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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
AGENT Captures Bandit

A highwayman entered the Rock Is.
land depot at Oxford Junction one
morning last week and held up Agent
Clifford Brown at a revolver's point.
Brown sliced the revolver, wrested it
from the bandit and held the latter
prisoner two hours, till daylight, and
help came.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
Convicted as Accessory.

At Allison last week Jerome v.
Brown was found guilty as accessory
on charge Of attempting to MAIN and
disflgure. The case was sensational
one. Mrs. Barnie Ramsey was the
victim of some kind Of acid having
been thrown in her face. Browns &C.
complete was convicted at the recent
term Of court.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
eiaamy Is Charged.

The county records at Council
Bluffs disclose that Odram Fritz, who
is under arrest in Juneau county, Wis,
for bigamy, was married at Council
Bluffs Oct. II, 1908, to Miss Christina
Hendrichson, whom he deserted few
months later, going to Chicago. Cor
mon conjecture is that Fritz may have
q number of wives. His Council Bluffs
spouse is now with her parents in that
city.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
incredible Brutality.

1t would have been incredible brutal
1ty II Chas. f. Lemberger, Of SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, had not done the best he
could for his suffering son, "My boy, "
he says, 'cut fearful cash over his
eye, SO l applied Bucklens Arnica
Salve, which quickly healed it and
saved his eye. Good for burns and
ulcers too. Only 25c at P. A. Glenn
mer's drug store.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24

Notice for Road Work.

Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Trustees Of Howard Center
township will receive sealed bids for
the roadwork for 1905. All bids must
be In the hands of the township Clerk
on or before noon Of April 3rd, 1905.
Said Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
JOHN n. BRIEFLY,
Twp. Clerk.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24

The new towns along the the Chi
cago and Great Western Railway offer
wonderful openings for all lines of
business and trade. "Town Talk gives
particulars. For sample copy address
Edwin B. Magill. Mgr, TOWNSHIP
Dept, Chicago Great Western Rail.
way, Omaha, Neb. may ID
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
Bride elaaIes and is Fined So.

Because she giggled while attending
q church wedding Of the Pentecost
people, at Mount Pleasant, the bride
Of James Raines was arrested upon
the complaint of the deacons of the
church and was taken to the mayors
Office. She was fined SO.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24

President Roosevelt seems to be very
fond of the editorial fraternity, a fact
which does him honor. He made Rob-
ert j. Wynne postmaster general and
Is about to make him consul general to
London, the best paying position with
In his gift He sends Whitelaw Reid
as ambassador to the court of st.
James, and he made Henry L. West
one of the commissioners Of the Dis
trict of Columbia. There are other
newspaper men no doubt Of whom he
has taken care, but these will suffice
% examples.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
Farmer Ends His Life.

At Mount Sterling, last week, after
beating his wife into insensibility
with beer bottle and then setting fire
to his house and barn, S. A. Carr, a
farmer, committed suicided by shoot
ing. Mrs. Carr will probably recover.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
Road Noticel

Sealed bids for doing the road work
OF Albion Twp, will be received by
the Trustees until 10 O CLOCK on April
8, 1905. Trustees reserving the right
to reject any or all bids.
T.. r. MASON, Twp. Clerk.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
Lot Thomas Dead.

Former Congressman Lot Thomas
Of the Eleventh Iowa district, died last
week at Yuma. Ariz. He was on the
way to Los Angeles in search of
health Mr.. Thomas home was at
Storm Lake.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
In the Limelioht,


Some men appear predestined to stay
within the shadow and others in the
limelight Judge Tayler Of the United
States district court at Cleveland, o.,
belongs to the latter class. While In
congress he was appointed chairman OF
the committee to Investigate the Brig
ham n. Roberts case from Utah and at
once leaped into fame. When he quit
congress lie was employed in the prose
cution of Reed Smoot, another splen-
did lad" Appointed to the bench large
ly because Of the prominence gained
in those two spectacular performances,
among the first cases on his docket he
found that of Mrs. Cassie Chadwick
waiting for trial. Certainly he is in po-
sition to realize the truth Of the old
saying, Better be born lucky than
rich"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
r.. E.. w.

Tom Watson's Magazine is born. To
do Tom Justice, his first number is de-
cidedly refreshing and interesting.
Truly he lays on and spares not. He
deals political damnation round the
land with free and impartial hand. He
has pronounced opinions on men and
things, and he expresses them vigor-
ously. Whether he is right or wrong,
folks will not go to sleep while reading
his editorials. Brother Watson has
played many congressman, law
yer, historian, lecturer, biographer-
and played them SO as to attract public
attention. Even while leading forlorn
hope as Il presidential candidate last
year he managed to keep more con-
stantly in the limelight than either
Colonel Roosevelt or Judge Parker. I
never heard that he sets up for hui
morst, but considering who he Is and
what he does certainly these words
from one Of his magazine editorials
constitute as rich humor as Mark
Twain or Artemus Ward ever evolved
from his inner consciousness. Hear
him: Elf there is anything OH this bless
ed earth that we have got enough Of
at this time it is talk, talk, talk! From
presidents in fact and presidents In
prospectus, from senators Of all shades
and congressman of every variety
down to oratorical federal judges, col
lege doctors and legislative lights, we
have floods Of talk, talk, talk! The mis-
cry of it all is that this oratory doesn't
mean anything. 1t strikes bee line
for the wastebasket."
That's emphatic and to the point, but
it's only-"talk, talk, talk!' Thomas
is only increasing the output of that
which he condemns. If his remarks
are true, why doesn't he quit wagging
his tongue and wearing out pens? He
is one of the most voluminous takers
Of this age. We all read what he says
| and what he writes, for everybody
likes to see somebody skinned, and
Brother Watson is a skillful skinnist
But certainly he has heard the old
proverb about the pot calling the kettle
black and the Inhibition against people
who live in glass houses throwing
stones. So he ought either to quit talk
ing himself, take his own medicine
or let up on making mouths at Others
for talking.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
Il II II I: It It

at the flood till 10OS-a thing not at all
probable-and Vice President Fair
banks could have the solid support of
Indiana Republicans he would be a
formidable candidate for the presi-
dental nomination, but II New leads a
revolt his chances will be much d.
minished, for New will not have much
trouble in setting up Senator Beverage
as rival for Fairbanks. because, ac-
cording to rumor, Beveridge has been
intensely jealous of Fairbanks for
some years and lies awake O. nights in
ducing insomnia by Fostering his head
to discover ways of breaking into the
White House himself. It's a pretty
fight as 1t stands and may rebound to
the good of the Democratic consum.
nation devoutly to be wished.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
Blaze in shannon City.

u. pIdEC III SIdI1IfVI WY
Fire believed to have been of incen-
diary origin last week destroyed the
entire business section Of Shannon
City, entailing a loss of over 100000,
partially insured.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24

OSl ultSI COA6ECSS duJOukASu i
went on lecture tour through
O Pennsylvania, Ohio and Ken
lucky. One day had to stop
over four hours in Mansfield. No man
Of ordinary intelligence can be in that
delectable little city for even one fleet
ing moment and not remember that it
was the home Of John Sherman. who
helped to rock the Republican cradle
and who for almost half q century held
office continuously as representative
and senator In congress and as secre
tary Of the treasury and secretary of
state. 1t would appear that he ought
to have been happy, but he was not.
On the contrary, he died as miserable
as any hobo on the road, not because
he had not wealth, for he was multi
millionaire; not because he did not
hold high Office, for the length of his
official career was almost unparalleled,
but because he could not get the one
thing needful to fill the measure Of his
soaring and Unsuitable ambition-the
presidency of the United States. Fail
Ing that, nothing could console him to
what seemed to him hard and unjust
fate. 1t was his fortune to possess
great talents, indefatigable industry
and to secure any position he wanted
except one. He repeatedly saw smaller
men of his own party. sometimes OF
his own state walk of with the gilt
tering prize for which he hankered and
strove and schemed, and the iron en-
tered his soul. He amassed great
fortune, which, having no children Of
his own, he left to an adopted daugh-
ter not Of his blood. He fastened his
name upon great measures, some Of
which have been unduly praised, some
Of which have been sayagely abused
and with the framing Of some Of which
he had absolutely nothing to do. But,
while he somehow managed to appro-
pirate other mems bills, he could not
reach the goal on which his heart was
set. The history Of the republic can
not be adequately written without his
name figuring in 1t extensively, but the
knowledge Of that fact only increased
his bitterness. Why did the people
deny to him the supreme honor Of the
republic? 1t would be difficult IL not
impossible to say. He was cold, but 80
was General BENJAMIN Harrison, who
with only handful Of original follow
ers was nominated when Sherman was
the leading candidate. There was some
occult force which shut the doors Of the
White House in bis face every time he
strove to enter. No doubt at last, had
he been asked the question which Ma
thaniel P. Willis propounded, he would
have given Willis answer; What Ii
ambition? IT'S glorious cheat"
To a mere locker on in Vienna It
would appear that the people Of Mans
field would have preserved bis old
homestead as show place, as the res
!dence Of her most distinguished citi.
zen, but they did nothing Of the sort,
The very day was there the last stone
Of that mansion was removed and the
ground cut up into city lots. In few
years more John Sherman, one of tht
; ablest Of the Republican chieftains
, will be an unfamiliar name even in th'
J. ears of the denizens Of Mansfield
, where he began his public career
}. which he always claimed as homo ant
where he sleeps the last sleep.
"Sic transit gloria muudi"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
American Opportunity.

SNnsSs'Se' OPfS' >S''sy'
When Hon. George Bruce Cortelyou
took the oath Of office as postmaster
general the other day there was an
other fine Illustration of American OPP
portunity seized at the psychological
moment by resolute hand. "Seest
thou man liligent in his business?
He shall stand before kings" says Sol
onion. That fits Cortelyou. He began
on the Washington stage as stenogra-
pher to Grover Cleveland. Following
the Scrlptural injunction, he did with
his might whatever his hand found to
do. He was steadily promoted for mer-
1t till he has been secretary Of COM
merce and labor, secretary to the presi-
dent, chairman Of the Republican ma
tional committee and postmaster gen
eral Of the United States. He Is still q
young man and would not make bad
candidate for president. His head has
not been turned by his success, and he
Is still polite, kind hearted and ap-
proachable. He has excellent business
capacity and will no doubt make an &C
ceptable postmaster general, for that is
great business Office People general
ly will indorse Mr.. Cortelyou's action
in resigning the craftsmanship Of the
national committee. There is no law
compelling him so to do. In fact, the
precedents are rather the other way,
for Postmaster General Payne held on
to his vice craftsmanship Of the national
committee while in the cabinet. New
ertheless Mr.. Cortelyou shows both
taste and delicacy In giving up the
craftsmanship. He was an unqualified
success in that position. Perhaps he
takes to heart the philosophy about car
rying ones pitcher to the fountain once
too often and does not propose to jeop-
ard his reputation as chairman by ven
turing to act in that capacity in an
other campaign, for the chances are a
thousand to one that 1t will not be
such easy sailing on such pleasant seas
for the Republicans four years hence
But, whatever his reasons or his mo
tives, Mr.. Cortelyou does well for him.
self and for his party to prevent such
criticism as came to Governor Benja
min b. Odell Of New York last year FOL
holding on to both the gubernatoria
chair and the state Republican chair
manship. People who know Mr.. Cor
telyou well will without regard to poll
| tics wish him a successful administra
ton Of the great Office which he nov
holds, for personally he is most esti
mable and amiable gentleman.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
Served Three Republics.


Every honest man in America will
regret to hear of the death Of the ven
cradle John II. Reagan Of Texas, not
so much because he was the last Of
Jefferson Davis cabinet, but because
he stood boldly and consistently for all
that is best and noblest in public life.
He died full Of honors but poor In this
worlds goods, after longer public ca
reer than any other man ever had on
this continent. He lived under three
flags, the Texan, the Confederate and
the American. He held high Office I'M
der three republics, and he never held
one which he did not both fill and
adorn If the history Of his life were
we'll told it would be more interesting
than any tale out Of the arabian
Nights" He was one of the glorles Of
the three republics which he served SO
well. His name should be forever cher
ished as great patriot.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
Farmer Dies Suddenly,

G. F. Parish, one of the wealthiest
farmers in Central Iowa, died suddenly
at his home at Written last week. He
was seventy-three years old.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
Ambition.

Uneasy lies the head tnaC Weafb
crown" Ditto the head that aspires to
wear crown. The latter proposition
is illustrated in the case Of Mr.. Vice
President Charles Warren Fairbanks,
If press reports are to be believed. On
the 4th, next to Colonel Roosevelt Mr..
Fairbanks was the cynosure Of all
eyes, the envy Of millions, but 1t 10 said
that he is already in an unhappy frame
of mind. The fly in his pot Of ointment
is Hon. Harry s. New Of indianapolis,
which is also the habitat Of the vice
president; hence this worry. The rou-
Bile is that Hon. George Bruce Corte!-
you, the new postmaster general, has
declared his intention Of resignins the
craftsmanship Of the Republican ma.
tlonal committee, and as Mr.. New Ia
vice chairman Vice President Fair
banks fears that Mr.. Cortelyou may
name New as chairman, in which per-
Torrance Mr.. Fairbanks scents danger
to his presidential hopes for 1908, %
there is feud betwixt the houses Of
Fairbanks and New, just as there was
once upon time betwi1t those Of the
Montagues and Capulets. The Indiana
ruction grows out of the fact that Fair
banks belonged to the old Gresham
faction in Indiana, while New trained
with the Harrison contingent. Harfi-
son and Gresham being In their graves,
the old quarrel was smoothed over IN
til last year, when Harry New aspired
| to succeed Fairbanks In the senate and
the vice president lined up his machine
for James A. Hemenway, who gobbled
that luscious plum. Now Fairbanks is
afraid that New, II made national
chairman, will play for revenge, which,
according to Lord Byron, Is sweet.
with the national chairmanship in
hand, New would be in position most
probably to put spider into the Fair
banks presidential dumping, as he ia
already editor or proprietor OF the big
gest Republican daily In Indiana.
What scares the vice president most
Is that he knows that the News are
fighters from away back. and the feud
elements are always existing II
| Noosier politics. Mcdonald and Hen
bricks and Voorhees,, Gray and Turpie
and Blue Jeans Williams, Democrats
were always in each others way. Con
sequently none Of them reached the
| White House. The Morton-Julian and
Harrison Gresham feuds among Re
publicans wrecked many lives and
blasted many hopes. True. Harrison
captured the presidency, but that wat
not by reason Of his own strength, but
because the convention had worn itsel1
| to a FRAGILE trying to nominate more
popular man and. failing that, In des.
peratiou, took him o. \ dernisS rsssort
h Republican auoSass shsuid ugnt!pu,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
Pianos and Organs

tuned, cleaned, repaired and voiced.
am graduate and hold diploma
from the largest piano tuning school
in the United States.
e A. d. PATTERSON.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-03-24
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Especial Washington Letter.
YUST after congress adjourned I
went on a lecture tour through
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Ken
lucky One day / had to stnn
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-06
BOHEMIAN CLUB TO HOLD
ANNUAL ELECTION
Two Tickets I'm the Field, Indicating
That a Large Vote Will
Re Cast

The annual election OF the Bohe-
mian Club will take place next Tues
day, April IL. The polls will open at
Ills D. m. and close at 2:15 D. m. The
time for voting is therefore limited to
one hour. Formerly the polls did not
close until p. M. but the lawyers
who recently revised the articles of
incorporation decided, to adhere close
ly to the law governing corporations.
There are two tickets in the field.
The regular ticket Is as follows:
President, Frederic w. Hall: vice
president, ]. Wilson Shiels; secretary,
Alfred r. Grim: treasurer, William
Let's Oliver: directors. Louis Lisser.
John McNaught, Henry A. Melvin,
Arthur F. Mathews.
Following Is the independent ticket:
President, willard T. Barton: vice
president, r.. M. Hotaling; secretary,
Alfred r. Grim; treasurer, F. G. San
born: directors. Louis Lisser. Charles
j. Dickman, L. E. Hanchett, h A.
Melvin.
There are indications that the vote
will be unusually large.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-06
CHARGES WOMAN
With A FELONY
C.'V. Hickling PrOcures War.
rant for Arrest of Louise
Bates, Dramatic Agent
EMBEZZLEMENT CLAIMED
Accuser Is Waiting His Pre-
liminary Examination on
Grand Larceny Complaint

Cecil V Hickling. who is in the City
Prison awaiting his preliminary exam
ination on a charge of grand larceny,
svore TO a complaint before Police
Judge Cabaniss yesterday afternoon
charging Mrs. Louise E. Bates of the
Pacific Coast Dramatic and Vaudeville
Exchange, Sc Geary street, with felony
embezzlement The amount alleged in
the complaint is $425.
Hickling was arrested last Saturday
by Detectives Conlon and MCGOWAN on
a warrant charging him with grand
larceny. The complaining witness
against him is Max Weiner, a tailor,
who alleges that in August last, when
Hickling was night clerk at the Inver-
ness Hotel he took a gold watch and
chain from Weiner. When Mrs. Bates
heard Of Hickling's arrest she called at
police headquarters and made a state
ment that Hfckiing had embezzled $500
urer Of a theatrical company in which
Mrs. Bates was interested.
-Hickling now alleges that Mrs. Bates
Is the embezZler. He says he had been
running a vaudeville show at Eureka
and at different times he sent Mrs.
Bates through Wells, Fargo & Co. sums
sggregafing $425 for safe keeping. He
mas ISCclpNS ltoln W ellS-E II dISOs as Wei
as q letter from Mrs. Bates, dated
March 10, in which she says she had
deposited the money with the Security
Savings Bank, 222 Montgomery street.
She inclosed what purported TO be an
order from the Security Savingc Bank
by which Hickling could get the money
on application.
Emil Pohli, Hicklings s attorney, found
that Mrs. Bates had not deposited any
money with the Security Savings Bank
and that the order sent to Hickling by
Mrs. Bates was spurious. 1t is limited
that Kicking was in love with Mrs
Bates daughter. Mrs. Birdie Falley, an
actress. and that Mrs. Falley's husband
objected 10 Hickling's attentions to her,
which had something to DO with Hick-
ling's arrest.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-06
CRAY BROTHERS
STILL BLASTING

The Supervisors Street Committee
residents against the blasting now
being done by the Globe Grain and
Milling Company in the block bounded
by Montgomery, Lombard, Chestnut
and Kearny streets. The attorney for
the residents stated that a blast had
broken the windows in house at 179
Chestnut street. and that his attempts
to have the blasting stopped by the
Police Department had been unsuccess-
full. The committee held that the
permit granted to the company did
not give it the right to blast, and that
it could be prosecuted for violating
the ordinance. 1t was stated that
Gray Brothers have the contract 4 for
the blasting and had stated that they
did not fear arrest. as their men had
been repeatedly arrested for blasting
at TWenty-sixth and Douglass streets.
The committee will meet to-day at
noon to request the City Attorney to
bring injunction proceedings to pre-
vent the blasting on the street and
from removing any dirt therefrom.
A. S. Lille of. the Mission Federated
Clubs asked the committee to direct
the Board of Works to cause the
streets to be swept properly. Lille
Sdlu the streets III the M1SSlOn QlS-
tricts were Uttered with rubbish and
had not been cleaned in six months,
and he had complained repeatedly to
the board named. but without avail.
and the taxpayers should be afforded
some relief in the premises. Lille
said Mayor Schmitz had promised
that the streets would be swept after
April 1. but little or nothing had been
done. The committee decided to in
vestigate the complaint next Wednes-
day afternoon.