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Evening journal., 1908-08-11
Waichihis spacefOr Tomorrow Announcement

construction. Some Of the members
favoring iron construction. The stair
ways win be used as fire escapes and
will be erected in the rear of the build
ing.
The bids received las. night did not
strike the members favorably. as con-
ditions were named by the bidders
concerning liability for damage to tile
building, and certain costs which
would not be borne b. them.
Miss Bessie Devine. the newly elected
assistant superintendent of schools. In
a letter to the board accepted the posi-
ton and extended her thanks for the
boards action in naming her for the
place.
Evening journal., 1908-08-11
Erneriennn in Siam.

by the recent storm continue TO come
in, some of the victims of the treach-
erous lightning making narrow escapes
from serious injury. Mr.. and Mrs
Lewis SpealSman, Brandywine Sum-
NIT. were standing in the dining room
watching the rain fall when suddenly
there was clap of thunder. followed
by a vivid flash of lightning which
struck a tall locust tree in the yard
splintering it bads. Mr. Spealman
was knocked to the floor and his wife
whirled around like a top by the force
OF the shock. Both were stunned for
a time, but soon recovered, and at
present are feeling no effects Of the ac-
cident which might have cost them
their lives.
Evening journal., 1908-08-11
A Sale Of WOmen's Dresses
$3.50 WOmen's Wolfe Skirts al 1888

Tailor made Skirts of fine French voile entirely
gored model trimmed with wide silk fold at bot 90 40
sold for less than $69S for this sale WOs0O
Evening journal., 1908-08-11
Final ''Round-up" of Manufacfur-
ers' Outlet Sale Specials.
Three More DAVIS

f sand va
monlo godth may
Evening journal., 1908-08-11
700 Corset Covers 25c A.
Kind TO 90 at IOC

Some exceedingly pretty designs here Just arrived
In time for the last days of sale You'll like these
different the ordinary You'll enjoy looking
Never have you such aueseven here If you
You can't do better than to buy Market ST.
Evening journal., 1908-08-11

Cambria Muslin. very good quality.
Sc inches wide. value 1Oc a yard e =
at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. W
Full Bleached Muslin, sc inches wide,
fine soft finished. without dress e
ing, all over 1-2c yard, at .... UC
Boys Fine Balbriggan Underwear,
Drawers double seated, value OIL
29c, at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. & ~
Women's Fine Ribbed Gauze Vests,
tapped neck and armholes trimmed 2
with lace, value II 1-2c, at 49,. iC
Bolster Cases 42x72, made of COOL
quality sheeting, hemmed and 10.
ready for use. value 29c, at .... ZOC
Fine Figured Lawn and Dotted
Swisses, most light grounds, were o.
~ 1-2c to 1sc. yard, now at 80. OC
Sheets, full bleached, extra large size,
made of extra good quality sheeting,
S1x90, made with deep hem and An
ready for use, value 65c, at .... -f0C
Pillow Cases. 45xs6. made of extra
good quality, hemmed and ready IN
for use; value 15c, at ......... IUC
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02
BIG MONMOUTH FIRE.
Iowa Central Sustains Loss of Coal
Chutes and Feel.

The head offices of the Iowa Cen,
trail in this city received the news this
morning OF the destruction of the
coal chutes of the company at Mon
mouth, H., last night.
A spark from a passing locomotive
ignited the large structure. The fire
completely destroyed the buildings
and their contents. Hundreds of tons
of coal, with quantity of other fuel,
were ignited and went up in smoke
before the Monmouth fire department
could reach the scene of the blaze.
The flames were first noticed about
eight o'clock in the evening. The
chutes are at the extreme end of the
Iowa Central freight yards and long
distance from the nearest fire plug.
Before the firemen could get a hose
trained upon the flames, the fire was
practically beyond control. Accord
ing to the officials. the chutes will be
rebuilt at once. Temporary arrange.
ments for the eoaling of locomotives
running out of Monmouth will be
made. ~
This makes the second serious fire
which the Iowa Central has suffered
in the past six months. Last fall the
car shops of the company at Marshall.
town were totally. destroyed. o. 'Iat
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02
rHE IOWA 1ARlEE PLANK.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: The Hawk
Eye is pleased with the Iowa declara
ton on the tariff. Standpatters gen.
orally will accept it as a consistent
expression of their attitude in the past
and their desires for the future. II is
a natural sequence of both the Iowa
and the national tariff planks OF 1904
The Ohio tariff plank, proceed.
ed by the Iowa preamble, cannot fail
to be acceptable to the overwhelming
majority of republicans. If = ex-
treme revisionists will also accept it,
the party will be unanimous, and after
the senatorial campaign ends on the
End of next June. there will be no
cause for factionalism in Iowa, neither
for principle nor personal ambitions.
The spirit of dissension and strife
ought then to rapidly disappear in the
fervor of the presidential campaign.
The Ohio tariff plank read all right
until an effort was made to read into
il a meaning which a logical analysis
would not warrant. BY no honest use
of plain language can tariff that is
adequate" for all American produc.
ers be made TO mean one that is in.
adequate. And a revision of such a
tariff to adjust it to changed condi.
tons" when the latter includes higher
wages and greater cost of material
now than prevailed ten years ago
when the Dingley tariff became ehec.
tive, means an increase in some sched.
ules as surely as it means a decrease
in others. There is no escape from
that fact, no matter what are the pre-
lenses and claims of rabid revision.
lists.
All the Iowa declaration on the tar
if needs to be acceptable to all the
friends of protection is a careful study
of the language and an honest analy.
sis of its utterances and the sequence
of its practical application in tariff re-
vision.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02
cARRoLL,s CANDIDACY.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: 1t is mat
ter Of intense satisfaction to the
friends of Auditor b. F. Carroll, that
without any fuss and feathers he has
been able to establish candidacy
for the Iowa governorship that is one
of the strongest ever presented to the
voters at similar period in state
campaign. Almost without seeking the
place, Mr.. Carroll has become, def
mite candidate for the office and has
been so favorably received by republi-
cans irrespective of fractional align
ment that he is today credited with
support that promises victory at the
primaries and of course success at
the polls next fall.
No public official in Iowa has made
better record than Carroll. His po-
sition of state auditor has been one OF
exacting duties, and necessitating a
rare gift of judgment and executive
ability. He has had to deal with the
two great and difficult questions OF
the business world, banking and in
surance, and the fact that there is no
complaint or criticismE from any
source Of his handling of these two
phases of his work, is proof positive
that he has made a splendid success
with them. In all other departments
of his official work he has shown the
same capability and the affairs of his
Office have never been better admins
tered.
There is assurance that Mr.. Car
roll, will, if elected governor, conduct
the administration with the same care
full, businesslike methods which he
has used in all his pubic career. 1t
is needless to say that the chief exc
cutive office under him will not be-
come a place for political fence build
ing or ring making. He will devote
mis- time to the affairs of the state
and will give the people the service
they are paying for.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02
TO SAFEGUARD TRAVELLERS.

~ SPtE G9OHnD nav GL6nS'
The Travelingman's Protective AS
sociation. of which a branch is main.
| tanned in Oskaloosa with good mem
bership, Las taken the matter up and
has had introduced in congress a bill
which promises TO do away with some
of the greatest menaces to travellers.
1t is estimated that the danger to a
man in the active operation of train
at this time is SO great as to warrant
the comparison made with a soldier
in the regular army, who it is estimat-
ed could serve the time necessary to
secure his retirement on a pension
with less liability to death or disab-
ling accident than the train operator.
Twenty-one thousand persons have
sacrificed their lives on American
railways during the last five years.
In 1903 the totals were 1854 dead and
45.7S7 injured: In 1904 they number
ed 3,7S7 dead and 51,343 injured; in
1905 the roads killed 1878 persons
and wounded 55,436; in 1906 the
death roll had grown to 1926 and the
injured numbered 66,707; in 1907 the
list of deaths reached 5000 and that of
injured 1000.
These figures read more like the
casualty list of some of the great bat
ties of the worlds history, but even
they do not tell the whole story, Tor
the Interstate commerce Commission
reports great difficulty in getting ac-
curate statistics of casualties from
the railroads. In the nineteen years
since the Interstate Commerce Com
mission began its collection of facts
about accidents, nearly 5000 passen.
gers and over $4,000 employees, be-
sides nearly 10000 other persons, have
been killed on American railways;
and nearly 100000 more have been
crippled. The present average per
day is 16 killed and 200 injured.
In 1905 it was twice as dangerous
to travel on a railway train, or work
for railroad company in the United
States as 1t was DIN 1895. Twenty
years ago the averaged killed was
in IS; today il is ii in 10. The fact
that a large number of railroad COM
panies do not report accidents is de-
monstrated by the inning recently oil
one of the largest railroad companies
for failure to report over 200 acci-
dents. Reports compiled by the In
terstate Commerce Commission and
the Public Utilities Commission of
New York Indicate that there are be-
tween 5000 and 5000 accidents each
day in the year; and it is estimated
that we are killing in this country in
all kinds of accidents more people
each year than were killed in the en-
tire three years of the Crimean war.
The Travellers Protective Associa-
ton, comprising $4,000 commercial
travellers from every state of the
union, whose vocation makes impera-
tive the continued use of all means
of transportation, is greatly concern
ed at the enormous death rafe which
railroads of this country are piling up
year after year. .....
They ask railroad companies to be
required to furnish steel fire-proof
passenger cars, sufficiently rigid to
withstand all accidents incident to
collisions or derailments, and to re-
tire present equipment at the rate of
10 per cent per annum.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02
TRADITION HARD HIT.

Prof cox, the United States wealth
er man at Chicago, mas struck at one
OF the most cherished traditions OF
this and other lands. by branding the
equinoctial storm as a myth" From
time out OF memory. man has given
the equinox wide berth. Plans have
been laid with nice calculation as
to the days on which the season
changed, as it was deemed reasonably
certain that the passage OF the sun
across the line from winter TO spring,
or summer to fall, occasioned storms
OF unusual fury. But now comes
Prof. Cox who, with brusque and
scientific manner. sweeps aside the
tradition of centuries and brands IL
a myth" and even nature fake.
THE equinox In and of itself, he
recently stated. never caused a
storm. Why should 1t The line
which is crossed by the sun is purely
an arbitrary one, fixed by the calen-
dar system we use" But" he was
asked, has not the record of sea.
sons shown the equinox TO be stormy,
as a rule =" IF that is true" he said,
'it is simply because the seasons are
changing. 1t is likely, for instance, to
be stormy a week or two before or
after the equinox, as it is in the week
when the sun crosses the line. In
March the temperature changes are
tbrupt and conditions are equally
favorable to the development of
storms and atmospheric disturbances.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02
"Chief Mahaska."

In reference to the statute IF Ma.
haska, the Indian chief to be placed
in the public park, inquiries concern
ing which have been made from time
to time by parties more or less inter.
ested, Mayor Ralston states that there
is ample time in which to prepare for
the pedestal. The statue is not yet
completed nor will it be for a number
of months. After completion it will
be exhibited in the Paris art studios
and possibly in this country after be.
ing shipped. 1t will be late fall be.
fore the work will reach its final
resting place and possibly it may be
delayed even beyond that date.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02
cH4RllEsI ALpRIcH.Isi

i'Tis finished now-the hall, the dome
But listen there, sudden knell,
A voice that calls the builder home,
He too has finished-all is well.
Fate willed that he should live to see
A crown on yonder work he led
Yet dying, dream not there would be
A greater still upon his head.
No evanescent glory his,
Time will increase the fame 1t lent,
And Truth. that never walked amiss,
Will make these stones his monu'
ment.
Here is the Past-he gathered far
What patient genius only can,
The stored tale OF peace or war
The story of the life of man.
Look round You well; hundred years
Are gathered in these walls OF state,
The record of the pioneers
Whose tolls. whose genius, made
you great.
Here long he labored. toiled and
thought
Where Past and Present sadly meet
TIN, one bright morning there was
brought
The message-"Come. it is com.
plete."
Sing on. sweet birds, he was your
friend.
OF all sweet things of earth or air.
The sylvan woods, the rivers bend
Where beauty was, his heart was
there.
Con, is the soul that longed to know
/ The future, strange, and vaguely
- dim
The darkness of an hour age
d Is as the daylight now to him.
Who now would call him back again,
The faithful one forever kind?
He lived. he loved. he died, and then,
d Left only love and good behind.
80 S. II. NJ. Byers.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02
KILLED IN A. A Nine Mine
0skaloosa Boy Meets a Sudden
Fate at Avery.

Word came to the city last even
ing of the death of Charles Beaver,
q son of James Deaver and a well
known young man about Oskaloosa.
The young man was killed on a trip
in a coal mine at Avery where he has
been working for some time past. All
particulars of the affair are lacking
at this time. -... .
The deceased has a number of rela-
tives near this city and at Beacon.
William and Thomas Deaver are un.
cles. .,.
Members of the family went to Av'
cry last evening to care for the re-
mains. 1t is understood that the
body will be brought to Beacon for
funeral and interment. ..
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02
SOME DEALS IN DIRT
Record In Recent Real Estate Trans
fers In County.
25oOOo

w. E. Hughes and wife to
Geo. w. Barley, lot i,
Houtz ad Oskaloosa. ...... $500. 90
r. A. Kent, Admir-, to VIM.
Kissick, lot 8 buttons S.
ID. o. l.. Is. o. p. Oska. -. 2lO0. 90
Heirs of E.Holloway, decd,
to Mary f.. Holloway, q.
C'D pit. lots l and 2, blk.
g o. p. oskaloosa. ........ 100
Henry ETscott and wife and
Henry Van De Krol and
wife to VIM. De Geus, pit.
ne Sc 10-77-17 ......... 1900 90
Central Holiness University
to Gregg Wilson, parcel of
land in Sec. 19.75-15. 600 90
Mary f. Holloway, N. b. Hal
loway and wife and Stella
b. Holloway to Guy s.
Bradford. NV ne and ne NV
and NV NV 1S-74-l4. IA, 1850
Jessie C. and Amanda NJ. Cal
loway to II. e, and Eliza
]. Lisk, lots 1856, 1856, 1877,
1888. 1S9, 1870. 1855, 1856, l57,
1853 159, Rose Hill ....$ 1850. 90
Henry Elscott and wife to
John j. Roorda. ne. NV. H.
7717.... -. .......... 1900 90
Mike Shcltis and wife to Geo.
Kitrisin, pit. sw. Sc. 9-75-
Is ........ 80. ........ 1850. %
Alkaline F. Roache to G. ID.
Scott, pit lots Il and 20,
I HOutz' I'd ad, Osk. .... 1900 90
Jas. Studham and wife to
Mike Sholtis, sw. Sc. 9-75-15 $500 90
Anna l. Grace and husband to
H. M. Colville, pit. sw. 26- 76-
15... -. -. 1928 so
G. r. Colville and wife. Clara
NJ. Ruby and husband, Cap
pie Colyille and e. r. Col
vile to H. M. Colyille, pit
sw. 26-76.l5. .......s..... 4S5S 90
Abner Branson to P. T. Cope,
lot Z, ne. Sc. and lots G, |,
r, and l. Sc. ne. and lot
10, ne. ne. 13-77-16. ...... 5000 90
Whitebreast Fuel Co.toCieve-
land Coal Co., lot 3, Q. S.,
pit NV. 2S-74-15. ..........$ 315 90
j. F. Wells and wife to Sarah
E. Ryan, lots l, and 3,
S. D., pit. sw. sw. 19-75-15.. -
C. E. Wilson and wife to Tay-
lor Faulkner. ne NV. ll-74-
Is -. ................ 1890 90
L. l.. Coomes and wife to Fred
Westercamp NV. sw. and
sw. sw. NV, l4..7l7.. :. 5000 90
Thos. Kiley and wife to Chas.
Adkisson, pit. lot ~. Kins-
mans S. D., lot 6. o. p.
Oskaloosa. ..... ........ 2lOO. 90
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02

a valiant worker. interested i'm all
public enterprises, so there should be
no complaint To the credit OF the
Commercial Club be it said that when
a meeting of the board is necessary
the same is available. There have been
meetings sometimes in the early morn
ing, sometimes right in the midst of
the business day, and often in the
evening, but a good strong working
force was always on hand.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02
MATHIS is MAYOR
OF DIES MONIES
ALL COMMISSION PLAN cANDi-
DATES ARE DEFEATED.
The Vote Was AS Large AS That Cast
At the Primary Election On
March 16, Despite
the Rain.

Des Molnes, Ia, March 31.-A J.
Mathis, the present democratic police
Judge of Des Moines, will ne the first
mayor OF the city under the commits
sion plan of government. OF total
vote of over $4,000 cast in the hard
rain yesterday, Judge Mathis viii
have a majority OF $500. The vote
cast was as large as that polled at
the primary election held on March
ll6.
John MacVicar, Wesley Ash. Charles
Schramm and John L. Hamery win
serve with Mathis on the council.
Eugene w. Waterbury, Des Moines
plan candidate for mayor, and ]. r.
Hanna, B. S. Walker and C. s. Worth,
the three Des Moines plan candidates
for the council, were defeated, as was
| w. II. Brereton, the East Des MONIES
alderman at large.
OF the men elected to the first coun-
Gil, a majority was opposed to the
adoption of the Des Moines plan.
The main issue was whether the
first administration under the Des
MONIES plan should be in the hands
Of the friends and supporters of the
new system of municipal government
or those who opposed it. Waterbury
led the former, Mathis the latter The
second issue related to the control of
the liberal" element The friends of
the Des Moines plan early went on
record against the wide open" town
and the licensing, by fine system.
of places of evil resort, permitted TO
run under police protection.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02
MINE WORKERS, HEADQUARTERS.

Rival cities have made great eff
fort to have the headquarters OF the
miners organization taken away
from oskaloosa on account of me at
tacks by the tax ferrets on the benevo-
lent funds Of the organization. John
P, White and Edwin Perry made. a
gallant fight to retain the Office in
this city and assured the convention
that the attacks on the organization in
Oskalcosa We're limited to the tax
ferrets and that the people had no
sympathy with the attempt to deplete
that fund. At first the vote in the
convention was much divided, but
Oskaloosa finally won by very large
majority
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02

Alone in strange land sever
thousand miles away from her friends
and home, Miss Maria Griffith, o. Mus
catine, died at Alexandra, Egypt
while on tour. Postmaster w. S
McNutt received a cablegram from
the United States consul at thai
place notifying him of the death. The
body win be brought home at once
Miss Griffith, who was a wealthy
spinster, had been touring Europe
alone for the last year.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02

The revised figures Of the great
Sunday revival at Decatur show the
free will offering of Mr.. Sunday
amounted to $l1,575, of which he
gave more than ten per cent to helI
local institutions. The total collec
lions amounted to a little more than
$4,000. The number of converts ex
coed G.000. In all ways the Decatur
revival broke the record. Charleston
Ill, is to be the scene of Mr.. Sundays
next labors.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02

The Iowa City Republican sug-
gests that the state board OF control
run excursions to the tuberculosis san
itarium at that place. The Republi-
can adds that an hour spent at the in.
stitution viii do more TO educate the
people TO a knowledge OF the proper
treatment of incipient tuberculosis
than any amount OF lecturing or read
ing. 1t is also stated that the officials
at the sanitarium say there is less
danger OF Infection there than on the
streets OF any city.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02
Successful Ice Packer.

George Godfrey, formerly business
man of this city, now an "ice baron
of the town of Abba, Jared somewhat
better than did the Oskaloosa pack.
ers. He managed to get good har-
vest into his houses from his supply
lakes near Abba. He sends his
friends here souvenir cards showing
how nicely the work was accom-
plished by his mechanical packing
apparatus.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02

1T may be impertinent to ask,
but we would just like to know If
Hon. G. w. Sewers. who is leading
the fight against the operation of
Iowa railway legislation. is just as
firm a supporter as he used to be OF
GOV. Cummins, who claims to be re-
sponsible for all the laws on this sub
ject, past, present, and yet to be en-
acted.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02

announcement is made of the for
nation at Clinton of company which
will dredge the Mississippi and tribu-
tary rivers for sunken logs The pres
ent high prices of lumber and the di-
minution of the timber supply makes
it profitable to recover what has here
tofore been charged by the logging
and lumber companies to profit and
loss.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02

The way of the reforner is thus
told in q dispatch from Washington:
When La Toilette speaks, Mrs. La
Toilette and the children are present.
Probably not dozen republican sen.
ators hear his remarks but the demo
Gratis pay close attention" And yet
La Toilette thinks he is leader in
the republican party.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02

There are only seven spots in
Iowa that are over ten miles from a
railroad and these spots are not over
a mile in width. Iowa has lTi9 miles
of railroad for every 100 square miles
of territory.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02

An Indiana man has a record of
having stayed at home for 1898 con-
!secutive evenings. Wen wager he is
not a member of a live Commercial
club or hospital board of manage.
ment.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02

Everybody who gives dollar may
have his vote recorded for President
and he can have as many votes as he
contributes dollars This is the plan
the members of the Young Woman's
Christian Association of Des Moines
has agreed upon to finance that insti-
tuition.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02

AT a church entertainment in
southern Iowa the other evening the
master of ceremonies announced Miss
Bates will sing, oh, That | Had Wings
Like Dove. For Then | Would Fly
Away, accompanied by the minister"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-02

One thousand dollars in gold will
be awarded as a special prize to the
grower of the best single apple exhib-
tied at the National apple show in
Spokane, Dec. to IA. the competi-
ton is open to the world.