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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
FUEL CHEAPEST HERE.

Boston Herald: 1t is interesting, as
having bearing on the general costs
of production in which coal plays so
prominent part, to find that the es-
timated value OF coal in the United
States is much less than the value of
coal mined in the other great fuel
producing countries. Thus, although
the production of coal in the United
Kingdom was nearly 100000 tons
less than the production of coal in the
United States, the value Of this fuel
at the pits mouth in Great Britain
was estimated to be $4,000, 900,
while our coal had at the pits mouth
an estimated value of $4,000, 900.
The German production in 1902 was
only little more than half as much
as ours, but the value given to this
output at the pits mouth was more
than two-thirds the value Of the
United States output.
This difference is due not to the
quality of the coal but to the superior
methods employed by us in mining
and to the greater efficiency of those
who work in our mines. We employ.
ed as miners in the year 1902 SIS, 900
men, but our English cousins had en-
gagged in the work S05,O00 men and
the Germans about 100000. The ne
cessity of this is made evident when
1T is seen that the average production
per miner in the United States was
$50 tons, in the United Kingdom 27S
tons, in Germany 242 tons, in France
1913 tons and in Belgium 166 tons.
This shows why it is that we can
afford to pay more to our workmen
than what is paid to their rivals in
what are frequently assumed to be
competing countries. By more intel.
ligent employment and, we dare say,
by the utilization of machinery for
hand power we are able in this indus
try to make men twice as productive
as their competitors on the other side
of the Atlantic, and this, too, when a
large proportion of those engaged in
mining in the United States are OF
foreign birth and of such brief stay
in this country that hey do not speak
our language.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
WISCONSIN NOTES.
Esquire Weaver Tells of His Home
and Surroundings at Waukesha.

In RENTING for the Weekly Herald
Esquire H. P. Weaver, formerly OF
this city, now Of Waukesha, Wiscon-
sin, writes:
1--WE had a backward spring, but
fine weather now. Resort hotels all
open and resort people are filling
them up. Waukesha presents a fine
appearance now with it's paved
streets, fine lawns, residences, etc.
Our Carnegie library was completed
about three months ago. 1t is in the
center of the town and has a fine park
of about eight acres. This is quite a
little city for parks, and they are GER
tainly great comfort and benefit to
any city. We had a fine trade in the
hotel last winter. Our business has
increased every month since we came
here. We like it here for that reas-
on as we'll as many others. My
health is about the same. Wilbert
and Ollie are we'll. Wilbert attended
the Hotel Mems Association in New
York the first Of June. Ollie went
with him and reported a fine time.
with best wishes for you and
yours and all of Oskaloosa, am as
ever, Very respectfully,
H. P. Weaver"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
BUMPER CORN CROP.

There are two things to be taken
into consideration" says ]. r. Sage,
of the crop bureau, Gin dealing with
the condition of the Iowa corn crop
as compared with the condition OF
past years. There is the condition OF
the corn itself, that is the color, its
size and general appearance, and
there is the stand. If there is a good
stand, that is an average number of
stalks to the row, we'll filled hills, we
may say there is an opportunity for a
good crop. We have not mad the av.
erage stand for number of years,
reaching as it should up to the bump.
er crop, but we have had a number OF
good years. If we have fair weather
for the remainder of the season with
the present condition, I think we
should have the symptom of the
bumper, or good crop of corn"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
RIVER is FALLING.
Belief That the Worst of the Flood
in the Kaw Valley
Is Over.

Kansas City, Mo-, July 9.-The Kaw is
falling here and west of Topeka, and it
Is confidently believed that the worst
of the flood is over. Not for many days,
however, will normal conditions prevail
at Armourdale, Argentine and the low
lying portion of Eastern Kansas City.
Kan, where hundreds of houses Of the
working class are under water, and
many plants are inundated. In the low
est portion of Armourdale, which is To-
Gated in the most unfavorable portion of
the flood district, the water is from three
to six feet deep, while surrounding the
Nelson-Morris packing houses, north
east of Armourdale, and close to the
mouth of the Kaw, the water is IL feet
deep. Armourdale is practically aban-
doned, the streets running rivers. Most
families owned their homes and the ag-
gregate loss will be very heavy. Flood
conditions in Kansas. off the Kaw water
shed, are still serious, the streams at
Abilene, Emporia, Ottawa and Wichita
still being high and continuing to rise
at some points.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
new INDUSTRY STARTS
The Artificial Ice Plant is Now in
Full Operation.

Oskaloosa has new industry to-
day. The plant of the Oskaloosa Ar
tificial Ice Company is in operation
and the making of the manufactured
frigidity has commenced. Within a
short time the plant will be turning
out twenty tons of pure manufactured
ice daily.
The final testing Of the machinery
was completed Wednesday night and
the ammonia was pumped into the
greant pipes. The pipes had previ-
ously been tested to three hundred
pounds air pressure and had been
found perfect in every way, but the
ammonia found a leak that the air
had missed and the whole southeast
part of the city got Whit Of the
spirits. All of the liquid that had
been sent into the pipes was again
pumped out before the leak could be
stopped. The repair was quickly
made and then the ammonia was sent
into the pipes the second time and to
do business in the work of making
solid water.
The ice making part of the plant
is the most interesting department
of the institution. The ammonia is
sent through several thousand feet or
gas pipe that is immersed in a bath
of strong brine. The pipes and the
brine are upon all sides Of three nun
dred largs cans into which is poured
the water that later becomes the
cake of ice. The first ice that is froz-
EN- will be of river water and will not
appear clear as the product that is
TO come afterwards, and it will re-
quire longer in freezing. The making
of the brine commenced Wednesday
evening and it was expected that the
first ice would be turned out sixty
hours after that time Forty-eight
hours will be required in the freezing
of the first cakes. The work is start
ed when the pipes and the other appa-
ratus contain great amount of heat
and all this has to be overcome.
With the machinery in good working
order the three hundred cakes will be
frozen in twenty-four hours. The ice
is made of distilled water and will be
as near chemically pure as is possible
to make it. .
The new industry will give employ
ment to quite number of men and It
will be a stirring place night and day
through the busy season. Aside from
the ice making business the cold stor-
age rooms that will be operated in
connection with the other will require
considerable attention, as it is ex-
pected that quite an amount of bust
ness will be handled here. The rooms
are great refrigerators wherein may
be placed and kept perishable goods
for any length of time. The longer
they are kept in, the better goods
they become.
Messrs. Lon Mobley and Fred Blatt-
ner, of the company, are to be con-
graduated upon the final successful
consummation of the plans that were
formulated some time ago, and the
city of Oskaloosa is to be made party
to the congratulations in having an
institution that will furnish modern
sanitary ice.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
HThe Pi IineU

The man had fired at the bear,
That cartridge was the last;
He missed; then threw his gun aside,
The bear was coming fast.
The man ran to a precipice,
The bear o'ertook him there,
But just before the hunter turned,
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The bride walked slowly up the aisle
And met the happy groom.
Just then a mans voice loud and clear
Came ringing through the room.
"She shall not be your wife," it said,
A pistol then was flashed,
But at this juncture rose a form,
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The court had sentenced him to hang,
Twas said he'd done no wrong,
HE bore the crime to shield a friend
Was whispered through the throng.
He stood upon the awful trap,
The rope was round his neck,
The sheriff reached, but stopped just
then
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Kansas City Times.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
GOING TO MISSOURI.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Davis and Family
Decide to Leave oskaIoosa.

Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Davis, and
Chauncey and Clarence Clark. the
ladys sons, have gone to Springfield,
No, to take up their permanent resi-
dence. Mr.. Davis has been member
of the local bar for a number of years
and had come into a good practice.
Interests in Missouri and elsewhere,
however, made necessary his pres
ence in the south and the change Of
residence and the giving up of Oska-
loosa interests became imperative.
Near Springfield Mr.. and Mrs. DAY.
is have several hundred acres of land
that needs personal supervision, and
property interests in Springfield also
claimed so much attention that a res
idence in that city has been thought
best.
The law partnership that has exist
ed between Mr.. Davis and Mr.. c. C.
Orvis was dissolved July / and the
business is now in the hands of Mr..
Orvis, who has purchased the library
and will continue the offices at the
cid place.
Mr.. Davis and family have a host
of friends in this city who will regret
the removal, but who will extend ev.
cry wish for continued prosperity.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
BLOWN FROM A BRIDGE.
Seven Men Killed and Two Injured
as Result Of Tornado at
Thebes, Ill.

st. Louis, July "a special to the
Republic from Cape Girardeau, Mo-,
says: Seven workmen were killed and
two others seriously injured by being
blown from the second arch of the
new railroad bridge across the Missis-
sippi river at Thebes, ILL.,, Friday
night The tornado struck a travelling
crane, upon which the men were at
work, and pushed it backward for 200
feet. At the second arch from the Mis-
souri, shore it struck an obstruction
and was hurled to the rocks below. A
relief train was hastily made up and
the dead and injured brought here.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
FouRTH OF July VICTIMS.

The Chicago Tribune is making it's
annual compilation of Fourth of July
casualties. Up to date the list OF
dead reported had reached So, and of
wounded 3,007. Lockjaw in few
days will begin to reap its harvest,
when the death roll may be doubled
or possibly trebled
A year ago the dead outnumbered
the victims of Monday by one, and the
injured by 65S. The fire loss was
$4,000 greater also. But in 1902 the
total number of deaths was 81, while
the number of injured was nearly 800
less than this year.
AS the Tribune's tabular statement
reads, fireworks are responsible for
the injuries of 1875; cannon, 339;
firearms, 446; gunpowder. GIG; toy
pistols, $40; runaways, 92; while the
fire loss is put at s319,200.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
LITTLE DAMAGE DONE.
Fire Company Handles Blaze With
Chemical Apparatus.

The fire company was summoned
to the Lookabaugh residence, corner
B street and Fifth avenue, about nine
o'clock this morning and rendered
timely assistance. The fire caught
between the roof and sort of sec
ond roof and was quite hard to get at.
No water was thrown, the chemicals
sufficing. The damage to the house
was slight,
Mr. Lookabaugh, who is an invalid,
was confined to his bed in one Of the
upstairs rooms of the home and near
to where the fire had started. When
Hoseman McCracken saw the fire he
told the wife not to move the invalid,
as they could easily manage the fire.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
Hon. A. ]. Jewell, Of this city,sug.

Hon. A. ]. Jewell, Of this city, sug-
gests meeting of the "Ohio Squirrel
Hunters" some time during the COM
ing state fair. He says that there
are so few of us that it is needless to
form an organization, yet it would be
pleasant to get together and get &C,
quainted," In conclusion. he says
amy or all of you who desire the
meeting, name the day, hour and
place, and see how many will be there.
Anyone who desires to write word
to me, I will be glad to hear from
them" Won't our exchanges make a
note of this, and all the Squirrel Hunt
ers of the state write A. J. Jewell,
of Oskaloosa, Iowa.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
FAcTs ABOUT PANAMA.

Estimated cost OF the Panama ca
nal, 20e,000,000.
Amount paid French company for
the title, $40,000,000.
Amount paid Panama government
for perpetual lease of canal lands,
$10,0OO,000
Length of canal, 46 miles.
Canal width varies from $50 to 500
feet at the top, the bottom width be
ing $50 feet.
There will be five twin locks of con-
crete masonry, each lock 73S feet
long and SO feet wide, with a lifting
capacity of thirty to thirty-two feet.
Lake Bohio (artificiaD covers thir-
ty-one square miles.
Alhajuela (artifciaD covers $500
acres, and will furnish motive power
for operating the locks and lighting
the canal from ocean to ocean.
Distance from New York to San
Francisco by old route, 1874 miles;
by the route through the canal, $500
miles.
Distance from New York to Manila
by Panama canal route via San Fran
cisco and Yokohama, 1855 miles.
Distance saved in sailing trip
around the world by the new route
through the Panama canal, 2,76S
miles.
The Panama canal was practically
begun in 1883 by the French company.
They had completed about two-flfths
of the length, when because OF fraud
ulent management the company failed
and the work ceased in 1880 June
Women's Home COMPANION
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

-Marsnalltown Times-Republican
The death of little child near Oska-
loosa caused by eating of a package
of patent medicine samples left on
the doorstep should have its effect in
cities which have ordinances against
the indiscriminate and careless dis
tribution of these poisonous nostrums.
officers who fail to enforce the city
laws against this dangerous practice
should be held guilty of criminal neg
Iigence.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

Hell will break loose in this
country inside of three years." de-
clared Calamity" Weller at the pop
ulist conference in Des Moines last
week. What shame that McCulloch
of the st. Louis Globe-Democrat is
dead. How much pleasure it would
afford him to have a reporter on the
spot!
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
NH rreat DRY Rim sewer at w

The great Dry Run sewer at Wat,
erloo, has been completed at an ap.
proximated cost of $4,000. The sew
er is 3,540 feet long and the amount
of dirt removed in making the exca,
walton was $4,000 square yards. The
material used in the construction OF
the sewer was $4,000 barrels of ce-
ment, 1000 yards of rock and 1000
yards of sand. Work was com.
menced in August 1902.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

the rate is "a cents word. II there
were no other expense than cable
tolls in reporting a war the outlay
would still be tremendous, for news
paper readers nowadays demand a
column where years ago a paragraph
sufficed. And as the newspaper must
cater to its readers, the news must be
procured regardless of pecuniary con-
siderations.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

The dispatches say that Arch
bishop Glennon in opening the demo-
cratic convention simply repeated the
Lords Prayer. 1t is presumed he
could not think of anything to fit the
occasion, SO laid the responsibility on
tha Lord
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

The What Cheer Patriot ex-
plains: ut was our privilege to take
ride to Oskaloosa Sunday in George
Rust's new automobile. We haven't
time to- tell the story right now, so
will tell it in our next issue" The
speed of the machine and the growth
of Oskaloosa have evidently taken
Brother Ogden's breath away.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

THE cost of living at ST. Louis is
a much-discussed subject" says the
Davenport Democrat, "but it is not
enlightening. If those who go to the
fair would be content to live as they
do at home there would be nothing
heard about extortonate charges. 1t
is from those who want to live better
for less money that complaints come .
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

Talk about gold mines and oil
wells,-they are not in it with returns
from Iowa soil. A Bows gardener
has sold 1000 quarts of strawberries
at 10 cents a quart, from one and one
half acres of ground.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

-Sixty-seven divorces is a days
record of a st. Louis court. This
looks to the Keokuk Gate-City as
though some of those Chicago mi
crobes might have come down
through the canal, after all.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

The Nonpareil tells of a Council
Bluffs man who has named his new
auto "Tuberculosis" because. it is
painted a hectic flush color and has a
hollow cough.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

Reports from the commercial
agencies show that here has been
marked revival of business all along
the line in the last two weeks. Every
report of this kind is an additional
note in the democratic elegy of grief.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

One of the laws passed by the
last session of the Iowa legislature,
and which went into operation July l.,
requires that all cans in which gaso-
line is kept shall be painted red and
plainly labeled.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

-Canada's wheat crop this year
promises to exceed that of 1908 by
about 90,OO0,00O bushels. This is a
big increase, and, with no abatement
likely in succeeding years, it is easy
to be seen what formidable wheat
producing and exporting competitor
the great Canadian northwest has be-
come apd is becoming.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

If it is not violating any ethical
secrets of the business we would like
to know how the Des Moines papers
published Champ Clark's speech at
2 o'clock when it was not delivered
until after 5. d..
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

THE man VINO fails to keep his
appointments keeps time that belongs
to another" says the Burlington
Hawk-Eye. What would he do with
another's money!"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

"a city of 1000 people without a
water works system is like a ship
without rudder," says the Abba
Union. On second thought, however,
that is distinction with difference.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

"A new railroad, planned to scale
Gray's Peak, near Dillon, Colo, will
attain height of at least 300 feet
greater than the road which climbs
famed Pixies Peak
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

I'm the opinion of the New Shar-
on Star, "the republican who is not
satisfied with the new republican ma
tional platform is a democrat. Sim
ply that and nothing more"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

"A Newton boy who once tried to
commit suicide is now candidate for
judge on the republican ticket in Mis-
souri,. 1t is evident he is still court
ing death.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

The Washington Post: "The Pike
at the Worlds Fair has been vindicat-
ed. A party Of Boston girls report
there is nothing there they would be
unwilling to let their mothers see."
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

Some Of the leading citizens OF
What Cheer have formed "Ten
Thousand club" and will disband
when lawful census shows ten thou
sand people in the city.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

Only $40 automobiles have been
registered at the Office of the secre-
tary of state. 1t is supposed that
there are three times that number in
Iowa
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

ED Howe asserts that in man
that which is called conscience is
largely a fear that he may be found
out.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

About the only thing the real,
thinking democrats have to
be thankful for is that their party did
not win in 1896 or 1900.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

State Labor Commissioner Brig
ham has sent sixty college students
to the western wheat fields for all
summers work.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

Senator ]. T. Brooks has sold his
herd of 70 head of Polled Angus cat
tie to Mr.. Rupe, of Kirksville, Missou-
ri, for the ELI Powell farm of 240
acres, north of Martinsburg. The
consideration was $4,000.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

The New York Central railroad
has made reduction in fares of Is
per cent along the electric lines from
New York which run parallel to it.
This is said to have been made neces-
sary by the cutting into the passenger
business of the steam road by the
trolleys.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

The tallness of Senator Fair
banks is but another evidence to the
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune Of
ability to knock the Np'simmon.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

Russell Sage is going to support
the republican ticket, but he believes
it can be elected without the expend-
iture Of any money.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
THE COST OF WAR NEWS.

In the current issue of the Saturday
Evening Post Edgar Mels, himself a
war correspondent, gives the follow
ing itemized account of what it costs
each week for the English and Amer
lean newspapers to collect the news
for the reading public:
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

"A dollar saved is dollar made,
and a dollar made is one that isn't
invested in a get-rich-quick scheme.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

The treasury surplus last month
was nearly $1,000, OOO--another good
reason why the country should stand
pat
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

Over near Brooklyn Mr.. Pole
married Mrs. Beanblossom. The
names would indicate the vine varie-
ty.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

Bryan got all the applause, as
usual, but the other side got the votes.
History repeats itself.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

can party to study its record; the
democrats earnestly hope that theirs
may be forgotten