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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-20
New Corporations.

Certificates of incorporation were
ISSUED from the Office of the Secre-
tary OF State. to the following enter
prises:
Home Supply Company, of New
Bern. The object is to do a general
mercantile business.
The total authorized capital stock
Is $4,000 and the incorporation via
commence business with $4,000 paid
IN. ~
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-20
Twelve Business Houses Burned and
Their Contents Destroyed.

Sharon, Ca, Special.-Sharon was
Friday morning visited by a disaster
Gus fire. Twelve business houses and
contents were totally consumed. There
was a loss of $4,000, with insurance
of $4,000. The fire started in the
drug store of DIR. L. R. Brown. The
flames spread rapidly, making a clean
sweep of everything except two brick
the bank and the Georgia Rail-
road depot.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-20
MaSons Will Bnild.

Greensboro, Specialist a joint
meeting of Greensboro and Corinth-
ian Lodge of Masons it was decided to
form a corporation for the erection
of a $4,000 Masonic temple. The
project was discussed with the utmost
enthusiasm by those present and three
thousand dollars was subscribed in
a very little while. As soon as five
thousand dollars is subscribed a char
ter will be secured. Among the sites
mentioned for the building is the va
cant lot on the corner of Elm and
CASTOR streets Immediately south Of
the City Hall and north of the coun-
tV court house.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-20
killing at GaffneY.

Gaffney, Special.-Another homi-
eide has been added to the already
long list in Cherokee. The wife Of
Pink Estes shot and killed Joe Web
ster, another negro, at her home III
Gatfney Friday night about $50
O'Clock. The killing was done with :.
Slngle-barreled br~eech-loading shot
gun. 1t seems that Webster's wife
and the Estes woman had a ''scrap'
yesterday, and when Webster found
out abou it, he went to the Estes
woman's house for the purpose OF
"regulatlng' her and met his death.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-20
Forbid Obscene Pictures.

Wilmington, Special.-In response
to the appeal of the ministerial as
ISOLATION, the board of aldermen in
special session passed the ordinance
requested, %forbidding obscene pic
lures and music in the saloons OF
th3 city, under penalty of forfeiture
OF license. The board made a com.
promise on the demand of tie minis
tiers to- divorce the sale of liquors and
groceries.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-20
Contract Has Been Awarded.

Norfolk, Va, Specialize contract
for the building to be erected at the
jamestown Exposition by the Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy all over the
country, has been awarded. The
building will cost $1,000 and will be a
reproduction of "Beauvoir," the
home of Jefferson Davis, President of
the Cenfederacy, at Gulfport, Miss.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-20
Salisbury Wants a Fair.

Salisbury, Special.-Salisbury has
begun the agitation of a county fair
for the coming year and there appears
hardly any doubt that before Deem
Der 1907, there will be fifty acres of
land laid off for a track and build
ings and new records made for the
turf This agitation is not old, but
has enough of age to guarantee its
life.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-20
Putting Down Pegs.

Waynesville, Special.-It is stated
that a railroad route is being survey
ed from Dillsboro or Sylvia t. East
La Port and from East La Port to
Lake Toxaway. This new railroad.
according to rumor, is to be built by
the Southern and to connect Brevard
with Seneca, S. c. and will give a di-
rect line south. 1t will open vast
timber and mineral resources hither-
to untouched.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-20
Made False Entries in Timber Lana
Purchase.

New Orleans, Special.-Admlsslon
that he swore falsely in making Ell,
tries of a large Louisiana timber lana
purchase from the United States gov
eminent, was made by John W.
Smith, principal government witness
in the conspiracy case against WIZ
liam A. and Fred P. Brewer, wealthy
Michigan lumbermen, and Joseph
Dunlap.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-20
American Contractors to Get,
Panama Canal Job
MANY CHANGES In CONTRACTS
Many Changes Agreed to in Form Of
Contract for Construction. But
Most Important is Announcement
by Chairman Shonts That Only
Proposals by American Firms vii
Be Received.

Washington, Spccial.-Foreign con-
tractors are to re barred from compe-
titien for the completion of the Pan
anna Canal. Chairman Shorts, OF
the Isthmian Canal commission, made
this announcement. Many changes
have been agreed to in the form Of
contract to be entered into for the
construction of the canal, but the
most important is the limiting of
proposals to American firms. The
right will be reserved by the commits
sion to reject all the bids submitted;
in case none of them is satisfactory
and the commission will then either
throw the competition open to for
eign bidders or proceed with the
work without contract. January IL
is the date set for the opening Of
proposals.
A substantial reduction in the bond
of the successful bidders was also
made by the commission, in compli-
ance with the request of prospective
bidders. The bond will be only g.
100000 and the total liability of the
contractor is to be limited to the loss
of percentage and premiums other
wise payable to the contractor and
100000 in addition. Chairman
Shonts indicated other changes as
follows:
"To relieve the contractor from re-
sponsibility for the use of defective
materials, or for the preparation for
use of the same, provided he has re-
quested the chief engineer in writing
for the definite approval Of the ma
~terials, or the preparation for use
thereof, and the chief engineer after
a reasonable time fails to act upon
such request.
"To provide for a later change in
the estimated cost and time of con-
structure, as originally agreed to by
the engineering committee, in case the
plans and specifications for the con-
struction of the canal shall be ma
altered in any respect; or IL
it shall be made to appear to the
President Of the United States that
the estimates are based on physical
data so as to affect the es-
timated cost and time of construction
that the estimates have become
substantially inequitable by reason Of
The intervention of an act of God or
public enemy; or for any other ma
teaial cause which shall not have
taken into account by the en-
glneering committee in making their
estimates, and for which the contrac-
IS no responsible.
SIT was also provided that in case
innate the contract, when the con-
ractor is not in default, the contrac-
shall be paid the cost of the work
reformed by him to date, and
100000 in addition to such percent
ge as may have been earned by him
Ipon such cost up to that time. I
"The responsibility of the contract
r to the commissioner for all in
uries or damages inflicted upon the
liant, canal, or its auxiliary works,
5 limited to negligence of himself.
+ any of his employees, or subcon-
FACTORS, or the employees of such sub
ontractors."
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-20
Two Killed and Two Injured.

Donaldsville, La, SpeciaI.-Four
persons were killed and two serious
ly injured in a head on collision be
tween a passenger and a freight train
at a long curve near here on the Tex
as & Pacific Railroad. All the fatali-
ties were among members Of the
train crews, no passengers being seri-
ously hurt.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-20
No Change IN OUR SPIN
Congress Forces Pres;do.,
Revoke Spelling Ordor
HOUSE HOLDS TO OLD SYsnI

WI Withdraw Order to Public p.
er and Documents Hereaftar -
be Printed in Old-Fashiored c"l
Resolution Adopted by .he R"'s
Passed Without a Dissentinp n.y.
considerations Governing Az,
of Committee.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
HAPPENINGS IN IOWA
NEWS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.
Pat Grove Indicted for Alleged Com.
pIicity in a Street Car tlo!dup
at Sioux City the Second
Day of July.
Day of July.

Pat Grove has been indicted at
Council Bluffs by the Potta yattanlie
county grand jury for alleged com
plicity in street car hcldup of July
2, 1905, when about $50 was secured
from two conductors aid a motorman.
Arthur Levi a younger man, is in
dicted on the same charge with Grove.
The principal evidence against both
men was given by Mrs Lillian Dalton,
a South Omaha woman, who overheard
a conversation between them and saw
them counting money on the morning
after the robbery. Other Witnesses
testified that Grove in company with
Levi was at a saloon in Council Bluffs
an hour or two before the robbery.
Grove is now in the hands of the Oma-
ha authorities awaiting trial in Feb
Tuary for robbery in connection with
the Cudahy kidnapping case. A requi-
sition from Governor Cummins of Iowa
is in the hands of Governor Mickey Of
Nebraska, who will not act on it till
the Omaha case is disposed of.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
Farmer Obtains a Fortune.

Because the man who eloped with
his wife placed the fortune, which he
subsequently accumulated, in her
name, ID. L. Douglass, a prosperous
farmer residing six miles from Sioux
City, has unexpectedly become pos
sessed of great wealth. Fourteen years
ago Douglass wife deserted him and
joined G. S. Porter in California. Por-
ter had formerly boarded with the
Douglasses, and had been ordered
from his residence by Douglass, who
discovered he was making love to Mrs.
Douglass. Douglass did not attempt
to pursue the clipping couple. He
learned that they resided together in
California as man and wife and We're
rapidly accommodating fortune. Still
Douglass forgave and tried to forget.
his wife was dead. He consulted an
attorney, and, upon his advice, went
to California to search for the prop
erty. In the end he located the hus-
band pro tenn of his late wife at Los
Angeles and found that she had left
property valued at $4,000, which Por-
ter claimed as legitimate inheritance.
1t seems that Porter, who was a truck
driver in Omaha when he met the
Douglasses, had elected to keep his
property in the name of Mrs. Doug
lass, because there was an outstanding
judgment against him. Mr.. Douglass
sued for the property in Los Angeles
and won the suit, obtaining title to
$4,000 worth of property.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
JUVENILE CRIME IN ITALY.
Depravtty Of the Young the Result
of Bad Environment and
Illiteracy.

Consul Britain, of Kehl, Germany,
furnishes some startling statistics on
Juvenile crime in Italy, taken from an
article recently published and written
by Limo Ferriani. He says that 80
per cent. of the child criminals of Italy
are manufactured by bad environment
and inadequate education-in other
words, by preventable causes; that 80
per cent. of the criminals of the coun-
try are minors, and of these IS per
cent. are thieves.
Prof Ferriani protests against senti-
mental description, but pleads for sci
entific investigation. He himself has
closely studied 500 boy prisoners be-
tween the ages of IL and Ia and re-
ports that more than half of them
came from the most wretched homes,
and over 200 had criminal parents.
Very few had ever done any work. all
were sexually corrupt; nearly all
smoked and many had a taste for alco-
hol.
AS proof of how little good is eff
fected by mere instruction apart from
moral training, he asserts that the best
scholars were among the worst Offend
ers AS an alternative to prison the
author proposes agricultural colonies
in districts where the air is bracing
with good food and outdoor work,
kindly discipline and the supervision
OF an experienced physician.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
Saves His Drowning Brother.

Hampton has lad who should be
given one of the Carnegie medals when
the time for distribution comes around
again. The boys name is Kaufman.
His little brother Mark, aged seven
years, in coasting down steep hill,
lost control of his sled. Going over
the bank, struck the ice in a creek be-
low with sufficient force to break the
ice, going head foremost under the ice
In four or FIVE feet of water. The older
brother saw the accident, and, hurrying
to the child's assistance, reached I'M
der the ice, caught the little boy by
the feet and drew him out just in time
to save his life. In running to the
Kaufman home two or three blocks
distant, he~older brother carried Mark
over his arm in such manner that the
water ran from Marks lungs, and
when they reached home the uncon-
scioused lad soon was revived.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
HE WAS A TYPICAL HoBo.
Member of the Peripatetic Fraternity
Who Wanted Something for
Nothing.

Would you mind giving poor fel.
low few pennies to help him get a
nights lodging?" asked stranger who
called at police headquarters one night
about seven o'clock, says the Washing
ton Star.
I; "You won't need any change if you
go to the lodging house." he was told.
They make you pay for what You
get down there" said the caller. 1--WE
been at the mission before and know
what I'm talking about"
He was told that reference had been
made to the municipal lodging house,
and not to the mission.
"And / know all about that place,
too" said the man who wanted few
pennies to help him along. down
there a man don't get the worth of his
labor, and it's too late to go there now,
anyhow"
The house, he was told, was kept
open every night until ten o'clock, and
he was advised that he had about three
hours in which to reach there.
eff it keeps open until ten o'clock"
the caller said, "the rules have been
changed since last year. I know they
closed the doors earlier than ten
o'clock last year"
Until he had volunteered this infor-
nation his hearers were under the i'm.
preston that the man who had asked
for assistance was stranger in the
city. In response to questions, he said
be had come here from New York two
days ago, and thought he would stop
here short time before proceeding
south. 1t was little earlier than this
when he passed through here last year
and he admitted that his start was
purely a matter that was guided by the
weather conditions. He was moi
pleased with his reception at head
quarters, and showed his displeasure
as he walked from the building.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
Says Plat Was Poisoned.

DR.. A. M. Linn Of the Iowa state
board of health, submitting expert ties.
timony in the Pratt murder case at
Rockwell City, testified that Josiah
Pratt, for whose death Mrs. Pratt is
on trial, was due to the effects of ar
senical poison, the poison having been
administered prior to the mans death.
Druggist Mickles, from Yetter, has al
ready testified that Mrs. Pratt pur
chased arsenic prior to her husbands
death, and also that he sold Persing,
the hired man, accused with her, sew
eral sheets of fly paper. An effort will
be made to prove that arsenic in large
quantities is used in the preparation of
fly paper
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
Plans PenniIess Gospel Tour.

Charles Countryman, well known in
Y. M. G. A. circles and son of former
Congregational pastor at Iowa Falls,
will start this week on gospel tour
around the world. Mr.. Countryman
intends to start without cent and to
pay his expenses from voluntary offer
ings made at meetings which he will
hold in the various cities and towns
through which he will pass. He will
start from Chicago, going by way of
Rock Island, Des Moines, st. Joseph to
Denver, and thence to the Pacific
coast. He expects to complete his trip
within two years.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
SIX children Injured.

Six children were severely injured,
one possibly fatally, in collision be-
tween two heavily loaded bodsleds
at Des Moines. The children were
sliding down adjoining hills and their
sleds crashed at the bottom while run
ming at high rate of speed. The in
jured are: Teresa Griffin, right leg
broken above knee, compound frac-
ture below the knee, may die of
shock; Dale Hyland, leg broken in
three places; Mamie Hyland, ankle
badly sprained; Will McGrain, head
severely cut; Homer Benscoter, cut
about forehead; Earl King, flesh torn
from calf of leg and ankles twisted.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
THREE PLACED UNDER ARREST.
Sioux City Men Accused OF Using the
Mails to Cefraud.


H. A. Richie, j. A. Tracey and ]. H.
Featherstone, members of the real es-
tate firm of Fl. A. Richie & Co. of
Sioux City have been arrested there
by Deputy United States Marshal
Tracy on charge of using the mails
to defraud. The defendants appeared
before United States Commissioners
T. G. Henderson and arranged fer
hearing. Each gave bonds of 5000 1t
Is alleged that by means OF printed
contracts, containing misleading PARA
graphs, the firm has deceived and de.
frauded many persons and that j. A.
Tracey, one of the defendants, who is
an attorney, took advantage Of the
name to that of J. A. Tracy, deputy
United States marshal, to enforce col
lection on the claims of the real estate
company.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19

did tine Great Mlssourfan," whose nigh
career constitutes one of the priceless
heritages of the imperial commonwealth
which he loved so well and served so
nobly. If Benton deserved the highest
credit for doing that. as President Roose-
liams or Judge De Almond or any other
man in this house deserve the highest
credit for putting any other prime neces-
sity of life upon the free list?
These gentlemen have lured me far
afied by their numerous, ingenious and
interesting questions. Let us return for
moment to the consideration of the pres
ent crisis in our tariff affairs.
Juggling With Invoices
What sort of a modus vivendi is it that
Secretary Root is endeavoring to induce
Secretary Shaw to enter into with Ger
many? Why. if the papers are to be be-
lievcd, it is to be nothing more than a
Systematic Juggling with invoices of Ger
man products Imported into this country
from Gerrnany-a Sleight of hand per-
Torrance by which invoices from that
country are to be fixed lower than they
should be in order to p,acate Germany
temporarily and tide the Republican party
over the rocks during this session. In the
meantime we are to be amused with this
maximum ard minimum plaything. Then,
congress having done ENTHUSIASTICALLY
nothing-to permanently improve the stu
alton and having adjourned, the Repub-
licans viii play another stupendous con-
hdence game by going to the country with
roseate promises of what they will do by
way of tariff revision at the short ses-
sion--in which great game they will be all
things to all men, hoping thereby TO carry
the congressional elections. This trick
may prove successful, but j do not believe
that it will. The people are not all fools.
Gentlemen, l have exceeded by very
much the time that expected to occupy.
/ thank the house profoundly for its cour-
tesy and it's kindness. This speech is
somewhat disjointed, because 1t was not
written out beforehand and because there
have been ceaseless Interruptions. have
tried to be fair about 1t. i have denied no
member a chance to interrogate me.
hope that this days work will open up
a discussion that will be the cause and
beginning of Il wider discussion in the
country, which will do one of two things
it will either drive the Republicans of
the agricultural districts into electing
outspoken Republican tariff revisionists
here or else the next house will be a
will prevail. If have contributed even
''the widows mite to the approaching
triumph of a righteous cause the three
hours which / have consumed have been
profitably spent / have an abiding faith
that when the eyes of the taxpayers of
the land are opened to the situation they
will no longer stand for the monstrosities
of the Dingley tariff bill.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
Insurance. Investigation.

State Senator Molabery has intro
duced in the legislature a resolution
providing for the appointment of a
joint committee of the house and SEN
ate to conduct an investigation of the
life insurance business, revise the
statutes, frame new bills and report to
the next general assembly, which
meets next winter. The resolution
went over under the rules.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
SHOTGUN Killed Her.

Miss Grace Matthews, daughter of a
prominent farmer and sister of County
Superintendent of Schools Matthews
of Burlington, accidentally killed her.
self with a shotgun. The gun, which
was in the closet, was knocked over by
Miss Matthews. The entire charge
lodged in her body, death resulting a
few hours later.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
Iowa Man Dies in Africa,

A cablegram from Khartoum, Sou
dan, announces the death of Frank
Conkey, former landlord of the Dun
comb house of Fort Dodge, who was
with Leigh Hunt, the ex-Iowan, en-
gagged in retaining waste lands along
the Nile river. Conkey's wife and two
children reside in Minneapolis. The
cablegram gives no explanation of the
cause of death, which is supposed to
have been typhoid or malarial fever
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
Stock Breeders Elect officers.

The Interstate Stock Breeders asso-
citation at Sioux City elected the fol-
lowing officers: James Walpole, Rock
Valley, reelected president; Alexander
McRooth, Paulina, Ia, vice president:
F. l.. Wirick, Sioux City, secretary; P.
e. Held, Hinton, Ia, treasurer; Will
lam Magivny, w. R. A. Smith. Sioux
City, and P. w. Peterson, Vermillion,
8. D., executive committee.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
Holds a Record.

The little hamlet of Farson, Ia,
probably has the best record of any
city of similar size in the United
States for the number of banks as
compared to the number of inhabitants.
The total population of the little place
is but fifty souls, but the town boasts
Of two state banks.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
Goes With Hawkeyes.

Marc Seavy Catlin, the famous
hurdler and captain of the champion
ship University of Chicago football
team, has been elected trainer of the
University of Iowa track team for the
coming year. The election came as
surprise to athletic followers, as it,
was not known that Catlin was an ap.
plicant for the position.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
Seeks Chance Of Venue.

It is reported that an effort will be
made on the part of the attorneys of
Edwin o. Soule, the former bank cash
Ter Of Iowa Falls, to secure the trans
fer Of his case to the Benton county
district court on a change of venue. It
is calimed by his attorneys that Soule
cannot secure justice in Hardin county.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
Railway Discrimination.

In an address to the Iowa Brick and
Tile association at Des Moines Gov
ernor Cummins declared emphatically
that railway discrimination had pre-.
vented Iowa manufacturing industries
from growing as they should and the
state is suffering in consequence.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-01-19
Football Suspended.

The athletic board of the state nor
NAL school at Cedar Falls has suspend
ed intercollegiate football for next
year. The institution will arrange no
schedule nor organize any football
team. The attention of the students
will be devoted to other athletics.