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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
COOL WEATHER STIMULATES
TRADE CONDITIONS AIDED RY
DROP IN TEMPERATURE.
Lifting Of Guarantees in the South
Is Another Helpful Factor
The Weekly Review.

New York, Oct. 16. Bradstreet',
says: cool weather, later than usua
an arriving this year, has given
stimulus to retail trade throughout ,
wide area and helped the already &C
tive 5obbing trade through the medium
CI recorders. Much delayed bushes:
mas also materialized through the lift
ing or abolition of guarantees
throughout the central south. Furthe,
strength has likewise developed in
prom and steel, which, though perhaps
Huleter SO far as new business is con.
eerned, are more firmly held or show
further advances. Premiums for quick
delivery are now almost universal, and
contracts far into 1906 are announced
Tor both crude and finished products.
Prices OF nearly all commodities are
strong or tend upward, rejecting in
e1stent demand. Demand for money is
Still growing and stock market move
ments are being subordinated to re-
Huirements to move crops and finance
commercial operations along all lines.
r. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of
Trade says: Recent mild weather
might have been expected to retard
business, but freight blockades and
SEVERAL similar conditions testify to
The contrary, and the last half of the
week brought a seasonable fall in tenn
Perature. Higher rates for money
tend to prevent excuses in Wall
street, yet there is no difficulty in Sc.
curing fundsSfor mercantile undertak.
Engs. At some cities fall trade has be.
Come more quiet, first necessities being
covered, but supplementary orders are
confidently awaited, especially in dry
goods, of which stocks are not burden.
eome at any point. The first interest
In holiday trade is noted, and this ele.
ment promises to supply unprecedent-
ed business this year. Failures this
week numbered 214 in the United
States, compared with 2OS a year ago.
and 25 in Canada. against "a last
year"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
Body Taken From River

~ oody of Charles siegfried has
Dsen round floating in the river q few
n.lies above Clinton. A knife was
home iszavavsssss.ls,sa..a...........,.,..w,ae s
dentally drowned last week, having
fallen from barge on which he was
working with government crew who
are riprapping along the Iowa shore
above Clinton. The man was thrown
from the barge when his feet became
entangled in the rope, and though a
powerful swimmer he was carried out
into the river and was drowned before
the eyes of his fellow workers. He
drew the knife from his pocket and
slashed the rope in several places be
fore he went down. The body has been
sent to Cassville.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
An Interesting Character.

While Senator Allison's phenomenal
success in high Office holding renders
his career and methods worthy Of crit
ical study by aspiring statesmen, by
long shot the most interesting charac
ter In Iowa politics is Governor Albert
B. Cummins, the chief proprietor, pro-
ponent and illustrator of 1.-THE Iowa
idea" The stand patters rolled" him
unceremonioasly and with ghoulish
glee at the Chicago national convention
and vainly imagined he was done for
permanently, but to their amazement
and disgust he bobbed up serenely.
They recognize now the unpalatable
truth that he is a man to be reckoned
with, and they regard him as sort of
political "old man Of the sea-" To a
mere locker on in the Iowa Vienna it
seems to be fight to finish. Cum
minis cannot recede without losing his
following. He cannot advance without
killing off one or more Republican
statesmen. How did he get into the
center Of the stage and under the glare
IF the limelight? 1t is an interesting
story. In 1899, when Ex-Governor John
n. Gears senatorial term was drawing
to close, he wanted second term.
There was some objection to him be-
cause he lived at Burlington, while
Senator Allison lived in Davenport,
both on the Mississippi river. Ambi-
Hous men in the interior coveted his
seat. Leslie M. Shaw was governor.
Iowa had eleven able Republican con-
gressmen. Two or three were men Of
unusual capacity. Shaw and most Of
the congressman wanted to succeed
Gear, but while he was stricken in
years and in feeble health, he was a
dangerous customer to tackle. Not one
Of the twelve who were longing for his
place believed he would live out the
new term to which he aspired and not
one of them had the nerve to take the
field against the veteran. So, either by
agreement or accidentally, they con
cluded to give him a clear field, each
expecting him to die OPPORTUNITY and
each hoping to succeed him, nobody
dreaming of one Albert B, Cummins, q
Des Moines lawyer in good practice
puI WlIuOut pOllliCtll pieSl5c, ~ LIZ
surprise Of everybody Cummins took
it into his head to contest with Gear
and to the greater surprise Of every.
body came within two or three votes OF
beating him in the legislature, though
Senator Gear was supported by his son
inlay, Hon. ]. w. Blythe, chief attor
ney for the Burlington and mos
astute politician; by Senator William B
Allison, by Governor Leslie M. Shaw
and by practically the entire Iowa dele
cation in congress. Governor Gear go1
the Office by the skin Of his teeth, bu1
the victory really belonged to Cumminf
and made him a marked man. People
began to regard him as a rising sun
Governor Gear was elected Il January
1900, for term Of six years, begin
ming March A, 1901, and died in the
early summer of 1900, before his ole
term expired. There were several can
didates for the appointment to succeed
him. a large number Of persons
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
WILL OF LATE MRS. e. D. RAND
Leaves Two Hundred Thousand Dol
lars to Mrs. Heron.

Leaves Two Hundred Thousand Dol
lars to Mrs. Heron.
The will of the late Mrs. e. d. Rand
mother of Mrs. George Heron, who
died two months ago in Italy, was filed
for record at Burlington last week, The
estate is estimated to be worth $780,.
900. Mrs. Heron receives about $780,.
900 and Mrs. Rand's brothers get about
$4,000 each, the remainder is to be
held in trust for the Heron children
their shares being paid them as they
attain the age of twenty-eight years.
Meanwhile this money is to be invest
ed and the net income be divided
equally, one-half going toward the
maintenance of the religious education.
al work in which Mrs. Rand was in
terested, and the other half is to ac.
cumulate for the benefit Of the grand.
children. Mrs. Rand endowed the chair
of applied Christianity in Grinnel col.
lege, and Professor George Heron
who later became her son-in-law, was
appointed to this chair. Mrs. Rand
paid Mrs. Heron 100000 when the lat.
ter divorced Heron, who then married
Miss Rand.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
HAPPENINGS IN IOWA
EVENTS OF a WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.
President W. E. Brown Of the Defunct
First National Bank of Storm
Lake Sentenced to Five
Years in Prison.


w. e. Brown, president of the de-
funct First National bank of Storm
Lake, Ia, has been found guilty OF
fraudulent banking by making false en-.
tries In his books and false reports to
the government. The trial has been
IN progress in the federal court for a
week. There were two indictments
and thirty-one counts, on thirty Of
which Brown was found guilty. The
minimum sentence is five years. It
would be possible for the court to SEN
tence the prisoner to ten years for
each count.
Judge Reed however, decided to
give Mr.. Brown the minimum sentence,
and the banker was sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary for fraudu-
lent banking.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
Aged Woman Takes Poison.

Mrs. A. G. Snyder took poison at
Estherville and died before help could
reach her. She was one of the oldest
settlers, having lived there twenty
years, and being about sixty years old
There Is no reason that the family
know Of for her committing suicide,
but she had been in poor health for
some time. She is survived by hus.
band and several grown-up children.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
pennison Case Dismissed.

The case of Thomas Dennison of
Omaha, who was indicted for COM
plicity in the robbery of $4,000 worth
Of diamonds from J.W. Pollock, a New
York diamond salesman, on train
near Missouri Valley, was dismissed at
Red Oak, Ia, last week. Dennison's
case was to have come up for second
trial in December, the first trial hav-
ing resulted in disagreement. The
case has attracted wide attention, hav-
ing been once heard in the supreme
court of the United States.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
lnternecine War.

Iowans are beginning to turn their
attention to economic questions, and
that is precisely what is causing the
internecine war among the Republicans
Of that state.
Hon. Thomas Bracket Reed once
declared that there were 30 many sena-
toriai employees housed in the Maltby
building in Washington that he under
stood that the floors were sagging down.
There are so many Republican states
men in Iowa that they are in each
others way and their majority is SC
overwhelming that they think they can
afford to indulge in family fight Ia
| the cats Of Kilkenny. After they
emerged, badly SCARED, from the fam
lily fights over the granger Legislation
and prohibition, Iowa Republicans
dwelt together in unity until Albert B
Cummins impinged upon the public
vision and SHE'D his castor into the
ring. His appearance In politics caus
ed somewhat of an uproar in Republic
an circles. There being no place fol
Cummins, all the good ones being pre-
empted, he proceeded to make one fol
himself; hence the emeute among Iowa
Republicans.
Some close observers believe the fght
will be so bitter betwixt the stand pat
tiers and the anti-shelter-for-m onopoly
Republicans Of Iowa, the latter mar
shaled and led by Governor Cummins
the former led by the eleven Iowa Re
publican representatives in congress
that the opportunity may come to the
Democrats Of recovering the state OF
at least or electing four or five mem
bers of congress. Senators Allison and
Dolliver, while regular" on the tariff,
as on all things else, do not appear to be
losing sleep or inviting nervous pros
tration by vigorously espousing the
cause Of either wing Of the party.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
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and continued to do so until they die,
Of old age, which came near being tru
IN the case Of John Quincy, who begal
MS ohclal career at the immature ag
, OF nfteen as secretary of legation at st
Petersburgandcl closed it as a representa-
1--WE IN congress in his eighty-frst year
He was not in official station all th,
time, but most of it, between his en-
trance and his exit.
Allison has served forty and one-halI
years In congress, eight in the house
and thirty-two and one-half in the sen
ate, with an interval of two years be.
tween his careers in the two branches
lie mas served longer in the senate than
any other man that ever lived and has
still two and one-half years of his pres
ent term ahead of him If he desires
seventh term and the legislature
elected three years hence is Republican,
ne will probably get it unless Governor
Cummins snatches his toga and makes
away with it.
Somebody told Speaker Henderson
once that he would succeed Allison
when the latter died, whereupon Hen
derson propounded the startling inoui-
~, But When will Allison die?"
question which many younger Iowa
Statesmen occasionally turn over in
their minds. Indeed, If Allison. who
Is now only seventy-six, should be
elected to seventh full term in the
senate and serve to the end of 1t, he
would be only eighty-six, two years
older than Senator Edmund Winston
Pettus of Alabama, who still has three
ana one-half years of his present sena-
tor1al term before him and who is GER
tain OF reelection If he lives. ALI
son could even serve two and one-half
years OF an eighth full term In the SEN
ate and then be younger than was JUS.
tin Smith Morrill, of Vermont when he
dled senator. The senior senator
from Iowa Is wonderfully preserved
man. Hope deferred maketh the heart
SICK, and, taken all in all, those young
sters who are waiting for Senator ALL
sons shoes have not a cheerful pros
pect to animate them. More than once
his chances for the presidency have an
peared fairly good, but the glittering
prize always escaped him. Twice at
least he has not only been asked. but
pressed, to accept cabinet positions, 7
which he always wisely declined.
An loWan who knows all Hawkeye
statesmen told me recently that in !,
stump speaking Senator Allison deals
much almost entirely-in arithmetic.
that he fills the heads Of his auditors
80 full Of figures as to make them dir
y, that such a speech from anybody
slse would drive his hearers away in
fifteen minutes by the town clock, but
nat 1t would be considered sacrflege
or any one Of his constituents to leave
s4aNs 1pf sspaRE y snsaking He
he Best mixers and hand shakers ever
Known and Lathe Keeps thoroughly in
touch with the people, his ringer for
aver on the public pulse; hence his I'M
long lease on a curule
hair which is generally regarded as
| freehold estate.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
Peculiar Divorce Case.

Because, as the plaintiff alleges, her
husband has not bathed for twenty
two years and boasts of the fact, Mrs.
Phoebe Naumann, wife of farmer,
last week filed petition for divorce
at Marshalltown. She ask the Gus.
tody Of seven minor children and
$4,000 alimony, or one-third Of the de.
tendant's property.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
Five Tralnmen Killed.

Five trainmen were killed Sunday at
seaton, ILL.,, when heavy double
header freight train, eastbound on the
Iowa Central, ran into cow lying on
the track. Both locomotives and
eleven loaded cars were ditched. The
dead are: Engineers George A. Caffal
and Harry Summers, Firemen Harry
Barr and l.. H. Briley and Brakeman
P. T. Morgan. All the men killed
lived in Oskaloosa except Briley,
whose home was in Monmouth, Ill.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
Bid Corn Crop.

Unusually favorable weather condi.
tions through September and increased
acreage are the explanation of Iowa's
enormous corn crop-the largest in the
history of the state. The total bush.
els will reach 390,41s,6S0, according to
the computation of Secretary George
A. Wells of the Iowa Grain Dealers as
ISOLATION, based on carefully prepared
reports. Mr.. Wells report has caused
sensation in Iowa grain circles. Sec
rotary Wells figures that the average
yield per acre will be forty bushels.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
Steamer Burned.

( Kingston, N. Y, Oct. 13.-The steam.
pr John McCausland, passenger and
freight boat plying between here and
Glasco, was burned Wednesday on
the Hudson river. six miles north of
this city. She had taken to Tivoll
a party Of Masons that had been visit
Ing sister lodge in this city and was
returning when the fire broke out UNI
der her boilers. Capt Frank Reese
beached the vessel on the flats and
the crew jumped into the river and
SWAN ashore
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
Damage by Frosts.

3 Chicago, Oct. 13-Central Illinois
was visited by the first heavy frost Of
fhe year Wednesday night, and all
smaller vegetation was killed. The
Thermometer reached freezing point,
= drop of over 80 degrees in two days.
Reports from several points in the
past, west and south tell Of severe
0l3s Ia many actions 4. $500,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
Presidential Candidates.

II Cumm1ns succeeds in overthrow
Ing the Iowa stand pat delegates in
n1an tnat ever figured in ti-,.1a as es sese
the Hawkeye commonwealth. If he
does that in 1906 he will be the Iowa
Republican presidential candidate in
1908, but If he funks now it is easy to
predict his finish.
There is a tide in the affairs Of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to
fortune.
That tide has come to him. If he has
the courage to take it at the flood
there Is no political position too high
for him to set his heart on But he
would do well to ponder the rest of
Shakespeare's philosophy on that head:
Omitted. all the voyage Of their life
Is bound in shadows and in miseries
Secretary Shaw will be the presi-
Dental candidate of the Hawkeye
stand patters. If Governor Cummins
fights boldly for his "Iowa idea" he
will be the presidential candidate Of
the Iowa revisionists. If these two
should lock horns in Joint discussion in
1906 there would be contest worth a
days journey to witness. The victor
would be nominated for president in
1908. There are in the Iowa situation
all the elements of a great political
drama, perhaps Of great political
tragedy. Whether it will have thrill
ing denouement or prove mere farce
depends entirely on the nerve of Gov
ernor Albert B. Cummins.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
AIIison's Record.

In length of public service in high
station Senator Wilts5 Boyd Allison
overtops all of his contemporaries, also
all of his predecessors, with the pos
sible exception of John Quincy Adams.
James G.. Blaine In his wrath once
declared that the Adamses began hold
ina efars u spQn n .thax NSs4 .Mlaasa
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
sherrick Debt Reduced.

Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 10. - John s.
Reed. representative of the state, who
holds the securities turned over by for
mer Auditor of State David 3. Sher-
gick when he resigned four weeks ago
on the demand Of the governor, has re-
ceived $52,536.34, being the amount due
on the notes Of w. s. Wickard and the
J. II Murray Lumber company. This
reduces the amount still owed to the
state to $4,000; for which securities
amounting to more than this sum are
n the hands Of the state.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
VIII Of Newspaper Manager,

The will Of Harry w. Hawley Of
Berkeley, CAL, formerly well known
Minneapolis newspaper manager, was
filed for probate in the Minneapolis
district court last week. One of the
requests is $4,000 for the schools of
Fort Dodge, Ia, where the decedent
was born.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
Some Noted Hawkeyes.

Avwuuuo ~ ....,..>,a a ~, x-ox.,-,,,
or Woo proeide..t--o.---t s,s.-zsgs,
though at one time one Iowan, General
David Bremner Henderson, was speak
er Of the house of representatives, and
two others, Hon. James Wilson and
Hon. Leslie NJ. Shaw, were and still
are members Of the cabinet. Out Of
that trio of illustrious and ambitious
Hawkeyes only one presidential candi-
date developed, Mr.. Secretary Shaw,
for the all sufficient reason that Hen
derson and Wilson, having been born
il bonnie Scotland, are, under the con-
stitution, ineligible to the presidency.
once told Mr.. Secretary Wilson that
one of my constituents, who was one
of his enthusiastic admirers, was much
troubled by the fact that he was barred
from the presidency, whereupon he re-
piled: IT feel very much as did my
Scotch brother, Senator Beck Of Ken
lucky, who always declared that lie
thanked God that the place Of his birth
prevented him from making blanked
fool Of himself about the presidency
as 80 many other statesmen did" Sc
there appears to be consolation even IL
the most untoward accident.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
thought Cummins ought to have IT, but
Governor Shaw took different view
and gave the plum to Dolliver.
The Mlowa ld.a.n

ne Iowa ldea."
In the meantime Cummins had been
1ndustriously propagating his IOWA
idea" and made unexpected Roadway
with 1t. He worked up such a support
Tor himself and his Idea" that he could
not be ignored with safety, so in 1901
ne was nominated for two year Term
as governor. The leaders accepted him
ungraciously, just as a certain woman
married certain man to get rid of
MIN, but the second condition of the
aforesaid leaders was worse than the
first, for Cummins, having the conven-
ton well in hand, proceeded to ram
his idea" down the Threats of the
stand patters in these words of the
platform: "We favor any modifi-
cation of the tariff schedules that NAV
be required to prevent them becoming
shelter for monopoly"
Twas famous victory" for Cum
minis and his ''idea," and he was tri-
umphantly elected. When he came up
IN l9o3 for denomination the stand pat
tiers had mended their hold and seem to
nave controlled the platform commit
tee, for here is their substitute for the
Cummins, or Iowa, "idea:" Duties
mat are too low should be increased.
and duties that are too high should be
reduced" But, while they could die
tate the platform, they could not die
tate the candidate, and Cummins was
renominated and reelected for two
years more. Since then, to get rid of
the odd year elections, his present term
was increased to three years, so he will
be governor until January, 1907.
Everybody in Iowa is asking, "And
arter that, What? He is too young
and too ambitious to voluntarily relin- |
quish public life, of which he seems
enamored and for which he possesses
many qualifications.
1t he desires to continue his public
career there are three courses open to
h1m-frst to contest for Senator ALI
sons seat in the senate, performance
OF extreme hazard; second, to contest
with ex-Lieutenant Governor j. A. n
Hull for the position Of representative
ID congress from the Des Moines dis
[rict, also difficult stunt, as Hull has
strong machine of his own and no
yearning for private life; third, to stand
FOR a third term in the gubernatorial
'f1ce, which the stand patters would
concede to him to keep him
'ut of either branch Of congress.
Not long since in an elaborate inter-
view In the Washington Post Governor
Jummins made proclamation that the
,nly way to secure tariff revision
downward is to elect to congress Re
'ublicans who are in favor of revision,
which seems like deliberate challenge
0 the entire Iowa delegation in CON
ress. Perhaps his desire in that d.
ection may lead him to enter the lists
gainst Congressman Hull. If Cum
aims, who has compact organization
bis own all over the state, makes
pen war on the entire Iowa congress
lonal delegation there will be some
hing doing sure enough in the Repub-
can camp in Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
Cold Sore Kills a Boy.

John Yount, aged twelve years, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Yount of Ana
mosa, is dead from the effects of a
small cold sore on his lip. The sore
broke out last week and on Friday 1t
was evident that blood poisoning was
setting in, and a physician was called.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
Lutheran synod.

The f1fty-frst annual session Of the
Evangelical Lutheran synod was held
at Burlington last week. Rev. A. B..
Teamer of Iowa City was elected presi-
dent. The annual address of retiring
President Maggott recommended the
opening of new fields In the state,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20
Iowa Banker Fatally Injured.

Thomas M. Carson. banker and
broker of Iowa City, Ia, fell from
street car at Philadelphia, fracturing
his skull. He is in hospital and ply
sicians express little hope for his re-
cOyery
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-10-20

Money will fly away from
you unless you save syste-
matically. Haveyour money
where it can fly to your as
sisance in case of necessity
or an opportunity for a good
investment. Thrifty people
n1oy hat is best in life.
The lack of money places
many bright men at a disad-
vantage on the battle field of
life.
Therefore save your money
and earn your right to the
advantages which money alone
can procure. Opena savings
account today. We pay 4per
cent. interest.