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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
BOUND TO HAVE
PURE LIQUORS
GOVERNMENT ARRANGING FOR
WHOLESALE RAIDS,
VIOLATING FEDERAL LAW
Pure Food Act Openly Ignored and
Vile Whisky Being Sod-cru-
SADIE, 1t Is Said, viii Help Tenn
ptrance Cause-Booze Fixers the
Worst Offenders.

Liquor sellers, beware! The report
comes from Washington that the de.
partment of justice is preparing for
wholesale raid upon violators of the
pure food and drug act and it is
probable that within the next few
days arrests will be made in various
cities of saloonkeepers who are sell
ing improperly branded labeled com
pounded liquors.
DR.. Wiley, chief of the bureau of
chemistry Of the department of agri
culture, says that the pure food law,
has resulted in placing upon the
American market pufer foods and
drugs than ever were offered for
sale before, and that the United
States today is living under law
which absolutely insures purity in
our foods and drugs.
1T is a remarkable fact" said DR.
Wiley, that of all manufacturers
who are affected by the law only
those making whiskey have shown
any disposition to evade or dodge
the provisions of the act as interpret
ed by the attorney general Under
the advice of their attorney many OF
them have absolutely refused to place
the proper words ON the bottle which
they sell The reason for it is that
they arc afraid to let the public know
how little whisky and how much pure
alcohol with some little colorng mat
ter added is solid under the name OF
whisky. Of course this office has no
thing to do with the prosecution of
violators of this or any other law:
we gather the evidence and the at
torney general does the rest, and the
attorney general undoubtedly will
proceed Immediately against every
whisky man i'll the country who per
sists in selling compounds of alco-
hol, cOloring matter and aavoring
under the name of whisky. | am con-
tident if the rectifiers persist in their
antagonism to the law that when
the first cases are brought the pub
lie will rise in arms against these
whisky men, and the result is likely
to be that the tide of prohibition
which has struck the south will
float to the northward and sweep out
of existence all saloons in this city at
least. The law itself is an excellent
one, and no man doing legitimate
business need fear its enforcement,
but he who attempts to palm off upon
his customers a compound of ethyl
alcohol and flavoring extract as
whisky, will do so at his peril The
public has a right to know what it
obtains for its money and we propose
that it shall have that information,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
BOARDING HOUSE GEOMETRY
Definitions and Axioms.

All boarding houses are the same
boarding house.
Boarders in the same boarding
house and on the same fat are equal
to one another
A single room is that which has no
parts and no magnitude.
The landlady of a boarding house is
a paralleIogram-tha is, an OblOng
and angular figure, which cannot be
described, but which is equal to any
thing.
A wrangle is the dissemination Of
two boarders to each other, that meet
together, but are not on the same fiat.
All rooms being taken, single
room is said to be double room.
Postulates and Propositions.
A pie may be produced any number
of times.
The landlady can be reduced to her
lowest terms by a series Of propost-
tons.
A bee line can be made from any
boarding house to any other boarding
house
The clothes of a boarding house bed,
though produced ever so far both
ways, will not meet.
Any two meals at boarding house
are together less than two square
meals.
If from the opposite ends Of a board
ing house a line be drawn passing
through all the rooms in turn, then
the stovepipe which warns the board
ers will lie within that line.
On the same bill and on the same
side of it there should not De two
charges for the same thing.
If there be two boarders on the
same fat, and the amount Of side OF
one be equal to the amount of side OF
the other, each to each, and the
wrangle between one boarder and the
landlady and the other, then shall the
weekly bills Of the two boarders be
equal, also, each to each. For, II not,
let one bill be the greater, Then the
other bill is less than it might have
been, which is absurd-Christian Reg
lister.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
TO TOLERATE A HARTMAN OR
ROCKEFELLER is To INVITE
DISASTER.
CHURCHMAN DECLARES a GRAVE
CRISIS THREATENS IN THE
UNITED STATES.
CRITICIZES CHURCH FOR IDLE
NESS WHILE ALARMING CON
DITION GROWS.

Cleveland, o., Oct 9-The trienni
al council of the Congregations
church last evening listened to 4
notable address by Reverend DR.
Washington GLADDEN. of Columbus
Ohio, the retiring moderator, whose
theme was The Church and the So
cial Crisis
1T is idle, it is fatuous," he said
ito hide from ourselves the fact that
We are facing here in the United
States a social crisis. Forces which
are at work here mean destruction
A social order which makes p
the rise Of a Hartman or a Rookie
Teller is a social order which can not
long endure.
The swollen fortunes that many
are gloating over are the symptoms
of disease. They are not the re
ward of social service, they are the
fruit of plumber We have made
them possible only by permitting the
gate of opportunity to be made mar
rowed and the burden of toll more
unrequiting for the millions Of poor.
They exist only because by our acts
we approve, or by our Indifference we
consent to monumental injustice. A
society which toIerates such condi,
tiCns can not live.
1--WE must eXterminate these injus-
tees. If we would not be destroyed
we must destroy the destroyer. This
is the truth which our brave presi,
dent by word and deed is always en-
forcing upon us and he is entirely
and everlastingly right about it."
He then criticize the church for
remaining idle while this condition
was growing. He said, 'the most
conspicuous perpetrators of these in
justices are nearly all church mem
bers, and the church has made her
self a pensioner upon their bounty"
81 do not think" he said, that
the church in America is promoting
an anti-Christian social order; she is
simply permitting one to exist. She
must prevent it's existence or she
will ga down in the ruin that is
sure t. follow"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
MOTHERS VAIN EFFORTS
TO SUPPORT HER CHI

New York, October 6.-Having tried
vainly to obtain work so that she can
support her baby, ard having lived
for five weeks on a few cents worth
Of milk day, Mrs. Markuerita Pas
guam, an Italian woman, went to
Bell vue hospital and onered to sell
so inches of her skin for grating for
$50. superintendent Armstrong told
her that there were no patients il
the hospital at present in need CT
Cuticle, SO the woman went to a wig.
maker and offered to sell her hair
She was told it was too short fer
commercial use.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
OIL TRUST WAS
NEVER D|SSQL VED
ORIGINAL OWNERS OF COMBINE
CONTINUED TO KEEP
CONTROL.
MAINTAINED ALWAYS MAJORITY
OF STOCK IN SUBSIDIARY
CONCERNS.

New York, Oct 9.-From statements
culIed from letters and books found IL
the office of the Standard Oil, Attorney
kellogg, for the government, succeed
ed in placing on the record yesterday
the processes and stages through
which the combine passed in it's
changes from the old Standard Oil
trust to the present Standard Oil COM
pany of New Jersey.
Out of the maze of figures developed
in voluminous mass from the COM
.pany's books and from testimony given
by Clarence G. Fay, the Standards as
sistant auditor, called as a witness, the
governments counsel says he believes
he has proved the federal allegation
that the Standard is an illegal corpora
ton and that by various devices has
maintained it's entity and that it is I'M
der the same ownership as when
founded.
The statements submitted yesterday
showed in brief that at the inception
of the Standard Oil trust in 1882 there
was $7O,0O000O of trust certificates is
sued for stocks of the various compa-
MES which entered into the combine.
In the trust period from 1882 to 1892.
stock dividends of S15,000,000 were de-
clared, and this with other stocks is
sued for plant purchases brought the
total capitalization of the Standard up
=, 0r n
cision OF the supreme court Of Ohio, for
bidding the trustees from voting trust
certificates, there was resolution
passed directing that the trust be dis
solved.
Fay read a statement into the record
yesterday showing that on the day fol
lowing the passage of that resolution,
81 subsidiary companies were consoli-
dated with the Standard Oil of New
Jersey and other subsidiaries Of the
TRUST. Seven months later, November 80,
1882, the witness read from statements,
there were 494,519 trust certificates
/ presented for cancellation and TO the
holders were given prorata shares in
/ 20 subsidiary companies which then
made UP the trust. There were also
offered for cancellation two months
I later 10000 trust certificates. There
was a lapse of over four years before
another certificate was presented for
cancellation.
kellogg sought to show that those
who held control of the trust, With the
exception of a few friends, were the
only ones who Hquidated their trust
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
BOMB SENT TO
DENVER BANKERS

DanVer, Oct. 9.-Governor Buchtel,
David S. Moffat, president of the First
National bank of Denver and Charles
B. Hountze, president of the Colorado
National bank, received through the
mails yesterday Internal machines
containing sufficient dynamite to
have caused great destruction OF lives
and property had they been explod.
ed. Fortunately warning HAD been
given to the recipients of the ma
chimes before they were received. by
Chief of Police Delaney, who had OBJ
tanned a confession from Kemp V.
Bigelow, by whom they were mailed.
Bigelow confessed also that he had
sent internal machines to Lawrence
c. Phipps and Edward Chase, but
these were not delivered yesterday.
Bigelow gave no satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION of his motive for sending
the machines and seemed to have
no other purpose than to cause a
sensation. He arrived in Denver
several weeks ago. 1t was he who
told the police he overheard men
talking OF a plot to kill prominent
citizens and upon this information a
package of dynamite was found near
Edward Chase's residence.
The internal machines each con-
tanned two sticks of dynamite AMI
black powder, and matches and sand
paper so fixed as to cause an explo-
sion when the sliding cover was
opened.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10

ceived his education at Baldwin col
lege. where he graduated in 1845
He began reading law in the east,
and came to Oshkosh a few years aft
erward, being admitted to practice
in the supreme court of the state
shortly after his arrival here.
When numbering was an important
industry in this section Of the state,
Judge Washburn was heavily inter
ested in that business. He was
grand master of the Masons in 1874.
He leaves one daughter, whose home
is in Milwaukee.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
DOOM HISTORIC HOUSE.
Oldest Frame Building in State May
Be Demolished.

Green Bay, Wis, Oct. 9.-The Tank
cottage, the Oldest frame building in
Wisconsin. located on the west shore
of the Fox river in this city, is to be
torn down or removed from it's pres
ent site this fall. The Green Bay
Box & Lumber company owns the
site and building and needs the lano
for yard purposes.
Efforts to preserve the cottage are
to be made by the South Side I'M
provement association and the public
grounds committee of the city coun-
Gil
The cottage was built early in the
last century and much interesting his
tory surrounds its early life. For
its years, the cottage is in good
shape, being of log construction. Citi-
zens will try to have the building
placed in Union park
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
DR.. Gilman Exonerated,

Kenosha, Wis, Oct. CDR. Fran,
els 7. Gilman, the former Milwau-
kee physician, who was placed on
trial in the circuit court here on a
statutory charge, preferred by Rich
ard ThierfeIder, a Kenosha manufac-
turer, was exonerated when Judge
Belden dismissed the jury. Mrs.
Thierfelder, who had been charged
with improper conduct with Ehlman,
was the main witness, and was unwill
ing to have Gilman convicted on her
testimony
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
PREP SCHOOL ELECTS OFFICERS.
Goods Cheer Boys While They Scrub
the Steps.

Appleton, Wis., Oct. 9.-The fol
lowing officers have been elected by
the students of the Lawrence univer-
sity academy: President, George E.
Russell, Cambridge, Mass; vice pres
ident, Lucy Williams; secretary, Roy
S. Smith, Portage; treasurer, Jose
phine Patterson; yell master, George
Holcombe, Superior; chairman of So
cial committee, Irene Stimson, Apple
ton. While 100 goods cheered then
on Harry R. Taylor of Barron, Wal
ter Nelson of Amigo, Eugene O'Keefe
of Appleton, John w. Greenman of
Wabash, Ind, and Russell Alexander
of Oroville, Cal, sophomores at Law
renee university, scrubbed the steps
Of Ormsby hall, the goods dormitory,
as part of their initiation to the
Theta Phi fraternity.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
Duuan Trial Near.

GAINESVILLE, Wis. Oct 9-Eleven jur:
ors have ben selected for the trial of
Florence Dugan, who since April IS.
has been in jail charged with assault
with intent to kill George Schumach-
err Florence Dugan was a chamber
maid in one of the hotels here, and
has little money. Business men are
helping her in her defense.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
SHANGHAI GIVES
TAFT GLAD HAND

Shanghai Oct 9-Secretary Taft
and party arrived here yesterday.
Chinese and foreign residents united
in giving the visitor the heartiest
welcome ever given a foreign states
man. Yesterday afternoon Taft de-
Dictated the building Of the Young
Mems Christian association.
The secretary was given an elab-
crate reception by Chinese residents.
The promoters of the reception were
prominent Chinese merchants repre-
senting 45 guilds, formerly in the
boycott movement against American
manufacturers. The change of senti-
ment was marked.
Speeches Of welcome were made
by local Chinese business men, Offic.
ials and representatives of the army,
The Cinnamon emphasized the cordial
relations between China and the
United States, saying the friendship
of America had been evidenced by
sending relief to the famine sufferers,
support Of schools and hospitals, and
the waving by the United States of
her part in the boxer indemnity. The
reception marked an epoch in the
matter of the status of women in
China, for yesterday Chinese women
of aristOcratic families were present
and even presided at tables, where
they served refreshments. This is
the first time such a thing has hap.
pened in China.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
PACKERS PRAY FOR
A RECIPROCITY LAW

Chicago, Oct. 9.-The convention
of the American Meat Packers asso,
citation Yesterday afternoon adopted
resolutions demanding that congress
eract a reciprocity law that would
afford American shippers a market in
every port of the world and provide
an outlet for surplus products. In
spection by the federal government
at the packers expense was con-
demned On the ground that the sys-
tenn is unfair and that the farmer and
shipper should bear a share of the
burden.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
PRESIDENT HAS
WET BEAR HUNT

STEAMBOAT, La, Oct. 9.-Secretary
Latta returned yesterday from visit
TO the president in the latters camp
on the Tensas river, bringing with
him a bunch of newly dictated letters
and recOlections Of very wet night
spent in camp. No one had yet
sighted a bear, but the dogs found a
trail Monday and professional hunt
ers expressed the belief that
the sound of baying meant they had
located a real bear. 1t was dark, and
iC became necessary, however, to call
the hunt Off
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
A New and Honest Capitol.
LET BIBLE ALONE.
Turning 1t Into Magazine, Says
w. G. Walker.

Fond du Lac, Wis, Oct. 9.-"The
constant revision of the bible Is turn
ing it into a magazine and Is like
trying to turn cream into skim milk. =
In an imprisoned address in which
he decried the changes in matter re-
ligious, Rev. w. G. Walker of Mad
ison, at the morning session of the
Wisconsin Baptist Ministerial union
scored tie clergy of the country f3r
trying to revolutionize time hocoeel
belief in the old testament.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
Must Be Sensible.

Wedderly-"Why don't you get
married?"
Singleton-'Tm waiting until
meet sensible girl"
Wedderly-"Well, there's Miss
Byrnes."
Singleton-"What reason have you
for believing she is sensible?"
Wedderly-"Why,> she belongs to
three amateur theatrical clubs, yet
she has no professional aspirations. :
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10

Toxic, Oct. 6.-The report of the
death Friday of the real mother of the
emperor of Japan, Lady Nakayama,
was confirmed Saturday. The court
will not make any formal announce
ment of her death and will not go into
mourning officially, but it is considered
likely that the nation will of its own
initiative go into mourning.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
TOXIC ALARMED
BY DREAD DISEASE
CHOLERA OUTBREAK THREAT
EMS TO SPREAD IN DENSE
POPULATION.

Toxic. Oct. 9.-The cholera out
break is gaining alarming proper
tons in Toxic. Nineteen new cases
have been reported recently. The
authorities are taking every possible
precaution to prevent spread. Toxic
is regarded as particularly dangerous
on account of the over population and
croWding among the lower classes.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10

employees in this city, has purchased
the grocery store of James G. Daley
and will hereafter conduct the estab-
lishment, Mr. Daley remaining as
manager. About $50 men have stock
in the concern
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
WOMAN CHARGED WITH
SUBORNATING WITNE

Lexington, KY, Oct. 8.-Mrs. Louis
Gentry arrived here yesterday on a
bench warrant charged with subor-
ers case. Mrs. Gentry is highly con,
nected and her arrest on the charge
named has caused a sensation here.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
BITS OF SCIENCE.

A new plague protective or rat
poison has been discovered in India.
1t consists of a pasty substance inoc-
ulated with a bacillus. According to
report rat which takes enough to
cover a pins head will not only die,
hut will infect every other rat with
which it comes in contact. Five vii
lagos have been selected by the gov
eminent in which to make tests of
the new poison.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10

Tobacco dealers in India are great
ly troubled by moth or fly that finds
its way into box of cigars or tobac.
co and lays an egg that soon devel
ops into a destructive worm or grub.
which bores through the wrapper In
to the body of the cigar and ruins
it. Hardly anything will keep these
pests out except to incase each cigar
in a bottle or wrap it in heavy tin
foil
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
Wreck Casualty Near Eau Claire

Eau Claire, Wis, Oct. 9.-Thirteen
people were injured in head-on col
lision between the southbound Du-
luth limited on the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha railroad and a
freight train Monday night None of
the injured were seriously hurt but
an escape from a bad smash-up was
narrowly averted through the cool
ness of the train hands.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
NO INDIRECT DAMAGES.

Japan Will Claim Only a Fair In
demnity.
Toxic, Oct. Sit is believed here
that in presenting claims for damages
with the japanese subjects sustained
as a result Of the Vancouver riots, the
Toxic government does not include
any amount for indirect damages.
Speedy settlement is anticipated
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
Women Demand Riuhts.

New York, Oct. 6.-The New York
Equal Suffrage league, at its regular
meeting here, put itself on record as
opposing the rule in hotels and res.
taurants to refuse to receive women
guests after 6 o'clock.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
Killed by Looojnu Train,

Chippewa Falls, Wis, Oct. o.
Norris Buckley, a we'll known lumber
man, was killed by logging train,
near Hannibal. While Hugh MiIey OF
Eau Claire and he were returning Il
camp on a railroad velocipede.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
FOUR JURORS SECURED.
MagiII Murder Trial in Progress at
Decatur.

Decatur, H., Oct. 9.-When court
adjourned last evening the fourth
juror in the Magin murder case, E.
H. Jordan of Decatur, was secured.
Questions concerning circumstantiaI
evidence proved a stumbling block
to most talesmen.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
BOY DROPS RIFLE; DEAD.
Gun Is Accidentally Discharged, Kill
ing Him Instantly.

Verona, Wis, Oct. 9-PauI Ramer,
son of Casper Ramer, a farmer of
Verona was accidentally shot by a
gun in his own hands. Death was
instantaneous. The boy was drag
ging the gun behind him, butt on
the ground, and the muzzle of it in
his hands, when the bushes exploded
the gun, the bullet entering the back
of the neck and killing him. He was
16 years old.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
DEATH OF JUDGE WAsHeuRN.
Was Past Grand Master of .Wiscon-
sin Masons in 1864.

Oshkosh, Wis, Oct. 9.-Gaman
Washburn, former judge of the cir
cult court in this district and a prom
inent Mason, led at his home here
Judge Washburn was born in Liver
more. Ne. October %, 1923, and re
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
Extension For The 500.

Marinette. Wis. Oct. S.-The 800"
road is about to build al extension
which will provide the people of the
western part of Delta county, Mich,
with railroad service.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
In the Prohibition Town

New observation-disclosures grief!
What's the old man doing with a
clothespin in his mouth? Does he
think he's smoking?"
Uncle Daniel (store storekeeper)-
"Sh-h-hl Them is prime clothespins,
made right here in our own factory,
an ST knows fer fact that the shell
lac on 'em vas mixed with real alco-
hol. Puck
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
She Enters Finance.

John. where is Skinnem's broker
age Officer"
why do you ask?"
81 understand he is offering some
bargains in stocks slightly damaged
by water. Washington Life
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
Too Noisy.

The Salesman-"Now, this pattern
of mating would look we'll in the nur-
sery.'
Mrs. Collier Downe-"It is so loud
that it would almost wake the baby"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10
Storm, Strikes Gotham

New York. Oct. "A storm of al
most hurricane force struck this city.
breaking in plate glass winoows,
washing out streets and endangering
shipping.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10

How are those rose bushes you
bought"
s'They are all to the good
What do you mean?"
Il mean that they died young
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-10

certificates and that by liquidating
only a majority of the total certificates
outstanding which they owned, they
continued their direction of the trust
by voting a majority OF the stock in
the subsidiary companies.
Profits and Dividends.
For the first time the profits and
dividends of the Standard Oil trust
from its inception in 1882 to 1891 were
made public Yesterday, as follows: