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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-10
LETTER FROM HOT SPRINGS.
w. III. Brown Writes of Famous
South Dakota Cancer SAM
tarium.

Hot Springs, S. d., Feb. 6, 1909.
Editor Public Opinion
AS promised / write you a line,
some word of which may be of in
terest to your readers.
Hot Springs is city of about
$500 inhabitants, located in the
southern part of the Black Hills.
Its name is taken from the large
springs of warm water that form
quite a creek much claim being made
for the medicinal qualities of these
waters. And that fact has largely
built up and maintained the town.
The National government has here
a military sanitarium, to which
afflicted soldiers come from the vari-
Gus soldiers homes of the country.
The state has here its soldiers home
Then there are st. Luke'S hCspita
hath houses galore and hctels-some
very file ones-and goo1 business
block.
But the institution that must soon
distinguish the city, above all others,
is DR.. Nichols Sanitarium for the
treatment of cancer. A fine stone
building of 100 rooms will be COM
pleted for this practice. The ques-
ton as TO whether cancer is cura bic
without knife or X-ray treatment Will
be answered affirmatively to the sat
isfaction of every one who will come
here and investigate. Cures effected
are so remarkable that a statement
ceive credit without their being
seen.
My own case is progressing salts
factorily. l hope nothing else than
to soon come home a we'll man.
Patients are here from different
states, all hopeful of cure, many
being discharged since my coming,
now happy at their hcmes. Indeed,
DR.. Nichols will! take no patient he
doesn't expect to cure. He has
turned numbers away who waited
until the dread disease was too far
advanced. But all who come in time
may be cured.
Very truly yours,
w. H. Brown.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-10

But three weeks of the Roosevelt
administration remain and it is evil
dent that these final days are to be
as fully crowded with strenuous
work as any period Of the remark
able seven years of this administra-
ton There is much curious COM
ment on the fact that the President
has deferred the attempt to reform
the naval establishment until the last
month of his administration, and 1t
is considered the more remarkable
from the fact that owing to his
familiarity with the naval situa-
ton, acquired when he was Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy at the be-
ginning of the Spanish war, he should
have waited until these final days to
begin a reform. Evidently he ex-
poets Mr. Taft as the inheritor of the
Roosevelt policies to continue the
naval reformation when he is in the
antipodes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-10
GRAND JURY CONDEMNS JAIL.
Finds County Bastii> in I'm nitary
and Unsafe COndit.pn and rec
commends Improvements.

To Whom 1t May Conce. a:
We, the undersigned, TENDERS of
the Grand Jury of WinnesAfek Coun-
ty, Iowa, for the February, 1908,
term of Court, hereby report that we
have examined the public buildings
belonging to the County, comprising
the Poor Farm Buildings and Coun-
ty Jail.
1t is our opinion that the County
Jail is in an improper condition,
both from a sanitary standpoint and
from the standpoint of safe keeping
of the prisoners confined therein.
We respectfully suggest that meas
ures be taken at once for the purpose
of making the jail more secure, and
in this connection that galvanized
iron screens be placed at all outside
windows OF the Jail department;
that the exit from the garrett to the
main hallway be closed up by an
iron door, that small enclosed cage
be built inside of the present Jail
door; and that all these improve
ments seem to us to be imperatively
demanded just at this time, because
of certain recent attempts at Jail
deliveries in this county.
F. G. Maltby,
VIM. Funke,
George Huber, Sr.,
]. B. Macal,
X. H. Bue,
Gilbert A. Anderson,
Henry A. Hover.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-10
LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS.

fathers brought forth
liberty dedicated
proposition that all created equal Now
in whether nation
dedicated We
We declare a
a resting those who here
gave up altogether
fitting and proper hat should this
hal
low living dead, who
gled consecraed far above to add
will little note, long remember, what
we forget what they did here is
dedicated unfinished
work thus noby
ed II dedicated the
these honored dead take in
creased which the full
highly resolve that these dead
in van that this nation under God shall
that of the people.
by the people shall perish the
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-10

President Roosevelt on Friday
vetoed the Census bill, declaring
that act would permit the spoils
system. He doesn't propose to give
the legislators any opportunity to
use the census appointments to patch
up their political fences.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-10

The Rome, Italy, Tribune wants to
make Roosevelt a Roman citizen out
of gratitude for his work for the
earthquake sufferers. This would
be Romantic.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-10

The great battleship Delaware,
surprising any battleship in the
world, either completed or under
construction, was launched at New
port News on Saturday. She is one
of the four sister ships authorized
by congress, which will form an in
domitable squadron.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-10

Why pay rs cents for a shirt
when you can get the same for 80
cents at o. M. Anderson's closing
out sale.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-02-10

Largest Job Printery in N. f. Iowa.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-30
Attend Farm Land Congress.

Gov Davidson appointed the follow
ing delegates to attend the national
farm land congress, which holds its
first meeting in Chicago November
lG to 81:
4. F. Arnold, Superior; w b Kel
logg. superior; Byron Ripely, Iron
River F. b. Lamereau>, Ashland; ID
NJ Maxcy, Washbush; J. y. Thomas,
Superior; f. A. knudson, Rice Lake;
G. X. Ellingson, Hopkins; J. w
Hicks. Prentiss; ! L. Halle, Crandon,
W. II Mylren, Wausau Ralph Skid
more, Marinettc, f.. r Whcelock
Milwaukee, d w Maloney. Glen
Flora, Charles Thorpe, Modford; II
B Fuley, Hayward; J. G owen owen;
Hugo Kandutsch, w G. Fordyce, But
ternut; J. j IIohl, Minong ilaycson
Amigo, r l.. Munroe, Cadot A. J
Edminster, Holcomb; f, +. lIcminway
Mattoon, NJ j Walrlch, Sha"anO
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-30
Their AdNnntlneS.

so you have made up your mind to
be a specialist What line are you go
ing to take up?"
Il don't know. | have been consld-
oring various advantages in different
branches 4 chiropodist can general
Iy get a foothold, no matter how bad
business Isl manicurist has usually
something on hand; beauty doctor
can usually play a skin game and an
eye and ear doctor can often get a
hearing when there is anything In
sight | haven't dwelt on the posi-
bilities of throat specialists and den
lists or hair experts, because the two
former always look down in the mouth
and the latter may get but bald nv
inE or be expected to dye for his pa
ticnts ' Baltimore American.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-30
Old Law is in / orce.

The supreme court by Chief Justice
j. b. Winslow refused to grant an in
functional order restraining the en-
forcement of chapter 1868 OF the laws
of 1909, relating to the inspection and
sale of Illuminating oils. The case
was that Of the Wadhams Oil Com
pany of Milwaukee against Fred L.
Tracy as state supervisor OF inspoc-
tors of Illuminating oils, and comes,
in fact, as an appeal from the ruling
of Judge w d Tawant of the circuit
court Of Milwaukee county.
Judge Tarraut dissolved a tempor-
airy injunction restraining the enforce
ment of the law, declaring that 1t can
not be held that the law is unConsti-
tutonal thus sustaining the Conten-
tion of Attorney General +. l.. Gilbert
that the state should not be longer re
strained from the enforcement of the
law
Thereupon the Wadhams Oil Com.
pany filed an undertaking preparatory
to the appeal to the supreme court
anu lllt case WIS Il'S'It'u 4'i'''
! shutz and Burnham of Milwaukee, at
torneys for plaintiffs, and Attorney
General Gilbert, by A. c. Titus for the
state
Chief Justice JB Winslow heard
the application and refused to issue a
restraining order The appeal was set
for hearing, however, at the term of
court to be held beginning Novem.
her 16
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-30
FILE COMPLAINTS
TO RECOVER FEES
State Starts Action Against For
mer Commissioners.
POINT OF LAW Is RAISED
Attorney General Demands All Money
Collected by Examiners Over and
Above Their Just Expense
$4,000 Is Involved.

Madison. Complaints We're filed in
the circuit court Of Dane county by
Attorney General Frank l.. Gilbert in
the suits brought by the state of Wis
consin against former Insurance Com
missioners William A. Fricke, Emil
Giljohann and Zeno NJ. Host and their
bondsmen. against Commissioner of
Insurance George +. Beedle and his
bondsmen.
In all seven causes of action are set
forth, involving penalties to the sum
of $4,000, against w. A. Fricke and
his bondsmen two causes of action are
recited with penalties of 100000 each,
against Emil Giljohann, three with
penalties of $4,000 each; against
Zeno NJ. Host, two with penalties of
$4,000 each, and against George r,
Beedle, two with penalties OF 100000
each
The complaints charge, in sub
stance, that the defendants were
charged with the duties OF examining
both foreign and domestic insurance
! companies uOIHS DuSlHtSs III w lSN'h
sin and with the duty of paying into
the state treasury all sums collected
by them as compensation for such eX
animation, as provided by law, over
and above the actual necessary eX
penses of such examination.
It is alleged in each of the severa
complaints that the respective com
missioners conducted such eXamina
/ tions during their terms of office anc
| collected therefor large sums of mon
! ey, over and above the actual anC
necessary expenses of conducting the
examinations, the exact amount o
which is not known to the plainui
| and which were converted by the re
! spective commissioners to their owl
uses and benefits.
Twenty days are given the defend
ants in which to answer or file demur
ers. In all probability demurers vii
be interposed within 20 days, raising
an issue of law as TO whether tn
funds involved belonged to the stat
or to the defendants respectively.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-30
State Historical Soc,sxy Meets.

S'd7e T'TsKUTTOeT SOC Fty Wetts,
The iitty-seyenth annual meeting OF
the State Historical Society of Wis
consin was held in the State Historical
library building. The following cura-
tors were elected for the term of
three years;
Henry {. Campbell of Milwaukee,
William Is. Coffin Of Eau Claire, Col
hiram Hayes of SUPERIOR William w.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-30
Will Debate Income Tax.

The Wisconsin intercollegiate de-
bate teams which will meet the teams
of the universities of Illinois and Min
nesota. December 16, have been Sc
lected as follows. Thomas SandersOn.
Cambria Hal r. Martin, Madison, f.
+. Witte, Watertown; + A. Meyers,
Evansville; ]. L. Childs, Eau Claire;
George Blanchard, Colby. This is the
last year of the quintangular league
comprising Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota.
Nebraska and Wisconsin, Wisconsin
at present being at the head of the
percentage column with four victories
and two defeats. The Illinois debate
will take place in Madison and the
Minnesota contest at Minneapolis, The
question which all the universities
will debate or the same night, one
team Of each having the Affirmative
and one the negative, is Resolved,
That a graduated income tax with an
exemption of incomes below $4,000 per
annum would be a preferable modlii-
cation of the present system OF ed
eral taxation
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-30
Protest at Phone Ads.

Whether or not it has jurisdiction
to regulate the advertisements in t"Ie.
phone directories, was the question
presented to the railroad rate commits
sion on Saturday by T /. Boyle, ap-
pearing for the Fond du La" business
Mems association The Wisconsin
Telephone Company inserted in It's
Fond du Lac directory the advertise
ments of a number of Milwaukee mer
chants. which stirred the Fond du Lac
association 70 arms
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-30
Has Biz EnroIIrent.

Hundreds Of young farmers from all
parts Of wisconsin have been entered
IN the advance enrolment Of the six
weeks course in agriculture given
each winter a the University Of Wis
conyln some 1s4 have enrolled for
the second years work and 10 pr
more are to come tor the frs' time.
including 2s residents Of Il state
other -han Wisconsin
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-30
Prominent Educator Dies.

Former President Oscar Atwood, A
NJ. for Is years president Of Straight
university. New Orleans, died at his
home in Prairie du sac He has been
an educator Of prominence for long
period. first as principal Of the Rut-
land (VtD high school, afterward su-
perintendent OF public instruction Of
Plattsburg y. Y, then as president OF
Straight university
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-30
ReducinQ.

Miss Elder Dick says that this
rose In my hair makes me look ten
years younger
Miss Younger Govi Why don't you
get a couple more
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-30
THE CAT OUT OF TIE BAG.

Mrs, Bauer-Tell my son,inlaw that
l thank him for his invitation, but am
unable to accept it.
Servant-Good. He promised me
half Il dollar if you weren't able to
come
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-30

stays while they are cleaning house at
his club
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-30
SpRtISS AND HRIISIS

disappear lk" mag" under tho healing i"uch or
Prrry Davis pninklUpr punug tins lev weather no
household should b" without Ii In Zoe lc. uuc AiIrA'
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-30
Pettit's Eye SaIVc Restores.

No matter how badly the eyes may be
diseased or injured. All druggists or How
ard Bros, Buffalo, n. y.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-30

WIEN we read Of King Rob
ert the Bruce that he was
| so greatly impressed and
N inspired by the spectacle of
the spider accomplishing,
after very many efforts.
New-York tribune., 1909-09-23
4 SIGHT FOR THE GODS!

Either Tammany's confidence in Justice Gay
nor must be superb or II cannot intend to nomi-
nate him. for otherwise il would not just at the
time when he is trying to make the people think
that he can no Tammany at all, but only a
Democratic City Convention, have perpetrat2d
one of its characteristic enOrmities. The Judge
began his public career as the protector of the
purity of the ballot. Yet Tammany in its stuff
ing of the Independence League primary ballot
boxes on Tuesday night merely did in a pri-
mary what Mr. Gaynor pursued McKane TO
Jail for doing in an election. It requires brazen
effrOntery 10 ask the man who fought the
Gravesend corruption in 1893 to become the
candidate of a ballot box stuffng organization.
We shall see how the Brooklyn reformer con
ducts himself in the premises; how he viii wear
this new honor, if he can bring himself to
accept IT,
For Tammany's corruption of the primaries
was exactly like Mchanes corruption of elec-
tions. Tammany had the primary election Off
cals. The Independence League. being a peace
ful organization, looked upon its primaries as a
mere formality and did not attend them. Tam
many men voted in the names of the enrolled
members of the League. and thus stole the party.
eecting Tammany men 10 fill all its committees.
McKane merely tried 10 stuff the ballot boxes of
one little corner Of Kings County, about four
election districts Tammany has just stuffed
ballot boxes all over town in hundreds Of cleo
tion districts Won't il he sight for gods and
men TO see the Nemesis of McKane. ''the vim
dicator of the purity of the ballot" as The can
didafe Of the organization that has Just per
petrated the biggest ballot box stufiing on rec
ord:
New-York tribune., 1909-09-23
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-A J. Balfour the U7nionist leader,
came out at Birmingham as a strong champion
Of protection and read message from Joseph
Chamberlain favoring the rejection OF the ] 6udset
army officer detailed on aeroplane service was
killed while testing an aeroplane near Boulogne
== The No6Ts lost four hundred men IN the
actions with the Spanish troops on september
% and p; the position of the tribesmen on
Mount Curuga was turned. == Leading Jews
an London were inclined to discredit the reports
= OF massacre AZ kieff. -= Three men con
victed Of many murders were executed At Va
lence, France: crowds applaUded when the knife
fell. =- Two suffragettes were sentenced TO
two and three months At hard labor. respective
ly. for having attempted TO break UP the meet
1ng addressed by Premier Asquith at Birmng-
ham on September l.. == The charges against
the Rev " W Morrison, American in the
Congo region, have heen withdrawn.
DOMESTIC.-President Taft spent the day in
Colorado, visiting the Grand Canyon of the
Arkansas, Wolhurst Colorado Springs and
Pueblo. he crossed the Continental Divide ==
Governor Hughes at Albany appointed eX-
Judge William H. Wadhams ito examine the
management and affairs of the Office and de-
partment of the State Superintendent Of the
Metropolitan Elections District" = The State
Department in washington has been advised
that Russian agent has been appointed
20 represent here the Imperial Ministry of Agri-
that cholera had appeared al Vladivostok- =
The State Department ordered an Investigation
of the alleged i'll treatment Of an American
citizen by the Panama police
CTTY-Stocks were lower. == DR.. Cook
answered reporters questions for an hour and
half. -= Wilbur Wright and Glenn H. Curtiss
met. but did not shake hands -= Railroads
running into this city announced schedules Of
extra trains TO be during Hudson Fulton
week The Hudson Fulton commission
announced that S1O00OOO had been spent and
that more money would be paid out before the
5etes were over. == Wall Street heard that
Charles ". Morse and Charles 8. Mellen, presi-
dent of the New Haven road, We're working to-
Eether TO control the Metropolitan Steamship
Company. -= Admiral VOn Roster arrived TO
take command Of the German feet during the
Hudson Fulton celebration. President
of la Into
route up Madison avenue from 3Sth street TO
The Bronx. - further drop of points in
Lehgh Valley Railroad stock accompanied a
report that the Reading and Jersey Central had
sold their holdings Of it. The Committee
OF One Hundred issued reply to Justice CAY
nOTs statement. ---= The stockholders of the
New York and New Jersey Telephone Company
voted unanimously 70 authorize the sale Of the
company 10 the New York Telephone Company
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Showers. The temperature yesterday: Highest
E3 degrees: lowest. 63.
New-York tribune., 1909-09-23
THE GUESTS OF NEW YORK

Through sunshine and through fog the guests
of New York come fociing 10 the Hudson Full
ton celebration; not after voyages so daring and
venturesOme as that of Hudson though they
follow his track. but certainly in vessels
which, could he but see them, would astonish
Fulton little less than his famous craft aston
ished the gazers along the river a century ago
And New York to-day welcomes these multi
1udinOus representatives of all the lands and
peoples Of the globe 10 be its guests in a stately
commemoratiOn which is well worthy To COM
mand the sympathetic attention of the world.
That this should be the case is a. once ncces-
sary and felicitous. Obviously il Was inevitable
that if the epocb-making achievements Of Henry
Hudson and Robert Fulton should be celebrated
The scene Of the commPmOration must he the
place which above all others is inseparab bly, as
sociated with their fame. They did great things
elsewhere, bur their crow7ling works were ac-
compllshed here For that reason il was necps
ssry for New York 10 undertake the celebration
and 10 become AZ this time the host Of the visit
ing world.
The felicity Of the circumst snceS. moreover
amply rivals its necessity. for there could bc no
other place So well fitted for the function as the
metropolis of the western world. It is easily
conceivable that a great celebration might be
historically and Sentimentaly indicated for
place which WAS not IN ali respects practically
be said that this was recently the case with
jamestown, where there were not material
facilities adequate 10 The magnitude which was
desired and which would have been fitting for
the celebration But in convenience OF access.
in capacity for entertainment IN social and
commercial importance. and IN the opuence Of
lis resources, natural ana acquired. for the sue
cessiui conduct Of the greatest celebration New
A"rk s happily commensurate with the hisforl-
fal proportions Of this occasion.
There Is also certain peculiar fitness in New
FORKS thus welcoming the world for both in
tradition and in present condition this civ is
more Than any other the worlds epitome Clio
haihl AerraZano was an Italian IN the emnlo,,
oL France Henry Hudson was an Englisbuan
al me employ OF Holland. Robert Fulton was
nauNe American Of Irish ancestry who had
Gone much Of his inventive work in Frapco
il"W many other nations have contributed IA Tho
ulbmlding and 10 the fame Of New yorl, ~.
should hesitate 10 say. To mention those with
are nov represented IN the permanent ,,o,,uIs
non would be 10 call the roll Of the cvilizoa
word Past present and future cosmonol,s
Ae~ York in these early autumn days reioices
New-York tribune., 1909-09-23
PEARY AND COOK.

Commander Peary makes il evident that his
decision not to accept special honors until after
the question whether he or DR.. Cook first
reached the pole is answered was not altogether
spontaneous, but that it was largely the result
of advice from the officers of the organization
which has been the chief promoter of his Are
tic expeditions. Nevertheless the purpose is
exceedingly wise.
nr. \Cook should not, and probably will not
interpret this concession as an admission of
the correctness of his own claims There are
many persons who are yet uncOnvinced that he
reached the pole. Commander Peary is only
one. To the rest of the doubters as well as
to his rival. he owes it to dispel all uncertainty
in what is the most effective manner He is not
justified i'm treating the affair as his own private
business. He has already accepted public hon
ors, abroad and at home. and may not have
seen the last of them yet. The public is en-
titled 10 learn on what data his case rests 1t
will probably not he Influenced by the teSti-
mOny of his Esquimau companions, whether
they tell the same story as the explorer or not
They are hardly competent witnesses. For an
entirely different reason the value of what
Harry Whitney may say is open to question
He repeat what Dr. Cook told him. but if
he did not accompany the explorer TO the pole
how can he speak from personal knowledge?
The only thing which will satisfy the skeptiCs
is the record of Dir. Cooks latitude observa-
tions aud these should he presented to com
petent judges of their accuracy and meaning
In seeking a verdict from such authorities at
the earliest practicable moment we believe that
Dr. Cook would merely meet Commander Peary
half way, while continued hesitation might
easily be interpreted an indication of lack
of. confidence in his own cause or Indifference
TO public opinion. or both.