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The Red Cloud chief., 1904-08-12
IMMENSE p CROP.
Everything Indicates Largest Yield 4,
the History Of Kansas,

A Hutchinson, Kan, telegram says:
Reno county will have an immense
crop OF apples this year and the peo-
pie who look after that sort of BUSH
ness will have something to do.
There will be 300 or 400 cars or
apples shipped from Hutchinson alone
this year. A large share OF the apples
are In the vicinity Of Hutchinson,
which are grown in the county, and
the big market will be here. There
will be as much as GOO cars of apples
shipped out OF this city during the
year. This would mean $50, 900 bushels
of Ben Davis, Winesap, Missouri Pip
pin and all the other fine casters and
cookers.
There are dozens of fruit men VIII,
will have from 1000 to 5000 bushels.
and one or more will have 35, 1000 or
10000 bushels to take care of. This
means something. 1t will mean lots
of work, but with a good profit to pay
Tor the work and the worry.
six hundred carloads mean thirty
trains of twenty cars each. This would
mean a vast amount of wealth, for all
Of these apples will sell for a good
price.
THE local storage houses are pre-.
pared to take care Of a vast amount
of fruit, and apples will be the main
thing stored this year. The storage
houses are ready for this trade. in
fact they have been built with this
fInht country in view, to some extent.
With crops like this one in sight, the
storage houses will have all they can
attend to and will prove such a sue
cess that there Is certain to be other
large places built.
There are many trees along the
Cow creek valley which will yield as
much as twenty-five bushels to the
tree. Some Of them are q surprise to
people when they are seen from the
roadway, but are more of a puzzle yet
when they are cosely examined. Early
in the spring when the first apples
appeared on the trees they grew in
clusters and there were a dozen where
there should have been but one or
two. The wind blew these extras of
the trees and one apple is growing
where one should grow. The apples
are, consequently, large and will be
the finest grade of fruit ever raised in
this country.
There are over a million and a
quarter apple trees in bearing in the
county at this time and at least half
that number of trees are growing to
the g when they will also be bear
ing. This is an immense orchard
country, but its possibilities for fruit
raising have not been tested for one
tenth part as yet. There are thousands
of acres OF fine fruit land. where other
things of less value are grown, and
which can be bought for a moderate
price. 1t is the best investment in
the world, for a man who knows how
to make money out of an orchard"
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-08-12
MANY DIE IN WRECK
Over 100 People Lose Life Near
Pueblo, Colo.
cLoUDBURST DIRECT CAUSE
Force Of the water Tcrrinic and Cars
washed Four Miles Down
Raging stream.

One of the most terrible c%atastrophes
in the railroad history of the Arkansas
valley happened when train No. II OF
the Missouri Pacific. which runs over
the Denver a. Rio Grande tracks be-
tween Pueblo and Denver, crashed
through a trestle near the little sta
ton Of Eden. eight miles north of
Pueblo. carrying the smoking and
chair cars, which were filed with pas
sengers. into the torrent which rushed
underneath. So far as learned at this
time. between eighty and one hundred
persons persisted.
Sevcnty-six dead bodies had been
taken from the wreck.
A cloudburst had filed the creek
and water was flowing over the trestle
when the train started across The
bridge went down under the weight of
the train and the baggage car, smoker
and chair car were precipitated into
the torrent. The engine got almost
across, but fell back into the water.
The body of Engineer Human was
found fully two hundred feet down the
river.
All the cars were washed down the
stream. The express car was found
not far away with the safe open and
its contents gone.
Owing to the fact that the conduc-
tors list of the names was lost In the
confusion following the accident, only
an estimate of the dead and missing
can be had. but railroad officials on
the scene who are familiar with the
details admit that the list will range
between eighty and one hundred, and
some place 1t ven higher.
The chair car was half a mile from
the scene of the accident, half filled
with sand. in which were buried the
bodies OF many passengers. The
smoker was washed still further down
stream and was not located until SOW
eral hours after the accident.
Most OF the dead were in the cars
buried under the debris. The bodies of
three young women were washed upon
the bank OF the river, three-quarters
OF a mile below the scene of the
wreck. j. M. Killen. a Pueblo hard
a merchant, vas swept down
stream, but crawled out from the
wreckage a mile below the scene of
the accident. He was so badly injured
and so exhausted from his struggles
In the water that he was unable to
talk coherently.
Passengers on the Pullmans were in
the meantime attempting to assist the
victims, but no trace could be found
OF the cars which had been precipitated
into the stream. The water was SO
deep that the engine and tender were
entirely submerged and the rain was
falling In such a torrent that there
was danger of part of the track being
washed out.
Fireman Mayfield said that as the
engine struck the trestle It seemed to
rear up and fall upon its side. falling
to the right or engineers side. The
fireman jumped and escaped.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-26
DIED ON THE SAME DAY.
AGED Couple Lived Fifty Years To
nether and Died Same Day.

Special to Times Republican.
DUBUQUE. Feb 2s.-After living to-
sether for fifty years OF welded he
Mr.. and Mrs Peter Schmitt OF Holy
Cross died on the same day. within
twenty hours OF each other.
The husband and wife were each 80
years OF age. They were closely at
tached thru life and chose each others
company all the time. The husband.
was taken sick and died. The wife
asked to see him. With some friends,
she was taken to the casket OF her
dead husband The sight was heart
rending. The old lady eobbed and
cried out wringing her hands "oh, 1
have nothing to live for" That even
ing Mrs. Schmitt was taken suddenly
i'll and died.
Two fresh, unmarked graves mark
the last resting place OF the two. so
closely a,ttached in life and, who are
now together in death.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-26
LEWIS IS FREE
Verdict Of Not Guilty on Instruction
from the Court Following Sensation.
al Testimony Given BY Medical Elk.
pert from State University.
spectal to T,mes- Republican.

Special to Timex Republican,.
Sigourney. Feb. 26.-"Not guilty"
This Is the verdict returned by the jury
which brought to a sudden end the trial
OF Mrs. Belle Lewis OF Ottumwa and
freed her from the charge OF murder
ing her husband.
A motion, made by the prosecuting
attorneys at the conclusion OF the tes-
timony given by DR.. w. l.. Dean OF
Iowa Clay. asking for the dismissal of
the case was the cause for the abrupt
ending of the trial.
Judge Scott of Brooklyn, Immediate
ly gave his instructions to the jury
and without leaving the court room the
jury returned unanimous verdict OF
not guilty.
The friends of Mrs. Lewis. who were
in the court room at the time the YER
dict was announced. made haste to
extend to her their congratulations.
The children OF the defendant. who
were In another part of the court
house, were Immediately informed of
the happy ending of the case and hur-
rtediy sought their mother
Or. Deans Testimony.
The testimony which caused the
sudden ending OF the trial was that Of
DIR. l.. w. Dean of Iowa city. who had
made an examination of the bones OF
the skull OF the deceased. DIR. Dean,
when called to the stand this morning.
stated that he had thoroughly exam
ined the bones OF the skull OF the de-
ceased William Lewis and that he
found them to be in badly diseased
condition.
Or. Dean stated that he had discov-
cred unmistakable evidence that the
deceased was afflicted with inflamma-
ton at the base OF the brain and that
had mis- death not occurred atathe time
II did II would in all probability had
followed within two weeks.
Probably the most important part OF
his testimony was when he declared
that In case OF Inflammation of the
bradn and morphine poisoning the
symptoms to anyone but physician
appeared the same. He also stated
that had he been called in the begin
ming he would have predicted that Mr..
Lewis would have died within two
hours or at most two weeks.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-26
CAUSE OF TUESDAYS WRECK.
Crew Of Extra Freight Blamed for 40.
cident Early in Week.

cdent early IN week.
Special TO Times Republican.
Dubuqtie, Feb. 28-The crew OF the
extra freight train is held responsible
for THE wreck on the Illinois Central at
Dyersville Tuesday, in which C. NJ.
Corrigan lost his life. No blame Is at
tached TO the crew Of the way freight
or the operator. Tho crew of the extra
freight that must bear the burden OF
the responsibility rs Engineer Hayden.
Fireman Bennett and Head Brakeman
William Monroe. all OF Waterloo.
Regarding the wreck the following of
fetal statement was issued from the
office of Division Superintendent Gill
leas yesterday:
1.-THE local western freight was
standing at the Dyersville station and
the engineer was doing some SWITCH
Ing and the extra west-bound. for some
unexplainable reason. failed to come
into the station under proper control
and struck the local. Five box cars. a
stock car and the caboose were more
tor lessgdhmaged In fact the caboose
waasbadly damaged but slight damage
swas done to the engine.
at was not the speed at which they
We're running The cars were pushed
ahead and derailed. The cars OF the
extra were not coming in under proper
control. OF course, what we regret the
most is the fatality of Mr.. Corrigan.
The local was standing there. which 1t
had proper right to do, and the extra
for not coming in under proper control
was to blame. 1t was the extra that
we hold more for the accident than the
others. OF course, 1t looks somewhat
like a violation Of rules. as the engi-
neer did not stop for orders. The en-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-26
prrnug Frida, Frhrrp 26 1904

gineer asked the fireman, and brake
man. who We're on the left If the track
was clear. and they said It was. as far
as they could see, and he released the
brakes. and having the brakes released
he could not change them. and ran into
the train. OF course the rails We're in
a poor condition for making quick
stop. They had taken the engineer
away before an investigation could be
made. but his statement will be made
tomorrow. As said before. the train
was not under proper control and the
cause of it not being so has not been
explained. The engineer was thrown
somewhat off his guard by the state
ment of the fireman and brakeman
that the track was cleared"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-26
WILL CLAIM FORTUNE.

Norbett HuIchan TO Get Portion Of
the Buesch Millions.
Special to Times Republican.
Dubuque. Feb. 2s.-Hearing of the
search being made for him by his ST.
Louis relatives Norbert Hulchan left
his sick bed at Platteville Wis. and
came to Dubuque to claim his own.
The relatives have hunted for the
Young man without any success for a
long time. In letter to Mayor Berg,
the writer asked him to hunt him up
and all expenses would be paid. Find
him dead or alive and send US word
is an excerpt from the
letter.
The young man is a relative Of Adolf
plus Buesch of the Anheuser Buescsl
Company. He declares he will return
to st Louis and get the fortune that
is coming to him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-26

Folsy's Honey and Tar is best for
Group and whooping cough. contains
no opiates and cures quickly. Careful
mothers keep 1t In the house. B. A.
Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-26
.DAIE NAY Be CHANGED.
Dates Set For Republican State
Convention, and Press AS
sociations, Clash
MOST OF EDITORS REPUBLICANS
.osT OF EDITORS REPUBLICANS
Present Convention Date Will Serious.
ly interfere With Their Plans for Big
Meeting at st. Louis, and Strenuous
Effort Will Be Made to Get Date
Fixed for Some Other Week.
pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Mo,nes, Feb. 26.-The date for
the republican state convention was NIX
ed for May is. next, but this date may
be changed because of a serious con-
flict II was determined at nesting OF
last month OF the executive committee
OF the Iowa Press Association held
Jointly with the officers OF the five dis
trict associations OF newspaper men.
that the annual meeting OF the Iowa
Press Association and allied bodies.
should be held in st. Louis in the Iowa
building at the exposition grounds the
week OF May 10. for three or four days.
and program is already being arrang-
ed for this meeting. The general meet
ing OF newspaper men from all over
the world or national press congress Is
scheduled for st. Louis during the same
week and many Iowa newspaper men
desired to attend. AT the same time IT
was deemed proper to have the Iowa
association and the several smaller as
sociations all have meetings there, ana
already the movement Is go well urcar
way that, barring some interfering
agent, it Is regarded as certain that
there will be In ST. Louis the middle
of May the largest number OF Iowa
newspaper men ever gathered ut one
convention. Now II SO happens that
a great majority OF the newspaper men
OF Iowa are republicans and 1t is also
customary for there TO be sort OF In
formal gathering OF these men at the
republican state conventions and they
are many OF them delegates to the con-
ventlon. II the convention date re-
mains as at present II will seriously In
lterfere with the plans OF many OF the
Republicans editors with reference to
their attendance at the meetings of
newspaper men in ST. Louis at the
same time. The executive committee
and officers of the associations have
therefore taken up the matter and will
try very hard to get the date f1xed for
some other week. The democratic con-
vention Is two weeks earlier but the
week OF May 10 is open for the state
convention. The fact OF the date OF the
newspaper meeting was not known by
the members OF the republican state
committee at the time the date vas fix
ed. Members Of the committee say
that they certainly would not have FIX
ed the date to interfere II they had had
any knowledge Of the other meeting.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-26
HE KILLED FoRNEY
kirksviile, Mo-, Man confesses TO Muir.
der FOR Which Rogers Was Convicted
at Council Bluffs Recently.

Special to Times Republican.
Council Bluffs. Feb. 26.-C. n. Rob-
erts. of Kirksvii,e. Mo-. sheriff OF
Adair county. arrived in THE city late
last night to interview Ware and Myn-
ster. attorneys for w. G. Rogers. sher-
iff Roberts claims that he has a prison
err in jail at Kirksville giving his name
as Mat-Coflins, who has twice con-
fessed to killing Bert Forney in the
Council Bluffs saloon on the night OF
April 8. 1908.
Both these confessions. Mr.. Roberts
says. We're made at times when the
prisoner tried to commit suicide. He
cut his wrists and attempted to bleed
ito death. In these confessions the
Kirkswtlle prisoner said he did not
want to see an innocent man hanged
Collins Is in jail at Kirksvine for sell
hing fake jewelry. line OF business
which Rogers followed, and Sheriff
Roberts says ne has no doubt the two
men were associated.
Sheriff Roberts says that COLLINS in
his confession ~rva nj, the detnils OF
the Forney nsuit5 sr rs thes' Ware de-
scribed at the trial. but tina, he had no
access to daily newspapers, and must
have known the circumstances as they
occurred.
Some time after making THE state
ment that he had killed Forney, the
Klrkyirle prisoner tried to deny having
done SO. saying that he had not mem
toned Forney's name.
The Missouri sheriff says however,
that Collins seems to be perfectly ra-
tional and that the confession could
not have been the result OF deranged
mind.
Sheriff Roberts Is confident that he
has In Kirksville the man who murder
ed Forney.
Hess piscrediss story.
Assistant County Attorney Hess,
who conducted the prosecution Of the
Rogers case so successfully. was adj
vised early yesterday OF the Missouri
shAriffs presence here and his story
concerning the KlrksvlMe prisoner
whom he claims has confessed to kill
ing Forney. Mr.. Hess replied that he
made special trip to Kdrksville inn
mediately after the close Of the Forney
trial the first OF this week for the pur-
pose of investigating the story OF the
alleged confession. OF which he had
been advised by letter.
II found the Ktrksville prisoner TO
he dope fiend." stated Mr.. Hess, "and
he denied to me ever killing Forney.
Sheriff Roberts was out of town when
I got to Kirksville, but the deputies
there told me the details of the prison
er's alleged confession, and they do not
correspond in any particular with the
facts of the murder.
II am confident there Is nothing to
tfhis confession blu, presume the ate
torneys for Rogers will now use 1t In
their argument for a new trial. How
ever, as said before. the Kirksville
prisoner denied absolutely to me that
he ever made any such confession or
knows anything OF the murder"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-26
Some Talk of Separate Conven-
tions For Selection Of Dis
trict Delegates
NATIONAL CALL GIVES OPTION
state Central Committee Believes Old
Precedent of caucuse. at State Con.
vention will Be Followed - Each
coun.y's Delegates - Representation
OF States and Territories.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
mittemen in all OF the congressional
districts received, this morning, copies,
lican delegate convention. issued by
the state central committee. along with
copies of the call for the national con-
yention by the national committee. The
notable feature OF the state call, and
one that has caused no little comment
today, Is the statement that the ma
tional committee directs that district
delegates and alternates be selected by
separate district conventions in
the manner of nominating the
candidate for representative in con-
gress." The congressional committee.
however, Is given full power TO deter
mine the time and place of holding its
district convention" provided the same
is held thirty days before the national
convention date.
In effect this language leaves 1t OPP
ttOnal with eaCn ulStflct CoHSTeSSlollht
committee to hold separate district
conventions before the state delegate
convention or TO select district dele
gates at district caucuses OF the state
convention delegates at the state con-
vention, as has heretofore been done In
Iowa. Members Of the state central
committee cay that precedents will not
be violated. but there is already talk
OF exercising the option given and hold
separate conventions in some OF the
districts where the influence OF the
congressman Is factor In the delegate
selection.
The national convention is called for
June q at Chicago and the state con-
vention for May IS in Des Moines.
The basis Of representation for the
counties IN the state convention will
be one delegate for each county and
one additional delegate for each 200
votes or fraction Of 100 or over cast for
Albert B. Cumn,ins for governor at the
general election held Nov. 8. 1903, and
each county wifi be entitled to dele
- <n1tnn.c.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-26
ottumwa Miiliner Bankrupt.
~ r>tnoAs- Rem,blfcan.

Keokuk, Feb. 26.-Olive Mcdonald.
a nilliner OF Ottumwa, has flied VOL
untary petition in bankruptcy In the
United States court here. The liabil-
tiles include $500 due Lederer &
Strauss OF Des Moines for millinery
stock and $l,235.55 due A. L. Leighton
of otpumwa for rent. The assets are
given at $4,000 in homestead at OF
tumwa, claimed to be exempt.
washlngton,a Feb. e6.-Mr. Bunau
varilla, minister from Panama, today
cabled his resignation as such to the
president OF that republic.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-26
The National Call.

The national call invites the republican
electors of the several states and terri
tories. without regard to past politi-
cal affiliations. who believe in the prin-
ciples of the republican party and en-
dorse it's policies"
The apportionment of delegates made
is from each state four delegates-at-
large and two from each congressional
district, four delegates from Alaska.
two from the District of Columbia, and
six from each Of the territories of Arr
IONA. New Mexico Oklahoma, Hawaii
and Indian Territory.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-26
SECTION MEN ON A STRIKE.
Mon Employed at Cedar Rapids Ask
for Increased Pay.

for Increased Pay.
Special to Times Republican.
Cedar Rapids. Feb. 26.-Northwest-
ern section men. employed in the To-
cal yards are on strike for higher
pay. The men have been working
ten hours for $1.25. They ask sl.50 for
a ten hour day. Eight men went on
the strike. but one became afflicted
with cold feet and returned TO the
fold of the company. The remaining
seven are still out. The men believe
their demands are Just, as 3l.25 is but
poor remuneration for day spent
shoveling snow from the switches and
tracks and other duties that befaii
section hand. They say that II is only
by the most rigid economy that they
can exc a living from their tcant pay,
and that is is but just that the COM
pany should recognize their claimA
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-26
Assaulted the Doctor.
pecial to Times Republican.


Bayard. Feb. 2s.-The road Of the
collector seems to be q hard one, as
Or. Thompson found out in presenting
his bill TO Al Jackson. for payment
was presented with bunch OF fives
and the money somewhere near the
nose, as reported. Now the matter
comes up before our worthy Justice o.
the peace in the shape OF on assault
and battery case.
Five cars OF stock were shipped
from here yesterday and more are
going to the market nearly every day.
The C.. NJ. & st. p folks are putting
In a new iron mail sack device.
oney Corrigan is being initiated into
the mysteries Of the Bayard postof-
flee.
G. p. Russell, the former postmaster.
will move to his farm south OF town
in few days.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-22
The Esaily Coal Mine.

The Old Bailey coal mine, located
about two miles from the Shelby Bar
tie switch on the Mo. Pacific Railway
north of Versailles, is now in success.
ful operation. This coal property is
owned by Gen. }. *. Hudson of this
city. c. +. Lctfcrts who is supcrinten-
ing the mine, represents "A company Of
Iowa capitalists who are at the head
of the enterprise, and from the infor
nation we have, the mine will do no
small business.
The vein of conl that is being mined
is "A fine quality of scmicannel coal 60
feet thick, has 90 per cent fixed carbon,
80 per cent volatile matter and FIVE per
cent ash Supt Lcirer,s has n chunk
Of fine coal in the mine weighing eight
or ten thousand pounds, which, if it
could he brought to the surface whole
and shipped to the Worlds Fair, would
do more toward showing up our coal
resources than anything thus far Aug-
gested. The Bailey coal mine will bc
one of this county's future industrial
enterprises.