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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
WINS WORLDS CHAMPIONSHIP.
Frank A. Gotch of Humboldt Defeats
Wrestler Tom Jenkins.

TIdtlh ~ 1oICIl OI F'ufnuotoI OGiSaIo
Wrestler Tom Jenkins.
In what was probably the hardest
fought wrestling match in the history
of wrestling in this country, F. A.
Gotch of Humboldt, Ia, demonstrated
last week before 5000 people at
Bellingham, Wash. that Ten jenkins
of Cleveland, O., who has retained the
title for six years, is 70 match for
him in fastness or science, although
Gotch's fast work positively caused
jenkins to fppeal to unusual disad-
vantage. At the asd of the first bout
Jenkins seconds had to carry him to
his corner and administer restora-
tives. In tie. second sout, knowing
that he was sure to lose AMI prefer
ring to lose on foul rather than so
down, Jenkins deliberately placed a
strangle-hold on Gotth and when the
Iowa boy got away from him, Jenkins
aim vicious swing at him that, hal
it landed, would have knocked him
out. The referee jumped between the
men, who continued lunging at each
other unit, the ring cleared The
former champion did not seem to be
able to solve Gotch's leg work. and
when he lost the first fall it was after
Gotch had slammed him four times
onto the floor and rendered him help
less. The match was for $500
purse and a $4,000 side bet. Gotch
weighed 100 pounds at the ringside,
and Jenkins 210.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
The Antitoxin Trust.

u
While, as a rule, the Republican
newspapers either openly or covertly
support the trusts. once in awhile the
performances of the trusts are so out
rageous that even Republican organ
grinder kicks against them. The Wash
ington Post recently contained the fol-
lowing caustic article:
If there IL any meaner form of trade
combine than the newly disclosed anti
toxin trust 1t Is yet to be announced.
Having formed syndicate In a manner
to control the manufacture of this rem
cdy, upon which. SO many lives depend
nowadays In the present state of medical
practice. the manipulators have steadily
forced up prices against all law and rea-
son until az was stated here officially yes
terday, the rate for the serum is now 100
per cent above normal There is every
external evidence In the trade price sched.
ules of a combination and no apparent
hope OF relief. The extortion thus prao-
ticed by the trust Of course chiefly touches
the pockets OF the physicians who admin
lister the remedy themselves out Of their
own supplies. but inevitably 1t must in
turn affect the patients. especially the
poorer ones A certain effect of the in
crease in price, however Ia to shock the
sensibilities of every community where
the antitoxin has been used benef1cially.
This Is case Of trusts encroaching upon
the actual right Of the individual to live.
and few more such instances will add
heavily to the popular feeling that some
thing must be done to curb the combina-
lions. This may confidently be classified
among those that President Roosevelt has
styled bad trusts
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Iowa Checker Tournament.

L. w. Sven of Iowa Falls, secretary
Of the state checker tournament, has
issued call for the annual tourna-
ment which will be held for three
days. commencing Feb. %, at the VIII
son house at Webster City. Sittings
will be held all day and evenings, and
Leafs guide will govern all games.
The first two games will be played
with the same opponents, and this will
divide the players into two classes.
the winners and the losers, who will
keep on dividing until two remain who
have not been defeated, and the last
two sittings between the opponents
then chosen will determine who is
champion checker player Of Iowa.
Among the players will be Sawyer of
Traer Kibbie of Gilbert, Millar Of
Bows. Wilson of Webster City, Sven
Of Iowa Falls, and many others.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
rht rEoP1a ARE r1EEcED
Ho@itlSPfstal Frauds Reach Down
INTO the Pockets of the
s-cSss- Voters.

The investigation, of those two emil
nent lawyers, Holmes Conrad and
Charles j. Bonaparte, of the postal scan
dals, expose more rottenness and involve
many much higher in authority than the
legal proceedings indicate. In their re-
port they denounce Perry Heath, the
secretary of the republican national
committee, in immeasured terms, and
say that Charles Emory Smith. ex-post-
master general; Robert Tracewell.
comptroller of the treasury; Henry A.
Castle, auditor for the post Office depart
ment, and the late and present postmas-
ters of Washington, ID. c.. all appear to
have shared in the responsibility for the
acts of the minor officials that have
been indicted. They also say that the
Tulloch charges" have never been
properly investigated. The far-reach-
ing grab game of the minor officials has
been described by the Kansas City Jour-
nal in way that will bring the mat
ter home to the voters:
Whenever within the last ten years
anyone in America mailed letter, the
chances were that he deposited it in q
letter box which was bought by graft,
painted by graft and attached to the
lamp post by graft. He found what time
the letter would be collected by reading
time card put on the letter box by
graft The mailcarrier who took up the
letter, il he lived in the east, perhaps
paid bride to get his job or to get an
increase of salary. The postman placed
the letter in pouch suspended from a
shoulder strap, both of which were sold
to the government by fraud, and carried
it to the post office, where, perhaps.
some favored or mulcted clerk cancelled
the stamp with ink and q machine fraud
ulently foisted upon the post depart
ment. The letter was then bundled up
with other mail matter tied together
with piece of Irvine or leather thong
which the government was swindled in
to buying, and thereupon thrown into a
railroad mail bag; and this bag, its fas-
tener, it's locks, its keys, became public
property by three distinct and separate
gratis. Finally, the laden bag was sent
off to the train according to the time
told out by a peculiar clock, during every
tick of which Uncle Sam was being out
rageously robbed and swindled'
1t might be added that the greatest
graft has not been included, the rail-
roads sayary time wheel goes round
charge Uncle Sam more than twice az
much forHcarrying a pound of mail az
they chargethe express companies. The
postal Oars: even while standing still,
are bringihg, Teht to the railway corpora
lions eqqa1 Each year to double what they
cost toblX; from the car manufactur.
ers. ssTsi ii 81
Yet ahevotars in many states seem tc
approves this era oof looting, and go on
electing' REPRESENTATIVES of the party
whose Morality has departed and whose
slogan Is .'stand pat"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
EarIy Primaries in Polk County

The friends of Judge S. F. Prouty
wen their fight for early congression-
al primaries in Polk county At a
meeting of the Republican county
central committee the date of the
Polk county primaries was fixed for
Feb. 80. The Hull forces had been
working for an April primary on the
ground that it would give time for the
legislature to pass new primary law
which would do away with fraud. The
friends of Prouty won out in the COM
mittee by vote of 80 to II. The
fight for congressional nomination
will now be on in earnest.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Ares Man Arrested,

City Marshal F. w. Wiley arrested
Arthur Fields. formerly Of Ames, on
charge of defrauding a hotelkeeper
and grand larceny. The arrest was
made at the instigation of Chief of
Police Rhodes of Peoria, Ill. Marshal
Wiley received word from Peoria and
was Instructed to watch for Fields,
who was known to be working toward
Ames. Wiley discoveed him in Ames.
Chief of Police Rhodes arrived there
and has gone to Des Moines for requi-
sition papers. Fields declares his in
Aocence Of both charges.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Accused Of passing Bad Checks.

Bruce Darlington was arrested at
Burlington last week, charged with
passing fraudulent checks on Chat
taneega, Tenn, bank Darlington Is
alleged to have operated in st. Louis
under the name of B. A. Cunningham.
claiming to represent firm of San
Antonio, Tex. In his possession were
found checks on a number Of banks,
including the American National Bank
Of Eeadwood, S. D.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Democrats of Iowa.

Democratic central committee, has is
sued call for meeting of the state
central committee to be held in Des
Moines Feb. 10, for the purpose of fix
ing the time and the place for the
holding of the state convention to
select delegates to the national con-
vention. The fight is on among the
Hearst Democrats and the anti-Hearst
Democrats to control the convention.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Would Investigate Merriam.

Representative Geneva of Keokuk
county has offered a resolution in the
house proposing an investigation of
ex-Auditor Merriam's conduct while in
Office, The resolution is the outcome
of Governor Cummins' biennial mes
sage, a portion of the message having
made pointed reference to alleged ir-
regularities in the collection of fees
from insurance companies.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Grants a Third Trial.

The supreme court has granted a
third trial in one Of the biggest cases
ever brought In Polk county. 1t has
reversed Judge Bishop of the supreme
bench, who sat on the district bench
on the second trial Of the case of Mrs.
Il. ]. Root. who sued the Des Moines
Street Railway company for $4,000
damages for injuries received while
alighting from street car. On,the
first trial she secured $4,000 and on
the second $4,000,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Wife suceumbs to Wounds.

After lingering near death for over
ten weeks with her spinal cord sever
ed and the entire lower portion of her
body paralyzed Mrs. Anna Dunn, the
victim of her insane husbands rage,
died at the st. Joseph's hospital in
Sioux City. On Nov. Is last James
Dunn, Respondent over separation
from his wife, enticed her into a room
apart from all assistance and DELHI
erately shot her twice through the
body. Then he put bullet through
his own heart, dying instantly
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
COLLEGE DESTROYED.

Fire last week totally destroyed the
Waterloo Commercial college. 1t was
with great difficulty that the flames
were confined to the main building.
Firemen fought the flames for five
hours. John Morrill,, fireman. was
found nearly dead lying on the top Of
nearby building, where he had been
operating hose. Great difficulty was
experienced in restoring him to life.
The total loss amounts to 100000;
partially covered by insurance.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Heir to Millions.

Sister Philomena, the mother SUI
perior of Mercy hospital of Des
Moines, finds herself the heir of an
estate valued at $15,OoO,000. The es-
tate is that Of her uncle, who died in
Australia ten years ago. His name
was John Mccormick, and his home
at Melbourne. He owned several gold
mines. sheep ranches and other valu-
able property. Two brothers and two
sisters at Davenport will inherit the
fortune with Sister Philomena.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Miners Killed by EXPLOSION,

John Stevens and Alex Carbon, shot
eral others injured in a mine explp-
sion at Fostoria last week. The ex-
plosion was caused by windy shot
A searching party could not reach the
men for an hour and when the bodies
were found the damp arms of Carr
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Arguments in BIydenaurah Trial.

All of the testimony in the BlyGen-
burgh murder case at Eldora has been
introduced, rebnttal has been finished,
and at the time of adjournment Sat
urday night Judge Bowersox was max
Ing the opening argument for the
state to the jury. Witnesses for the
state in rebuttal testified in denial of
most of the statements made by the
defense, and claimed Blydenburghs
children told neighbors the accused
man prepared the dinner the day Mrs.
Blydenburgh was taken sick.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Manufacturers Insurance.

The Iowa State Manufacturers as
sociatioh in session at Des Moines has
adopted scheme for mutual insurance
to be worked out later. The associa-
ton also recommended to the legis
lature the passage of the bulk sale
law to prevent sale Of merchandise
In bulk to defraud,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Police CAPTAIN Convicted.

A jury in the district court at Sioux
City Saturday night returned a yer.
dict Of guilty against Police Captain
Edwin Anderson on charge Of &C:
ceptlng BRIGGS from an owner of slot
machines. ]. Fl. Bigelow, the prose-
cutisg witness, claimed to have paid
And erson $1,254.75.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
PRESS COMMENTS.

s@@GAaaeas friends at leas,
seem positive that he will not make any
of those familiar feints at retiring from
politics. hjggtan Star.
Ra2rY4 4eatk's friends are wonder.
ing whatt,abeIis na,to do without po'
litical fuhturle1iiJ bit PIT It's remarkable how
people can do without things when they
h hamto "a III = 81 Tstaer: 'nsn-Ds
TTResSfHsp affee a Evidences that the re.
publicans in congress intend to have
post Office INVESTIGATION of their own, SO
as to reduce :as fihhti as possible this
dividends ,on@the: democrats political
capital News Qnd.).
YHere can. be lnosdoubt that the re.
publican paniKI pr.airhspaetable element
in it, is sore on Roosevelt and his spec.
tacular s n et lhafnlqt, Many conservative
men in the. party, rdsvpntly wish they
might be happily rrii;dh II him, but, like
the man holding the bear by the tail
they area affaidTe tarniB .-Augusts
Chronie1h. i;a1utoi 9d OF
with Hahrih and his friends in op.
positionp will ppu Adoseveit's nomina.
ton in 1904 become not only an uncer-
tainty,, but Of ydqu htfugy practicability
from party point Of view? Events
wes 4 q g5 s. sbse egis o ca tn
loose from both Roosevelt and Hanna
a aeati tas sfa sS IS s er ta.
happen, the leaders will probably be
compelled to taFFH. to speake Cannon as
the man to put at the head of their ticket.
Mr.. Cannon is free from any of the en-
Han Hanna "a, asdt !. j " a.-Hart-
There are SO many complications
In the republican politics of New York
that it must be difficult for even so OBJ
serving bgYfH H3iq4fsa5 Roosevelt
TO determine who are his real friends
and who dDngst. Utanintoslties In
the great commercial and financial cen
ter are endurtm lie tile state should be
overwhelmed by the west in the repub-
lican national convention,S 1t cdoes not
follow that the New Workers are going
to succumb and be good. They are
"businesss men. and they have not much
fidelity Soi party when material Interests
are cerned.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Spain is evidently in the fortunate
position of man who has lifted large
aop maa tgss5s4fsa 1 hs'
troubles to the United States. America
paid her a bonus of $4,000 00osto as
sumo the varied obligations incident to
managing the goyeYaiaissIsreltSoua
and business affairs of the Philippines
and already the general bill Of direct anl
sasss ssss SladiN ggs1it!s. aas.
imperialists were right When they said
that our government had trpgbles
enough of its own without assuming
those Of other countries. Boston Globe,
aswhr.lraI A1nsd.ssG
i s.. nj ss fly. tsl: sss I'll
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Oldest Engineer Dead.

Philip Howes, pioneer North
western railway engineer, is dead at
Clinton, aged seventy-four. He brought
the first Northwestern train across
the Mississippi on track laid on the
ice in 1859.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Major Sherman Dead,

Major Hoyt Sherman, aged seventy
seven, is dead of pneumonia at Des
Moines. He was a brother of General
w. T. Sherman and Former Secretary
of State John Sherman, and q pioneer
of Des Moines, a banker and the first
postmaster. He had been i'll for some
time.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
why lie was Alarrneu,

wedderly-I say, doctor. l wish you
would drop in and see my wife some
time to-day. I'm afraid she is going g
have brain trouble,
DR.. Mixem-Why do you think that7
Wedderly-B Because upon her return
from church last Sunday she actually
repeated the text, and never said
word about what the other women had
on.-Cipcinnati Enquirer,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Pioneer Passes AWAY,

Joseph X. Hemphill. one of John.
son county's pioneer settlers and a
prominent stockman and politician,
died at his home near Ceralville last
week. Mr.. Hemphill was eighty years
old. He settled in Johnson county in
1912.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Both in a BAD Way,

Judging from some of the lugubrious
dispatches from Washington. says the
Detroit Free Press, both the republican
and democratic parties are so hopeless
ly divided that neither has ghost of
9 chance to elect q president In 1904,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Peach Buds Killed by Cold,

Peach buds around Burlington are
said to have been killed by the se-
we're weather of last week. 1t was
fourteen below zero Friday morning.
Snow afforded ample protection to
grain.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
snub For Miles, Praise For Young.

The long and rather fulsome eulogy
that distinguished the order of the sec
rotary Of war retiring Lieutenant Gen
eral Young from active service is chief
ly notable because Of the sharp con-
trast 1t bears to the curt order retiring
Lieutenant General Miles few months
ago, says the Springfield (N1ass.) Re-
publican. There is nothing too good to
say about General Young, it appears,
and certainly every one will join in
congratulating him upon the honorable
completion Of so meritorious a military
career. 1t is clear, however, that by re-
viying the old form of the retiring or
der tina president and his war secre-
tary are very willing the country
should know that the absence of any
such order in General Miles case was
an intended rebuff, slight or snub to
that celebrated officer. The excuse Of
fered by the war department when
General Miles was retired that orders
reeltlng the officers military career
were no longer allowable under the
military regulations is shown to have
been mere pretense.
In speaking of the recent indictments
against United States Senators Dietrich
of Nebraska and Burton of Kansas the
Philadelphia Inquirer says, Nov. we
are sorry that from the former Popu-
list center of the country should come
two such indictments Of senator's"
That is an unfair attempt, utterly I'M
worthy of the Inquirer, to make it APP
pear that in some way the Populists
are responsible for the election Of Die
trich and Burton. Nobody has constitut-
ed me the spiritual, legal or political
adviser or defender of the Populists.
but surcly~it is cruelty unjust to try
to make them the scapegoats for Die
trich and Burton, whom they stroye to
the utmost to defeat. Those two sen
ators are rampant Republicans. The
Inquirer is rampant Republican or
gan, and 1t ought to have grace enough
to shoulder the responsibility for its
own public men. Every tub should
stand on Its own bottom,
...-- i 3En9sic :iuA =.
Hon. william n: Taft late governor
geneEal of athe philippines. now seprer
StaRy lot war, comes intoshis new office
With a blaze ;ofs glepyt He will be for!
tunate. indeed AZ he goes 4out in the
same way. He has been, playing. ,ii,n
great luck all his life. state Judge,
"a federal judge, governor general Of
y theI philippines anaysedlstarH Gf Mdt-
& ~ wAileshe-s Still inj ths,prime sdfiitfe.
Tho future must mukst0sy % M 40.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
Norman Dies From Burns.

Mrs. Robert Hoffman, aged forty
seven, died at Clinton from burns
caused by lighting a fire with kero-
sene. Her clothing was burned off
her body and her flesh was charred
black
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
An Innovation.

The latest scientific invention, it is an
neunced, is an engine that can walk,
Travellers on certain railway lines hope
that this will now take the place of en-,
zines that can only crawl,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
one MANS Meat, Another MANS I,oiso

One Mans Meat. Another sIan's I,oixop
Some men are born lucky. remarks
the New York World. Wl..e most of
pr. Wylie's poison squad are laid up
from too steady diet of food con.
tanning salieylic acid, one member finds
that the drug has cured his rheuma-
tism. 9
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05

The odoriferous political linen Of the
Delaware Republicans is liable to have
another airing in the Chicago conven-
ton in June 1t is now given out that
there will be an Addicks and an anti
Addicks delegation to the convention.
1t is to be hoped that General James
H. Wilson will be given an hour to
skin Addicks and that some Addicks
man will be given an hour to skin Cen
eral Wilson.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
II # II II # II !

-~>ssss " ally pOsSluNlty Outliuh lAS
speaker. He admitted that possibly a
vice president might 90 so, but a presi-
dent pro tem.-never!
am not well acquainted with any
member of the supreme court except
Mr.. Justice Harlan. He is blessed with
q rich sense of h,lmor. That will per-
haps save him from worrying himself
into insomnia in the present imbroglio
No doubt lie is honestly indignant, but
nevertheless the chances are that he
will get good deal of fun out of the
rumpus by joking his brother associ-
ates who are lacking in the humorous
faculty.
As to Coal.
The other day the Hon. John S. Will
Hams of Mississippi introduced the fol-
lowing bill, which went to the COM
mittee on ways and means, of which
both lie and are members:
BE it enacted by the senate and house
Of representatives of the United States Of
secretary of the treasury be and he is
hereby authorized and required to make
full rebate of duties imposed by law on all
coal Of every form and description i'm
ported into the United States from foreign
countries for the period of one year from
and after the passage of this act.
As soon rs it was called up in the
committee 1t was promptly tabled on
the motion OF General Charles Henry
Grosvenor of Ohio, which shows that
the Republicans are dead set against
any cutting down of the tariff except
when they are badly scared and wish
to throw tub to the whale. 1t will be
remembered that little over year
ago congress passed resolution like
Williams, to be effective for a year,
but that was when the anthracite coal
trust had cnraged people greatly. That
suspension ran out few days ago,
and Williams bill was intended to
make it effective for twelve months
more, but the Republicans would
none Of it. Williams also has n bill
pending to put coal OH the free list per.
manently, but it will go the same way.
have bills pending to put salt, barb
wire, binder Irvine and a few other
prime necessities on the free list, but /
have no doubt they will travel the
same route.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-05
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