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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-08-22
OLD ORCHARD, Me-
IS SWEPT BY FIRE.
Hotels, Large and Small and Cottages
Are Left in Ashes-Two Dead
and Five Injured

OLD ORCHARD, Me, Aug. TO-
Old Orchard was practically wiped out
of existence by fire last night.
Half a dozen of the big hotels, as
many of the smaller. nearly hundred
cottages, and scores of smaller buildings
were destroyed. Two lives were lost and
five persons were injured, three seriously.
Thousands Of people, mostly visitors,
are homeless, temporarily, and the prop
crty loss will foot Up to nearly $1,000
900.
The fire started shortly before S o'clock,
presumably in the room of one of the
employees of the Hotel Olympia, four
story wooden building, standing back
from the beach The cause OF the lire
is at present unknown, but it is generally
believed to have been due to defective
insulation Of the electric lighting wires
Cottages Feed Blaze.
Opposite the hotel the ground toward
the beach was thickly dotted with cot
tages. each as dry as tiude. The flames
swept across the roadway to the east,
and IL little to the south, and while there
were but five buildings on fire at $50
half an hour later the number had in
creased more than tenl0ld, and it was
seen that practically the entire cottage
settlement was doomed.
Amateur bucket brigadcs were power
less to save anything, the breeze tanning
the flames wherever they started, and
cottage after cottage caught fire and was
burned until the fire reached the line Of
hotels along the beach front.
Big Hotels Go One by One.
The large Hotel Emerson, the most
deliberately fitted hostcry in Old Or
chard, caught fire about an hour after
the Olympia, Like every other building
in the place it was of wood and burned
like oil
BY this time an area Of about fifty acres
along the beach was blazing One by
one the Hotel Scashore, one of the old
est and best known: the Hotel Fisle, one
of the finest on the beach, valued at
$50, 900; the Hotel Alberta. the Aldine,
the Lawrence house. and Il half dozen
smaller hotels were caught and left in
ruins.
The Boston and Maine railroad station
was blown up by dynamite to arrest the
flames. but the fire marched on unim-
peded.
Only One Big Building Left.
At midnight when the fire was brought
under control. the only building in Old
Orchard of any size that remained stand
ing was the Old Orchard hotel, which
is located well back of the railroad line,
southeast of where the railroad station
stood.
1t was the liveliest night the summer
visitors ever had in Old Orchard. All
the hotels were crowded, and the flight of
the guests from the burning hotels with
as much of their possessions as they
could carry quickly had the beach lit
tered with trunks and clothes.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-08-22
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hI'p''H| l'Ht was p'lllE u'4olIShN lie
WAS Il Nood-IhoPPet' ana; beng steady,
JUS governor sad entrusted hlm with the
''N'Sl, jon "i MAKING Il bargain.
rs ne guard gave the Right away.
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ihG came INTO the compartment breath
less AL seats were taken, 50 Joe at
once pr"l"r'd ms seat which was ac-
''hl'd 4ilGGr a coy protest
lhey 6oth got out mt Bow. and, with
remark about the elements. got into
conversation.
When their ways parted he asked her
these young men OF the East End can
he very gallant-"Can | have the pleas
ure OF yer company ut the concert on
Saturday night NJ the Peoples falaccF'
She was there, so was Joe. with a
bunch of violcts, ,7hich lii pinned in her
blouse.
They had their MI of music by the in
tervaI and left for n stroll and chat.
Fancy you turning up he said. Il
believe yer going ter like me-
Il liked Yer soon IS , seed yer take
blind Jim's hat" she replied.
lie told her he was working ut the
wood hoppers' shed, but times were bad.
Those church Army chaps and the
'omes is playing old AIRY with us, and
we are 'arnlng next to nothl'.'
She was machine RI Ter in n ookhind-
ing factory, standing from $50 in the
morning until $3.50 in the evening, with
Just the midday interval for resi-.
wasn't | glad when yer gave mo yer
seat in the train ! should ha' dropped
if had to stand all the, way
Thus their courtship began, and pro-
crossed IN the straightforward, rough
and-rcady mthcods of this style of couple.
Joe dld not consider himself engaged.
Think aWt to be dahnrght 'shnmed Of
npNpIl .InRlllT M to when tnh
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-08-22
RAIL BOARD SCORES
CONNOR'S RAILWAY
Railway Commission Orders Lumber
Rates Cut and Demands Seized
ule of Tariffs.

MADISON, Wis, Aug. 1G.-[Special. !
That the practices of the Marathon
County Railroad company, owned by
Lieut.-Gov. w. d. Connor are "unlaw-
full inequitable, and socially and eco
nomically parasitic sthe conclusion of
II decision handed down by the railroad
commission today on a complaint lodged
against the road by Nicholas Streveler.
The commission found that in some
cases passengers were carried free over
this road and in many cases, less than
carload lots of lumber did not have to
pay freight
1t was also disclosed that the company
did not publish a tariff schedule, as is
required by law.
Road Is Common Carrier.
AT the hearing a month ago, Mr.. Con
nor through his attorney, set up the de-
Tense that his road was not Il common
carrier. and hence not subject to regula-
ton. In handing down its decision to-
day the rate commission declared the
road to be common carrier.
The commission ordered that the rates
on lumber which were declared eXtor-
tomato. be reduced from 50 to 81 car
respectively, to $3.50 and $500 a car.
AS to the complaint that the railroad
does not furnish adequate facilities for
transportation, it was held that the COM
pany should not be required to purchase
additional box cars and to erect add-
uonal stations. but must make arrange
ments with the Chicago n NOrthW est
ern Railroad company to use the station
at Stratford.
1nequitable and Parasitic.
1t ordered that Mr.. COnnor's road pub.
lish Il schedule of tariffs and file a dupli.
cate with the rate commission. 1t con
cludes the findings with these words
AT present the carlond business is
charged with the additional expense of
conducting the less than carload and pas,
senger business, which is unlawful, in
equitable, and socially and economically
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-08-22

Advertise in Your Home Paper.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-10
35c Pillow Tops l9c

Tinted pillow stamped to be embroidered, good quail
denim. complete with top and back; marked regu
larly '35c; out Monday aisle 2, each 19c.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-10

2Bc WILL REMOVE THAT CORN
That Is always getting into trouble,
See the chiropodist on the balcony,
Monday.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-10

Manufacturers samples. that's the
reasOnj S1.4S and $3.50 bags will he
out at Csc. Choose from black and
cOlOrs in seal, walrus and fancy
feathers. Carriage and vanity styles;
some with purse, others with purse
and card cnse. They'll fly cut Mon
day at 9Sc each, aisle 3.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-10
l5c Centerpieces SC

Square and round centerpieces of lawn with appiqu
designs 1Sx1S regular 15c values to sci
Monday at sc each Aisle 2, rear.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-10

find a splendid choosing, you'll
catch yourself trying to figure out
how such splendid values can be
sold for SO little. We like to sur
prise. Second floor. Remember,
Easter will be March 31st.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-23
Topics Of the Times


When Mr.. Bryan proposed govern
ment ownership of railroads much ar
gument was inspired by railroad peo-
pie to the effect that states rights
would be destroyed. Since about TWEEN
ty of the states have reduced fares by
enactment. the subject of statef rights
has been dropped with death-like
silence.
''Mr. Andrew Carnegie says that the
kaiser is the greatest man in the world
Andrew is in imminent danger of cleo
ton to the Ananias club" is With
cism in the Atlanta Journal.
If there is city in the United States
that has not a Greater " move
ment on In full blast, please locate it..
Travel that way would be Immediately
stimulated by the devotees of the an
tiaue.
A F'renchnaan has invented a process
Of subjecting oats. wheat, rye and oth-
er cereals to currents of hot air, which
preserves them from mold. French
scientists claim that the invention has
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-23
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

Referring to the Larrabee interview
LATE Young says in the Capital: How
about Secretary Shaw" Jud Welliver
asked Larrabee, and Welliver says
''Larrabee laughed II the ex-gov-
ernor laughed he laughed without
cause, for the reason that Secretary
Shaw is q man whose ability is un-
questioned. Furthermore, his character
is unquestioned. He was governor of
Iowa for four years and secretary of
the treasury for five years. He is not
a man to be laughed at even in the
interest of faction. 1t is strange that
men like Larrabee, after long service
in office, cannot be more happy when
they are out"
The Burlington Hawkeye obtains
two ideas from the Thaw trial. say
ing: The most deplorable effect of
the Thaw trial is the placing of the
phrase brain storm in the hands OF
newspaper paragraphers and other
reckless individuals, and again: "All is
not yet lost. Attorney Delmas still has
the chautauqua to fall back on"
A somewhat original comment APP
pears in the tIawkeye published at
Mr.. Blythe's home town as follows:
ut is curious how persistently the re-
formers seek to make it easy for the
rich man and hard for the poor man
to be candidates for public office. Prac-
tically two elections to be held and
political contributions frowned upon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-23
WOMAN IN HER OWN DEFENSE.

A woman who is constant and crit
teal reader of the T.-R. suggests that
the men who edit 1t are at least two
years behind the styles in their COM
ment as to the length of women's
skirts. With no greater Indictment
than this, she proceeds to explain that
the prevailing mode calls for a skirt
which clears the ground by two inches
or more In crisis of this nature
there is nothing for man to do but
look wise and change the subject as
quickly as possible. His observation
on the street does tell him, however,
that sweeping the streets with trail
ing skirt has not ceased entirely, in
spite of the change in styles, but what
the editor had in mind was the nerve
and seeming presunptiousness of a
city council In daring to legisiats on
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-23
Wheat VS.. Beef
AS Daily Food
Unitsca States Governments Report
Shows Wheat Has Greatest Value.

Wheat (whole whsat) Is the most
svaA,iauie food stuff the world produces.
Ii is mans natural food and the only
one which supplies all Of the elements
OF nutrition, properly proportioned by
nature, for human health and strength.
Most Of our readers may know this
and be interested in recent report of
the United States government in which
it is shown, that sirloin of beef is only
50 per cent nutriment (the balance
wafer and refused. The same report
shows wheat to contain over 80 per
cant nutrimept (the balance water).
There is no refuse" in wheat.
In connection with this it will be of
gfeater interest to know that without
ooltbt the most wholesome preparation
OF whole wheat is Malta-Vita. 1t is
made from the choicest entire wheat in
the cleanest food factory in the world.
One could live entirely on it because
ii contains all that is required to make
pure blood; to build up and sustain
body, brain, nerves, muscles and bones.
Wheat in the form OF bread, or
breakfast foods that have to be cooked,
is hard TO digest, unless it is very
Thoroughly chewed, on account of its
high percentage of starch. The chew
lss. mixes 1t with saliva, converting the
! stssrch ints maltese, very highly nutri-
gliois and healthful. and easy to digest.
NEilt extract has the same digestive
elect upon starch that the saliva does
lit changes it into maltese. Malta
Vita is the most wholesome of all pre-
pared wheat foods because it is the
t<s,l,. f3oka1 uhaat fhnd. traa ted with
malt extract. This our readers Will
re alize is most important as it makes,
sMalta Vita practically predigested.
Malta-Vita Is very highly recon-
minded by physicians because it is so
Very naurishing does not tax the
teir.estions and because 5it is the only
prepared wheat food that contains no
foreign sweetening such as glucose or
ssnps.
All grocers, 10 cents.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-23
AN uNWlSe SUGGESTION.

A contributionless campaign is said
to be worrying the president nigh
unto the point of proposing a law
which shalt provide for campaign ex-
penses to be paid by the government.
The New York Tribune, whose Wash
ington correspondent is responsible
for the story, deems it of sufficient i'm
port to discuss the suggestion editor
ially. The Tribune is inclined to ia
vor it,
Whether or not the president Is real
ly thinking of such thing the sugges-
tion has little merit The loss of
enormous sums contributed heretofore
by corporations falls heavily on cam
paign committees at first, but if all are
treated alike there is, nothing for any
one to worry about 1t is great re-
lief for party managers to be freed
from the obligations which such con-
tributions necessarily involve They
can well afford to reduce their cam
paign expenses and let out little on
legislative or administrative achieve
ment for the purpose of aiding their
cause in the next election.
Legitimate campaign expenses are
easily raised when cause is worth the
effort. The last Cummins campaign
furnished an example. Confronted
with an opposition equipped with q
plethora of contributions from corpora
ton sources money was needed to pay
travelling expenses for organizers to
go about the state and stir local com :
mittees to action. 1t came freely and
gladly. IS and $40 at a time, from loyal
Cumnlins men in many an obscure
community. Some of the more enthu-
siastic contributed even more. The en-
tire amount could have been obtained
from special interests not identified
with the opposition. butenot, of course,
without mourning obligations, and was
refused. The individuals who contrib
s. d.
uted are proud of their work. One
loyal member has preserved the list OF
more prominent contributors as an
honor roll" as he calls it. The same
would be true Of national campaignss'
in. which the issue was worthy of sup
port. If Roosevelt were candidate
for the presidency today, and should
issue a cali for funds, they would come
faster than his committee could receive
them. A law enforcing publication Of
the campaign expenses of all parties
would relieve committees of their need
for money for the most of their present
expense and would be far more ration
al. Imagine the government paying
the campaign expense of q free silver
party, for instance!s
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-23
a DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION.

III is seriously proposed by large
number of sensible and earnest people
that a new department, headed by
another cabinet officer, shall be ere
a.ed to look after public health This
department would have charge of ma
tional sanitation, power of sanitary
regulation over interstate waters, inn
migration and labor conditions, and
general supervision over the public
health of the nation. Contamination
thru sewage disposal into rivers the
waters of which pass. out of the state,
would come under the control of the
new department, and this would put
practically every stream in the United
States under interstate supervision.
Probably sanitation by national law,
enforced by national officials, would,
like national liquor regulation, prove
highly effective. Few men think Of
selling whisky without a. government
license" Few cities, corporations and
individuals would persist in stream poll
luton if they knew the United States
were back of the law and its enforce
ment. Despite the too evident trend
toward decentralization, there is
mething not at all dfspleasing in. the
idea Of governmental supervision Of
sewage disposal.
Here i'll our own state the narrow
rivers which are turned into poison
tubes of typhoid by the sewers of every
city on their banks, might run clear
again, and the city upstream cease to
be constantmenace to its sister be-
low.
Something is needed to impress that
sewage disposal into small, sluggish
streams is not only careless but GRIM
inal Perhaps the stern hand of the
national government would teach the
lesson quickest and most effectually.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-23

toners will deal direct on the board of
trade. thru this Chicago firm. The
transaction is identical to what the
firm does in Chicago only customers
here in Parkersburg will give orders
to the clerk here; instead of telegraph
ing the orders to buy or sell directly
to the firm in Chicago. The wise ones
say no Iowa law can be constitutional
ly enacted preventing a citizen of Iowa
doing business with firm in Illinois,
whether such business is carried on by
a personal order given here in Iowa to
an authorized agent, or sent by mail or
wire direct to member of the board
of trade in Chicago.
sos
They are tearing down an old wood
en- store building here and saving all
of the lumber they can. The dimension
stuff is In good order and will sell
second hand" at s23 to s25 thou
sand. 1t cost $40 per thousand when
put into the building. and is now worth
new at the yards here s3l per thou
sand Sheeting cost forty years ago.
IS to $12. now worth 500 This second
hand stuff will bring $50. They are
even saving the lath that probably cost
8 to 10 cents bundle, now 80 to 40
cents is the regular price. Two things
are self-evident. There is real scare
ity of lumber, and the lumber combine
is fully aware of the fact.
~ 20 Mu11~A~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-23

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-23
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HE bad SOME EXPERIENCE
Cedar Rapids Republican,

Cedar Rapids Republican,
The Burlington Hawkeye says:
Just why no railroad company has
availed itself Of Ex-Governor LARA
bees skilled services to cut down it's
operating expenses one half is one of
those things which no fellow can find,
out"
The Hawkeye may not know that
once upon time the ex-governor did
own railroad and he operated it so
successfully that when he began to
prepare for extending the, line, with
the idea OF making it 8. trans-state
line, one OF the older railroads has
tened to buy it outright to put new
competition out of business. When 1T
comes to railroad the ex-governor's
views are not wholly theoretical. by
no means.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-23
DO YOU GET UP
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Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.
Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure to know Of the wonderful

cures made by LIZ.
Kilmer's Swamp
Root, the great kid
11ey, liver and blad.
der remedy.
It is the great med
ical triumph of the
nineteenth century !;
discovered afteryears
of scientific research
by DR.. Kilnier, the
eminent kidney and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-23
pretty clear field for the rich fell

The legislature has passed law givA
ing members OF the board of supervis-
ors So day for committee work In
stead of $3.50 as heretofore. and al
lows them fifty-five days for session
work during the year instead of forty
The Newton Herald thinks that The
board should have been allowed "a
a day for committee work, the same
as they are allowed for session work.
you may think that because it is
your daughter that she is strong
enough to ward off all harm that turks
about, but that is no good reason why
YOU should permit her to be out with
young men in the wee sma hours of the
night" says the Cedar Falls Gazette.
or the new primary law Pat Murphy
in the vinton Eagle says: 1T takes the
choice of candidates put of the hands
of the party and places 1t In the hands
of the candidates themselves.
A frank expression thus appears in
the Coon Rapids Enterprise: While
The Enterprise is not a Cummins sup
porter In the way OF advocating his
candidacy. yet as matter of state
pride If he is the choice of the ma
iority of the republicans Of the state
for president, The Enterprise would
want it unanimous and hearty enough
to show intense earnestness for the
states choice"