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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-21

.. vote of 5 to 3, but in the er
,es they convinced the other men
'st 81 bers that it would be better n,
- -: to wait, though the two count
attorneys both advised that Ii
90 board do so.
% WANTED REASON FOR DELAY.
- . 1t required a fifteen minut
70 recess and a lecture from M,
~ Hosbrook to his associates, dc
60 60 levered in private, before tn
90 members in favor of della,
% would yield. The supervisor
had already discussed the ques
s = ton for an hour when they re
,s tired for a caucus. At tha
: time Chairman Brandes ane
% three other Pottawattamit
Il county supervisors were anxious
to put the award Of contracts
over until this morning. Messrs
Baker and Hosbrook had plead
ed in vain for just one reason
why the board should hesitate
to act with two bids before it
unquestionably lower than anv
others.
Look here" said Hosbrook
after the supervisors had as
sembled for their heart to heart
talk, "if we should adjourn now
and tomorrow let the contracts
to any others than the low bid
ders don't you think people
would make remarks? How
would it look if anything like
that should happen? The only
way this board can justify it.
self before the public is to act
right now and give the con-
tracts to the bidders who are
entitled to them"
The possibility that some of
the advantageous bids might
be withdrawn or that an in
junction might be served was
considered and both contingen-
cles served to support the de-
at once. The opponents finally
gave in and when the board re-
assembled the vote was unami-
NOUS in the awards to both sue
cessful firms. A proposal to
enter into the contracts at the
same time was defeated by an
adjournment taken until 10
o'clock this morning.
PROMISES TO FINISH ON TIME.
Samuel Katz, representing
the Western Dredging COM
pany, answered a number of
questions asked by the super
visors and Engineer Dean. He
said his firm had a number of
dredges and intended to buy
another for this work, enabling
it to put two or three machines
on the ground within sixty
days. He said the 16-fcot and
25-foot terms called for in the
specifications would be con-
structed as called for, as the
dredges have tramway auxil-
iaries capable of carrying the
excavated dirt so far as that.
Mr.. Katz declared that his COM
panv would file a satisfactory
bond and pledge itself to finish
the work within the specified
time.
Four we'll known contractors
compose the Western Dredging
company, which is not yet in
corporated. They are Ed Phe-
Ian, M. Shirley, Ed Callahan
and Katz. All of them live at |
Omaha, and the firm is said to
possess an extensive outfit. Its
members have just completed a
large contract with the United
States government on the Hen
nepin canal in Illinois, and are
now engaged in railroad con-
struction work for the Great
Northern in Nebraska.
DISREGARD SPECIFICATIONS.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-21
GETS FIRST PRIZE
The Western Dredslna Ccmpanv
Lands Drainage Contract
10 Dig Sections 1, 3 and 4 For
Total Of $50, ,382

Champaign Firm Gets SectI,
No. 2 for $42,125.65
Joint Board Is Sign Contrac
and Settle Bond Issue Cues.
tlOn Today
Nonpareil, Sept. 20:
First prize in the award {
drainage ditch contracts by th
joint supervisors board of Poi
tawattamie and Harrison cour
ties went yesterday to tn
Western Dredging company 0
Omaha, a corporation that wa
organized on Monday for tn
express purpose of bidding o,
the work. The fact that thi
company had put in a bid, ane
even the knowledge of its or
ganization was unknown te
other contractors or to anyone
else until the sealed propositions
were opened and read before
the board.
The contracts for sections
No. l, No. 3 and No. q of the
ditch construction were award
ed to the Western Dredging
company, it's bids being the
lowest for those parts of the
work. On No. l it made price
OF 7a cents per cubic yard.
While its offer on No. 3 was 90
cents and on No. 4 the figure
was 1O7 cents. Pollard, Goff
4 Co. of Champaign, ILL.,, bid
ding in conjunction with Tim
othy Foohey of Fort Wayne,
Ind, received the contract for
section No. 2 on a proposition
,N q cents per cubic yard. The
Illinois firm agrees to take
oithor eeel. u.s.i..~sS uo1lue.
The Omaha concern bid only
far cash.
FAVORABLE TERMS.
The drainage district OBJ
tained more favorable terms on
the work than had been ex-
pected. The Western Dredg-
ing company's offer as a whole
on the four divisions of the
ditch system amounted to
23,9l2.38, but by accepting
the bid of Pollard, Golf & Co.
for the second section this total
is reduced to $123,508.38. By
sections the successful bidders
were as follows:
Western Dredging company
No. / (Willow creek), $48,-
576.6O; No. 3, Second Boyer
cutoff. $21, ,306.93; No. 4 first
Boyer cutoff, $10,499.20; total
contract, $80,382.
Pollard, Golf & Co.-No. Q
(Allen creek), $42,l25.65.
BIDS IN DETAIL.
Aside from the Western
Dredging company's PROPOSE
tion Wickham Bros. of this city
had the lowest bid as a whole.
The bids in detail were as given
below, (c) indicating the bid
for a cash payment and (b) on
bond payment:
Firm. No. No. 2 No. 3 No.
Western Dredg'g Co.. 80 775 9.75 1915
Pollard, Goff 4 Co.,. o 75O 125 SO 1850
wickh.m Bros ). ;. $685. s.ss1aS lOso -
Northern Constr Co. 1850 7.75 Is 1880
II. A. Brown & Co
IA 1Ohu IOS IN 10
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-21

~ ing pCO
at pie to- the Saviour and who ha.
in given years of careful study t,
N the things that hinder from
Christ Mr.. Smith said he hac
: come to these conclusions:
> l. No other thing is keeping
u SO many of our young people
: away from Christ and the
S church as these so called "po-
e pular amusements." You do
2 not need to argue with them
. about drunkenness and other
awful sins, but to these amuse-
;. ments they are in bondage.
u They are worshippers of these
idols.
S 2. The rank and file of
: church members who indulge
l in these things are not interest
} ed In the real work of the
church namely SAVING SOULS.
3. II their consciences urge
them to try to do this work
THEY ARE PoWERLEss because
of their example.
This address of Evangelist
Smith will take years to pass
from the memory of Missouri
Valley people. "Jesus satisfies
me-" 81 will put Christ and
his service in the plsce Of po-
pular amusements hereafter"
Such thoughts filled many
hearts last night.
Mr.. Smith rendered great
service to our young people.
The social and dance, given
by the A. 0. U. w., at their hall
last night, was a decided sue
cess, both socially and financi-
ally. A fine program, of musi-
cal selections, and recitations
were given, which called forth
several encores. At the close of
the program, a fine supper was
bly, spent in dancing. About
fifteen dollars was taken in by
the lodge.
Wanted Two or three fur
nished rooms for light house
keeping. Address care X
of Times. s2l
]. N. Tamisiea went to McPaul
this morning in the interest of
the VALLEY Mill.
Mrs. Strobeen and Mrs. F. A.
Heath are the guests of Council
Bluffs friends.
Married, in Blair, Neb., Sept.
20, 1905, Mr.. Frank Tedford,
and Maud Armstrong. These
young people are we'll and fav-
orably known having both been
borne and raised at California
Iowa. They have the congra4u-
lations of a large circle of
friends. They will make their
home with the grooms parents
south of California, la.
w. H. Ramseyer will enter
tain about thirty Of his old
time gentlemen friends at a
farewell dinner at The Miller
Saturday evening, September
%. Mr.. and Mrs. Ramseyer
leave for Bayonne, New Jersey,
where they will spend the win
ter. Mr.. Ramseyer has been
one of the leading citizens of
this city for thirty years and
his old friends regret that he
is to leave Missouri Valley
During the year his wife has
been a resident of Missouri
Valley she has made many
warm friends who hate to see
her leave the city. 1t is the
wish of all that they may find
their new home a pleasant one.
Harry Alexander has resign
ed his position in the State Saw
ings Bank and leaves Thursday
evening for Chicago, where
he has accepted a position in
tho offices Of the General Store
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-21
Nonpareil, Sept. 20:

CONTRACTOR'S TOTALS,
The figures submitted by the
several contractors are given in
the accompanying table:
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-21

]. N. Tamisiea went to McPaul
this morning in the interest of
the VALLEY Mill.
Mrs. Strobeen and Mrs. F. A.
Heath are the guests of Council
Bluffs friends.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-21

vote of S to 8, but in the end
they convinced the other men,
bers that it would be better not
to wait, though the two county
attorneys both advised that the
board do so.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-21

Wanted Two or three fur
nished rooms for light house
keeping. Address care x
of Times. s21
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-21

Harry Alexander has resign
ed his position in the State Saw
ings Bank and leaves Thursday
evening for Chicago, where
he has accepted a position in
the offices of the General Store
Keeper at an advance of salary.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-21
THREATEN SUITS.

Prior to the opening of the
bids, and again before the joint
board had voted to award con-
tracts, H. r. Lewis of Vim
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-13
With the Long BoaO.
Eye WI oof as files

If the baby sometimes to occupy all time and all space
member that the hen has thirteen
And this occurred in automobile wind back of it.
Mrs HIS that William, the gasolene
7. Brooks
out the cook the dining hail. fair the festival
cites and reyival tht S % ne eano
aroused by great idea they hardly held chicken sandwich
Joseph that he has never taken any
exercise Mr. Chamberlain 70 years getting bit
wobby on his but his life valuable world showing
Nha' can De zone by man who has never pespred t~
The last week many the
oganis ma plays big windammer well as
with his hands The Auditorium the public chance
oanis nae kick goal So people have watched what might be
beauty Of the dexty organsts
behind screen tt the music want to hear it9 Of if
a on m @ You desire re- why! there's vaudeville going on somewhere
pie OF harmony taketh not pleasure in the legs of a
the east especially those people gen
peense Of lew millions BY the way did know family that
ea There are family trees enough in the United States standing
the nation and leave few boards over for stables
Golf game
For with who sma exercise
with natural bird and golf offers something and
gentle without the rigo of baseball without that fierce
that lawn tennis atains when for all there
These the observations of young who has
ing to work of an cen bay window and to loosen rheumatic leg
chasing pill the Yet take his word for
golf not of attainment reads The of his first round
the links the fol- his
The first step golf build little earhen tee and place the pill
The caddie
the player swings the driver which baseball with
and attempts to se the pill and to lift towards the zenith At the first
smte the chances touching it. This
mon but after have the famed
cold
which Rev. Dr. Shutter has confidence abode This
remark not compulsory and better omitted Sometimes hit the pill
the rolls
either But if about thousand
strike the pill the
air gorousy and started properly along the goy
Golf interesting of variety
has
other
almost with practice become golfer a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-13
Treatment Of Consumption.

The first annual meeting of the ma
tional association for the study and
prevention of tuberculosis will be held
in Washington the 18th and 10Th Of this
month. This will be an important con-
ference Of the eminent medical special
lists upon a most absorbing subject.
Minnesota will be represented by DR..
Braeken,y the secretary of the state,
board of health, who will address the
meeting on Infection in transportation,
and by DIR. G. L.. Green Of st. Paul,
who will discuss the relation Of the
disease to life insurance. This meeting
will probably eventuate in some action
looking toward the suppression of this
disease both by direct treatment and
| by public education as to it's nature.
The old theory as to the hereditary
character, Of tuberculosis, while not en-
tirely discarded, has fallen from its. bad
eminence AS the sole cause Of the dis
ease. So long as it. occupied that posi-
tion the theory assisted materially to
propagate the disease Now that the
theory of the communicable nature of
consumption has assumed its due i'm
portance in the discussion, scientific
4 progress in it's abatement is possible.
It is hardly the province of news
paper to discuss infinitely the steps to
tion of the time of, the Washington
conference will be devoted to a sym
|posium on the sanatorium treatment OF
consumption perhaps indicates as well
as anything could the trend Of medi
cal opinion
. Consumption carries off more people
than any other known disease. There
T.. has never been a medical or surgical
cure for it. There is a nature cure
;, which has worked wonders, and that
is the fresh-air cure. Medical opinion
> has progressed far when physicians arr
; ready to recommend detention institu
tions for ignorant or vicious consump
: tives.
| The segregation of the victims O
! this disease from the healthy portion
, of the community is an essential featur
: of the modern treatment. AS soon a
LHe ulSeetSe was loCoShtAou % 1HAoooAo"
{. the duty Of the medical profession plain
Y ly pointed to the state as the prope
t resort for authority to stop its spread
e This is necessary in only a minority o
q cases. Public aid may still be necessar:
}. in sanatorium and industrial opportuni
2 ties for INDECENT ~consumptives..
n The conference will issue an educa
d tional leafet for distribution among tn
people which should be Of immens
y value. kes--a. ,-;;.~y>-. s.. a.s,., -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-13
Gov. Eanly's Reform Movement.

The governor Of Indiana is applying
to the public service in that state the
same principle in operation on some of
the railroads and in a number of other
great Industrial institutions-he is re-
fusing to appoint to office any man
who drinks liquor or to appoint any one
who will appoint a subordinate who
drinks. His rule is arousing no little
opposition, but that does not seem to
worry him any He contends that the
state is entitled to the best service It's
|'servants are capable Of giving, and the
experience of business men is that en-
ployees who drink are below grade; it
they do not want men of that kind
why, asks the governor of Indiana
/ should the state be compelled to take
the castoffs and buns? And why
should it?
The no-drink rule in business has
been a powerful agent for temperance
reform, but nothing like what Cover
nor Hanly's requirement would be il
/ it were made general. When the po
litical worker has to give up. the sa
loon. in order to avoid disqualifyine
himself for a. public job, to which hi
lis always aspiring, the veneler of thu
fruit of the Kentucky vine will have t.
! 90 out of business. Indiana is said tt
I have taken a great moral brace undei
q the. influence Of the new governor!
snolIey. and an Indianapol Ills dispatcl
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-13
AT THE THEATERS
Observation-Disclosures Won Barnhelr

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Won BarnheInn,"
I Last evenings offering of the Milwau-
Ike German Theater company, Lessings
charming comedy, ..Minna Won Barn
helm" was a double revelation First
came the recognition Of the fact that the
comedies of the last century in Germany
as elsewhere have lost none of their
power to entertain. The second was that
in the company presenting the comedy
Milwaukee has a theatrical combina ton
that deserves to take rank with the best
of similar organizations the country over.
A large audience was present despite the
wea Their and there was a constant ripple
of laughter thruout the evening as the
play progressed SO genuine was the APP
probation of the audience that there was
curtain recall after each of the five
acts. and in some cases more than one.
The costuming was that. of the last CEN
fury and was very bright and pretty.
The honors of the evening. If there
could be said to be honors where the
charac ters were impersonated with such
uniform excellence fell to Gertrude
Mueller. who portrayed Franziska the
maid, and Frederick eros as. Just. Miss
Mueller was as dainty and piquant as a
Dresden doll. Her coquetry and feminine
ca jolery were simply delicious and her
love making of the artlesslN artful sort
| that is full of humor. Mr.. eros gave
| finished portrait of the servant faith
| full to his master in poverty and distress
as in position and power. He was de-
i1ightfully drol.
I Camilla Marbach in the title role was
I a bit slow in the opening scenes. but did
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-13
Loeb, Wood, Omaha.

The president $ special train which
was to have reached Omaha at 1920,
on the night Of May 8, did not arrive
on that date nor on .any8other. 1t did
not arrive at Omaha ataall, but was
sent around by another route, tho the
president was billed to appear in Oma-
ha, and thereby hangs tale. Loeb
was on the train. Mae Wood was at
Omaha. Mae Wood wanted to meet
Loeb, but Loeb did not reciprocate the
wish for an interview. She had some
legal papers she wanted to. show him,
and in fact leave with him as a memen-
to of his visit to Omaha; These papers
We're q summons and complaint in a
suit instigated by Mae Wood against
Loeb and others, charging that they
took, purloined, abstracted, removed,
| concealed and otherwise monkeyed with
certain tangible property then and
there belonging to the said Mae Wood,
to-wit, bundle of letters written to
Miss Mae Wood blythe "easy BOSS 7.
G. Platt. Warm letters. ILL.,.
Maybe these letters were valuable
and maybe they were not, but indepen-
IDENTIFY of. their value the incident sug
gests to presidents that hereafter they
choose the tenants Of their special
trains with view to their freedom tC
visit any part Of the country. 1t would
be notifying to president to arrange
to visit a town and make a keynote
speech on the tariff and find at the last
minute that his secretary is barred
from this town by legal complications
Suppose the president starts out to Wis
it Council Bluffs and make speech OF
the railroad question: and learns whel
too late that some member Of the cab
met who is on the train is accused O.
having committed arson in that tow
when a small boy, or that the solicito
of the treasury, who is an honoret
guest, is charged with having forged
. check for So in Sedalia, or that the at
torney general has three wives layin
for him i'll Shreveport, how is the presi
dent to arrange his itinerary2 In tn
!, Mae Wood case the president probabl
: felt under some obligations to Loeb flo
asking him to skip Omaha. We ca
i. imagine that president or even less
err person would set up the drinks to
man who would show him how to &c
q around Ol1laha.t fBht suppose the pres
dent were coming to Minneapolis? Wei
that would be,.differept..ze>-. ..,..
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Stickney's Bomb.

President A. B..iStickney Of the Chi
cago Great Western has made trouble |
for the railroad men before. His latest
exhibition of independence of view and
frankness of statement is his declara-
ton to- the senate committee on
Interstate commerce in favor of
giving the interstate commerce
commission the power to fix rates.
The railroad men have been niling
up testimony with the senate COM
mittee to the. effect that such power,
if exercised, would throw the business
of the country into confusion and have
called to their aid shippers concerning
whose testimony they seem to have
been advised beforehand and have
drawn upon the so-called ex-
pert Knowledge of university
professor in support of the theory that
the interstate commerce commission, if
T it had the power, would soon "play
hob with the whole rate situation.
In contradiction Of their claims, Mr..
Stickney, who is a successful railroad
man himself, but who has never hest
tated to declare his views when they
have been in disagreement with other
railroad men, informs the committee
| that the interstate commerce commission
would be ~ the most satisfactory arbiter
possible.'' Mr.. Stickney's testimony is
going to make trouble, for he not only
advocates giving the power of making
rates to the commission, but he skaters
that beautiful theory that the giving of
rebates and. the granting of favors and
| determinations has been abolished by
i the Elkins law. He says the directors
have, stopped paying rebates on grain
shipments, but in lieu thereof have paid
elevator fees, which is another way of
giving rebates
/ The railroad men have been having
things so much their own way with the
senate committee and everything has
been running SO smoothly in their di
rection that they had persuaded them
selves and almost convinced some other
people that the whole question of rate
making was disposed of, the president
headed off and the danger Of effective
railroad legislation averted. But will
q men like Mr.. Stickney coming to the
front, the president again on deck de
claring for rate regulation and the pub
Elic in possession Of a clearer and more
accurate idea of what rate regulation
really means, it appears the campaign
: lis only fairly, open.
It has been the play Of the railroad
men and their friends, the railroad
SENATOR'S to scare everybody with tn
: idea that the possession of the rate
:. making power by the commission mean
general overhauling of the rate sys
! tens of the country. A Chicago uni
: yersity professor has been brought t
i the front to describe conditions in Ger
many and show how rate-lnaking b.
!. the government.on government railroad
!. has been disastrous.
! Of course, it was never contemplate
: that the interstate commerce commits
) sion should 90 into the business Of max
!, ing rates on a broad scale, any nor
:. than our state: commission does, bu
I should interfere with existing rate
i only in specific cases where it wa
b shown conclusively that the existin
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-13
THE UNEASY CHAIR

TALES OF MEN WHO JOKE WITH
TERRORIST death is the king of ter
rors," fire is at least his chief OF staff.
Few things can SO surely carry panic to
the heart as cry of "Firen' And when
the cry is followed by the real presence OF
the fiend, paralysis seizes one, unless he
be of stout nerve. Stories of men who
enlist in the army of fire-fighters, there
FORE always command attention, especi-
ally If they are good ones and that is the
kind to be found in Harvey J.. o'Higgins
The Smoke Eaters, series of stories OF
battles of New York firemen with the fire
tiend. They are stories that take youi
breath and make you-laugh in the same Oh
contiguous moments -
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creditabie work later, especially in her
scenes with Teheim where she tries to
exert her womans wiles to overcome his
scruples to accepting her love. while he
is in temporary disgrace. The Telheim
of Sigismund Elfeld was trifie stilted
at times. perhaps as beftted his cond1-
ton, but was adequate.
The combination. unusual to an Amerl-
can audience, of brogue formed by
grating the German tongue as an ac-
quired language on the French mother
tongue, was admirably handled by Emil
Marx. Paul Werner. formerly sergeant
major under Telheim was we'll done by
Curt Stark. julius Schmidt as the inn
keeper was little too rapid in his
enunciation at times for the large num-
her of Germa American students in the
audience. The other parts We're well
taken NJ