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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-07-29

The treasury department at Washing
ton has published figures showing the
status of the revenue at the end of the
fiscal year, which expired June 30, 1904,
and which discloses a deficit of more
than S41,0O0O00. This has already stim-
ulated great deal of speculation as to
whether congress is likely to consider it
necessary to undertake any tariff or rev.
enue legislation in the Immediate future.
The loss in customs receipts during the
fiscal year occurred early in the year,
while for the month of June the collec-
tions exceeded those of the correspond
ing month of the year previous by about
100000. It is question as to whether
the presidential campaign and the un-
certainties Of the coming election will
this year serve to curtail the national in
come for customs. Past experiences,
however, indicate that no material in
crease can be reasonably expected before
next December. Experts of the customs
division have been making some inter
esting calculations regarding the result
of the Cuban Reciprocity Treaty. The
reduction in duty on raw sugar is put
at approximately, S10,000,00O, and OH leaf
tobacco cigars, ETC., So, 10000, making a
total of S12 150,O0 representing the 70
per cent reduction on Cuban products.
It appears that the cash balance in the
treasury is sufficiently large, and that
there will therefore be be no occasion for
special legislation relating to revenue in
the near future.
~
Milwaukee is the latest field to be ex-
plotted by the United Cigar Stores Com
pany. It has been known for some time
that such move was contemplated, but
it was not known when it would be con-
summated. A store in the heart OF the
business district has been acquired, and
other stores are under consideration. AS
soon as additional stores are opened, a
jobbing depot will be established.
Although tobacco growing IN Mexico
does not rank in Importance with some
of its other agricultural pursuits, it is,
none the less, very considerable indus
try. The total annual production
amounts to 100000 arrobas, or some
%, 100000 pounds, raised in nine districts.
The only tobacco that is in demand for
export purposes is that of San Andres
Tuxtla, of which about 80 per cent is
shipped to Antwerp, Hamburg and
Bremen, but, as the land on which the
crop is cultivated is limited, the produc-
tion can not be increased to any mater
ial extent.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-07-29
New YORK, July 20, 1904.

A continuation of the stagnant con-
ditions prevail in domestic goods, with
the possible exception of new Connect
cut Broad leaf, for which a fairly good
demand continues. The demand for ex-
port tobacco is almost nil
Sumatra.-While there is a healthy
tone of enquiry, actual sales have be-
come reduced to nominal proportions.
Havana.-So far as sales are concerned
Remedies alone are worth mention. AS
to the Cuban new crop, the heavy style
goods of the Vuelta Abaio or Remedies
are too early to trade in to any extent,
as they need more time for curing in the
bale. The prices of the latter will rule
very high this year, owing to the ex-
treme figures paid by the packers. Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-07-29

LOOK here, my digruntled subscriber,
don't think for moment, when you are
disturbed and get mad at something
that appears in newspaper, that the
editor has the heart failure because you
are so unwise as to stop your paper. He
isn't built that way. A paper that says
things expects to rub some one the
wrong way occasionally as the circum-
stances demand. Honestly, now the
scribe would be surprised if in every po-
litical campaign some subscriber didn't
get his dander up and order the "dirty.
slanderous sheet stopped" This is one
of the vicissitudes of newspaper man,
and he has come to expect it and would
be disappointed if he wasn't ordered to
discontinue. But somehow the paper is
issued every week as usual. And there
are others who take the places OF the
lost ones. Such is life.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-07-29
y ew York.
NEW YORK, July %, 1904.

The market passed quiet week. New
ertheless business was not altogether
stagnant. Some trading is going on in
old stocks of domestic leaf of the binder
and filler variety and there is rather
more than an average demand for Su-
matra. It is hardly expected that the
supply of Sumatra will be increased to
any considerable extent from the fall in
scriptions, as there is we'll nigh general
conviction that all the suitable leaf for
the American market was offered already
at the earlier inscriptions. The Havana
market remains quiet.-Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-07-29
BRooKF1ELD. Ono, july 90. 1904.

Darke, Prebel, Miami and Montgom.
cry counties have never had better pros
poets for good crop of tobacco and corn
and an early crop, and he largest crop
Obi has ever had, divided as follows:
60 per cent Zimmers, 80 per cent Seed
leaf, 10 per cent Little Dutch. About 40
per cent of the 1908 crop is still in fam
ers' hands, OF Zimmers; Seed and Little
Dutch all bought up-is moving slow at
Gaze to SC. round.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-07-29
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES

The July bulletin issued by the Agri-
cultural department shows decrease of
acreage in the cigar leaf states averaging
close to II per cent. New York and Wis
consin head the list with the largest re-
ductions, the former growing SO and the
latter 79 per cent of last seasons acre
age. The average condition of the crop
on that date is given at 80 per cent of
the normal, though we are inclined to
believe that the figures shown for Wis
consin, Sc, do not give the true condition.
No crop in some years apparently had
better showing July 1st than that just
placed in the fields in this state. Up to
the beginning of the late hot spell tobac-
CO never seemed to look more promising.
The hot, dry weather since has begun to
show pinching effects in some localities
and send the most forward fields toward
an early budding which is not desirable
Tobacco, however, is standing up under
the drouth much better than almost any
other crop upon the farm.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-07-29

The report that hail has visited a sec
tion of the Connecticut valley calls to
mind that the season of disastrous hail
storms is again at hand when the tobac-
CO growers are more or less at the mercy
of the elements. No tobacco crop of this
state ever escaped complete immunity
from hail, and statistics extending
through series of years go to show
that nearly one quarter of every crop
suffers to some extent from hail storms.
Tobacco growers fully understand the
dangers this crop is subject to and have
become accustomed to discount the
chances they are taking, but it is SO rare
that the crop suffers total loss from
hail that they go along year after year
trusting they will escape altogether.
They we'll know that sooner or later such
storms will overtake their crop, but they
live in hope that the present season may
be an exception. After ALL severe hail
storm does almost as much damage to
other farm crops exposed as it does to
their tobacco field-the difference is not
so great as most people imagine.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-07-29

In the opinion of the New York Leaf
the agricultural department at Washing
ton would do tobacco growers a great
service if they could discover some eff
Despite our advances in the art of kill
ing noxious insects, these foes Of tobacco
leaf keep up their destructive career.
When one year they decrease, they more
than make up for it the following sea-
son. The plague is another illustration
of the criminal folly of allowing the
wholesale slaughter of wild birds. These
would serve as check on the cutworm,
and all other insect life, were they per-
mitted to live. But the small boy and
the idiotic grown-up with the shotgun
have pretty we'll decimated our feather
ed police.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-10-28

Miller Weir, OF Washington. d. C.,
National Bank examiner. is In Santa
Fe on Official business with the First
National bank.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-09
Miss Nellie v. Walker, Noted Iowa Girl
and Artist, Risks Life i'm Des Moines
Capitol Fire to Save, Clay Bust
of Governor Cummins.

men were in doubt as to whether or
not any part of the capitol could be
saved. Miss Walker, all unobserved.
was pacing the floor in nervous anxi,
ETY. for the safety of that which meant
to her the ambition of year and the
work of weeks.
Happily when she returned after the
smoke had cleared away, she found
that the only harm done was discolor-
ing the surface of the model by reason
of the smoke. No part Of the fire had
touched her studio.
80, if l only had this attic for a
studio" said Miss Walker, as she
worked at her clay. The attic is light
ed by a skylight nearly fifty feet above
the floor. 1t is an ideal place for an
artist to work.
After the fire when Miss Walker re-
allied what it all meant to Governor
Cummins with the responsibility OF a
legislative session and a fire in the
state house all at once she generously
proposed to him that she would sac
rifice her work and leave it incomplete
in order that he might not give any
more time to the sittings necessary for
her to finish.
Governor Was Willing.
NO. said the governor, 81 will give
you the time as / promised. l know
am overwhelmed with work but the
hour that give. you in the quiet Of
your studio is merely relaxation. Per-
haps it is just what need at this
time''
And SO the work was finished. Few
there were who knew that between see
ing the scores of visitors and writing
a message and an inaugural address
preparatory to the session, and attend
| ing to thousand matters connected
| with the repair after the fire, Governor
Cummins each day found time for an
hour in the attic of the capitol posing
for the skillful little artist.
Miss Walker is an Iowa girl
to be proud of. q 1t was in
Moulton, Davis county, where
she first discovered that her hands
were made for nobler purposes than
| fashioning mud pies. About four years
ago she went to Chicago and began
study under dorado Taft. Today she
| is one of his teachers in the Art Insti-
| tute. She is petite little body, thor
oughly devoted to her art, wholly un-
conscious of herself and her whole per-
son is animated with ambition. She
sent to Philadelphia, a bust of Dr.W.G
Walker Of Ottumwa, an uncle and it
is on exhibition at the Academy Of
Fine Arts. She is already famous for
the beauty of the hands she fashions
i for her art work. 1t was with great
joy she left for Chicago taking her
clay model with her. She was high in
her praise of the courtesy and kind
ness of the governor, and those who
caught glimpses of her work as she
u proceeded felt that she had done
!, something for which she should be
given great credit.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-09

W. B. Bonnifield, whose open letter
McElroy is published in this issue, is
wa. His life story, however, is one
which but few who meet him in bust
ness life, know, and it adds to the in
terest the public will take in his arti-
Gle published herewith, in which his
original views on what religion should
be and should mean, will be valued
the more if the story of his life with
its early struggles, ending in reverses
and successes, is known.
Born in Virginia.
Mr.. Bonnifield was born in Randolph
county, Virginia, February %, 1927,
and moved with his parents to Jeffer
son county, Iowa, in the spring of 1887
where they settled on a farm nine
miles east of Fairfield. There both of
his parents died in the spring of 1S41,
leaving a large family of children. w.
B. remained on the farm till1S47, at
tending school in the winter months in
a log school house which had CREASED
papers in the windows in place of
glass. In 1S47 he and his twofyounger
UTOIuGIS WSuL W sllS lOWd wesley oil
University at Mt. Pleasant, and re-
NAMED there one and one-half years.
From there they went to Allegheny
college in Meadville, Pa, in 1S49.
There was at that time but one rail
road east of Chicago, the Michigan
Southern, by which transportation
could be secured. The fare was more
expensive by, railroad than by steam
boat so the footsore boys who had
walked practically all the way from
their Iowa home to Chicago took trans
portation by way of the lakes to Erie,
forty miles from Allegheny college.
At Cleveland they abandoned the
steamer and started on ninety mile
tramp to Meadville.
They remained in college for two
and one-half years until their money
was practically exhausted. w. B.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-09
ROOsEVELTS JACKSONIAN FRIENDS.

to go far to seek. Jackson had all
ways been very near to the people all
his days, and he always took the peo-
pie rather than the politicians into his
confidence when he was president. The
people knew that Jackson was not
great constitutional lawyer; they
knew that he was at times an inn
petuous and imprudent executive, but
they knew. too, that he was absolutely
trustworthy in all matters that con-
Cerned the safety of the union and the
honor of the American flag. They
knew that he had called France to
Quick account; they knew that he had
strangled notification; they knew that
ne was totally without fear and en-
tirely above sordid appeal to political
self-interest They knew that Jack
son sometimes said imprudent things;
that he sometimes did things that had
better been left undone; but the abb
solute personal trustworthiness of the
man in all great things goes far to
explain the extraordinary and invin-
chile strength of Andrew Jackson with
the people.
The same qualities reside largely In
President Roosevelt and explain his as
tonishing personal strength with the
people. The people feel that they know
him, for he has always taken them into
his confidence as completely as Jackson
was WIN " w, lHe people KNOW lQdC
ne is man of patriotic courage, who
would die for the flag fearlessly if
death for the flag was part of his
duty they know that he is a man
of veracity, of honor, of clean personal
life, democratic manners and temper.
They know he is a man of action, a
man of sympathetic heart for the
wrongs of labor; they know that Wall
street holds no first mortgage upon
administration
people know all this they will renom-
mate and re-elect him next year in a
canter. Against this popular conf
dence how feeble is the microscopic
criticism of the democracy, who pre-
tend that prudent business men are
scared and conservative men would
prefer a safer man at the helm" The
only business men" who are scared,
the only conservative men, who want
another pilot, are the Morgans and
other trust interests, now said to be
personally hostile to Roosevelt.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-09

Bonnifield then went to Kentucky and
taught school for a term of five
months. He was induced to stay an
then, still another term, SO that in all
he stayed two years.
Went to California.
At this time the California gold fe-
yer was at it's height. In 1853 in COM
pany with his four brothers Mr.. Bon
nifeld crossed the plains and the
mountains with an OK team. He fol-
lowed mining and stock raising in Cal
ifornia until 1860, when he returned
east and located in Ottumwa. He re-
turned from California with more mon
ey than he took there with him and
was enabled to engage in private bank
ing business in Ottumwa with two of
his brothers, under the firm name of
Bonnifield Bros.
A Pioneer Banker.
He continued this company until
October 1863 when after the passage
of the national bank law, he organic.
ed the First National bank of Ottum,
wa with a capital of 100000. This
bank was No. 107, and was the first
national bank west of the Mississippi
river. He was it's first cashier and
George Gillaspy was it's first president
Within the first year Mr. Bonnifield
was made president and has since
continued in that capacity with the
exception of two years, during which
James Hawley, served as president.
Mr.. Bonnifeld was president and
treasurer of the Iowa Central Coal Co.
at Oskaloosa for one year and was
treasurer of the st. Louis and Cedar
Rapids Railroad Co. for six years until
it was sold to the Milwaukee company
He was one of the promoters of the
Ottumwa Water Power Co., and serv
ed as it's president for eight years HI
is member of the First Methods
Episcopal church of this city.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-09

One of the untold stories of the re-
cent great fire in the Iowa state CAPT
tol relates to Miss Nellie v. Walker, of
tute, a former Ottumwa girl, and a
graduate of the Ottumwa Commercial
College. Miss Walker is the daughter
of DR.. and Mrs. Everett Walker, who
at present reside in Moulton. She is
the granddaughter of Mrs. Abigail b..
Walker, 203 South Moore street,
and niece of DR.. w. G. Walker, 524
South Ransom street
Miss Walker has been absent from
Ottunwa but little over five years,
but in that time she has won for her
self fame and a secure standing
among the best artists of the country
by the wonderful dexterity with which
her hands fashion the plastic clay into
true, realistic and lifelike models.
1t was while making a clay model of
the bust and head of the Iowa chief
executive that the great fire which
threatened to destroy the capitol build
ing, the pride of the state, broke out,
and the brave girl, to save the model
which she felt is to be her master
plCCS, ldpSu tllS SlllOAC anu i1elAiS,
and went where no man dared to fol
low ler.
Far up in the brightly lighted attic
over the senate chamber a studio was
improvised and here for several
weeks Miss Nellie. V. Walker of Chi.
cago had been engaged in her work
Her deft fingers fashioned in clay the
image of the Iowa governor. A few
days ago she took the result of her
work to Chicago and entered it in the
Chicago Art Institute for exhibition
and competition.
But on the day when fire broke out
in the capitol the clay model was in
complete. Miss Walker was busy at
her work when a Whit of smoke. was
carried to her high studio through an
air duct leading past the big dome. In
alarm she hurried down the long
winding stairway to the library fool
there to find that men were already
laying long lines of hose into the house
chamber which was filed with smoke
She saw quickly that the fire was al
the other end of the capitol and for g
time rested undisturbed. But present
ly the fire crept toward the center d
the building and Miss Walker became
alarmed lest the whole capitol SHOULD
| burn and with it her improvised stu
dio with it's precious piece Of clay.
No Man Would Go.
Twill not some man go with me t.
the attic,' she cried, land bring dow
my clay model?"
But no man was willing to take tn,
risk. Miss Walker went back to tn
attic alone and feeling her way anon,
the steel Orders and over heaps o
rubbish and through the smoke sh
covered her work with a heavy cloth
She barely had breath to get back t
the stairway and down again wher
the fire was raging. And during tn
time when the state officials and fire
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-09

the faith of the church. He sends
thought across the ocean and from
continent to continent, without any
support except the air he made.
God gives us the great photograph
to illustrate how thoughts, good or
bad, are to be transferred to the great
cylinder of time, to be reeled off in
the Judgment day. the good thoughts
to bless. and the bad to condemn.
But to the question: what shall we
do?" With all due Difference, I would
respectfully and kindly say to the
preachers of Ottumwa, get back on
praying ground. Preach the gospel of
ethics III material things; the gospel
and power of thought. that will lead
to Christly deeds, that will not be so
attenuated as to permit any member
OF the OttumWa churches to petition
the city authorities to remove restric-
lions and let the promotion of the
Kingdom of Satan. Come in on
ground intended to be dedicated to
the beauty of flowers and the advance
ment OF the kingdom of Cod
Ihls was petitioned for by some
members of Otturnwa churches. The
prayer of petition was readily granted,
so we have today, the promotion of
1919 80 viz vi lin IlotUlt,s HlSledu Ol the
promotion of the kingdom of heaven
that we could have had on this ground
without money and without price. This
is called liberal Christianity the COM
mercialism that brings business to OF
tumWa.
Even the faith of the Mormon church
is an autocracy in one good thing lat
least, with such weight that no pro-
motion of the saloon is asked for in
the Mormon country.
Get back on praying ground" so
that our prayers for the saving of our
boys and girls from the influence of
the saloon will rise higher than our
heads. The pangs of parental sorrow
caused by the debauchery of the sa-
loon. is more heart-rending than the
Chicago fire horrors. and is being null
tiplted all over this land day by day.
Ottumwa is sharing largely in this
sorrow and will continue to reap what
we SOW until we get right on the sa-
loon question.
The question, What shall we do,''
is to the church We know what the
world has done and will continue to
do to the end of time. The command
is to come out from the world. the
flesh and the devil.'
The church should preach and seek
the lettering of material life and
the spiritual life will be all right.
1t would be without politics or pol
icy. in dealing with any material
wrong, after Setting its heart, mind
desire and ideal for the good, for
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-09

Portland Oregonian.-The anniver-
sary of Jackson's great victory at
New Orleans recalls the fact that the
salient qualities OF President Roose-
Welt, upon which rest his popular
strength and which inspire the high
est confidence in his denomination and
reelection, are Identical with those of
jackson. Jackson's energy and head
long courage in war first designated
him for political honors. Roosevelt's
oashing leadership at San Juan hill
made him governor of New York and
vice president. jackson owed the
politicians little for his first election
to the presidency; his extraordinary
energy and daring, his picturesque
voting masses of the country in spite
of all opposition. During his first term
of office he bitterly quarreled with
some of the ableSt men of his party,
but he was triumphantly reelected;
during his second term he was equally
independent of the leading men of his
party, but he was nevertheless so pop
ular that he declined a third nomina-
ton at 20 years of age. when he was
the idol of the nation, despite the fact
thot he made many mistakes of judg-
ment and not seldom INDUCED in
speech of passionate indignation.
Why was Jackson SO invincibly pop
ular in face of the bitterest opposition
of the ablest men of both parties? His
strength resided in the patriotic mag
netism that attracted the great body
Of people to him. He, was not a Still
man, but he was certainly a strong
man; he was absolutely truthful; his
public and private integrity and his
personal morals We're without stain;
he was utterly fearless, and so en-
tirely frank that his enemies knew
what he was going to do as quick as
his friends. The heroic element in
Jackson's character impressed itself on
the popular mind and his patriotism
was not limited by section or state
The most distinguished democratic
leaders in the nation opposed many OF
the measures recommended by jack
son, but from first to last the people
We're loyal and faithful to him.
The reason of Jackson's popularity
in, face of the opposition of the poll
ticians of his party we do not need