davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
No Scarcity Of Teachers.


The conclusions from discussion at
the subject by the county superin-
tendents of central Iowa at the Office
of State Superintendent Riggs were
that there is no shortage of teachers
in Iowa; if there is, it is due to the
salaries and not to the new certifi-
cation law; and If nothing else can
remedy 1t the new rule of the board
OF educational examiners giving coun-
ty superintendent the right to issue
certificates to inferior teachers will
do no. 1t was moreover declared that
prosperity has something to. do with
the scarcity of teachers, if any
exists. 1t was like an experience
meeting. About Thirty superinten.
dents were present. They told their
experiences as to teachers, the GER
tification of teachers, the consolida-
tion of schools and other problems.
While some insisted that they had
more teachers than they needed,
others talked as if there was a scar.
city. But the state superintendent
made it plain to them there need be
no scarcity. 1t is the fault of the
county superintendent if school
closes for want of the presence Of
teacher. For the superintendent
are given the power by the state
board to issue certificates to persons
not qualified to get grade certificates,
by marking on the certificate issued
the actual per cent taking the ,exami-
nation.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
including the schedule of rates fixee

including the schedule of rates fiXet.
by it.
Commissioners Eaton and Ketchum
have made it plain to the railroad
men that they will expect any agree
ment made between shippers and the
railroads to be justified by the facts
as to rates. The board will not &C.
cupy the position of merely ratifying
the agreement Of the roads and pa
irons. Necessarily the roads cannot
make the agreement with all the
shippers, though the schedule prom
ulgated by the board will affect ALL
Therefore the intention of the board
to make an order on its own original
authority.
April 80 has been fixed as the date
for the hearing by the state railroad
commission on the revision of the
Iowa freight rate schedules on the
general commodity list. More than
$4,000 entries appear on these lists
and it is probable that 1t will be
necessary to consume two or three
days in the hearing.
A special hearing on the freight
rate revision for coal will be given
about the middle of June, when the
commission will go into the coal stu
alton with the greatest possible care.
Many complaints as to rates have
reached the board and it is supposed
that a hearing something like that
on live stock freight rates will be
held.
A general inspection of the rail
roads will be undertaken by the board
very soon. 1t will actually travel
over the 10000 miles of Iowa road.
1t has selected the Milwaukee as the
first road to receive its attentions.
While most Of the freight traffic
managers of the railroads were at
the offices of the state board of rail-
road commissioners on the 18th in
formal announcement was made by
the board of the fact that it has de-
cided practically on making reduc-
ton in the freight rate on wheat.
This reduction will amount to about
half a cent for most of the state. 1t
affects the Iowa rate, alone, of course.
The board has had a chart made
showing that the Iowa rate ranges
somewhat higher than the Illinois
rate for more than half of the dis.
lance across the state, while for the
remainder of the distance it ranges
considerably higher. 1t is probable
that none of the other cereal rates
Will be disturbed by the board.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
TO USE PRISONERS FOR TEST.
Negroes at New Orleans Will Be Fed
Sugar MoIasses.

New Orleans, April 24-Announce.
ment was made Monday night that
nine negro inmates of the Parish Jail
will be used by the state board of
health in five weeks test to learn
whether sugar molasses, as it has
been manufactured in Louisiana for
many years, is injurious to human
health. Sulphuric acid is used in the
Louisiana process and the use of this
chemical was stopped recently under
an Interpretation of the pure food law.
The experiment. consists in feeding
the negroes plenty Of molasses and
making blood tests.
President Iron of the state board
said that no possible harm could come
to the negroes. Although the Wash.
ington authorities are not participant
ing in the experiment, DR.. H. w. Riley,
chief of the bureau of chemistry, is
watching it with interest.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
Gaia Ri Cannot be Cured

wi h LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot
reach the sat of disease. oatarrh is a blood
or constitutional disease, and In order to cure it
you must take internal remedies. Halls Co
tarrh Clreis taken internally, and acts directly
on the blood an mucous surfaces. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure is not quack medicine. 1t was pre-
scribed by one OF the best physici ms in this
country for yearsand is u regular prescription.
1t is composed Of the best tones known, COM
bined with the best blood purifiers. acting d.
rectly on the mucous surface. The perfect COM
b'nation Of the two ingredients Is what produc-
es such wonderful results in curing Catarlh,
Send for Testimonials free.
FL. CHENEY s co.. Props, Toledo. o.
Sold by Druggists. price roc.
7 axe HalI's Family Pills for cOnstipati N.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
uPneumonia,s deadly Work

had SO seriously affected my right lung, -
writes Mrs. Fannie Conner, of Rural
Route l, Georgetown, Tenn, .'that /
coughed continuously night and day and
the neighbors' prediction consumption
seemed inevitable, until my husband
brought home a bottle of DR.. Kings
New Discovery, which in my case
proved to be the only REAL cough cure
and restorer of weak, sore lungs. .
When all other remedies utterly fail.
you may still win in the battle against
lung and throat troubles with New
Discovery, the REAL cure. Guaranteed
by ?. A.. Clemmer, Druggist. SOC and
S1.00. Trial bottle free. a
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
snowstorms in West.

Denver, Col. April 22.-Thirteen
inches of snow fell in Denver during
the "a hours ending at six o'clock Sat.
urday morning. 1t was the heaviest
snowfall of the winter and the great
est precipitation recorded here in
April since 1885. The weather clear
ed during the forenoon. The storm
was general throughout the state.
While some damage has been done
to Fruit trees the moisture is of meal
culable benefit to farmers and garden.
ers. The snow was general through
out the state.
Topeka. Kan, April 22.-Snow was
reported Saturday at Phillipsburg, in
the northern portion of Kansas, and
at Garden City and other southwest
ern points.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
BOAT and CREW Of
"A Lost IN Lake
LUMBER BARGE ARCADIA WITH
ALL ON BOARD SUNK OFF
PENTWATER, MICH.
VESSEL WAS CAUGHT
IN A SEVERE STORM
Wreckage Identified as Part Of the
Missing Craft Washed Ashore
Actual Number of Victims Is IN
known.

Manistee, Mich, April 24.-The
wooden lumber barge Arcadia, which
left this port April IL for Two Rivers
with cargo of hardwood, undoubted-
ly has been lost in Lake Michigan with
her captain and owner, Harry May,
and about Ii others.
Marine men here have given her up
as lost and would not be surprised to
hear that her wreck was caused by
boiler explosion. Some hold the
theory that she went down as the re-
suit of the storm April IA.
List of Those on Board.
While it has been impossible to
learn absolutely how many persons
were on the wrecked barge, it is gen.
orally believed that the number was
between ten and Is, with majority Of
the reports agreeing on IA.
The list of persons known to have
been aboard the Arcadia was:
Capt. Harry May.
Mrs. Harry May.
Young woman, cook, name un.
known.
Otto Chavalia, sailor, Manistee.
Harry Powers, sailor, Manistee.
Charles Mcintyre, coal passer, Man
istee.
There were about eight other mem
bers of the crew.
Caught in Severe Storm.
The Arcadia left Manistee April ~.
April IS and IA Lake Michigan was
swept by such severe storm that
navigation was almost completely tied,
up. 1t was during this storm that the
Arcadia was probably lost. Wreckage
was sighted four miles off Ludington
in the direct course to Milwaukee i'm
mediately after the gale, but until the
bulwarks bearing the steamers name
washed ashore to-day it was impossi-
BILE to identify the wrecker craft. Cap
tain May, whose home was at Cleve-
land, bought the little steamer last
fall for $4,000 and spent $4,000 more
in repairs intending to take her to
Cleveland and engage in the Lake
Erie trade. He planned to make the
boat the home of his family during the
summer The underwriters gave the
Arcadia thorough examination a
few weeks ago and pronounced her as.
seaworthy as it was possible for a
boat of her size to be.
Wreckaee Washed Ashore.
The boat has not been heard from
definitely since leaving Mainstee.
Wreckage has been found along the
beach from Pentwater north to Little
Point Sauble, and part of it has been
identified as the cargo of the lost craft.
Portions of her cabins and bulwarks
also have been found on the beach
near Pentwater.
The cargo of the Arcadia was ship
ped by the State Lumber company
of this city to the Hamilton Manufac-
turing company of Two Rivers.
The Arcadia was a wooden steamer
119 feet in length, 26 feet beam and
9 feet draft, registering 230 tons, and
was built in Milwaukee, Wis, in 1888
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
Three Injured in Gas Explosion.

Philadelphia, April 22.-Three per
sons, two women and a man, were Sc
riously injured Saturday as the result,
OF an explosion of a gas retort at the
plant OF John and James Dobson, car
pet manufacturers in the northwestern
part of the city. The explosion fol
lowed slight fire and threw the 1000
employees at work in the mills into
panic. Many young women tainted
but all the employees were gotten out
safely, with the exception of three
who were badly injured.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
Club Gets Fine Oil PAINTING.

A fine oil painting, D. S. Chamber.
lain's gift to the proposed art gallery
of the Des Moines Women's Club, has
been received in Des Moines from
Europe. When it was unpacked, the
picture disclosed a fine Dutch in
terror, by Sidney Potter, painted
about sixty years ago. The central
figure of the canvas, which is about
Axe feet in size, is a typical Dutch
girl with basket of kittens on her
lap and an uneasy mother cat near
by. The girl is seated at window
through which may be seen typical
Dutch landscape.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
Lumber Fire Costs s5oo nm

Seattle, Wash, April "a Fire which
started in the planer room of the Port
Blakely Mill company's plant at Port
Blakely wiped out the largest lumber
manufacturing establishment on the
coast, causing a loss of between $500.
600 and 100000 The fire originated
in hot box. The 300 employees were
---:sss-,.5elled to fee for their lives.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
Receiver Named for Oil Company.

Topeka, Kas.. April 22.-J. C. Pol
lock, in the United States district
court here named ]. G. o. Morse as re.
ceiver for the Uncle Sam Oil company
under the bankruptcy petition filed re.
Gently at Fort Scott, Kas., by certain
stockholders. Mr.. Morse, who is man
ager of the telephone company at
Wichita and formerly was state rail.
road commissioner, promptly furnished
bond of $4,000. His home is at
Hutchinson, Kas.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
Boat Upsets; Three Men Drown.

Chester, Pa, April 24.-Three per-
sons were drowned Monday in the
Delaware river a few miles below
this city by the capsizing of the.
schooner Eben. The drowned men
were Archibald Mcbride, George
Edgar and Edward Murphy, all of
Philadelphia. Six other persons who
were on the schooner when it cap
sized were rescued.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
Appeal to Nations

Pekin, April 22.-Bishop Crafts, SUI
perintendent of the International Re.
form Bureau at Washington, has pre-.
sented a petition to the foreign office
asking civilized nations to prohibit
the sale of intoxicants and opium to
the uncivilized and newly civilized
races in the Pacific and in Africa. The
object has met with the unhesitating
approval of the representative, of the
Chinese government.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
Doing Business Again.

When my friends thought | was
about to take leave of this world, on
account of Indigestion, nervousness and
general debility, writes A. A. Chris
holm, Treadwell, N. Y, land when it
looked as if there was no hope left, /
was persuaded to try Electric Bitters,
and ] rejoice to say that they are curing
me. am doing business again as Of
old, and am still gaining daily. = Best
tonic medicine on earth. Guaranteed
by ?. A. Clemmer, Druggist Soc. =
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
No Choice Yet in Wisconsin.

Madison, Wis, April 24-The fourth
joint ballot for United States senator
to succeed John c. spooner, resign
ed, resulted in no material change
from former ballots, and no choice.
The vote: Republican-Ste Stephenson,
20; Esch, 20; Lenroot, II; Cooper, 1s;
Hatten, Is; Baensch, 5; Winkler, g.;
Hidnell, /; Bird Dem.), 18; Halle
wood (Dem.), 1; Rummel (soc. DEM
S; Thompson (Soc. Dem.), /. There
were eight abSenteeS.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
Party Strife GROWING in cuba.

Havana, April PA manifesto has
been issued by the partisans of Alfredo
zayas declaring for him as the nom
inee for the presidency. The signers
say that they did not intend to talk
about his candidacy, but were com
PEELED to do so by the open work OF
the liberal faction supporting Jose
Miguel Gomez. The breach in the
party is widening.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
Another Board Talked of.

A state board to regulate the rates
to be charged by public utility cor
porations is a suggestion which has
come from Council Bluffs and is
being given consideration among
men Of affairs.
Wynkoop Kiersted has given ex-
preston to the idea and has based 1t
on the fact that there are constant
disputes between cities and these
natural monopolies. Mr.. Kiersted is
at Council Bluffs at this time trying
to assist the city authorities to reach
new schedule of water rates.
At Council Bluffs the actual valua-
ton of the plant has been made and
an effort is being made to fix the new
water rates on this basis. Reason.
able earnings are conceded.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
English Doctors Leave Madrid.

Madrid, April 22.-The English
physician and nurse who have been
in attendance upon Queen Victoria fol-
some time have returned to England a
great Spanish specialist having taken
charge Of the case of the queen. The
cradle the expected heir will use is
the same that was used by King AL.
fonso's father, the late King Alfonso
XII
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
Sir George Armstrona Dies.

London. April 2O.-sir George Arm
strong, proprietor of the London
Globe. died at his residence in London
saturday afternoon. He WAS born In
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
BOlldSIlleIl
Superseded

The personal bondsman is fast
becoming obsolete; the risk to pri.
vate fortune is too great.
The corporate bond is just as rap.
idly supplanting the old form and,
IN time, men will marvel that they
were ever called upon to incur the
danger of personal suretyship.
In point Of safety, convenience and
propriety, there can be no COM
parison between the two; the one
IS Just as weak and perilous as the
other is strong and safe.
The time is near when it will be
thought as reasonable to borrow
the key Of a friends safe as to
borrow his name for surety pur-
poses.
Fidelity, Judicial, License and Con.
tract Bonds promptly furnished.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
New Law Not Responsible.

New Law Not Responsible.
State Superintendent Riggs says
that the new certifcation law has
nothing to do with the scarcity of
teachers.
IF there are not enough teachers
who can pass an examination for
high grade certificate to supply the
schools the state board will issue a
certificate for emergency purposes,
SO to say" said Mr. Riggs. "But the
certificate SO issued will show on its
face that the holder is entitled to no
more credit for scholarship than the
examination warrants. The argu-
ment has been advanced that the
standard fixed by the state. board is
SO high that only part of the teach
ers who take the examination can
pass it, that this depletes the teach.
ing force of the state and that the
schools are closing on account of the
fact that there are not enough teach
ers to do the business. There is
nothing whatever in this claim"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
FARMERS AND HoRsEMEN

Are your horses afflicted with Heaves?
If so, you should at once procure
bottle of LUERs' HEAvE DROPS, sure
cure for Heaves, Shortwindedness,
Coughs and Indigestion. For sale by
j. H. Luers Drug Co.; P. A. Clemmer;
VIM. Connolly; and Edward T.
Lomas. 93y1.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
Mason Pardon Conditional.

Mason Pardon Conditional.
Jasper Mason will be released from
prison on conditional pardon unless
an inspection of the law by the at,
torney general of the state compeis
him to direct the warden of the peni-
Tertiary not to release Mason.
Mason was an applicant for pardon
and his application was sent to the
legislature by the governor. The
legislature, in caution, recommended
that he be given a parole. The ques-
ton has. arisen as to whether the
recommendation by the legislature is
in such conformity to the law as to
warrant the governor in pardoning
Mason, conditionally. The term pa
role was used in the legislative rese.
LUTON in that sense. The proposition
will go eventually to the attorney
general, as to whether the resolution
is sufficient, for the action OF the
warden must be governed by the de-
cision Of the law officer. There is
believed to be no doubt but what the
governor will pardon Mason, regard
ing the action of the legislature as
sufficient.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
Whisky Must Be Labelled,

u
Des Moines.-Retail liquor dealers
in Iowa have been informed that
when they dispose of compounded or
imitation whisky they must label
the receptacle not only with the fact
that 1t is compound or imitation, but
they must also put on the bottle the
ingredients of which it is composed.
Not only that, but they must put
ON the proportion of the ingredients
after July 4.
This decision follows in the steps
Of the orders received from Washing
ton by State Dairy and Food Com
missioner H. R. Wright with respect
to the enforcement of the national
law regulating the sale Of pure
liquors. The Washington circular
was accompanied by letter from
President Theodore Roosevelt urging
strict enforcement of the law. 1t
was transmitted to Mr.. Wright by
Secretary Of Agriculture James Will
son.
The gist OF the holding at Wash
ington had been known to liquor
men for several days. Some of the
retailers have inclined to entertain o
feeling of some superiority in view
of the apparent fact that the only
branding that would be required un-
der the national law would be on the
wholesale receptacles, such as bar
rels, in which the retailer purchased
his liquor. The individual bottles
or packages into which he divided 1t
for sale to the custom did not seem
to require labels.
In steps the state law, however,
and requires tina the Individual pack
ages sold at retail be labeled. They
must be labeled under the national
and state law, with the character Of
the contents-whether straight whis-
ky, blended whisky, compound whis-
by or imitation whisky.
Not only that, but they must bear
the ingredients Of which they are
composed, if they are either COM
pound or imitation whiskys.
Not only that, but the label, after
July 4, under the new state law,
must bear the proportion of the in
gradients.
For instance, not only will COM
pound whisky bottles have to bear
the national label of whisky COM
pounded with pure grain distillate,"
meaning with ethyl alcohol, but they
must bear on the label the common
names of the ingredients and pure
grain distillate," while it may be
sufficient for the national law, will
not suffice for the state.
Tv,,s t,ys AZ. "a a
ethyl alcohol, with glyeerine or prune
juice to make 1t oily, and other In.
gradients or coloring material. I'm
der the state law the bottles con-
tanning this whisky will have to be
labeled with the names of all of the
ingredients.
And after July 4, under one of the
new Newberry bills, they will have
to convey information as to the pro-
portion of each of the ingredients.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30

Curator Charles Aldrich passed
through successful operation at
Eleanor Moore hospital at Boone a
few days ago. having a cataract re-,
moved from his left eye.
May Agree on Joint Rates.
An effort is being made by the
railroads and the shippers to get to-
gether on a joint rate schedule.
NO tentative basis, even, has been
agreed to, hut the negotiations are
on and 1t Is said that an arrange
ment may be made which will meet
with the approval of Tie state rail-
road commissioners.
Under the new joint rate law the,
commission is given power to go in
to an investigation of the subject Of
joint rates and it is made the duty
or the board to promulgate the order
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-04-30
pipsos to Work in Field.

UIpSoS to work IN Field.
The deal has been closed by the
state board of control for the pur..
chase of twenty acres of. land al.
jacent to the land owned by the state
at the Knoxville inebriate hospital.
1t is the purpose of the board to try
to induce the patients at the instftu.
ton to work in the fields, the best
possible aid to the cure of inebriacy.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-16
IRRIGATION AND THE TROLLEY
LINES.

1t is interesting to note that the
trolley line follows close on the heels
of the irrigation project. In southern
Idaho several lines have been put in
operation and others are projected.
Rapid increase of population has Gre
ated the demand for greater trans
portation facilities. The trolley meets
this demand and the lines will be ex-
tended rapidly throughout the irrigated
section.
The physical configuration of Idaho
lends itself readily to the development
OF electrical energy and makes the
trolley line a specially inviting field
for capital and one that Is being ex-
plotted, especially where the popula-
ton will justify the building Of a road
and operating 1t as 1t will in sections
where irrigation prevails and the big
ranches are cut into small productive
areas supporting a greater population
and producing ten times the traffic.
The trolley is notwithstanding the Fast
and 1t promises the same thing for the
West.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-16
HENEY AND RUFF.

Francis Heney and Abram Ruef
graduated from the University of cali
fornia as members of the same class.
Their surroundings were the same, the
same professors taught them, the
same alma mater nursed them and
sent them into the world. On gradu-
alton day there was no particularly
marked difference between the two, so
far as morals were concerned.
Today Ruef is a self confessed
CRATER and Heney is the prosecutor
who has been largely instrumental in
bringing the San Francisco boodlers to
their knees Here are two classmates,
one representing all that Is vicious in
civic and political life and the other
an active and conscientious champion
OF righteousness and reform. The Uni
versity Of California is proud of the