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Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06
GOOD FOR POOR AND RICH

Without exception, outside of the
power companies as corporate identi'
ties, every big taxpayer on either real
estate or personal property in Los An
geles is in favor of the Owens river
bonds. The power companies as such
are fighting it, but their own stock
holders are in favor of it.
Now, doesn't it stand to reason that
If the very heavy taxpayers, who must
bear the greater share of the cost OF
this project, favor 1t, and give reasons
for their faith, the little fellow, to whom
it means much more in results, but
whose share in its cost is inconsider-
able, ought to stand for it?
The little fellow gets the same water
that the big fellow gets; he obtains as
much, 1t is as pure and it Is as whole
some. His lawn is as important to him
as Is the millionaire's; his house Is in
as great need of an abundant supply as
is the mansion. Yet the cost to him is
only fraction.
If owens river is good thing for the
rich man, who can afford to pay any
price for water, why isn't 1t better for
the poor man, who can't afford to have
his private water works?
Think about this Bit
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06
"A SUBTERRANEAN STRIKE

The light earthquake in San Fran
| cisco on Wednesday morning, directly
after midnight, shows that nature has
not repaired the geological fault" un-
derlying the city. Although the quake
caused no destructive effect, it was a
terrible reminder of the calamity a
year ago last April. 1t was severe
enough to toss bricks from buildings
in some cases and to cause many per-
sons to scamper to the streets.
| The hope that the great shock last
| year caused a solid settling of the mis-
fit strata seems to be dissipated by the
jolt now noted. Evidently the fault"
has not yet adjusted itself to perma-
nent conditions and hence there is cause
for apprehension that another slip is
| possible at any time.
| Biologists generally agreed that the
slip causing the great quake was but
& few feet. There is wide variation in
such cases, however, as a recognized
authority says: "The amount of dis
placement of the strata thus occasioned
| may be rev inches or thousands OF
feet" And the faults ''are occasioned
by movements OF the crust of the earth
and are part of the complicated phen-
omena by which mountain chains are
built up and continents elevated or de-
pressed"
AS will be remembered, several minor
shocks occurred at intervals of two or
three days subsequent to the greater
one that caused the disaster. The re-
currence of such disturbance now does
not necessarily portend further disaster,
although it is an ominous reminder that
the source Of the disaster still exists.
The natural apprehension that must
result from the recent jar would seem
to be sufficient to fill to overfiowing the
cup of San Francisco's manifold trou-
bles.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06
FORCES EMPLOYEES
TO VISIT SHARKS
City Pays OutfaII Sewer Hands in
Checks After Banking Hours.
Council May Change the
System

Though George Arnold's business
among city employees who wanted their
salary demands Shaved" has, accord
ing to the records, dwindled in the last
few months because of press attacks
the outfall sewer laborers are still
obliged to patronize the money sharks.
They reach the city hall after 8
o'clock, after which hour the banks are
closed, and to get their checks cashed
they must resort to friendly saloon
keepers or sharks.
Disbursing Agent w. M. Nelson pays
these men with checks drawn on the
Home Savings bank, for which service
as auditor and disburser he gets $500
a month.
Some councilmen will make an effort
to have the men paid off in cash at the
works shortly.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06
MURDER STILL RIFE
IN SAN FRANCISCO
From the San Francisco cbront0,o

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
we would again call the attention
OF the governor to the fact that San
francisco is part of the state of
California within which he is sworn
to see that the laws are executed II
cannot be said that the laws are be-
Ing executed when men engaged in anv
legitimate business cannot venture on
the streets alone without being SET
upon by a mob composed of the yilest
OF the vile, and when such men are
not only not protected by the police
but are shot down if they attempt to
protect themselves. We believe that
the governor can enforce the dis
missal of the unspeakable Dinan and
cause his replacement by a man who
Will maintain the peace.
The law against carrying concealed
weapons is a proper law and should
be enforced, but the villainous intent
of the police is shown by the vigor
with which they pursue one of the car
men who happens to be caught with
concealed weapon. while paying not
the slightest attention to the Grim
1nals who create these mobs. every
one of whom doubtless has "gun" in
his pocket. The police know that the
carmen who venture on the street,
where they have the right to go, take
tLASiA AANCo III lllclI ldHuS, ana yet II
they are found in condition to pro-
tect themselves they are promptly
run in. At last accounts the police
were hot foot after the carman who
was with Fargey when he was shot.
although charged with no crime, while
there was apparently not the slightest
attempt to capture any of the blood
thirsty wretches who attacked them.
1t is time that such work stopped.
and the governor is the man to stop
1t, for he holds the stick which will
compel Schmitz to put a good man
in Dinans place
We suggest to the property owners
at the Mission, where a great deal of
disorder reigns, that it is about time
for them to display their own man.
hood. 1t is not, never was and never
will be the fact that a mob can long
dominate any city or part of city
whose substantial interests are in the
hands of men and not sheep. The
ruffians who make the trouble are few
in number and every one of them is a
coward. They start the riots and the
fool crowd follows them. If a hun
dred men could be run out of the city
the Mission would be as quiet as it is
north of Market street. All that the
property owners have to do is to or
ganize and show themselves men. If
the police will not protect them they
know where to go. No man on either
side should be allowed to carry con-
cealed weapons, but on the other hand,
the streets should be made so safe that
there will be no inducement to do so.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06
smugaIes Chinese

Ell PASO, Tex, June 5.--John Sea-
mans, a conductor on the Mexican Cen
tral, is in jail charged with smuggling
Chinese into this country. With Sea-
man when he was arrested were two
Chinese who say they accompanied him
across the line
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Alkali Sammy may take notice that
the Owens river water is two and one
half times as good as that we are now
using. Then again, he may take no no.
tice of this, because it is a fact.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06
DANGEROUS LUNATIC
REPORTED AT LARGE

Fred C. Brownsell. painter. recently
returned to Patton after sensational
escape from that institution, is re-
ported to have again escaped. and the
local police have been notified to be
on the watch for him.
The man is said to be suffering from
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Those down east sufferers from win
ter's lingering in the lap of summer
are respectfully informed that they
can get all the summer they want if
they will take advantage of the N. E.
A. rates to Los Angeles next month.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Shipments of dynamite to the San
Francisco street railway strikers have
been held up by the police. The only
startling news in this is the action of
the police.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

a mania which induces hallucinations
leading him to attempt homicide, and
patrolmen have been instructed to do
all in their power to find him as soon
as possible.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

San Francisco has some street cars
running during the day. but it still
walks at night, Yet the spineless gov
ernor can't see what he should do
about it.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

One thing, this wintry weather in
the east doesn't permit the man next
door to run his lawn mover at un-
earthly hours and wake up everyone
in the block. Everything has it's COM
pensations.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

With 10000 idle men, San Francisco
would seem not to be so good a work.
ingman's town as the Schmitz-Ru
gang of looters once declared they
would make it.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

And now San Francisco is wonder
ing if Chief Dinan will arrest himself
for alleged violations of the very laws
he is sworn to uphold.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

BY all means get the Knights Tenn
plar conclave for Los Angeles in 1910
Just tell the Shriners we want it and
they will do all the boosting that's
needed.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

If the knights Templar do come here
in 1910. 1t will keep Los Angeles
hustling to beat it's own record for the
Shriners who foregathered here in
May. But Los Angeles will be twice
as large then as it is now. and can
thus surpass even itself.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

1t is cheering news that comes from
Commissioner Lane Of the interstate
commerce commission that Mr.. Harri-
man will have to. tell all he knows.
But 1t will be still more grateful when
the United States supreme court says
the same thing.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

The strike breakers are leaving San
Francisco. When town gets so bad
that strike breakers desert it, it has
about reached it's limit.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Anyone who wants information
about Owens river can get it free.
Anyone who wants lies about it must
buy the Snooze.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

San Francisco has had another
quake. The fact that Schmitz was
actually on trial, at last, probably was
enough to move the very earth.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

The east reports that pies are to be
thinner this summer, owing to short
age of fruit. But the pie counter will
be none the less popular, it is be-
lieved.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Abe Ruef was once man of high
ideals-he says. Then his price be-
came high. Now his keep is high.
Pretty soon, he will be high up in San
Quentin.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

When the power companies are
beaten in the Owens river contest, will
they fail to utilize Owens river water
when we get it? Hardly.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Even the children appreciate the i'm
portance to Los Angeles Of the Owens
river project, and are in line for 1t.
Are you as wise as the children?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Garbled reports are easily detected.
Don't be fooled by them. Owens river
bears inspection up one side and down
the other. Look it UP.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Pittsburgers are now marrying tele-
phone girls. Has the chorus maiden
lost her fascination, or has the supply
run out?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

The man who is honestly opposed to
Owens river is to be pitied, but the
man who fights it for hire is to be
execrated. That's ALL
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

The Washington weather man has
ceased passing out the dope. No won
der. when it is so badly mixed that
Newport gets snowstorms in June.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

at last actually under way. 1t seems
too good to be true.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Snow shovels have advanced in the
east, owing to the continued summer
demand for them. Lawn mowers are
correspondingly cheap.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

The liar by accident is bad enough,
but the liar by intent is a despicable
beast. And Owens river liars pre-
varicate by intent.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

In the controversy between Roose-
welt and DR.. Long as to the truth of
animal stories, why not leave it to the
animals?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

When Ruef goes on the stand as a
witness against his former puppet
Schmitz, look out for fireworks.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

The eastern peach crop is reported
killed again. Even on the beaches,
peaches are mighty scarce.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

The bug under the chip is badly
wounded, but still manages to hop
about on one fiipper. Step on it.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Never mind about the weather; talk
Owens river instead; it's lots brighter
subject.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Foraker has closed his Ohio political
headquarters. Told you he was a
False Alarm.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Tune up, Fiddler Schmitz; most
time for the rogue's march.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Just about now it is up to Fiddler
Schmitz TO begin playing The Last
Hope
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

June the SANTA FE will sell ex-
cursion tickets, good returning until June
TO-. You can go one way, return another
Ask the Santa Fe agent.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Pull for owens river; that's Los An
geles' one concern.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

The peekaboo is taboo in the east.
oh, dear, no; not modesty. Cold.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

schmitz is now facing the music.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Swing Around the Circle to Riverside
and Back S1.75
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06

Population of Los Angeles. 100000
LARGEST CITY ON PACIFIC COAST
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-17
STRAWBERRY POINT.

a. j. Pease was up from Man
chester Friday on business
Vim. Smith of Manchester visited
at the N. S. Flack home here Satur-
day.
Elmer Jewett returned to Della
ware Saturday to open the spring
term of the schools there. He is
elected principal for another year
at an advanced salary, making him
the highest salaried teacher in the
history of the Delaware schools.
The Strawberry Point creamery
is preparing to install a monster
new skim milk vat to be used dur
ing the rush season this spring and
summer. The old vat will be used
when the amount of milk begins to
dwindle in the fall. Milk could
not be drained from the old vat fast
enough by the haulers to keep it
from overlooking.
1t cost Clayton county $3.50 for
expert accountants to go over the
books Of the county officers, but to-
day, when every one is suspicious
of graft in his fellow men, it is
worth that much to the people of
Clayton county to know exactly
how things stand in the court house
at Elkader. The experts were also
paid $54.54 commission. on taxes
paid through their efforts.-Mail-
Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-17
coLEsBuRG.

We are having "squaw winter"
these days.
Mic Burlage of Dyersville was a
business caller Thursday. He re-
ported Mrs. Burlage, who has been
very sick, as on the gain.
Miss Lucy Lands began teaching
in the Ocker district last Monday.
DIR, G. II. Summer of Waterloo
made this burg a flying visit Friday.
His friends regret that he was not
able to stay longer.
Oakley stillinger appears to be on
the mend for the past few days.
Miss Maggie Snapped of jefferson
is assisting Mrs. Frank Keller with
her house work. %"
Luther O'Neals team ran away
with the seeder Wednesday evening.
They collided with telephone pole
just beyond DIR. Wilson's residence,
which caused them to turn about
and run toward home again. The
harness and seeder were pretty much
the worse for wear and quite a
stretch Of fence was broken down.
The horses escaped unhurt, though
on part Of their run they were
perilously near to a barbed wire
fence.
Mrs NJ. E. Dittmer and son, Edgar,
returned Tuesday from a short but
pleasant visit with Manchester
friends.
The next meeting of the Twentieth
Century Review Club will be held
with Mrs. Cyrus Craig April %.
L. B. Lane of Goldfeld, Nevada,
arrived here Monday and will re-
main for a week Or more. He is
selling mining stock. l.. B. was a
former resident and principal of ou1
schools, and many there are here
who are pleased to see him after sc
long time.
Misses Mayme and Gertrude De-
Long spen: the week with their sis
tiers at Littleport
Mr.. and Mrs. j. R. O'Neal were
over from Edgewood Saturday and
Sunday visiting at the parental
home.
R. G. Currie was a business caller
at Dyersville Tuesday.
Edwin Putt Of Edgewood, who is
teaching school near Petersburg
was an over Sunday visitor here al
the home of his uncle, II. W. Putt
Miss Wayne DeLong will teach
at Springdale, commencing April Is
Mrs. j. X. Bolsinger and daugh.
ter, Goldie, spent several days re,
Gently at the Geo. Lands home al
New Vienna,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-17
HOPKINTON.

Mrs. +. A. Irish is spending a
few days at Greeley.
Mrs. Midkiff returned to Man
chester Saturday after visit with
her brother, j. A. Dalrymple.
! Jim Thompson of Hazel Green is
finishing up his house which he be-
gan last fall and expects to occupy
it about the first of May.
w. E. Reed has become owner of
the brick residence now occupied by
S. P. Carter.
Mrs. D. G. Macintosh and daugh-
ters departed yesterday morning for
Audubon to join her husband. She
was accompanied by Mrs. j. S. Nc
Cornell, who will remain for a
couple of weeks until they become
settled.
Andrew Loop and G. P. Joseph
have made the trade projected last
week, by which Andy becomes owner
of a piece Of Missouri land, and Mr..
Joseph takes the meat market. The
latter will lake possession of the
market at the close of business next
Saturday night and will conduct it
in person.
A number of friends of Mrs. G
81. Ricketts, surprised her in the
midst Of household duties Monday
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-17
lockwood.

l.. b. Blanchard was in Des
Moines last week.
Miss Angie Bixby is home from
Des Moines.
The dance given April IL in Hes
ner's Opera House was not very
largely attended but a good time
was reported.
Mrs. t'loy Breed of Rock Elm,
Wis, is but little better at this
writing and is still in a dangerou )
condition.
Mrs. Kenyon of Arlington, visited
her brother and sister last week.
Mrs. Doc Coolidge left last week
for Hot Springs, Arkansas, for her
health.
Geo. Barr was under the weather
last week.
Albert Vessel brought his broth
er home from Des Moines, sick with
typhoid fever He is improving
rapidly and both expect to return
soon.
Harry Sherman was up from
Greeley last week.
Clifford Barr is visiting relatives
in and around Edgewood.
Maud Gilchrist of Manchester,
visited friends here recently.
Remember McClary's lecture
next Friday night, April 10Th.
Mrs. Coykendall Of Waterloo, Wis
tied her mother, Mrs. |. N. Harris,
last week.
A shower was given in honor of
Miss Minnie Hansen at the Lon Hub
bell home Saturday afternoon from
3 to5.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-17
EAO'S GROVE.

John Carroll and wife visited at
j. I. Fowler's Sunday.
John Mcintosh of Manchester
opened school in District No. Z, on
Monday, April sth.
Fred Wendell and Miss Ada
Croyle called on friends in this vi
cinity on Sunday evening.
James Rutherford is hauling sand
for new concrete bridge.
Walter Longhurst's children lave
about recovered from the measles.
Frank Wiltse and wife of Wood
visited at w. S. Longhurst's Sun
day.
Nettie Fowler attended the dance
at Edgewood Friday night.
Miss Alice McKlnnis received
the Rebekah degree at Greeley
Wednesday night.
Fred ,rimm had business in Man
chester Wednesday.
j. NJ. Retherford delivered a
thoroughbred calf to l.. l.. Parker
on Friday.
Aunt Sarah Waters is in Greeley
this week attending the meetings at
the Christian church.
Archie and Zeke Martin rode the
Woodman goat on Monday night.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-17

of the common country scholar and
there is practically no way to enter
Ames until the pupil has graduated
from some academy. The saddest
part of the whole proposition is this
that after our years Of toll have
accumulated the means and we have
used them to do right by our Buys
and girls in an educational way
and have given them college edu-
cation we have surely banished them
out OF our lives and bu.iness for
ever and we have, in most cases,
nothing left in our farm life but a
childless old age to contemplate for
there is nothing in the teaching of
the colleges Of today that contem-
plates return to the farm. All the
teaching is away from it into bust
ness and the professions and there
is not line or a letter or reading
between the lines in all the cirricu-
lums or teachings of any of the uni
versities that directs our boys and
girls back to mother and me on the
farm.
This part Of the outlet is not
pleasant to us who have the farms
and the boys and the desire to do
our very best for them, and we have
very personal feeling in this mat
ter and a great hope that proper
agricultural training in these schools
will build up pride in farm life
and add a dignity and profit to
farm callings that special education
does add to business and the pro-
fessions, and will send some OF our
boys and girls back to take up our
work and become staff and So
lace to us in our declining years and
to take pride in the inheritance OF
the possessions mother and / have
labored SO hard to secure for them.
Henry Brayton, Delegate.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-17
County Correspondence.

afternoon, it being a birthday an
niversary the total of which we are
not at liberty to divulge. OF course
the visitors brought materials and
the necessaries for supper and few
hours of enjoyment, and slight
memento to remember the event by
in the future.
The Hopkinton members of the
Delaware County Telephone COM
pany went to Manchester last Mon
day for special meeting to con-
slider the expediency of placing the
wires of the Manchester system un-
derground. The leads and cables
there have become so heavy that
there is constant danger of damage
from storms and accidents, and it
was decided to lay the wires through
conduits. The work will cost a
good deal of money but in the end
will be economy, and will relieve the
streets Of the unsightly poles and
wires.
On resolution offered by Repre-
sentative Bixby the House of Repre-
sentatives last week appointed q
committee of five members to visit
Lenox College next June, represent
ing the state on occasion of the
Jubilee celebration and rededicatior
Of the soldiers monument, the first
to be erected in Iowa to the memory
Of the soldiers Of the Civil War
The committee will be composed o.
Representative Bixby Of this county
Paul of Jones, Springer of Buchanan
McAliister Of Linn, and Dow o
Franklin. All things are pointing
to a great gathering at the colleg,
next June.-Leader.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-17
Enqland and France,

1t has been playfully observed that
the mutual antipathies and attractions
of England and France resemble to q
curious degree those of man and wom-
all, perhaps one might say of man and
woman attached to each other by a
marriage de NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
We do all naturally hate the French"
Mr. Pepys observed long ago. does
any nation, by the way, love its neigh
borD France has never ceased to In
terest us Or indeed to inspire part of
our IDEAS and conduct.
Rightly do her historians descant of
the glorious role she has played in the
general work Of civilization, of the
sympathetic genius which has seized
and translated for Europe the ideas Of
reason, Justice and all the theory of
life, private and public" which has
preserved even in the useful and
frivolous the tradition Of art" Of the
idealist perseverance, whose expert
ments have saved the world so much
suffering and "made of her follies the
wisdom Of other natlons."-George H.
Powell in Fortnightly Review.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-17
We're All Leather Eaters.

"And them" said the arctic explorer,
II ate my leather belt"
Pooh, what of that? Every mothers
son of us eats n pair of shoes year"
The explorer frowned. This" he be-
gan. sis no laughing
But the scientist interrupted him. ~
am not TESTING, sir. speak the solemn
truth. What is leather? Is 1t not albu-
men and tannin? Well, when you add
milk to your tea or coffee, the tannin
Of the one and the albumen Of the
other unite, and leather results. The
leather is in minute particles. Never
theless it is there. And down it goes.
All who drink tea or coffee daily" the
scientist concluded, consume in Il
year enough leather to make pair Of
shoes"
The explorer sneered. ITO resume"
he said, II then ate the lining Of" etc.
Exchange.