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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-13
A Camera Fiend.

Magistrate officer, what is this
man charged with?
Constable He's camera fend of
the worst kind, yer worship.
"But this man shouldn't have been
arrested simply because he has q
mania for taking pictures"
ut isn't that, yer worship; he takea
the cameras"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-13
Begin on Monster Plant.

Superior, Wis, Aug. 6.-Work on
the Steel corporations $1o,oO0,O00
plant at the head of the lakes was
begun Monday. Contractors viergusz
and Millen put men at work clearing
the site on the Duluth side of the bay
at Spirit lake. Plans are being drawn
for $50 houses to be erected there.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-13
"Eyerybody Should Known

says C. G. Hays, a prominent business
man of Bluff, Mo-, that Bucklen's
Arnica Salve is the quickest and surest
healing salye ever applied to sore,
burn or wound, or to case of piles.
I've used it and know what I'm talking
about" Guaranteedby P. A. Clemmer,
Druggist. 25c. T
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-13

Killed When Train Strikes Carriage.
Lancaster, Pa, Aug. Ga carriage
in which John Helm and Edward Pal.
mer, both of Christiana, near here,
were riding, was struck by Pennsyl-
vania railroad passenger train at that
place and Helm was killed Palmer
escaped with slight injuries.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-13
Hero Of Santiago Drowned,

Ahklow, Ireland, Aug. 6.-Thomas
Myler, who asserted that he hoisted
the stars and stripes over Santiago de
Cuba during the Spanish-American
war, was drowned off Courttown while
practicing for an attempt to swim
st. Georges channel.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-13
Baron Rothschild is Decorated

Paris. Aug. 6.-Baron Edouard de
Rothschild of the Arm Of De Roths.
child Freres, bankers OF this city, has
been decorated with the cross of the
Legion of Honor.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-13
"Fiahtina CHAPLAIN Is Dead.

Mount Vernon, Ia, Aug. 6.-John H.
Lozier, known as the fighting chap
lain." died here at the age of IS
years. He was popular as an orator
and was the author of several war
SONGS.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-13
BY MEAD PUBLISHING co
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY
Thread.

Ana now IL ID InrcaQ upon winch Cne
trust system has laid its unholy hand.
The Chicago Tribune (republican)
prints this editorial:
"If street car fares were to be jumped
to seven cents and then to ten cents the
entire community would be up in arms.
If the price of the glass of beer were
to be advanced thus there would be
Indignation among the beer drinkers.
To the woman FIVE cents is as much the
natural price of spool of cotton thread
as to man five cents is of a glass of
beer. The price of thread, raised a
short time ago to seven cents spool,
has been put up to ten cents. Will the
women of the country submit uncom-
plainingly, or will they call upon the
men to join with them in demanding a
return to old prices?
There are women who will protest
against the advance in price not because
they will feel it but 'tas a matter of
principle. There are other women
who will be hard hit. The garment
workers who buy their own thread will
earn few cents less a week. That
will be no trivial matter, for their
earnings are scanty enough at best.
With them every cent cent counts.
When the coin which used to buy two
spools of thred buys only one they feel
it keenly. Their finances are disar-
ranged.
Raw cotton costs more than it did a
few years ago. There have been re-
cent advances in the wages of the cot
ton spinners. But as an offset there
there have been improved processes of
manufacture and rapid increase in the
volume of sales. Whatever net increase
there may have been in the cost of pro-
duction is not enough to justify loo
per cent advance in price. There would
would be no such advance if there were
any real competition in the manufac
ture of cotton thread. The industry is
practically monopolized by one grea
concern, and it is utilizing its monopoly
for the oppression of poverty stricken
sewing women.
1.-THE women Of the country do moi
take deep interest in the prosecution
of railroads which pay rebates or o.
such industrial concerns as the tobacco
trust. If the government were to at
tack the cotton thread monopoly they
would all sing the praises of the de
partment of justice.
Perhaps they will be gratifed. II
was reported recently that the Law
officers of the government had started
preliminary inquiry into the affairs
of the American Thread company will
an eye to beginning legal proceedings
tits generally believed that while the
company bears an American name it i.
controlled by foreigners. The Coatsel
and Clarks, who are British manufac
turers of cotton thread, are nnderstoo,
to dominate the affairs of the Englisl
Sewing Cotton company, which in tur1
controls the American Thread company
1t is not pleasant to be dictated to b.
a domestic trust. 1t is even less S
when an alien trust exploits America,
consumers.
There is nothing to justify the re
cent sharp advance in the price of spoe
cotton. They are made only on tn
principle of charging all that the trafh
will bear. The trust believes the cor
sumer can pay ten cents a spool an
the intention is to make them pay it.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-13
FARMERS AND HoRsEMEN!

Are your horses afflicted with Heaves?
If so, you should at once procure a
bottle of LUERs' HEATE DROPS, a sure
cure for Heaves, Shortwindedness,
Coughs and Indigestion. For sale by
j. H. Luers Drug Co.; P. "A. Clemmer;
VIM. Connolly; and Edward 7.
Lomas. 93y1.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-13
A Small Farm at a Big Bargain

no acres; well improved, good build
ings, fenced and cross-fenced, good
we'll and spring brook, all cultivated
except one acre of nice, light timber,
20 bearing apple trees. Call at this
Office, or enquire of
JOHN BARRET,
+ r. F. D. No. 5. Cresco, Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-13

with 1t It's tender and the baggage and
third class car. Fortunately no other
cars went into the water, as the
coupling between the second and third
cars broke
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-13
BOIldslllell
Superseded


The personal bondsman is fast
becoming obsolete the risk to pr.
vate fortune is too great.
The corporate bond is just as rap.
idly supplantina 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 friends safe as to
borrow his name for surety pur.
poses.
Fidelity, Judicial, License and Con.
tract Bonds promptly furnished. !,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
MAN MUST FACE
MURDER CHARGE
EASTERN OFFICERS TO COME
FOR SUSPECT
Prisoner at County jail Accused Of
Triple Staying Must Return to
New York to Stand
Trial

Sheriff A. L. Dicker Of orange county,
N. Y, and Chief ofsPolice j. d. Nc
Koch of Middleton, N. Y, left that city
last night for Los Angeles to take
charge Of Charles Fl. Rogers now con-
fined in the county Jail here on the
charge of numbering Willie Olney,
Frederick Olney and Alice IngericlS
while attempting to commit a robbery
in October, 1906. Rogers was arrested
a week ago by Policeman McGraw
Rogers was pointed out to McGraw by
a man to whom the prisoner is said to
have admitted that the New York po-
lice were looking for him.
When taken to the police station
Rogers at first denied knowing any
thing about the triple murder, but
finally admitted that he was the man
for whom the police have been search
ing for year and half. He is said
to have admitted cashing several bogus
checks, but expressed surprise when
accused of the triple murder and said
he did not know the two men or the
woman was dead.
A $2500 reward had been offered for
his apprehension by the Middetown
police, and it is expected this amount
will be paid to McGraw.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
BOARD ASKS DATA
ON BAD STREETS
Inspector Edwards Anxious to Repair
Thoroughfares Which Fire De.
partment Needs for Its
Quick Runs

ID. K. Edwards, inspector of public
works has made reply to the implied
charges made against him by Mayor
Harper In discussing the condition of
Los Angeles streets by asking for spe-
cific information.
The mayor has frequently expressed
himself as dissatisfied with the con-
duct of the street department and re-
Gently asked property owners to send
| him reports of cases where repairs
should be made. These reports have
| piled up rapidly.
Inspector Edwards, who is head OF
the department, has retorted that he Is
doing all he can with the funds at his
disposal
Here is the latest chapter in the con-
troversy:
ITO the Honorable A. G. Harper,
Mayor-Dear Sir: note that you state
that there are some fifty streets report
ed to you by the fire department that
are impossible. / do not know how
long this information has been In your
hands, but 1t has not been communi-
Gated to this department.
81 wish you would furnish me with a
list of the streets referred to that
may call the attention of the ward fore
men to the repairs needed.
"Since the rains let up the street de-
partment has, in my judgment, done
remarkable work in the way of repair
ing the main thoroughfares and many
of the cross streets; but, If there are
any considerable number that have
been overlooked or not gotten to yet
that are especially important to getting
the fire engines out would be pleased
to have them given special attention
Immediately.
"Will you not kindly hereafter COM
municate with me at once in regard to
any certain section or street that is in
bad condition? will have the same at
| tended to unless there should be some
special reasons why it could not be un-
dertaken by this department.
I'D. K. EDWARDS"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
THREE GREAT H0STELRIES
WILL CLOSE BY MAY |
Special to The Herald.

PASADENA, April 15.-The Raymond
hotel closed for the season today, the
Hotel Green viii shut down April %
unless present plans are changed and
the Hotel wentworth will end it's first
season April 49, These closing dates
are earlier than usual and are due to
the fact that the winter season in the
extreme east is closed earlier than usual
and the people here wish to get back
home and enjoy the unusually early
warm SPELL
On the whole the season has been as
good as was expected. This is only
true because nothing very heavy in the
way of rich winter tourist travel was
looked for. The San Francisco disaster
undoubtedly affected seriously the plans
of tourists which, strange as 1t may
seem, are made during the summer for
the following winter. However. the
hotel people believe that next season
will far eclipse this one, and extensive
repairs and alterations will be made at
most OF the hotels this summer as a
consequence.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
EUROPEAN CROPS
WILL Be LARGE
Heavy Snow Leaves No Bad Effects
and In Many Cases II
Has Been Bene-
ficial
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, April 15.--The Euro
pean crop report of the department of
agriculture, covering conditions abroad
up to April / says the heavy snow
which fell last winter over the greater
part of Europe has, excepting in parts
of Russia and the Balkan states, al
most everywhere disappeared.
That the protection afforded to win
ter cereals has been pretty generally
Gracious is being demonstrated by the
Vigor with which the plants in most
countries seem to be responding to the
quickening influences of spring. The
report contains:
In Western Europe the exceptionally
cold weather has probably had no dele
terious effect upon vegetation sufficient
to affect good results of the harvest.
Central Europe growth generally is
in less advanced stage and knowledge
of actual conditions less positivei the
winter wheat crop in Germany is
known to have suffered to quite an ap-
preciable extent; recent news vague
ly indicates damage to the autumn
sown crops of Austria and Hungary.
"The sporadic local reports from Rus
sia clearly warrant generalizations, but
in the specific districts to which the
reports relate to the crops, with few
exceptions, seem to have wintered we'll
Activity in the preparation for and
the accomplishment of spring seeding
Is fairly universal. In western parts of
Southern Europe the work has ad-
vanced well toward completion, but in
Central Europe, Russia and parts of
the Balkan states belated spring has
caused bad starts generally to be made
in agricultural work and the need for
milder, more settled weather Is becom-
ing acute"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
SAVED FROM DEATH
BY BRAVE YOUTH
Beautiful Young Woman Is orasped
by Rescuer Just as She Was
Slipping from Little
Pleasure Boat
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
LONG PEACH, April 15.-when the
little steamer Camiguin pulled up
alongside the outer wharf at late
hour last night the passengers saw a
beautiful young woman barely saved
from a watery grave by Raymond
Darby, youth living at 237 East First
street.
The woman was stepping from the
edge Of the boat to the landing under
the pier, when a heavy swell carried
the boat several feet out to sea. The
young woman started to fall backward.
Just as she screamed i'm terror young
Darby, who had ben among the first
to disembark from the boat, sprang to
her assistance barely. in time to seize
her. Then grasping her arm he pulled
her safely upon the landing.
The young woman gave her name as
Edna Mitchell and said her home was
in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
COUNCIL CANNOT
RECALL ORDINANCE
Liquor Who olesaIers May Be Given Six
Months Grace to Move Busi-
ness If Mayor Signs the
Zone Measure

y Because of legal objections the city
council was unable yesterday to recall
the ordinance sent to the mayor last
week creating a wholesale liquor zone
and simultaneously abolishing all
wholesale stores now established out
side of the new limits.
However, if Mayor Harper signs the
ordinance now before him the council
will pass an amendment or a new ordi-
nance giving wholesalers now in busi-
ness an extension of time Of six months
in which to retire or move into the new
zone. The plan Is to await the mayor s
decision.
In the council lobby many men and
women representing church and re-
form organizations were seated early
yesterday and they were generous with
applause as point after point was made
by the speakers.
Councilman Wallace eloquently urg-
ed the necessity for restricting the
wholesale drink traffic.
Councilman Wren switched the de-
bate by quoting from the rules show
ing that no measure could be called UP
for reconsideration after 1t had reached
the mayor He urged that 1t would be
contrary to precedents; that a new or
dinance might be introduced, but the
old one was dead to the council for the
present.
Chairman Pease ruled that Mr.. Wren
was right and Deputy City Attorney
Wilson on being appealed to agreed
with the chairman.
Thus in an unexpected manner the
lobby won for the time being, though
Councilman Wallace announced in
closing that he, for one, was disposed
to be fair to all and would be willing to
vote for an ordinance granting the
liquor dealers six months grace. This
will probably be introduced immedi-
ately after Mayor Harper disposes OF
the present measure by veto or ap-
proval.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
STRONGEST AND MOST
SEVERE SHOCK EVER
RECORDED AT ALBANY
BY Associated Press.

ALBANY, N. Y, April 15.-The
strongest and longest earthquake shock
recorded on the seismograph at the
state museum here since the instru-
ment was installed began at 1:14 a. m.
today and continued for more than two
hours.
The record was much more pro-
nounced than that made by the San
Francisco earthquake of last year.
The maximum vibration was so severe
as to swing the pendulum clear off the
recording Indicator.
Assistant State Geologist David H.
Newland said:
"The disturbance must have been
very severe indeed, longer and more
severe than any recorded since our in
struments were installed more than a
year ago. 1t appears to have been
some 5000 miles away to the southwest
or southeast"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
PROMINENT MEN
WOULD AVOID WAR
PEACE CONFERENCE HELD IN
NEW YORK
NotabIes from Foreign Countries Cross
the Atlantic to 6e Present and
Deliver Addresses-Presl-
dent Sends Letter
nu Asanolnted press.


NEW YORK. April 15.--The national
arbitration and peace conference today
began it's real activities. Secretary
Root in a speech pointed out the propo-
sitions which the United states gov
ernment viii have to make at the com
ing conference at The Hague. lie
warned his hearers not to expect toe
much at this second conference.
The president in q letter to the con-
gress expressed hope that the COM
ing conference might result in the
adoption of an international arbitra-
tion treaty. Secretary Root declared
the United states thought 1t proper to
urge again the discussion of the sub
ject of the limitation of armament OF
the nations on land and sea and the
abolition of the practice of using force
in the collection of debts owed by one
nation to the citizens Of another.
MIR. Carnegie in an address attributed
to Mr.. Roosevelt much aid and thanked
him.
He declared, however that Emperor
William is the man among all men
who holds the peace of the nations In
his power. Mr.. Carnegie said 1t was
unjust to speak of the emperor as q
menace to the peace of Europe, adding
that in twenty years on the throne the
German ruler had spilled no blood nor
speakers today were Governor Hughes
of New York and Mayor George B.
Mcclellan of New York city. Governor
Hughes declared that war is barbarous
and had been robbed of its individual
heroism and much of it's valor.
The speakers tonight included Baron
d Estournelles de Constant, member of
the French senate and head of the in
ternational conciliation committee, and
Secretary Strauss of the department of
commerce and labor, who spoke on
THE Peace of Nations and Peace
Within Nations
Secretary Strauss was followed by
Hugo Munsterburg Of Harvard uni
versity who declared that peace had
no more earnest supporter than Ger
many. DR.. Ernst Richard, president
of the German American Peace society
of New York. also spoke for Germany.
William j. Bryan, who was on the
platform, was called for by the audi
ence.
81 am on the program for Wednesday
afternoon" he said, "and then I will
be able to say to you what l desire to
say. Tonight / wished to have the
pleasure of hearing those who have
come from foreign lands to talk to u.s."
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
SERVES COUNTRY
FORTy-S|X YEARS
Major General James F. Wade Retired
from Active Service-Officer
Makes Interesting Conn.,
parsons
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 15.--Maj. Gen.
James F. Wade, U. S. A., for several
years past in command of the division
of the Atlantic with headquarters on
Governors island, was retired from
active service yesterday after forty-six
years service. Maj. Gen. Frederick D.
Grant succeeded him.
Gen. Wade expects to make his home
in Jefferson. o., the little city in which
he was born. In speaking of the army,
Gen. Wade said:
There are only few of the Civil
War veterans left in the service. and
today there is not a single officer in
the army who held a commission when
came into it away back in the six
ties. In a little over three years the
last officer who saw service in the Civil
War will have been retired from the
service and the younger generation Of
officers will be in command
Gen. Wade is the son of the famous
Senator ben" Wade of Ohio who rep
resented the Buckeye state in the senate
in Civil War times. In addition to
his Civil War record, Gen. Wade has
also participated in the Indian CAM
paigns and was the officer selected 10
command the camp at Tampa, Fla.
during the Spanish-American war.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
BELIEVES CoNsUMPTIvE
COMMITTED SUICIDE
BY Associated Press.


STOCKTON. Cal, April 15.-Em-
ployes Of the Holt Manufacturing
company OF this city have offered a
reward Of $50 for the finding Of Walter
Stewart, a fellow workman, dead or
alive. Stewart disappeared last
wednesday, taking with him a revolver
belonging TO his brother.
Yesterday fifty fellow workmen
searched the banks Of Mormon chan
mel to the east of Stockton, as he was
seen to go in that direction. Rudely
carved on the bark of a tree on the
bank of the channel three miles east
of town the following inscription has
been found:
Walter Stewart, Wednesday April
TO- 1907. Jim Dewey-Tm on my way,
but don't know where Tn going"
Dewey is chum Of Stewart but does
not know his whereabouts. It Is be-
lieved that Stewart has made away
with himself. He suffered with con-
sumption and was frequently heard to
say that he would be better off dead
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
RESIDENCE ROBBED
IN OWNERS ABSENCE
Special TO The Herald.

LONG BEACH, April 15.-The resi-
dence of Joseph w, Young, a member of
the Young & Parmley Investment COM
pany. was robbed last night A gold
watch and SIS in money was taken.
The entire family was out of town, with
the exception of Jack Young, younger
brother of the real estate man.
He was down town until a late hour
at night, when he returned TO find the
house i'm state of confusion. The
young man hurried to the home of a
friend, where he spent the night, not
notifying the police until this morning.
A pillowcase fun Of silverware was
found upon the floor of the living room.
1t is supposed that the burglar intended
TO carry this away with him, but
dropped 1t through fright or fearing
that Il would weigh him down too
heavily. The money stolen was taken
from bank belonging to j, w. Young's
little child.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
Shock Recorded at Capital
By Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, April 15-According
to the weather bureau distant earth
quake of great intensity was recorded
at 1:14:20 this morning. The greatest
movement of the earth at Washington
was secured in an east and west direc-
tion aud lasted from 1928 to 1:41, while
the principal portion of the north
south movement lasted from L.: 81 a. m.
The duration of the earthquake was
over two hours. These records seem
to indicate an unusually violent earth
quake at a distance comparable in in
tenslty with those which recently oc-
Cured at Valparaiso and Kingston.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
BUY DRIED POTATOES
FOR FAMINE SUFFERERS

BY Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, China, April 15-The
sum Of $4,000, received from the United
states by tho famine relief committee
today was used to purchase half a mil
lion pounds of dried potatoes, which
were rushed to the front.
Further particulars of the distress ex-
isting show that people are eating the
green scum from the ponds, white clay
and the hulls OF rice.
The relief committee has been able
to secure enough milk from one depot
TO feed 100 babies until the harvest. The
committee, however, has been COM
PEELED to leave about 400 other babies in
that district to die.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
British steamer Founders
BY Associated Press.

GIBRALTAR, April 15.-The British
steamer Andalusia from Swansea for
Barcelona foundered April 1S on the
Spanish coast, Her captain, first officer
and a sailor were picked up and brought
here. The rest Of the crew are believed
10 have been drowned.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
TembIor Recorded at Berkeley

the most remarkable shock of earth
quake ever recorded at the students
observatory at the University of Cali
fornia was registered on the Omeri seis-
mograph at an early hour this morning.
The shock lasted for more than half an
hour.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-16
Shock Felt in Enrnns

BERLIN, April 15.-The seismo-
graphs at Hamburg, Potsdam, Goetten-
gen and Jena registered a severe earth
quake shock this morning at a distance
OF 6210 miles. The heaviest shock oc-
Cured at a. m.