Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-16

ment from cowcatcher to rear of the
tender is $50 feet, and the height from
top of rail to top of smokestack is If
teen feet five and three quarters Inches
Record Year For immigration.
The figures of the immigration Off
Gals show that the number Of immi-
grants coming to this country during
the year ended June 80, 1907, was the
largest in the history of the country,
reaching 1,2s5,349 OF these over
100000 landed at the port of New
York.
Good Crop Prospects.
According to figures gathered and col
lated by a Chicago business concern,
there is. little ground for the unfavora-
bic crop predictions which have been
made from time to time. These figures
show all crops fully up to the average
for this season, with the exception Of
the corn crop, which was injured in
certain sections by the unfavorable
weather Of late spring, but even this is
simply backward, and with suitable
weather may yet give nearly or quite a
full harvest.
Boys Killed In Mines.
The annual report Of the Pennsyl-
vania state department of mines
shows that during 1906 1875 boys be-
tween the ages of sixteen and TWEEN
ty-one years We're killed in the anthra-
cite and bituminous regions Of the
state. In addition to these fatalities,
twenty-one boys between the ages
mentioned We're killed outside of the
anthracite mines. The report recon-
mends that the foreman who hired
boys under sixteen to do miners
work should be sentenced to term Of
Imprisonment.
American Rush to Canada.
Professor jeremiah W. jerks Of Cor
nell, a member of the United States
immigration commission, is on a tour
of the Canadian northwest investigat-
ing the matter of American immigra-
ton into Canada. He is also looking
Into the movement of Asiatics to Brit
ish Columbia. 1t is said to be his
purpose to devise some scheme to turn
the American current back to the
United States. He is expected to make
confidential report to the president
on the results Of his trip.
Minneapolis to Gulf Line.
The Minneapolis, Kansas City and
Gulf Railway company has just been
incorporated in Oklahoma, with $780,
100000 capital stock, for the purpose
of constructing a double track cleo
trio railroad from Minneapolis to Des
Moines, thence to Kansas City, Wichi-
ia, Guthrie, Oklahoma City, Dallas and
| Galveston.
photographers Quit Strike.
The members of the photographic
Artists, Engravers and Designers
league have abandoned the strike
which they began in August, 1906,
when the association of employers
posted the open shop notices and de-
manded that the men resign from their
unions. This announcement comes
close upon the heels Of the recent de-
cision Of Attorney General Bonaparte
sustaining the right of the employers
to import European photographers.
Free Employment Agencies.
The Massachusetts Labor Bulletin, as
digested In American Industries, shows
that fifteen states now have free public
employment agencies in operation, rs
follows: California Connecticut, I'LL
nois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mon
tana, Nebraska, Ohio, Washington,
West Virginia and Wisconsin. The mo-
tives advanced to justify these agen-
cies are the belief that state competi-
ton would drive INSCRIPTIONS private
agencies out of business, the need of
assisting the unemployed and the
bringing together of laborer and en-
ployer with the result Of reducing the
army of unemployed.
Pennsylvania Earnings Increase.
The statement of the Pennsylvania
railroad, just issued, shows great i'm
provement in net earnings for the
month Of June as compared with some
of the earlier months Of the year. The
statement shows on the Pennsylvania
lines directly operated an increase in
gross earnings of $1,G74,7Oo and $431,-
700 net
Record Shpbuidins Year.
According to government reports for
the last fiscal year, 1,463 vessels, ag-
gregatlng 510S65 gross tonnage, were
built in the United States, this being
greater number Of vessels and far
greater tonnage than during any other
year for half century. The record
shows steady decline in the building
of schooners and corresponding in
crease in steamers, but there is now
appearing considerable number Of
schooners equipped with auxiliary mo-
tor power.