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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-08-09

Motion by Giliett, seconded by Couse,
the resolution be adopted. Roll call
vote, 10, yeas. no nays. The resolution
was declared adopted.
Mr.. l. w. Ward addressed the Coun-
ell relative to changing the walk In
front of his property on W q r., street Sf,t
would furnish the material. 1t was
moved and seconded the proposition be
accepted. Roll call vote, 10 yeas no
NAYS. Motion was carried.
Motion by Sayre, seconded by Har-
mon, that the Council authorize the
City Clerk to discontinue. all publica-
tions Of their action on July 18th, rela-
tive to the resolution contemplating the
building of cement sidewalks. and that
the proceedings of the City Council on
that subject so far be abandoned by or
through such proceedings, and the same
is declared null Motion was carried.
Motion by Sayre, seconded by Cur
motior.l and hereby is declared to be
desirable TO pave beginning the work
in 1906) with vtrifed brick the follow
ing portions of streets in the city or
DEBORAH Iowa. namely:
on Main street, in the city OF Deco
rah. Iowa, between the west line of
Washington street, at its intersection
with said Main street, and the east
line of Court street. at the intersection
thereof with said Main street; and on
Court street. between the south line of
Court street and Water street. and the
north line of Broadway street. where
the same 1nterSectS with Sa1Q Court
street: and on Broadway street, between
the east line of Winnebago street. at
the intersection of said Winnebago
street and Broadway street and the west
line OF Court street. nj the intersection
of said Court street and Broadway
street; and on Winnebago street. be-
tween the north line of Broadway
street where the same intersects
with said Winnebago street, and the
south line of Main street. at the inter-
section thereof with said Winneba go
street, in the city of DEBORAH, Iowa.
Roll call vote:--Groff. yes; Hovden,
yes; Harmon. yes; Bance, no; Baker,
yes; Curtin, yes; Adams, no; Couse. yes ;
Motion was carried.
Motion by Sayre. seconded by Croft
that the city attorney be instructed 10
prepare the plans and specifications,
resolution and notice for Fridays meet
ing. Roll call vote, voting yea.
member not voting
Motion by Couse. seconded by How
den, that $4,000 from the funds COM
ing from the county be expended on the
road leading past the old Chas. Ferren
place, under the direction of the street
committee Motion carried
Motion by Couse, seconded by Curtin,
that the Council recommend TO the
board OF supervisors the abatement OF
the taxes of Gilbert Christianson for
the years 1904 and 1905. Motion was
carried
Motion by couse. seconded by sayre.
that the paving on Washington street
be repaired at once under the direction
OF the street committee Motion was
carried.
Motion by Baker, seconded by Har-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
WONDERFUL GERANIUMs.
Why California Should Beat the World
on This Common Flower.

From the Garden Magazine.
1t is singular fact that we Californians
neglect the geranium. Fasteners envy us
because the geraniums grow up to the sec
ond story of house, and visitors say that
a five-foot hedge of red geraniums Is one
of the most brilliant sights on earth Why
don't we have more hedges like this? And
why don't we have more and better gera-
NUNS everywhere instead of coddling rare
plants that are not adapted to our condi-
tons? No other plant, native or foreign.
seems to be so perfectly at home with us
as the much neglected geranium.
Any one who explores our foothills and
canyons may find deserted cabins around
which are growing many varieties of gera-
NUNS in nearly all shades of color from
white TO carmine, with no hand near to
till, with no moisture except the annual
rainfall, yet seeming to thrive fully as well
as the average native plant.
The geranium is valuable for its foliage
effect alone for massing In our dryer and
more barren spots yet the geranium with
US, as everywhere, is distinctly towering
plant, more so by far than the Gamma and a
host OF other well-known "bedders." This
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
HOLMES is RELEASED.
Result of His Exoneration by the
Coroner's Jury.

AS the result of the verdict of the coro-
ners jury yesterday afternoon generating
Hilly B. Holmes for the killing of George
Bell. the case against Holmes was nolle
pressed and Holmes was ordered released.
He was released this afternoon. from the
District JAIL where he has been confined
since the shooting ARRAY which finally ter
minated in Bells death.
When the word came to the office of the
United States attorney that Holmes had
been exonerated by the coroner's jury, that
office held a consultation on the matter
and was satisfied that case could not be
made out against the United States cavalry
man. After the shooting Assistant District
Attorney Given filed papers in the Police
Court, charging Holmes with assault with
intent to kill Upon that warrant he was
committed to jail
This morning. after the consultation in
the District attorneys office Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Given nolle pressed the case
This nolle pressed case was filed with Clerk
Potts in the Police Court this morning and
Clerk Potts turned over to Deputy United
States Marshal Lacey the order to release
Holmes from Jail The release was sent
TO the jail this afternoon and Holmes was
soon after released from custody
1t is expected that Holmes will at once
make arrangements to again Join his regi-
ment in Missouri.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
Ate Like Swampmen.
From the New YORK Globe.

From the New York Globe
The British administrator of New Guinea
describes a strange tribe of ape-lke men
which he discovered living in the inacces-
sible swamps in his district. The tribe,
called "Agaimbo," was he learned, once
fairly numerous and claimed the swamps
about the lower waters of the Barigi river
as it's exclusive territory. Their numbers
have been reduced, owing to epidemics to
about forty persons. Two of their villages
were sighted and one man and woman of
the tribe induced to step ashore and pow
wow with the white men. Never leaving
the swamps, their feet bleed when they at
tempt to walk on dry land. The man who
landed had good chest and arms, but
short, weak legs, the feet being thin, broad
and almost weblike. In the woman the
toes, long and slight. stood out apparently
pointless from the foot. The mans skin
above the knees was in loose folds and the
sinews about the knee i'll developed In fig
ure and carriage, says the administrator
the man was more ape-like than any hu-
man being he had ever seen. The houses of
the tribe are built on piles at a height of
ten or twelve feet about the water They
use canoes followed out of logs, and al
though exceedingly Cranky" the natives
stand up in them and pole" along very
rapidly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
Why Battleships "Turn Turtle"

FROM tne New YORK Globe.
writer who signs himself Engineer
Commander" in the royal navy, criticises
the present arrangement of safety bulk
heads in war vessels as follows:
heavy list and then turned turtle is the
experience of nearly every power possessing
ships of war, in some cases the result of
accident. in others the result of warfare
but always the cause is the same-sudden
thrush of water. which. owing to the ar
rangement of the bulkheads, is confined TO
one side of the ship. with the Inevitable re-
suit always of dangerous list and some
times complete capsiZe. However beauti-
fully our ships may be built, however, ac-
curate our guns and efficient our machin-
cry, however Jealous our officers and crews
of what avail is ii all If chance shot can
do such damage as to send the whole float
ing citadel to the bottom in a few minutes?
If the bulkheads We're built so that in case
of accident the water had access across the
ship the filling of a compartment would
only sink her a few inches and the guns
would remain on level platform instead
of at once becoming useless.
The use of flooding valves" which has
come in TO some extent of late years, is
entirely inadequate. A ship with a rent OF
one side twenty feet square letting In water
cannot be kept on level keel by opening
valves to the other side of the ship three
or four inches in diameter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06

boys from Reading Tuesday morning to
enjoy an outing, and, as stated in yester
days Star, Paul Spangenburg lost his life
short distance above the Chain bridge.
He was washed from near the shore by the
nigh water, and so quickly was he carried
the long distance that he did not even
have an opportunity to call for assistance.
The two boys who saw the body disappear
from the surface of the water did all they
could to render assistance, but when they
finally reached the conclusion that he had
been drowned they returned to the city and
sought the assistant of the police of the
seventh precinct. The police referred them
to the Maryland authorities, and they went
all the way to Cabin John bridge without
accomplishing anything. 1t was not until
yesterday morning that the drowning was
reported to the harbor precinct.
Coroner hewitt viewed the bodies at the
morgue and deemed an inquest unneces-
sary. The death certificates were given
and relatives were notified to take charge
of the bodies Spangenburgs body will be
taken to Reading for interment, while the
body of Simmons will be Inferred in local
cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
THE CAPITAL METALS.
Time When Iron and Copper Deposits
Nav Be Exhausted.

Prof n. b. Shaler of Harvard University, in the
International Quarterly.
OF the metals two are cardinal in i'm
portance, iron and copper. The rest may
be of great utility, but they are not abso-
lutely necessary to civilization and do not
materially affect it's course The 'main-
stays of our existing civilization among
the metals are iron and copper"
Now, how about the supply? In Europe
the deposits of minable iron ores, long in
service, are beginning to be exhausted"
Great Britain has practically consumed
it's store" and now practically all the sup
ply for it's furnaces is imported. The Medi-
terranean supply, Prof. Shaler computes,
cannot last for many decades to come. The
ore beds of Central Europe are mot likely
to meet the demands of hundred years. !"
Extensive deposits of rich ores in Scandi-
navia and in Belgium and France have
hardly begun to be drawn on yet at any
thing like the present rate of increase in
the consumption of metallic Iron. Prof.
Shaler estimates that even with these the
European sources of supply will not hold
out for a century.
In this country the conditions for long
continuance of iron production are more
promising, and the best placed field for
it In North America or in the world, save
northern China, is the central section Of
the Mississippi valley. mainly between the
great river and the Appalachian system of
mountains and northward beyond the Great
Lakes to the headwaters Of the streams
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06

flowing into Hudson bay" yet 1T is a ques-
ton" If even this store will supply the de-
mands of the future. and '1t is in high
measure improbable that within the United
States any new fields of notable value re-
main to be discovered" in addition to those
which have been known for thirty years
and more.
The only other known field in the other
continents than Europe and America Is in
China under conditions of climate and
of labor which promise cheaper product
than has been obtained In any other dis
trict:" and 1t is this condition which to
Prof. Shaler's mind gives to the Japanese
Russian war It's greatest Importance TO the
world. for on the control of these resources
depends In large measure the economic
mastery of the Pacific ocean," He COM
putes that the deposits other than those or
China which can produce iron at the pres
ent low labor cost will almost certainly be
exhausted within one hundred years.
What will become of civilization without
iron and copper? There may succeed an
aluminium age which will carry us al
most as far beyond that of iron as We ad-
vanced when that metal replaced bronze in
the mechanic arts" Within fifty years the
market price of aluminium has fallen till
1t is now only about one-tenth of what 1t
was, yet Prof. Shaler says that ''he would
be confident man who, on this basis or
computation. looked forward to a time
when aluminium could be economically pro-
duced for less than 500 a ton, and he
reaches the conclusion that with any
methods now conceivable we have to
reckon that while aluminium is likely in
by iron. 1t will do so at a cost in terms of
labor far higher than what men now pay
for their capital metal"
As to gold, the gain In the worlds store
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
GEORGETOWN AFFAIRS
DAMAGE TO PROPERTY BY LAST
NIGHTS STORM.

While the thunderstorm was in progress
last night about $50 o'clock much damage
was done to property in Georgetown. Con-
crete walks in many places were torn up
and macadam washed away by the force of
the rushing currents. Several washouts on
Conduit road, near the Canal road, were
reported by citizens who came IN this morn
ing. In few instances telegraph poles
were broken down and fences and awnings
were swept away One of the chimneys of
the store occupied by T. Mccullough. 1882
32d street northwest, became dislodged
about o'clock and fell into the street
Several pedestrians narrowly escaped seri-
Gus injury. peculiar incident of the
downpour was the lifting up of the new
granohthic pavement on Both street. near
street. With terrible force the water
washed the macadam completely from I'M
derneath the grading into the conduts.
Charles Raymond Divine, whose death oc-
CURED Tuesday night about IL o'clock, will
ing held at the Holy Trinity Church at 8
o'clock. The ceremonies at the church will
be preceded by brief prayer service at the
family residence, 1417 33d street north
west.
Mr.. Divine was about thirty years of age
and had spent most of his life in George
town. He was son of Thomas d. Divine,
for many years clerk in the Treasury De-
partment. His mother was the late Emily
" Divine, whose death occurred a short
while ago He had followed the occupation
of a painter. His death resulted from a
malarial disease contracted recently while
employed at Fort Washington.
Many of the officers of the seventh pre-
cinct station taking advantage of the
warm season and are spending their vaca-
tons hunting and fishing among the noun
tains of Virginia. Among those who are off
duty are Privates Kuster. Fur, Holmes
and Branzell. Desk Sergeant Shepard of
the Tenleytown substation is confined to
his home with illness Mr.. Branzell Is eX-
pected to return tomorrow Lieut. w. w.
Jordan, who was retired on July /, is spend
ing several weeks in recuperation at Round
Hill, Va.
officers recently elected by the Sunday
school of the Mount Tabor Methodist Prot
estant Church are as follows: Superintend-
ent, William J. Conlin; assistant superin-
tendent. E. G. Blackman; secretary. Charles
Cameron; treasurer, w. Clyde Hunt: librar-
ian, Edward ]. Chamberlain; organist, Miss
Matte Knott. Reports of the retiring Off
GERS indicate rapid growth in the school
membership. The school is otherwise in a
flourishing condition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
Career of Santa Cruz.
From the New York Globe

From the New York Globe.
Probably no other of the West Indian
Islands has had such a checkered career as
Santa Cruz. In turn It has belonged to
Spain. which abandoned It; to England and
Holland jointly; to England alone; to Spain
again. which fell upon the colonists and de-
stroyed or deported them all: to France,
which took it from Spain: to the knights
of Malta. who received 1t as "a gift from
France; to a private company OF adven-
turers. Then 1t was resumed possession of
by France. but abandoned, so that in 172O
1t was uninha bited. Then 1t became no.
mans land until 1927. when France took 1t
again. and presently sold 1t to a Danish
company, which sold IL in turn to the King
of Denmark. In 1901 England took II once
more. gave Il back to Denmark, repented
and took 1t away again in a few months,
held II for eight years. and then returned
1t to Denmark. which holds 1t still.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
Clothing Department.

5000 and $3.50 Mems Suits sacrificed
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .s3.4S per suit
5000 and $500 Mems Suits. all-wool,
fancy mixed goods and plain colors,
fine tailored, sacrificed $3.50
$3.50. sl5!OO and $3.50 Mems Suits,
black, blue and fancy; latest style and
cut. This represents the product of
the worlds greatest looms and the
most skillful tailors. They equal and
are guaranteed to excel any $500 tai
lor- made garments or we cheerfully
refund your money. .4S
$500 and $500 Boys Suits. in all col
ors and sizes. ......................s2S 81
A chance of century to the mothers,
for Boys Clothing will go rapidly, as
We have marked them for less than they
could be made up. They must be dis
tributed to the homes of the people In
Ten Days. Remember, sale opened FRI
day, June 30th am, and closes in Ten
Days.
$500 Mems Crash Suits sacrificed
25c. Boys Wash Pants; all sizes. lie. pair
&c. Boys Waists. Observation-Disclosures. lie
sl.OO and 81. 80 Boys Wash Suits. 44c. suit
5Oc. and 75c. Boys Knee Pants .SSc. pair
$500 and $3.50 Mems Pants. all sizes and
styles, sacrificed at...................94 c.
s275 and $500 Mems Dress Trousers
sacrificed ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 81 As
Mems and Boys Straw Hats at 25c. on
the dollar
S1.J0 and $500 Mems Straw Hats. .79c.
75c. and 500 Boys Straw Hats. 44c.
800, $3.50 and $500 Children's Sailor
Hats OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
Risks in Australia,

From the New York Globe
An explorer in the backwoods of Australia
tells how some timber cutters took big
risks Il had given instructions to the men
in the bush that on no account were they to
lay aside the firearms" he says After
having been absent for a short time l re-
turned and found that they had slung their
revolvers and carbines on small tree and
were working at about fifty yards from
them. 1 can tell you they heard of it. The
natives have playful habit of dragging
their spears through the grass with their
toes and all the while looking as innocent
as it is possible for them to look If the
natives had only thought of 1t they might
have given the cutters a warm time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
Mans Opinion Of the Flirt.

From the Galena MOI Republican.
No man admires a flirt: no man cares for
a girl or woman who is willing to trade
pride for iattery. The girl who fiirts thinks
she is very wise, and that she is making
great hit with the fellow with whom she
firts. She would have a very different
idea of the matter If she could know his
real opinion--if she could hear his account
of the incident as he tells 1t to the "other
fellers." There is such thing as a
harmless" Irritation No person may put
his finger in the fire without getting the
mark. No girl can indulge in a Irritation
without being considered cheap" and
shallow The fact that the other girls do
the same thing is no excuse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06

neglect Is due, no doubt, to the ease with
which 1t can be grown.
The novelty of being able to grow gera-
NUNS out of doors every month in the year
appeals very strongly to the newcomer,
who has known it only as much coddled
pot plant. but after he sees the possibilities
OF climate, something less common
something impossible of successful growth
In his eastern home-claims his attention,
to the complete neglect of the geranium.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06

Of 1t is going forward so rapidly that Prof
Shaler thinks that within a few decades
we shall "contrive some other means Of
measuring values than by the ancient de-
vice OF balancing them against a substance
OF which the supply is excessive" Silver
he calls now forlorn element, a very
pauper among metals" "valueIess In the
arts; the station it. retains due to senti-
mental considerations. which are likely to
soon pass away" I'm century, save for
use as fractional currency. 1t is likely to be
quite neglected"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
When Snake Venom is Harmless.

From the New York Times.
One of the most curious things about
serpent venom is that each species seems
to be immune to its own poison. If a snake
is inoculated with its own venom 1t remains
unaffected. NJ. c. Phisalix, who has done
mental evidence that this immunity is 70
be attributed to the presence in the blood
OF a free antitoxin. This neutralizes the
poison as 1t is introduced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06

r. E. Johnson, aged sixty-three years, was
killed by falling from the top of a seventy
five-foot railroad embankment Tuesday
night, and his remains were run over by a
passenger train.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06

Edward Freeman, colored. was shot and
killed Tuesday night by Cicero West an
other negro. said to have been drunk. dur
ing quarrel In Norfolk. Va. West was ar
rested and is held for murder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06

If you want work read the wait col.
umns of The Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
Brought Down by High Water.

Paul Spangenburg's body was brought
down the river by the high water and was
taken ashore about o'clock this morning
by man named Beach. He sighted the
body in the water near Heath's resort, and
telephoned to the police. Spangenburg was
from Reading, Pa, and boarded at the
house Of Mr.. Coursin at Takoma. His
brother. Roy Spangenburg, attending
the Washington Training College at Ia
koma. Roy Coursin went with the two
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
BODIES RECOVERED
TWO BOYS RECENTLY DROWNED
IN THE POTOMAC.

The bodies of the two boys who lost
their lives in the Potomac river Tuesday
William Simmons, nine years old, and Paul
Spangenburg, sixteen years of age-as
published in yesterdays Star, have been
recovered Simmons body was found near
Analostan Island yesterday afternoon by r
NJ Mulett of 1854 Oregon avenue north
west, while that of Spangenburg was found
floating down the river a short distance
above the Aqueduct bridge this morning.
Both bodies were turned over to the har-
Dor police and taken TO the morgue. The
Simmons boy, as heretofore stated, lived
with his parents at 1857 Warehouse alley,
Georgetown and his father became anxious
when the boy did not return home Tues
day evening after having gone with some
companions for a Fourth Of July outing
Going in search of him. the father was able
TO find only his clothing, which was on the
river shore on the island where the boy
had left II before he took his fatal
plunge into the river. His companions had
out OF the water because he could not
swim, and were unable to tell just where
he had gone overheard The police did all
in their power 10 assist the father of the
boy in his anxiety to have the body recov-
cred. Members of the crew of the police
boat dragged the river, but without being
successful. and finally gave up the task,
knowing the body would soon come to the
surface. Late yesterday afternoon the
father of the boy went to the morgue and
identified the BODY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
Shoe Department..

$3.50 and 800 Ladies' Shoes. Los
900 pairs Ladies' Oxfords. Russian Calf,
Patent Vici Kid. Choco, Vici and Tan:
sizes IA to ZEE. 81 %
Just as we advertise or your money
back.
$50 Misses Oxford Ties. SOC. pair
/ lot $500 and $50 Ladies White Lace
Oxfords sacrificed Tom. 81. 10 pair
500 Ladies' Oxfords, Ideal Kid; silk
laces; sizes az to 8; sacrificed to
&c pair.
Csc Children's Barefooted Sandals;
sizes to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 4Sc. pair
$3.50. $500 and 500 Mems Shoes, pat
ent leather and vici kid, high or low,
sacrificed to.....................$2. 9S pair
$3.50 and s4.0O Mems Shoes, box calf,
Wei kid, congress and lace, sacrificed