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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-05-04

-, Is. "a
valije Of the Lard they viii
DRAIN" SHUTS theV Aiciaf orga,
of these political dictators
Ignorance of conditions, ego.
tism, selfshness, commercial.
ism, that can see no othal
reason than profits are here al
boiled down. Wonder if thi,
sheet ever saw or heard OF
Bulletin Is, Drainage Condi
lions in Iowa?" We might ask
who is benefited by building a
new $4,000 court house that
will produce not one mill OF
wealth, and this after the bot
tom farmer is stripped to the
bone with thousands of acres
not producing the tax they
have now to pay? The crop OF
1902 destroyed would have
built these bitches AMI three
new court houses. Who is lene.
fitted having the value of Ian
Ibolted down with no stock or
any kind of taxable prop erty,
with some thirty vacant farm
houses less than six miles from
Missouri Valley in 1903, and
the farmers in the hills paying
the fiddlers with increased
taxes? Who is benefited by
having in one school district
ten land owners driven out and
renters substituted?
Reasonable statistics place
the loss of crops on the bottoms
OF this county in the last three
years at over one million dol
lars. This would have paid all
the bitches, build a dozen new
court houses, a high school to
lecture the judges, lawyers and
politicians on drainage and be-
side saved the people on the
bottoms a lot of hardship. But
to save this vast amount of
labor, this enforced idlenass,
the value of over one million
dollars of wealth, would bank
rupt the county, would destroy
the home, interfere with bust
ness. There would be no in
centive to work. 1t would spoil
civilization, stop progress and
bring us back to barbarism,
with an official organ that can
see no other reason for drain
ing land except to raise the
value for spectators to pocket
This class is the last that will
give one cent for building &
new court house. The farmers
will get on to this politica
bunco game after awhile ano
the business man will get ampl,
time to make something out o
nothing for politics has nothin,
to do with economic conditions
Stick to it, boys!
Your friend,
Farmer.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-05-04
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
s' sssss the q 4,mzzZz771

F. w. Myers is now the own
er Of one Of the incest turnouts
in the city, and to prove its
utility, Mrs. Myres took Mrs.
G. B. Russell, Mrs. G. G. Lab
NAH and Mrs. Emma II. Russell
for a drive over the city yester-
day evening.
Geo. Norton, # Marshall
town, was in the Valley today
on business.
Mrs. Fred Mccullough is
confined to her room by an at
tack of the rheumatism.
Mrs. A. q. French, of Blair,
was in the Valley today the
guest of Mrs. M. Norton.
DR.. White, Of Logan, spent
the day in the Valley.
Mrs. Ladd returned to her
home in Council Bluffs today.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-05-04
' " go. go !
Facts aa2ut .lh's;. t,ttis y.
Ol Ihk,.
(HARpERs wEFFKiiiA

Dfihk.. "
(HARrERs wFFFKjY.)
More NJ than l,DOO,ooo,ooo
: pounds Of coffee valued at $685.
100000, came into the United
States last year, practically all
Tor the use of the people of the
United States. The total guam
tity of coffee imported from
foreign countries during the
year, as shown by figures re-
Gently issued by the depa TT
ment of commerce and labor
through its bureau of statistics.
was ], 1I2,7O3,546 pounds, val
ued at $S7, 427,O39, and from
Porto Rico 1891, 524 pounds.
and from the Hawaiian islands
1927 ,49l pounds-the total val
ue of the coffee from these two
island divisions of the United
States being $515,852 bringing
the total quantity of coffee
brought into the country up to
l,ll7, 100000 pounds and the
value to $SS,0O0,OOO. During
(the same period the calendar
year 1904 there was exported
from the United States 60, 1885,
947 pounds of coffee of foreign
production, valued at $685.
592, so that the consumption of
coffee during the year was APP
proximately l,O53,OOO,OOO lbs.
valued at about $4,000,
i The figures of the worlds
production of coffee in the cof-
fee year 1904, which have
just reached the bureau of sta
tistics, show that the coffee ex
ported from the various pro
ducing countries of the world,
and therefore the quantity en-
tering the worlds markets dur
ing that year, was, in round
terms, 100000, 900 pounds, or
barely double the quantity
brought into the United States
alone during the calendar year
1904.
1t may therefore be said, in
general terms, that the United
States consumes practically one
half of the coffee entering the
j worlds markets, since our i'm
portations of coffee in 1904
amounted to practically one
half of the coffee exported by
all the coffee-producing coun-
| tries of the world, and more
than 81 per cent of that i'm
, portation was retained in the
United States for consumption
, by her people.
: VIM. Neufind of Missouri
Valley and Deputy Sheriff Har-
din Duval returned last tues
day. evening from Edna town
ship, where they had gone on
the trail of a man who is want
ed for the theft of a team and
buggy from the barn owned
; by Mr.. Neufnd and his son at
Missouri Valley. The report
had reached here that the man
had been seen in Edna town :
ship and the sheriff's office
. made preparations to get him,
but upon reaching there it was
!, found that the report was a
) fabrication.
The team OF horses and rip
were stolen on April 18th when
, stranger, who gave the name
of j. p. Goebel, hired the out
{, fit. He claimed to be travel
, ing for a nursery concern. He
: left the barn with the rig and
!, to date has not been seen.
Both the team and rig are val
| liable, the outfit being worth
: probably four or five hundred
dollars.
: The man Goebel is thought
to be none other than ]. E.
Gresham, who told such a wierd
tale to Rev. Ilgen-Fritz of the
} M. 3. church some time ago.
He is of the same description,
, tall and slender, with florid
, complexion, one eye gone, and
wearing glasses. Atlantic
. Democrat.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-05-04
The Black Death Threatened.

Eminent scientist issue the
grim warning that the bubonic
plague, the dreaded black death
of the middle ages, is making
ready to sweep over the earth,
and make the disheartening adj
mission that, when it comes, for
all the boasted increase in med
ical knowledge and betterment
of hyginic conditions, it will be
almost impossible to stay its
course.
Says DR.. De Lisle, a leading
bacteriologist:: "The plague is
awaiting the moment when the
population of the earth shall be
ripe for the scythe. 1t may be
one year, it may be ten, before
the conditions are fruitful for a
worldwide scourge. Something
will arouse the semi-dorment
bacillus. Some climatic or me-
neurological condition will pre-
sent itself when the pest will
strike all over the world practi-
cally in an instant. Hense,
say, the race is threatened by
the plague"
In the fourteenth century the
plague swept away hundreds of
millions of people, all but depop-
ulating many portions of Eu-
rope. In the last general cpl
demic, in 1879, almost 100000
people persisted in India and
China. Where it fourishes hui
man beings die like flies at the
first frost; die in the greatest
agony and torment: not more
than one in a hundred of those
who are stricken RECEIVERS. 1t
is virulently contagious, and sci
ence has discovered no means
whereby to check its spread.
The plague has recently APP
peared in New York, California,
Mexico and several of the South
American states, as we'll as in
the Philippines, Australia South
Africa and many places in Eu-
rope. Its breeding place, how
ever, is in India, from whence
it threatens to strike the earth
When conditions are ripe.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-05-04

The japanese advance in ad-
vertising as in all else. Here is
an illustration: "Our wrapping
paper is as strong'as the hide of
an elephant. Goods forwarded
with the speed of a cannon ball.
Our silks and satins are as soft
as the cheeks of a pretty woman,
as beautiful as the rainbow. Our
parcels are packed with as much
care as a young married woman
takes of her husband" Elk.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-05-04

loeray principle thought uning
s"ershg
treatment OF affections both ranging
from an influenza to typhoid simple ulcer srho
Groheha cough to from address delivered by
DR. NJ NJ FENNER
Assembly Chamber the Capitol Albany,
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HE FINDS THE LEAK.

tablishment at Washington this bu-
reau has grown TO be a recognized au-
thority on agricultural statistics. and
a most potent factor in shaping the
course of prices and influencing the
operations Of producers, handlers. and
consumers of the more important
crops.
On the 2nd of this month. for in
stance. when the bureau issued its
first estimate on the acreage and con,
dition of the cotton crop of the pres
ent season prices on the New Orleans
market showed a decline of 40 points,
or 81 a bale, under the high mark Of
the day, and so points. or SO a bale,
under the high point of the week.
Profits and even fortunes We're swept
away like heaps of sand before an in
coming tide One comparatively
small operator lost 81 900 in exactly
twenty-five seconds after the bureaus
figures were announced and others
parted with many times that amount
during the course Of the day. On the
3rd of December last, when the bu-
reau gave the cotton trade its first Of
fetal intimation of the unprecedently
large crop Of last season in the shape
of its famous production estimate of
12162,O0O bales-nore than a million
bales in excess of the yield of the pre-
ceding year-remarkable slumps oc-
CURED on both the New York and
New Orleans exchanges and maxi
mum decline of 81 points was record
ed before the gongs announced the
close of business for the day. These
are only two of many similar occur
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sources on information, as follows:
Special field agents, who usually come
originally from the Washington of
flee and are, therefore, specially
trained: state agents, each of whom
has his own corps of correspondents
throughout his respective state and
who bases his returns to the bureau
on the reports made by those corre-
spondents and on information and i'm
pressions gained by himself in travel
ing over his territory; county corre-
sDondents. each reporting directly to
Washington. concerning his own
county; township correspondents, who
similarly cover their respective town
ships or precincts; planters, who re.
port only as to their own plantations;
owners and operators Of gins. who re-
port as to conditions in their respec-
tive localities as well as at certain PEE
riods, concerning the number of bales
ginned at their establishments. and,
finally, bankers and merchants. Only
the~ travelling field agents and the
state agents are salaried employees.
The services of the others are purely
voluntary and in the interest OF the
common welfare, but the Department
Of Agriculture is especially active in
looking after their requirements in
the way OF seeds, documents. etc, and
in this way shows. as far as ii is able,
its appreciation Of the value of their
work. 1t is, perhaps, too much TO ex-
pect that the government viii ever pay
regular salaries. however small to all
these thousands, and until IL does II
CONTINUED on page three.l
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Leads all North Carolina Daes i'm News and Circulation

rences which have been in evidence
In the grain and cotton markets of
the country in recent years.
Ii is but natural that an Office
which is capable of producing such
startling effects should be an object
of the most absorbing interest TO the
grain and cotton trades. and especial
ly to those who buy and sell not the
actual commodities, but paper" cot
ton of wheat. e, futures And il is
natural, too. that all sorts of cxpedi-
ents-most of them the reverse Of
egitimate-should be resorted TO by
spectators on both sides OF the mar
ket for the purpose of discreditine
the bureaus figures, and that efforts
to obtain advance information should
be constantly and persistently made
All this goes to support the statement
that more Importance is attached to
the estimates of the government office
than to those of private individuals OF
firms and TO show that, despite the
criticisms which are constantly be-
ing offered by spectators. the bureau
has more influence in the shaping of
prices than any other one feature.
aside from the natural operations of
supply and demand. Yet the public
as a whole, and even many of those
whose fortunes are directly affected,
knows comparatively little of the
manner in which its work is carried
on.
An office charged with the collection
OF agricultural statistics was in ex
istence long before the department or
agriculture was created. The first
figures in the previous year, and dur
ing the twenty-five years that what
is now the Department was merely
a section in the patent office the func-
ton was desultorily exercised. Since
the establishment of the department
by authority of the act of May Is
1862, in which provision was made
for the employment Of a statistician.
operations have been conducted con-
tinuously and have steadily increased
in Importance. The statistical office
was given a bureau organization three
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ing its life by railroad accident, should
be fixed by statute law As to the
commercial value of a man to his
family, or his community that is a
question of equity that can be fixed
on the lines of the salary he is draw
ing, and the number of years he could
be reasonably expected to be worth
that much to his family. And when
agreed on could be paid to his family
over the period of time so adjusted.
This adjustment should be arrived at
by body of commissioners appointed
by the State for such investigation.
from which the claimant or railroad
could appeal TO the court, if not salts
fed with the amount adjudged. This
would leave only the point of the
commercial value to occupy the time
of the court. The railroads should
be allowed to add for cost of travel
such a percentage per mile additional
for tickets. as will enable them 10
meet the costs of these accidents, and
ii should be done at no greater cost or
burden TO the people, or to the rail-
roads themselves, than reliable acci-
dent insurance companies charge for
policies, covering the same risks for
the same mishaps. Certainly il would
save many millions to the railroads as
we'll as To the people.
This idea may seem strange and
crude at first, but / commend it to
the careful mathematical. calculating
consideration of the thoughtful rail-
road men. as we'll as all classes OF
business men. Under government own
ership of our railroads. some SUCH
system will finally be bound 10 be in
augurated; as a suit against the gov
ernment by a private citizen of the
same government, for an injury re-
ceived travelling on his own private
business. on a government owned rail-
road. would have a long road TO travel
to get the damage money, If the
court sustained its claim; it
would have to go before
Congress, and that agugust body
would have to determine whether or
not il would appropriate. or when il
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sponden sssISuoa'I .Aers whose
| innate c Gers ~ 10 lJo, ms in
| fa.vrnI <

sponden sssLSqo1, @ers whose
a light fav6Gf6aI.Ss, - A4qI7 +.
Since the basic prrns- ne bu>
rea is accuracy, and its WORN : valu-
able only in proportion to its accur-
acy, Mr.. Hyde, Immediately on his ap-
pointment 10 his present position, be-
gan to work for the betteNnent OF
the system and a consequent greater
degree Of precision. In this he had
the active support of Secretary VIII
son, but Congress was slow to act. and
il was not until 1899, two years after
the present statistician went into Of
fee. that the Improvement actually
commenced. The first step was the
appointment of special field agents
charged with the duty of watching
carefully the development of each i'm,
portant crop in the country and keep
ing i'm touch with the best informed
opinion regarding conditions and
prospects. Other betterments have
been made from time TO time, and
while the system is still faulty, it is
now perhaps all that could be expect
ed in view OF the small sum-approxi-
mately $3.50, ,000-which Congress ap>
propriates for the maintenance of the
bureau each year.
How the Estimates Are Made Up.
The most valuable feature of the
bureaus work lies in the fact that
it gives to the country approximately
accurate information concerning
acreage. conditions, and yield of crops
long before the actual figures can be
obtained by the census method or
otherwise. The scope of this article
is too limited to permit the giving of
detailed information concerning the
operations in connection with all the
important crops, but the work done
with cotton may be cited as typical
Of the whole, and OF rather more in
terest, since the cotton statistics are
kept before the public much more
prominently than those of other pro-
ducts.
In making up its estimate on cotton
the bureau draws on seven distinct
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years ago and now it ranks second to
none in the department In addition
to the chief of the bureau, Mr.. John
Hyde, who is given the title of statis-
tician, there are an office force of nine
ty, state agents to the number of for
ty-three, eight field agents, six special
cotton agents, and a foreign agent.
whose headquarters are at London.
Then. too, there is the crops of vol
unteer correspondents, comprising
nearly a third of a million individuals.
who are in constant communication
with the bureau and whose reports
have numbered as high as 3.503. 600 in
a single year.
The bureau issues estimates or re-
ports on wheat eight times each year,
on cotton seven times, on corn and
oats each six times, and on barley rye,
buckwheat hay and grass. potatoes.
tobacco. fruit. rice and other products
from two TO eight times each. Up to
six years ago the figures were based
entirely on returns from the voluntary
correspondents who reported either
directly to Washington or through the
statistical agents maintained in each
State. The system was not satisfac-
tory however. II could not be made
TO keep pace with the rapid Develop
ment of agricultural industries, and
the figures compiled from the returns
were sometimes radically wrong, be-
cause of the insensible tendency oil
the voluntary correspondents TO un.
derestimate. This tendency is regard
ed as quite natural, inaSmuch as a
very large proportion of the corre-
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would appropriate the money to pay
il. | think that If our railroads were
put in such shape that the men that
run the mechanical part could become
part owners of the stock, less accidents
would occur, and as TO rates,-1f the
roads would do what by legislative act
they were expected to do when they
We're granted their charter, and land
donation. or compelled to own cars
and maintain them for every kind OF
hauling they do. Let the private car
system be wiped out, save for those
who want TO own a private car for
private passenger service only Then
there would be but little discrimina-
ton in freight rates, and uniform
and healthy competition would be the
result. The private car has got fast
ened on the railroad like the leech
on the turtles neck, got on while IL
was young, and inexperienced, and
without legislative aid cannot be got
ten off. So let the law bring the pil-
vate car system TO an end Tor the
railroads as we'll as for the pubic
benefit and let the statute law TX tile
amount of damage for accidents 20
passengers and employees and there
will be very little need of government
ownership of the great railroad sys-
TENS Of our country.
Respectfully.
s. A. JONES.
Waynesville. y. c., July 10.
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Of
THE COTTON CROP
Working of the Bureau
of Statistics.
1T SEEMED PERFECT
Yet as Has Been Shown Since this
vrticIe was Written, Leaks that
were Considered Impossible
have Occurred to StartIe
the Nation.

(By A. C. Williams. in Public Opinion)

(By A. c. Williams. in Public Opinion)
Unless it be the failure of a firm
longed bull movement, no one thing
has SO marked an effect on the great
grain and cotton markets of the coun-
try as the estimates of the acreage.
condition. and yield Of agricultural
products issued by the bureau of sta
tistics of the Department Of Agricul-
ture. From an obscure and unim-
portant branch Of the government es-
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Always speak well of yourself. Your
friends will attend TO the other side
of il.
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More Money for Foreiin Missions.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Ny
plea to the millonaires who are giving 30
nobly to home interests, asking them to give
also for struggling institutions in the foreign
field, has elected some fippant statements
unfavorable to foreign missions. l will have
no controversy with those whoae words re-
veal an unfriendliness not only to foreign
missions but to the Gospel itself Their
dificultyiis moral one and the remedy Is
missions want to present a little testimony
to the yosk are doing
iab In India. in a paper said Of the great re;
forms and humanitarian enterprises effected
by the British Government in India: These
missionaries" ,sir Bartle, Frerc, Governor
changes IN India, social, moral and political,
thing ever Effected in Europe" More s'rk-
ing than this is the statement Of Lord Law.
fs tsan all os sss c'
mentary '' Blue BOOK that the G C
Il o MeS bf sni
lent exerttons made by the missionaries,
whose blameless life and example and SELF.
The m o h.
NED. 1.d iee EnFss G i. true Of every sre,.
millionaires whose capital ranges from si,-
o00 900 TO $500. an. 900. Our Christian ,reonle
therefore have means for home charity besides
all that Is required abroad. Those who know
tell us that the United States has far more
rich men than any other country in the world
statistics. show that the. Protestant Church
Communicates of the United States are worth
more than t25. 000, 600 900. The home giving "a
nunifcent In the last decade more than
thropic and religious purposes by private
persons. and this In sums of 81 nm and over
Comparatively little Of this wes. given 'or
for larger gifts and more Of them in this d.
rection. Charity" must not stay al home.
These gifts abroad will come back in money
and blessings, as mentioned in my last COM
municaton. T. j. SCoTT.
OCEAN GROVE ,Juv a.
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on our handI have been going on. These negotia.
lions have not reached a point where we could
say they were maj. We have negotia
'lons now with some gentlemen whom Senator
DrrEw has mi crested In the matter, and II Is possible
that within a week or ten days we may have a
proposition from him. We hope So anyhow"
But, alas' the memory of that Christ
mas Of truly reciprocal benevolence has
faded. Yesterday morning despatch
from Buffalo announced that on Satur-
day the referees deed OF November "a,
1902, conveying to the Equitable Life
the title Of the land OF the Depew I'M
provement Company in Depew had been
at last filed for record in the Office of the
Clerk Of Erie county. Apparently the
present management Ia not very hopeful
of proposition from Senator. DEPEw.
within week or ten days