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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-03-09
Cook Stoves and Ranges

To make room for our spring purchases of
Cook Stoves, and Ranges, we make the fol-
lowing cut in price on Stoves and Ranges we
have in stock.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-03-09

Ours d
gewn complete and large assortment OF goods
than
Harness. Sweat
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22
UP-TO-DATE BLACkMAiLING
Organized Bard Demands 100000
from Car rdian Railroads.

| Organized Band Demands 100000
from Car dian Railroads.
A wel-organized band of audacious
| blackmailers has, for several months
past, been trying to coerce the stock
| holders of the Canadian Pacific and tho
Canadian Northern railroads into dis
gorging 100000, or suffering the penalty
| OF series of wrecks. That the latter
| is not an idle threat is shown by the
| fact that within three weeks eighteen
attempts to wreck through passenger
| trains at widely separated points on
both roads have occurred.
j. G. Burly, general superintendent of
the Canadian Pacific, received in August
Il threatening letter demanding $4,000
from his road and $4,000 from the Ca
| madam Northern. He paid no attention
| to the letters save to place detectives
on all trains. Toward the close of that
month another letter was received and
then a third.
The letters all demanded that the COM
pany show white instead of green mark
ers on the through trains to indicate
that negotiations might be begun. No
attention was paid to the demand, and
within the last month narrow escapes
from derailment have been of daily oc-
recurrence
The band is believed to be very ex-
pert, and those who have done the actual
work are thoroughly versed in railroad
knowledge. 1t is now thought that the
accident in which Lord Minto's train ran
into an open switch. killing FIVE persons,
was one of the first moves of the band,
for the railroads say that the opening
of the switch could not have been an
accident.
There have been two train hold-ups
in western Canada and scores of bank
md other robberies, all of which are
attributed to the unsuccessful blackmail-
ers of the railroads. The Canadian and
American police and the Canadian secret
service are in constant communication
concerning the robberies.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22

concerning an alleged Inheritance
placed in Mr.. Carnegie's keeping, the
estate of a supposed uncle Of Mrs.
Chadwick, named Frederick +. Mason.
In another packet there also is a
promissOry note for 1880, signed by
Emily and Daniel Pine, and mort
gage securing the same. This Carne-
gle paper with the S1.25O,00O in notes
bearing the iron masters name previ-
ously accounted for bring the total OF
this class Of securities" to S16496.OOO.
With the denOuement concerning the
securities there comes the story of
ruin wrought by Mrs. Chadwick s oper-
atoms and the consequent failure of
the Citizens National Bank Of Ober-
lin. Iri Reynolds, it is declared, is a
sufferer financially as well as other
wise through being the prize dupe of
securities on which the Chadwick
financial system was based for three
years or so, it is stated, let Mrs Chad
wick have nearly all the money he
possessed, but his entanglements are
personal and DO not involve the Wade
Park Banking Company. Of which he
Is secretary and treasurer.
1t is among those Of meager cir
cumstances, however, that the greatest
real suffering falls. From Oberlin it
Is reported that the student body of
the college located there has been hard
hit At least fifty students had their
savings on deposit in the Citizens Ma
tional Bank, and these have been
wiped out. Many - these students.
some Of whom are in their senior year.
will be obliged to leave their college
course uncompleted AS result Of loo
Ing all Several student boarding.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22
THE COTTON SLUMP.
Far-Rcaclliug Effect OF This Branch of
Great Textile Industry.
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The cotton branch of the great textile
irdustry-the next largest engaged in
manufacture in the country, being out
ranked only by iron and stecl-is para
lyzed by the tremendous slump IN the
price of raw material. The buying OF
cotton goods is practically at a stand
still and statesmen representing the large
commission houses of this and other cite
are being pulled off the road. JObber
and converters will not buy cotton goods
and commission merchants are lOath t
buy raw cotton, owing to their inabiilt
to sell. Gradually the swiftly mOvin
wheels of industry, always interdepenG
ent, are ceaSing their busy whir in col
sequence Of this condition.
The palsy is due directly to the slum
in the price Of raw cotton from 1O1
cents to ~ cents a pound during bus
interval. 1t was made complete by Il
governments report on the cotton ha
vest, indicating harvest of y, 1G2,IO
bales of the staple or nearly 100000
bales in excess of the greatest crop ever
garncrcd in the country. Much cotton
had been sold to manufacturers around
10 cents 4 pound; now the prospect is
for still lower prices even than { y cents.
Commission merchants and mills had
adjusted their selling price to the high
price of cotton; now buyers of cotton
goods are unwilling to buy the finished
goods on that basis; they wait for lower
prices. Hence the stopping of business
and the paralysis of a great industry.
There are dealers who express the
belief that cotton would swing on the
down turn far below its intrinsic value,
in reverse to the movement which car
ried it up to 174 cents a pound. These
men. chiefly buyers for jobbing and
manufacturing houses, profess 10 believe
that cotton would eventually touch D
cents a pound.
For two years little business has been
done because of the high price of raw
cotton; and now there can be no bust
ness done because it is too low or likely
to be. In the first instance mills were
closed because goods could not be sold
at price high enough to pay the manu-
facturers; and now, on a falling market.
jobbers and converters are frightened
into inactivity.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22

and her huband moved into q mansion
Oh Euclid avenue and began to show
evidences Of enormous wealth. Enter
tainments were given at the house
| costing thousands of dollars The
stores Of the city began to consider
her their best customer, for she bought
III large amounts and always paid
cash. On Christmas eve she invited
her husband to go to the theater. Be-
fore leaving the house she had a talk
over the telephone with 4 furnishing
house. When DR.. Chadwick returned
home with her the interior Of the house
had been completely transformed in
equipment, as though some fairy god
mother had waved her magic wand
over it. Not piece Of furniture, not
hanging, rug picture, ornament, not
a single thing that had formerly been
there remained. Everything was new.
Some time ago she took twelve
young ladies out of Cleveland society
on trip abroad. When they returned
she had a miniature On porcelain Of
each one. These she had framed In
lS-carat gold and presented to the
young ladies as souvenirs. One Of her
favorite pastimes was to walk into
store and ask to be shown diamond
rings. She would buy half the con-
tents Of a tray-enough 70 pay the
rent Of castle. Once she sent a To
ronto jeweler abroad to buy Il certain
gem for her and he travelled 1900
niles to get it. she paying his expenses
and $4,000 for the gem. She bought
hfty-six nngs Of one firm. One day
she purchased eight pianos and had
them sent to friends. She gave her
-ook q sealskin coat which reached 70
the ground
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22
"a II @e ,is Side
:. GW OF Il \
The News u
~No~~N~~~

You can fool some of the Ohio bankers
;ome of the time, anyway.
1t should be noted that the sands OF
leap year are ebbing fast.
Certainly there is no lack of work lai'
ut for the Congress" to do.
Any one whose children are crying 70
Id junk should call up st. Louis.
Coxey now knows how the rank an,
e of his army have felt ever since.
Frenzied finance seems to nave attrac;
d member of the weaker sex here al
lcre.
Mrs. Chadwick may have thought s.
as furthering Mr.. Carnegie's ambitio
, 20 die poor.
Tom Lawson Of Boston begs to call ;it-
tenton to the fact that the panic came
off as advertised.
st. Louis has had its fun. The rcst
of the entertainment consists principally
of the headache.
Though the President saw fit to ignore
it, the high tariff can hardly feel that
it is out of the woods.
Uncle Sans next great reform will be
conducted under the rallying cry, Help
keep the Cubans clean.'
st. Petersburg thinks the situation at
Port Arthur is critical, but hasn't it
been that way for six months?
1t is a good thing there are no more
Mrs. Chadwicks, or suckers would have
to be born oftener than one minute.
Now that the original "Katy" girl
has been sued for divorce the conductor
may issue her a transfer to some other
line.
If the law of supply and demand is
still working there should also be a
sharp decline in lambs wool on Wall
street.
Another great reform has had its in
ception in Chicago. A police magistrate
fined a man So for borrowing" an UNI
brella.
Private Secretary Loeb cannot deny.
however, that the Presidents family did
things to that turkey some time on
Thanksgiving day.
A small and rapidly diminishing aggre-
CATION of army mules is about the best
OH ATLuuF Cali HOpe W w III lue way
OF a live stock show.
Another attractive feature which Gen,
Miles sees about that Massachusetts mil
itary job is that there will be no officious
War Department around to bother him
An insane woman won the prize by
working rebus for an eastern magazine.
This is not strange, as only insane people
have the patience to work such things
ont
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22
AN UNUSUAL OPERATION.
Surgeons Graft Live Rabbit to Leg of
Burned Boy.


Very unusual was the operation per-
formed on Cornelius Post, a 15-year-old
boy, a few days ago. when surgeons at
st. Mary's hospital, Passaic, n. j., graft
ed on a 15-inch wound caused by a burn
| Il portion of the skin of live rabbit
which was chloroformed and bound to his
leg. Anaesthetics had been refused by
he plucky lad who for three-quarters
# an hour. underwent the severe pain
without flinching.
Two years ago Cornelius Post carried
Inner to his father, who worked in the
consumers Match factory, at Clifton.
some way he obtained piece of phos
horus and put it in his pocket. It burn
d through to his skin. The boy has I'M
ergone several skin grating operations,
ome of which have been successful, and
he burn is much smaller than it was,
1T all efforts to heal it have proved fu-
le, and it was finally decided to resort
an operation so rare as to have been
lreviously attempted with success only
three times.
The burn is on the left leg, just below
the hip. and is about Is inches long and
six inches wide The half-formed and
Elanu!ated tSslc was SCraped down to
the muscle the boy suffering terrible pain
hut only now and then giving vent to his
feelings with such expressions as doc
tor. please be careful
The skin of the rabbit was then clip
ped parallel with it's spine from its tail
to its neck, three inches wide and fif-
teen inches long, the strip remaining at
tached to the animal at the neck. The
rabbit was chosen because Of the elas-
ITCHY of its skin, and when the strip
was clipped off the edges of the skin on
its back were drawn together and
stitched.
The animal was then placed under the
boys leg, its back at right angles, and
the flap of skin was carefully placed over
the burned spot. For many days the
boy will be constantly attended by
nurse
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22
Thirty Years Ago.

An exchange of notes took place be-
tween Washington, ID. c., and Madrid
concerning the Virginius affair.
A Congressional investigation of the
Pacific mail subsidy increase, and the
bribery charges connected with it, was
commenced at Washington ID. c..
The watch presented to Marquis de
Lafayette by Washington and later sto-
len from him, having been recovered,
was presented to the Erenchman's
grandson by the American minister to
France
King Kalakaua of the Sandwich
Islands was in Chicago en- route to
Washington, D. c., to perfect a com
mercial treaty.
The taking of evidence in the trial
of Count Won Armin for the abstrac-
ton of official documents from the rec
ords Of the German government closed
In Berlin.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22
BUBBLE HAS BURST.
CHADWICK MYSTERY OF MILL.
IONS ENDED.
In Bank's Strong Box Carnegie Name
Is Found on Paper of the Face Value
of S16,4a6,oOO- Signature Is De-
cIared a Forgery.

The Chadwick bubble has burst COM
pletely. In the history of frenzied
finance it will form a part Of the chain
Of wrecks that have strewn the path
Of coveteousness since the fOtation of
the great Mississippi Company by
John Law Of Scotland and France.
Mrs. Chadwick's mysterious securi-
ties, when exposed to the light Of day.
instead Of being worth millions Of dol
lars, were found to be nothing but Sc
many sheets of worthless paper
Cleveland attorneys declare that it
was the evident purpose Of Mrs. Chad
wick 10 borrow as large a fortune as
possible on the notes signed Andrew
Carnegie" evidently forgeries, expect
ing that before the expose came the
steel magnate would die. She was
sure, according to this theory, that a
settlement with his heirs would be a
very easy matter.
The bubble was pricked when A. A.
Stearns, the Cleveland attorney for
Herbert D. Newton, of Boston, the
creditor primarily responsible for
bringing the meteoric career Of Mrs.
Chadwick to an end, made an authori-
tative statement that the mysterious
package of securities left with Iri
Reynolds included paper of the face
value Of $15,246,0OO, which bears the
signature ANDREW Carnegie" and is
regarded as worthless.
There is a note for the modest sum
Of 100000, bearing the name of the
Iron master, and the other $40, 246, 600
is represented by a trust agreement
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22
EATEN BY OLD OCEAN.
Changes Going on Everywhere Along
the Line of the Sea Coast.

changes UOfnS On everywhere AlonX
the Line of the Sea Coast.
NJ Chevral, secretary of the Tours
Geographical Society, said the other day
in an address to the society that the
latest surveys of the French coasts had
shown that within the last few years the
republic had lost about five square miles
of territory, which had been torn to
pieces and washed into the sea by the
ocean storms. The loss of land would
have been considerably greater if it had
not been that the destructive waves had
carried part of the debris into bays like
that of Mont Saint Michel and into estu-
aries like that of the Somme and piled
it up along the shores, extending the land
q little further out into the sea.
These changes are going on every
where. The British estimate that the
erosion constantly in progress along their
coasts is Just about made good by the
debris swept up along the lower parts
of the shores, forming new land. Eng
land is so densely peopled that it cannot
afford to lose territory. 1t manages to
keep Just about the same amount of
standing room.
Some countries are gaining territory
at the expense of their neighbors, and
without any excuse for kicking up an in
ternational row. This is the case with
Tonkin, whose great rivers rise among
the highlands of western China and de-
scend into the low Tonkin plain with so
swift a current that they bring a part
of China with them and spread it over
the big French colony. Tonkin is push
ing out into the sea at the rate of nearly
80 feet a year. Its capital, Hanoi, stood
On the edge of the sea twef's centuries
q "a. but b new far inland.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22
he use keepers also have been bank.

he use keepers also have been bank
rupNed by the failure.
Coinsident with the examination OF
the package of securities the Federal
authorities got busy with the organ
zation Of the special grand jury called
to investigate the Chadwick case.
The basis for the system that has
wrought havoc to an extent yet I'M
known, for the stories of ruined homes
through loss Of savings are only begin
ming to come in, is now shown to be
strikinSly akin to that by which the
bankers Of France were defrauded Of
millions in the Humbert case, which
is of such recent memery as to be
almost contemporaneOus history. Mrs.
Chadwick's Inheritance seems to be az
nay thical and her benefactor as ficti-
tiOIls as the Inheritance from the
ina ginary American millionaire that
was supposed to be in Nine. Hum
berts safe
That DR.. Leroy S. Chadwick, now
in Europe, was in the plot with his
wife to borrow vast sums on bogus Sc
curities is the assertion OF Iri Reyn-
olds, treasurer of the Wade Park
bank, trustee for the mysterious pack
age Of Chadwick securities" Dr.
Chadwick, he asserts, also knew about
trust agreement, bearing the name
Of Andrew Carnegie, deposited with
Reynolds, asserting that NJ. Carnegie
held securities worth $1O,o46,0OO be-
longing to Mrs. Chadwick
1t is now said that although the
netes bearing Carnegie's name We're
forged Mrs Chadwick cannot be pros
ecuted for forgery, as she did not at
tempt to sell the notes.
A Dazzling Chapter.
It was in 1897 that DIR. Leroy
Chadwick, widOWer OF no especial
prominence and having a small prac-
tee in his profession. brought a bride
to his native city of Cleveland. They
had been married in Pittsburg. She
was fair of face, a trife over 40. and
possessed of q magnetic manner. Still
she attracted no attention until she
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22
twenty Years Ago.

The announcement was made in New
York of the gift of $3OO.OOO by Miss
Mary G. Caldwell to the Roman Cath
Ollie Church for the purpose of found
ing a university.
President DiaZ Of Mexico ordered
closed all Of the gaming houses in the
City Of Mexico.
The President sent to the Senate
with a note of review and commenda-
ton the commercial treaty between
the United States and Spain
The Superintendent of Public In
structiOn in Illinois reported that the
enrolment of the pupils in the public
schools of the State for the year had
been 72S.6S1.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22
One Hundred Years AGO.

The British under Admiral POP
attacked Fort Rouge at the entr
OF Calais harbOr.
Russia had seventy sail of the
in commission in her navy.
The French ambassador left
stantinOple, as the Ottoman port,
fused to acknowledge Napoleon
hereditary emperor.
The surveyor of public building
Washington reported to Congress
$J7, 665.12 had been spent in one
on the Capitol and White House.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22
forty Years Ago.

General Dix issued an order for re-
prisals on Canadians because of tfJ<
st. Adams raid. 1t was unnulled latef
by Lincoln.
Sherman StOrmed FJrt NcAliiSter,
near Savannah, Ga.
Cook County, Illinois, voted a boun-
ty of 500 for every man who would
enlist for army service.
Springfield Qll.) citizens were nib,
alarmed over a report that the IiIinois
Central Railway was ready to give
the State q bonus to have the capital
removed to Decatur.
A number of soldiers were killed and
many wounded in the blowing up of
the transport Maria at st. Louis.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22
Seveaty-five Years AGO.

a Canadian priest ordered that
Catholics in his parish who bad b
married by Yankee ministers or ma!
trates be lawfully remarked by h
Slaves were selling for nearly nc
ing at New Orleans. Almost every S
brought them to that port, and ow
to the failure of crops the planters
little money to buy them.
A civil war began in Chile.
The reduction of wages caused
strike among the weaYerS of NOrwi
England.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22
fifty Years AGO.

The king of the Sandwich Island
to prevent the overthrow of his go.
eminent by lawleSs violence, accept(
he aid of the naval forces of the Uni
ed States and France.
The Spanish minister of foreign a
fairs declared in the cortes That IL
sale of the island Of Cuba would /
the sale of Spanish honor itself"
Peace was restored at the Ballarf
gold diggings, Australia, after a reig
Of terror lasting weeks, III which twe1
ty miners had been killed and marti;
law established.
Commercial reciprocity had been a
ranged between the United States an
Great Britain. 1t opened to American
the sea fisheries in British provinces
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22
ANOTHER IRISH FAMINE.
Failure of Potato Crop Causes Great
Suffering in Emerald Isle.

Suffering in Emerald Isle.
Immigrants who arrived recently il
New York from Ireland bring news o.
terrible privations and want now beins
suffered by the small farmers in the En-
erald Isle. During last week 1000 per
sons. fleeing from the famine-strickel
counties of western Ireland. have enterec
the metropolis. Stories of hardships ar,
told by the immigrants who land at Ellis
Island.
The agent for the Irish Immigratio
Society, who mas just returned from Ire
land, thus explains the conditions there
1.-THE poor of Ireland live on unproduc
tive bog land, over which they worl
night and day to produce food and kee
shelter over their heads. The ground
will not permit a living and Saving
too. When crops are good they ca
live; but when crop fails they mus.
starve."
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-22
len Years AGO.

Two hundred persons were killed by
an earthquake in the vicinity of Mes
sina. Italy.
Nelson Morris, of Chicago. brought
suit for over 100000 damages against
the American Distilling and Cattle
Feeding Company (the whisky trust,
alleging breach of contract
The Socialists. led by Tommy Nor
gan. started a fight for control of tia
convention of the American Federa-
uen In Denver.
The oasis., 1904-09-10
RAILROAD RATES.

Students desiring to secure half- fare rates to Tucson, are reminded that application must be made several days, usually week, in advance of leaving their homes, in order that the required permits may be secured. When the Univ- ersity receives the application, 1t must be sent to the general or division officials of the railroad, or railroads. These officials send their orders to the local ticket agents to sell to the students named halt-fare ticket, when they call for them at the station or city office. All this takes consid- erable time, and unless ample time is allowed for this procedure, the University will not undertake to secure rebates in case of failure to obtain half-fare.
 KENDRIcK c. BABcocK,
 President
The oasis., 1904-09-10
MAINTENANCE FUND.

All students living in the Dormi- tories will required at registration to deposit S3 in the Maintenance Fund. This Fund has been created by vote of the Board Of Regents to provide for those breakages and damages to the property of the University over and above ordin- ary wear and tear, for which no one will acknowledge responsibility. From this Fund will be deducted at the end of the year the amount Of such damages, and the balance will be returned pro rata to the de- positors. With cordial cooperation of the students practically the whole of the three dollars may be thus returned,
The oasis., 1904-09-10
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
Tucson. Opens September IS, 'oo4.
GENERAL INFORMATION.

The University Of Arizona will open it's doors to students Septem- Der 15, 1904. Promptness in reg istration is of the highest import- ance. On the 18th and 18th examinations will be held for all students entering for the first time and for those wishing to make up deficiencies. All new students arc required to take at least one exam ination in Oral Reading in the sub-collegiate; in English Com position in the College department. Those presenting proper certif- ticates will be excused from other examinations. New stud- ents should present themselves promptly on the morning of the 18th. Tuition is free to students who are residents of Arizona; non residents $l0 per semester. The matriculation fee is S5, paid but once.
The oasis., 1904-09-10

In my absence, during the month of September, all persons having claims against the International Bank, will please leave same with Mr. Geo. K. French at his office in said bank.
 K. HERRERA, 4t. Receiver International Bank.