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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03
Higher and Higher
Sweeps Prosperity's Tide

Look first at the enormous product
won from the soil by the American ma
chine and-sclence-aided farmer. Sec
rotary Shaw has figured that out for
us within the past month--an output
valued at $6,794, 100000. n total $324.-
100000 bigger than last years. In the
crop realm corn was king at valua-
ton of $1.100,000,O0O. Agricultural ex-
ports reached the high water mark OF
$97Go 100000.
All OF the great railroad and indus
trial corporations have reported in
creased earnings, have paid higher div
idends and increased capital stock,
while many have cut luscious surplus
melons-notably Hill's hundred million
ore deal distribution, the Pullman SD,
100000 the United States and Wells
Fargo Express companies forced di.
vision. Even Steel common resumed u
= per cent dividend.
Trusts have gobbled trusts and. de-
spite the rate law. rebate prosecutions
and Jungle" book exposures, the con
ceutration of capital interests has gone
forward, a new feature being the for.
nation of huge holding companies in
England, which was disclosed in the
Findlay trial OF the Standard Oil com
pany and was reported in connection
with the beef trust The glucose trust
was absorbed by the oil trust In .lanu-
airy. The Amalgamated Copper com
pany absorbed the Heinze interest and
two gigantic new trusts were formed
the American Farm Produce company,
with 500. 100000 capital, and $4,000,
600 rubber company 10 exploit the
KongO cOnceSsion-bot financed and
controlled by the Ryan Whitney inter
ests.
But 1t was especially in the railroad
business that the movement toward
Capitalization was evident, and here
the dominant figure OF the year was
that of f.. Ii. Hartman, who in Jan
uary pushed subsidiary line into
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03
Executive Activities In
South and Central America

What the administration regarded as
structive craftsmanship touching the
public interest along numerous lines OF
action IN the various executive depart.
ments was the spectacular South Amer.
lean journey OF Secretary OF State
Root. At Rio Janeiro he was received
with marked distinction by the Brazil.
Ian government and by the members OF
the pan-American congress. To all he
bore testimony to the good will OF the
United States government and TO the
absence OF any ambitious designs for
territory or conquest.
When after election the president
made his three days personal lnspec.
ton or the great isthmian canal work
he was nightly pleased with what had
been done. 1t was the first time that
the chief executive had left American
territory. Tie new commission ap.
pointed JULY . consisted OF Messrs.
Shonts. Stevens, Magoon, Hams. Endi-
colt and Harrod. 1t came to the con.
clusIon that II would be advisable .
employ certain number OF Chinese
laborers on the canal and that IL would
not be practicable to apply the eight
hour regulation to the canal zone. On
his return voyage the president visited
Porto Rico.
An executive order on SEPT. 10 ex-
tended the eight hour law to all pub
lie works, whether conducted In gov
eminent shops or otherwise. The civil
service rules also were extended TO
include all laborers in the government
employ.
The part played by the interstate
commerce commission was extensive
and varied, beginning with the execu:
ton OF the order OF congress TO inyes-
tigate the coal carrying railroads and
the great oil combine. The examina-
ton of Pennsylvania railroad officials
shocked the public by its disclosure OF
numerous official holdings OF stock In
coal companies, which was open to no
other construction than that OF bribery
to secure railroad favors Newly mp
pointed members or the enlarged com
mission We're l.. II. Lane, John s. Har
Ian and Il. Il. Clark. When the rate
law went into effect on AUG. "A, for
the first time in the history OF the
country all Interstate commerce was
under the control OF this commission.
The entire navy was reviewed by the
president at Oyster Bay SEPT. 3.
The army In the Philippines had sew
eral important engagements, the chief
OF which was the battle OF Mount
DaJo NAY O. where 600 Moros were
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

The conference OF radicals NJ til" STATE
ford tConnl Phelps Stokes home Ia
March Is likely TO he landmark IA Tho,
history OF American socialism. The al
fetal count indicated gain.
Municipal ownership Was voted IN
by Seattle and omaha. Chl,ago Voted
for the municipal ownership, hut not
operation, Of her street ear Tines.
4 post election problem which tlic
new year inherits is Calforna's seq.
arate school plan FOR Japanese, against
which the president has taken stroa
ground Ia his message 60 congress
Another issue was ruiMl hy the
presidents dismissal OF thrse com
panies OF negro soldiers for shielding
men charged with murderaua riots *
Brownsville, Tex. ON melton OF Sen
ators Penrose aud Foraker the papers
IN the case We're called fot,
Texas Democrats made II warm Tor
BAILEY because of his alleged oil trust
connections.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

L. II. Hartman. tor In raSnonsa to
the law in Ohio and public opinion
elsewhere the Pennsylvania inaugural
ed u two and a half cent fare and .
cents on thousand mile tickets. The
Erie, Lackawanna, New Haven aud
other lines followed suit
Lawson's insurance attack took final
shape in the formation Of the Interna-
tional Policy Holders committee, man
aged by Samuel Untermyer, and II
costly campaign was waged with the
existing management for control OF
these companies in the elections de
creed by the new Armstrong law.
Whether you consider that labor has
got its full share Of prosperity or not,
1t Is fact that in nearly every indus
try wages have been advanced during
the past year, sometimes on demand OF
the unions and sometimes voluntarily
by employers. The dread OF great
miners strike which disturbed the
business public when the year was
young became acute in the Indianapo-
lis conference of soft coal operators
and miners FEB. &c. when the opera
tors refused the demand OF the men
for twelve and half cent increase.
At this point President Roosevelt APP
pealed TO both sides to get together,
and when Robbins, the Pittsburg oper-
ator, agreed to 8 per cent increase il
was only matter of time when all or
the soft coal men had come TO terms on
the compromise OF 5.55 increase for
two years, with certain concessions
from the men. The hard coal trust, how
ever. held out, and strike was actually
called APRIL /. but after surrendering
practically all OF their demands in the
interest OF peace and under the leader
ship OF President Mitchell the miners
finally, MAY Z. agreed TO a three year
renewal OF the arbitration board award
on basis that seemed TO them u recog
milton OF the union, which was, howev-
er. denied by the operators.
Another strike. which was begun
JAN. / and which lasted through the
year. was that of the job printers for
an eight hour day. The photographers
struck for the same cause. AUG. .. Ala
hama miners ended two years strike
by referendum, AUG. 20. Fall River
cotton mills restored twelve and half
cent wage cut JULY !. and NOV. 20
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

slain In THAR mountain retreat. Amer
lean loss, fifteen.
When the Palma government OF
Cuba failed 10 check the rebellious ele.
ments President Roosevelt stood reSo.
lutely against the policy. of annexation.
although Palma's resignation appeared
TO compel The establishment OF lem
porary provisional governments
The sensational sequel 10 the dis
missal of Bellamy Storer aS amhaSsa-
dor 10 Austria, ApRIl. =. came early
In December. when Storer retallatcd by
charging the president with going
back on his word as 10 the request for
the pope's promotion OF Archbishop
Ireland, The president retorted, deny
Ing Storer'S statement aud accusing
him OF deceit
lde Was inaugurated governor or the
Philippines. APRIL .
Secretary Hitchcock ordered tue
withdrawal or all public coal and oil
lands from sale or settlement, OCT. S.
Cabinet changes were Bonaparte 10
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

later was made public TO force house
action. Amended so as 10 place costs
on government and omit label dates.
the bill became a law.
One other important measure involv-
ing the use of new federal powers was
the pure food bill.
Under the leadership of Speaker Can
non Il Republican insurrection against
joint statehood for ARIZONA and New
Mexico was crushed. The bill finally
emerged from conference under com
promise agreement providing for the
admission OF Oklahoma and Indian
Territory as the state OF Oklahoma and
authorizing Arizona and New Mexico
to hold Il plebiscite on Joint statehood
next fall. This became law JUNE ~.
Other important measures enacted
We're: TO authorize the eighty-fve foot
lock canal across the istbmus. to au-
thoriZe construction OF the Lake Erie
and Ohio ship canal, to place denatured
alcohol on the free list
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

submitted to q 10 per cent increase. Dur
Ing October and November the rail-
roads. beginning with the Pennsylva.
MIA, agreed TO II general wage increase
in all classes of work, and this exam.
pie was followed by the steel trust the
oil trust and other large corporations
The demand for labor IN the west ex-
ceeded the supply Chicago lnaugu-
rated its new freight subway. AUG. IL.
The New York Central ran It's first
suburban electric train OCT. /. The
Colorado river was at last turned into
its original channel. OCT, "a, but steps
We're taken to preserve the Salton sea
as IL is
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

interior, who successfully headed OF
labor revolt when the general strike
was declared, MAY |. In the succeed
Ing elections the government was s,ls
tanned, and on OCT. 10 Clcmenccnu
succeeded Sarrien as premier aild
brought Colonel Plcquart VindIcalion
by making him war minister The con
demnatiOn OF Dreyfus had been finally
annulled by the supreme court. July
II, and he had been restored 10 tlle
army, with command OF division.
Clemenceau's great crisis came. DEG
IL, when with hrm hand he proceeded
to execute the separation law, sending
the pQpe,s Ambassador to the frontier
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03
the ani;dote Con socialism. .

the aHt1uoAe Tor SotllllSln,
In spite OF OF by virtue OF these posi-.
lions the personal following OF the
president, plus good crops aud conlin-
ued industrial prosperity. were IN the
main factors Ia the reelection OF a
Republican, congress, NOV d although
the opposition, aided in some districts
10y the labor vote. was able To reduce
the Republican majority 10 hfty.eght.
The keynote of the campaign WAS to
stand pat on the tariff aud prosperity.
The entry OF organized labor into a
candldate-qulZzing campaign under
the leadership % President Gompers
was called failure by It's enemies,
GomperS himself said he was well sat
isned and his reelection 10y the fed
Grafton showed that the unions shared
his opinion,
On the other hand, the Democratic
ranks We're SO full OF corporation
hatred aud solialistic inclinings that a
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

terror, Hitchcock and Shaw retiring.
Treasury surplus was SO 1877. 800 The
secretary estimated that the per capita
circulation was $32.42. During the year
he successfully stimulated gold Inn
ports by deposltlng cash with import.
Ing banks pending arrival of bullion
To Increase bank note circulation he
released $lS,O000 900 bonds for other Sc.
curlties.
The president issued IN order AUG
-, that in all executive papers the 800
words of the simplitied spelling boards
list he adopted, a proposition which
caused much confusion In the govern.
ment printing Office, Congress IN De.
cember decided TO retain the dlction.
AIRY spellings, and the president nc.
quicsced.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

Seattle, in July
bought up the Bal.
timore and Ohio
stock which the
Pennsylvania PEG
pie had dropped, in
n oy e III b er uri-
umphed over Fish
by placing Ilara =
han ut the head OF
the Illinois Central
and thus made
himself master OF
a $4,000 mile trans
continental railway
system al III O 5 t
without a coInpeti-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

expected, especially
In view OF the lmpe-
tus given TO their
movement by such
notable accessions as
Chlcago's young mil
llonalre, Joseph Me
dill Patterson, who
resigned MARCH .
as Mayor DUNES
commissioner OF pub
llc works. and j. 6.
Phelps Stokes. the
wealthy New York
settlement worker
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

new prophet rode
forth on the vel
low panoplied steed
OF syndlcated news.
paper publicity aud
obtained a tremen-
dous following, Al
thong h IL Il itor
Hearst was un-
horsed as the Dem
ocratic' League can.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

uluhle III MS com
bat with Insurance lnquistor Hughes
for the New York govelmorshlp, the
rest Of the Hearst ticket In New York
actually won out. The Roosevelt's esti-
mate OF the danger IN his home state
was measured just before election by
the sending of Secretary OF State Root
to deliver the terrific broadside against
Hearst contained in his Utica speech.
The effect Of the unique campaign
thus begun has created new political
force known as "lIearstIsm."
Hearst thus became presidential
possibility and claimant for the Dem
ocratIc radical leadership, but he was
still local figure compared To that
cut once more by the Nebraska states
man, Bryan, who on returning from his
world tour, JUNE IS, received series
OF worshIpful welcomes all the way
from New York 10 Lincoln and from
St Louis ana Louisville through the
south. In state after state he had
been Endorsed by the Democrats unan.
imously for 1905, At the very height
OF his triumph In his first speech In
Madison Square Garden. New York,
Bryan dared fate and repulsed many
conservative Democrats by frankly ad-
yo.atIng n system OF federal and state
owned railroads
With one or two exceptions the states
east aud west that have gone Repub-
lican usually were found IN line, the
Democrats carrying Rhode Island. Min.
nesota. Oregon and Nevada, controlling
oklahoma's constitutional convention
and recovering sou lost ground In
Missouri
Under the stress OF much radical talk
In both the older parties the Socialists
didn't make so big a showing rs they
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

becoming pre-
M | err. Troops
were necessary
10 qucll the
serious IA g
strike riots AFT
er the fatal rX
plosion AZ Collr
rlers. IN which
more than 1000
men lost tleir
lives. Here WAS
felt the strong
hand Of VI. tle
inencenu, then
ninistar ~ tl,a
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03


the president sent
two experts, Messrs.
Nell and Reynolds.
TO verify the fiction.
lists staten ents.
Their report was so
far con firm atory
that II was first used
as q secret lever to
bring the senate TO
pass the Beyerldge
iusnaction hill and
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

be attorney general.
Moody 10 the SUI
preme court bench.
Metcalf TO the navy.
Oscar s. StrauS, the
New York merchant.
commerce and Ia
Dor; Ambassador
Won l.. Meyer TO be
postmaster general.
Cortelyou t0 The
treasury, Garfield
secretary of the In.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02
ARE KANSANS NOW.
The Swiss Settlement at Bern Happy
and Contented.

Bern, Kan, Jan. Back in the
early sos a man by the name of Christ
Blauer, a native of Switzerland, with
his wife and children and what few
things they could carry in wagon,
reached what is now the north central
part of Nemaha county, Kansas, then
a vast tract of uncultivated land, and
settled on a claim just across the state
line in Nebraska.
1t was fall and the winter follow
ing was a long and severe one. No
trading post nearer than St. Joseph
was within their reach and before the
long winter had passed over them
their food supply had dwindled to a
few bushels of corn, and the family
subsisted almost entirely on hominy
for weeks Their nearest neighbors
who might have lent aid were miles
from them.
Spring brought them brighter
hopes and prospects when the family
of several Lehman brothers came and
later on three families of Mingers who
took up homesteads along the same
stream of water, known as the Four
mile, but on the Kansas side of the
state line. The Lehmans and Mingers
were likewise natives of Switzerland
and these few families were the begin
ming of what grew to be a large Swiss
settlement. As the state became set
tied and prosperous so these sturdy
farmers prospered laboring to improve
their farms build better homes and
rear their families and so doing be-
came a wealthy community. But all
this was miles from a town or railroad
shipping point. 1t was too far to a
ira ding point too far to deliver pro-
duce SO a railroad and town came to
be talked of as a necessity and a pos
GbiIity.
In 1887 the Chicago & Rock Island be-
gan to make preparations to build a
line from Horton to Fairbury. Wash
fngton1 township. Nemaha county was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02


And in that gang there sat a, man
Whose other name was Mort,
And fearsomely he listened to
A Curtis mans report,
And at his close he opened up
And peddled this retort:
Methinks the time has not arrived
For me to talk" quoth he.s
Because hold Fedral job
And silence fitch me, 40.
But this I'll guess-This seeming calm
Conceals stingeree.'
Alas, it's So" cut in New man,
Whose Christian name was "A
We holders-down of Fedral Jobs
Have nothing much to say,
But meanw lille 1 am satisfied
The Kaw IS making hay
And as 1 listened to this talk.
And wondered what it meant
judged the aggregation was
Up to some devilnlent
And so I hit the Avenue,
And furtherward went
Perchance you may elucidate?n IL.
He queried, with a sigh
dragged the bed clothes to my chin.
And answered thus: Not l.
But might guess that all. those words
Have Just one meaning-PIE."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02
MELBA AND HER son
nod Not Met since His Chiidnooo
ih''0 Until Three Years Ago.

o,,,;.ago Ian. S2-George ArmstT s, y 3,
- IF Nine Media, whose re St,.xr in
son U tha heiress, Ruby OtMaSs -
TlasSSo, was attended by dukes aiiI 9o DeI
ohs: "herder on his fathers ra a,1q ina in a
klanldbn ,lt Comfortable cabin wlLn h hf9
ruae ~ sheen man, and was to If + a 4
1at I1 with his lot in me. ar+ed
Wen pa his mother since she hnS
Nm when he was a little emld for and
t nun hut he had been care6q ,,o,ith by
eoue 9 ffectionate and devoted fa1nea; ha d
an an ~ her professional career bar
SboxUn no -dispoition TO looN-
bmSband and her SON. - klamath
liu uEle bov went to school AT - anv-
Ea1Is until he had learned. a, a. md then
be Joined his father in the c aye taking
ne foothills of the CASCADE rams =
tie urn with the herders ~. +ba how
lis to,,t three years ago, aIter ~ - NJ
bad ma ssed his twenty-thlfo t pil his wife
nae p troy.sr received a letter from ms sn
A l,ts w Nm to send their son 70 oo an
asr,i cisco where she would meet nm f+b o,
rail1 t;n date She said that the t t
q CeI a &c his counpaniQnsnfp TOT ~
tbree Years and now IL SWas llSt. ac s-e :
Tue father and the son helo NO 20 mai
from each other. They talkeo os inst and
pI IoHe invitation and. at least max iP1
Il itS.oI,aintance. If after fa1r triai,
he found that he did. not ENJOY 49,, g
~ 1iIed he would return TO ms ldln n .
Cabin where, until then ne h@u peen
pe Tbe how met his mother and both We're
fascinated. He writes regu1arty ;nteresi
IA ther but has apparently lost lneeieS
in life on the klamath Falls ranch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02
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offered the road if $I5,OU0 bonds could
be raised. Colonel Henry Baker of ST.
Joseph, then an attorney for the Rock
Island, with the help of Christ Leh-
man, now of Portland, Ore, succeeded
in raising the amount Colonel Baker
then purchased 16O acres of land near
the center of the township of Wash
ington, and laid out the present town
site of Bern in 1887. AS a number of
the Swiss of this place had come from
the. canton of Bern in Switzerland
and as that was also the capital OF
their native country, Colonel Baker
gave the name Bern to the new town.
This name was rejected by the post
office department as the name was liza
BILE to be confused with Burns-a town
in Marion county-and the department
recommended the name Basel also the
name of Swiss town. The pople re-
fused to accept this and for some time
the town went by the name of Leh-
man, after the Lehman brothers. The
railroad and express companies, how
ever, took uD the name Bern and the
poStoffice department finally recognized
it as such. An addition in the north
west part of town, which was not built
on the original townsite still retains the
| name Basel
The town grew rapidly. one bust
| ness firm after another starting up
| until in a short time there were two
| blocks of business houses on Main
| stroyed almost every business build
ing, including stocks of goods, but
| they have since been replaced with
| brick buildings.
The large Fourmile creek which
runs near by received its name in the
| following manner: A white man met
IN Indian and asked him where he
| vas going. He replied, ITO the river
-four mile" He meant to the river,
our miles away, but was mistaken by
he white man. who took the name of
/ the creek to be "Fourmile." and it is
called that to the present time.
On a hill near the town limits on
| the old California trail is stone bear
| ing the date of So, which marks the
grave Of a fallen gold seeker bound
for the California gold mines.
Near a small lake just west of town
rests the bones of a number of Nor
| mons who, with one of the companies
/ of Brigham Young's party, camped
there on their trip to Utah in AT. The
| lake was we'll supplied with fish, but
| their needs were great, so the lake was
| party sickened and died of typhoid
| fever. 1t is supposed the disease was
| caused by eating the fish, which were
diseased by living in the low water.
When the anniversary or the found
| ing of Switzerland was celebrated, the
| a great celebration in honor of the
event. 1t is estimated that $4,000 peo-
pie attended, excursions were run into
| town, American and Swiss flags were
| floating everywhere, feasting. dancing
| and merry-makinG were INDUCED in
by old and young alike. A carload OF
beer was shipped in and consumed by
! the Swiss and their American friends
and the gala time lasted for a week
A Turner hall was built and a few
| Turner celebrations were held.
These beer celebrations as they
were commonly called by the outside
| world, gave the town rather a hard
4 reputation which 1t has long since out
| grown, as these events are all things
OF the far past.