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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
REPORTERS AND EDITORS.

The news reporters and the editor.
ial staff of the Register and Leader
ought to hold a conference and gel
together. In the biggest news item
on the front page the reporter says:
Continuance of good crops
and good prices tells the story
of the prosperity of Des Moines
commercial interests through the
year 1906. The buying power of
the state of Iowa is increasing
from year to year."
On the editorial page the wiseacres
continue TO lament the fact that the
country is in an awful condition and
complete destruction awaits it unless
the tariff is revised Immediately.
AS between the fellow who writes
the things as they exist, and the poll
tician who has an ak to grind in his
own commentaries, the people gener.
ally prefer the former.
Fact is, the country is all right,
and little more of "let wen enough
alone" is all the medicine that is
needed just now.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
IF iowa WE'RE bad EARNEsT.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: What would
happen in Iowa If all the time and
words chat will be wasted on chimer.
ical primary election schemes were
devoted to legislation for better high.
ways? The roads will be used every
day in the year and every year; the
primary election occurs one day in
two years. The advantages of the
proposed primary over the present
system Of party nominations is de-
batable; the advantage and desirable,
ity of good roads long ago passed the
realm of vast Importance.
Many states give state aid in road.
making. Michigan pays from the
state treasury $1,000 a mile toward
the construction of macadamized
roads built according to rules pre-,
scribed, and is considering a plan to
put 1,UU0 conyicts to work crushing
traprock for the highways. AS one
writer pertinently remarks: when
state is in earnest on road improve
ment the subject quickly takes prac.
cal shape" What better course could
the Iowa legislature pursue this year
than to become very much in earnest
in dealing with the road problem?
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
IoMA,s GOLDEN WEALTH.

Director J. R. Sage. of the IOWA
Crop Service, is not only what his
name might indicate,-a wise man.
but he is an optimist as well, and one
of the leading characters in the roll
of honor that is making Iowa bigger
and better every day. Writing OF
the states wonderful agricultural
wealth, he says:
THE United Stases census COM
piled in 1900 credited Iowa with farm
crops, produced in 1897, valued at
1865 100000 average of 100000
for each day of that year. The chief
statistician for agriculture, in his
summary, said: I'm value of pro-
ducts derived exclusively from farm
lands, Iowa takes the lead" The ia
bles of values of the census year
showed that Iowa was $20,000,000
ahead of Illinois, and more than
$100, 100000 in advance of any other
state; and that was not an excep'
tional year, as shown by the crop
records of the state.
THE yearly averages of production
tell the story as to the supremacy OF
Iowa in agriculture. Corn is the
greatest of the cereals, and the sta
tistics show that for the last seven
teen years (1S90 to 1906, inclusive)
the average yearly output of that
great staple has been above 275,00O,,
900 bushels. For the last decade
QS97 to 1900 the average has been
300,000,000 bushels; and in the last
five years the annual average was a
little over 317,000,O00 bushels. These
figures indIcate a steady increase in
the yearly output, and there has been
also a corresponding increase in the
average yield per acre. Prior to 1890
this state was credited with an aver
age yield of about thirty bushels of
corn per acre. For the seventeen
years (Jan. l, 1890, to Jan. l, 1000
the average was 1876 bushels per acre.
For the decade ended Jan. l, 1907, the
average was 34.5 bushels; and in lne
last half of that decade the average
was SO bushels per acre.
'In cereals (corn and small grain)
we have grand total of 553,507, APO
bushels-or over half billion bush
els of grain. If we should conclude
to ship all that mass of feed stuff out.
side the state we would require about
100000 freight cars, each laden with
thirty tons of grain. That would
make a train of cars reaching nearly
all the way from San Francisco to
New York. On account of the hort
age of cars we had better not ship it.
And it pays better to feed it to our
live stock"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
CRIME IN IOWA.

Eleven hundred and twenty-eight
years and ten months incarceration
were handed out to 1869 criminals in
Iowa during last year, according to
the official reports compiled by the
secretary of state.
This shows a falling off in years
to which criminals have been sen.
fenced in 1906, as compared with
those sentenced in~1905, of about 90
years. But the number Of criminals
sentenced were 80 less in the last
year than the year previous, and OF
the more in 1905, So were felons.
The cost of the conviction of the
1853 criminals in 1906 was about
$4,000 less than the cost Of the con.
victing the 1861 of the year previous.
The total cost was $43S,236. OF this
the county attorneys drew $106,62
or only ABOUT $500 less tnan in 1905.
More than $4,000 less fines were
levied during 1905 than 1905, but the
collections were only about $1,50u
less. The total fines levied the last
year amounted to S107601, and the
collections amounted to S62,010.
During the year there were five less
murders than in 1905. But there were
many more attempts to commit the
most heinous crimes.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10

The republicans of Oskaloosa
should select a good candidate. for
mayor and elect him at the March
election. And the man they unite on
should be a representative citizen.
Oskaloosa is on the eve Of a great
season of prosperity, providing her
ship of state is guided Alright. The
next mayor should be man who can
take the helm and honor the city and
her people. There are plenty of good
men to choose from, and only one of
broad views, energetic personality and
unselfish aims should be selected.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
IOWA FUR INDUSTRY.

Thousands of farmer boys and q
goodly number of semiprofessional
trappers are now very busily engaged
reaping the harvest of the sloughs and
streams of Iowa. Local notices In
county weeklies indicate that the crop
of muskrats, skunk, mink, coon and
the few other marketable furs is an
excellent and profitable one this win
ter. Two bows in northern Iowa take
two weeks camp life 90 the shores
of small lake aud return with 400
muskrat skins. worth from 10 TO Is
cents apiece. Another boy, from his
night and morning excursions before
and after school, sells $91 worth of
furs, and so on. When 1t is known
that prime Iowa mink skin brings
as much as $3.50, the best black
skunk $225, ermine or white weasel
from 25 cents to 81, and the best
Iowa muskrat Is cents, T. will be IN:
derstood how an ingenious ana in
dustrious lad may with few steel
traps start bank account that shall
come handy when he begins farming
for himself" Lucrative trapping in
Iowa is no new thing. Many a farm
in the earlier days Vt the state was
paid for with the proceeds of Iowa
furs, One of the larger land owners
in Wright county tells how he paid
for the land and kept his family by
his skill in trapping. Then prime
mink brought 50. The fur-bearing an.
imals were abundant, and he often
secured $25 in fur when he went the
eight or ten mile rounds of his line
of traps daily.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10

the United States during that year.
In 1905, for the seventh time. the
total value of our mineral production
exceeded the enormous sum of 81
O0O,OO0,O0O. The exact figures for
1905 are s1,s23,S75127, as compared
with s1,3sO.SSS.554 in 1904.
AS heretofore. from and coal are
the most important of our mineral
products. The value of the irou in
1905 was s3S2,450.000; the value of
the coal, $476,756,963. The fuels in
creased from s5S4,043,236 in 1904 to
s602,477,, 217 in 1905, gain of S1S,.
43S,9S1, or 3.16 per cent Anthracite
showed an increase in value of ST.
904,9S0 from s1SS,974,O2O in 1904 to
s141, $4,000 in 1905. The increase in
value of the bituminous coal output
over 1904 was s29,4S0,962, a combined
increase in value of coal of 1885,
942 in 1905, or 7.S per cent.
The gain of $262,s93,573 in the to.
tai value of our mineral production is
due to gains in both metallic aud non.
metallic products, the metallic pro-
ducts showing an increase from $5O1,-
099,950 in 1904 to STOP, los in
1905, a gain of s2O1, 1853, 15S, and the
non-metallic products showing an in.
crease from $s5y, 3S3,6O4 in 1904 to
1921, 024,019 in 1905, gain of $751;
640,415. To these products should be
added estimated uhspecified products,
including molybdenum, bismuth, tung-
stem and other mineral products val
ued at 100000, making the total
mineral production for 1905 of ST.
623, S77,12t.
Besides the usual table and sum-
mary of quantities and values of the
country's mineral output by products,
the volume contains this year, for
the first time, summary in tabulat-
ed form, of the value of the mineral
products by states. These tables were
compiled by Mr.. VIM. Taylor Thoni
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND
MARRIAGES.

MORGAN.-Mrs. Mahala Morgan
died Monday afternoon after a long
illness with that dread disease, con-
sumption. She was born Sept 13,
1869, in Louisa county, Iowa. She
came to Oskaloosa in the spring of
1863 with her father, the late John
w. Cease, and was married to Frank
Morgan the 7th day of November,
1887. To this union were born six
children, of whom, with the hus-
band, are left to mourn their loss;
also four brothers, Jas. w. Cease of
Newton, Robert l. Cease of Snonho-
mish, Wash, Benz. F. Cease Of South
Auburn, Nebr., and Artemus L. w.
Cease of Panama, Ills. Among other
relatives and friends are Mrs. J. w.
Cease, step-mother, of Bairdstown,
Ohio, two step-sisters, Mrs. Chas.
Carr and Mrs. Chas. Gilbert of Oska-
loosa, also one step-brother, o. NJ.
Drake of Idaho.
@Card of Thanks.
Mr.. Frank Morgan and family wish
to return their thanks for the many
kindnesses shown them during their
late bereavement in the loss of their
beloved.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
NINE WORKERS WELL PAID.

According to report just made by
the state secretary of international
affairs, only two classes Of labor in
Pennsylvania are as highly paid as
the mine workers. The report gives
the result of an investigation of the
yearly earnings of all the principal
classes Of labor. 1t shows that 1t is
more profitable to work in anthracite
coal mines than in mills or factories,
not only because of the higher pay
received, but on account of the lower
rents paid by miners.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
MR.. RosEBRooK CHOSEN.
oskaIoosa Man Will Represent Iowa
Coal Operators.

The result of the coal operators
conference at Des Moines Saturday
was the appointment of w. w. Oliver
of Centerville, B. H. Johnson of Men,
dota, and L. R. Rosebrook of this city
as the Iowa delegates. These gen
Element representing the Iowa oper,
ators are to meet with other repre-,
sentatiyes in Chicago for the purpose
of making effort to secure a better
shipping rate. The present maximum
rate has been the basis Of fuel ship.
ments on Iowa coal since the year
1888. Conditions have been greatly
changed since that year, but the rates
have remained the same. The Iowa
operators are much interested in hav.
ing better rate than that under
which they are now handling fuel.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
THE LILT OF WINTER.
(By Harry Bowen.

NJ AAoAAJ OONCAs
When all of summers foliage is
dead,
And the earth is tucked within her
snow bed,
When the air is crisp and snappy,
Then the kickerbockered chappy
Is unanimously happy
With his sled
When the winds the snow in blind.
ing eddies whirl,
And icy blankets choke the brook.
let's purl
When the ponds are slowly freez-
ing,
Then the youth delights in teasing,
And felicitously squeezing
OF his girl
When the windows shine with mean
descent glow,
And the trains are all belated in the
snow,
When the ice is prime for skating,
Then the maid is decorating,
And in some impotence waiting
For her beau.
When you seek the pond for skating
on the ice,
Or the rink if you perchance may
have the price,
Many maidens you'll be meeting,
win in supplemental greeting,
Be necessarily repeating,
"Ain't 1t nice?"
When the evening light is waning,
cold and gray,
In the short abbreviation of the day,
Then the hobo, scorning pity
Theme prolific for the witty
Wends his way into the city,
And the quay.*
When the canny politician, clad in
Will commune alike with hired man
or boss,
They'll belize discuss salvation,
Or the Japanese invasion,
Or the individuation
OF the boss.
Many other recreations l could name,
Winters borean frigidity may claim,
In appurtenantial measure,
For this frolic-time of leisure;
I'll deny myself the pleasure
All the same.
L'Envoi.
When l wrote this stuff, week or
two ago,
There were likely probabilities of
snow.
Now the Christmas-tide is waning,
While the days in length are gain
ing,
And instead of snow it's raining
Let it go!
pronounced "kway." It's a place
where they dock hoboes-not ships.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
Laws regulating child labor hay

Laws regulating child labor have
been before the courts in several
states recently, and in State VS.. Sho
reg, Sc Pacific Reporter, 8S1, the SUI
preme court of Oregon upholds a re,
cent enactment prohibiting the EN-,
ployment of children under sixteen
years Of age for longer period than
ten hours in any one day or more
than six days in any week. 1t was
claimed specifically that the law VIC.
lated the Oregon constitution, declar.
ing that all men when they form a
social compact are equal in rights, but
the court holds that this provision
does not interfere with the right Of
the state to control and regulate the
right of minor to contract, affirm
ing the doctrine that minors are the
wards of the state, and that the legls.
lature may throw such projections
around them as it deems necessary.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
YOUNG PEOPLES ~NION.
Annual Meeting and Election of Off
GERS For Year.

Members of the Oskaloosa Young
Peoples Union met last Friday even
ing in the Methodist church to elect
officers. Work for the coming veal
was discussed, and an effort will be
made to make a better spirit in the
union in the year to come than has
ever been shown before. The worl
of the society will cover a more re
ligious field than in previous years
For several years the union has ha-
charge Of the Jail meetings and in
addition to meeting there Sunday af
ter Sunday with the prisoners, they
will try to keep up a correspondence
with the prisoners after tney have
been given their freedom.
The officers chosen for the coming
year are:
Myrtle Coffin, president.
Miss Jessie Duboc, vice president.
Miss Laith Tabor, treasurer.
Miss Jennie Randolph, chairman
of Jail committee.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
The state hospital for consum

The state hospital for consump
tives is to be located five miles north
of Iowa City. The site includes 2SO
acres Of land traversed by the Cedar
Rapids and Iowa City interurban troll
ley line. The purchase price involves
$4,000 of the $4,000 appropriated by
the last legislature. 1t is planned to
open the institution on July of the
present year. The medical faculty OF
the state university has volunteered
the services of its members free OF
charge in the treatment of all surgi.
cal cases which are in the hospital.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
man shiftless was in t,

-"Old man shiftless was in town
again last week." says the New Shar
on Star, "and of course his team
stood at the hitch rack all day with
out water or feed, while the old man
fed his face and stimulated his stom
ach. He spent several dollars, but
when he went home his horses were
hungry and not thing did he take
home to his family, neither did he
take home pane of glass to go in
the window where a pair of pants
has been stuffed for many months"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
-Colfax Clipper: Boys with hal

-Colfax Clipper: Boys with hats
on the backs of their heads and long
hair hanging down their foreheads
and cigarettes and smutty stories in
their mouths are cheaper than old
worn-out horses. Nobody wants them
at any price. Men will not employ
them. They are not worth their
keeping to anybody and they will not
keep themselves. If anybody happens
to read this who answers this de-
scription let him take aIook at him
self and do what his conscience says
Is best to do.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
Last year the hard coal miners !

Last year the hard coal miners re
ceived, on an average, S690.34 each
The average annual wages of the
skilled and unskilled employees Of
eighty-four manufacturing industries
representing TO establishments, were
tabulated; in only two of them, the
tool steel and steel pump industries
did the wages of the employees exceed
those Of the anthracite miners.
In eighty-two out of the eighty-four
industries cited the average earnings
of the workers fell considerably be-
low those of the anthracite miners,
and fortyrtwo pay their employees at
least 5000 less year than the coal
companies pay their miners.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10

S. A. Brewster, aforetime edit or
of the Creston Advertiser and Ottum'
wa Democrat, and once opposed to
Major Lacey as candidate for con-
gress, is manager and editor of the
Daily Panhandle" at Amarillo, Tex
as. In a leading editorial the pan
handle" announces the suspension OF
the Daily Paragon" the "Panhan'
dies" erstwhile contemporary, leav'
ing Mr.. Brewster's paper the only
daily publication in Amarillo, the me-
tropolis of the Panhandle country.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
-Keokuk Gate.City: The Oskaloo

--Keokuk Gate-City: The Oskaloosa
Herald Is about to install a Duplex
perfectiag press. such as the Gate
City is printed on, at cost of s6,5O0,
with a capacity of 5000 papers an
hour. The growing business of the
Herald has both necessitated the in,
vestment and justified it. 1t is a
publication of which Oskaloosa may
well be proud. The Gate-City's worst
wish for it is that it may speedily
outgrow this new and valuable addi'
ton to its equipment.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
The Agricultural department

The Agricultural department at
Washington employs 6,242 persons OF
which number 1894 are on duty at
Washington. The remainder are
scattered over the United States and
world as field experts, Investigators,
and at the many experiment stations
prying into the secrets of nature for
the betterment of the people and
safeguarding the public health.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10

lowing New Years greeting for pub
lication in the Ottumwa Courier:
House of Representatives, u. s.
Washington, d. c.
To the Editor:
Your request as to my views rela.
tive to the prospects for the next year
in southeastern Iowa has been re-
ceived.
There Is surely not cloud In the
sky at his time as to the material and
moral progress of this most interest
ing part Of our state. Having visited
every state and every territory in the
union, am deeply impressed with
the fact that Iowa leads all of them in
fertility. Louis XIV. once said that
nothing could hurt a country that
had good SOIL" There is nothing
that can prevent Iowa from contin.
uing to prosper unless it should be in
the nature of unwise or Injurious leg
islation, and l do not believe we are
in any imminent danger of anything
of that kind in the near future.
Should the present successful policy
be reversed in 1908, of course Iowa
would suffer. We are indeed fortu.
nately situated, with no great cities
and a largely rural population, there
is no reason why Iowa politically,
morally and financially should not
continue on the high road of success
in the near future.
Yours truly,
JOhD I, Jaoay
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10

The New York Evening Post tells
Of an American consul in China who
was much pleased because of the
brisk demand for American trade cat
alogues. 81 would especially like
those with thick leaves" a caller said
one day. This aroused the curiosity
of the consul, and on investigation he
found that the catalogues were want
ed as inside soles for shoes.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
sCard of Thanks.

PARASITIC funeral of the late
oliver Parks of Abba was held Satur-
day afternoon and the services in this
city were under the direction of the
local organization of Foresters and
Red Men of which he was member.
Numerous handsome tributes were
displayed and several people were
in attendance from Ottumwa and AL
bia. Interment was made at the side
OF his wife, who preceded him by
few months.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
County Treasurer Eby has

County Treasurer Eby has been
unusually successful in the collection
of back taxes during his term of of,
fee. The amount has more than paid
two-thirds of his salary for the sew
en- years. This is a record worthy of
emulation and the gentleman is to be
congratulated by taxpayers of the
county generally for the excellent and
reliable work that he has done.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10

Michigan pays from the state
treasury $1,000 a mile toward the
construction of macadamized roads,
built according to rules prescribed
and is considering a plan to put 1000
convicts to work crushing traprock
for the highways. When a state is
in earnest on road improvement the
subject quickly takes practical shape
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
Pension Day In Court.

Friday was pension day in the of.
fee of the clerk of the court and IT
was a busy time for all concerned.
Deputies Martin and Patterson were
busy at the desk all day receiving
the papers Of the claimants and Ger.
tifying to the same according to the
requirements of the law.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10

Another Christmas will be along
in S55 more days. 1t is none too soon
to begin to prepare for it if the ex,
perience of the Christmas just over
is any criterion.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10

Prosperity is not all pie" OBJ.
serves the Marshalltown TimesRe.
publican. "a Jackson county man
loaded his corn cribs so heavily that
they collapsed and crushed thirty.five
fat hogs"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10

How can anyone know the minds
of 10000 people? They may have
1000 different things to sell, they
may want 1000 different articles or
want to buy, sell, rent or exchange
goods in 1000 different ways. A lit
tie ad in the herald, however, will
reach everyone of them and find just
the person to meet your proposition.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10

The Eldora Ledger sees a grow,
ing BELIEF that if the petit jury were
displaced by board of three or more
judges, men competent and versed in
the law and rules of evidence, a great
reform would be established n the
administration of law.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-01-10
New Addino Machine.

The board of supervisors has under
consideration the placing of new
adding machine in the ONCE of the
county treasurer. where this office
convenience is necessity with the
modern way of doing business.