Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-01-26

campaign THIS year. The prohibition
party hopes eventually to induce the SUBJ
mission of the prohibitory constitution
81 amendment before many years.
Saved Their zNecks.
The supreme court saved the necks
OF two more murderers last week, re-
Verslng the judgment of death In the
cases OF Harry HOFFMAN, of Cherokee,
and Richard Williams, Of Buxton. In
the former case an important law point
was involved. Hortman pleaded guilty
At hrst and afterwards attempted to
change the plea. Judge Wakefield would
not permit the plea to be changed, and
sentenced HOFFMAN to death on it. The
supreme court decided that Hortman
had a right to change his plea up to the
| very moment of pronouncement Of sem
tence. The reversal Of these cases dis
poses of all the death sentence cases in
Iowa, of which there were half dozen
ayear ago.
Says 1t IL Unfair.
President Seerley, of the state normal
school, has given out statement in
which he calls attention to the fact
that it is unfair to compare the higher
educational institutions of Iowa with
those of surrounding states. The con-
slant plea is made that the Iowa institu-
lions are away behind those of other
states. Mr.. Seerley called attention to
the fact that the university and agricul-
tural college of Iowa are separate insti-
tutions. Were they together, like those
institutions in other states, there would
be no comparison, for Iowa would be
away ahead of other states.
/ Call for Protection.
! The retail liquor dealers of the state
claim to be asking OF the legislature
protection from people they call black
mailers, and nothing more. They claim
that they are mulcted in more ways than
by the state tax. They claim that they
have to pay, often, for consent Of people
whose consent is necessary for the con-
duct saloon; that they have to pay
habitual drunkards and minors to avoid
prosecution, often; and in other ways
have no protection from the state while
paying their regular tax. These things
they want the legislature to take up.
They propose law which will make the
drunkard and the minor equally respon-
sible with saloon keeper, and believe
that this would stop prosecutions on
these accounts. started for the purpose OF
mulcting the saloon keeper.
Doctor for Regent.
The doctors of the state have started
an interesting movement In the matter
of electing regent of the state univer-
sity. There is a vacancy in the Ninth
district, caused by the election Of Shir-;
ley Gilliland to the senate. There are
now ten lawyers ON the board of regents,
and Mr.. Gilliland has suggested the adj
visibility of selecting doctor for the
eleventh place, on account Of the large
medical department Of the institution.
DR.. v. L. Treynor and A. T. Flickinger.
of Council Bluffs; P. L. Sever, of Stuart,
and Ed. White, Of Shelby county, ara,
candidates. The contest will be decided
in caucus Of the members OF the leRis-,
lature from the Ninth district.
Agricultural Union.
The Iowa Agricultural union Is new
organization formed at the state COL
lege by students and alumni Its objects
are to knit closer the bonds which bind
the agriculturalists Of the state.
Branches OF the union will be formed
everywhere in Iowa where there are,
alumni of the agricultural department.
of the college. It is believed that the
union will soon be able to exert q very
wide influence on agricultural sentiment
in Iowa, and for the interests of the ag-
ricultural department Of the college.
LEON BROWN.
Shot by Jealous Husband.
Charles Bridges shot and fatally
wounded Marion Stallings, proprietor
of a large livery barn in Knoxville.
Bridges and his wife are separated, and
seeing Stallings and his wife talking on
the street, he fired three shots from re-
yolver, one ball entering the pit of the
stomach. Bridges gave himself up and
gave bond for $4,000.
Ezra H. McCutcheon. a prominent
oanEer and one Of the best-known poll
ticians IN northwestern Iowa, died at
Holstein. aged So years.
To Prevent Collisions.
A patent has been secured by r.
LogseA, Of Perry, which will do away,
with all danger from collisions, head
END OF rear end, on the railroads adopt
ing the device. 1t is a block safety
system and is said by practical railroad,
men who have examined the plans,
drawings and model, to be most eom-
plete-combining the essentiar features
OF simplicity in operation and almost
absolute security against damage or
failure to work.
Belles-Lettres.
He gazed into her dreamy II,
Till she said i'll at ee.