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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1908-09-26

Court then adjourned until Septem-
Der 18th.
Thursday.
Court opened with Judge Bryan
presiding, when the following crimi-
nal cases were disposed of:
B. Gatewood plead not guilty and
Tom Harris plead guilty and will re-
ceive sentence on the 18th.
]. c. Streeter plead not guilty and
time set for trial September 23rd.
In the matter of trial jury the
Judge ordered venire of Is men to
be summoned to appear next Tuesday.
Court then adjourned until Friday
morning.
Saturday.
Saturday was sentence day in Judge
Bryan's court, at which time the fol-
lowing criminal cases were disposed
of. The first case called was State Of
Idaho VS.. Tom Harris. who was held
on the charge of burglary. The de-
PENDANT plead guilty and was SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for the
term of three years. The next case
called was that Emmett Devault, who
was charged with having committed
forgery. The prisoner plead guilty to
the charge and was sentenced to the
| penitentiary for IS months. The next
| case on the law calendar was that OF
| Carlson-Lusk Co. VS.. Lincoln Mining
/, Co. This was case where the Min
ing Co. was being sued for debt and
action was taken to foreclose certain
liens against the property. All the
cases were consolidated under the
name of Carlson-Lusk Co. vs.. Lincoln
Mining Co., and judgment was rend
cred in the sum of $6550.56, being the
amount due Carlson-Lusk Co. ant
$1416.7S amount due the receivers
and $30S1.24, the amount due the Sal
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01
THE GRADING OF GRAIN.

Several grain exchanges, including
Chicago and Omaha Board of Trade,
have joined to make the National ~orn
Exposition which will be held In
Omaha in December a great educa,
tional event. Inspectors from the
cash floor will aid in judging the DIFF
ferent grain and will lecture before
the students taking part III the judg-
ing contests Representatives from
the large milling interests will lecture
upon the use of the surplus millions
of bushels that annually leave the
farm, and they will demonstrate the
many uses made of the several grades
of grain. The grain grower, grain
dealer and grain exchanges will ali
welcome this great educational op
portunity to study the different
branches of grain business. We need
to find type of oats and wheat
that will give a larger yield and COM
mand the highest market price. 1t
is time that oats and wheat be grown
for special purposes that will satisfy
the demand by the various milling
interests. The 100000 threshing out
fit which will be offered as a special
premium on oats, should bring out a
great showing.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

be guided by precedent and behave
like a we'll hammered testator when
his heirs are wrangling in the courts
for his possession, Mr.. Bryan was en-
couraged to go so far as to set him.
Iself up as the sole remaining and
bonafide legatee of the Roosevelt doc
trine. He pleaded his case eloquently
before. 1.-The electoral jury, setting forth
mis- political likeness to the man whose
property he coveted. But in this in
stance the party most interested i'll the
disposition of the estate refused to re-
main buried in the graveyard OF prece-
dent. With a voice rejecting nothing
Isepulchral he TOOK the witness stand
in behalf of equity and cleared away
all doubts as to the heirship.
President Roosevelt's Bryan letters
have been the most deliciously trench
ant epistes that have figured in an
American political campaign for many
years.
Thus suddenly rebuffed and unable
to establish claim to the coveted
policies, Mr.. Bryan after the first
snock of contact with the witness, came
to the conclusion that the heritage
was, after all, not worth having and
began a vituperative attack on the
RECORD of the president. What had he
accomplished anyway? No trust mag
nate had been placed in jail Great
combinations existed still. He had
other remedies for their determination
which would ffectually stifle all cor
porate cancers.
So Iowa is listening, with its sense
of humor sharpened by the situation,
to Hon. Fred White praising Roose-
welt to the skies and at the same time
reading in the newspapers the bitter
attacks on the same strenuous party
from the pen of the leader of nation
al democracy.
Those who have pointed out the fact
that Mr.. Bryan and democracy could
not be trusted to maintain action
along one issue in two consecutive
campaigns have stated the case too
mildly. Experience of the past few
weeks has shown that they reserve
the right to abandon one line of at
tack, forget it and take up another en-
tirely contradictory of the first even
before the campaign has run half its
length.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01
TELL The truth.

Mr.. Taft in the course of brief but
effective address in Athens, Ohio, be
fore an audience which included many
Iaboring men, gave a definite reply to
the assertion that he had said that "a
dollar day is enough for any man
His answer was short, sharp and right
to the point. He exclaimed: 1T is 3
| lIe!"
That vigorous declaration puts into
the mouth of the slanderer a file upon
which he may gnaw to his hearts con
tent. 1t serves notice, that in the
present campaign the liar will be dealt
with as such, and not handled with the
soft glove of courtesy
There is no place in this years cam
paign for the liar, the bigot, the crank
or the anarchist. What is needed is
an honest discussion of real issues in
the light of truth and justice. in order
that the people may be helped to a
correct understanding of the purpose
of opposing parties and opposing can
didates.
The only Democratic occupant of the
presidential chair since the civil war,
when confronted with given PROPOSE
tiOn during his first campaign, gave
his party counselIors this simple in
struction:
Tell the truth"
Mr.. Cleyeland's admonition is the
republican watehword for 1908. The
plain truth. clearly understood. is all
that is needed TO justify popular con.
fidence in the purpose and policy of
the republican party. The party or
the candidate attempting this year to
trick the people by statements Of
by misrepresentation or by
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

of the occasion. No report appears
in this issue, for the reason that the
secretary promised to furnish the Ad-
vocate with complete report of the
doings. therefore no notes ere taken.
The report will doubtless reach us in
time for the next issue. 1t can be
said that the beautiful little city OF
Oskaloosa did itself proud in enter
tanning the old boys and their young
girls-no woman ever gets old-and
will long be remembered for its gen.
erous hospitality. We confidently ex.
pect the report spoken of for our next
issue. ..,.
While in the city we called upon
many members of the w. r. C,meet'
ing many others about the hotels,
and was driven from our hotel 70
the residence of Mrs. Katherine E.
Hyde, by her husband, where we met
Mrs. Ida Hare Warfield, of Muscatine
Mrs. Hyde is department president OF
the Ladies of the Grand Army, and
Mrs. Hare-Warfield was department
editor for that organization in the
Advocate last year.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01
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LACEY AND M'kENzIE.

Davenport Democrat: There was a
big gathering of Iowa notables in Clin-
ton to meet Taft. Altogether it look
ed a good deal like an attempt to
father an impromtu republican love
feast, if such thing were possible.
Major John F. Lacey of Oskaloosa,
candidate for the nomination for Unit
ed States senator, arrived Thursday
evening, and registered at the Lafay-
cite Inn. The writer was present in
the lobby to witness the affectionate
greeting between him and General
Mckenzie, former chief of engineers,
who has been in Clinton attending the
Waterways convention. They were
together on the staff of General Steele
down in Arkansas in 1864, and have
been warm comrades ever since.
Major Lacey gave the general his 1908
calling card-a' post card bearing two
portraits-Major Lacey in 1908 and
Captain Lacey in 1864, a black-haired
beardless youth in close fitting blue.
As Major Lacey came to Clinton di-
rect from Mt. Pleasant, where he
spoke Thursday to $500 old soldiers
and old settlers at the annual reunion
there it is plain that he is making hay
during all of this fine September
weather
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01
THAT LACEY MAN FROM IOWA.

That Lacey man from Iowa
Is just the one to lead the fray,
And have things coming all his way,
That Lacey man from Iowa
That Lacey man from Iowa,
The man the people want, they say,
And they'll stand by him every day,
That Lacey man from Iowa.
That Lacey man from Iowa.
He has the snake all scotched," they
say,
And he will win the race that day,
That Lacey man from Iowa.
That Lacey man from Iowa.
The man to vote for every day,
For he will watch as well as pray,
That Lacey man from Iowa.
That Lacey man from Iowa.
When comes the next election day,
He'll in the Senate sit, for aye,
That Lacey man from Iowa.
L. C. McCready.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01
THE LARGER CITIES,

The Bureau of the Census has just
istics of cities having population OF
over 100000 Tlhs report covers the
year 1906, and Includes financial stat
istics. H.7
The number of cities included in
this report is l5S, of which Is Lad
over 100000 inhabitants, 81 between
100000 and 100000, 48 between $4,000
and 100000, and 68 under 5000. OF
the 15S cities, New FORK had the
largest land area-2OY,21S acres; New
Orleans stood second, with 125,60O:
Chicago third, with ll4,932; PhlladeI
phia fourth, with Sl,S2S; and Duluth
fifth, with 40,55G.
The city having the smallest land
area was West Hoboken, n. j., which
had SAG acres. There is often great
disproportion between the area cover
ed by city and the number of its
inhabitants. Duluth, Mimi, with 81.
337 inhabitants +akes in more terri
tory than St. Louis with its 649.32u
inhabitants. Salt Lake City, with a
population less by 5,4S7 than that OF
HobOken, includes an area thirty-hve
times as great or the cities contain
ing over 100000 population, Allegheny
Pa, had the smallest land area
APPS acres. Paterson, n. j., had tn
next smallest-5,l57 acres; st. Joseph
Mo-, the neXt-6,240 acres; Dayton
Ohio. the next-6,S46 Atlanta, Ga.
the next-7,6SO; Jersey City, n. j., the
next-9,163; and Memphis, Tenn, the
next-9,772 acres.
The costs of government to the
taxpayers are represented approx
mately for the several cities by what
the bureau of the census calls cor
porate payments for temporary trans
actions and all payments made by
one department enterprise, or fund oil
the city to another For the 15e
cities the corporate payments in the
fiscal year 1906 amounted to $607,
677,842 of this total the payments OF
New York city, aggregating $17S,447,
153, formed 29.4 per cent.
The total per capita corporate pay
merits for the 1853 cities in 1906 were
s2654. The corresponding payments
from 1902 to 1905 for the cities in
vestigated in the years mentioned
were: SEAS. s2477, s25.72, and
$3.50, respectively, In four years
the costs of municipal government in
creased IS per cent faster than popu
Iation, and to that extent the burden
of city government increased for the
average taxpayer .
OF cities with an estimated popula
ton of over 100000 the per capita cor
porate payment was largest for Bos
ton and smallest for Milwaukee. Next
in order after Boston We're New York
and Washington; and of the cities
with small relative costs of govern
ments, New Orleans, Buffalo and Bal
timore were close rivals with Milwau
kee. The per capita costs OF Boston
New York and Washington were
$4s.52, $43.39 and $37.S4; while those
for Milwaukee, Buffalo, New Orleans
and Baltimore were $l745, 1898,
$20.93 and s2l73, respectively.
The report presents very inter
esting table showing the COSTS OF
maintaining free public schools for
the several cities. including in such
costs the interest on the investment
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01
According to the report of tn

According to the report of the
Weather and Crop Service for August,
just issued, the mean temperature for
the month was slightly below the nor
NAL; the average daily deficiency
ranged from 81 degrees in the north
ern districts TO 1.5 degrees in the
southern districts. The warmest per
iod of the month was between the I'd
and the 5th inclusive, when the maxi
mum temperatures ranged from IS
degrees to 1O1 degrees; the highest
occurring in Mahaska and Wapello
counties on the Sd. The coolest per
iod was from the 10th to the oath, in
elusive, the lowest temperature oc-
curing on the oath. During the past
is years, there have been eleven warm
err Augusts and seven that were slight
ly cooler. The rainfall was above the
normal in all districts.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01
JOKE ON TAFT.

After the Taft special had visited
Clinton, Davenport and Muscatine
and was speeding on to Burlington,
Mr.. Taft was sitting in his car talking
informally to a few friends. Major
Lacey was in the party, and with his
usual dry wit said: well Mr.. Taft
you have had several fine crowds TO
hear you, and you have been well re-
ceived, but SO far | have only seen
one man in Iowa who is really going
10 vote for you, and he got on the
train at Columbus Junction" is he
aboard now" asked Mr.. Taft. trying
hard 10 disguise the surprise that
stood out on his face. IF be is !
surely would like TO meet him." "All
right said Mr. Lacey, Il viii bring
him in" In a moment he returned
with Marsh W, Bailey, of Washington
and said.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

in school buildings and grounds. The
relative investments of cities In
school property may be noted by the
varying amounts per capita allowed
for interest on such investments
These ranged from 81 cents for AT
lanta, Ga; "a cents for charleston
S. c.; "a cents for Memphis, Tenn;
26 cents for Elizabeth, N. j.; rs cents
for Knoxville, Ten; 81 cents tor New
Orleans, La; 20 cents for Baltimore
Md, and 30 cents for Covington, KY,
TO $101 for Springfield, Ohio; $l.u2
for East st. Louis, H.; $l.02 for
Yonkers, N. Y. s1.06 for Salt Lake
City, Utah; $1.0S for Boston Mass;
$1.22 Joliet; $1.2S, Springfield, Mass;
$12S for Youngstown, Ohio; $1.31 for
Hartford. Conn; $l.33 Tor Oakland
CAL; $1.36 for Duluth, Mimi; $l.4l
for Newton, Mass; $1.41 Tor Tacoma
Wash; $1.45 for Denver, Colo; $1.45
for Pueblo, Colo, and S1.56 for Spok
anc, Wash. r..
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

evasion of records and issues is self
doomed to defeat and humiliation
The people are to-day more thorough
'ly informed as to national conditions
and national needs than ever before
They cannot be fooled by pretenders
nor betrayed by false prophets. They
are the real rulers of the country, and
they will measure each party seeking
their favor by what 1t has done rather
than by what it promises to do.
The republican party will tell the
truth throughout the whole campaign
1t will stand fast for the candor, cour
age and resolute Americanism which
pities coward. but hates liar.
Tell the truth!
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

The only discordant note in the
entire trip OF Taft through Iowa was
sounded at Burlington. Some enthus.
lasts there had a big banner made
with Tafts and Cummins' pictures
on it, and bearing the inscriptions,
For President" and For L. S. Sen
ator." The mistake might have been
overlooked if the enthusiasts had nor
pushed people out of the way in or
der to flaunt it before the eyes OF
those aboard the Taft train. If those
fellows could have heard the com
ments that came from the members
of the Taft party they surely would
get down and beg the Governors
pardon. 1t was a most i'll advised
outcrop of enthusiasm and was more
disgusting to the Governors personal
friends than to his opponents.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01
SAME OLD ATTACK.


Cedar Rapids Republican:The Sioux
City Tribune takes some exceptions
to Mr.. Lacey's views on the tariff and
its exceptions to those views are so
serious that it does not believe that
Mr.. Lacey ought to be given the ALI
son seat in the United States senate.
But we are afraid that the Tribune,
which is not a republican paper and
whose editor Is an old time free-trad.
er, is not helping the governor very
much with the voters of Iowa. We
believe its arguments will have the
contrary effect.
We are of the opinion, and that very
firmly that Mr.. Lacey's tariff views
are the views of nine-tenths of the
farmers of Iowa, to say nothing of
the laboring men of the state.
The farmers of this state have no
cause to go back on the policies of
Mckinley and of Dngley. the policies
which Mr.. Lacey has always voted
for as a member of congress and which
he is now defending on the stump, i'll
connection with his candidacy for the
United States senate. Under those
policies the farmers have prospered as
they have never before prospered.
That prosperity may not all be due
to those policies, but it has at least
come under the administration OF
those policies, and 1t is equally true
that the reverse results were brought
about a little decade ago under the
policies that the Sioux City paper then
advocated and which it is now advo.
eating, and which it believes are the
policies championed by the present
governor
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

-Marshalltown Times Republican:
The fast time made in the Y. NJ. C.
A. boys relay race, from Oskaloosa
to Marshaltown, demonstrates the
good work of the association in build
ing up the body as well as the mind
and spirit This phase OF the Y. NJ.
C. A. triangle" is an important one,
for without good, strong bodies there
is but little room for building in 9th.
er directions. Clean athletics helps
make clean minds and bodies, and it
is this work, aside from the spiritual.
that the Y. NJ. c. A. stands for.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01
A CHANGE OF HEART.
Democrats Are Now Abusing in Place
of Praising Republicans.

Des Moines, Ia, Sept. SO.-lowa dem
ocrats have been placed in a peculiar
and embarrassing position by the de-
.velopments of the campaign, owing
to the sudden changes of base else
where along the firing line. When
Mr.. Bryan opened the activities OF
thee present engagement in Iowa, the
tactics were plainly of conciliatory
nature with reference to his dealings
with the Roosevelt following. Not
only did he find much to commend in
the republican leaders record, but
the word was quietly passed along the
line at conferences with Iowa demo
Gratis to use no derogatory language
in dealing with the president.
This line of action was adopted i'm
mediately after the Denver conyen-
ton when Theodore Bell in confer.
ence with Mr.. Bryan at Fairview
voiced the general Indignation arous-
ed by Permanent Chairman. Clayton's
attack on the president. Mr.. Bell
warned. the democratic candidate that
II he looked for any support IN the iar
west, such attacks on Mr.. Roosevelt
should be discouraged.
Following the instructions of the
democratic nominee, Iowa orators
adopted laudatory tactics in referring
to the president. Fred White, demo-
cratic candidate for governor, went
so far as to thank him on behalf of
democracy "for having performed for
his country's good so valuable SER
vice as to constitute new epoch in
the nations history"
Trusting that the president would
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

An Alabama paper says editorially
that one reason for the great amount
of illiteracy in the south is the illit-
eracy OF the superintendent of educa-
tion in the counties. Some OF them
can not even read and write, but that
this is true only of Alabama is a mat
ter of doubt 1t is proposed that the
county superintendent be chosen
from the ranks of the teachers as is
done in Iowa and elsewhere in the
LnorTh
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

The postoffice department was es-
tablished for the purpose of safe and
speedy transmission of communica,
lions between the people. To make
the postal service a freight carrying
proposition is to depart from the spirit
and purpose of this branch of govern
ment. The demands for extension of
the parcels post comes from special
interests and not from the people.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

--Grundy county has not had jury
trial in four years. The nearest ap,
proacb was in the r-ardie CuIliLan
case recently, when a jury was EN-
pannelled, but in less than two hours
afterward the case was dismissed.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

Mr.. Bryan declares that Presi-
dent Roosevelt's letter indorsing Mr..
Taft is irrelevant and immaterial.'
That is what a troubled lawyer al
ways says of hostile testimony which
he cannot refute.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

The patience of the crowd, watch
ing and waiting to hear Taft, has
been the subject of much comment
since the meeting. The people wait
ed without a murmur standing crowd
ed about the stand for fully two hours
and some for longer period. A part
of this time they stood in a scorch.
ing hot sun. Taft is surely a winner.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

I'VE are of the opinion, and that
very firmly" says the Cedar Rapids
Republican, that Major Lacey's tariff
views are the views of nine-tenths OF
the farmers of Iowa, TO say nothing
of the laboring men of the state.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

Tom Wilcoxe, of Clinton, who
figured on the construction of the To-
cal intern urban line at one time, told
a Herald reporter the other day that
ne was still in a position to finance
the deal. His road between Clinton
and Davenport is paying proposition
and is growing better every day.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

mr.. Taft, allow me to present to
you the only man you have seen since
you crossed the river who is going to
vote for you, Mr.. Marsh w. Bailey.
Presidential Elector from Iowa"
The joke burst on Taft in a heap,
and he gave vent to the heartiest
laugh that he INDUCED during the day.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

The press representative of the
Alumni Bureau of Information at the
State University at Iowa City has a
lot to learn. The first thing to make
his stuff acceptable is big one: Boil
it Down"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01
Remember the big sale. Horses,
cattle and hogs.
Fleener e Peasley.
chestnuts Are Ripe

A number of chestnut trees are scat
tered here and there about oskaloosa
and the frost has the effect of open
ing the burs. The trees seem to
thrive here and why they are not more
cultivated is wonder, for they are
ornamental, useful and fruitful.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

-Bryan's visit TO Oskaloosa today,
makes the third presidential candi-
date that has been here this fall, Eu-
gene Chaffn, Prohibitionist, W. H.
Taft, Republican and w. J. Bryan,
Democrat. If Oskaloosa is not saved
it surely will not be the politicians
fault
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

New Sharon Star: The nomina
ton of Major John F. Lacey as a
candidate for the United States senate
removes the last vestige OF excuse fol
further republican, wrangling. Gov
ernor Cummins stands as the candi
date of one faction, Major Lacey Of
the other. and it now remains only fol
the republicans to go to the polls and
vote their choice for senator, and re
CARELESS Of which receives the largest
vote at the primary, the one leading
will be elected by the Legislature
which conyenes in January. Neither
of the candidates will make a canvass
for himself. but both will stump 'he
state asking for the election OF every
republican on the ticket. This is eX
actly as it should be, and now let us
have peace that peace which brings
sweeping republican victory,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

Auditor Carroll at Washington:
The state is republican and should
be controlled by the republicans, but
there is an added reason and a very
important one why we should have a
republican, legislature this time and
that is to insure the election of a re-
United States senator"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

Five men have committed the
Federation of Labor in Iowa to their
political favorite. There are many
reasons to predict that they will meet
no better success than GOmpers did
in telling the national organization
what to do.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-10-01

I'm criticising Mr.. Taft's record in
the Philippines Mr.. Bryan referred to
the Benguet Railroad. Mr.. Taft re-
plies: There is no Benguet Railroad.
wish there was" Mr.. Bryan should
not allow his carelessness with facts
Ito grow upon him.