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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Evidence Of Murder.

Evidence was introduced by the
state ut Osceola last week tending to
show that Maude Stone, for whose
murder DR.. Crofford of Lamont, was
convicted and sentenced to thirteen.
year term in the penitentiary, went
Of her own accord to the Lamont san
itarsum where she died under circun,-
stances pointing to murder, and Crof.
ford as the murderer. Crofford's at
torlley, who is member of the Iowa
legislature, after the conviction of his
client, secured the enactment of a
measure making second-degree muir.
der bailable, and although sentenced
to prison nearly four years ago Croft
ford has not only enjoyed his liberty
pending All appeal, but resumed The
practice Of bis profession
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Wrong Man Imprisoned.

D. Il. Wilson, the Shenandoah: Ia,
financier who is alleged to have de-
frauded the people of Page county of
about $4o,OU0 in year by selling
them each others notes, all bogus,
has gone to Japan for his health. Will
son fled to Mexico and requisition pa
pers were secured. The Mexican au-
thorities found man named Wilson
and duly locked him up; but he was
the wrong man. When the Page
county officers arrived at Monterey
they discovered the mistake. The
right Wilson was safely on the ocean,
bound for the Orient; the wrong Will
son was in jail. The man who was
wanted had cleverly steered the Mex
lean officers against the man who was
innocent, and while the innocent man
was languishing, had left the coun-
try. Now the man who was locked
up for three weeks is trying to figure
out whom to sue for damages.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Girl Gets Medal for Bravery.

For her heroism in saving the life
Of q companion skater from drowning
last winter, Miss Lavina Steele, a
former Coon Rapids girl, recently ap-
pointed assistant state librarian, is in
receipt of Carnegie medal for her
brave rescue. George Hill, Burling-
ton young man with whom Miss
Steele was skating. broke through the
ice and was immersed in ten or twelve
feet Of freezing water. His compan-
ion, after desperate struggle, in
which her own life was in peril,
dragged him to safety. Manager F.
NJ. Wilmet Of the Carnegie Hero Fund
commission recently learned of the in
cident and forwarded the medal,
which arrived at pes MONIES last
week,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Alleged Trick to Get Witness,

Upon his return from Washington,
Governor Cummins will be presented
with a requisition from the governor
Of Oklahoma for Frank Shercliffe,
wanted in that state for the murder
of man in June, 1891. The interest.
ing part of it is that Shercliffe was
at the time in the penitentiary IN
Utah, and his friends think the EFFORT
to get him out of the state at that
time is highhanded move on the
part OF Tom Denison and his friends
Denison, who is the leader of the
gambling fraternity in Omaha, is to
be tried at Logan April 16 for corr
plicity In the $4,000 Pollock diamond
robbery of some years ago, and sher.
cliffe is expected to be the principal
witness at that time. shercliffe,
while in the penitentiary serving a
sentence for the crime, made an aft,
davit that Denison conspired with
him.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Returning Sanity,

1t seems that certain jingoes are re-
turning to sanity. The cases are only
sporadic, 1t is true. but they may In
crease. In former letter / referred
to the fact that Governor ]. A. T. Hull,
representative III congress from the Des
Moines district Of Iowa, had had lu-
cid interval in which he predicted war
between the United States and Japan
II we try to hold on to the Philippines.
The governor got scored about his very
sensible interview and has relapsed
into jingoisin. Perhaps he may re-
cover.
Now comes Uncle Shelby NJ. Culloni
OF Illinois, who prides himself on
strong physical resemblance to Abra-
ham Lincoln, who is chairman of the
senate committee on foreign relations,
who aspires to the presidency, who Is
much past the age at which DR.. osler
suggests people should be chloroform-
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
indicted for FrauduIent nankino.

Judge Edmund Jaeger of Keokuk,
proprietor Of the defunct Commercial
National bank, which failed in Feb
ruary, was indicted last week on three
counts for fraudulent banking. He
has thus far been unable to raise the
bond of $4,000 required and is in Jail.
Judge Jaeger has been county Judge,
county. Huditor and mayor. He Is
seventy years old. The schedule CT
Edmund Jaeger, proprietor Of the
Commercial bank, was filed in the
bankruptcy court. Resources are CIV
On as $115.0oo; liabilities. $4,000. phe
bank deposits Of $4,000.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Overtime Bin KILLED.

Boston. April 8.-The state senate
killed the socalled overtime bill, which
forbids the employment of women and
children at night at factories. The
vote stood 10 in favor and 10 against
the measure. This bill, which passed
the house yesterday. was similar to one
adopted by the legislature last year,
but which was vetoed by Gov. Bates
and became a factor in the guberna-
torial campaign last November
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Poisoning Is Suspected.

Mystery surrounds the death OF
George Griffith, Boone farmer, who
died three weeks ago, His body was
disinterred week after death and
last week a coroner's jury returned a
verdict of murder through strychnine
poisoning. The poison found in the
stomach is supposed to have been adj
ministered in cough medicine.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Boy and Money Missing.

After travelling all the way from
Deadwood, S. D., with $4,000 in gold
In bag to reach the home of his
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Leonard. in
Muscatine, fifteen-year-old Richard
Hoorigan disappeared with the money
within two hours after his arrival. The
grandmother is frantic, and has asked
the aid of the police. The boy was
the son Of prospector, who on his
death sent him, with the savings of a
lifetime, to the old home in Musca.
tine.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Not ta BE sneezed At.

Nee ~ 30 SAeezeQ AZ:
United States Senator William War
ner Of Missouri must not be sneezed at.
That's res adjudicata, fact which
one Thomas Caldwell will probably re-
member as long as he lives, certainly
during the twenty days In which he
Will be In durance vile for not having
prophetic ken enough to know that he
must not sneeze at our newly elected
Republican United States senator,
alias the mysterious stranger. Mr..
Caldwell has one peculiar accomplish
ment Of which he was proud and with
which be delighted his friends Or an
noyed bis enemies-just as fate or
fancy carried, That was to sneeze
whenever he chose. With most folks
sneezipg is not only an unpleasant but
an involuntary performance. The only
reason that any other human being ex-
cept Caldwell ever sneezes is that 1t
can't he helped. 1t is strange that it
was his faculty Of voluntary sneezing
on which he plumed himself and for
which he was thankful that he was
not as other men that landed him be-
hind the bars. The place where he
sneezed SO disastrously was Conven-
ton hall, Kansas City, Mo-, and the
time was the night Of the great Warner
1allitication meeting. Mr.. Caldwell evil
IDENTIFY made q mistake in selecting the
psychological moment and the spot
where to shine by sneezing. A vera
cious cbronicler says: "As each of the
speakers reached q climax in his ad-
dress Caldwell released sneeze that
penetrated every corner Of the build
ing. Everybody near laughed, and the
speakers were embarrassed, but SO real
was the sneeze that not until after tho
seventh or eighth explosion was it sus-
pected that the sneezing was not In
voluntary. Then Secretary Cienden-
min of the Commercial club had Cald-
well arrested" Then some X. O. Dog
berry sent the poor man to jail for
twenty days, where he can sneeze ad
libitum. No doubt Mr.. Secretary Glen
DENIM Of the Commercial club will be
entitled to postof1ce OF something
equally good" for his heroic squelching
Of Caldwell. The immortal sneezer
urged In mitigation that be was sneez-
Ing because he was there to hear the
beloved Warner and him alone; that
he was weary Of the other jawsmiths
and sneezed to give them notice that 1t
was time to pull of the real show by
introducing the major, a plea contain
Ing much sense, but not appealing to
Justice Dogberry, before whom he was
hailed. If man may not relieve hil
pent up emotions in this country by
sneezing, how can we make mouths at
Russia, Turkey and other despotic gov
ernmeats? What are we coming to
anyway
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Am.namert ls Constitutional.

The Iowa supreme court last week
handed down q decision sustaining
the amendment to the state constitu.
t1on providing for biennial instead of
annual elections. BY the adoption of
the amendment there will be no gen.
eral election in Iowa this fall, and the
terms Of all officers whose terms ex-
pire then are extended for one year.
The amendment has been attacked on
the ground that 1t contained more
than one proposition, but the supreme
court holds that 1t is constitutional.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14

ers are after the tobacco trust with a
brand new plan, which If it would
work would not only bust the tobacco
trust, but II extended sufficiently
would act as squelcher OH every
trust In the land, consummation de.
voutly to be wished. This scheme is
simplicity itself-to induce people to
quit using tobacco in any form. The
theory is all right, but what about the
application? 1t is not so easy as 1t
might appear to persuade millions OF
men to change their habits. Ever since
Sir Walter Raleigh first taught the
paleface to toy with the weed cru
SADIE has been waged against 1t, and
yet last year more than $200,000000
was expended for tobacco in this
country alone, to say nothing of what
was expended In foreign countries.
There is no use to argue the question
as to whether the tobacco habit Is an
unmixed evil. Good people differ as to
that and will continue to differ as long
as tobacco seed sprouts. But IL the phi
lanthropists and reformers aforesaid
could kill the tobacco trust they would
deserve the eternal gratitude of their
countrymen, for out of the S200000,00O
expended last year by Americans to
crafty their appetite for tobacco the
trust pocketed more than $50,000,000 In
profits. Their experiment in destroying
the octopus will be watched with inter
est. But why stop with the tobacco
trust? II people can be induced to
eschew tobacco, thereby killing the
trust, why cannot the sugar trust, the
coal oil trust, the beef trust, etc., be
disposed Of In the same way-by re-
framing from using their products? OF
course 1t may be argued that beef, coal
oil and sugar are necessaries. Many
persons rate tobacco in that class. As
a matter Of fact, none Of them is q
necessary. Poultry can be substituted
for beet, sugar and coal oil may be
absolutely dispensed with, and still the
human race may be propagated, live
and flourish. Not long since, while the
committee on ways and means. was
having hearings on the Philippine tariff
bill, was greatly surprised, as were
many others, to learn that the Chinese
are just learning how to use sugar, but
did not learn, although I intend to,
what they have been using in lieu
thereof all these centuries. If they all
get to using sugar, one Of two things
must happen-either the sugar output
must be greatly increased or the price
will soar sky high, for there are some
40O,OOO,000 Chinese. They will bull the
sugar market to beat the world.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Geronimo Will Ask Pardon

Lawton, Okla, April s.-All arrange
ments for the reception of President
Roosevelt at Frederick have been made
and many persons have already started
for that point from all directions of the
territory. Geronimo. now a prisoner
OF war on the Fort Sill military reserva-
ton, left Friday for Frederick to plead
with the president to grant him free
dom.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Prominent Man Suicides.

Sherman Miller, a highly respected
and prominent citizen of Ames, COM
mitted suicide one evening last week
by blowing his brains out with 32-
Colts revolver. Miller had been hav.
ing some domestic troubles, and it is
to this that is attributed his rash act.
He was a member of the Odd Fellows
lodge and was buried under their
auspices. He leaves a wife and seven
children.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Drowned In swim Barrel,

The three-year-old baby son of Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Rose of Stratford, a
small place south of Webster City,
was drowned in swill barrel, The
father, going home to dinner, discov.
cred the child in the barrel floating
In the swill, dead.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
MANAGER Dies Of AppendIcltls.

Manager Cole of the Waterloo team
b the Iowa league, died there last
week after weeks illness with ap-
pendicitis He was the star of the
Northern league last year
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Spotted Fever at Sioux city,

The discovery OF two cases of cere-
bro-spinal meningitis, or spotted
fever" in Sioux City, Las led physi-
clans to believe that the epidemic.
which has been raging in the East
for three months, has reached Sioux
City. The physicians say that in
1880 and 1850, dates of meningitis
spidemics, the disease first appeared
in the East and made its way West.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Two Children cremated.

Two children Of Byron Sweeny,
farmer residing near Marshalltown,
were burned to death In bed last
week. The house caught fire while
the parents were at the barn.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14

Ordinary household accidents have
no terror when there's bottle of
DR.. Thomas Eclectric Oil in the medi-
cine chest. Heals burns, cuts, bruises,
sprains. Instant relief.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
In Pinch, use ALIENS FooT-EAsp.

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot
Ease, q powder. 1t cures Corns, Bun
ions, Painful, Smarting, Hot, Swollen
feet. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 26e. 82w4
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Pioneer Missionary Dead.

Peking, April 5.-Bishop Favier, OF
the Lazarist mission, died here Tues
day. He had resided In China Tor 20
years. {,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
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s. Champ |
:. Clark's !
Letter
Especial Washington letter.


~ ECENTLY / was on lecture
II tour through Michigan. An item
IL appeared in the Detroit Free
- Press while was among the
Michiganders which furnishes much
food for reflection. Mr.. Factory In
spector Eikhoff states in his report
that there are US many men out of en-
ployment today in Detroit as there
were in 1893. Garry the news to Hon.
G.. B. Lands and General Charles II.
Grosvenor, those palpitating patriots
who are fond of asserting that there Is
not an idle man in America who can
not find work ut remuneDative wages
If he so desires. They so so far as to
say that if within all our broad con-
fines there Is man who wishes q
job and can't find one where he is all
he has to do is to move into their dis
tricts and they will find it for him.
If they will insert that portion Of their
stump speeches in the Detroit papers
they will most probably find employ
ment in abundance Mt home without
gadding off to Europe and the Philip
pines. OF course Mr.. Eikhoff, whose
sworn duty 1t Is to investigate labor
matters in Detroit, may be mistaken,
but the chances are that he Is correct.
Indeed, the Free Press rather Endorses
his statement editorially, though not
in terms, and drags out the old ex-
PLANTATION Of enforced idleness-that
labor saving machinery is constantly
throwing larger and larger numbers Of
workingmen out Of employment. But
surely the number thus thrown out
cannot be much greater now than In
the last two or three years. It will not
do to assume that Detroit is an excep-
ton to the rule Of the universal pros
perity which is SO much yaunted. No
/, body to walk her beautiful streets,
gaze upon her splendid buildings and
think of her fortunate commercial To-
cation will believe for one moment that
she is tagging behind her sisters in the
race. The plain truth is, however un-
palatable it may be, that our prosper
ity is sagging down. In his Buffalo
speech President Mckinley said, eve
cannot go on forever selling everything
and buying nothing" an utterance
which explains our drying UP prosper
ity. OF course by j!ngoes this Will be
regarded as leze majesty, but SO 10
any reference to the gnawing deficit
in the treasury or, more accurately, the
growing deficit in the revenues. Both
the shrinking prosperity and the OWN
ding revenues may be traced to the
same course-the high and e4erbitapt
rates Of the Dingley tariff bill,
In his report Mr.. Eikhoff also touches
on the fact that the number Of divorces
increases with unemployment Of la
boring men--not new theory by any
means. but one which is not sufficient
ly reflected upon or adequately dis.
cussed. A growing marriage record
indicates prosperity the world over,
| and a growing divorce record indicates
Increasing adYersity.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
Pianos and Organs

tuned, cleaned, repaired and voiced.
I am graduate and hold a diploma
from the largest piano tuning school,
in the United States.
A. d. PATTERSON.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
A Dismantled Sugar MIL.

OlSmanIleo ouaNF Will.
At Saginaw, one place where I lee
tured, was taken out to see q sad
spectacle, result Of the dollhouse
process Of the Dingley bill. A great
sugar beet factory, having cost. In one
way and another, over 100000. had
been sold under mortgage for $780,
600 and was being dismantled to be re-
moved to Colorado The good people Of
the beautiful city Of Saginaw were in
mourning as a consequence, and no
wonder, for the removal Of this sugar
mill to the Centennial State not only
means a clear loss Of four hundred
thousand Of the seven hundred thou.
sand which they had put into 1t, but
means also that thousands Of Michi-
ganders will be out Of employment.
OF course it Is to be hoped that 30
many thousands in Colorado will find
employment by reason Of the removal,
but that is small consolation to the be-
reaved citizens of Saginaw and the Inn
mediate vicinity. How did the mill
happen to be built7 On the supposi-
ton that the e1orbitant rates Of the
Dingley bill would be kept on the stat
ute books forever-rates which Gov
ernor Dingley himself admitted were
too high and which he said were made
too high deliberately for the purpose
Of enabling us to make favorable bar
gains with other nations by reciprocity
arrangements. What Governor Ding
ley intended should be temporary and
for one purpose the people who put
their good money into the sugar fac
tory at Saginaw claim should be per-
manent and for another purpose, for It
is a popularity of the benefciaries of
the tariff that II high rate Is ever
overestablished they hang on to 1t like
grim death and give 1t up only on COM
pulsion, though there exists no longer
public reason for retaining it. Why
are they dismantling this mammoth
sugar factory? They say it Is because
of the Cuban tariff arrangement, the
% per cent reduction Of the Dingley
rates on Philippine sugar and the
threatened reduction of SO per cent
more on Philippine sugars. Now. If
the tariff system is such q delicate
plant after more than century of hot
housing as to be destroyed or seriously
injured by threat to let In Philippine
sugar at u reduced rate or free Of all
customs duties, how long must we en-
dure it before our manufacturers can
walk without government clutches?
The people Of Saginaw who are engag-
ed In the sugar business treated me
handsomely, and / like them, but they
mistake the reason why sugar produc.
Ing is not profitable enough to remair
in Michigan. The real reason is that
the Gerlpans can raise twenty tons Of
sugar beets to the acre, whereas tn
Michiganders can raise only eight tons
It was never intended that our coun
try should raise everything. If 30, the
climate would have been the same
from pole to pole. would like to set
beet sugar making profitable in Michi
gan, but am unwilling to see my owl
constituents taxed 2 cents pound 70,
sugar IN order to foster the industry.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14

That is'to'say, depend up
on yourself. Have you'a Saw
ings account?
The man or woman who ex-
poets to make money had bet
ter learn how to save some=
thing out of their present in
come.
Fortune is for those who by
diligence, honesty and fru-
gality place themselves in a
position to grasp hold of for
tune when it appears in view.
application in youth makes
old age comfortable.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14

Trust Busting In Earnest.
Certain phllanthroplsts and reform
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14

Kansas seems to be doubling Thorn
as when it comes to think Of Mr.. Com
missioner Garfield She objects to his
Investigating the coal oil trust, evil
IDENTIFY being afraid that he will re.
port that 1t does business at dead
loss and that a popular subscription
ought to be taken to keep Mr.. John D.
Rockefeller out Of the poorhouse. Kan
sas believes in going the whole hog Or
none.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14

The public mind is becoming badly
muddled as to Mr.. Secretary Of State
John Hay. One set of scribes have
him on the verge of the grave, while
another set make him out sure win
ner for president. Let us hope that
both sets are wrong.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-28

There is more catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
Years was supposed to be incurable
For a great many years doctors pro-
nounced it a local disease and pre-
scribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease and therefore re-
ouires constitutional treatment. Hans
catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
cheney & Co., Toledo, O.. is the only
constitutional cure on the market. It
is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. 1t acts directly
nm the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to cure.
send for circulars and testimonials
Address. F. ]. Cheney Co.. Toledo,
Ohio.
Take Halls Family Pills for const!-
patton.