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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23
sNIFER BEFORE COMMITTEE.
Says Railroad Mems Distrust Of Each
Other Cause Of Rebates.

Washington, May 23.- Interstate
Commerce Commissioners F. M. Cock
rell AMI ]. w. Fifer were among the
witnesses yesterday before the sem
/ ate Interstate commerce committee
whose Investigation of railroad rates
has almost drawn to a close.
Commissioner Fifer spoke of rebates
and cutting and said they were in
duced by railroad men distrustlng
each other. Rates, he said, should be
made by the railroads in the first
place, but should be subject to revis-
ion.
He said that the committee would
adjust rate complained of in accord
ance with rates on like commodities
in other sections under like condi-
tons.
He thought the adjustment Of the
long and short haul difficulties had
been left to the commission.
He believed that the power Of rate
regulation, if given to the commission.
would not be exercised very often, as
the roads would be careful not to get
into trouble with the commission when
changing rates.
The commission, he added, would
nave power TO lower OF raise rates To
prevent determinations.
ofnmissioner Fifer spoke of the
DANCE. of government ownership un-
less there were just laws justly admin
tstereil.
Former United States Senator Cock
rell of Missouri. now member of the
commission, said that he would leave
the origination of rates to the rail-
roads. giving the commission power to
condemn rate found to be unreason-
able, and to fix another rate in it's
place to take effect Immediately. The
railroads, he continued, should have
the right of appeal to the courts. and
the latter should determine whether
the railroad rate was unreasonable or
the commissions rate unreasonable. If
congress should enact law to this
effect, HI. said. the courts would take
jurisdiction of rates to the extent of
deciding this question.
This would make the railroads re-
eponsible for icing and other charges
Of private car lines.
Commissioner Cockrell cited num-
ber OF cases where decisions of lower
courts sustaining the commission in
railway matters had been reversed by
the supreme court.
He did this to show that the judic
tary was divided on these rate cases
IN one case he pointed out that Secre
tary Taft was member of the court
of appeals which sustained the com
mission.
S. a. cowan. representing the live
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23
WINS PlckARD PRIZE.
Cherokee Boy First In Debating Con-
test at University.

Special to Times Republican.
Iowa City, May 23.-F. q. Snedicor,
of Cherokee, Iowa, was given the
award e,f the judges in the contest for
the Pickard prize in extempore debat-
ing, winning from ten competitors who
Represented the best debating interests
of the university.
The question debated was, Resolved
That the action of the prudential COM
mittee of the American Board of For
eign Missions in accepting the Rookie
feller gift of 100000 was justifiable.
Nine OF the eleven men entered evil
IDENTIFY thought it was justifiable,
including the winner and only two ar
gued against the taking of the pollut-
ed lucre.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23
UN[NICH may
1AKE OFFENSIVE
News From the Front Continues
to Indicate the Imminence
Of a Big Battle
...u ee AccpEsSoR
RUSSIA MAY BE AeeREssoR
q. Petersburg Says There Is No
Doubt Linevitch Has Made Com
p,ete Prep aration For General En-
sasement-- nt--Report That Rojestve"-
sky Is Dead seoffed At.

4 T y
st, Petersburg, May 2S.-Ne"s from
4ba front continues to point to the I'M
,,,anca of a renewal Of fighting on a
,ar.a scale. Linevitch is pressing the
Jananese center both on the llne ol
+he railway and on the Mandrln roao'
MT yhether he is simply feeling out
oyama's strength or has assumed .
genuine offensive is not yet clear.
There is no doubt, however, LlneVltcn
Ras made complete preparation for a
hir battle. All the sicR and WOUNDED
at Harbin have been transported west
ward TO Irkutsk and orders have peen
.,van to clear intervening hospitals.
st. Petersburg, May 2s.-The Asso-
c,ated Fress was informed at the ad-
,,iraltv today that no direct advices
had been received from Rojestvensky
Tor ten days, when it is believed ne set
out on his long voyage. The report OF
Ro,estyensky's death is ridiculed at
the admiralty.
$. rhe .,en,iing Of vice Admiral Biz
i,off to v1adivostok 1t is now explained
1. Z natural precautionary measure 1or
the purpose Of having an energetic
rnmmarder at vladivostok to replace
Roiesty,.nsky in the event the latter Is
ailled or disabled during the coming
aea figflt. no doubt being entertained
that if the fleets come together Togo,s
vessels will concentrate their fire on;
the Ruisis.n flagship. 8.
Toxic May 23.-The imperial army
headquarters reporting today, says:
.,The Russian cavalry which detoured
toward Fakumen from the right bank
OF the Liao river was frequently de-
feated by our rear guards. On May
40 after their failure in the vicinity
OF Tafangshan they camped with the
main strength at Siaotatzu, twenty six
miles from Fakumen, and on May q
they retreated to the right bank of the
Malien river. In the meantime the
few companies of the enemy's force
remaining on the left bank of the
Malien river were defeated and re-
treated northward in disorder. Other
wise the situation is unchanged"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23
HAY WILL VISIT PARIS.
Arrangements Made for Him to Meet
Former Minister Delcasse.

Former Minister Delcasse.
Berlin, May 23.-Ambassador Tower
called on Chancellor Won Buelow yes
terday with message to the chancel-
lor from Secretary Hay regretting he
will be unable to come to Berlin, on
the advice of his physician, and call
upon the chancellor.
Paris May 23.-Secretary Hay will
arrive here next Monday for stay of
two days. Arrangements have been
made for him to meet Foreign Minister
DelcaSse.
Bad Nauheim, May 23.-Dilation Of
Secretary Hays heart, a functional
disorder for which he came here to be
treated has, according to Professor
Groede entirely disappeared. The
professor pronounces Hay a we'll man.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23
ANOTHER RESTRAINING ORDER.
Federal Court Enjoins Goodrich Com
pany From Refusing to Transport

Chicago, May 23-An INDUCTION re-
straining the Goodrich Transportation
Company from refusing to accept
goods consigned to Montgomery Ward
& Company, and other strike bound
houses in Chicago was issued today by
Federal Judge Kohlsaat. A letter pur
porting to have been sent by the gen
eral freight agent of the Goodrich
Company instructing agents to refuse
to accept for transportation goods con-
signed to boycotted housesi was pre-
sented in court as a basis for the re-
quest for the restraining order.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23
Court Trims Doctors Fee.

Chicago May pa claim of $780,
900 for medical service by DR.. L. c.
Ziegler, of Chicago. against the es-
tate of Harriet McVicker, widow of the
well known theatrical manager, was
disallowed yesterday by Judge c. S.
Cutting, of the probate court. Judge
Cutting held that the claim was ex-
cessive He instructed DR.. Ziegler to
present another one of more moderate
proportions. A claim for $4,000 under
4 contract exhibited in court was al
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23
PARAMOUNT PARK OPENED.
Immense Crowd Taxes Street Car
Company at Council Bluffs to the
aecial to Times-Republiean

Special to Times-Republiean.
Council Bluffs, May 23.-Nearly TO-
900 people attended the opening OF
Fairmount park Sunday. spending the
afternoon in listening to the sweet
music of Covalt's band. The street car
company was taxed to its limit to han
die the immense crowd. Many people
who planned to go went back to their
homes rather than crowd into the
packed street cars. 1t is thought that
the crowd yesterday was the larges'
that has ever been at Fairmount in
one day.
Immense crowds are expected to at
tend the opening Of Lake Manawa park
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23

next Sunday. Several of the railroads
are figuring on running special trains
from Missouri as far south as Chilli
cothe, Mo-, which is 1S5 miles from this
CITY, Covalt's band will furnish the
music for the occasion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23
A WRECK ON l. { N.

southbound Passenger Runs Into a
Washout and Three Pullman Sleep
ers Go Into the Ditch-Nobody Was
Killed.
Louisville, KY, May 2s.-The Louis
vile & Nashville passenger train.
southbound, ran into washout near
Columbia, Tenn, early today. A sec
ton of the trestle gave way under the
weight of three Pullman sleepers.
Eight or ten passengers were slightly
injured, but nobody was killed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23
PAGE ONE.

PAGE ONE
Telegraphic News.
Linevitch Prepares For Battle.
He May Assume the Offensive.
More Teamsters Struck Today.
Next Move Will Be Troops.
Two Bank Failures.
Machen Given Two More Years.
Backing Cummins' Arguments.
PAGES TWO AND THREE
Iowa News.
An Experiment With Posts.
Grundy Mulct Petition Fails.
Contest For An Estate.
Dennison Trial Begun Todaye
A Jury Easily Secured.
A Fire at Storm Lake.
PAGE FOUR.
Editorial.
Japs Excel in Oyster Farming.
Spare the Widows and Orphans.
The Country Boy in Trouble.
Topics Of the Times.
Iowa Opinions and Notes.
A Woman's Point Of View.
PAGE FIVE.
Miscellaneous.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Miscellaneous News.
PAGES SIX AND SEVEN.
Local News.
No Light On Wilbur Suicide.
INQUEST Held This Afternoon.
Grays Take Last From Burlington
Corkhill Reports For Duty.
Fraternal Celebration COMMITTEES
Appointed.
City Wants Barber Co. In.
The City Field.
PAGE EIGHT.
General Market News.
Wheat Ruled Higher.
Board of Trade Quotations.
The Live Stock Market.
Condition of the Crops.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23
NEVADA BANK FAILS.
LiabiIitis. Nearly 10000, Assets Only
$3.50. 4

Goldheld, New. May 2s. The Gold-s
field Bank and Trust Company, with
liabilities Of $4,000, has failed. The
assets SO far discovered are $4,Sz0.
There was SIC in the vault and -
gold piece was found under the coun-
ter. "A most disorganized state OF az
fairs seems to exist in the books OF the
bank. J. B. Young, president of the
bank. is also president Of the Goldheld
Ida. Investment Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23
WILL PRESENT PLAY.
The s Glass at GrinnelI to Give "The
optimist."
snecial TO Times-Republican.

Special to Tlmes-RepubEcan.
Grinnell, May 23.-The B class play
which, next to the graduating exer-
cises is the event of the high school
year is scheduled for next Friday
night at the Colonial theater. Hard
and careful work has been put upon
the preparation under the direction of
Professor Ryan of the college, and
there. is promise of an evening full OF
interest to all listeners. Under the
title of ''The Optimist." a dramatized
adaptation of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cab
bage Patch and Lovey Mary will be
presented, the general arrangement
management and responsibility being
in the hands of High School Principal
T. FL Ziegler. The following is the
ca ST of characters:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23
Senate Hearino Closed.

Washington, May 23.-The senate
onanlittee on interstate commerce.
which has been investigating the rate
question, decided to close the hearing
today.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23
400 MULES BURNED
Sale. Stables at St. Louis Destroyed
and Four Hundred Mules Were
cremated-The Loss Estimated at
100000,

East st. Louis, H., May 2s.-over
four hundred mules perished in a fire
that destroyed the sales stables OF
Maxwell & Crouch & Sparts Brothers
at the national stock yards. The loss
is 100000. j,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23
T-.R. BULLETIN.
NOTICEABLE NEWS OF TODAY
Weather.

Sun rises May "a, 4:36; sets, 1918.
Iowa-Generally fair tonight and
Wednesday, except showers in the ex-
treme west.
Illinois-Fair tonight and Wednes-
day, except possibly showers in the ex-
treme south tonight.
South Dakota-Probably showers to-
night and Wednesday.
Missouri-Fair tonight and probably
Wednesday.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23
OFFICIALS FIRED
Another Startling Chapter in the Phil
adephia Gas Fisht-Mayor Demands
designations That May Precipitate a
Fight in the Council.

Philadelphia, May 23-Director of
Public Works Costello and Director Of
Public Safety Smith today, at the re-
quest Of Mayor Weaver, rendered their
designations. This is the latest and
most startling development in the fight
against the lease for seventy-fi five years
Of the city gas works. to the United
Gas Improvement Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-23

Ex-Railroad Commissioner Frank 7.
Campbell is still in the city and is
making study of the rate question at
the state house. He will remain here
for ten days more. Mr.. Campbell is
taking up the question in detail, much
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-25
MIR. RYAN's PERSONALITY
The New Power in the Insurance World
Thinks Much but Says Little.

Thinks Much but Says Little.
D. T. Pierce in The World Today.
In politics and philanthropy Mr..
Ryan has moved as quietly as in the
business and financial world. He is
still resident of Virginia, where he
has a 4,000-acre estate. In the st.
Louis convention last year he sat as a
delegate from his native state. MIR.
Belmont and Mr.. Sheehan wefe> most
prominent in the management OF the
Parker campaign, but before 1t was
over no one gave more advice or money
to the Parker forces than did Mr.. Ryan.
In New York his relations with Tam
many are friendly, but not intimate, for
Ryan is. democrat of the Cleveland
Parker sort and Tammany politics does
not seem to interest him.
To learn that Thomas F. Ryan as a
dispenser Of charity has given away
several million dollars in a few years
$5,000,000, some say is almost as sur
prising as the realization that he is a
| financial power second only to Rookie
Teller. Catholic institutions, schools,
churches and hospitals are the principal
benefciaries, but the whole list of them
would make varied exhibit of Mr..
Ryan IS interests, His wife is his al
] moner, and the Fifth avenue house at
the corner of Twelfth street contains
4 a well-equipped bureau for handling
the many demands made upon the Ryan
purse One cannot help counting it to
/ his credit that he has given away SO
much and let SO little about his gifts
become known.
An interview with Mr.. Ryan is apt to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-25

i, ?
horse to suffer from flies, but that is
the limit of such affietion. With the
.docked tail it is different. The horse
not only is robbed OF his natural fly
brush, but has to submit to an opera
tion that is sheer brutality, and mex
cusab1e at that, since it does not i'm
the The eyes Of the morbidly fantastic.
Mrs. Cuyler, who returned from the
other. side last week in the Philadel-
phia, says the fashion lis dying out rap
idly in England and she hopes its de
cline there will be followed by q CORE
spending movement here. 1t is whis-
pered she shortly will found an anti
cruelty society, or q branch OF the s
P. G. A., to be devoted exclusively to
thing Mrs. Cuyler undertakes in that
line is likely to be d success, Judging
from her. past achievements.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-25
WAR PARTED FRIENDS
Baroness Rosen and Mrs. Takahira
Were Almost Inseparable.
New York Press

Two women in Washington feel
grateful to President Roosevelt for the
great strides he has taken toward a
cessation of hostilities in Manchuria.
They are dear friends, yet their coun-
tries are in arms against each other,
and these wives Of diplomats cannot
even have friendly chat over the tel
ephone. If they did, little bird
would flutter toward st. Petersburg
and another to Toxic with betrayal Of
their secret. After all that, it is
doubtless unnecessary TO say that one
Of the women is Baroness Rosen, wife
of the new Russian ambassador, who
succeeds Count Cassini, the other Mrs.
Takahira, whose clever husband coop
Grated with the president in the early
peace preliminaries. The baroness met
Mrs. Takahira when her husband rep
resented Russia in the mikado's CAPT
tai. A warm friendship sprang up and
was maintained at long distance by
correspondence, until the outbreak of
trouble in Korea. When this cruel war
boudoir Of one or the other for "a
good, long talk.
The daughter of the baroness, by the
way, is likely to prove an acceptable
successor to Countess Cassini. She is
younger woman than the countess,
and has fewer Partisan frivolities, but
she is Russian to her finger tipssand q
great admirer of American girls. She
has had liberal education, and, owing
to the important posts her father has
held, has seen several of the world Is
most important capital cities She is
jolly, and it may be.set down as a Ger.
l'tainty that she will figure conspicuous.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-25
BUTTERFLY FARM IN A CITY
A New Yorker Produces Wonderful
= = New Forms in Els Home.

A New Yorker Produces Wonderful
New Forms in His Home.
Chicago Chronicle.
To create butterflies Of new and gor-
geous colors in city fiat is the hobby
pursued by DR.. Otto 5Seifert at his home
in East Eighty-fourth street.
It was in his boyhood home in Han
over, Germany, that he first became in
terested in butterflies. His father did
not want him to play in the street, so
he sent him to-. the. woods and fields.
And the ladSspeedily became a stu den t;
and collector Of butterflies. He came
to America in 1878 and was in the drug
business for thirty-fve years, but con-
tinued his collecting and his experiments
with butterflies. s#
Now he has butterflies by. thousands
and is raising more all the time. Cater
pillars are coming to him from friends
in all parts of the world. They restrict
him in his movements.
II wanted to go to- Europe this
year, - he said the other day, but !
have now so many caterpillars that 1
could not leave Them ~
DR.. fSeifert has taken butterfly COM
mon from Labrador to the Cape Of Good
Hope and by the icebox or the lncu-
bator method he has achieved specimens
which have al individuality of their
own. He has taken butterflies famil-
iarly known in the fields around New
York and by subjecting the chrysallds
to extremes Of heat and cold has OBJ
|. tanned forms that would 5,probably be-
long to both Canada and FLORIDA. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-25
! WAGES OF LAZINESS.
Columbus Dispatch.

cold Hiram spruceby was the lazi-
est man these parts ever seen, S s. re-
marked the postmaster at Bacon Ridge.
1sWas he really SO very lazyY'' inter
rogated the soap drummer.
r Lazy! Why, would you believe it,
when he wanted a chicken killed he
would tie it out il the road and wait
for automobile to run over it. That s
"a fact, stranger. One day he wanted a
bullock killed and he tied that out thar,
too. s.s
And + suppose racing machine
came tearing, along and then there was
fresh beef9
g Nothing Of the kind, stranger.
When that thar bullock seen the racing
machine coming he just lowered his
head and tossed. it: clean over Hiram g
barn. Now Hiram has four damage
suits on band and a new roof to put on
! his. barn.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-25
THE HORSES, FRIEND
Mrs T. De Witt Cuyler Of Philadelphia
Opposes Mutilation.
New York Pres:

49, New OK FreSS. - 81
q, Now that one Of the most influential
women in Quaker city society, Mrs.
Thomas De Witt Cuyler, is understood
to be keen against the docking of
horses tails, It is possible the long
Wanted crusade to abolish the practice
really will be begun, not in New York,
as was expected, but in staid Philadel-
.phia. After all, it perhaps is fitting
that the movement should derive i'm
petus from that center, for the conser-
vatives Quakers were the last to adopt
the silly English fad. It is
difficult. apparently, to make the aver
age society woman understand what
agony is entailed upon horse by the
cruel practice. Removal Of several
sections from the human spine hardly
could be more painful. The trouble
is most. persons confuse locked tail
with one that is merely banged. The
banged tail is comparatively harmless,
since it is cut off below the tail proper,
and necessitates nothing more than
cropping the loose hairs below the
deshy part. Of course,sthat-c causes the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-25
THE SANITARY ONION
Good for Most Everything, from Deaf
ness to Gumbojis

Milwaukee Press.
have implicit faith in the sanitary
properties of an onion" said trained
nurse. 1T is my custom to introduce
an onion into every sickroom where L
am called in, hanging it up somewhere.
! believe it attracts all maladies and
infections to itself. Violets and roses
and the patient is doubtless cheered
when his friends think enough of him
to send them, but practical friendship
would dictate that a basket of onions
be sent. There is something about them
hostile to disease. The juice of an
onion is cure for deafness, a roasted
onion remedies earache and gumboils,
and onions and holly berries bruised to-
gether are a certain curesfor chilblanes.
A poultice of onions and cream is also
good for bunions. Beau Brummelf was
opposed to onions, but Sairy Camp up
held them, and always considered her
than the dandy"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-25
WONDERFUL.
Columbus Dispatch.

sWe have wonderful echo up in
these mountains" said the proprietor
of the Mist Inn, as he showed the new
boarder around the premises. just
yell as loud as you can, will you have
smile 7'''
q All. said the new boarder, 81 sup
pose It answers back, Will you have
smile
!" Nothing of the kind. It answers
back, :Sure!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-25

be very one-sided affair. The inter.
viewer does most of the talking. while
the man who is supposed to talk only
listens Those who have business deal
ings with the capitalist find him the
same taciturn individual, the sort of
man who is thinking too hard to talk.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-25

ly in Washington society in the coming
season. Alice Roosevelt naturally will
miss her chum, Countess Marguerite,
but it is possible she will find an equal
ly interesting companion in the, new
diplomat IS daughter.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-25
FAMOUS NURSE
IS YEARS old.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE STILL
LIVING IN LONDON.

She Longs to Take Part In the Red
Cross Work In Manchuria-W What She
Says Of the Profession Of Nursing -
An Art That Cannot Be Taught Dy
Formula IN cessity Of Sympathy.