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Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-16
American Frgae Captured In 1875 sdN Lies

YING in the River Thames is a
frigate captured by the British
from America in 1915. Its name
is the President.
Few persons knew of the existence
of this old vessel until the other day,
when Lord Charles Beresford, COM
mander in chief of the Mediterranean
squadron, hoisted his flag at her peak
to signify that he had assumed his
new charge.
The story Of how the President came
to be a British prize is interesting
She was surrendered to overwhelming
odds by Captain Stephen Decatur out
side Sandy Hook, having been cut to
pieces in battle with superior ves-
sci and then surrounded by four 9TH
ers Escape was utterly out of the
question. and so her flag was hauled
down.
Hands Across the Sea" may get a
rude shock now that the case Of the
Preaident has been made public There
may be, however, way 10 save the
jar by peTsuading England TO hand
back the captured frigate. She was a
splendid ship when built and might
now be able to come across unde pro
per convoy and care.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-16

while the President made an effort to
repair the damage done and 70 shake
off the three other pursuers, which by
this time had been joined by brig,
and all of them were gaining rapidly
en the American frigate.
When the four ships had come with
in gunshot, at eleven o'clock. the Po-
mona one of them, at once began bat
tie within musket shot distance. rhile
the Tenedos, within two cable lengths,
and the Majestic and the Dispatch.
even closer astern, all opene1 iire,
Surrounded by force vastly super.
ior to his own and with ona-fifth Of
his crew either dead or crippled, and
his ship in such condition thas to sail
away was impossible, Captain Deea-
tur decided that it was his -uty to
surrender. which he did by hoistlng a
light to indicate his purpose.
. The Presidents force was thirty-two
long twenty-fonr pound guns, one
pound carronades ana Ave
small pieces in her tops
on the President twenty-four men
were killed and ifty-slx wounded The
lost eleven killed and four
teen wounded. There were 70 cas-
ualties on the other ships.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-16

which obstruct the harbor, and for
five hours she was detained.
AS squadron Of British ships had
been blockading the harbor for sew
eral weeks and had been blown off bv
a gale, the opportunity to run the
President outside had been seized BY
Captain Decatur. The mishap caused
by the pilot was therefore particularly
unfortunate, resulting as it probably
did in the loss to America of the fine
frigate.
Early on the morning of January is,
while Captain Decatur was headed
southeast by east, he made out three
strange sail, all within shot and all
directly ahead of the President. The
American vessel then was hauled up
and passed to the northward, three
miles distant.
When the day came 1t was found
that there were four ships in pursuit
of the President. Two were astern
and one ON either quarter. The nearest
ship was only three miles away.
Decatur had ON board large guam
tity Of stores, for use on a long cruise,
and he at once took steps to tighten
his ship, Anchors were cut away wa
ter casks emptied. provisions. cables.
spars. boats and all other articles that
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-16
I1A
.adelphia
Since the

man with new view Of his response
bilties, with an awakened conscience
and with q keen perception OF the
meaning Of irresistible power Of public
opinion that is thoroughly aroused and
that finds adequate expression through
the press and at public meetings
Yet when Mayor Weaver vetoed the
resolution by which councils approved
this lease It was not presumed by the
ring that he was doing anything more
than making perfunctory and inslncere
attempts to recognize public sentiment.
His old famiiars of the ring were not
seriously concerned at that veto, since
it was presumed that councils would
pass it over the veto. But Philadelphia
was awakened, as New York was under
the leadership of Samuel ]. Tilden,
Charles O'Connor and others In the
spring of 1871. Besides. It was speedily
learned by those who were voicing
public sentiment that Mayor Weaver
fully recognized the authority of that
public voice, and had, with amazing
swiftness determined upon a course by
which these public protests could be
made effective.
Those who have been in close touch
with this gigantic struggle in Philadel-
phia insist that although Mayor
Weaver was careful to seek sound legal
opinion, yet he had no doubt as to
what his authority was or as to what
Ia 90 tsI.A l. It,
seems to be comparable with some of
those historical, sudden transforms
ations of character. Instead of being
a complacent, easy going public Off
cial shading his eyes and stopping his
ears, but not otherwise participating
in evil Vaccinations, he became in a
moment the leader, acting on consci-
ence, having good knowledge of his au-
thority and having received a sudden
understanding of how best he could use
that authority.
1t would have required courage for
any mayor to have turned face and
begun offensive warfare against so
powerfully intrenched a ring as that
of Philadelphia. 1t was ring which
was identified with some Of the great
financiers; it was in absolute control
of the party organization, and it mas
tered the councils. But it required es-
pecial courage for mayor who, like
Weaver, owed his various successive
promotions in life to the favor of this
ring, to turn and attack it. To do that
compelled a sort of self-confession that
he had been heretofore negligent, toll
Grant, permissive. Besides, almost all
the members of this ring had been per-
sonal friends, some of them enjoying
special intimacy with him.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-16
FOR EXPEDITIONS SHOPPING
Londons New Air Tube Service VIII
RevoIutionize Package Delivery

dSHd9C GClibCII
From the Philadelphia Ledger
The scheme authorized by bill in
parliament to provide the whole of the
huge city of London with an air tube
service for the carriage of parcels is
ambitious if not startling; yet the mar
velous development of public utilities
in these days gives pause to those who
at first blush might regard the project
of the Metropolitan Delivery company
as beyond the realm of the feasible.
The scheme aims to substitute for the
present slow methods Of the parcels
post and other deliveries in London a
system of pneumatic underground
tubes, in which purchases at the stores
would be shot to their destination at
the rate Of thirty miles an hour. The
project must overcome powerful oppo-
sition and will be delayed, but as rule
public utilities which are feasible are
eventually introduced.
In the hearing before the parliamen-
tary committee appointed to consider
the matter it was shown that the aver
age time required for the delivery of
parcels by the postoffice in London Is
about three hours. BY the proposed
system it was asserted that parcels
could be delivered anywhere in the city
in 4 average OF one hour, an average
saving of two hours for each parcel
The London postoffice and delivery
companies charge according to weight
and size. The tube company offers a
fixed charge for all parcels under fifteen
pounds, and the toll will be less than
that charged by any existing method
of conveyance.
1t was urged that the company could
deliver but a small fraction of the vast
number of parcels delivered by the
London shops. The companys engineer
estimated over third of this enormous
traffic could be accommodated by the
pneumatic service. 1t was declared
that 217,4S6. 900 parcels are distributed
in the metropolis yearly, and that the
company could take care of S0,000,0OO.
The promoters seemed to be prepared to
meet all objections to the practicability
Of the scheme. Counsel opposing the
bill endeavored to show that large
proportion of the parcels sent out by
the LoLdon shops could not be shot
through the twelve-inch tubes proposed
Che company, anticipating the objec-
tion, had kept watch at the great de-
partment stores and found that "a per
cent of the parcels sent out were tube
able"
While the proposed system would
greatly facilitate deliveries OF shoppers
parcels TO the 172 receiving stations.
this method Of carriage would scarcely
be accepted as satisfactory subst-
tute for the home delivery of the days
purchases, but Il is imaginable that the
perfected parcel tube system Of tbs
future Win have its connection with
every house. 50 that the goods win
reach home long before the most expe-
ditlous shopper arrives there.
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vice panderers and mongers. So the
reports went all over the United States
that in Philadelphia, the city of homes
and of churches, whose name has been
synoym for morality and quiet,
orderly family life, a mayor was serv-
peals Of hundreds of clergymen and of
good citizens. 1t was at this time May
or Weaver was under the humiliation of
these accusations, and when his name
typified to good citizens all over the
country the most shameless association
of executive authority with things that
were evil that he received his kinsmen
from across the sea, and, as guest
of the railroad company, took them to
the Pacific coast. Looking back from
this time to that anti-yice crusade Of
tlie spring and winter, II Is now easy
| to see that that movement was the
leaven which made the magnificent
popular uprising of Philadelphia of
early June not merely possible, but sue
cessful.
1t undoubtedly quickened Mayor
Weaver's conscience. He began to see
public life and personal responsibility
from another point of view than that
with which he had been familiar
throughout his career. He then first
appreciated the irresistible power that
is in the public conscience when that
conscience is thoroughly aroused and
has suitable expression.
Immediately following this great
demonstration in Philadelphia in the
name of good morals and good citizen
ship and purity of life, there came the
eliminating and most audaciouS prop
osition of those who were the real po-
litical power in that city. With the
details of that the public is now suffi-
ciently familiar 1t involved what was
described at the great Academy of
Music meeting in Philadelphia as a
colossal public robbery 1t was the final
at last gets the mastery of those who
make untimely and unlawful profit
through the control of the administra-
tion of city and the power of entering
into contracts involving large or small
sums of money 1t has been figured
that this gas lease, had it been made,
would have resulted in purloining from
Philadelphia many millions more than
were secured from New York by the
operations of the so-calIed Tweed ring.
The Psychological Moment
So completely were the councils of
Philadelphia under the mastery of the
ring that this proposed gas lease was
ratified by an overwhelming majority
And it was just at the moment of that
ratification that Mayor Weaver re-
turned from the trip to the Pacific, a
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-16

ploring and moral citizens asked him
to act But there was no understanding
of his powerlessness and he was open
ly accused of a willingness still to
serve in the interests of political
ring, some members of which were pre-
sumed to receive tribute from these
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-16

Tossing that he agreed fully with the
moral sentiments expressed. neverthe-
less could not be persuaded to take the
kind of action that was urged upon
him to take, He had the best legal
advice for his course. He was power
less under the law to act as these i'm
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-16

There We're public prayer meetings,
with appeals to heaven that Mayor
Weaver might be so moved as to sup
press and ultimately destroy these evil
practices.
Plea of PowerIessness
Mayor Weaver himself, while con-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-01
Supervisors of Boone
Plan to Save Somethi|
y the Poor Fund !
NEW SYSTEM is ESTABLISHED
Contract or Asreementwith These Per-
sons Receiving Aid Provides Amount
/ Shall be Refunded If the, Recipient
I 10 Ever Able to Pay-lowa News of
Interest.
Special to Tlmes-kepubllcan.

Boone, Feb 1.-The board of super
Wilson's of Boone county have adopted
unique plan for their transactions
with the poor. Hereafter all persons
receiving aid from the county will be
required to sign an agreement to the
effect that If the person signing such
agreement should die possessed of any
property, the county is to receive back
the amount given the person while a
live. The agreement also provides that
If at any time the person receiving aid
shall become possessed of above legal
exemptions and that an accounting
shall be had In five years or at prior
time If the party receiving aid shall
become of possessed of property exempt.
Nhe agreement also provides that the
account shall draw 6 per cent interest
and shall be first lien against all
property of the party aided in case, OF
his death. The aim of the supervis-
prs is to recover for money and pro-
visions furnished families who become
well to do or leave property to rela-
lives who allow their people to become
county charges
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-01
Almost Frozen to Death,

pecial to Times Republicans.
Davenport Feb. Fired Jacobs, who
lys that his home Is at Dixon. Ia, was
ound wandering In the road last
light about mile from Walcott by
'harles Halter. who resides near that
olace. He Was almost frozen to death
when found, and was In pitiable
condition. Both his hands and feet
we're encased in sacks, and when the
covering was removed 1t was found
that both were badly frozen.
Mr. Haller at once brought the vic
tim to Walcott. where his injuries were
given another examination. Jacobs
claimed that he was suffering from
rheumatism.
Yesterday afternoon Jacobs was
brought to the county Jail in Daven-
port and here County Physician Bare
valid will take care of him. The VIC
tim is young man about % years of
age, and claims that he has resided In
Dixon all his life. 1t is not known as
yet Just what disposition will be made
oP tho case
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-01
70 BENEFIT |HE POOR
PlausibleSchem fLand Coloni-
zation to Help Without
Pauperizing Them
GOOD THING FOR GOVERNMENT
Plan is for the Settler Who Receives
the Loans to Repay Them to the
Government in Ten, Fifteen or
Twenty Yearly Payments-Has Been
Already Proved Successful.
Government in
Special to TImes-Republlcar.

SpeCLHl 10
Iowa city. Feb. /. Among the
many schemes that have been present
fit of the poor, one of the most attrac-
tive to the student of social science is
that of land colonization. Booth
Tucker of the Salvation Army, states
the proposition very clearly in a very
few words: The manless land for the
landless man: also, to place unemploy-
ed labor on unemployed land by means
of unemployed capital and thereby con-
vert this trinity of waste into u unity
OF production"
So declares Clarence w. Wassam a
graduate student in the school of poll
tical and social science, who has al
ready made and is now continuing an
exhaustice study into social ameliora-
ton in the United States.
There is in every city in the Uni
ted States a large number of men who
are honest, thrifty and worthy, but who
have two failings which make them
absolutely helpless, % a large family
has been proposed to relieve this con-
dition. is very simple. The government
loans to bona fide settlers sums suffi-
cient to start them on the farm and
to buy them stock and machinery. This
sums ranges from $500 up to $1,000,
and the settler repays the same to the
government In ten, fifteen, or twenty
yearly payments, with interest at six
per cent. AS security for the govern
ment the settler gives a first mort
gage on the land.
1T is evident that the present nat
ional system of turning government
land over into the hands of speculat-
ors and dummy settlers has proved q
failure. The reclamation act of 1902
is about to open up for settlement a
large area of western land. 1t is i'm
portant that this land should go into
the hands of homeseekers rather than
SPECTATORS The colonization scheme
outlined above would bring about such
result. 1t will not only help the
poor without pNuperizing them, but
will be a good investment for the gov
eminent. The plan is favored by some
of the best statesmen of our country.
Scrip, the great newspaper man. the
late Senators Hanna and Hoar, James
Wilson, secretary of agriculture, John
B. Dill and many others of less promi-
hence.
",rhe Salvation Army has already es-
tablished three such colonies, one in
California, one in Colorado and one in
England. In every instance they have
been successful and the settlers are
steadily paying back to the organiza-
ton which rescued them from the gut
tiers, the money that was so expended.
But Tucker realizes that the work Is
too large one for private individual!
to undertake. 1t is national in Its
scope and should therefore be in the
hands of government commission"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-01

Wall Lake.
William Blum shot and killed full
grown female wolf last Saturday on
the farm of Charles Firth. He receiv-
cd a bounty of So from the county.
Clarion.
The cement block company has
about completed it's arrangements and
will incorporate in a short time. 1t
will be capitalized at $4,000.
ShelIsburg.
The Iowa. Canning Company at
Shelsburg has nearly 1900 acres of
corn contracted for to supply the
demand of the factory for the coming
season.
EddyviIe.
c. B. Fisher, one of the old settlers
Of this locality passed away at his
home Saturday evening, after a pro-
longed illness of several months from
cancer of the stomach.
Hawarden.
The S. H. Carr forgery case is one
of the matters that is being probed into
by the grand jury. 1t is understood
that delegation from Ireton appear
ed before them and demanded that an
investigation be made.
Forest City.
T. L. Felland, pioneer resident of
Mount Valley township, died al the
family home after lingering illness.
The cause of death may be attributed
to complication of diseases. Mr..
Fellands health had been poor for
many months.
Newton.
Thomas Malicoat came to town early
Monday morning with broken wrist
which was duly cared for at the New
ton sanitarum. Mr.. Mallicoat had
gone out to the barn to feed his stock
when too-friendly colt crowded him
against the side of it's stall with the
result that one of the bones Of the left
wrist was badly fractured.
Clear Lake.
Miss Louise Clay fell down the cellar
stairs Tuesday forenoon and sustained
an injury to the head which rendered
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-01

Anna has created the most sensation.
She gets markings of 100 in all of
her studies, buA this has been only
since her marvellous mental power has
been disclosed 10 her. She is able to
read the teacheks mind. Her teacher,
Miss Wilma CRAZY, never has to explain
n problem to HER. but once. now and
the girl has Ut clearly fixed In her
! mind after that Il work eight prob
Mems in arithnhetic." she says, while
Ahe other scholars are working two"
Durh IL the denominations last week
the teal cher gTew suspicious that Anna
was mi hiking difference to her books in
side or her tesk because her papers
We're SO perfect and she proceeded to
take he bool}s away from her
'Y1H II cant take the books If you
want said ANNA with n smile but
/ car see fright thru the backs of
the books jnyway. and see the eN-
amp rs in there, all worked out"
Tlye girl is In the sixth grade. but
EXPECTS to be promoted the coming
week. Shel has missed four years of
schooling bdeause she has had to stay
at d home and help her mother with the
hoW sework J II know can do the
eigxlth gradb work" she said because
l XIV SONG of their questions on the
bl4 ckboardl the other day and could
an}swer all tof them. 1t makes me feel
ba1lly to think the teacher thought
might be aheating by looking in the
books. | feel as If could get along in
thje high school"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-01

you, or ! will shoot you dead
/ got very faint and told him that
couldn't l asked him to bring me
home and we would hitch up.
He said: Il won't do 1t, you VIII
have to walk
lie then ordered me to pick up the
package. | piclset, it up and put 1T in
my pocket Then we started towards
town. He had Il repeating single bar
rel gun had to lay down six or eight
times going to town. He wanted me
To Walk right up To Jack Spies office
told him / could not do It, so we
stopped ut Or. Macs house. Then
Jones came and took me home.
@. Did you know anything about
the package before You went to the
stacker. on the morning of April :,
1904?
y. No. sir
G. Did you ever write amy letter
to Mr.. Spies i'm any manner, asking
him for money or threatening to burn
his property il he did not put $1,000 or
any other sum in the weight box, or
any other place?
A.--No, sir ! did not. I never wrote
a letter to Mr.. Jake Spies at ali, at any
time.
Signed this ath day of April, 1904.
Signed by his X mark. III. N. Deeter.
Witnesses to mark M. T. Axelton,
Nj. c. Sevold.
Subscribed by mark X and sworn to
before me by said H. N. Deeter. this
18th day of April. 1904.
S. r. STEADMAN,
Justice of the Peace.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-01
SIOUX CITY SECOND EVA FAY.
Sixteen Year-oId Girl Reads Right
Thru Her Book Covers.

Thru Her Book Covers.
Sioux City, Feb. accomplishing
feats of extraordinary mental power
Miss Anna Christy Miller, aged 16, a
pretty girl who attends the Armstrong
school in Sioux City, promises to equal
in her wonderful psychological powers
the famous Anna Eva Fay, of Bos-
ton, who has mystif1ed audiences in
the large cities for several years and
who has appeared in Sioux City a num-
Der Of times in her amazing exhibition
of mind reading.
The Sioux City girl, altho she has
been aware of her unusual mental at
tainments but three weeks, is capable
of performing feats that are just as
startling and just as mysterious as
those executed by Boston's fair ma
hatma," whose strange powers have
made her large fortune.
Altho the gitl has known that
she could tell by instinct things that
We're going to happen" the extent Of
her strange pow r was discovered by
accident all in ONE evening at the home
of Mrs. Mahany The revelation was
much more startling to others than
to the modest schoolgirl who possessed
them. At homie one evening some of
those assembled believed Anna could
do a few .triqk ks" They hid some
thing in the pArlor and she was sent
aSerward to fihd 1t which she did.
me girl became intensely interested
..,,.a lfold mel she said land hold
sa,,,n.,Sne up before me, and l believe
II yo,i what it is" She was
s,,oaassenI and described number Of
thi,,.s ~. kre held up before her or
e en,nsI ,e sha' ~. y oss the room Her ex-
,I.natia, s that she got mental
nictnra of he object, but by what
,na.ns she not know. But you
,,,,,s+ +h,,,l, put the article" she adj
,.isad ~ ~ hple manner. giving the
idea that h 800 uepei'4eu upon
mental com on e
Sc, Scnoo'.
But It is senooi room That