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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
May Festival Programme Out,

The sixth annual May music festival
OF Cornell college, at Mount Vernon,
Ia, will be held under the auspices OF
the college conservatory Of music May
26, ~ and %. Five grand concerts
will be presented, commencing on
Thursday evening.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
Swept By Fire.

Fire OF incendiary origin at Charlton
damaged all the buildings on two sides
of the public square last week, the to-.
tai loss being about $4,000. Two men
who were caught stealing goods from
one OF the burned stores are held on
suspicion Of being the firebugs. The
fire broke out in an empty store build
Ing near the city hall.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
Member of Illustrlous Family Dead

Member of IlIustrious Family Dead.
"one, two, three" Raising himself
to his elbow and slowly but painfully
breathing his last breaths, DR.. Crakye
Priestly. a great-great-grandso Of DR..
Joseph Priestly of England. discoyerer
Of oxygen, with seemingly studied en-
phasis counted time against pneumo-
MIA death at Des Moines. AS he faint
ly whispered three" he gasped. his
muscles relaxed and he fell back dead
DIR. Priestly was one of an unbroke,
line of physicians of more than or
binary distinction since the days of
the great London physician. His faith
er, James Taggart Priestly, survives
him. Young Priestly became afflicted
with pneumonia few days ago. He
grew rapidly worse, but rallied and
was thought to be improved. Sudden
~ he became worse and messages
were dispatched for friends who came
in time to see the young physician
, count himself out.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
c HICAGO GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY

T1me-Card for EIms, Iowa.
In Effect Jan. 3, 1908.
SOUTH BOUND
Leave for Arr. from
Dubuque, chicago 12:20a. IN. 3:1O D. m.
and points East. 4:ss a. m. s:zs p. m
Des Moines, Kansas 12:eOa. m. s:14a. m,
ClIy ana tne South 1888 a. m. 1886 q. m,
"esC. 2f4 p. m. 3:l0p. m.
NORTH BOUND,
st. Paul. Minneapo- 3:14a.m. 1e.eoa m
apOhs and the S:38 a. m 4.a8 a m M
Northwest, 3:lO n. M 1e.Is n ~ N
5:46 p. m. 2:45 I'm.
All Trains Daily.
w. E. DUNKLEE. Agent.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20

Of wisdom by nominating Senator
Cockrell Of Missouri. The prevalent
idea that we must go to New York for
candidate seems to have stirred up
the denizens of that state to an un-
usual degree. Besides Parker and
Hearst who are avowed candidates,
it is generally supposed that Mr.. Muir
ply has Mayor George B. Mcclellan
In training for the place. There are
those who believe that David Bennett
Hill would not throw a nomination
over his shoulder If he could get one.
1t is suggested that there is still an
other New Yorker of renown who
measures up to the presidential stature
and who might be sprung on the con-
vention at an opportune time and
might get away with the nomination.
This is ex-senator Charles A. Towne,
formerly Of Minnesota, now Tam
many brave. He is one of the most
with the place. He is clean man,
and everybody who knows him knows
him favorably. The convention might
go further and fare worse than to take
Towne, but If New York candidates
keep on developing every New Yorker
will have candidate Of his own They
pop up like mushrooms in damp eel
lar, but the very numerousness of the
New York candidates may defeat them
all.
The recent mental activities Of GER
tain eX-New Yorker nameless here
forever more, would seem to indicate
that he would not object to nominal
ton himself. So, on the whole, the
presidential situation is as uncertain
now, so far as the Democrats are con-
cerned, as 1t was six months ago. The
greatest complication, of course, grows
out of the two-thirds rule. The reason
of the rule is gone long ago, and the
rule ought to have gone with 1t, but ii
would not be wise to repeal the two.
thirds rule when there is heated con-
test for nomination.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
WOMAN GETS AN ISLAND.
Mrs. Wicksrsham Granted Title to Dis
puted Land.

mVos WsSN0TondH 4TdIiSS0 llk,S W LIZ
puted Land.
Mrs. J. w. Wickersham, half
breed Winnebago Indian, has won he1
case and been granted title to the ia
nous Blackbird island in the Missouri
river, fifty miles south of Sioux City
She held title under deeds which relat.
ed back to the time when the land was
part Of the Winnebago reservation,
George F. Phillips and w. ]. johnson
secured resurvey by afiidavits which
are alleged to have made false state
ments concerning the land. showing
1t was entirely surrounded by water
throughout the entire year, which is
not true. Under the new survey they
homesteaded the land. The general
land Office finds them guilty Of mis-.
representation, turns the title over to
Mrs. Wickersham and recommends
criminal prosecution of the two men
who have taken great quantities OF
valuable timber from the tract.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
CIT to Church and School,

Bishop Garrigan of the Catholic
diocese of Sioux City, has received a
,bequest of between $4,000 and 100000
by will of the late Thomas H. Tobin
of Emmettsburg. Ia, to be used in
building church and free school at
Emmettsburg. The plans for the in
stitution have not been fully matured
yet, but the bishop will give his per-
sonal attention to seeing that the
minutest details suggested by Mr.. To-
bin are carried out.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
Farmer HANGS Himself.

M. Christians, German farmer
about sixty-five years old, hung him
self last week at the residence of his
son-in-law, Jacob Gruis, one mile wes1
of Greattinger.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
Another Term for urick.

The Iowa State Federation of Labor
closed it's twelfth annual convention
last week at Marshalltown. A. l..
Urick of Des Moines was reelected
president. Council Bluffs was chosen
as the next meeting place.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
lroouois Memorial Gift.

Herman Mendel of Des MONIES,
whose wife persisted in the Iroquois
fire. will give 500 year for the pur-
chase of scientific apparatus in the
schools of Nicola. Mendel. day has been
set aside in her honor.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
Quick Arrest.

j. A. Gulledge of Verbena, Ala
was twice in the hospital from a Sc
we're case of piles causing "a tumors
After doctors and all remedies failed
Bucklen's Arnica salve quickly arrest
ed further inflammation and cured him
1t cnnqu' rs achas and kills pain. CSC
1T 2. A. Clemmer'.', Dr. ggist F
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
h Ate Too Many Peanuts.

AS q result Of wager that he could
eat quart of sailed peanuts at one
sitting, Rex Subbs of Fairfield, aged
seventeen, Is dead. Death was caused
by abscess Of the intestines, brought
on by an excess of salt and peanuts.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
IN DISTRICT COURT, HOWARD CO.. IA.

~ CTCOURT, HOWARD CO.. IA
tcating liquor. -'-' ~ 'o'i iii'oA-
q NOTICE Is hereby given that w Burns, of the
tnrn, OF Horton Burns, will at the June, 1904.
h H on the 9Th day of June, 1904 at the Court
1.9 Howard Co, Iowa. apply for a permit to
Se liquor according to law in the
~. ~ DOCK Nos. Lime SPRINGS Station. How.
ara 20. Iowa, and that his petition applying for
s sm permit will bs on file in the Clerk OF Courts
oi'oe VI OF pe1ore The 26th day Of May, 1904,
w. j. BURNS,
Applicant,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
Death From Electrlc Wire.

At Indianola. Ia, last week, Basil l.
Mickey. brother of Governor Mickey
Of Nebraska, while riding on horse
back, was caught under the chin by
an electric wire and fatally injured.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
Gaines and Parker.


One of the best Democrats in con-
gress is Hon. John Wesley Gaines, who
represents the Hermitage district in
Tennessee. Gaines believes in getting
knowledge at first hand. Consequently
not long ago, in search of information.
he went to see Judge Parker in per-
son, and here is the result Of that mo-
mentous visit as recorded by the
Washington Post:
Hon. John Wesley Gaines Of Tennessee
has Just returned from Esopus, N. Y,
where he visited Chief Justice Alton b.
Parker Of the court of appeals and pro-
spective Democratic nominee for presi-
dent.
II found him to be man of strong, per-
suasive personality. clear and fixed con-
victions on questions Of public policy and
OF patriotic and masterful purposes" said
Representative Gaines. "He Is a man Of
generous temper. frank and hospitable
in manner and exceedingly democratic in
brought under the influence of his person.
ality to understand how utterly absurd 1t
is to suppose that Judge Parker could be
the tool of any living man.
He is, In the best sense of the word. a
party man. He believes In the efficacy of
lie pHFLy system. lie COlQ me tnaL ne ma q
always stood for and stood by the Demo-
cratic party and had always supported
Its nominees. Though he may have diff
Tered with our candidate in 1896 and in
1900 on the money question, Judge Parker
supported that candidate In both cam
paigns. He told me-and his friends and
neighbors told me also-that after we
were defeated he had aided the crippled
campaign committee of the Democratic
party to pay large accumulated campaign
expenditures. When l expressed surprise
Judge Parker said to me, oh, have al
ways done that whenever occasion re-
CURED
when he was candidate for chief
Judge in 1897 the opposition charged that
Judge Parker had not supported Mr.. Bry-
an in 1896. He was asked to write letter
for publication refuting the charge. The
old Democratic campaign committee was
to meet the next day to indorse him. His
friends, he said to me, insisted that he
wait until after the meeting before pub
fishing the letter. No. said Judge Par
ker; i will write 1t now, 80 that It can be
read tomorrow before the meeting is held.
won't sail under false colors.' The let
rer was Written then and there and pub
lished Immediately. and the people OF
New York, recognizing the courage and
candor OF Judge Parker and his intellec-
tual integrity. elected him chief Judge OF
the court Of appeals.
Il went to Esopus believing that Judge
Parker was the strongest man the Demo-
Gratis could nominate. returned to WASH
ington convinced that he will be nominat-
ca ana that he will be elected"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
To Hold Church Meeting.

The sixty-ninth annual meeting Of
the Iowa Association of Congregation.
al churches is to be held at Man.
chester, Ia. May II to 20. Ministers
from all over the state will be In at.
tendance
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
a. q. III. w.

Regular meeting Cresco Lodge 1st
and Bird Tues. each month, in O'Mal-
leyS Hall. Visitors always Welcome.
u. b. WOODWARD, GEO. MILLER,
Recorder. N. w.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
Pioneer Fails Dead,

John Rhoades, an old settler OF
Greenfield, arose from his bed and
walked into the yard and fell dead.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
Killed hx LIGHTNING

At Grundy Center Grin Dighton was
struck by lightning during an electric
storm and instantly killed.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
New Capitol Front.

New Capitol Front.
Some Of the bigwigs in house and
senate have made up their minds to
build new front to the national cap
itol, and they undoubtedly think that
they will thereby improve it, but 9TH
ers do not believe that it will be i'm
proved by adding to it. Many like it
as it is and refuse to be comforted by
the prospect Of a change. The chances
are, however, that the alterations will
be made. Architects have already been
employed to elaborate the plans. They
will make them as extensive and COM
plicated as possible in order to increase
their own fees.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
Wins Wrestling Championship.

Lawrence Piergue last week won the
wrestling championship of Iowa from
Kid Nichols of Brooklyn, Ia, in bout
at Fort Dodge, by securing the first
two falls.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
c., M. & St. PAUL r. r..

v
Time Table.
Trains leaves CreSco as follows:
PASSENGER GOING EAST.
p. m. Daily except Sunday, III.
McGregoI and Dubuque.
$50 p. m. Daily for Chicago.
$50 p. m. Daily except Sunday for
Milwaukee.
FREIGHT.
$50 a. M, carries passengers to Calmar
IL m., accommodation.
PASSENGER GOING WEST.
4:30 a. M, for st. Paul s. Minneapolis,
connecting at Austin for South.
ern Minnesota points.
.l2:4S p. NJ, for st. Paul & Minneapolis
FREIGHT.
10 p. M, accommodation.
3:1O p. NJ, carries passengers.
Coupon tickets ON sale for all points
In q S. and Canada; also Steamship
tickets. M. j, WHrTR. Agt
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
Parker,s Personality.

Most everybody takes an interest in
the personal appearance of eminent
people. Therefore the following bit of
gossip from the Washington CORE
spondent Of the Philadelphia Press
will be read with interest:
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20

Senator William P. Frye of Maine,
now and for long time president Of
the senate, has had pleasant political
career He has served thirty-fou
years in house and senate, and during
all that extended period he has never
been compelled to ask any man for his
vote or to electioneer in any manner
whatever-so he informed me recently
while riding to the capitol in street
car.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
The Ship Subsidy Steal.

This republican congress lacked the
audacity to pass the ship subsidy
Dill, but appointed a commission to
Keep it alive until after the election.
Inc big campaign fund collected from
the banks, the trusts and the corpor.
atoms for the campaign of 1896, left
Them in poor mood for the passing OF
the Trying pan in 1898. There was
strong probability of the election of a
democratic congress. Mr.. Hanna VINO
had bought the election in 1896 with
y he corporation fund raised went be-
fore parties asking ship subsidy
and obtained from them $500, GOO,
which being judiciously placed in
doubtful districts saved to the re-
publicans by narrow margin the con-
gress elected. For this fund he pledg-
ea the passage of the ship subsidy
Dill, giving to that organization &c.
goo, 600 agar for lona1eries of years
10 ce drawn from the United States
treasury and collected from the peo-
pie through tariff and internal reve-
nue. taxation. Mr.. Hanna did his best
TO get such a bill'through congress but
his fellow henchmen failed to come
to the scratch and the scheme has
been dragging its slow course along
ever since. The republicans ought to
pay the original debt Of s40O, 900 with
current rate of interest to date, and
we would even prefer paying it direct
from the treasury by an appropria-
ton, than by the passage Of the prom
Used legislation.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
Il Il Il II Il 4 &
Il 6: Champ
:. :. Clark'S
tt Letter
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Especial Washington Letter.l
1T the present time the Democratic
\ presidential fight seems to be
anybody's fight. The conven-
ton would exhibit q great deal
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
Presidential Gossip.

The most recent gossip as to Demo
cratic presidential possibilities hath it
that Hon. Richard Olney of Boston is
not really a candidate and that his OBJ
Ject all along has been to secure a
delegation nominally for him, but one
which can be transferred at any time
to anybody desired. 1t also hath it
that Hon. Charles r. Murphy, he of
Tammany, is seriously considering the
feasibility of casting his influence for
Senator Arthur Pue German of Mary
land. But the strangest tale of all is
to the effect that Judge Parker is being
used by G. G. & Co. as stalking horse
for Hon. David Rowland Francis of
st. Louis. Query: If that is true.
where does Ex-Governor and ex-Sena.
tor David Bennett Hill come in? He
has been taken and accepted as the
sponsor par excellence for the Parker
candidacy, and he is not regarded as n
bosom crony of G. G. David will not
permit his friend Parker to be used as
catspaw to pull the luscious chest
nuts out of the fire for G. C.-not if he
can help 1t. The truth is that since
congress adjourned news has been so
scarce that many ingenious gentlemen
are giving free rein to their imagina-
lions, copjuring up all sorts of COM
binahons and situations for the bewil-
derment of some Of US and the de-
location of others. There is no limit
to speculation either as to candidates
or platform, and the best that one can
do is to refrain from undue excite
ment. It will be hot enough in st.
Louis on or about July G without fir
ing up now.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20

so-called, to separate about eighty per
cent Of the voters of this country from
the predatory rich benefciaries of
trust-sheltering tariffs and office hold
in aristocrats of both political parties,
that it is about time to stop expert
menting and put forth man for
chief executive whose past leaves his
future in no doubt as to his sympa-
thies in defence of the masses against
the classes. The disappointing vacil-
lation, fuss and feathers of our pres
emit executive has added force to this
sentiment. The bitter, frantic op-
position Of that arbitrator and past
master OF political treachery and i'm
perial bull-headed, Grover Cleveland
reinforced by the sleek, insinuating,
selfseeking political cutworm, Cor
man, aided and abetted by every trust
subsidized republican daily paper in
the country, is we'll calculated to soli-
dify the Hearst strength to fanati-
cism and bodies no good to the oppo-
sition. Manly Tribune.
Embittered newspapers continue to
senselessly refer to w. r. Hearst as
the yellow journal editor, whatever
that may mean. We are sure we don't
know. II they mean that the Hearst
newspapers are yellow journals" be-
cause they have done more for the
common good Of the common people
by their unrelenting attack upon the
predatory trusts who are daily robbing
the people, there is no stigma attached
let them be yellow then. One single
Hearst yellow" newspaper has done
more in fighting the cause of the
people against the trusts than all the
so-called white" newspapers in the
country which have combined to SLAM
der w. r. Hearst because he has IN
vaded their sacred precincts with his
pen and press. OF all the truly black
guard sheets that are issued the Chi.
cago Chronicle is the BLACKLIST. Pre-
tending to be democratic it has fought
every man and every issue that at
tackled the trusts. It has no place in
decent journalism .-Ie6th Journa al.
The American BANKER Is authority
for the statement tbat240 trusts were
created in the United States during
Z the year 1903. The attitude of the
administration or its Attorney Gen.
eral toward them don't seem to have
been much OF terror.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20
Hearst a Factor.

Hearst Factor.
Wonder what the big bore statesmen
think Of William Randolph Hearst
since he carried Iowa? 1t isn't popular
to regard this vigorous young man and
his presidential aspirations as jokes.
That seemed to be the proper caper
some months ago, but he goes on pick
ing up delegates while the other candi-
dates are trying to look like statesmen
II It continues much longer Hearst
will bag the nomination. Youth will
tell in politics MS well as in the prize
ring. Senator George Hearst, w. RS
father, and Mrs. Phebe Hearst, his
mother, IRE both Missourians, natives
Of my district; consequently Missouri
ans do not weep when W. R. II. bags
few delegates.
Texas did fine thing when she Sc
lected General Sam Houston and Ste
phen T.. Austin to forever represent
her In the old hall Of the house Of
representatives = Statuary hall = the
great American Valhalla. No state has
worthier representatives in that illus
trious company than these two historic
Texans. What field day for oratory
we will have when the Texans in house
and senate present those statues. No
themes stir the blood of an American
audience more readily or more thor
oughly than the Alamo and San Jacin-
to. No more heroic chapters can be
found in human history than those
which recount the martyrdom Of Davy
Crockett, James Bowie and their COM
rades in arms and the great and as.
founding victory which Houston won
at San Jacinto, and by winning the
victory won an empire for republican
institutions. The Texas delegation in
congress is a great one and will do
ample justice to her heroes.
OF oil the ridiculous quadrennial per-
formances pulled off in this land of the
free and home Of the brave, certainly
the election of delegates to the national
conventions by the people Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia is the most ridicu-
lous. The deniZens of the District have
no vote unless they retain their citizen
ship elsewhere, but when delegates are
to be selected the city or District is In.
an uproar for weeks. They make more
noise about the selection of six dele
gates to each convention than New
York. Pennsylvania and Missouri make
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20

Civil service reform as practiced by
this administration is a very peculiar
and mystifying thing. A. poor devil of
a clerk or free delivery rural mail car
riers jeopardizes his head if he runs
for some petty Office, but such eminent
public functionaries as Secretaries
Shaw, Taft, Moody, ct al. can caper
about like goats on the mountains and
make all the stump speeches they
please. It's poor rule that does not
work both ways.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20

about selecting their large delegations.
1t really seems that their activity in Sc
lecting delegates is in exact proportion
to their political incapacity.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20

Hon. Elihu Root is to preside over
the national Republican convention
temporarily. OF course it is in keeping
with the eternal fitness of things that
an ex-secretary of war should preside
over the convention which is to NOM
mate soldier.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-05-20

General Jacob S. Coxey, who was
once peremptorily ordered TO keep off
the grass with his differentiation
army, seems to be fourishing la the
bay tree planted by the rivers of wa
ter. He is now trading in half million
dollar blocks Of bonds. Surely the
general has played many parts. He
may have to go to breaking rock with
hammer next in order to exc out
subsistence. There are great many
fake inanciers these days.