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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01
To Build lnterurban Line.

The survey for the Iowa City and
Davenport Interurban railroad is MAX
ing good Roadway and the construc-
ton work will be begun this season.
The road will run directly east from
Iowa City, through West Branch,
Rochester, Sanbury and Plainview to
Mayesville, with branch line to Tip
southeast to Davenport. The district
through which the road runs is rich
farming and stock raising country
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01
Gets Fortune and Ends Life.

Charles S. Reichert, member Of a
prominent family at Upton, commit
ted suicide by shooting. He was
thirty-fve years old, unmarried and
had just been left an ample fortune by
the death of his father. He served
with the Forty-ninth Iowa regiment
in the Spanish-American war and con,
tracted typhoid fever, from the effects
Of which he had never fully recovered.
Brooding over his i'll health is be,
lieved to have unbalanced his mind.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01
Fortified Pea In Her Ear.

Mrs. c. G.. Stearns of Waterloo has
undergone surgical operation for the
removal Of garden pea from her ear.
The seed appears to have been in the
ear for long time and had become
petrified. 1t had caused partial
deafness and not until the operation
was performed was the cause of the
deafness discovered. Mrs. Stearns
does not know, however, when the pea
got into her auditory canal.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01
Fires Union Laborers.

Officials of Waterloo, Cedar Falls
and Northern Electric railway have
summarily dismissed all of the officers
of the union recently formed among
It's conductors and motormen. Other
employees who were active in organ
izing the labor union also are dis
missed and their places filled with
nonunionists.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01
Icopy of petition.l
oUSIUII, NIHSS., Jan. %.
To the President and the Congress of ii
Tinted States.

Boston, Mass, Jan. 30.
To the President and the Congress of the
United States:
Believing heartily in the mission of Sec
rotary Root to establish closer relations
between the peoples of America and be-
Ing also of the opinion that tariff laws
should be changed as conditions change.
we indorse the attitude in behalf of tariff
revision taken by the late national for
eign trade convention at Washington.
We indorse the principle there approved
OF the creation of maximum and min
imum tariff schedules to be- applied with
out the Intervention Of treaties. but 9TH
erwise following the general precedent Of
the reciprocity clause in the Mckinley
tariff in favor of such countries as will
make concessions to us.
We further favor the establishment, as
urged by the convention. of tariff COM
mission that shall impartfaly investigate
and report from time to time to congress
when schedules appear to be in need of
modification, whether in cases where du-
ties once needed for the protection of
American industries have become OF may
become obsolete or unnecessary or on
the other hand, where new industries
may require new protection or new ex-
penses further revenue.
In all cases of tariff revision, however,
the test should be not sis such a duty
demanded?" but "Is such duty needed ~
We respectfully urge upon the presi-
dent and the congress immediate action
along these lines, and should the limita-
ton of time make this impossible in the
present session Of congress we respect
fully petition the president to use the
powers placed in his hands for the con-
sideration Of this subject without further
delay.
CURTIS GUILD, JR., Governor.
WILLIAM D. CHAPPLE. President of
the Senate.
JOHN N. COLE, Speaker Of the House If
Representatives.
To Governor Guilds letter replied
as follows:
House of Representatives, Feb. 1s.
Governor Curtis Guild, Jr.:
Sir-Your favor of Feb. IL to hand, in
closing copy Of your letter to the presl-
dent. together with copy of petition to
the president and congress of the United
states In favor Of tariff revision. I beg
leave to suggest that you have Just about
as much chance to be translated in
chariot of fire as you have to secure
tarif revision at the hands OF the stand
patters, who now control the COMPRESSION
al machine. They are deaf as poStS to all
appeals in that behalf.
They Will never agree to any maximum
and minimum tariff scheme unless per-
haps to that Of Mr.. McCleary Of Mime
sofa, who proposes to make the Dingley
rates the minimum and rates still higher
the maximum, which from the standpoint
OF tariff revistonistS would be the old and
condemned performance of Jumping GU;
OF the frying pan into the fire. Indvid.
ually l am in favor of a rational and
comprehensive revision of the tariff
yours respectfully, CHAMP CLARK.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01
Would Bar the "cIansnan.p

Negroes Of Sioux City, headed by j
c. Reid, the colored pastor of Mount
Zion Baptist church, held mass
meeting and appointed a committee
to protest against the presentation OF
Rev. DiXon's play, "The Clansman
dated there for March 7, on the ground
that the play stirs up race prejudice
Failing in the effort to induce the
theater manager to cancel the date
the negroes will apply to the court for
an injunction.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01
Died of His Injuries

Guy Hollopter, a Waterloo lad four
teen years of age, lost his life by try
Ing to save time by jumping between
two cars that impeded his passage, he
fell and the wheels severed the right
leg close to his body. He was taken
to the hospital, where he died.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01
The Stand Patters.

As another demonstration of how
completely the stand patters are we'd
ded to their idols the following trans
action will show: Last week Hon. John
Sharp Williams, the Democratic house
leader, brought up in the committee on
ways and means the following bill pro-
viding for reciprocity with Canada on
coal, which was promptly tabled by a
strict party vote. If there was ever a
sensible proposition made, it would
seem that that Of reciprocal free trade
in coal between the United States and
Canada is one, but the stand patters
would have none of it. The Williams
bill is as follows:
That there shall not hereafter be levied
collected nor paid any duty on coal the
product of the Dominion of Canada whc,
shipped or carried into the United States
This act shall take effect, however, upon
the issuance of a proclamation by the
president OF the United States setting
forth that the government of the Do.
rninion OF Canada has removed the duty
now levied and collected by it upon coal
the product of the United States shipped
or carried into the Dominion of Canada
from the United States.
1t Is hereby made the duty of the pres
ident OF the United States to issue thu
said proclamation herein provided fol
upon the official ascertainment of the fac
that the Dominion Of Canada has remoV
ed the duty on coal the product of The
United States entering the Dominion o.
Canada.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01
More Evidence.


Under the caption 1.-THE Lumber
Problem" the Kansas City Times, in
dependent, says editorially:
Minneapolis has been obliged to close
down building operations because of a
lack of single. This is due to a shortage
of cars resulting from the blockade of
transcontinental railroads and also to
the lumber trust Which controls the traf-
fic and the prices of lumber. The condi-
lions call attention to two phases of the
building situation which deserve serious
attention.
1t has been suggested recently that
congress shall lease the reserves for the
cutting of such trees as have grown to
maturity and are threatened with decay.
In this way not only would the waste of
lumber be prevented, but competition
would be established with the lumber
trust which is pernicious and an obstacle
to economical building.
Another remedy is that now being con-
sidered by the Pennsylvania legislature
which concerns the future of forestry. 1t
is proposed to preserve the state lands
intact and make them nurseries for COM
Ing forests. Not only are the Alleghanics
almost entirely denuded of trees, but the
forests of Michigan and Wisconsin have
been laid low, while the great northwest
in the grip of the trust, is fast being
stripped of trees. It has been argued be-
fore the Pennsylvania legislature that,
while iron ore can be turned into steel in
a few hours, not all the wealth of the
world can make a tree grow faster than
nature has from the beginning intended.
The fault has been our great profigacy
in the beginning. Where a few years ago
lumber was sawed and sold green at from
81 to IS thousand feet 1T is now being
cured and planed and brings from $50 to
$50 a thousand. There are probably
enough trees to last couple of genera
lions. but what will posterity do If we
not only refuse to preserve the small area
Of forests remaining, but, like the foolish
farmer who raised single crop Of wheat
and then let the field lie fallow for years,
refuse to make provision for future
growth Of forests?
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01
The Lumber Trust

That the lumber trust is great in
iqulty everybody knows. Not long
since the house passed resolution
authorizing an inquiry into the why
and wherefore of the astounding rise
In the price Of whits1pine lumber, with
sneoial rafalvnsr to khS INVESTIGATIONS
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01

Little globules of sunshine that
drive the clouds away. DeWitt's Lit.
tie Early Risers will scatter the gloom
OF sick.headache and biliousness.
They do not grippe or sicken. Recon-
mended and sold here by j. 81. Luers
DrugC Go.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01

You should be very careful of your
bowels when you have cold Nearly
al other cough syrups are constipat-
Ing, especially those containing OPT
ates, Kennedy's Laxative Cough Svr
up moves the bowels-contains No
opiates. Conforms to National Pure
Food and Drugs Law. Bears the en-.
dorsement of mothers everywhere.
Chlldren like its pleasant taste, Sold
by j. 81. LuerS Drug co,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01
AS soon as President Roosevelt

E5OViI tts'
his big stick on their backs TIL,
bellious and voluble Californians be-
came mild as sucking doves on the
Japanese question and even went SO
far as to vote for their own effacement.
The Democrats in the house, with five
or six exceptions, voted against giving
the president carte blanche to do as he
pleases in immigration matters and
against mixed schools, but the Cali.
fornans We're quiet as lambs.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01

If by recent resolution of inquiry
which Senator Clay of Georgia intro.
duced into the senate he can actually
find out how much our idiotic course
as to the Philippines has cost us, he
will have rendered the country most
valuable service and will elicit infor-
nation which will cause American eyes
to bulge out so that they can be knock
ed off with stick. If old Ben Frank
lin could come back to earth, his ver-
dict would he that we have paid dearly
for our Philippine whistle.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01
1e.5oo.ooo Germs on Sir.

London.-Prof. w. B. Bottomley. in
a lecture on biology, said a woman
who had allowed her skirt to trail for
half an hour in west end streets sent
it to laboratory, where it was found
to contain 16,5oO,OOO microbes, includ-
Ing many phthisis bacilli.
letter, Salt Rheum and Eczema
Ne fpssd by Shsmberls,n's salve, One applica.
ueA tSNNss ths ftuhinH and burning ysnySt3su;
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01
Refused a Senate Seat.

EX-United States Senator Benson Of
Kansas is peculiar man. He actually
refused an election to the United States
senate. True, it was only forty day
fragment of a term, but it was an cleo
ton nevertheless. 1t will be remem-
bered that when Senator Burton re-
signed Governor Hoch appointed Ben
son to serve till the meeting of the
legislature, which would elect for both
Burton's unfinished term and for a
term of six years. Benson was can
didate for both the short and long
terms. When Charlie Curtis walked
away with the long term it so disgust
ed Benson that he refused the short
term. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01
Proposition to Reform the House Rule

A great many members are weary
of the stringency of the house rules
Among these is Judge Dorsey w.
Shackleford OF Missouri, now coming
to be what the late Charles Fremont
Cochran of Missouri would have called
ian old and experienced member" The
general complaint is that the present
rules give the speaker entirely too
much DOVER. This is claimed by most
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01

Hon. Richard Franklin Pettigrew has
been in and about Washington much
this winter 1t is said that he is rich
again. He has been rich two or three
times before and on his uppers-his
physical, not his mental, uppers, for his
mentality is never exhausted. 1t is
also said that he is going to be can
didate for the senate again. Wish he
may not only be a candidate, but be
elected. He would stir up the Repub-
lican menagerie at a great rate, and,
goodness knows, it needs stirring up.
Dick Pettigrew is a radical of radicals
but man doesn't have to indorse all
his ideas in order to wish him well.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-03-22
RICKREALL..
Mark Burch spent Saturday and
Sunday in Portland.

Mark Burch spent Saturday and
Sunday in Portland.
Rev. Sager, Of Dallas, preached
here last Sunday.
Mrs. Virginia Dempsey has been
quite sick for few days.
Warren Burch came up from Port
land, Tuesday, on a visit.
John Koser spent a few days In
West Salem the first OF the week
Mary Dempsey, OF Falls City, Wis
tied few days with friends this week.
w. T. Eakin and Tom Dempsey
went to BalIston Sunday on business.
Peter Cook, the BaIIston merchant,
visited our town on business, Wednes-
day.
Miss Grace Burch, who has been
sick for several weeks, is improving
slowly.
Jesse Lucas, of Salem, visited his
brother-in-law, James Hickerson,
Sunday.
Quite number of friends attended
the funeral OF Mrs. Gibson at zena
Tuesday.
Mrs. Southwick and daughter, An
geline, visited relatives at Buena
Vista last week.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-03-22
BUELL..

Mrs, 7. D. Butler is very sick.
Miss Jennie Miller came home Fri
day for ashort visit.
]. M. Davis made pleasant call at
A. W. Fletcher's Tuesday afternoon.
Rev. Greasy preached at Buell., Sun
day, for Rev. Parker, whose wife is
very ill in the hospital at Salem.
There is much snow in the mountains
around here, which makes the air
very chilly and retards the growth Of
the grain.
Mr.. Everett, manager Of the Sheri-
dan Lumber Company's mill, had two
of his fingers SO badly mashed, while
breaking a jam in the flume, that
amputatlon was necessary.
A joint meeting of school officers
and patrons OF the Butler, Fairview,
Harmony, Red Prairie, Gooseneck
and Buell. schools was held here,
Saturday, each district being repre-
sented except Butler. A bountiful
lunch was served by the ladies and
was thoroughly enjoyed by all. After
lunch, short program was rendered
by pupils and friends to an attentive
audience.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-03-22
FALLS CITY.

A. N. Robinson Il Sons have opened
their meat market.
William Southwell returned from
Portland, Monday.
Ira Mehrling and James Teal have
commenced work on the Dayton Street
bridge.
Frank james, of Black Rock, was a
Falls City visitor Monday. He is
preparing to move here.
Several loads Of logs blanketed with
snow passed through from Black Rock
on Mondays morning train.
Mr. and Mrs. H P. Bogart made a
trip to Black Rock, Saturday. They
report Black Rock a thriving town.
Mr.. and Mrs Jack Wagner, Ed
Wellwood and DIR. L. Pfandhoefer
went to Portland on business, Friday.
William Fredrickson has moved to
Black Rock to draw lumber and load
it on the cars for the Oberer Mill
Company.
q. Vashaw has completed his store
building on the hill in North Falls
City and is now doing business in the
line Of general store.
William Cooper's new dwelling on
Dayton street is nearing completion.
J. r. Meyer and son, Charles, and
Charles Watts are doing the work.
Theodore Harrington and son came
out from their homestead near Rocca,
Monday, on their way to Dallas. They
reported the snow Is inches deep on
the summit
Zimri HInshaw is putting up "a
by so foot building between Halls
barber shop and the hotel The frame
is up and work is being pushed along
at lively pace.
James Pyburn, John Zuver and Ed
Campbell moved a donkey engine
from the LaCreole logging camp to
Falls City 10 seven days and loaded
it on the cars for shipment to Grants
Pass.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-03-22
MONMOUTH.

James Helmick was in town, Fri
day.
Ed Huber went to Dundee for a
visit, Sunday.
Born, March II, TO Mr.. and Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Guilliams, daughter.
Mrs. r. Grounds visited her sister,
Mrs. Alex Collins, near Suver, Sun
day.
A little more rain and a little more
sunshine is what makes things grow
fine.
William Bridwell made a business
trip to Portland, Saturday, returning
Monday.
The stockholders OF the Polk County
Bank met Saturday and transacted
business.
Mrs. J. A. Goode was summoned to
the bedside Of her mother In Portland,
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Morris, Of Van
Buren county, Iowa, are visiting her
brother. George Ebbert
Uncle Frank Powell went to Albany,
Tuesday, to attend the suneral OF his
brother who died in Portland.
Mrs. L. B. Palmer, OF idaho,
formerly of Monmouth, died March l.
She was greatly respected by all who
knew her.
Mrs. I. w. Johnson has arrived
from Minnesota to be with her
daughter, Ellen, who has been 50
dangerously sick.
Mrs. William Mahoney left for a
visit to her old home in Massachusetts,
Tuesday. Her husband, Prof Ma
honey, will follow after school is out.
Miss Ellen Johnson was taken to a.
hospital in Portland for treatment,
Tuesday. All will wish for her a
speedy recovery and safe return
home.
Curtis Gorden aud Miss Nellie
Gardner we're married March II at
the home Of the brides mother, Rev.
G. f. Wigmore officiating. They will
reside 10 Portland.
William Coffin, Of Jefferson county,
Iowa, is visiting his sister, Mrs. De-
Witt He is here for his health and
expects to stay year or more if the
climate agrees with him.
Say, you fellows, il you want any
stock in the cannery and evaporator,
you would better hurry, as it is going
rapidly. Messrs. Hawley, Petit and
T. Boothby are the solicitors.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-03-22
cola.

Mr.. Maxwell is setting out his cherry
orchard.
Hop yard work around here Is
progressing nicely.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Knower, a l2-pound boy.
A. Heise, Of West Salem, sold fine
span OF black horses for $4O0.
Our merchant, J. J. Swanson, made
q business trip to Portland. Tuesday.
H. B. Brophy has sold $4,000 hop
roots this spring at $3.50 a thousand.
The early gardens are growing
rapidly and we will soon have plenty
Of garden sass on the table.
George NIFTY will leave on Tuesday
for his homestead near Toledo. He
expects to be gone about eight months.
E. M. Croisan is having the orchard
on the McNary place grubbed out.
That's right if you don't spray, grub
up and burn.
Mr.. Savage has tiled the low land
on his farm and is enabled to pillow it
now. Before it could never be worked
until in May.
Mr.. Hogg and his father are setting
out about four more acres of straw
berries, which Will make them about
10 acres in all.
B. l. Ferguson attended the horti-
cultural meeting in Dallas, Saturday.
He reports an interesting meeting
and good attendance.
We will have about six more weeks
of school. There are prospects of q
much longer school next year, as a
great many newcomers have moved
in lately.
William Cromley's brother arrived
here last Saturday from Montana with
Is head of horses and a lot Of house
hold goods. He says there we're two
feet of snow there when he left.
Eola is getting to be quite fruit
and chicken center. Everyone is
planting fruit trees Of all kinds.
Chickens and fruit go hand in hand.
The business is pleasant and profitable
when managed right
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-03-22

program on Easter Sunday at II q. m.
All are cordially invited to attend.
G. A. Mckinley is down from spo-
kane to look after his cherry orchard.
Mrs. Ben Windsor is seriously iii.
She has been removed from her home
to the Salem hospital.
Webb Snyder, Of British Columbia,
visited the family Of G. H. Crawford
several days last week.
Lower Spring Valley district has
been bonded for the purpose Of build
ing an $500 schoolhouse,
The rainy weather is causing quite
delay In goat shearing. Several
large bands are yet to be sheared.
Quite a number Or the children of
tho zena school district are taking a
lively interest in the coming School
Children's Industrial Fair and are
planning elaborate displays
w. J. Crawford has built fine
large cow barn. 1t Is built on the
"dairy" plan, and is most convenient.
The inside contains all the improve
ments Of modern dairy stable.
News Of the marriage Of Ray Shep-
ard, son of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. R. Shep-
ard, reached us this week. MIR.
Shepard is an electrical engineer in
southern Georgia. He travelled north
to Cambridge, Mass, to claim his fair
bride. The whole community unitcs
In one voice in wishing him all the
success and happiness Of a long and
useful life.
The funeral Of the late Grandma
Gibson was held 10 the zena church,
Tuesday. Mrs. Gibson was we'll
known throughout the county and
state, having lived here for many
years. While she had passed her 92d
birthday, she was still energetic, and
only in the last few weeks had been
compelled to take to her bed. She
was a consistent Christian and friend
and a noble mother.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-03-22
BRIDGEPORT.
Lots Of snow in the mountains.

Lots Of snow In the mountains.
Our sawmill will all be in operation
soon.
Will Miller is running his in
cubator.
Jacob Reimer has moved to the Fern
hop yard and will run it this year.
Mrs. W. A. Ayres and Miss Bessie
Splawn, Of Dallas, visited at the home
Of A. M. Miller Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Silas Rhodes and
daughter, Of Salem, have been visiting
at the homes of D. M. Guthrie and
J. M. Rhodes.
Will Mack will build another silo
the coming summer. His increasing
herd makes more storage room a
necessity. He is enthusiastic over the
dairy business.
Thomas Foster is laying tiling in
W. G. Vassall's hop yard. Warren
Frink is also putting several hundred
feet of tile in his yard. Money can be
invested to no better advantage than
in tiling wet land, of which this COM
munity has an abundance.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-03-22

Dave Shrock, Of Luckiamute, was
10 these parts few days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Roth of Salem,
we're IN this vicinity the first OF the
week.
Henry and Lizzie Frlesen visited
friends in the Liberty neighborhood
last Sunday.
Abe Rempel sold his German coach
fiIlies last week. He received $75
for the one-year.old and 1925 for the
two-year-old.
J. G. Diehm bought part Of the d.
Reddekopp estate. He bought the 40
acres belonging to Mrs Roth, Of Sa-
lem, the price paid being sos per acre.
Sarah, Lizzie and Cornelius War
kentin visited at the home Of their
parents over Sunday. The girls are
In the dressmaking business and Cor
nelius Is attending business college
in Salem.