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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06
"rHE CURSE Of POOR BUTTER"

Secretary Coburn of the kansas
board of agriculture. calls alteration to
conditions in that state in connection
with what he calls a curse of poor
butter
Secretary Coburn says that only
about % per cent of the 25,s54,2O6
pounds of country made butter in
Kansas during the year ending March
/, 1904 was of first class quality, good
enough to command 1Sc pound. The
rest, while sold, found it's way from
the country grocer to the renovating
butter plant, where it has been melted.
mixed with sweet milk, and again
churned made into butter" and sold
on the open market in direct compe-
tition with the comparatively small
amount of first class farm-made but
ter
1t is said by men who have for many
years been in close touch with butter
as a commercial product that less than
rs per cent of family, or country made,
butter is of really merchantable
quality, and that this 25 per cent COM
mands an average price of Is cents
per pound also that the remaining IS
per cent, reaching the hands of the
reluctant country merchants, finally
finds it's way to some renovating es-
10,
From thence it comes to the consumer
at an equal price with decent butter
and the consumer is forced to buy 1t
because of the scarcity of a good dairy
product or pay Tor Creamery an adj
vance over the price the creamery
man could get i'll New York or Boston.
Kansas is not alone. Every family
knows the rancid streaked and flavor
less compound of grease that in too
many instances is sold as butter. Ev-
cry housekeeper has sent 1T back to
the store and after diligent search
has been obliged to put up with some
thing quite as bad or go without. Now
that we have legislated cleo out OF
competition with these messes II
would seem that something should be
done to raise the quality of the stuff
we are forced to buy. Most house
WITS would agree on a law providing
imprisonment for the butter maker
who spoils good cream to produce the
Jumps Of rancid fat too often offered
as dairy butter There are good
butter makers in the country and
there are others
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06
washington Star.

important that all parts of the pump
be made of brass of copper.
Formula for Dry Bordeaux Mixture.
Dissolve four pounds of blue vitriol
(sulphate of copper in two and one
half gallons of water. Stake four
pounds of lime slowly in two and one
half gallons of water, so as to give
a fine powder and as result. milk
Of lime. In a large shallow box
place sixty pounds of air Stake lime.
In another box mix thoroughly the
coppor solution and the milk Of
lime. mpty this material into the
sixty pounds of air slaked lime and
thoroughly mix with hoe. While
still damp this material must be
rubbed through comparatively coarse
sieve. 1t should then be spread out
and allowed to dry we'll and then
passed thru a 100-mesh sieve.
This mixture is easily applied with
busting machine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06

seeking to apply the same remedy to
the saloon. They regard it as deadly
microbe and it is. Education along
the line suggested is wise nevertheless.
But temperance people are not going
to rely on one gun in this warfare and
spike all the others. Neither are they
going to spend time splitting hairs as
to which gun is the most effective. A
we'll placed shot from any Of them is
not without good effect"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06
mot unless President Roosevelt shall

Cedar Rapids Gazette.
mot unless President Roosevelt shall
belle his record and his public utter
ances, or the congress shall fail to
respond to his purposes, will oppor-
tunity to gain control of the govern
ment come to the radicals of the Fry
an party, and it is extremely improb-
able that either condition will arise"
declares the Waterloo Courier. The
Bryan program is interesting, but az
this time is not important"
"The political methods which pre-
vail in Iowa and other states today
are fastening the enactment of a
state primary law that will throw
about the nomination of officials and
their election safeguards that will
prevent bribery, dishonesty, unfair
ness, fraud, and intimidation" fore
casts the Mason City Times Herald.
pressed it will surely be the more
drastic in it's provisions when it is
secured. 1t is needed today in every
county in the state"
with the grand ana petlt JurleS out
of the way the mulct law would be en-
forced in Dubuque county by private
prosecutors if not by the officers Of
the law" asserts the Dubuque Times.
Talking about grain elevators, gran
aries, corn cribs, railroad freight
cars boxes, barrels, and that sort of
thing" the Davenport Democrat says:
There is not half enough of them to
hold the promised products Of this
state this year"
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil says:
"The hardest thing is to save money
and self respect at the same time"
The Griswold American calls at
tention to- the fact that although the
president didn't get his salary doubled
he is working just as hard as if he
had.
The only reason why Ex-Governor
Larrabee should not be sent to the
senate, as far as the Cherokee Times
has Investigated the matter, is the fact
that there is no vacancy in Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06

general much more readily than they
do observance of the obligations that
hold a good job. Perhaps there is not
a deep current of moral altruism in
the rules of the Alton compay. but iii
the expressive vernacular of the street
they get there and bring matters to
a show down." Whatever may be the
impulse behind them they would, if
generally adopted and enforced, accom-
plish in five years more real temper
ance reform than sentiment is likely to
afford in a century. Temperance advo-
Gates should get after the employing
corporat ionS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06

H. G.. Shedd of Lincoln, Neb., and
ex-State Senator w. B. Warner of
Dakota county, have been appointed
Nebraska commissioners to the Lew
ia and Clark exposition.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06

The executive board of the bureau
Of American republics elected William
G. Fox, the present chief clerk of the
bureau, to be director to succeed W..
w. Rockhill, appointed minister to
China
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06

Saloons for Centerville are about as
far off as the judgment Jay, and it is
we'll not to let them get any closer"
declares the Centerville Citizen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06
Records Of Holstein-Friesian Cows


During the period from March to
Is, 1906, records of 38 cows were con-
firmed.
Thirty-five made day records that
averaged as follows: Fourteen full
age cows; age years, 3 months %
days; days from calving 80; milk
1892 lbs, quality 3.42 per cent; fat
1892 lbs. Seven 4-year- Odds; 8 age
years months. % days; days from
calving 80; milk 4O2 lbs; quality 3.11
per cent; fat 1865 lbs. Eight 3-year-
olds; age years. months, 10 days;
days from calving 80; milk 3s5 lbs;
quality 1854 per cent; fat 13.400 lbs.
Six 2-year-olds; aged years, 6
months, 13 days; days from calving 81:
milk 1884 lbs; quality s.67 per cent;
fat 1854.
The largest record in the full age
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06
SOME COOKIE RECEIPTS.
Plain Sugar Cookies.

Two cups of sugar, one cup short
ening, two eggs. one cup sour cream
or sour milk, one teaspoon soda, flaw
oring, flour to make soft dough, just
so it can be handled, bake in a quick
oven.
Oatmeal Cakes.
One and one-half cups granulated
sugar, two-thirds cup butter two
eggs, seven tablespoons sweet milk,
one ,teaspoonful soda, one CUP seeded
and chopped raisins, two cups oar-
meal and white flour to make stiff
dough- Drop in small spoonfuls In
dripping pan two inches apart. Bake
in a hot oven.
Graham Cookies.
One cup white sugar, one cup
brown sugar, one-half cup each OF
butter and lard,' one cup sour milk,
one teaspoon soda, graham flour to
white flour.
Date Cookies.
One cup brown sugar, one-half cup
butter and one-half cup lard, one
half cup sweet milk, two teaspoons
baking powder, two cups of oatmeal
flour to roll Remove pits from one
pound of dates, add one cup sugar,
one cup of water and boil until thick
and smooth. Spread this mixture be-
tween two small cookies and bake.
Fruit Cookies.
Chop any kind OF fruit, raisins,
dates, figs or failing these fruits cook
some prunes or dried apples in syruy,
chop and mix in while the cookie bat
ter is soft.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

"Now that the insurance business
has fallen under suspicion the Ced-
ar Rapids Republican thinks, sooner
or later the national government must
exercise supervision over the insur-
ance business similar to the SUI ervis-
ion now exercised over the nat1ona!
banks"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06
Gettinn All the Milk.

J. l.. Hills of Burlington, VT, in a
recent communication to the American
Cultivator, says:
1t is well known that the average
mixer gets less milk than he who
does a thorough job, that incomplete
milking means not only direct, but
indirect loss, not only an immediate
lessening of the fat yield, but tends
toward drying the COW. Danish
scientist has recently developed spe-
cial system of udder manipulation, a
sort of massage of the mammary
gland, as it were, which it is claimed
augments the flow. The Hegelund
method, as it is called, involves three
manipulations, each thrice repeated,
or until no more milk is obtained;
First, the pressure of the quarter on
each side against cath other thrice re-
peated, followed by removal Of the
milk; second, the pressure Of the
glands together on each side, the fore
quarter being first manipulated, and
then the hind quarters, followed by re-
moval of the milk, and third, the fore,
quarters are pressed between hand
and body, the hands holding the teats
loosely, then the hindquarters also,
followed by milking.
Trials Of the scheme made at the
Wisconsin and New York stations af-
forded a daily average increase per
COW of pound of milk and two ounces
of butter. The after milk was very
rich in fat, testing above 10 per cent
This after milking takes not to exceed
three minutes. The two ounces of but
ter may be held at low estimate to
be worth 2 cents. This would be a
fair pay for five minutes work, "a
cents an hour, and the skim milk
thrown in. Not only is more milk and
butter made but the secretion is slim
ulated and the lactation period pro-
longed.
1t may be remarked, however, that
the differences in milk and butter
yields between this method and care
full stripping are not so great This
Danish method however, does empha-
size, more, perhaps, than has hitherto
been done, the actual and potential
losses due to incomplete milking.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06
Use Currants,

Any cookie sprinkled with dried
currants and slightly rolled in just
before the shapes are cut, or fat
raisin sunk in the center of a cookie
adds greatly to it's value to the school
lunch.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06

"Some people are sadly in need of a
surgical operation to separate them
from their dispositions" observes the
Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06
To Land Auentsi

This is to call your advance notice
to the fact that the Iowa Central rail-
way will sell daily during the summer
months round trip tickets at one fare
plus two dollars to certain northern
Minnesota and Dakota points, limit for
return October 81. Low round trip
tickets also on sale daily to ST. Paul
and Minneapolis after June l. For
particulars call on agents or address
A. B. Cults, G. P. & T. A., Minneapo-
lis, MINI.
Foley's Honey and Tar contains no
opiates, and will not constipate like
nearly all other cough medicines. Re-
fuse substitutes. B. A. Morgan.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-11
UNCLE SAM is ROBBED
Many Millions Lost in Army Con-
tracts For Dress Coats and
Trousers,

Philadelphia. July 1O.-The Public
Ledger tomorrow viii say that work on
100000 dress coats. contracted for
through the Schuylkin arsenal mere
has been stopped by a peremptory or
der of Quartermaster General IIumpE-
reys in Washington. and that a thor
Ough investigation of the affairs at the
arsenal has been begun.
Continuing, the Ledger will say
Because of conditions under which
contracts are given out at the arsenal
nearly half of the dress coats in ques-
ton have been manufactured and paid
for. They lie idle in the storehouse at
the depot, and in the opinion of experts
of the government who have examined
them, are absolutely worthless for the
purpose they were made for A con-
tract for about 200, 900 pairs of dress
trousers is in the hands of the manu-
facturers. Stoppage on this work also
is expected within a few days It is
believed that the investiga ton which
has been started will show that the
government has lost to the extent of
millions of dollars by the methods in
vogue here
1.-The contracts in question are held
by three firms which have factories in
this city and in Red Bank, y. j.. and
Egg Harbor. n. j. AS yet there are no
serious charges of fraud in connection
with the investiga ton. The colossal
losses are attributed to loose ways of
doing business.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-11
NEW TRIAL Is ASKED
Judge De Haven Listens to Argument
of Counsel in the Mitchell
Case.

Portland, Ore, July 1O.-CounseI for the
defense in an argument before Judge De
Haven in the federal court on a motion
for a new trial in the Senator Mitchell
case today laid great stress on the fact
that the government did not prove the
sixth count of the Indictment wherein il
is alleged that on Jan. !. 1904 Senator
Mitchell received sum of money from
Kribs. 1t was argued that inasmuch as
the jury was instructed that it could
bring in verdict upon any one or ali
OF the counts and was not instructed to
except the improved count. the whole YER
dict is defective and should be set aside
and a new trial allowed.
District Attorney Heney replied that the
government did not from the beginning
of the trial expect to prove this count and
informed the jury to that effect And
further, that the jury had been given
to understand several times that the gov
eminent was not attempting to make a
case on this particular count. By reason
of this, argued Mr. Heney. the jury I'M
derstOOd perfectly the situation, was not
influenced this point and hence the
rights of the defendant had not been in
lured.
After Judge Bennett had replied to Mr..
Heney during which he practically fol-
lowed the same lines as Senator ThurSton
who made the opening argument. Judge
De Haven took the motion under advise
ment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-11
COOL PLACE HAS
BEEN SELECTED
Peace Conference Will Meet at Ports
mouth, N. H.
BOTH SIDES ACCEPTED
STATE DEPARTMENT MAKING
NECESSARY ARRANGEMENTS

IkI ASHINGTON, July 1O-Assistant
Wv Secretary Pierce today an
noUnced that the pIenipotenti-
aries of Russia and Japan had agreed
upon Portsmouth, n. H, as the meeting
place for the sessions of the peace con-
ference to be held outside Of Washing
ton The sessions will be held in the
government navy yard at Portsmouth,
IN the new building just completed
there.
Third Assistant Secretary of State
Pierce has been specially commissioned
by the president to make all necessary
arrangements for the meeting of the
plenlpOtentiaries at Portsmouth and is
preparing to leave for that place to con-
fer with the commandant of the navy
yrad. The meeting viii be held in the
general store house.
Orders have been issued for the May
flower to join the Dolphin at Oyster Bay
early in August to receive the plenipo-
tentiaries. With the ENJOYS aboard the
two vessels under the escort of a small
cruiser viii proceed to Portsmouth
The plenipOtentiaries will assemble at
New York early in August and be taken
to oyster Bay on two protected cruis-
ers OF the Cleveland type 70 pay their
respects to the president and be formal
~ presented by him to each other
The selection Of Portsmouth was mu-
tually acceptable to the peace ENJOYS
of the belligerentS as besides being a
cool and comfortable place for this sea-
son of the year, it has the advantage of
offering a building on government soil
which is regarded as an important con-
sideration. This government, it is
stated, did not in any wise dictate as
to the selection.
While the sessions will be held in the
navy yard the pIenipOtentiaries and
their STATS will live in nearby hotels.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-11
DEPEW FIGURES IN 1T
Rotten Transaction in Which the
Equitable Assurance Society
Lost Money.

New YorI. July 1O.-The World to-
morrow viii say:
Revelations far more startling than
those in the report of Superintendent
Hendricks are contained IN the testi-
mony taken in the state insurance de
partment investigating the Equita BILE
Life Assurance society.
Senator Chauncey NJ. DepeW testi-
hed that the Improvement company in
which he was interested obtained a loan
from the Equitable of $3.50 600 on prop
erty which the state insurance depart
ment avlued at only $3.50 600. He ad-
mitted that neither principal or interest
had been paid and that the Equita BILE
had been forced to fOreclOse. He ad-
mitted that as a member of the eXecu-
tive committee of the Equitable he had
not advised this loan, but had voted
for il. He confessed to making prom
Use that the Equitable should be made
whole but in the same breath said that
the promise was not legally binding
Jacob H. Schiff, confronted with
records of the Equitable that Kuhn
Loeb & Co. had sold a large amount of
Union Pacific preferred stock TO the
society, sWOTe that these records were
false. In various sales of bonds to the
Equitable by his firm he admitted that
a large loss was shown. He confessed
that he had been dummy director. but
said that since the Equitable scandal
developed he had bought five shares Of
stock. paying $1,000 a share
1T appeared from mis- testimony. that
of Mr. Hyde and others that the Equi-
table had taken 81 600 900 worth Of
Union Pacific preferred, apparently at
the suggestion Of Z. H. Hartman. Tt
appeared that this stock was under
syndicate agreement that it should not
be sold, making the deal a speculative
one. No record OF this agreement was
put in evidence. Mr.. Hyde said Harri-
man had it, but Hartman was not
called as a witness"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-11
WIFE LONG FACED DEATH.
Knew That Her Insane Husband an
tended Murder.

Mrs Mitchell was much more wide
" known than her husband. The cOu-
pie had lived here a little more than.
a year, in the home where their lives
ended so grewSOmely The wife had
been member Of the Maccabees for
q long time In Hive No. 4 she was
elected treasurer last winter She was
regarded as an earnest woman OF high
character and no little mental attain
mert- Her neighbors spoke highly OF
her. Her home, when the officers en-
tered II, was spOtlesS and in perfect
oroer save where the death struggle
and the flowing blood had left their
ugly marks. Outside flowers bioOmed
and ivy twined over the porch
Mitchell was brought TO Utah when
only little boy He lived in Nephi
IN the days when Indian fights were
frequent and Indian troubles were
always looming up on the horizon In
those days he was too young to fight
with the men. and ne herded cattle
Later he became a freighter and
worked between Salt Lake City and
California, crossing the Great Ameri-
can desert. Still later he drove ore
teams IN mining camps, among them
Eureka
Fail Caused Mania.
He married Mrs. Mitchell in Eureka
twenty years ago She had come here
from England and was Mrs. Moore
Her husband had died They lived
happily until AIitcAeITs insanity de
VeIOped- L was caused seemingly in
part by injuries he received while driv-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-11
CONTRACT LABOR ON PANAMA CANAL
Commission Has Decided 10 Import Chinese, Japanese and
Itaians-Eight Hours Will Constitute
DAYS Work.

was chosen because of that being the
approximate capacity of one ship at a
time. The laborers viii be furnished
by contractors and will have to be de-
liveTed before the first of December
next. The government will furnish free
hospital and medical attendance un-
furnished quarters, fuel for cooking
and water. Under a recent decision of
the attorney general laborers Will work
eight hours a day.
This class of laborers going to the
isthmus will not be entitled 10 enter
the United States, because of an act of
the last congress which made the i'm
migration laws of the United States
applicable to persons. coming from the
canal zone TO the United States.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-11
STAYS WIFE RISKING LIFE
FOR HIM, THEN KILLS SELF
E. H. Mitchell While insane Slabs His Loyal
Spouse With Butcher Knife and Hangs Himself
Woman Was Often Warned That He Contemplated Numbering
Her, Yet She Refused TO
Leave Him.

along. leaning on a cane She left the
little girl outside and went in 20 see
Mrs Mitchell No one greeted her She
sat down on a chair and waited Then
she went 10 the bedroom. Leaning on
her cane she peered into the door. In
the midst of a great pool Of blood, with
blood stained bed clothing wrapped
about its lower extremitieS lay the
wOman's body Although her old eyes
were too poor to get any details Mrs
AShby saw something was wrong.
Stricken with horror she hurried from
the place as fast as her feeble limbs
would permit and gave the alarm
Examining the house and premises
in search for the husband Patrolman
Edward Palmer found MitchelIs body
swinging from the rafter in the barn
His arms We're half drawn up His
jaw was set and his face frOWning-
The authorities cut down the body
and made a thorough Investigations
then put the place in care of a neighbOr
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-11
JUMPED TOO SOON.
Frenzied Man Loses His Life in New
York Fire.

New York. July 1O-Arthur Neely
lost his life in fire in East Forty
fourth street early today. He was a
brother of +. TennysOn Nicely. the pub
Usher of this city, and lived i'm Chica-
go. +. TennysOn Nicely saw his broth
er killed. Arthur slept on the top floor
of the building. His escape was cut off
and he cried at the window for help
while his brother on the roof Of the
bay window just under the third-story
windows implOred him not to jump
When the fTeHZied man could restrain
himself no longer his brother dragged
a mattress on the roof of the window
for him TO jump on, but he missed il
and rolled TO the street, where he
struck on his head.
The firemen were already raisin Q
their ladders as the man leaped and if
he had waited only few minutes long
er his life might have been saved
Nicely leaves three children Their
mother was killed i'm a railroad wreck
several years ago and they are now
with an aunt in Cleveland. o.. with
whom their father left them two weeks
ago 20 come to this city for a business
trip with the idea Of locating here.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-11

n EVICTION to her mad husband re-
suited in death to Mrs SUsaGnah
Mitchell early yesterday morning
After repeatedly threatening her. Ed
ward Mitchell cut the throat of the
woman who had shared his lot during
twenty years. then hanged himself.
Mrs. Mitchell was treasurer of Hive
No. /, Ladies of the Aaccabees OF this
city. She was widely known m that
order Mitchell was Utah pioneer.
be committed the double crime prob
ably about daylight. AT ! o'clock in
the afternoon Mrs. Hannah Ashby.
81 years Of age. peered into the bed
room Of the Mitchell cottage at 270
South Seventh West and saw the wo-
mans body Half an hour later the
police found MitcheWs corpse dang
ling from a ropes end in the barn.
Mitchell has been insane for more
than two years past. During the
gradual development of his malady