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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Courage and Tenacity,

In the history of parliamentary bodies
there was perhaps more ruthless ma
chine than the one which dominates the
house of representatives at Washing
ton. Under the code of rules now pre-
vaillng the rights of the individual
member are reduced to the minimum
There is only one way for member
to make the machinists respect him
and that is to avail himself to the ut
most Of what little freedom of action
Is left and fight them to the last ditch
That is precisely what Hon. Frank
Clark Of Florida did in the closing DAYS
of the last congress, and thereby made
as much reputation as any new mem
Der made In that congress. He had
introduced resolution to investigate
certain outrages at ST. Elizabeths lu.
matte asylum, had been appointed on
the committee and had prepared a
speech on the subject--a first rate
speech at that. The report of the com
mittee was delayed till the very last
days Of the session. There was no
chance to consider it in its proper Or
der. There hardly ever Is any chance
to consider in its proper order anything
which the machinlsts do not want con
sidered, but there is rule, old as the
government, that when the house is In
committee of the whole on the state
OF the Union to consider general
appropriation bill Il member may speak
on any subject whatsoever So under
this rule Clark asked for thirty min
ntes, and the machnists refused to let
him have 1t. Being well acquainted
with them personally, l went to them
and told them they would save time
by giving him his thirty minutes, but
they objected and started in to consid-
err their appropriation bill, and that's
where they struck snag. There is
another rule which any one member
can enforce, and that is that there shall
be no new Legislation on an appropria-
lion bill. Now, 1T so happened that
this particular bill had many items of
new .a@isla!-a-.. IL it I'll 2oproorlating
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Found Wife Dead In Well.

Going to the well for a bucket of
water, Charles Caruth, farmer living
near Jewel Junction, noticed that the
planking which had covered the well
was broken, and peering into the we'll,
he saw huddled form at the bottom.
He procured ladder and descending
soon brought up the dead body of his
wife. Rotten planking which had GOV.
cred the we'll is supposed to have
broken beneath the weight of Mrs
Caruth, who was walking across it.
In falling her head struck against an
iron crossbar, rendering her uncon-
scious, and in this condition she plung-
ed into the well and was drowned.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
browns Herself in a Trough.

Floating face upwards in shallow
watering trough, Mrs. Amos Tibben,
wife of farmer living about six miles
from Extra, was found dead by her
son. The woman had committed sui
eide The mother had arisen early in
the morning and while her son was
attending to the morning chores she
had gone to the trough and lay down
in 1t. The trough was about eight feet
long and the water in 1t was three feet
deep. She apparently deliberately
had held her head beneath the water
until Inconsistencies supervened
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Bull Cores Farmer.

While leading bull to pen where
1t was to be dehorned, c. W. Stewart.
a well-known stock farmer of Give,
was attacked by the animal and badly
gored. Stewart was walking back
ward pulling the animal by rope at
tached to nose ring. He bumped into
fence post and the bull at once
charged him, thrusting one of its
horns through his body. Others in the
barnyard attacked the animal and res
cued Stewart from immediate death.
The injured man is in a critical con-
dition, but the physicians have some
hope Of his recovery.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Fall Kills a Woman.

Mrs. Fred M. Bliss, daughter of Rep
resenative Mcdonald of Carroll county,
Is dead as the result of injuries in a
fall from bridge across the Coon
river, in Jasper township. With sew
eral small children Mrs. Bliss had
gone after the mail. She sent the
children ahead while she leaned
against the railing of the bridge and
looked at the water, which was high.
The railing suddenly gave way and
the woman dropped a distance of ten
feet to the rocks below. She struck
upon her head, breaking her neck.
She was not dead when picked up, but
did not long survive.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Puts "Lidn on Publicity.

Mayor Bennett of Fort Dodge has
called the newspaper correspondents
before him and ordered them to let
up" on sending out reports about his
so-called compulsory marriage ordi-
nance. His reason for this action, he
says, is the fact that things have been
published which have cast reflections
on the standard of intelligence Of the
people of Fort Dodge Communica-
lions relative to the marriage ordi-
nance continue to pour in upon the
mayor. Requests have come from as
far away as Berlin and London for
interviews with the mayor and copies
of his photograph.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Maintaining Chinese Students.

Owing to the frequent complaints
sent to Picking by the Chinese minis.
tiers in the various capitals of Europe
and America concerning the irregular.
ity of fees granted to government-sup.
ported Chinese students abroad, and
on the recommendation of Sir Chen.
tung Liang Cheng, K. C. NJ. G., the
Chinese minister to the United States,
for the uniform allowance to these
students, the Chinese government has,
after due investigation into the mat
ter, drawn up rules fixing their fees,
including medical expenses and all:
Students in England, 9192 in a year;
in the United States, 5000 in gold in a
year;-Chinese Times.
letter, Salt Rheum and Eczema
Are cured by Chamberlains Salve One applica-
ron relieves the itching and burning sensation.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Woman,s Error Fatal.

Mistaking a gasoline jug for vine
gar jug, Mrs. Sarah Emery of Ottum
wa, while preparing dinner at the
home of her son in Sioux City poured
gasoline into pot on the stove I'm.
mediately she was enveloped in flames
and she died at the Samaritan hospi
tai from the frightful burns. Mrs
Emery was sixty-two years old She
was visiting her son, I. G. Emery.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Seems Certain.

Surface signs indicate that Mr.. Sec.
rotary Taft Is so certain that he will
be nominated for president that lie
thinks it safe to be absent from "the
United States proper"-God save the
mark!-a great deal, or he is SO certain
that he will not be nominated that he
feels that there is no use fooling away
mis- time or squandering his energies
IN an attempt to round up delegates.
The New York Sun thus discourses on
his remarkable itinerary:
The intended peregrinations and official
gyratlons of the secretary of war pos
sess much interest for philosophers. Mr..
Iaft expects to start next Saturday for
Gatun dam and elsewhere. Common re-
port has in store for this diligent public
servant and intrepid traveller an amazing
series or succession of iourneyings be-
tween now and the beginning of the pres
1dential year which will take him to
Panama. Colon, Cuba. Porto Rico, Can
ada, Alaska and the Philippines. Guam
and Tutuila. with brief intervals Of do
nestle employment.
Other candidates, active or passive
have swung around their chosen circles.
No circle was ever drawn with a radius
anything like this.
We note one thing. however, about the
Taft itinerary distinguishing 1t from all
precedent and previous experience even
more signally than the matter of mere
distance. We refer to the paucity of del
tgates In all these tens of thousands of
niles OF campaigning we can discern not
more than eighteen possible votes In the
convention, and the recording angel well
knows that six of these are already
sworn for Cannon.
No delegates worth speaking of any
where between Gntun and Guam! That
is why we say this particular itinerary
mas fascinating interest for the philo-
fophical mind.
NoloGs ri I'll acquainted with either
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Dodge Not After Toqa.

"You may search the English Ian
guage for words strong enough to
deny that am or will be candidate
for United States senator or any other
political position Major General
Granville M. Dodge said in an author
lied interview. II have come back to
Council Bluffs to make my home here
and that is all there is to It, There
is no political significance whatever
to be attached to my return and l dis
like much to have my name dragged
into the discussion of any political
candidacy"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Affected by Hot Weather.

The unreasonable hot weather lately
appears to have excited the cerebrum,
cerebellum and medulla oblongata of
Uncle Shelby NJ Cullom of Illinois
who looks like Abraham Lincoln Oh
the outside-to a remarkable degree.
Usually Uncle Shelby is mild as a
sucking dove, but recently he has de-
clared that Mr.. Hartman deserves to
be hanged! That's most remarkable
statement to be made by such a ven
cradle statesman as the senior and per-
petual senator from Illinois. If his col
league, Senator II. ]. Hopkins, who
wears titianesque hair and has red
hot temper, should say thing like
that, nobody would wonder Or should
Billie Mason express such lurid
opinion it would be taken as matter
Of course. But for Uncle Shelby to do
SO Is startling proposition. 1t will be
remembered that when Robespierre
was quite young man he resigned
judgeship rather than pass the death
sentence on q convicted murderer, yet
he lived to be so callous as to order
scores Of the finest heads in France to
be chopped off before breakfast every
morning. Uncle Shelby must certainly
be listening once more to the fascinat-
Ing buzzing of the presidential bee.
There is no telling what man suffer
ing from the presidential fever will do.
He has just begun his full fifth term
In the senate and IL he lives has at
least six years more in which to ex-
ploit his opinions, and it may be that
he made this fling at Hartman In or
der to bring the multitude focking to
his presidential banner. 1t must make
the cold chills creep up and down the
spinal columns of Hartman ct id genus
omne to read such extreme talk from
the Nestor of Illinois Republicans. In
the meantime if Uncle Shelby is
presidential candidate he would do well
to watch Governor Deneen.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Draw straws for Mayor.

Straws were necessary to decide
who should be mayor of Creston for
the present term. At the recent cleo
ton Willis M. Brooks, Republican, and
Thomas l.. Maxwell, Democrat. each
received GAS votes for the Office of
mayor. The ,canvassing board can
vassed the returns with the same re-
suit and the candidates proceeded to
draw lots. Mr.. Brooks secured the
long end of the straw and was given
a certificate of election.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Drivers Neck Broken.

G. L. Guin was killed near Woodbine
as the result of runaway accident.
GUN, with his wife and adopted
daughter, was driving into town, when
the horses, a pair of bronchos, became
restless. Guin alighted and attempted
to quiet the animals, being partially
successful. AS he was about to step
into the buggy, however, the animals
again became fractions and suddenly
started, threw Guin against a tree
breaking his neck. His wife and
daughter were not seriously hurt.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Faces Death BIindfolded,

Blindfolding himself with hand
kerchief when he saw the Burlington
fast mail train approaching near Of
tumwa, Oscar Nylen laid his head
across the track and was beheaded by
the train before the engineer could stop
1t. Nylen was identified by memoir
anda and papers as tailor of Cam
bridge, III. He is believed to have
been fugitive from justice, who. be-
coming conscience stricken, commit
ted slIicida
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Wound Proves Fatal.

Albert e. Drake, president of the
Drake Furniture and Carpet company,
is dead at Davenport as the result of
being accidently shot by his twelve
year-old son. The shooting occurred
about three weeks ago while the boy
was examining small rifle which was
believed to have been unloaded. Both
the boy and his mother are Frustrated.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05

On dit that Hon William Jennings
Bryan has selected Hon. Tom L. John
son, mayor of Cleveland, as his polit-
ical manager in the campaign now
impending. That bit Of news ought to
be marked Important if True" for as
general thing Colonel Bryan has
been his own manager. He knows
more people than any other half dozen
men who ever aspired to the presiden-
cy all put together, and those Ameri-
cans whom he does not know already
he will probably know before the next
election.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Gun Proves Fatal Toy.

While their mother was sick in bed,
children of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Diersk, who live four miles northwest
of Hornick, got hold of q loaded shot
gun for a plaything. and the gun being
discharged, John, aged six years, was
shot In his side and died within thirty
minutes before doctor could reach
him
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
A Bloody Eeud.

The fact that President Roosevelt
turned down both Senators Foraker
and Dick and appointed Hon. Theodore
%. Burton's protege rs United States
judge for the southern district of Ohio
proves two things, both very interest
ing-first, that Colonel Roosevelt pro-
poses to fight Foraker and other re-
dictionaries with every weapon at his
commands; second, that Burton is going
after Dicks senatorial scalp. So, all in
all, there is quite likely to be lively
times among Buckeye Republicans for
the next two years.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Not Specific Enough.

The st. Louis Globe Democrat,
stanch Republican organ grinder, con-
tanned recently this hazy editorial par
agraph:
Our commerce with Japan amounts to
300, 100000 a year. with exports and i'm
ports we'll divided. One item like this Is
worth more than all the vague war talk.
Who talked the war talk? And was
it so vague as the CD. would have us
believe? Not very much, provided the
public press can be depended on to tell
Theodore Roosevelt, president Of the
United States, and his coterie of syco-
plants are the persons who talked war
more than anybody else. They do say
that when he was shaking the big stick
over the Californians at the White
House the picture Of the Japs Smelling
San Francisco which he drew for the
benefit of Mayor Schmitz and the Cali
fornia congressman and senators caus
ed each particular hair to stand OH end
as quilts upon the fretful porcupine
he bullied them into accepting the
very thing which they solemnly swore
from the Golden Gate to the Potomac
that they would die before accepting. If
the CD. will take the trouble to refer
to Its own files, it will discover that the
war talk was anything but vague.
That Is not the adjective which the
CD. should have employed. "Decep-
tive" war talk is the proper expression.
There was no danger of war with
Japan for the simple reason that Japan
could not borrow the money to carry
on war, and everybody but the Cali
fornians knew it. Some day we will
have war with Japan. 1t will come
just as soon as she can borrow enough
money. That is to say, we will have n
war with her unless somebody else
thrashes the big head out of her before
she gets ready to fight us.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05

When you need pill, take pill,
and be sure It's an Early Riser. De-
Wits Little Early Risers are safe,
sure, satisfactory pills The pills with
a reputation. They do not grippe or
sicken: They are sold here by j. II,
Luers Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
" " " " " Y I
clark s :
Conspicuous Figures In American y
Politics - Food For Reflection.
TAFT Seems Confident-Cullom's 4
Fling at Hartman. ,-~~--~-->~

can be made to believe for one moment
that Mr.. Speaker Cannon, Mr.. Vice
President Fairbanks or ex-Secretary
Shaw could be induced to thus cut
himself off from the American voters
until the next national Republican con-
vention has passed into history True,
Uncle Joe is cruising In southern wa
ters, but he is not out Of communica-
ton with the boys for any consider
able length of time.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05

The new tonic for conditioning
horses, to make a smooth, glossy coat
is Gold Coin Horse Tonic.n, II
m. S thin, hidebound horses fat in a
remarkably short time. & SOC pack
age will often double the value of d
horse in so days. Sold and guaran.
teed by DR.. VIM. Connolly.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05

KOEOL For Dyspepsia clears the
stt mach ard makes the breath as
sweet as rose. KODOL is sold by
druggists on guarantee relief plan.
1t conforms strictly to the National
Pure Food and Drugs Law. Sold by
+. Fl. LuerS Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05

We understand very valuable colt
was miraculously saved the other
night by the timely use of bottle of
"Gold Coin Collie Cure" DR.. VIM.
Connolly handles Gold Coin Prepare
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Painting and Paperhaneine.

Am ready to do any work in these
lines promptly and reasonably and
guaranteed.
w. FL. LoUGHREY, phone No. Is.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Boost For Taft.

The Capitalization betwixt President
Roosevelt and Governor Deneen of I'LL
nois as to Mr.. Secretary Taft's candi-
dacy for the Republican presidential
nomination seems to have given Sec
rotary Taft great boost. 1t would be
decidedly interesting to have an accu-
rate stenographic report Of Mr.. Speak
er Cannon's Utmost thoughts when he
finds out what a trick his own govern
or has been playing him. Uncle Joe
Is not celebrated for gentle speaking
anyway, and he is quite likely to use
somewhat outre language when he
finds out that Governor d. has inserted
a poniard under his fifth rib.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05

"Good for everything salve is used
for and especially recommended for
Piles" That is what we say about
DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel
Sslve. That Is what twenty years OF
usage has proven. Get the original.
Sold by j. q. Luers Drug 90.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
For Sale.

One J. l. Case separator; also one
l6-H. P. Huber engine.
ANTON SLIFKA.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
That German Tariff War.

|
| The ghost of the tariff situation with
/ Germany has come back to haunt the
stand patters. On July ] Of this year
the modus vivendi with Germany will
expire, and il no other scheme can be
Matched up to keep it off the new Ger
man tariff law will go into effect. That
law Discriminate so heavily against
American products in retaliation for
our high tariff law that experts believe
it will practically wipe out our export
trade to Germany This Is bad enough,
but greater danger lies in the pos
slbility that England and other Euro
pean countries may follow Germany's
example. If we should yield to Ger
many and give her concession In the
line of special low rates OH her prod
ucts entering our ports, there is no
doubt that other countries will demand
similar favors on threat Of raising a
maximum tariff wall against us. The
administration is greatly puzzled as to
what to do, and no wonder.
/ While the strong tariff reduction
sentiment within this country has had
no effect In driving the stand patters
from their stubborn and unreasonable
position, 1t seems quite within the
range of the probable that foreigners
may accomplish that which our own
tariff reformers find so difficult. At all
events, the tariff barons" will find 1t
hard to resist the appeals Of Americans
who have beef and wheat to sell and
at the same time wage a tariff war
against all Europe. If Americans are
wise, they will take steps to reduce the
high tariff and avoid tariff war that
might destroy for time our foreign
markets
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05
Probate Notice.

To Whom It May Concern:
You and each of you are hereby notified to
appear at the Court House in Cresco, Howard
county, Iowa. on the 2eth day OF May A.
ID. 1907, at O'Clock p. M, to attend the probate
of an instrument purportdng to be the last will
nd Testament of Ellen Shea.
late of Howard County, Iowa, de-
ceased, at which time and place you will
Apo r and show cause, if any, why said
Will should not be admitted to probate.
In testimony Whereof have hereunto sub
scribed my name and affixed the seal of the
District Court this 10Th day OF, March 1867,
EUGENE IRVINE
5St3 Clerk OF DIST. Court
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-05

"HE two most conspicuous figures
In America today are Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt and Colo
L mel William Jennings Bryan.
They have both been running for pres
ldent ever since they learned that there
Is such an office known among men.
Roosevelt has reached the goal, and
the chances are that Bryan Will keep
on running till lie reaches it. The 9TH
er day he was forty-seven. He an
nounces that he will remain active in
politics till he is sixtynine, including
five more presidential campaigns. He
is too modest. There is Uncle Joe
Cannon, for instance, who is seventy
one and who is running for president
just as fast as he can. Should Uncle
Joe he nominated and elected he would
be seventy-seven when his first term
expired. SO Bryan has set his final
exit from political activity at least
eight years too early judged by the
Cannon standard and some twenty
years too soon judged by the standard
IF Senator pettus of Alabama.
Colonel Roosevelt has as yet fixed
no limit to his political activities.
Were to express my own opinion it
would be that death Is the only limit
to the political activities of either Colo
mel Bryan or Colonel Roosevelt. They
both love the game, and they will new
err swear off-never.
While Colonel Roosevelt has not fix
ed the time to retire from politics,
Judge Theodore E. Burton of Ohio,
who now appears to be cheek by jowl
with him and who IS putting in all his
spare time boosting Mr.. Secretary
Taft, has stated in n public speech
lately that Mr. Roosevelt might be
looked to as national leader in 1912,
1916 or 1920"-that is, according to
Brother Burton, after Taft has had his
day in the White House. President
Roosevelt may be nominated and elect
ed again-all of which Is long range
shooting surely. AS the French say,
| "Nous verrons!"