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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03
A young Japanese

"A young Japanese compositor,
employed on Japanese paper in
New York, was riding down town in
a City Hall train the other morning,
He was engrossed in his morning
paper, and paid little attention to
the ather passengers.
But a fresh-looking young man, who
sat next to him, and who had been
cycling him all along suddenly asked:
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03
IOWA MAN SLAIN BY WOMAN.
Patrick King, Jr, Of sigourney, Kill
ed at La Junta, Colorado.

Sigourney, March 1.-Word has
just been received from Colorado that
Patrick King, Jr., aged %, son OF
Patrick King, who, with Andrew
Stranahan, constructed the Milwau-
kee railroad bed through this county
twenty years ago, has been shot and
killed by a woman. 1t appears that
King had accepted some attention
from the housekeeper on his fathers
ranch, and that woman, Louise 1ad-
ans, who was in love with him, muir
dered him in fit of jealousy. The
Kings have become wealthy in Colo
RADIO.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03
DE NOTES LOSS.
Well Known Lecturer Victim of Dis.
astrous Fire.

'Elmwood Place" the handsome
colonial style residence of Prof. j. B.
Denote, the lecturer, who has de-
lighted Oskaloosa audiences, was
burned to the ground recently, to-
gether with all its contents. The
home was located six blocks from De
Paw university, in Greencastle, In
diana, and the professors 5000 vol
ume library and all his valuable pic
lures and treasures, picked up on his
travels, went up in smoke. The
blaze started in the top Of the build
ing; cause unknown. Lack of water
pressure made the loss total.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03
Wedding at PelIa.

j. o. Grant and wife and grand
daughter, Miss Sarah Grant, went to
Pella Saturday to attend the we'd
ding Of Miss Jennie Carson and Hen
ry Van Arl1el, which occurred Sun
day evening at the home Of the
brides parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Carson. The home is prepared and
furnished for the young people, and
they win go to housekeeping at once.
The young man is an engineer at the
Pella foundry.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03

"A Chicago bank is trying to en-
force a rule that its employees shall
not marry until drawing a salary of
at least $1,000 year. me Sioux
City Journal presumes that the re-
striction would not apply to fasci-
mating $500 clerk who happened to be
proposed to this year by a beautiful
blond millionairess.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03

The Iowa Worlds Fair commits
sion is to be given $4,000 in addition
to the oroginal appropriation of $685.
600. That will make a grand total of
$145,000 chargeable to Iowa's adver-
Using account at ST. Louis, and it
ought to produce fairly satisfactory
results.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03

"A Boston man who had been
stealing for years and Juggling the
books was discovered in his wrong
doing purely by accident One of
the wonders of the age is the ease
with which books can be made by an
expert to cover up shortages.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03

The Chinese authorities in Man
ehuria, if that is the proper name for
them, are unable to see why they
should feel any responsibility for
! guarding the Russian railway in time
OF war, SO long as Russia would not
trust them with the task in time Of
peace. The logic Of the present sit
uation is wholly with John China
man.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03
-Burrell. of the Wasbinpton Pre-,

-Burrell, of the Washington Press,
reports that in sixteen months, since
he eschewed tobacco and adopted a
Battle Creek diet, he has gained for
ty-eight pounds in weight and that it
has become serious business tying
his shoe strings and slipping on arc
tics or rubbers. He now weighs 1853
pounds.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03

"A man arrested for vagrancy in
Waterloo tried to tell the city author.
tiles that Fort Dodge was much the
better town of the two, and the com
plant against him was promptly
changed to insanity.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03

What sort of 'nese' are you, any
way? A Chinese or Japanese ?"
The little Jap was not caught nap
ping. Quick as wink he replied:
What sort of a key are you, any
way? A monkey, donle, or Yam
KEEP"
The fresh young man had no more
to say, and left the train quickly
when City Hall station was reached.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03

That writer in Success telling
why people are poor" might have
added: 'They are willing to live on
what belongs to them rather than
sport around on the fruits of other
peoples labor"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03

The Sigourney News announces
that 'all churches of the town have
gene together and are going to wage
a war On the devil and his imps."
We are obliged to the News for CIV
ing us the residence of the parties
named.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03

George A. Wells, secretary Of the
Iowa Grain Dealers, has announced
that the Iowa convention will be held
in April and the national convention
will be held in Milwaukee in June OF
July instead of October as first an.
nounced.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03

Mrs. Dave Trickler recently sold
GA turkeys to merchant of Bloom
field for which she received the snug
sum of $187. Three dollars per birG
is not bad.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03

"A non-paTtisan convention will
be held at Ottumwa Thursday, March
10, to select candidates for members
of the school board. This might not
be a. bad idea to adopt in Oskaloosa.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03

The Hull-Prouty contest in Des
Moines yesterday was SO hot that the
Daily Capital shifted all its war news
from the front page.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03

Iowa City Republican: A repub-
lican who sows seed that brings forth
democratic should make complaint to
the national seed department.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03
Life in Harvey is getting !

Life in Harvey is getting siren
uous. The News reports that the
work of building sidewalks has ac-
tually begun and that the next work
to be taken up by the city authorities
is the destruction of all uncollared
dogs.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03

Tom Van der Linden is manager
of the Van Spanckeren lumber yard
at Olivet.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03

A Davis county farmer sold a
Bloomfield merchant $267.74 worth Of
eggs during the past year.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-03-03
THE HERALD

Only two weeks more Of ground
hog weather. Hurrah!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14
NO Pennsx RetrencI,ments.

New York, Oct. 1.-THE completion OF
many of the improvements on the Penn
sylvania system has resulted in the dis
charge of many men within the past
month or more by the various contractors
and this has given rise to some exagger-
ated reports of the continuance. of the
company of the rigid economies 1naugu-
rated several months ago. An official OF
the company said yesterday:
We are employing more men in the
legitimate operations of the road today
than we did two months ago. That sew
eral thousand men on construction work
between Philadelphia and New York
have been laid off within month is
probably true, but the. majority of these
men were in the employ of contractors,
who have finished their work and have
either discharged their men or sent them
elsewhere"
In large improvement, work, he contin-
ued, which was generally paid for out or
capital account, it was often necessary to
do work in order to take care of traffic
which came under the maintenance of
way department, and was paid for out of
earnings. Extra men We're in such cases
required and were hired, either by the
company direct or supplied by a contrac-
tor. and it was the laying off of such men
that was now causing the reports.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14

tistics of the Pennsylvania company
now show that within the last year the
controlling interest has passed from
the state of Pennsylvania, where it had
rested for fifty years, to New York
state, which is the repository of the
Standard Oil millions.
Wall street men predict that within
another ten years, if their power and
wealth increase in the same ratio as
they have in the past ten, all the rail-
roads of the country of any import
ance, as well as all the gas companies
and electric companies OF the great
cities, will be under the control of
John D. Rockefeller. William Rookie
Teller and Henry H Rogers.
The great steel industries have come
under their denomination within
which control over s.. 900 Ooo. 600 of de-
posits are already practically under
their control. They can use this vast
sum almost at their will to make or
Their methods of doing business are
soon to be introduced into the New
York Central railway. One Of the
most important changes of which Wall
Senator Depew, who since the days of
Commodore Vanderbilt has always
been an important influence in the
conduct of Vanderbilt lines. Mr.. De-
pew, it is said, has not been informed
yet of the proposed change.
The Cornelius Vanderbilt interest has
always been behind Senator Depew.
William K. Vanderbilt has not been
SO friendly, and it is believed he will
give his consent to the proposed
change and will be an ally of the
RockefellerS.
wall street discredits the report that
L. f. Loree. who recently resigned as
president of the Rock Island company,
is to succeed w. H. Newman as presi-
dent of the New York Central
The retirement Of Depew as chair
man of the New York Central is not
an improbability, railroad men say It
is believed that an active railroad man
will succeed to the Craftsmanship and
President Newman's name has been
most often heard in connection with
the charge.
There are rumors in Wall street that
Standard Oil has determined to force
q compromise in the Northern Securi-
ties suit by the terms of which North
ern Pacific is to come under the sphere
of influence jointly of Union Pacific
and st. Paul.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14
ROCK ISLAND GOSSIP.
Clippings From the Press Concerning
the Rock Island Situation.

the Rock Island Situation.
The Minneapolis Tribune editoriaIly
says:
The said fortunes of the Rock Island
railroad in search for a president
point a large moral in modern bust
ness life. 1t is hard enough anyway
to keep I'D the supply of administra-
tive talent for the giant corporations
of the present day. In ordinary cases
there are two natural sources of sup
ply. When a great corporation grows
slowly from small beginnings its man
agerial talent grows with it. Its own
ers are not ignorant of the business
themselves. and its higher servants
gain breadth and power as the sub
ordinate forces multiply under their
eyes.
The New York and Pennsylvania
railway systems are two conspicuous
examples of this kind of growth. Both
have always been well served though
the former had to be reorganfzed two
or three times and is now on the way
to a unified big system. When a giant
corporation grows out of union of
one big one with a lot of smaller ones,
the parent is generally able to furnish
managerial talent for the new COM
binations. This was the case with
United States Steel, which drew near
Iy all its administrative talent from
the old Carnegie company.
The Rock Island was in neither posi-
ton. 1t changed ownership at the
same time that it changed it's charac-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14
Stormy Meeting of Chicago Terminal

Chicago. Oct. 14.-In a stormy meet
ing In which receiverships and the
rights of protecting stockholders fig
ured conspicuously, the shareholders
OF the Chicago Terminal Transfer
Railroad company elected four new
directors to take the place of the Har-
r1man-Hawley members of the board
whose terms expired and to fill the
vacancy on the directorate caused by
the resignation of Otto F. Brainard.
When the meeting was in executive
session it is known that there was an
element of stockholders that was not
in accord with either the protective
committee or the old management of
the road, which still controls the
board This element was inclined to
ask questions regarding the affairs of
the company and the amount of stock
which some of the directors own. This
inquiry did not tend to increase har-
mony. The new directors elected
were: Charles L. Raymond, Chicago;
William H. Heaton, New York; Albert
E. Goodhart, New York: Arthur O..
Slaughter, Chicago. The retiring di-
rectors are: Henry R. Hawley, Chi
cago; Charles w. Gould. New York;
Henry A. Rust, Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14
FTTzsDMoNs IN A NEW ROLE.
Bob Plans "Athletic College, to Build
Up Impaired Constitutions.

New York, Oct. 14.-That Robert
Fitzsimmons, prize fighter, is going to
settle down on a farm and pass the
rest of his days teaching physical Gull
ture and building up impaired con-
situations" is indicated in letter he
has sent to New York persons of so
ciaI prestige and wealth. 1t is the in
tention of the former champion to pur-
chase a tract of land near Orange,
n. J.. and erect thereon commodio
buildings, gymnasiuns, bathh ouses
and a hotel with a view of establish
ing a school of physical culture.
Fitzsimmons is planning to have a
sort of athletic college-coeducatio
al. He asserts he is negotiating with
Mrs. Wilson Cunningham, champion
all-round athlete of London, to take
charge of the classes for women.
Not only will Fitzsimmons teach
the sons of wealthy men how to box,
but he will go one point further and
train them in dieting, temperance and
all the necessary courses to build up
a fine physique.
According to Leon Friedman, his
manager, Fftzsimmons will cure rheu-
matism without medicine, check the
whisky habit, reduce all superfluous
flesh and bring about a perfect state
of physical health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14
ON THE SAFETY OF
OVER EATING
The Rule of Choosing the Lesser of
Two Evils Applies to the
Way You Eat.

L want to know how a man is &c
know when he has had enough?
Inc Pilgrim Fathers, l believe, had
a quaint saying to the effect that YOU
should always rise from the table feel
ing as II you could eat some more.
more?
Just when to stop?
That's the point.
The rule is wrong, because IFS M
rule at all.
1t is inexact and unscientifc.
II Is likely to lead to the dangerous
habit of eating too little.
ana eating too Httle-or dfgestine
too little. which amounts to the sans
thlng-ls the cause of nine-tenths of
the diseases from which humanity suf-
fers today.
What is disease?
1t Is simply uneven balance between
waste and repair.
Some organ lacks strength to carry
on the special work for which it was
created.
Where shall it find the strength IT
lacks? ~
In drugs?
Ten thousand time, MOI
Better die than become a hopeless
drug hend.
No; in food.
But" you say. ct eat a plenty of
good food every dayI'
True. dear friend; but you don't d.
gest it
And food. undigested, is mere
poison.
So, to make food do you good, YOU
must take Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets.
The great thing about Stuart's Dys-
pepsla Iablets is, that their action does
not depend upon stimulatfve druggerv.
1hey cannot create a habit.
1hey contain no ingredients to "pick
you up, tone up your nervous sys-
tenn" or furnish whip energy, by call
ing out your vital reserve force
They create new strength, force and
energy-out of yOur Food.
If taken starving, they will do you
no good at all.
So, eat to live. and live to eat, with
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
The curse of our present civilization
is exhaustion.
And exhaustion, whether of brain.
nerves, physical strength, or vital
force, is caused by starvation.
Or two evils, it is better to overeat
1and prevent indigestion with Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets), than to rise from
the table, not having eaten enough to
forces.
For exhaustion or starvation leads
TO the most varied forms of sickness
or disease. brought on by Inability of
the weakened vitality to counteract the
dlsease-poisons, and microbes
Whereas the well-fed and we'll
nour1shed person, without ever feeling
the worse for it. can expose himself to
dangers, the mere thought of which
would drive the weak, starving dys-
peptic into panic fit.
Good food, well digested, is the great
secret of healthful existence here on
earth.
So eat heartily, every day. of the
best food you can get, and regulate the
working of your digestive machinery
with Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
AS a result. you will be astonished
to find how much stronger and liveler
you feel, how much more and better
work you can do. how much more
pleasure you will get out of life and
how your old enemy. that chronic
trouble which has fastened upon your
weak spot. wherever it is. will up and
away. and ever after leave YOU in
peace, health and comfort
There's more truth than poetry in
nil thia.
Try IL ens@
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14
Hawley Buying Into the Katy.

New York. Oct. 14.-An advance in
Missouri, Kansas & Texas shares. be-
ginning with the accumulation of TO-
900 shares by 6. e. Dimock. mostly
of the common, is believed on the ex-
change to be for the Hawley party,
which, it was asserted. has been buy
ing tn csc stocks for several days. Com
mon belief is that Hawley is trying to
secure voice in the management He
was instrumental in the accumulation
of a majority of Chicago & Alton stock
in the interest of the Rock Island His
hand in the Louisville deal, when the
shorts were cornered two years ago, is
we'll known. HawIey is backed by the
Huntington and Croker interests. The
Missouri, Kansas & Texas is popularity
regarded as Standard Oil property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14
SEE END OF DEPEw RULE.
Wall Street Expects RockefeIIers to
Gust Him From New York Central.

New York, Oct laval street is
watching with close interest changes
in the directorates of the various
trunk lines, because it believes they
foreshadow the complete ascendeney
of the Standard Oil interests in most of
the important railroad systems of the
country and the elimination, to a great
extent, of the traditional power of the
observation-disclosures party.
Within the last three years the
Rockefellers have gradually obtained
foothold in the New York Central
New York. New Haven & Hartford,
Chicago & Northwestern and other
lines usually known as Vanderbilt
Morgan railroads. They now control
St. Paul, and, allied with George
Gould, they control the Missouri Pa
cific, Wabash, Denver & Rio Grande,
RIo Grande Western and Western
Maryland. They recently acquired
100000 shares in the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe from Kuhn, Loeb g. Co.,
and yesterday they were given addi-
donal representation in the Union Pa
cific board.
Within ten years, practically, STAN
dard Oil wealth has distributed itself
over the entire railroad system of the
country. 1t is known that John D.
Rockefeller became very heavy hold
err in Pennsylvania when the last new
stock issue was put out. and the sta
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14
Great Northern Annual Meeting.

holders of the Great Northern Railroad
company, which was held in New York
yesterday, the retiring directors We're all
reelected. 1t is understood that the old
Officers will all be elected at the di-
rectors' meeting to be held today. This
has been one of the few harmonious rail-
road stockholders meetings of the year.
preliminary statement showing opera
lions of the entire system of the Great
ended June 80 last, reports gross earnings
of Sal, 414, SOC, a decrease of $722,SS4, COM
pared with the previous year. Net earn
fngs are given as $1S,51s, $50, a decrease of
s., 209, 663 The total income of $19, 1872, 535 is
81 556, $50 below that of 1903.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14

Schenectady. N. Y, Oct 14.-Practically
all of the men have been taken off the
work on the third rail and substation con-
struction for the tests of the electric 10
connective near Hoffman's ferry, and it is
the finishing touches will be put on the lo-
connective. The officials of the General
will probably be started on Friday or
Saturday of this week. The power has
been turned on at the substation and third
rail and these tests have shown that ev-
erything is in perfect working order. The
officials say that the locomotive is prac-
tically completed and has met their every
expectation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14
Eighty Mile Gap to Close.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. IA stretch
of so miles is all that intervenes now be-
Los Angeles and Salt Lake. road, which is
to join Salt Lake City and Los Angeles,
has now reached the Vegas ranch in
southern Nevada, which is but AZ miles
from the California line. The work from
Daggett, Cal. is also being actively push
ed. Part of the grading on the so miles
stretch is already completed and it is
hoped to complete the comparatively
easy work now remaining by the first of
the year BY February 1 it is believed
through trains between the two cities will
be in operation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14
ARTHUR e. IRELAND INDICTED.
Chicago Labor Leader Accused of As
saulting Nonunion Man.

Fort Madison, Ia, Oct. 14.-Artnur E.
ireland, general organizer for the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, and W. F. Dc
vine and L. G Meyer. members of the In
ternatlonaI MachiniStS' Union, have been
indicted here on the charge of assault
with intent to kill A. MatheWson, a nom
union machinist.
business agent of the MachinistS' Union in
chicago. He afterward was appointed
general organizer for the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. and several months ago
was assigned to assist union machinists
IN their strike against the Santa Fe.
He has been in charge of the machin-
lists headquarters in Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14
Presbytery at Abilene Closes.

Abilene, Kan, Oct. 1.-THE Solomon
Presbytery adjourned after a two days
session and went in a body to Wichita.
J. A. Essick, Ellsworth, was elected mod
orator and Ellsworth selected as the next
place of meeting. The Presbytery voted
to favor union with the Cumberland
Presbytery and to favor separate Pres
bytery for colored churches.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14
Mrs. Nation I'm Austin.

Austin, Tex, Oct. 14.-Mrs. Carrie
Nation of Ratchet fame brought her
daughter, Mrs. A. d. McNabb of Rich
mond, Tex, who is insane, to the state
asylum here. Mrs. Nation gave a lee
ture at the court house after she had
delivered her daughter into the care OF
the asyIum authorities
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14
A Portrait of wasbinaton.

Atchison. Kan, Oct. 14.-W. T. Bland
of this place has a portrait of George
Washington said to have been painted
from life which he inherited recently
from his parents in Virginia. Mr.. Bland
is a. member of the McPike Drug com
pany. which will soon move from here
to Kansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14

depot to be erected on the site just
west of where the present passenger
depot stands This building. like the
passenger station will be of brick and
stone, of ample proportions to enable
the company to handle its increasing
business and furnish protection for
goods held in the station.