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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
TEST M'eoVERN's SANITY.
Prize Fighter Acts oueerIy and 10
Taken to Hospital.

New York, Dec. S. Terence Nc.
Govern, the prize fighter who is
matched to fight young" Corbett in
Baltimore late in January, was taken
to the observation ward of the Kings
county hospital in Brooklyn Tuesday
for examination as to his sanity. Ac.
companied by his wife and stepfa-
Their. Joseph Kenny, McGovern ar
rived from Washington and went to
his home In Brooklyn. According to
the police he acted in so peculiar a
manner at home that Mrs. McGoyern
was frightened. He then left the
house and probed with stick into
the ash barrels along the curb.
When the wagons came to remove
the ashes McGovern is said to have
pursued the drivers with his stick.
but said he was doing it playfully. A
policeman stopped him and brought
him to the police station, where Nc
Govern was examined by DR.. Howell
of the Seney hospital, who said the
tighter appeared to be insane. The
fighter went to the hospital without
protest.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
RELIEF FUND CRAFT
RUM0R is DENIED.
]. D. PHELAN DECLARES ALL
MONIES SENT TO FRISCO
ARE ACCOUNTED FOR.
ALL SUBSCRIBERS
GIVEN REoEIPTe
Report Of Relief Corporation Shows
Total Of $6,213,27s.2s Received for
Aid Of sufferers-over Half stMI
Unused,

Washington, Dec. 5.-Secretary
Taft Tuesday received the following
telegram from J. D. Phelan, president
of the San Francisco relief and Red
Cross funds corporation dated San
Francisco:
Eastern press advices state on au-
thority of local newspaper report
that large sums of money subscribed
have gone astray, and that the presi-
dent of the United States and secret
service men are investigating the
matter. The report apparently orig
mated from express company's fail
ure to deliver thousand dollar pack
age from Searchlight, Ne7., which
has since been delivered. Apart
from this, however, no funds are
missing. The rumor is entirely
groundless, and every subscriber who
sent relief funds to San Francisco
direct should have numbered official
receipt signed by the president, comp
troller and cashier of the corporation.
In justice to San Francisco and our
generous friends in the east please
give the widest publicity to this
statement
Condition of Relief Funds.
San Francisco, Dec. 5.-The relief
corporation has just published a re-
port of the condition Of the relief
fund, its receipts and disbursements
from April % to November II, 1906.
The total receipts were $e,21S,279.9s.
The analysed items show that the
cost of administering the fund is less
than four per cent. The state of
California is third on the list of cash
contributors, and San Francisco
third on the list of cities. According
to the subscription department re-
port, the amount of $685., 1915 is
still outstanding, subject to the call
of the corporation, with the excep.
ton of s15O,0O0 from the state of
New York, $6S,OOO from Los Angeles,
100000 from Bridgeport, Conn, and
a few scattering items. The balance
sheet shows cash on hand $685.
1880, half of which is in San Fran
cisco, the balance in New York and
Chicago banks.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
NOticel

The attention of post office patrons
renting boxes is called to new order
from the Post Office Department
pated Oct. ID, 1906, effective Dec. 81,
1905, as follaws, ''Box rents must be
collected at the beginning of each
quarter for the entire quarter aud no
longer.
aNotiSe Of rent due will be placed
in each box ten days before the last
day OF each quarter.
''lf a box holder fails to renew his
right to his box on or before the last
day OF q quarter, the box shall then
be closed and offered for rent and the
mail will be placed in the general
delivery"
Patrons will please note thai this is
ten days earlier than under the old
ruling and requires that the bog rent
business for che enylre quarter be
c,ose9'op the 1rst day OF the quarter.
Q. Q. BURGESS, P. NJ.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Court Proceedings

Judge Hobson convened court Mon
day afternoon and Monday and Tues
day forenoon was taken up with minor
matters. Tuesday noon the grand jury
was discharged without having had a
single matter come before it.
A jury was drawn and the case of the
State of Iowa VS.. Wesley johnson, on
an indictment for assault with intent
to commit great bodily injury. The
jury was composed as follows: John
CRUDE, Jamestown; Ira Wheeler, Cres-
co; Philip Burns, Alton; John Buresh,
Howard; Sherman Wentworth, Cresco;
A. D. Perry, Cresco; Louis Aberg,
Cresco; Lewis Novak, New Oregon;
j. T. Ayers, Alton; Edward Stander,
Paris; E. E. Babcock, Chester.
On June 9th last Joseph Williams of
Lime Springs was waylaid about 10
O'Clock at night and beaten on the head
and left on the sidewalk in an uncon-
scious condition. Mr.. Williams was
not able to identify his assailants as
they sprang upon him from behind and
was rendered unconscious by .he first
blow struck. The day after the assault
Wesley johnson made a complaint be-
fore justice against his son Bert
johnson charging him with the assault.
Bert pleaded guilty and was fined.
From remarks and threats which they
had been heard to make it was general
ly believed that both had a hand in the
assault. Consequently the matter was
taken up by County Attorney Upton
and an indictment was returned by the
grand jury against Wesley johnson,
Bert Johnson having left for parts un-
known.
A large number of witnesses were
subpoened and Lime Springs was we'll
represented in Cresco Tuesday. But
the star witness the one whom the
state relied on most to prove it's case
disappeared about the time subpoena
was on it's way to Lime Springs. The
prosecuting attorney then asked that
the case be continued to enable the
state to secure this and some other
witnesses. The court granted the re-
quest and the case came to an abrupt
conclusion. P. F. McHugh appeared
for Johnson.
The cases against E. e. Evans, F. d.
Elwood and liver H. Iverson, bound to
keep the peace, were all dismissed.
State VS.. William Martin, indicted
for desertion after seduction and mar.
riage. Defendant pleads not guilty
and case continued.
AS we go to press the case OF Arnold,
admir-, VS.. Great Western Ry. is being
tried.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
WOULD REVIVE THE oRANaA
Determined Movement on Foot 20
Resurrect II in Th;s State


Resurrect 1t in This State.
The coming winter will witness q
determined effort on the part Of rep
resentatives of the National Grange,
headed by +. J. Tabor of Ohio, who
has recently visited in Iowa City, to
revive Iowa chapters of the grange.
which were allowed to die out twenty
years ago. Mr.. Tabor has Just re-
turned from meeting of the National
Grange association, which was recent
ly held in Denver, and he is enthusi-
astic over the outlook. He declares
that there has been a great revival Of
the grange movement all over the
United States, and that the time is
ripe for the building up of the old
grange system In this state. While
the oranges have been allowed to die
in Iowa by the people who organized
them there has been, nevertheless,
we'll defined movement among the
farmers of the state to replace them
with mutual elevators and mutually
conducted stores and banks. The
movement to organize these started
eoou1 wv years ago anu HAS spread
all over the state until now It is esti-
mated there are over twenty farmers
elevators in Iowa, as we'll az several
banks and stores. 1t Is not the pur-
pose of the new grange movement to
Interfere in any way with the mutual
elevators, stores and banks. They
state that this movement Is in direct
accordance with their own, and that
they will do everything in their power
to assist these companies. But they
also declare that there is ample room
for the grange In the many portions of
Iowa where 1t has been found i'm
practicable to organize the mutual
companies. For that reason the re-
organization will be attempted.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
eusse to Hang on Dec. "A.

Unless Governor Cummins should
interfere. Louis Busse will be execut-
ed on Dec: IA. On motion of Attor-
ney General Mullan, the supreme court
has issued a procedendo in Busse's
case. The precedendo is simply an
order from higher court to a lower
to proceed with its case as it has al
ready decided to do, and is notifica-
ton that the lower courts decision
has been finally approved and con-
frmed by the supreme court This
action of the supreme court gives
Busse no further chance for hearing
In the state courts. Had the proceed
endo not been issued, a thirty-day
right of appeal or time for motion
might have been claimed. If Gov
ernor Cummins SO chooses, he may
stay the execution temporarily or I'M
til the legislature may take up the
case upon application for pardon or
a change of sentence to life imprison-
ment,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
"Ansep Aids Bogus Captain.

Berlin, Dec. 5.-A rich woman of
Berlin has signified to the lawyers
who defended Wilhelm Volgt-"Capt.
Won Coepenich"-her intention of pro-
vidlng an annuity for the prisoner
after he has served his sentence of
four years Imprisonment. Voigt was
convicted Dec. 1 and sent to prison
for donning a captains uniform and
with a file of soldiers whom he had
duped arresting the burgomaster and
robb1ng the treasury of Coepenick on
Oct. 16. Voigt sent his thanks to the
woman and asked her to put her offer
in legal form.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Gold Wave smites New York

New York Dec. 5.-New York had
its first real touch of winter in the
night, when the mercury dropped from
40 degrees to IS degrees in six hours
High, freezing winds were responsible
for this unusual drop of % degrees.
Charles H. Weeks, broker living in
Brooklyn, was found unconscious and
nearly frozen to death at Sixty-sixth
street and Columbus avenue.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14

1t is noticeable cold seldom comes
on when the bowels are freely open.
Neither can 1T stay if they are open.
Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup
tastes as pleasant as maple sugar
Free from all oplates. Contains Honey
Pure Food and Drug Law. Sold by j
81, Luers Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
FrIends' Church Is nurneo,,

Through a defective furnace the
beautiful Friends church at New
Providence, near Eldora. was de-
stroyed by fire, A strong wind blew
all the time, and as there was poor
fire protection it was impossible to
save the church, which was erected
about three years ago. There is a
small insurance.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
PatrioIde Is charued.

Defended by his mother, who has
mortgaged her homestead to provide
means to defend her son against a
charge Of numbering his father, Robert
MeFeeley of Creston has been bound
over to await the action of the grand
jury, being held without bail.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Kansas Buys 1000 Pheasants.

New York, Dec. 5.-The Atlantic
transport liner Minnetonka, which ar
rived from London, brought 1000
pheasants, which will be shipped to
Kansas in charge of Charles F. Denley,
special agent of the Kansas agricul-
turaf commission. 1t is the intention
to restock the state.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Bow ia Accidentally Shot,

Willie on his way to the hunting
grounds in the country near Denver,
Ia, Ray Meeker, fourteen years old,
was accidentally shot and fatally in
jured by the discharge of his own
gun. The gun accidentally dropped
over the side of the buggy in which
was riding. The boy reached for it,
and as he did so the trigger caught
and the gun was discharged, the load
Of heavy shot entering his body and
causing injuries from which he died
two hours later.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Burned to Death In L;o.., Etr..

Some excitement was caused by
finding the charred body of man in
the ruins Of the Lund hotel at New
Hampton. The only means of identifi-
cation Is some gold teeth and crown
work. One man who was badly burned
and had to Jump through window in
the second story remembers telling
the dead man to follow him. Evident
ly he was too much overcome by the
smoke
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Girl Acquitted Of Murder.

Inc jury in the case of Emma Ripke,
the Hanover (Kan.) girl charged with
the murder of Frank K. Potts at Coun-
Gil Bluffs on the night of Oct Is last,
has returned verdict of not guilty.
The jury was out thirty minutes. The
case hinged on the question Of
whether Potts committed suicide or
was shot by the girl and the evidence
introduced to show that Potts had
frequently threatened to commit sui
eide apparently outweighted that of
the prosecution.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Quashes Indictments.

Judge Church at Anamosa quashed
the indictments against F. e. Snyder,
the Olin banker charged with fraudu-
lent banking. The indictments proved
defenctive. Snyder was tried year
ago and was found guilty. He was
fined only $500 and depositors in tho
bank secured reindictment of him.
The depositors are said to have lost
about 100000 in the failure of the
bank.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
A man with a sprained ankle will

A man with sprained ankle will
use crutch, rest the ankle and let 1T
get well. A man or woman with an
overworked stomach can t use cruteh
but the stomach must have rest just
the same. 1t can be rested too with
out starvation. Kodol will do 1T. Ko-
dol performs the digestive work of the
tired stomach and corrects the diges-
tive apparatus. Kodol fully conforms
to the provisions OF the National Pure
Food and Drug Laws Recommended
and scld by j. III. Luers Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Loot Illinois posromce.
Big Advance In Cost ~ ,,;,u

New York, Dec. Figures giving
the average cost of living on Dec. i.
compiled by R. G. Dun & Co., show
that there has been marked advance
IN price as compared with Nov, /, when
1t reached high-water mark. In the
lapse Of one month the cost of living
has advanced from s1O6.6s to Sos. IL,
reached on Dec. I, The cost Of food.
stunts i the highest since February,
1884; s
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Ends Life to Join Mother.

Bath, N. Y, Dec. 5.-Leaving two
notes behind in which she gave direc-
tons for disposing of her personal eff
fects and for her burial, Genevieve
Benedict, Is years old, committed sui
eide by shooting herself in the head
with pistol. In one of the notes the
girl wrote that she was going home to
mamma" Her mother died about a
year ago and Genevieve constantly
brooded over her death.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Clark Goes up For Life.

Myron Clark, who killed his wife
by cutting her throat from ear to ear
with RAZOR month ago, was sent
enced to life Imprisonment by Judge
Gould at Sioux City. Clark pleaded
guilty to murder in the second degree
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Sentenced to Life Imprisonment.

John Holster, aged sixty-five, was
found guilty of the murder of his
daughter at Muscatine and sentenced
to life imprisonment. Holster shot
his daughter Bessie Sept. 10 on &C.
count Of jealousy.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Ex-Governor Found Dead.

Medford, Mass, Dec. 10.-Former
Gov. Alonzo Garcelon, of Lewiston,
Me-, was found dead at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. e. D. Denis, with
whom he had been visiting. Death is
attributed to old age. Mr.. Garcelon
was SO years old. He was governor in
1879, serving one term. In company
with the late William H. Waldror, Mr..
Garcelon founded the Lewiston Jour
nal in 1S47, it being the first newspa
ger in that city.
Loot Illinois Posromce.
Litchfield, ILL.,, Dec. 5.-The rostof.
fee at Farmersville, 16 miles north OF
here. was looted by robbers early
Tuesday. The safe was demolished Nv
heavy charge Of nitroS,,,;,cc erin that
also wrecked the building and practi.
calls Wrecked the buildings adjoining
on each side. The force of the explo,
sion broke the windows of all the bust,
hess hauses. About $40 in money and
$40 in stamps was secured. The rob.
bers escaped,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Grants New Schedule Of Wages

The Iowa Central company has.
granted new schedule of wages to
train employees after four weeks
conference with a committee repre-
senting the conductors, brakemen, en-.
gineers and firemen.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Orders a Recruitment.

The supreme court of the United
States has ordered reargument in
the Iowa Savings bank cases involv-
ing the question of taxation of govern
ment securities held by the banks.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
For Sale.

100 Poland China pigs Oh large bore,
and excellent qrali5y. Come early
and bny cheap and have your choice.
Ring me up. NJ. p. LYDoN,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Rixalyular Phllnsnnhu

Quoth the oyster: why are you never
Happy except at high tide?"
~ suppose it's because I'm a clam"
Sadly the other replied.
Chicago Tribune.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Pictures! Pictures!

We can supply you with any picture
the heart may desire and at the very
lowest price. All new and superior
In design. w. O. SWENSON,
the JeWeler.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
For Sale.

An 80 acre farm with some i'm
provements. Will be sold at q bargain
Ii taken soon. A. SMITH.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Cut Glass.

Hand Paint and Fancy China; by
far the most beautiful and largest
line ever brought to Cresco. at prices
that cannot be equalled elsewhere.
W. o. SwENsoN, the Jeweler.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-13

mothers of the coming generation. Can
we afford to leave all this to the labor
unions?
II know many working girls and l do
not know one who works for pin money
or for clothes alone! I know many who
are supplementing the wages of fathers;
many who are helping TO buy homes. Some
of them dress we'll, it is true, but who
can deny their right? We owe these girls
first recognition. then protection as future
wives and mothers.
Much of the tragedy of adjustment to
new industrial conditions is due to lack
Of knowledge, We women want TO know
# it is true that marriage is on the de-
birth rate falling behind the death rate
and the working woman 10 blame for 1t
all. We want sane legislation based on
facts and we have no facts. We have no
statistics and it is up to the women to
urge the United States government to give
this vital Industrial condition a thorough
investigation"
/ And then she explained the request that
the women have made that for an appro-
priation of $4,000 for an official investiga-
ton of these conditions by the United
States commissioners Of labor and urged
them to use their influence In petition and
otherwise with Nebraska representatives in
congress TO secure the passage of this bill.
I'VE want expert investigation she said,
"and the government alone can make this.
1t is too big a thing TO be undertaken by
any one else.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-13

sibilities for democracy. In the last three
generations the work that formerly EN-.
pioyed us women has been taken out of
the home and put into factories, leaving
| to women wonderful leisure and opportu-
| mites never dreamed of before Who is
1t, do you suppose, who makes IL possible
Tor you club women to come here today
TO TINS convention, to keep up your club
work or go of to Europe If you wish? 1t
1t our proxies in industry; the women who
are working for us In the factories and
shops, doing all the work formerly done
| in the home. How much time would You
have for conventions IT, as our grand.
| mothers did, you had to weave and sew
and spin and preserve, make the candles
| and do all that work in your o%n homes
] Even the shoes on our feet are made
mostly by women in factories. All the
| men and boys clothing is made In fac
| tories-or in some other woman's home
converted into factory, the sweat shop.
Yet with all this advantage We women
allow an unpleasant experience with an
! ignorant domestic to prejudice us against
! all of their countrymen and blind us to all
OF their needs and rights, instead of recog-
nizing in our experience only an incident
! in great onward movement that can not
/ DC blenHeu. Inc ORGANIZATION Oh the
working men and women is bound to come.
| 1t may be retarded, but 1t can not be
downed 1t is a something within these
men and women and 1t can not be downe1 1.
We owe something to those women who
| have taken the work out of our homes,
and by the way, the majority of them
average is years of age We owe them
first protection and then recognition. We
may criticse them for dressing too well
but these girls earn every stitch they wear
and the woman who does not earn her own
! clothes has no right to criticise the girl who
does.
! And then she told OF the struggle of
the girls in the Chicago packing houses
How they worked up from the foreign
! standards of their parents, progressing
! from the picturesque head shawl TO the
awful American bargain counter hat and
| those first crude ideas of democracy which
while often trying, were nevertheless higher
ideas that must be worked out: the strug-
gle and the tireless work for better house
and stuffed furniture and those awful
pianos and, finally, for a room OF heI
own. And when these cherished things
I were in sight. about to be accomplished
there came the cut I'm wages. II was piece
work, and TO keep the same income the
girls worked with incredible skill only &c
be cut again when they got beyond what
the employers thought they could pay Their
came the union with its meetings and the
benefits and education and uplifting infiu.
ences that attended them. And then came
the strike and since then the girls are
afraid even to hold meetings for fear o.
losing the work they have.
1T is impossible for women TO bar,
gain with these great corporations as in
dividuals. but organized. We can protect
ourselves. 1t rests with US club womer
10 humanize this modern labor. for Their,
are 100000 women wage esrners today whG
are to furnish many of the wives and