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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-07
ONCE MILLIONAIRE
IS NOW PAUPER

MILWAUKEE, Wis, June G &.
y. l., Meyer, aged II, the first pceai-
xlent OF the Chicago and Northwestern
rlilroad, former mayor of Fon | ,.r
Lac, Wis, once in business with the
late Senator Sawyer of OshkcsI,
towner of big sash. door, blind and
Wholesale lumber business. and worth
al one time "A million dollars, came
today to Gustav Frellson OF the AS
ISOLATED Charities and applied for al
mission to the Milwaukee County
Poorhouse.
HE told % his failure in business,
of his losses in first one direction ana
another, until finally he was left en-
tnely penniless. He came to Mil.
waukee and lived here for a time, and
two years ago, moved to Chicago. He
has two daughters. both of them mar
ried 40 wealthy men, but neither OF
them reply TO his requests for aid.
G3y his removal to Chicago he has for
feited his right to admission to the
Milwaukee County Poorhouse.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-07
INDICTED AFTER
BANK failure

NORWALK, o.. June 6.-Con-
gresham j. f. Laning, formerly vice
president and a director of the de-
funct Ohio Trust Company. was in
dicted today on seven counts, charg-
ing embezzlement, and was Jointly
indicted with James p. Gibbs, presi-
dent of the closed bank, in two in
dictments in which obtaining money
by false pretenses is alleged and an
other indictment charging misappli-
cation of the funds of the bank. F.
w. Christian, secretary and treasurer
of the bank, was twice indicted on
the charge of perjury and making
false reports to the State Examin-
ers. William S. Perrin, director, is
thrice indicted on the charge of 90
tanning property under false preten-
SEES. Two additional indictments ac-
cuse President Gibbs of aiding an
abetting Secretary Christian in thu
charge of perjury and making false
reports.
Altogether, it is alleged, Congress-
man Laning and President Gibbs alb
stracted and misapplied funds and
credits of the bank to the extent OF
S56,S64
Congressman Laning recently was
nnp1inatpd for q Spcond term in Con-
gress.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-07
SAYS RASCALS
we're REINSTATED

NEW YORK, June 6.-"WhiIe |
was Secretary of the Treasury | dis
missed number of men from the
service for rascality, and Secretary
Cortelyou reinstated them all.
This statement was made tonight
by Leslie M. Shaw, New York banker
and former Secretary of the Treasury,
while discussing the mysterious re-
moval of William II. Theobald from
his POSITION as special employe of the
treasury department in the work Of
seizing struggled diamonds.
After he had been dismissed by
Secretary Shaw, Theobald was rein
stated by Secretary Cortelyou, who
succeeded Shaw. Now Secretary Cor.
telyou finds it necessary, in his turn,
to dismiss Theobald from the SER
vice. As TO his reason for Diminishing
TheobaId in 1902, Shaw said:
'Theobald was dismissed because
he was a consummate rascal He
should not have been reinstated.
Secretary Cortelyou at Washington
tonight declined to make any answer
to the criticisms of former Seeretars
Shaw in reference to the reinstata-
ment of men removed by Mr. Sha v
while in Office.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-07

ton from New York to San Francisco.
which operates to keep rates down.
The revenue, which the increases now
talked of will produce. will, it is said,
not be very great
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-07

Five year old claret at $3.50 per
gallon. Fl. J. Hail & Co. tt
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-07

THERE'S N We ar u
weather all being
bm be
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17
IOWA is IN LEAD.

The college farmer. the DoT VINO
leaves the farm to learn scientific
methods at one Of the big agricultural
institutions. came into his own last
week al the live stock show in ChiCa-
go, when representatives o. these in
stitutions made a new record in prizes
for examinations and Judging and 9th
er practical tests Of ability. Eight OF
the colleges sent picked teams OF stu
dents and the contest between these
was so close that the final difference
in standing was only matter OF 4
few per cent. Iowa State College led
at the finish, with Nebraska University
next, followed by Texas Agricultural
College, Missouri University, Kansas
Agricultural College. Ohio University,
Ontario Agricultural College and Min
ncsota University. When the first in
tCTnatioual live stock show opened its
doors there was much amused inter
est as to the outcome of the contests
between the college youth, with his
scientific and theoretical training, and
the boy who had been taught practical
farming by his father every day Oh an
actual farm. That was in the days
when the value OF scientific training
was little recognized and old ways
were thought the best. Then came
the contests, in which, to the surprise
OF all but few, the college students
who were verscd in the theory Of
farming showed they had a better
grasp OF the practical side OF Il than
their friends and neigabors who had
learned In the hard school Of expert
encc, Farmers who had sneered at
rbook larnm" began TO inquire about
tuition for their sons in some OF the
schools, and now. students day" at
the live stock SHOW is one OF the
most interesting in the whole program.
This year thirty colleges were repre-
ssenten from the United States and
Canada and the competition between
them and between individuals was
keener than It has ever been before.
Delegations from some OF the nearer
institutions turned oft 10 support
their fellow students and when H. II.
Kildee, OF Iowa State College was
awarded first prize IN the jnrging con,
test, the announcement was followed
BY college gen THAT would have done
credit 10 championship football game.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17
KINGS DAUGHTERS COMING.
Definite Arrangements For State
Meeting in OskaIoosa.

Word has been received that Oska-
l0Osa has been definitely determined
upon as the place of holding the an.
'nual convention of the Kings Daugh-
ters of the state OF Iowa, and only the
dates remain 10 be fixed. Formal an
nouncemeEt vii! be made within Il
short time.
The convention will be one of the
greatest ever held by the organiza-
ton. The general public will have
interest in the convention by the rea-
sou OF the presence OF Sophia Wright,
of New Orleans, practical philan-
throDist whose name is known
Throughout the land and whose work
tamong the poor children of New Or.
leans has won for her lasting name
among the modern wonder workers.
She is an enthusiastic Kings Daugh-
ter and her presence at the state
convention will attract big attend
'anCc a the meeting.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17
RURAL DELIVERY SERVICE.

The annual rHLort of Fourth Assist,
ant Postmaster General p. V. DeGraw
Just made public, is of especial inter.
est 70 the patrons of rural fee deiiy.
cry routes. There has be'G lately
largely increased usefulness o. this
bI anch of the postal service, and il is
proposed to add still further to its ef,
fic.ency and popularity by tie delivery
OF packages of eleven pounds maximum
lat a special rate of postage, and bJ
the uniforming of rural carriers. The
package provision requires congress
sional legislation and is designed TO
be effective between the distributing
post office and the patrons of any
rural route emanating from such post
office.
The rural carriers in the service
daily pass 100000 homes, and the
adoption of a uniform suitable 10 the
conditions under which they must
standard of efficiency is attested by
the fact that only 60 carriers out of
a total number of 39.143 were dismiss
ed for cause during the past year.
The estimate of appropriation nee
essary for this service for the next
fiscal year is $36.246,000, an increase
of $4,000 over the current appropria-
ton.
During the past year there were
1872 new routes established, seven.
teen routes discontinued prior thereto
were. established. and 40 routes
discontinued, leaving net increase in
number 1,549. During the year l ,95S
post offices were discontinued. and
the patrons rendered service by rural
carriers.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

ton, of the whole world for matter OF
that, only knew their unpayable Ia
debtedness TO her they would wear
mourning bands on their arms tor
thirty days and get extra allowances
from their husbands and fathers and
brothers TO raise a glorious monument
over her bones All the womens
clubs, too, from GAINESVILLE 10 zanzi.
bar would drape their halls and put
suitable resolution OF their great loss
on their minutes.
Mrs. Osborne invented the feminine
shirt waist.
According TO the consensus of fem
mime opinion, no single article OF
feminine wear and feminine decora
tion has ever eaualed the shirt waist.
1t is at once the most comfortable,
the most becoming, and the most
adaptable article in my lady's ward
robe. 1t is capable of being drawn
out TO any extent like an accordian
II is formal and its informal, and
everything, that lies between. IL is
suitable for anything from seance
with che cooking stove to reception
at the Gotrocks with footman at the
front door.
Its genesis was simple. Mrs. Osborn
saw her husbands soft shirts and en-,
We'd them. From that, as one who
has a surface knowledge of the sex
will testify, it was but step to an
nexation. Mrs. Osborn went to the
man who supplied her husband and
told him that she wished half dozen
shirts built on the regulation mascu-
line working plans save slight diverg'
cncies here and there, and with a de-
cided curtaiiment in their length. He
demurred: she insisted, and she won.
She wore them herself: she gave
them to her patrons, for she was the
most famous dresSmaker in New York,
and from them sprang the millions OF
shirt waists that have covered and
made attractive the women of the
world.
Mrs. Osborn was a wonderful wonl-
an in many ways. With no expert
cnce and only the necessity for action
TO iapiro her, she lett the ranks OF
New Works. four hundred and with
unIy $500 10 start with, built up a
business thai took an entire building,
employed $50 persons, and enabled
her to leave an estate of fully half a
million.
This was her material reward. but
the shirt waist, to shift it from its
proper place for a moment, was ner
crown OF glory,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17
A CURIOUS POEM.

The following poem OF three stauZas
of four lines each has often been al
luded TO as the most unique literary
curiosity in existence. Each stanza
of this wonderful production contains
every letter of the alphabet except the
letter "e," which all printers win tell
yon Is the most Indispensable Of the
letters, its relative proportion of use
being 100 times 10 y" {. *" s. g" II;
and #" 40. The letter coming next
to ''e in number OF times of use in q
given number OF words. lies or col
umns Is "a" which is used so times
while the letter in question IS being
used 100 times.
The poem which has caused the
above DEPRESSION IL entitled:
THE Fate Of Nassau = /
Bold Nassau quits his caravan
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

who has been visiting relatives in Os-
kaloosa. The local officers were not
even notified by the Missouri sheriff.
who located his prisoner. placed him
under arrest and took him back to
Missouri to answer the charge Of
wife desertior.
Il was the first time n number OF
years that fugitive from Justice was
brought to the state capitol to face
the governor. The sherlif, J. A.
Swearagen, fearing his prisoner might
escape was accompanied by Brant-
ner's fathef.lnlaw and both had
charge OF the prisoner when he was
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17
MANY ANSWERS hEcErvED.
Six Hundred and Fifty People Answer
an Advertisement.

Once more the circulauiO" of tn,
Herald has been put to a test and the
effectiveness of its advertising facili,
ties has been eXcmplified. The ruby
ring contest conducted by the r. x.
Smith iewclry house was concluded
last Saturday after $50 answers had
been received. The contest consisted
in counting dots in a cut which was
published in the terald and all of the
papers in and around OskalOosa. OF
the answers which were received all
but about one hundred were received
in response to the insertion of the
advertisement in the Herald, or five
Dimes as many as from all the other
publications combined.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

There are 10000 lyeeum courses
in the United States and Canada witt
an average OF six lectures and enter
tainments TO each course, making 60,
600 given each season. Local com
mi'tees pay s4,500,000 for these lee
lures and entertainments each year
and the attendance aggregates $4,000
600 people in season. The distance
Travelled by those filing these engage.
ments aggregates 100000 miles
every season. And 70 these similar
figures gathered from cbautauquas
and the total would be still more as
tonishing. One chautauQua organiza
ton paid out over SIo.00U in railroad
fares for talent last season.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

The Burlington Hawk-Eye says
one thing which the advent of the
clear. crisp atmosphere of winter has
brought is individual cheerfulness
There is a physical uplift in the pure
oxygen of winter atmosphere. con
tinues the HawkEye. that puts new
life into people and drives away any
gloomy feelings from physical causes
that may have depressed them Faces
one meets on the street are brighter,
eyes dance and the smile is more con-
tagious. The feeling of good will Is
abroad"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17
NEW PLATFORM SCALES.
The Blackford Flour and Grain ca
Puts in a Fairbanks.

New standard platform scales were
completed at the Office OF tho Black,
FORD Flour e Grain company yester
day and Manager Blaekfor6 is happy
as consequence. He win now 90
able TO do all his own weighing, q
great convenience for his growing
business. The scales are of The laies;
pattern of the standard Fair9anks va
riety. and they are complete and a.
curate Mr.. Blackford also has his
new corn and grain bins completed
and will soon have his building n
fine shape throughout
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17
NO MID-WlNTER CLASS.
High School Will Have Only One
Graduation.

There will be DO mid-winter grad.
uating exercises of the high school
this year as usual, according to the
recent decision of the board of edu,
CatiOn. abOlishing the scmi-annuaI
commencement exercises. The in.
tention is to do away os quickly as
possible with the half-ycar classes,
but those who will complete tneir
courses this winter will in all proba,
bility be given a choice Of receiving
their diplomas quietly or appearing
with the next class in their commence,
ment exercises next June.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

AT the end of the last fiscal year
June 30. l90S-thcre were IN opera
ton total of G1,l5S posi- Offices IN
the United States. according to the
annual repor; OF the first assistant
postmaster general. The number OF
poGtmasters appointed at presidential
Offices was AHA, while 1895 were
given commissions in the fourth-class
offices.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

taken to Governor Garsts Office. They
state TO Ora Williams. private secre-
ttary to the governor, that they would
not trust their prisoner to the Oskl.
loosa authorities, while on their mis-
sion TO the capitol,so they had bronght
him along. Brantner Is twenGy-one
years OF age. He married and desert.
/ ed his wife after charge of scduc-
ltion had been filed against him by
the father Of his wife,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

DIR. S. Weir Mitchell. physician
and author recently told graduating
class of nurses at the University hos
pital in Philadelphia that they were
"entering the best paid occupation OF
women wage-earners." This is nc
doubt true, as graduates OF the Oska
loosa Hospital school for nurses com
mand $25 per week. 1t is a noble
calling, and the services are worth
the money
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

South Market street last Sunday even.
ing are being continued every even
ing by Rev. G. w. Dennis and the
meetings thus far nave been well at.
tended and fun OF enthusiasm and
manifestations of earnestness One
seeker after righteousness went for.
ward to the altar Monday evening and
the workers are hopeful of great re-
suits during the week
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17
TAKEN 10 MISSOURI
Arrested In oskaloosa Charged
With Wife ! esertion.

kidnapped by Missouri sheriff and
his father-in-law. and hurried TO Des
Moines where they appeared at the
governors Office and asked for reqnl,
sition papers TO return their prisoner
to Missouri, was the experience OF Ora
Brantner OF Sulli,an county, Missouri,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

New Sharon Star: Christmas
packages are already going through
the mails. starting on glad journey
to distant friends. Send them right
along. Every one Of them will make
somebody happy. and you can hardly
have more important mission on
earth than that-to increase the hap
p!ness OF others.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

Iowa companies with $l5,O00,0OO
new or increased capital have been
incorporated since July 4. last. Under
the Peterson law which went into eff
feet on that date watered stock is
illegal. so that every dollar of the
$4,000, 900 represents that much cash
investment
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

The mines Of Colorado yielded,
during the calendar year 1907. gold
silver. copper, lead. and zinc 10 the
value Of s37.423. S3S, a decrease OF ap,
proximntcly sG.3l5.V0o as compared
with the value OF the output in 1906
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

Every interurban road that reach
es out into the country brings those
living along its line that much nearer
town. By this nearing process the
land is benefited just that much and
is made all the more valuable.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

1t surprises the public to learn
that the cost of the postal Thanking
privilege last year was $1,000 noe, or
more than twice the amount OF the
postal deficit. Inis leak demands the
prompt attention of congress.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

The KeOkuk Ga,e-City concludes
that General Menocal, tho defeated
candidate for president OF Cuba, Is
the William !. Bryan of that island
He says he is going to run again.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

1t is estimated by competent ell
gineeIs that it will cost the railroads
Of this country $4,000 100000 within
the next few years to keep pace with
he increase of traffic
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

Governor Denoen has issued a
proclamation calling upon the resi-
dents of Illinois to observe the one
hundredth anniversary of the birth OF
Abraham Lincoln.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

e Not satisfied with muleting the
state trasury to build up the city, DeS
Goines IS now trying 10 get the gov
eminent TO pay for part of its street
having Is
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

Where TO go for the Winter, is
the subject of lot of railroad adver-
Using. In this latitude remarks the
Omaha Bee. ''it is not necessary TO go
anywhere for the winter. Just wait
for II"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

One of the most impressive lessons
OF 1908 relates to the hazardous ma
ture Of the miners life the present
safeguards are plainly unsatisfactory,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

New York's forty-three-story SKY
scraper will have descenders as wei
as elevators Six stories will be un
dergrouhd + (,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

Wild turkeys are said TO be plenti-
ful In some localities in Monroe and
Davis counties
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

Ole Christensen, a farmer living
near Glenwood. had an operation per-
formed for the removal Of gall stones
and was relieved Of nearly 400 OF them.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17
Revival Meetings.

The revival meetings which were
BE- gun at the Pentecostal chapel on
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

A hazy mountain got to scan;
Climbs jaggy rocks to spy his way
Doth tax his sight but far doth stray.
Not work of man nor sport OF child
Finds Nassau in that may Wild;
l.aN grows his joints, limbs toll in
vain
Poor wight. Why didst thou quit tina,
plain?
yainly for succor Nassau calls
Know, Zillah, that thy idol falls;
But proving wolf and fox may Joy
To quarry on thy Arab boy.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17
INVENTOR OF SHIRT WAIST.

Cleveland Leader: Josefa Osborn
is dead, and If the. women of the ma
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-12-17

The figures 1912 added together
make Is. or 23, or IS for MIR. Bryan.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-09-17
CHICAGO IS SHOCKED
 BY SALOME DANGERS

Chicago. Sept. 16.-When SaIome
 danced before King IIerod. as the
 BlDie relates she did she might have
 worn more clothes if she had dreamed that twenty centuries later theatrical representations of her dance wonId nave so shocked Chicago that il was seriously proposed to put q man into the Salomc role. The Salomc dance which q prominent theater has ven- turcd '2 present, "eauziiy and less" so stirred the critics that various cen sGring delegates from the police da- l'aF'meht We're sent to pass judgment upon it's moral effect and finally Chief ol Police Shippy went in person. In this crisis the proposal was made to SiVe the Salome role, sandals, beads and all. to a man. It was pointed out that nearly every woman who has tri- ed to portray this delicate story, the interpretation of dance las been unable to hold herself within the bonds of propriety, and all over the country, beginning at the Metro politan opera house in New York, and sweeping westward, there has been a wave of opposition to the exhibition ol sensuouS dancers. Should Miss Faust be stopped by the police the only salome who will 1still remain unmolested from police interference will be Harvard graduate in min strel aggregation
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-09-17

liLa. and therefore forbidden by the eleventh amendment. and secolld, whether the dispensary commission is a court incapable of having it's pro- ceedings stayed by writ Of injunc- tion, granted by a federal court.
 The court further announces that ill the. conception and adoption of the eleventh amendment, it never entered the minds of the framers of that that sovereign state could engage in the liquor business, and become traders by buying and selling an article of common traffic, in competition with the citizens of the country. It may be questioned, there fore, whether the state of South Car olina was exercising a governmental or performing a function necess arily or properly incident t) its autonomy as a state.