearers were j. o. Carter, w. F.. Allen,
A. S. Cleghorn and Cecil Brown.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16

1t is a sign of promise that the Plant
ers' Association is beginning to take
part in legislative politics. That power
full body feels the need of a better Leg
islature just as all other legitimate in
terests in the Territory do. Its ramif-
cations are so wide and its influence so
strong that ii can come pretty near to
deciding the personnel of the Legisla-
ture If 1t wants to. This paper hopes
that the planters will go further and
aid the citizens who are deeply dis
gusted with the system of choice by
the organization" in the matter of a
suitable Delegate in Congress. 1t is
high time for business to take hold of
affairs in Hawaii and give the peanut
politicians on both sides a wholesome
shaking up.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16

Admiral Kamamura has saved his
reputation as a fighter but his failure
to follow the retreating ships of the
enemy exposes him to the same sort of
criticism that was directed against
General Meade after the battle of Get
tysburg. His squadron was able, ac-
cordlng to his report, to prevent the
Rossia, Rurik and Gromoboi from get
ting away when they tried to do so
before the battle: but when the fight
was over the two surviving ships
steamed rapidly northward apparently
without pursuit. In the light of Kama
muras claim that the damage done to
his squadron was slight, it is hard to
see why he did not put on all steam
after the flying Russians and finish the
job he had so well begun.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16

The County Act Commission meets
this evening as usual at 1880 o'clock.
The new paths, with the corner gate,
in the Capitol grounds were thrown
open to the public yesterday.
Marines and bluejackets from the
Naval Station have begun qualifying
target practice at Pearl Harbor.
Prince and Princess Kalanianaole are
enjoying an outing at Pearl City for a
fortnight. There will, therefore, be no
reception today at Pualeilani, nor in
the future until further notice.
C. G. Bockus, business manager of
the Bulletin, and Miss Edna Scoby are
to be married tomorrow evening at the
Podmore residence, old Waikiki. Miss
Scoby has been a teacher in the public
schools.
The Kauai polo ponies arrived on Sun
day in charge of Charley Rice and John
Malina, two of the Kauai team. The
ponies will be stabbed at Kapiolani Park
until just before the Kauai-Maui polo
match at Moanalua on August "a.
The Henry Waterhouse Trust Co. yes
terday received the following cable, re
San Francisco Stock < Bond Exchange:
Sales of Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar
at s54.0O; Honokaa, S1S.25 bid; Hutchin-
son offered at 1925.
A frame filled with badges Worn by
the delegates from Hawaii to the Re-
publican convention at Chicago, and the
Democratic convention at st. Louis, is
on exhibition in McInernys haberdash-
cry window. The badges of the Ha-
waiian delegates are handsome affairs.
The collection is the property of Ma
tional Committeeman Robertson.
Messrs. Tenney, Giffard, Cooke and
Davies waited on Governor Carter yes
terday, TO present the matter of can
didates for the Legislature on the is
land of Hawaii. They constituted a
committee of the Hawaiian Sugar
Planters Association, TO which leading
planters on the island named had COM
municated their anxious concern about
the character of next Legislature. The
Governor assured the committee that
any fight for honest and capable gov
eminent would receive nothing but the
best wishes of the administration.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16

Judge Gear returns from Hilo with
the honor OF being president of a Good
Government Club. whether one with a
license or one of the moonshine variety
We don't know. Naturally after such a
distinction the Judge talks voluminous-
ly, and is a tribe haZy In some of his
published views \ feature of his ini-
tiptiou seems 90 have been a committal
To Admiral Beckley for Congress, al
least he thought Il was to Admiral
Br,kl"y when he landed from the XII
ntu aud met "a reporter
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16
Discounting Port Arthur.

Just as the strategical successes of
the allies in the Crimean campaign
amounted to nothing, Notwithstanding
the colossal sacrifices involved, SO also
VIII the successes OF the Japanese.
even should they include the capture OF
Port Arthur have a negative result,
The colossus win not be even shaken
ON his mighty feet,-Nyedomosu ,st,
potersburgl,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16
(From Saturdays Advertiser)

w. T. Rawlins, referee in bankruptcy,
goes to Maui this week to attend to the
Kashanoki matter.
In the Olympic admiralty case a wit
ness before Commissioner Judd yester-
day testified to the lawful marriage of
the claimant to Samuel Makaliilii the
man on account of whose death she
asks damages
Among homecoming passengers in
the steamer Ventura to arrive on the
oath inst. are Ii. F. Dillingham;, wife
and two sons; Rev. ]. p. Erdman and
bride, nee Dillingham;, and S. B. Rose,
secretary of Wilder's Steamship Co.
Governor Carter discussed the So
called British claims" arising of the
1895 trouble with State Department off,
Gals in Washington, the result being
that they will be filed with other claims
British VS.. American and American
VS.. British-and the whole batch refer
red to an international tribunal to be
appointed for their adjudication.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16

The Judiciary building-the place Of
the law and the profits-is unsafe AS
n government job" it was never very
strong and now structural weakness is
showing all over it. AS things are
there is the making of tragedy in the
tottering edifice and it is in order for
the occupants to move out and give the
carpenters a chance to brace the build
ing up. There are IA number of places
! where the courts and departments
could be we'll housed i'm the meantime,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16

II the Russian fleet came out of Port
Arthur 10 do battle q must have been
defeated otherwise lts ships would
have kent together ana none, IN good
condition, would have taken refuge boz
neutral ports. on thr other hand IL 10
was attempting 10 escape. as CeHrIa :
squadron ana IA sanllpgu be- Nas p,l-
tally rprrrHHWl Me faster boats 40
snme ~ ihom FallinE away uHtwih,1
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16

At the Kohala meeting, OF which a
condensed report is given elsewhere, the
following clause in the resolution was
voted down: THAT our Government
schools should be under local, or county,
control A correspondent of the Adj
vertiser writes: The meeting was one
OF the largest and most representative
ever held In Kohala, and was absolutely
non-partisan and without political COM
pleNion."
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16
(From Wednesdays Advertiser)

The Maui News predicts that within
two years the Kihei plantation will be
paying dividends.
Editor Robertson of the Maui News
is in town for a few days, arriving yes
terday on the steamer Claudine from
Kahului. Mr.. Robertson says that the
Harvest Home dance at Puunene Mill
on Thursday evening was a great social
event, and will always be an annual
feature of plantation life to which Maui
society will look forward with pleasur-
able anticipation.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16

ono M the hrlFht anuclpations of
fupkrrs Visit IN the SIGHT ~ Com-
poser Berger trying 10 hni something
ihut W'll rhyme win his name.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16
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WliliiNSoN ON August mn 1904 az
Llme, Kauai Ca che vic NJ Rlehari
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49,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16
TIDES. SUN AND NOON.
First quarter of the moon Aug, nth.

First quarter OF the moon Aus lith.
Times OF the tide are taken from the
United States Coast and Geodetio Sur
veg tables.
The tides AT Kahului and iilo occur
about one hour cartier than at Hone
lulu.
Hawaiian standard time 10 10 hours
time, being that OF the meridian ~ itr
degrees thirty minutes The tims
whistle lows al 100 y, M, which 10
tbs sans - urssnwies, . hsuFs . mis-
uissl sun snd moon sEs feF las,sl ilss
far lks vsels sFsss
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16

The japanese In entering neutral
port 10 seize an enemys vessel had an
american precedent Co go by During
the tivll War "A United states cruiser
followed the Confederate commerce,
destroyer Florida into Baha, port NJ
lraHll captured the vessel and srut her
north ln eharsr ~ a prise crew rum-
pllrtlionH ensuing the ship was sunk
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16
HONOLULU STOCK EXCHANGE.
NAME OF STOCK

Honolulu, August Is, 1904.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1904-01-13
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Ter 2oge No. 2, s. 8. &. g., s0uroen
bon ben @roBbeamten Die FoIoenben
9eamtsn in Isisrlider Weils inliallirt:
rsgommanoear-Sul. Gutenberg.
GOmmanoeur-SOispb Cider.
WicesGommanbeur-Sacob 6lid.
prdlat-9einrid Sempelmsper.
Sdreiber-6ermonn Borders.
SdaBmeiffer-Sobn 9einlein.
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gleuBere Made-Y Yictor Gtuoer.
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Wm. WeIerFelo g Sabre.
Nus ben Sahres-yeridten Der Bee
amten aebt berbor, bab Die QOae au9
i'm berfIoiienen Sabre IN jeosr Be-
siebuns, iotuobl finan3iea. uie bs3iig-
LID 3abl Der Wlitslieoer etc. Iebr srs
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Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1904-01-13
Sin 8IaurOd, DER slnsit batte,
wiro teuts Dor Der ei6erbeits. Seb0rOssrs
iheinen mi!hen.

Polisei=Superintenbsnt 9rilger bate
geiiern Die Seraeanten 0aQerman uno
gobite beauftraat, 3u unteriuden, ob
Die ge9en ben polisiiten s. %. gDilion
erbobenen glntlasen. oerielbe lei Dor
einem trintenen Sdiebboloe, Wlilton
@roB, am SOnntag Nadmittag feiee
seflOben, auf 5batiaden bsruben ooer
nidt.
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beouielt uno nit einem ShiebeiIen be-
mafnet. Die Yaiianten Der ganal- Bride
on Der 80. Strabs terrorilirt, IOpie
Die gan5e Wadbaridaft. uno aud, wie
li6 jeBt beraus9eifellt bat, ben beIaaten
6rieoensbiiter, Der iib fir 3ebn Minu-
ten in Elm 9aus nabe Der Bride flaa=
tete, bis Elm Sruoef Dlilton @roB' ben
3runtenen entfuaffnet bate.
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beute ben fniefdpa6eu @iliOn Dor Die
Siderteiis=yeb0ros citirsn, oanlit ber=
Ielbe iid aseen Die 9nIlaoe Der wseio-
beit" bertbeioigs.