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ever since it was built, and know we'll the men who built it. 1 know very well the efforts that have been made for years by the railroad com pany to get control of it without paying anything to the people who built it. or to the one of their num- Der who bought the interests of his associates in it.
 The history of the trail and the litigation concerning it, as 1 now know it, is in substance. this:
 The trail was built by Mcclure, Ferguson. Berry and Cameron, and the filing made in Berry's name for the joint benefit of himself and his associates.
 Cameron afterwards bought the interests of his associates and in the first lawsuit brought by the rail- road company's lawyers, Judge Sloan held that the franchise for a toll road, could neither be sold or assigned.
 The original builders then took back the trail, and the railroad lawyers brought lot of lawsuits to beat Cameron, and later the county. out of the franchise, but won nothing until after the fran chise had run out, when they got d decision ordering the district attor ney to bring suit against Berry. Ferguson, Mcclure and Cameron, requiring them to show by what right they claimed the franchise. The order of the court required the bringing of the suit against those parties, or that the district attor- ney should show that such action would b.e intellectual. The district attorney answered showing that the franchise would run out in few days and before he could bring suit, and that the defendants would beat the action by showing that they neither had nor claimed any further interest in the trail. There were four grounds on which the order was asked. only one of which would affect the county's rights.
 The order was only against the defendants named in it and did not in any way require the district at torney to bring any action against either the county or its agent, Fer rall. I state this upon the au- thority of the attorney general and several of the ablest lawyers in Phoenix. with whom I advised, while in Phoenix during the last session of the legislature.
 The railroad lawyers then pre- pared papers for which they had our district attorney loan his name and office against L. L. Ferrall who was the agent of the county for the collection of tolls on the trail for i've years under a contract with the old board.
 Ferrall's attorneys claimed that the court could not decide Ferrall's rights without the county was made a defendant, as its rights in the trail were involved. The court sustained their claim. and the rail- road lawyers in the name of the district attorney. asked leave to file an amended complaint making the county a defendant, and filed the following:
 The Territory of Arizona, by Henry
 F. Ashurst. as District Attor-
 ney of the County of Coconino, Territory of Arizona, on the
 verified complaint of $. Ii.
 Fine. Plaintiff. vs. L. L. Fer
 rall, and the County of Coco
 nino, of the Territory of Ari-
 zona. a body polite and cor
 porate, Defendants. Second
 Amended Complaint.
 Now comes Henry F. Ashurst. the district attorney of Coconino county, Territory of Arizona. and as such district attorney, and in the
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The Strawpile


divided into a field for the orchard, a
chicken house and yard, some currant
and gooseberry bushes, and the yard
around the residence. From the three
and half acres of vegetables Mr..
james sold $1,70O in four years, or an
average of $425 year. Besides this
he marketed some fruit. sold chickens
and eggs and used all that the family
of four needed on the table. His fruit
is all of the best varieties and from
thirty-two gooseberry bushes alone he
sold $2110 worth this season and re-
ceived and 8 cents a pound for his
cherries in Seattle.
Mr. James does not keep large
number of chickens, about $50, and
these are the Barred Plymouth Rocks,
as he says they are not only good lay
ers but weigh we'll when sold on the
market Thirty of his hens sold last
year brought $27.10. He sells eggs the
year round.
Mr.. James has not kept an account
of the full income of his little farm,
but it is safe to estimate that 1T has
averaged him fully $3.50 year from
all sources. or little over s71 month,
enough to keep any good sized family.
Hardly weed is found on his place.
1t is model little farm in every par
ticular and eAcellently managed.
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A VOICE FROM THE FOURTH.

Thomas Updegraff, who has served
five terms in congress as representa-
tive from the Fourth Iowa district and
who retains and merits the confidence
of the voters of that district to an
unusual degree, has made his position
plain on the coming senatorial con-
test. Mr.. Updegraff in a letter to SEN
ator Smith of Usage, recently published
in the Mitchell County Press, says
plainly what thousands of men less
out-spoken are thinking and which will
form basis for action in the primary
booth. While honoring the aged and
venerable senior senator, he insists that
the great movements of the day must
be Differed mot by men who can be
stirred to action only by strenuous
executive, men fixed for life in luXur-
ious places, desiring only to be let
alone, and wearing the burden of
eighty years, however beloved for past
services; but by men younger in years,
of hardened muscles and aggressive
spirit. alert To see the wrong and pos
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sessing the energy of mind and body
to successfully meet and overcome II
men like Roosevelt, Taft, Larrabee,
Deliver, Lands, Cummins and 9TH
ers'
For a quarter of a century or more,
monopolies. by plundering the unsus-
pecting public. have amassed fortunes
hitherto uneXampled, and many fear
have become too strong for even the
government to overthrow" points out
Mr.. Updegraff, and puts the plain
question:
while this has been going on for
a generation in the sight and knowl-
edge of men engaged in public affairs,
who revered and august senator of the
aged and long service class has IN
jured his vocal powers in exposing or
resisting it? Has 1t not been left for
the fearless and courageous and newer
Roosevelt and the forces that have
come and are coming to his aid?"
He sees a mighty struggle in the flu
ture, the outcome of which no man
can foresee. the struggle Of the 'un-
clean powers against the right. In
this battle the nation will need it's
knightliest most energetic and strong
est men. "There will be no place for
the weakness of old age" concludes
Updegraff. SO he turns to support of
Cummins despite some differences of
opinion between them as to tariff re-
vision. because he knows no man so
well fitted by nature, learning, exper
fence and devotion to his country. to
carry on Iowa's share of this contest
and predicts that as senator. Cummins
will, If elected, fill the place once filled
by Grimes and Harlan.
Mr.. Updegraff has made himself and
the situation clear.
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WHEN THE MINISTER LEAVES TOWN.

In this matter of fact, money get
ting practical. every day world of
ours the preacher of the Christian re-
ligion, has very little in common with
large percentage Of business men.
Such men tolerate the preacher the
same as policeman. Both are needed
in every we'll regulated community.
And as the business man is willing to
pay something out Of his pocket for
a special policeman, generally to give
his property greater safeguards than
the regular force does, so he cheerfully
pays the preacher for like reason. Of
course he believes in, keeping up the
churches, and thinks his women folks
and children should attend church
services regularly, but for personal
sympathy and actual participation in
religious work, the business man IL
1907, is most conspicuous when he is an
active church worker.
But when the minister leaves town,
those same hard-headed business men,
for an instant have thoughts out of
the ordinary. They recognize loss to
the community very different from the
departure of saloon keeper. Some
of them may believe that the saloon
brings more business and more dollars
to town and incidentally to the busi-
ness mans money drawer, but altho the
god Of money is still to be worshiped,
somehow when the preacher leaves
town, the God Of the Christian religion
has a personality never before so pro-.
nounced. When the preacher leaves
town, somehow it seems to take away
a man, always on the right side Of
public questions and even to those who
see him as dreamer, impracticable,
visionary, full Of impossible ideals, the
very loss Of these things seems sad.
Or, if he has been the reverse, a
Paul denouncing US for our selfishness
and Indifference to religious matters,
even if he was a hard hitter and we
didn't like it little bit, just the same
that we need such admonition from
time to time. Then the business man
for sixty seconds really wishes the
minister was not going to leave town.
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Comfort on Few Acres.

We cannot all grow vegetables
enough to insure a good living unless
goodly part of what we plant are
potatoes; but by combining potato
growing with other small farming,
many of us could live better and make
more money on Il small farm than we
are now doing on two to five hundred
acres. The Post Intelligencer of Sc
attic is never tired of calling atten-
ton TO successes on small pieces OF
land, altho many man has grown
wealthy on the great wheat farms OF
Eastern Washington, and many, too
after working like slaves for years
have failed. In late number of this
paper attention is called to over a
score of men in one locality who have
abandoned the worry and uncertainty
of farming on large scale and are
now making money and having gen
orally good time on farms ranging
from two to ten acres eaeh. Among
these is mentioned Mr.. N. III. James,
who at the age of 50, bought flVe acres
six years ago, and began making a
home on it. OF the outcome, the
Journal says:
When he took hold of the place
much of it was foul and weedy, but
he went diligently to work, cleared
the land, stirred it up, MANFRED 1t ana
began the raising of vegetables, such
as cabbage carrots, beets, peas, squash,
onions. etc, planted some fruit and
kept a few chickens,
OF the Ave acres three and half are
fenced off for the raising of the vege-
tables and the other acre and half is
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DOES THE END JUSTIFY THE MEANS ?

Mr.. Herbert Parsons, chairman OF
the county republican committee OF
New York, has made fusion agree
ment with Mr.. Hearst of the Independ-
ence League, by which the Tammany
democratic organization is to be de-
feated at the polls, and Governor
Hughes to be supported. Mr.. Roose-
welt, now of Washington, D. c., for
merly of New York, is supposed to be
in sympathy with the movement, and
Mr. Hughes refuses to discuss the fu-
sion on the ground 1t is not suitable
for the governor to Interfere in local
politics.
Leaving out Of the question Mr.
Hearst's personality or the I'M
savory record of his followers. omit
ing for once any reference to Tam
manyism, and trying to be oblivious to
Plattism, Depewism or former ,repub-
lican history in New York, the student
of politics is confronted with condi-
Il
tions that seem to destroy theories.
Does the destruction of Tammany,
justify the bedfellowship with Hearst?
With national campaign close at
hand, can the republican party of New
York state escape the odium of fu-
sion with Hearstism in New York
city? In word, can the decent re-
publicans Of New York afford to gain
even a local victory by using Hearst
and Hearstism as means to that
end?
1t is an old saying that to touch
pitch is to be detiled, and no mixture
of political pitch was ever worse, in
sickness, odor or color, than Hearst
ism. He may have reformed, his fol-
lowers may have become civic reform
ers. Such things are possible. But
hasn't Parsons made mistake? Did
he communicate with the cane brakes
before acting?
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judge Understood.

The late Judge Pettingill, of the
Maiden district court, concealed under
an apparently stern exterior kind
heart, and nothing touched him so
quickly as an unintentional Witticisn,
especially if it We're at the expense OF
the court says the Boston Herald.
One day prisoner, arraigned before
him for drunkenness and still under
the influence of liquor, pleaded as
hard as he could to be placed on pro-
baton.
why should I place you on proba-
tion?" said the judge, sternly. why,
you're drunk now"
mo, I'm not, your honor" said the
poor prisoner, earnestly, I'm as sober
as a judge"
He was placed on probation.
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Iowa Newspapers
THE DUTY OF CRIMINALS
n,es Moines Tribune)

| Bootlegger Cain was compelled af-
| ter all, to capture himself After
running across the paths of the armed
| posses from the deputy sheriff's Of
flee, with their bloodthirsty hounds,
for several days, and using all the
strategy. he could invent to allow
them to capture him, he was Obliged
to walk into the city and surrender
himself to the authorities.
Bootlegger Cain, 1t is our painful
duty to relate, according to his own
story, was never fugitive from JUS
tice. He remained at his home or in
it's vicinity from the day of the shoot
ing until the hour OF his surrender.
He was not discovered by the sleuth-
hounds of justice, but he discovered
posse OF them sound asleep In an old
shack while they We're supposed to be
hunting for him in the wilds of Lee
township. Really the affair is pro-
ductive OF uproarous laughter.
Bootlegger Cain wanted to be talk
en- in regular Jesse James style. He
wanted to meet the sleuths and
blood hounds, single handed and
alone, and be captured after a rafting
fusilade of bullets and a desperate re-
sistance. But his desire in this di-
rection seemed to be defeated by the
strenuous efforts on the part of the
leuth-hounds of the law to keep out
of his way. His willingness to be cap
tured was only a bubble to the strong
and invincible determination of the
posse, armed to the teeth, not to get
within cannon range of him. 1t was
ia init Nd J,Itr, Rot tho n
Bootlegger Cain to be compelled to
walk into the city alone and surren-
der, but in doing so he, no doubt, lift
ed from the minds Of the bloodthirsty
officials far off his trail, terrible
load of responsibility.
Bootlegger Gains policy Is to be
commended to some extent He has
done much toward assisting in the
work of law enforcement. If all
criminals, sought for by armed posses,
and usually missed, would walk into
the sheriff's office and surrender, they
would confer great favor on the Of
ficials employed to run them down. 1t
is a sort Of a duty robbers and as.
sassins owe to society to give them
selves up, for in no other way can they
so surely and speedily be brought to
justice. Sheriffs and their deputies
cannot be expected to run down fug-
itives from justice and attend to their
office duties also. There should be
law passed compelling criminals to
surrender Immediately after commit
ing theft, murder or any other public
offense. OF course. they might first be
allowed to use every effort in their
power to be captured, such as loung-
ing about the scenes of their crimes,
and rousing the sleuth-hounds on their
trail out of midnight slumbers while
supposed to be in pursuit of them, but
when all such efforts fail they should
do as did Bootlegger Cain-walk into
the corridors of justice and hand
themselves over. Hereafter, we hope
all self-respecting murders and rob-
bers in Polk county will emulate the
action of Bootlegger Cain. Such das-
tardly enemies Of society have no bus
mess chasing armed sheriffs around
the country In vain hope of being
detected and caDtlred
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Afflicted With Sore Eyes for SO Years.

I have been afflicted with sore eyes
for thirty-th years. Thirteen years
ago 1 became totally blind and was
blind for six years. Ny eyes We're
badly infamed. One of my neighbors
insisted upon my trying Chamberlain
Salve and gave me half box of it.
To my surprise it healed my eyes and
my sight came back to me.-P. C..
Earls, Cynthiana, KY. Chamberiain's
Salye is for sale by all druggists.
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| ana at the same tlflle De SuEGeSSlui
man. is the way the Iowa Falls Senti-
mel sizes 1t up.
| ut is within the power of the New
| York banks and the national treasury
department. to block a good deal of the
stock gambling" insists the Vinton
Eagle. Raising the per cent to 80 aft
er the corner is broke is a good deal
like locking the stable door after the
horse is stolen The government caa
stop national bank president from
loaning funds of bank to himself"
every one of us has wasted valu-
able time which in after years he re-
grets." observes the NorthWood An
Choir zone we spent two weeks cut
ting up a decomposed crawfsh in a
college labratory. 1t did us no good
and the crawtish no harm. There Is a
lot of stuff labeled education which is
the veriest rot
What is left of the grandest army
the world has ever known is trudglng
surely to the grave" says the Des
Moines Tribune 1.-The tottering rem
nants of the mighty host which pre-
served our flag and united our people.
are camping within sight of the eter-
nal shore. Earthly reunions will soon
be ended. The last tattoo will sound
ere long and on 'Fame's eternal camp
ing ground the silent tents of our
patriot host will be spread. 1t will be
their last Saturday night"
AZ rising tide of temperance is COM
ing on the country" says the Mt. Avr
Record News. 1T is coming with
greater force than any one in the past
and will go further and accomplish
more BY and by it will come to
stay
III the state of Iowa had a governor
II might be now considering theamount
1t might now be considering the
amount of alimony rightly due from
Davenport says the Waterloo Times
Tribune.
Nothing but death can keep Bryan
out of the leadership OF his party In
the 1908 campaign" asserted the Du-
buque Telegraph.
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Too True.
(Yonkers Statesman.)

(Yonkers Statesman.)
"See that man leaning over the rail
Of the vessel?" said one European pas
senger to another.
"The one who's SO sick?"
Eyes; well, I remember when he
didn't know where his next meal was
coming from"
Indeed Things are very much
changed with him noW!'
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Topics II the Times

| SKINNED milk by German inventor
but no machine will be required to
| separate them from the collar but
| ton.
True. tactful, timely.
Able, affable,
Faithful forceful,
Trustworthy.
Quincy, ILL.,, Wing. !.
80
A Mahaska county farmer has been
watching the squirrels and stock pre-
pare for winter during the past forty
years. and says that the coming WIN
ter will commence early, will be cold
and with more snow than usual. How
ever, in that case, he should have
been husking corn instead of nature
taking after squirrels.
49,
At sale near Monticello, corn In
the field brought $50 per acre. This
does not also include the land it was
raised on as would have been the case
only a few years ago.
The Baskerville Enterprise, one Of
the leading republican newspapers in
northern Iowa and heretofore an ex-
ponent Of standpat republicanism. has
been sold by the Enterprise Publish
ing Company to the Independent
Printing Company, of which George
E. Patterson. a progressive repub-
lican politician, is secretary. Mr.. Pat
terson will edit the paper in the flu
ture. Mr.. Patterson is a capable and
vigorous exponent Of progressive re-
publicanism and somewhat will be do
ing when he has assumed control. D.
r. Carlson the retiring editor will
probably purchase another Iowa plant
and remain in Iowa.
Japanese are as distillers of Scotch"
whisky becoming competitors in the
worlds whisky trade. incidentally they
are competing as producers of Irish
fighting words.
A Philadelphia horse chewed up and
swallowed roll of bills belonging to
his owner However, every horse in
the country is doing the same thing in
directly. The Philadelphia animal only
dispensed with the clearing house
transaction.
If the west must annually bear the
burden Of it's eastern poor relations"
o,l,o Ia
Appalachian slope over into the Mis-
sissippi valley, where he may look af-
ter it more conveniently.
go
Being about to marry count Miss
Vanderbilt is naturally Gladys she can
be.
The Des Moines minister who re-
signed a passionate in order to play
golf, will miss the atmosphere of the
pulpit more than it's language.
Robert L Owens. one of the new
senators from Oklahoma, has had ac-
tive continuous business with the gov
eminent at Washington in the inter-
ests of the Indian Territory for more
than twenty years and has spent the
last sixteen winters in succession in
Washington. where his great success
has given him a national reputation.
Maud--Here's a western couple that
eloped on a handcar.
Mable--How funny! But clipping
on handcar can't be such awful fun.
Maud--Why not?
Mable--Because the man who
makes it go has to use both hands,
doesn't he?-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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TON Way has been out of Iowa for
Il long while, but his enemies are all
waiting to give him a cordial vel
come home" remarks the Grinneli
Register. The fact that he at one time
managed a successful campaign and
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IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

Noting that what Mr.. Cortelyou did
to restore financial order in New York
is being cited as foundation for the
Cortelyou presidential boom. the
Sioux City Journal inquiries: Bur Mr..
Morgan did more than Mr.. Cortelyou
to relieve the situation. Why not a
presidential boom for j. Pierpont
Morgan?"