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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18

RAILROAD Vi BUILDER DIES
Ransom r. Gable, One Of Promoter.
Rock Island System, Passes Away
After Brief Illness.

Chicago, Nov. 1G.-Ransom r. Cable
one of the builders of the Rock Islant
railway system, and one of the best
known railroad men in the country
died at the residence of his son, Ben
temin f. Cable, after an illness o
only week. -
Notwithstanding his IS years, Mr.
Cable had been in the best of health
until a week ago, and then it wa
thought he was merely the victim Of ;
slight indisposition.
Mr.. Cable is survived by widow
and three children. The latter are
BENJAMIN F. Cable, general counsel o
the Rock Island road; Hiram F. Cable
and Mrs. Edward Pope. Funera
services will be held in Rock Island
Ill. Sunday. ..-- 1911. ...--~s-..,. ....
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
TO,TAEE THE CENSUS
Good Workers Should Be Selected
In Oskaloosa.

w. H. H. Asbury, of Ottumwa, was
in town yesterday, calling on city Of
|ficials, members of the Commercial
Club and prominent citizens, and con.
|sulting with them in regard to the
Federal census which is to be taken
next spring. Mr.. Asbury is supervis,
or for the Sixth district, and will rec
ommend the appointment of every
census taker in the district. He
hopes to enlist the cooperation OF the
city administration and business or
CARNATIONS in seeing that good men
are suggested for the places, and in
Iinsuring that the work is we'll and
Thoroughly done at the proper time
Oskaloosa will have from five TO
nine enumerators. If one man does
the work in. each ward there will be
only five, but the four larger wards
may be divided into twoF districts
each, and in that case there will be
nine enumerators. The work must
be started on the 18th day of April
1910 and must be completed by the
first OF May, thus giving the workers
only fifteen days to cover the terri
tory. In the country the enumerators
will be allowed thirty days. One man
will cover an entire township, except
those. having large towns contained
therein, like Prairie township. In
this case the town of New Sharon will
have a special enumerator, and the
rest of Prairie township will have a
man. Jefferson township, because pi
the large mining population that has
moved in there since the last census
was taken, will be divided this time
and two men will be assigned to the
work.
As Oskaloosa and Mahaska county
will be known IN all official records
for the next ten years by the popula
ton that is developed next sprng, il
is important that good men be select
ed to do the work, and that every
man, woman and child be properly
listed. To that end the Commercial
Club should take an active part, ant
help to put Oskaloosa in its proper
place among the cities of the state
and nation.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
An Error,

The Ottumwa Courier the other day
contained a personal item in which il
stated that Miss Alice Eddy, of Oska
loosa, and her friend Miss Rose Young
OF Chicago, We're visiting with Miss
Bessie Chambers in Ottumwa. Mrs
Eddy of this city. mother of the young
lady mentioned says she knew that
this was not true and for curiosity
telephoned ottumwa and learned that
the item had been given to a Courier
reporter. She says Alice Eddy is now
in Chicago and working in the Mar
shall Field store,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
liza HURT IN II MONTHS
Statistics of Casualties Among EN-;
ployes of New York Rail-
roads.

New York, Nov. BIN 81 months
7,714 of the 63,5O0 employees of the
railroads in New York city were in.
iured, according to the report made
by the secretary of the public-servic
commission to the commission on EN-.
ployers' liability. This would mean
that on an average each employee will
be injured once in every eight years OF
service. Ex-Mayor Seth Low declared
that 25,O00,0O0 was paid annually in
the United States by employers for in.
dustrial insurance.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
LOSES BOTH LEGS.
Farmer of Near FlagIer Asleep On
the Track is Run Over.

Young Phillips, a farmer residing
near Flagler. station on the c., r. |.
& p. Ry. between Evans and Knox
vile, was run over Saturday after
noon by the passenger train due in
Oskaloosa at 4"2O, going east, and
both of his legs were cut off. He was
picked up by the trainment and taken
back to Knoxville, the accident delay
ing the train considerable. 1t is
claimed that Phillips was lying across
the tracks when the engineer first
saw him and it was then too late for
him to stop in time to avoid the un.
fortunate accident.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
Come To Oskaloosa
List of New Citizens Who
Have Recently Arrived.

w. P. Blackboard and bride come to
take up their home in Oskaloosa. Mr.
and Mrs. Blackford will be at home
in the Andy Conrad property, corner
y avenue and A street.
John v. Coleman and Mrs. Mary
Coleman are recent corners to Uni
yersity Park.
Wilbur ]. Bowers and family, for
merly of Fort Dodge, are located at
No. 8O4 Fifth avenue east. Mr.. Bow
ers is an inspector engaged with the
Oskaloosa Light and Fuel Company
Fred E. Catlin and family have
come from Sioux City to reside per
manently in Oskaloosa. They have a
home on X avenue east. Mr.. Catlin
is an employe Of the Oskaloosa Light
and Fuel Company.
RHR
Miss Mary e. Wheelock, formerly
of Grinnell, the new librarian of the
Oskaloosa Public Library, has apart
menas at the Hadley home, No. 4O7
South Market street.
gHR
Mr.. and Mrs. n, A. Wood and two
children came from ,Sibley a short
time ago to make Oskaloosa their fu.
ture home and reside at No. S24 South
First street. Mr.. Wood is an empIoye
OF the Rock Island.
9EH
Mr.. and Mrs. w. R. Dickey and fam.
lily of four children, from Harvey, re,
side at No. I'll South Second street
Mr.. Dickey is an emlpoye Of the Os.
kaloOsa l.. & F. Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Beuce Evans, recently
of Hannibal, Mo-, will make their
home in Oskaloosa during the wear,
Their address is No 613 Third avenue
east.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
ROBERTSON BREAKS RECORD
In Sixty HORSEPOWER Fiat Machine
Driver Sends Car Fifty Miles
in 44:22:o2.

Atlanta, Ga, Nov. lathe automo
bile races reached their climax here
when George H. Robertson, driving a
so horsepower Fiat, lowered the
American track record for so miles by
four minutes and seven seconds. -.
The previous record was held by
John Aiken. who made the distance al
indianapolis in 44:21:02. I'D, g..
Eight cars started in the contest
and five of them finished, despite the
record-breaking pace which was set
Louis Strang, plotting his 200 horse
power Fiat, set a terrific pace in the
first II miles, but in the eighteenth
as he was passing the judges stand
the tire of his rear right wheel ez
ploded with a report like artillery
This compelled his withdrawal.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
Small Work Goes Begging.

Small joys of work, put up storm
doors, taking down screens, raking the
yard, banking the. house, putting a
hing on the woodshed door, packing
the outside cellarway with straw and
paper, ETC., etc, all go begging this
season. Men who do days work
are scarce and il you have the work
to be done, your surest method of get
ting man TO do 1t is to use a Her
aid want ad.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
ARREST HIGH UP'
:. SUGAR OFFICIAL
Resigned Superintendent Ameri-
can Company's Refinery Held.
RE-lnDlcT SIX EMPLOYEES
Arbuckle Bros. Drawn into Scandal
Seek to Return to Government
Big Sum Diverted by
gunder.Weishing.

New York, Nov. 13.--James F. Bend.
ernagel, for many years general SUI
perintendent of the Williamsburg re-
finery of the American Sugar Refining
Company was arrested in Brooklyn
under an indictment found last week
by the federal grand Jury. He was
released on $1,000 bail pending a hear
ing next Monday. -4 w..
Six Others Indicted.
At the same time new indictments
were found against six other Ameri
can Refining employees, already await
ing trial on previously announced
charges. All of them are accused o.
conspiracy to defraud the government
by the false weighing of sugar at thu
Williamsburg docks on November 20
1907. sr-. r -.
Bendernagel, whose resignation
from his post was made known earl!
this week, had been drawing salar.
of $4,000 year. The specific charges
against Bendernagel are that he de
frauded the government out of dut!
to the amount of 1884, in connec
ton with the false entry of the 5000
000-pound sugar cargo of the steam
ship Eva, which arrived from Cuba OIL
August "a, 1907. .
At one point the indictment relate
the old charges made against fou
members of the so-called; big six,H al
leging the. use. Of fraudulent device
on the scales used at the docks t,
short weigh sugar for the purpose o
avoiding customs charges. 1t was il
connection with these charges tina
the government last spring recovere,
$2,135,000 in duties and penalties.
ArbuekIe Bros. involved.
Just before the announcement o
Bendernagel's arrest it became know
that the sugar importing firm of Al
buckle Bros, chief rival of the Ameri
can Refining Company, had been ne
gotiating for some days the paymen
of a big sum to the government b,
way of making good diverted dutie
on sugar which the authorities cor
tended was under.weighed
How great the amount will be wa
not disclosed. 1t was understood tina
it will reach several hundred thousan,
dollars. .-. ...--..-. --,.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
Ice Cream CONSUMPTION.

The extent to which ice cream is
used during the hot summer months
l. emphasized by the fact that local
manufacturer and Herald advertiser
this summer sold nine thousand and
eighty-six gallons of the CONCEALED
sweetness. Taking into consideration
that at least a half dozen makers were
In Oskaloosa. making. retailing and
shipping ice cream the immensely OF
the business can be realized. The
popular ice cream cone has done more
to popularize the cream than any
other one thing, and cream makers
in all parts of the land are going after
increased business next year.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
Fancy EeIlow-

Mrs. Fred Coffin has shipped a pen
Of twenty-five chickens of the Buff
Plymouth Rock variety to purchaser
in Ottumwa. The birds were spring
stock and brought a handsome price.
Mrs. Coffin has been successful with
raising this breed of birds and has
favored the "Ohio strain of the
Puff" blood. She has raised some par
ticularly handsome birds this season,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
viii initiate One Hundred,

The sixth annual reunion of the co
ordinate bodies of the Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Ma.
sons viii be held in Sioux City for
three days, beginning Tuesday, Nov
%. 1t will be the Thanksgiving reun
Ion OF I. S. Parvin consistory No. 5
during which time the consistory will
administer the degrees of Scottish
Rite Masonry to about 100 candidates
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
The White Way,

The popular street illumination is
being extended on First street past
the Downing Hotel. Ii the county
would Keep up with the procession it
should establish a string of lights
around the court house and thus
complete the business section of the
town. ...
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
Flowers Come Out.

VioIents are said to be in bloom in
some of the woods near town. They
are a deeper prettier color than those
OF the spring growth and are said to
be numerous in places. Lark spurs"
are also in bloom in several gardens.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18

The big mill OF the Burlington Lum.
bcr company has closed down for the
s. ason, An early start was made in
tie spring and the logs came along
without delay go that the GeaEon Just
closed has been an excellent one.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
Everybody Hunts

The woods and the fields were cram,
med and damned with hunters Satur,
day and yesterday. The birds and the
Squirrels are having a hard time of ii
this season. The same ground is be,
ing hunted over many times by many
hunters. as the open territory is less
in the county than ever before and
the number of hunters is greater.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
FOUND GUILTY OF ASSAULT.
Fifteen.Year-oId Boy Commits Crime
Upon Seven.YearOId Girl.

Des Moines. Nov. 13.-Ernest Nov.
niger, aged Is. was found gully to.
day in the district court for criminal
assault upon little seyen-year-old
SRI. He will probably be sent to the
reform school instead OF the peniten-
tiary. ..... ..........
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18

Nels Fredrickson, OF Sioux City, is
suing the Credit Reference company
for $2,50O. alleging that it injured his
character by placing him in the light
o. dead beat" IN It's rating book
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18


Goals from touchdown, Williams 4.
q
If by lucky. mishap the Oska-
loosa football team could have slip
ped over the goal line for a score
against East Des Moines High
School in the game here last Satur-
day afternoon, everyone would have
been glad, but much higher praise
is merited by the team in holding
their opponents down to the crafty
ing score of nothing to nothing. 1t
was no game Of chance and no dis
advantages on either side, but a
hard clean game, and Captain Matti-
son and his squad demonstrated that
they are match for one of the very
best high school foot ball teams in
the state.
After the first thirteen minutes of
play O'Brien, who was playing quar-
ter back for Oskaloosa in excellent
form, was unfortunate in sustaining
broken wrist. He had caught a
punt and in being tackled by the
arm fell upon it with such force as
to cause a painful fracture. He was
succeeded by Watson, whose position
as half was takekn by Dodds and
the line moved over to fill the va,
cancy.
O'Brien was taken at once to a
physician and the broken bone set
Inside of half an hour he was back
on the field roofing for y. H. S. Few
fake plays were attempted and Os
kaloosa did not try the forward pass
Des Moines made good gains twice
OIL double forward pass and were
unsuccessful on two other attempts
the ball being downed before the
play had been executed. Mattison
made two runs of twenty-five yards
which were about the longest of the
game, except after kicks. Good
tea am work was done and every fel
low who played deserves his share
of glory for the honorable score
The lineup follows:
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18

oSKALooSA HOSPITAL.
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Mrs. John Gerard Sr., of Barnes City,
who has been at the Oskaloosa Hos
pital for a week where she submitted
t. an operation on her eye has recov-
cred and returned TO her home. She
is lavish in her praise of the institu-
ton and the care she received there.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
CENTRAL

Linesman, Hawkins.
Time of Halves 90 minutes.
Touchdowns, Ruby, Smith 2, Purdy,
Pierrell.
Goals from touchdown, Williams 4.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18

This week Uncle Harvey Zane was
in the old town stopping a day or two
with F. D. Reid before going to Kan
sas for the winter. He has just COM
pleted new barn on his fine farm
north of town. Uncle Harve is still
doing things. He said to Mrs. Reid,
swell, l am sorry can't be with
you on Tag Day for your hospital.
but no matter,-here is a saw.5uck'
for you, with good luck. | may need
tinkering' out there some day, so !
will get a ticket" Bless Uncle
Harve! The good women say to him,
thanks, and the latch string is always
out to him.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-18
East High.

son. ......,.Q. B..,.. ). .MetcaIl
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-06-01
SOME STORIES
AROUND TOWN

'Well / remember an experience I
had in the Kentucky mountains"
|said William oBardman, who was
swapping jokes with travelling men
at the Union station this morning.
"and, In fact, | believe I will never
forget the experience. II was in one
|of those little towns in the hills about
as large as a dollar, and early one
morning several months ago caught
an early train out of the burg. IL
was cold that morning, and / took a
seat in the smoking car. Not much
sooner than the train had pulled out
than a man. who at the best was a
rough looking customer. raised the
window.
1.-THE draft caught me rather
strong, and that morning I felt a
little cross, and instead of moving
my seat | commanded the stranger
to put down the window. He gave
me a serious look out of one eye but
never said a word. The cold air
pinched me a bit harder and I as
sumed courage and said. Put that
window down over there this time
getting a Iittle bolder
"The55fellow just sat there, and
didn't make a move toward putting
the window down. Directly | got
mad. and in a loud tone OF voice
said. Put that window down or |
will come over and make you
never said another word. for the
mountaineer whirled, and behold I
was looking into the barrel OF a gun.
that I viii swear in court looked as
large as a sugar barrel. Come on.
pard. and lift her down he yelled.
but l never budged. and let the win
dow stay up the rest of the trip.
Fortunately there was no one else
In the smoker at the time. and ]
escaped a good laugh. but everything
appeared mighty serious at that min
ute to me. After he had concealed
that cannon somewhere he turned
around 1opd handed me bottle of
moonshiDe and said, Here take a
drink o. that
"You can bet / took that drink,
too. and never said a word against
the violation OF Uncle Sans revenue
laws"
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-06-01

company, for the purpose of making
arrangements with the Ballard coun-
~ Home Telephone system for a con-
nection of the two systems. His prop
osition is by far the best received yet
by our people and will no doubt be
accepted.
The Cairo company proposes to
give service for service. the Ballard
County company to put in an ex-
change at Barlow and the two COM
panies to Jointly build line to East
Cairo, where the Cairo company now
has line which they are building to
Wickliffe and Bardwell. Should the
deal go through it would also give us
connection with the two last named
places, so It is evident this would
be better than any proposition Padu-
cab would likely make us as we I'M
derstand they are wanting to charge
our people $500 per phone for the
same connection Cairo offers us free.
II this deal should go through it
will be a death knell to Paducah in
so far as the Ballard county trade
goes, our people would like to trade
with Paducah merchants but they
are not willing to pay them for the
privilege.
BY all means let's get busy and ac-
cept this proposition.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-06-01
ON RETIRING BONDS.

We question whether either the
pitiable ignorance OF our city treas
urer concerning fiscal matters. or his
brazen effrontery in assuming to
have anything to do with retiring
municipal bonds. deserves any com
ment: but the tone and the voice
coming from that Office may serve as
some sort OF excuse for a brief refer
ence to the statement OF Mayor
Smith that the city may desire to
begin retiring bonds about July /.
The treasurer ingeniously inquiries.
whats the use to have a sinking
fund II you can't get It when you
want to pay of bonds and stop the
interest the tax payers are having to
dig down into their pockets and
pay?" Some people have never adj
vanced in economy beyond the theory
that all wealth consists OF ready
money" Our genial city treasurer
appears to be of this class. and to
entertain singularly elementary no.
tion. concerning bonds and interest.
The sinking fund draws four per
cent interest. No bank OF individual
would pay the city four per cent In
terest on $4,000. deposited with It
or him. subject to check at any time.
Such interest would be a mere
gratuity; for the purpose Of paying
interest on deposit Is TO secure the
use OF the fund for a definite time
This sinking fund is designed to re-
tire municipal bonds. Now, for the
treasurer's enlightenment, We will ex-
plain to him that bonds are evidences
OF debt. which run for a certain
period of time. at given rate of in
tsrest, and they cannot always be
paid OF at any time desired. In fact,
the purpose OF issuing bonds. ~ 70
extend the time or lpayment over
considerable period. Nhsa the bonds
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-06-01

ARE issued a sinking fund is created
at the same time and each year a
certain amount of money Is laid
aside by the city in this sinking fund,
and deposited with or loaned to some
bank al a given rate of interest. So
no one can say that a sinking fund
is lying idle, when it is working,
earning interest for the city against
the time to retire bonds.
We do not know who or what sug-
gested to the mayors mind the idea
'of retiring bonds. Certainly not the
city treasurer, for no one ever heard
the city treasurer say anything about
retiring bonds, until the mayor pro-
posed il. Mayor Smith has been in
office about eighteen months. His
mind has been taken up with a great
many routine matters, which required
Immediate attention, and he had sew
eral reforms to effect. The bonds
were not due and the sinking fund
was in the condition demanded by
law. The bonds were not issued dur
ing this administration, the interest
was no new item. no predecessor had
said anything about retiring bonds.
and remarkable as il may seem, even
Mr.. Walters never mentioned to
Mayor Smith the ACCESSIBILITY of re-
firing any bonds.
In due course of time, apparently,
Mayor Smith with good business
Judgment. took up the matter of
municipal bonds, and directed the
city solicitor and the city auditor TO
investigate the condition and report
to him. The result was tentative
proposition to retire bonds.
The city treasurer will never have
to do with retiring bonds.
The treasurer received the money as
revenue and under Instructions of the
city council turned the money over to
the sinking fund commissioners, in
whose name II is deposited. When
the time comes to retire bonds. the
money Will be paid out by the sink
ing fund commissioners, and that
viii be an end TO IL.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-06-01
POLICE RECORD SHOWS
GOOD CONDUCT IN MAY.

May was a good month. but u
worked a hardship on the police. for
there were onhl ic5 arrests during
the month. being slight decrease
over the average month. The arrests
were FOR various onenses. although
the number OF disturbances last
month was high. as there we're G5
arrests for breach OF peace. Only SO
arrests were made for common jags.
while 20 arrests were made for
breach OF ordinance. which includes
every onensc from speeding an auto
10 falling TO take out n sewer permit.
The arrests were: Breach OF peace.
G5: drunk. 80: breach OF ordinance.
20; drunk and disorderly. Is: gam
ing. 2: concealed weapons, 2; sus-
poets. 2: false swearing. 1: flourish
Ing pistols. 4: vagrancy. 2: mooch-
ing, 2; obtaining board BY fraud, 2:
immortality, ? grand larceny, 1 ma
licious shooting, q attempt at crimi-
nal assault, 1: attachment. /: petit
larceny. obtaining money by false
pretenses. /; dlsorderly hoase. 1:
cruelty TO animals. /: malicious az
sault. ! jumping on moving trains.
1; fugitiyes. 2. The patrol wagon
was called out So times az night and
% dag calls.