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Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-09
YOUNG GAMBLERS FINED
Boys Arrested for Shooting Craps in
Newspaper Office Scored by
Judue

Six of the seventeen young newsboys
who were arrested last Saturday night
and charged with shooting craps in the
Express office We're found guilty as
charged, by Judge Austin yesterday
afternoon. Each of them was fined s.
for his offense. Those fined We're;
Bert Rider, IT, Morse, Joe Ryan, Fl.
Topher, Il. M. Mcdonald and ii. r..
Baker.
In sentencing the boys Judge Cham
hers scored them heavily for induging
i'm shooting craps and warned them to
not repeat the experience of last Sat
urday night. Seven of the boys were
discharged and against the remaining
four there were no complaints issued
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-09
ENGINE STRIKES WAGON
Vehicle Driven by j. p. Collins DemoI-
shed by Salt Lake Loco
nnofiue

In an effort to drive his team across
the tracks in front of a Salt Lake train
at the Ninth street bridge yesterday
morning, ]. p. Collins, a miller, resid-
ing at 1898 Avenue 81, East Los Ange-
les, had narrow escape from death.
The train struck the mans wagon and
hurled Collins several feet.
The vehicle was entirely demolished,
but the horses escaped without in
jury Collins sustained only bruised
right arm. He admitted yesterday at
the receiving hospital that he alone
was to blame for the accident.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-09
CHICAGO GETS MEETING
TranscontinentaI Passenger Agents
Will Not Assemble in Los
Angeles

Transcontinental passenger agents
have decided to hold their January
meeting in Chicago instead of in Los
Angeles as was originally planned.
number of the officials could not
leave Chicago on account of other bus
mess and expressed their desire that
the April meeting and the January
meeting should be changed. the latter
being held in Chicago.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-09
ACCUSE FORMER B00KKEEPER
Jesse Franks Is Arrested on Charge
of Grand Larceny, Said to Have
Committed Last July

Jesse Franks, boolkkeeper in the
employment of one of the lumber COM
panies OF Los Angeles, was arrested
yesterday on the charge of grand lar
ceny preferred against him by j. w
Spencer, former employ of Franks.
committed last July and the sum of
$252 was given as the amount taken.
No action was taken against Franks
until yesterday and the bail of $1,000 set
by Justice Pierce could not be secured
yesterday afternoon,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-09

"Ah, sweetest" sighed a young man,
kneeling at the feet of his dearest own,
"dost thou know what of all thing is
nearest my heart?"
Really, | cant say" she sweetly re-
Piled: but in this cold weather l should
think it was a flannel shirt"
She was too practical, and it broke
tho engagement.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-09
PASTORS ASSOCIATIONS MEET
Methodist Ministers Hear Address on
"Relation of Infants to
Church"

The Methodist Ministers association
met yesterday morning when Rev,
John Nichols of Garvanza read an in
teresting paper on "1'he Relation of the
Infants to the Church.
The Congregational ministers met at
the First Congrega tional church yes
terday morning and adjourned to at
tend the presentation of petitions to the
county supervisors regarding Ascot
park.
The Presbyterian ministers held a
short prayer service at the Central
Presbyterian church, opening the an
nual week of prayer.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-09

Mrs. Stubb-Gracious. What made the
ba by make such a wry face?
Mr.. Stubb--I don't know, but perhaps
the penny he just swallowed was tainted.
l-Columbus DIspatch
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-09
So and $2.5O Linen Ct EO
Pattern Cloths, Each -DloOU

200 German linen silver bleached pattern
cloths; spoke hemstitched: choice of 63, Y
or S0-inch lengths all of them in choice
new patterns, and are our regular $500 and
$3.50 grades.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
HAPPENINGS IN IOWA
NEWS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.
William Conn, Indicted Jointly With
Roy Hull for the Killing of Dam
lei Leary at Tama, viii Not
Be Tried for Murder.
Be Tried for Murder.

William Conn, who was indicted
Jointly with Roy Hull for the killing of
Daniel Leary at Tama on the night of
Nov. IL, will not be tried for murder.
Last week young Hull, who pleaded
guilty and implicated Conn as an ac-
complete in the crime, made confess
sion to the sheriff in which he eXone-
rated Conn from any share in the
murder. He stated that he alone was
responsible for the murder and that
Conn knew nothing about the crime
until after 1t was committed. Conn's
trial had been set for Jan. s, but it is
now believed he will be discharged.
Hull will be sentenced this week. He
made his plea at the December term,
but sentence was deferred as the
court wished to know the result of the
case against Conn before determining
what the punishment should be-. 1t is
said Conn would have been able to
prove a complete alibi Daniel Leary
was found murdered on the night OF
Sept. II, at Tama. He had been way
laid while on his way from the paper
mill, where he was foreman of the cut.
ter department. Hull is said to have
committed the crime from spirit OF
revenge for an alleged abuse.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
Corn of Poor Grade.

The poor quality of the 1905 corn
crop in Iowa is the cause of much com.
plant from grain dealers and shippers
throughout the state. It is wet and
only a small part of the shipments to
Chicago thus far have graded even No
4. the bulk of it going at no grade,
Dealers who contracted the corn early
in the fall for December delivery have
lost heavily, and now they are putting
up big margins on 1t and some have
ceased buying, as they say that it will
not dry sufficiently to grade up for
two or three months. E. d. Hamlin
who has number of elevators in Cen.
trail and Northern Iowa, states that he
has informed his representatives not
to buy any more corn. He declared
that they could not afford to take
chances on it. If the weather turns
cold and remains cold in good cribs it
will dry out all right. Otherwise he
does not believe that it will keep dur.
ing the summer, even though 1t is
shelled this winter.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
Proposed Primary Law.

Iowa's proposed primary election
law will be entirely different from any
ever before tried in any state. 1t is
the result of a desire on the part of
Its advocates to appease the opposition
and strike basis which will eliminate
most opposition. Briefly it will prob.
ably include in it's scope only NOMINEE
lions for United States senators. con
gressmen and governor. Instead of the
canvassing boards usually provided, it
will preserve the function of the regu-
lar party convention by constituting
each convention the canyassing board
for its party primary returns in addi-
ton to the function of making a plat
form. Thus, it is argued, the objec-
ton SO often raised, that a primary
election law enables the voters of the
cities to monopolize all offices, is met,
inasmuch as the rural localities rarely
have candidates for governor, senator
or congressman, while they are still
enabled to inject their personality into
every campaign by demanding and re.
ceiving fair portion Of county and
state Offices.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
BY MEAD PUBLISHING co.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY
IN THE BUSINESS WORLD
A GENERAL REVIEW OF TRADE
CONDITIONS.
Slight Check in Operations as Result
of Recovery from Long
Holiday Run.

New York, Jan. 8. - R. G. Dun &
Co.'s Weekly Revew of Trade says:
"Erratic weather and the customary
difficulties encountered in resuming
normal conditions after a lengthy hol-
iday have restricted operations during
the past week, especially in retail and
jobbing departments. The situation is
relieved to some extent by clearance
sales of heavy weight wearing apparel,
and there is a good demand for staple,
lines of foodstuffs, while prices are
maintained so firmly that confidence is
evidently mistaken. Annual settle4
ments are promptly made, and inven-
tories show the favorable results an
tlcipated. In some parts of the coun-
try it is impossible to fill orders for
lumber and building materials, open
weather making structural work an
unusual feature for the season. Manu-
featuring plants are resuming, advance
orders assuring activity for some
months in most cases, and in many
divisions of the iron and steel indus
try, tdleness in 1906 can only be pro-
duced by excessive cancellation Thus
far the railways have had little ad-
verse weather with which to contend,
earnings in December rising 64 per
cent. above last years, and reports Of
foreign commerce are even more strik.
ingly favorable. At this port alone for
The last week imports exceeded those
of year previous by $6,137,254 or
about SO per cent, while exports
gained $2,005.771
the United States are 253, against 221
last week, z26 the preceding week and
29O the corresponding week last year.
Failures in Canada number 49, against
81 last week, SO the preceding week
and rs last year"
Bradstreet's says: while unsea-
sonable weather adversely affects re-
tail trade and recorders from whole
salers, it at the same time highly IA
vors the leading industries and out
door activities and facilitates railway
transport. Spring trade really shows
more than usual life, requests for
prompt shipments being in evidence
earlier than usual.
December was perhaps the best
month of 1906 for the railways, with
an indicated gain Of IL per cent. over
December, 1904. Cars are in better
supply on open weather and the pass
ing of the holiday rush, but six months
OF large business is still in sight for
the railways. Building at New York
and a few other large eaties is affected
by the house smiths strike. So far
the printers strike has had rather less
than the expected effect. There seems
general concensus Of opinion that
1906 promises exceedingly well in, all
Lines Of trade and industry"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
Mystery at Emmetsbure.

Emmetsburg has mystery much
like that of the George Griswold case,
which recently excited Des Moines
G, w. Chapman, one of the best known
citizens Of Emmetsburg. has disap.
peared In a strange manner. He was
last seen at o'clock on the afternoon
of Dec. 20. 1t has been positively de.
termined that he did not leave the
town on passenger train. He is in
the implement business, and his af.
fair are in good shape. Last week the
large sewer tank was emptied of its
10000 gallons of water, but no trace
was found. One or two characters.
who have since left the town, are un.
Ger usspicion. Chapman was last
seen entering saloon.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
Woodmen's Suit Reopened.

The case of the Modern Woodmen Of
America versus the estate of E. H. Nc
Cutcheon and his bondsmen, as assist
ant treasurer of the Modern Wood
men, has been reopened in the federal
court. The suit is for $10O,l5S, the
amount alleged to have been deposited
In McCutcheon' bank at Holstein at
the time of the failure of that institu
ton. The suit has been brought in
the name of A. N. Bort of Beloit, Wis.
head banker of the Modern Woodmen.
The beginning of the Mitigation may
be laid to the failure Of the McCutch-
con bank, which paid out only about
so cents on the dollar. The allegation
is made by Mr.. Bort, the plaintiff in
this action, that the Modern Woodmen
have never received any part of their
deposit there.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
MAY NOT BE CONVICTED.
Believed That Edwin o. soule WI. Be
Freed.


Freed.
The general opinion prevails at Ell.
dora that Edwin o. Soule, the ex.
cashier of Hardin county, who as an
official of the Home Savings bank of
Iowa Falls, emhezzled $4,000, and
who has just completed year and a
half sentence at Anamosa peniten.
tiary, will never be convicted again
and that when tried at the January
term of the Hardin county court on
the charge of embezzlement as bailee
will be cleared. Soule had no difficulty
In raising the $1,000 bonds, and is now
at liberty until the converting of court
He had been doing fine at the prison
and served as bookkeeper of the Am
erican Cooperage company, at the
prison, and received monthly salary
and at the expiration of his term OF
one and one-half years had nice lit
tie sum of money to his credit He is
said p have been a model prisoner
and made many friends among the con
victs. Soula's family have left Iowa
Falls, and it is not known where they
now reside.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
One Woman Sues Another.

Claiming that Miss Maud Powers, s
we'll known Clinton girl, won the af
fections of her husband from her, and
caused him to desert her, Mrs. Eliza
beth Hartman of Dixon, ILL.,, ha,
brought suit in the Clinton district
court of $4,000 damages against Miss
Powers. The plaintiff states that hel
husband, Clarence Hartman, whom
she married on Nov. 26, 1896, met Miss
Powers on Feb. 2S, 1904, and the latter
deliberately won his love away from
her, so that he became careless; failed
properly to support her or their two
children, aged five and seven years.
and later entirely deserted his family,
The case will be heard at the January
term of the Clinton district court,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
To Investigate Car Situation.

It Is announced the Iowa railroad
commission will Investigate conditions
at Council Bluffs with reference to
charges made by grain dealers at va
rious points in the state, that cars are
being held there when they are needed
elsewhere to move the crops. The
small dealers claim they have great
difficulty in getting cars, while they
claim that the big lines of elevators
have no difficulty in getting cars. The
railways, they claim, do not supply
cars pro rata. but give the big con-
Germs all the cars they need and then
distribute the remainder among the
owners of small elevators.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
Severe snawstorm.

Reports from all over Iowa indicate
that last weeks snowstorm was the
most severe of the winter. Trains
were generally reported late, the condi-
lions being especially bad in the north
western part of the state. A Fort
Dodge and Sioux City the storm at
tanned dimensions of blizzard. The
snowfall was quite general throughout
the entire state. Only one train got
into Fort Didge the night of the storm.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
Laughed at peathbed.

8. L. MiclSle, a druggist, testifying
In the case of Mrs. Josiah Proutt at
Rockwell City, accused Of numbering
her husband last June, said that the
defendant purchased an ounce of
arsenic from him prior to her hus-
bands death. The state alleges as a
motive for the alleged crime that Mrs.
Proutt was in love with farmland
Will Pershing, and that the two con-
spired to murder the woman's hus-
band Witnesses said that during the
dying mans commissions the defendant
and her alleged lover laughed in the
death chamber and held each others
hands.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
The Ideal Fish.

While scientists are taking liberties
with flowers, fruits and vegetables,
why don't they try their hands on
fishes? The man who will invent a
fish having the properties of the pom
PIANO and the shad will confer bless
ing on epicures end mankind. Think
of fsh having az fey bones as the
pompano and the delicious a4vGr and
tenderness Of the shad. Get busy,
Messrs. Scientists.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
Teuehies philippine SUGAR.

= Sft.'FF-..~ OSSs~s'
The committee on ways and means
reported favorably Mr.. Chairman
Payne's bill to reduce the tariff on Phil
ippine sugar and tobacco to from IS
per sent of the Dingley rates, at which
it now stands, Is IS per cent of the
same until 1909, when they come in
free; all other products Of the Philip
pines to come in free as soon as the
Payne bill is enacted into law; the
same rates to apply to American prod
ucts shipped into the Philippines. Sud
denly the cane and beet sugar inter-
ests, together with the American grow
ess of fine wrapper leaf tobacco, have
awakened to the fact that they are
placed in peril by thaiss bill-that is, that
If it becomes Jaw they wil net receive
as much federal pap as formerly, and
they are extremely fond Of pap. In
fact, they have contracted the pap
habit, just as other persons contract
the morphine Or cocaine habit. They
say, POGO is very good, and have not
had enough"
The first question that a sensible man
will ask himself in this connection is
this: HHoW does 1t happen that these
persons WHO live and move and have
their business being only by reason Of
an abnormally high protective tariff
never walked up beforeY Truth to tell,
they are now performing the condemn
ed caper Of locking the barn after the
horse is gone. The tine for them to
have made themselves heard effective
~ was in the summer Of 1893, when we
were annexing Hawaii, FOR the sugar
output Of Hawaii is about four times
that Of the PHILIPPINES.
We imported about 100000 tons of
Philippine sugar last year and about
100000 tons Of Hawaiian sugar. Ev-
cry pound Of the Hawaiian sugar came
IN free Of duty, and every pound Of
Philippine sugar paid % per cent Of
the ptngley rates. Since 1875 we have
imported 4,333.654 tons OF Hawaiian
sugar absolutely duty free. AS there
Is a duty Of $35 ton on raw sugar
generally, we have made the Hawaiian
sugar kings present of $751;, e77, 800
IN order to induce them to permit us
to gobble the islands without war,
and after we gobbled them they are
not worth rush to US. In fact, they
are a dead expense, for we are Of
course still letting their sugar in free,
which means that on the 100000 tons
which they send to us annually we
make them q present of s35 tariff
per ton. making q Total Of $4,000
600 per year, which we pay then, for
the pleasure of their society, to say
nothing Of the cost of keeping up their
government. Now, be 1t remembered
that letting in the Hawaiian sugar free
does not cheaper sugar to the consum-
err, for 40 long as the sugar trust has
the differcntiai on aefned sugar It has
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
Half The World Wonders

how the other half lives. Those who
use Bucklen' 3 Arnica Salve never won
der If it will cure Cuts, Wounds, Burns
Sores and all Skin eruptions; they
know 1T will. Mrs. Grant Shy, l13O e.
Reynolds St. Springfield, Ill, says: 81
regard it one Of the absolute neces-
stiles OF housekeepingNN Guaranteed
by 2. A. Clemmer, druggist, 25c p
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
Dies on a Dare.

9Th dare you to kill yourself" re-
marked patron Of saloon at pu,
buque to James Flynn. The latter had
just declared he would commit suicide
by jumping into mineral hole. "You
can't bluff me-" Flynn replied, and he
seized gun, turned it upon himself
and fred, dying instantly.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
Young Farmer Messing,

Clarence Morehouse, a prominent
young farmer of Ontario, who has been
missing two weeks, was married to an
Eastern girl last fall. after a weeks
acquaintance. He had no financial OF
domestic trouble, and the family. is
perplexed.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
Tarred and Feathered.

A party of whitecappers at Renwick
tarred and feathered John Dressler and
ordered him to leave the country
pressler is accused of maltreating his
wife, who is now in critical condition
said to be result of her husbands
abuse.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12
Interstate Fair Dates.

The directors Of the Interstate LIVE
Stock Fair association last week voted
to hold tho next annual fair the second
week in September, as last year, in
spite Of the fact that the national asso-
citation gave these dates to the South
Dakota state fair,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-12


change is the easy defeat of the
Hon. Joseph G. S. Blackburn
for reelection to the United States sen.
ate by the Hon. Thomas II. Paynter,
Judge of the court of appeals of Ken.
lucky. Kentuckians are essentially and
almost universally race of Hotspurs,
and Joe Blackburn is the typical Hot.
spur. He possesses every virtue and
every vice Of the average Kentuckian.
most popular men that ever lived in the
state. Neither Henry Clay nor John
j. Crittenden nor John G. Breckin.
ridge had stronger hold on Kentucky
hoi polloi. From the mouth of the Cum.
berland to the mouth of the Big Sandy
he knew nearly every man, woman and
child, and nearly every man, woman
and child knew him and nearly every
blessed one of them called him Joe.
1t has been said of him, no doubt with
great deal of truth, that he knew the
name, pedigree and record of every
race horse in Kentucky.
He was gallant soldier of the Con-
federacy, of course of the cavalry
branch. for no genuine Kentuckian will
ever walk where he can find horse to
ride. On the stump he was as capti-
waiting as Tom Marshall. AS mixer
and handshaker he never had a supe-
rior in Kentucky or any other state
Thirty years ago he succeeded Beck in
the house of representatives,. From
that day to this. with the exception of
four years he was In retirement he has
been in the house or senate, He came
within what the Kentuckians would
call "a Georgetown grace of beating
Randall for the speakership. He play.
ed conspicuous part amid the stormy
scenes of the Hayes. Tilden presiden.
tial contest On that occasion he made
one of the bitterest speeches ever heard
within the walls Of the capitol, portions
Of which are quoted even to this day
as samples Of verbal aqua fortis That
he should be defeated at all is remark
able, but that he should be defeated by
staid and sober jurist Of high degree
Is more remarkable still. The chances
are that in primary election, though
backed by the Beckham machine, Judge
Paynter would not have been able to
poll one vote out of three in contest
against Blackburn. Nevertheless, under
the present system of electing senators
Judge Paynter received fifty-nine votes
in the Democratic caucus when he only
needed fifty-three.
Blackburn is only sixty-seven years
old, an exceedingly well preserved
man. While he is a fine lawyer, excep-
tionally strong as criminal lawyer,
politics is his special delight. 1t is hard
to tell whether he has political fu-
tuFe. The chances are that he can be
elected governor next year if he wants
to be- He might possibly return to the
house from the Ashland district, though
South Trimble seems to have pretty
good grip or his constituency. 1t is not
at all probable that he will attempt to
gobble Senator McCreary's toga, as he
fought just as hard to save Blackburn
as did Blackburn himself, and, any
how, Governor Beckham has his eagle
eye fixed on the McCreary toga. But
Beckham will find it an exceedingly
difficult task to divorce Senator Nc
Creary from his official raiment.