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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-06-15

The New York Insurance Press says /:
"The payment of $40. 900 to the
Panama Canal Company has caused a
great deal of talk. Life insurance
panies distribute almost as much
money as that every month and no.
body gets excited. How is your
alimentary canal? 1t is insurable to-
day."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-06-15

There are within three million of as
many persons enrolled in the Sunday
Schools of this country as in the pub
lie schools, there being thirteen mil
lion in the former and sixteen million
in the latter. The total Sunday School
membership throughout the whole
world is twenty-five million.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-06-15
&u%Ac Ch1nie~
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
H. J. GREEN,
Editor and Proprietor.

Ofacial Paper Of Winnesheik County
and tho City Of Decorah.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-06-15

The report is current in Des Moines
that Governor Cummins has given out
that he will be a candidate for the
congressional nomination in two years
against Captain Hull. This will be
taken to mean that his vice. -preslden-
tial boom contains nothing of hope,
and that he has given up his senator
ial aspirations. and if CAPTAIN Hull
gives him such drubbing as he did
Judge Prouty, there will be collapse
of the Cummins machine.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-06-15

list OF graduate:
5 follows:
Vera Boice
Georgia Adams
Jennie Shea
Hazel McClaskey
CLARA Haugen
Grace Baker
Gladys Jewell
Emma Ohristen
Bessie Heinberg
Anna Solem
Tina Bidne.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-06-15

Entered at tho post offlce In Dooorah
Iowa. as second Glass NAH Matter.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-09-09
Looked Rather Serious

While Earl Brown and family
and Rev. and Mrs. Brown were
returning from the Alsea and
Yachats country a few days ago,
an accident occurred that came
near precipitating a part of the
outht over a steep embankment.
AS 1t was, however, no one was
injured but all were thoroughly
shaken up. The wagon road
climbs steep mountains, winds in
and out, overlooking frightful
chasms and sometimes seems to
plunge abruptly over precipices.
1t is ''scarey" proposition for
anyone to travel with a team in
that country, even in day light.
1t was while rounding one of
these points, that the accident
happened. The ladies had been
sent on ahend and the wagons
were creeping slowly down a
steep grade when suddenly the
coupling pole snapped, right on
the verge OF chasn, a plunge
into which would mean certain
death. The wagon got into such
a shape that it required the efforts
of four men to extricate it and
get it into shape for travel. Had
the ladies been on the wagon
they would certainly have been
thrown. Many fatal accidents
have occurred in these mountain
districts, that the world hears
little about. Men and women
have been thrown ovor these
cliffs, and have been seriously or
fatally injured, and many is the
horse whose bones lie bleaching
along the way. The Yachats
country is the most beautiful Oh
the Oregon coast, but it is very
hard to get there, bat once you
are there, it is next to a tropical
cline.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-09-09
Born to. VIM. and Mrs. Currin at
McMinnville Sept. I'd. a daughter.

McMlnnVllle Sept. "a. daughter
1t is year like this that shows
up the advantage of careful tilling
of the soil. Tue wei! kept farms
are fair producers, even in unfavor-
able seasons it is certainly indicated
that slip-shod methods should be
set aside and agricultural pursuits
developed toward a scientific basis.
The Oregon Agricultural college
and kindred institutions are doing
much to bring about this desirable
result. The Willamette Valley is
capable of results from the best and
most intense nature. - Albany
Herald.
The city authorities are at present
searching diligently for a pest
house. Chief Lane is securing the
country far and near in quest of a
suitable building that may serve for
the purpose, How successful his
efforts may be still remains to be
seen. 1t is probable that the Hy-
land shack about two miles north
of town will be the place selected.
1t has been used as a pest house be
fore and has the additional advant-
age of being away from the public.
The present pest house ought to be
torn down or thoroughly fumigated
at once as it has been a menace to
the public's health ever since il has
been used for the purpose. 1t is
probable that the next patient will
be put some where else.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-09-09
To Increase Military Force on
Pacific Coast.
Maior-General Macarthur, com

Major General Macarthur, COM
manding the Division of the
Pacific, in his annual report,
made public last Tuesday, re-
commends the establishment of a
new army post in the Willamette
Galley, in Oregon, to accommo-
date one full regiment of cavalry.
This is part of a general plan to
increase the military force on the
Pacific.
General Macarthur says the
the concentration of political
and economical interests in the
Pacific Ocean has enormously
magnifed the military import
ance of the West, and the con
tinued rapid progress of events
suggests the expediency OF an
early enlargement of military
facilities to meet the growing
necessities of the Pacific Coast.
The recommendation with regard
to Oregon, is made with a view
to a full regiment of cavalry
being divided between the Ord
and Presidio barracks and another
regiment of cavalry at the post
above recommended, making two
fnll cavalry regiments for the
Pacific Coast.
General MacArth suggests
that legislative authority be OBJ
tanned to classify as mounted
officers all Captains of infantry
and artillery not now in the
mounted category. He says the
exigencies of modern field work
require so much from a Captain
of infantry that he can not
possibly discharge his duties, if
he has to drag his body through
the exhausting efforts of a long
march, as after such a strain he
is physically incapable of super
vislng the attack formations in
extended order for a service Som
pany of 100 men or more. There
fore, precisely at the moment
when his professional skill is
most needed, he is least effective.
This arrangement would mean a
total increase of pay for the $40
affected of about 1913, 900. .
He closes his report iby saying
it is pleasant to report a con-
siderable decrease in the number
of desertions during the year
just closed, as compared with the
preceding year.
Acting upon the main suggest
ion in General MacArthur's re-
port, concerning the Willamette
valley, the keenest rivalry is sure
to prevail among valley cities as
to the proper location of the Post.
Corvallis, no doubt will come in
for a fair share of consideration,
when it comes to talking over
suitable places to establish this
additional branch of the army
service. Corvallis, we believe
possesses more of the requirments
of suitable location than any
other city in the Valley. Here
there are ample railroad facilities
also a direct opening to the sea,
with steamship lines established
just recently to Coos Bay and
Eureka, California. The Agri-
cultural College is also here where
military training, with the ex-
ception of cavalry work, is re-
quired of all young men. The
establishment of a cavalry post |
here will greatly supplement the
work already begun and we be-
lieve was part of the general
plan when the Agricultural Col
leoe woo ctah1icha1 horo
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-09-09

Sskeol days will soon be here.
Ser Extra good suits flor boys and
@amiiton ,Brown Security school
snk oes for boysaad girls see
NoEAN& CALtiHAN. IS
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-09-09
GOOD ron CONSERVATIVES.
Death rate for consumption the
lowest in the World.

DS0SH I0GS 1OK COUSUmpIl00 tUe
lowest in the World.
DR.. Bennett, of Bellfountain,
Benton county health officer,
filed his annual report with the
county court Wednesday. The
report is very complete and bears
every evidence of having taken
a prodigious amount of labor to
prepare 1t. It shows that Benton
county has good cause for re-
ijoicing In that, while a great
howl may be made. when a case
or two of smallpox appear, never
theless the general health is far
above, the average. The report
of deaths resulting from tuber-
cu;osis or consumption, is partic-
ularly gratifying, as many sup
pose that Oregon weather is a
sure consumption breeder. This
report proves beyond a doubt
that there is no better place on
earth for consumptives than right
here in Oregon.
Report on vital statistics for
Benton comfy for the year end
ing July 81, 1904.
! DEATHS.
Total number reported So.
July shows the lightest returns
with one death, while December,
April show the heaviest list with
seven deaths.
Total number of males 81,
Total number of females II.
The following list shows the
causes OF death.
Valvular disease of heart..... 7
Pneumonia a.................. E
Brights disease e................. d
Entero colitis. s................." 3
Gunshot wound ............... 2
Whooping cough gh.............. 2
Cerebral acknowledgements. 2
lancer. 2
Tuberculosis. s....................
Old age. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I.
Rheumatism ................. I
Pleurisy........ ................... I
Dorsf0+,;t;e
Gangrene......................
Dipht iberia. ..................... I
Gastric ulcer I
Angina Pectoris. ............ %.
Suicide. de....................
Commissions. ................ I
Hemiphlegia. 1.
Miscellaneous S.................. 7
BIRTHS
Total number born in the year
ending July 81, 1904 159.
Total number of males "a
Total number of females IS
Reports of contagious infect
ious diseases covers the time from
Aug. I, 1903 to Dec. 81, 1903.
Total number reported ID
Small pox ...... ......... .........
Scarlet fever. /
Measles...
Diphtheria.. ria.................. -. 6
Typhoid fever..................1 Il
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-09-09

Tuesday the second hand stock
of J. D. Mann & Co., was pur-
chased by Hollenberg & Cady. S.
H. Moore had purchased the build
ing and stock last week but not de-
string to run the business sold to
the above named firm and gave
them lease on the building. Mr..
Mann will probably move to Liberty
near Salem for the present at least
and watch his chances for another
good business opening. The J. D.
Mann & Co.'S house furnishing
establishment has always done an
immense amount of business.
Crockery! Crockery! Crockery!
Balls Mason fruit jars, stone jars,
all kinds of jars from l to 20 GAL
Ions, at Zieroifs'.
Amber & Waters are exhibiting
in Nolan& Callahan's windows The
finest collection of Benton county
views ever displayed in this city.
The collection consists of so very
choice and finely executed views,
neatly mounted in groups. The
views are of residences, farms. stock,
poultry, college and city scenery
covering as nearly as possible the
history of Corvallis and the agricul-
tural industry of Benton county.
The collection which is not yet com.
plete will be taken to the State Fair
at Salem and then tt the Lewis
and Clark exposition.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-08-20

w. A, Coplen, superintendent of the
mining department of the Spokane In
terstate fair, which opens October 8,
was in Northern Washington this week
arranging for exhibits from all the
leading mines of that section which
dif not have displays at the fair last
Year
The conference between the owners
and the representatives of the miners,
members of the United Mineworkers
of America, employed in the mines OPP
Grated by the companies, embracing
Rosslyn, Gle Elum, Ravensdale and
Malmont, Wash, terminated after a
session covering five days. The com
pany entered into an agreement with
the miners for period of one year
Reno, 4,ev.-By the contamination
of deal with the Alta Mining com
pany at Gold HILL every mine, both in
Gold Hill and Virginia City will now
be drained, and thousands upon thous-
ands of tons of ore that are known to
be covered with water. and which have
bSSh tlOOuSu lol years, Will ne ldlu
bare, Old time activity in what have
been two of the greatest mining camps
in the world is promised
The Mountain Lion mine is sending
out some good ore.
High grade ore is being mined at
the depth of 1850 feet in the Great
Boulder mine in the KalgoorIe district,
West Australia, and diamond drill Dor
ings show the presence of ore carry
ing over an ounce of gold to the ton
at the depth of 1920 feet in the Ivan
hoe mine in the same district. Evil
IDENTIFY in this district gold ores do
go down.
Word has been received in Living.
ston that the big fault that was en-
countered in the Cokedale mine nearly
one year ago has been worked through
and the large coal leads reached. More
than 100 coke ovens will be fired at
once and employment will be given to
200 or 300 men. 1t is stated that there
is sufficient coal in sight to keep the
coke plant at Cokedale in operation
! for more than 10 years
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-08-20
British Columbia Notes.

Forest fires are playing havoc all
over the Kootenay
The Nicola Valley coal deposits are
of good coking qualities
The lie Roi experimental works have
closed down and are in course of dis
mantling.
The annual meeting of the Associat-
bia was held at Sandon, B. c., on
Tuesday, August 16.
Sunday the first car of concentrates
from the lie Roi experimental concen-
traitor, two miles this side of Rossland.
was received at the smelter. The lie
Roi now ships II cars of raw ore daily
to the Northport smelter, and three
furnaces are still running.
The annual report and balance sheet
of the Broken Hill Mining & Develop
ment company has just been issued
and shows a good record for the year
Poplar Creek is a district of great
promise as conditions are favorable
for economical mining.
Shipments from mines of the Boun-
Diary, for the past week totaled 4,429
tons; total for year to date 4S4,S00.
CRANKY smelter this week treated II,
SAG tons of ore, or 364,091 tons this
year.
Scarcity of water is now being felt
in Rossland district. The city has am
pie water for domestic and fire pur-
poses and the mines of the city are not
suffering, but at Trail the smelling
works and Rossland Power company's
concentration are already pinched for
water.
John Clancy and II. H. Bishop OF
Chicago have just acquired large in
terest in the Hesperus Gold Mines
company, owning the Bettes and the
Hesperus group on Hardy mountain,
four miles from the CRANKY smelter
In accordance with the terms of it
| 100000 has been appropriated for q
plant and development purposes.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-08-20
PARTOFLOCOMOT|vEBLEWUp
FOUR MEN SEVERELY scALpEp-
ONE FATALLY.
Accident Occurs at Early Morning
Hour Under Shed on Great Northern
Road, Three Miles West of yelling.
ton, Wash ington-Eneine Was Pull.
ing an Extra Freight.

Everett, Wash, Aug, 15-Four men
were severely scalded, one fatally, by
the blowing up of the crown sheet in
the locomotive hauling an extra
freight, at 3 o'clock in the morning on
the Great Northern road, three miles
west of Wellington. The train was east
bound. The injured are:
j. &. Davis, engineer of Leaven-
worth, face, arms and thighs scalded
o. f. Strand. fireman, aged "a, of
Leavenworth, scalded all over except
soles of his feet; will die.
G. II. Craycraft, brakeman of Ever
EFT, face and hands scalded.
J. c, Stein, aged %, machinist of FL
lensburg, hands terribly scalded; also
face and neck. His father lives at Clio
Pennsylvania avenue, Kansas City.
Strand S parents live at Foley, Min
nesota.
All four men are now in the Everett
hospital. The accident happened when
the locomotive was under a sncwshed.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-08-20

from Sprague last Saturday to Seattle
and one car to Spokane.
and will have 21s feet of water at one
end and 61z feet at the other.
The body of the suicide found near
Interplay, Seattle, August s, is now
suspected to be that of Rev. O. A.
Smith the missing clerk of the Seattle
postoffice and pastor of the Madrona
Park church, for whom warrant is
out charging him with robbing the
mails. The man disappeared July Z.
Warden Dryden says that the peni-
Tertiary manufactured and sold 100000
worth of Jute grain bags during July.
A destructive forest fire is raging in
the government forest reserve 10 miles
from Port Angeles and has already de-
stroyed millions of feet of fine timber.
The Great Northern and the Cana
dian Pacific railroads have mixed at
Republic in competition for freight,
and SO far the Canadian Pacific has
carried off the plum. The handling of
live sheep to Chicago caused the dis.
turbance, and the Great Northern has
authorized its agents to quote a rate
of 81 per cwt, with minimum weight
of $4,000 pounds, the same as is quot
ed by the Canadian Pacific.
So large is the fruit crop in the Wal
la Walla valley that shippers will not
attempt to put an estimate upon it.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-08-20
Washouts of Arizona Roads.

Kingman, Ariz.-Heavy rain storms
in this country washed out several
Truxton canyon. Several washouts
east and west of here delayed traffic
many hours. Trains are held up by
washouts in Wallapai valley, where
great floods of water are coming down
from the mountains Much of the Ari-
IONA and Utah railroad track is washed
out and 1t may be week before traffic
is resumed.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-08-20
IDAHO SQUIBS.

The Genesee school board has or
dered levy of 10 mills for school
purposes for the year.
Many Moscow sportsmen are max
ing arrangements to take advantage of
the open bird season which begins in
Idaho on August Is.
The survey of the wagon road to the
st. Joe river from Wallace is COM
pleted. The length of the proposed
road from Wallace to the ST. Joe river
is "a miles.
Forest fires are raging around the
st. Maries country, and section after
section Of fine timber on Thorn creek
is being consumed, the blazing timber
showing plainly from st. Maries
A fierce forest fire is raging in the
Elk Creek Falls country. Settlers in
that vicinity are few and far between,
but the whole country has been arous-
ed and an effort is being made to check
the flames.
The first threshing of the season on
Nez Perez prairie was on the farm of
Alonzo Farmer, five miles southwest
of Nez Perez, where 16 acres of fall
sown grain yielded ITO bushels OF
fine, plump wheat.
At the Lewiston National bank are
three bars of gold bullion from the
Jumbo mine in Buffalo Hump, repre-
senting over $1,000.
Reports from the King of Pine Greek
group, a lew miles from Ware. .er, say
that in tunnei run IT'S feet, five feet
of milling ore has been disclosed at a
depth of so feet.
There was a good attendance of vet
Grams from the northern part of the
state at the annual reunion of the Ida
no veterans of the Spanish-American
war, held at Wardner a few days ago.
The south was represented by a few
members of the association. Boise was
chosen as the next meeting place on
July 10.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-08-20
GREATEST MODERN BATTLE.
Gloom in Russia Over Crushing Blow
to Warships.

to Warships.
Not since the beginning of the war
between Japan and Russia has any
thing SO seriously affected Russian
spirits as the gradual revelation of the
extent of the Port Arthur squadron's
reverse
Captain MatOusevitch makes it clear
that the Port Arthur fight probably
was the greatest battle of ironclads
since steel replaced wood in naval con
struction. The effort of the Russians
TO fight their way through the Japan
ese probably would have been success
full had it not been for the disaster to
the battleship Czarevitvh, which com
PEELED the squadron to fight a second
battle, ending in the dispersal of the
Russian fleet in the darkness.
1t is learned that the awful mortality
among the officers of the Czarovitch
which was merely stated in the official
report, is due to the fact that Admiral
| Withoeft and most of his officers were
gathered on the bridge during the en-
gagement in order to set an example
| for and encourage the men, instead of
remaining in comparative safety in the
coming tower. A Japanese shell burst
beneath the bridge, wrecking that part
of the ship and killing or wounding
every officer on duty Whereabouts.
One of the most important features
of Captain Matousevitch's dispatch.
aside from its grmly brief account of
the battle, is the detailed statement of
the makeup of Rear Admiral Togos
fleet, which consisted of six battle
ships, II cruisers Of various classes
and approximately 80 torpedo boats.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-08-20
MONTANA NOTES.

Lewistown has been excited over the
supposition that firebugs are at work
there.
Looting of a pesthouse is the re-
markable charge against Dick Holland,
of Billings, and every effort is being
made by the authorities to run the man
down.
The union ban has been put on all
the Largey Lumber company's pro-
ducts. as a result of the strike now on
in the firms mills at Occur d'Alene
City, Idaho.
Antoine Korizek, the deputy sheriff
of Helena, shot by Isaac Grayelle, the
Northern Pacific dynamiter who es-
capped from the county Jail, died later.
The dead officer had a wife and three
children.
The Northern Pacific has made
big cut in the rate on cattle from
Montana points to Portland, provided
they are shipped in 10 car lots to one
consignee. The rate made is S13S.04
per car SO feet long.
1t is reported from Anaconda that II.
l.. Frank has been offered 100000
for the Southern cross mine in the
Georgetown district. The vein is a
gold ore, contained in an iron matrix,
making it a very valuable ore for fux-
ing. The vein is over 100 feet wide
and carries between $50 and $40 to the
ton.
Despite the attempt of the Butte
ministers to stop the affair, an alleged
bull fight was held there Sunday after
noon on the fats south of the city. The
animals were not pierced or otherwise
maltreated, the bull fighters using only
a red cloak to irritate the animals. He
avoided their mad rushes by his quick
ness. A small crowd saw the exhiDi-
ton. which was somewhat tame.