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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Sioux City Journal thinks that
If President Taft gives heed to all the
advice given him he will not be able to
say anything on his western trip"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06
The postoffice department of tn

The postoffice department of this
government may be a wonder for per-
lection of system and methods, but a
private corporation which tried to do
business after its principles would be
closed by the Sheriff in short order.
The deficit for last year was twenty
millions of dollars. Just remember
those figures when the superior merits
Of government ownership for railroads
are extolled," advises the Fort Dodge
Messenger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06
Dynamite Wreck. eujIdinqs

as completely as coughs and colds
wreck lungs. Cure them quick with
DR.. Kings New Discovery. 50c and
800. Mcbride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06

The Oskaloosa Herald says Judge
Preston's decision in the Marengo case
is one of the most effective temperance
lectures ever delivered. Its influence
will be ar-reaching."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06


are eXtolled," advises the Fort Dodge
Messenger.
The Oskaloosa Herald says Judge
Preston's decision in the Marengo case
is one of the most effective temperance
lectures ever delivered. Its influence
will be far-reaching.'
Speaking of the delayed rain the Des
Moines Capital says: But we are not
going to weep for the western farmer.
He has become so used to prosperity
that if the same were not seasoned
with an occasional streak of misfortune
he would become pampered to a degree
that ordinary mortals could not get
along with him"
One of the pleasing things and the
most significant as we'll is the fact that
the Iowa press almost without excep-
ton has hailed with delight the recent
decision of Judge Preston in upholding
the Cosson law. AS matter of fact
the people of Iowa are not only lib
erty- loving people, but they are a law
abiding people as we'll, and when they
elect men to office it is for the pur-
pose of enforcing the laws they take
the oath to enforce" argues the Cedar
Rapids Gazette.
20. E. Skogerboe reports that he has
sold three car loads of corn and one
car load of oats from a farm of 1870
acres the past year. besides feeding all
his stock. His landlord, who gets
share rent, will get more than 81, SOC
rent for the farm for last year. All
that rate, Iowa land is still due to adj
vance in price, concludes the ROLAND
Record.
The Burlington Hawkeye reasons
| that president Taft will surely be re.
elected. 1t was under his administra.
tion that the north pole was annexed
to the United States
iowa has been buying automobile.
this summer at the rate of $4,000 :
day And all of this money goes t.
factories outside of the state How
Iowa is always ready to enrich TIL,
enterprise of others. Why not auto
mobiles made in Iowa?" asks the Ceda
Rapids Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06

The Burlington Hawkeye reasons
that president Taft will surely be re-
elected. 1t was under his administra-
ton that the north pole was annexed
to the United States
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06

Secretary Ballinger evidently intends
to stand pat
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
GOVERNMENT HIRES GRAFTERS.
Collector Loeb Admits That He Keeps
Dishonest Men in Customs Service.

Collector Loeb Admits That He Keeps
Dishonest Men in Customs Service.
New York city.--It takes a CRATER
to catch a CRATER in the United
States customs service, says William
Loeb, Jr., collector of the port of New
York, in an Official statement issued,
and Federal Judge Hollis opinions to
the contrary Notwithstanding the four
weighers who confessed and testified
in the trial of Phillip H. Musica and
his elderly father, Antonio, cheese inn
porters, which was concluded, are to
hold their jobs along with honest
men.
Judge Holt Of the United States cir.
cult court, before disposing of the case
which resulted in the elder mans
acquittal and the sons incarceration
in the Tombs for sentence, denounced
the retention Of the four weighers as
a discredit to the government and an
injustice to the honest men in the
service.
The inspectors confessed they had
been bribed by importers to under
weigh, and admitted they purchased
immunity frors the government by
turning states evidence.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
SCHEME TO DEFRAuD.
Spanish SwindIers Again Set Their
Trap for the UnWary.

Washington, .. CATER a period
of quiescence an adroit gang, Of Span
ish swindlers which has for the last
Is years been exploiting credulous
people in America has resumed activ.
ity Within the last few days letters
have been received in Washington del
icately approaching the recipients for
funds. While the scheme is many
sided and the details vary in each
case, the basis of the appeal is al
ways an injured damsel in distress.
Large sums Of money are promised
to the confding American who will
put up small amount of cash to res
cue the unfortunate young woman.
In one case the alleged writer Of
the letter was Spanish banker and
escaped to Russia only to be arrested
and returned to Spain He, however,
had taken the precaution to secret a
document which would be indispensa-
BILE to the finding Of the treasure in
a secret pocket in a portmanteau, and
this find he would divide with the
American who would take in charge
his young daughter and recover the
property at the place he would indi-
cate--for a present financial consid-
Grafton.
1t is known to the state and post
Office departments that number of
credulous Americans have fallen into
this trap, SO that every effort will be
made 20 break up the gang.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
Newsy Paragraphs.

Every one of the skins in the col
lection of Roosevelt trophies receiv-
ed from Africa has been found to be
in good condition by the taxidermists
of the Smithsonian institution Some
of the trophies are declared to be
among the most magnificent specf-
mems that have come into the poses
sion of the institute.
Professor George B. Foster of the
University Of Chicago in recent adj
dress to the women of the Jewish
Council, said they need not be sensi-
tive to the taunt that their race had
crucifed Christ, adding: ANY other
race would have done the same The
Christian church Of today would do
it, but it would discard the wooden
cross as not being refined enough and
would use spiritual one instead"
Holding it to be subversive of exist
ing institutions, the Russian censor
has suppressed the reports Of the
speech delivered by the British chan
cellor of the exchequer, Mr.. Lloyd
George, at Newcastle 1t contained
this declaration that sit is time the
Iaboring masses shook off the tyran-
ny Of the dukes and landlords"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
W. c. 7. U. CONVENTION.
All Old National officer Reelected by
Temperance Workers.

Omaha, Nebr.-Election of officers
and adoption of resolutions were the
features of the sessions of the ma.
tional convention of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union. No
change of Importance is made in the
national organization, but that body
went unanimously on record as civ
ing little encouragement to woman
suffrage.
Total abstinence is again made the
watchword of the organization.
President Taft is asked to use his
prerogative and abolish the sale of in.
toxicating liquors in the Panama Ca
nal zone.
Child labor is denounced and the
organization is pledged to secure a
minimum working age by federal en-
actment.
The convention reelected its old ma
tiona' officers for the coming year.
The six general officers are:
Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens of Maine,
president; Miss Anna M. Gordon Vi
Illinois, vice president-at-large; Mrs.
Frances P. Parks of Illinois, CORE
spending secretary; Mrs. Elizabeth
Preston Anderson of North Dakota,
recording secretary; Mrs. Sarah Hoge,
of Virginia, assistant recording secre.
tary,. and Mrs. Elizabeth p. Hutchin.
SON of Illinois, treasurer.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
CHILD LABOR IN SOUTH.
Textile Union Denounces the Employ
ment of Children.


Washington, .. c.-Declaring that
not willing to have her purchase COM
mercial success at the sacrifice Of
ner little children, r. G. Roberts, for
merly a Georgian, and chairman of a
committee CT the Central Labor I'M
ion Of this city, at the convention Of
the United Textile Workers Of Amer
lea, stirred up much indignation
against Or. c. A. stiles of the United
STATES Public Health and Marine Hos
pital Service, who was quoted before
the Southern Textile Association at
Raleigh by a speaker who was defend
ing the employment of children in the
southern cotton mills.
Mr.. Roberts declared his surprise
That a public officer, paid from the
public revenue, should appear before
convention Of employers of labor
and undertake to defend the system
of child labor in the southern states.
He advocated action by the cOnven-
ton In opposition to any attempt to
further extend and to perpetuate the
system of child labor in southern cot
ton mills. Such employment, he said,
merely tended to displace adults.
John l.. Rodier of this city warned
delegates from the New England
states that If they looked with indif.
ference on the policy of working the
children in the southern cotton mills
they would soon face movement for
the repeal of child labor laws in Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island and Connect
icut, as the New England industry
would find 1t impossible to compete
against such cheap labor.
I~fnd," said Mr.. Rodier, that men
who advocate putting children in the
cotton mills of the south do not put
their own children there, but send
them to school.
Mr.. Rodier told Of his experience
in Atlanta, Ga, during a campaign
against the liquor traffic.
Ministers of the gospel and women
got down on their knees" he said,
and prayed to save big, strong men
from the demon rum and against their
own vices, but these same ministers
and women were Indifferent when we
attempted to get legislation prevent
ing the employment of children I'M
der ten years of age.
After the speaker had left the as
sembly hall, his reference to the min
listers and children brought Edwin
Johnson of New Bedford, Conn, to
mis- feet, declaring that gratuitous
insult had been offered to the minis
tiers.
Secretary Albert HILBERT Of Fall
River, Mass, suggested that it was a
fact that ministers did not take the
same interest in prohibiting child Ia
Dor that they took in the liquor traf-
&c
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
ATLANTIC Liner SINKS
"a Lives Lost When Steamer
Hestia Hits Rocks.
ONLY SIX PERSONS SAVED
Donaldson Liner, From Glasgow 10 Bal
tim0re, Wrecked ON Ledge in the
Treacherous Bay Of Fundy.

Passport, Maine.--The North Allan
tics annual toll Of lives and vessels
received the first 1.-THE of the winter
season from its tributary Bay of
Fundy--in the loss Of at least score
Of souls, and the destruction on a
shoal, inside of Old Proprietor's ledge,
OF Seal Cove, Grand Manan, Of the
Donaldson line steamer Hestia, bound
from Glasgow for st. Johns and Bal
timore.
Four Of the victims-young Scotch
laddies-were passengers on the i'll
fated steamer and the others were
members Of the crew. Captain New
man and twenty or more members Of
the crew were last seen in a ships
boat which was being tossed on a
stormy sea.
OF the forty persons who were
aboard the steamer when she piled up
on the shoal, only six are positively
known to have been saved. They
were forced to cling to the wreck,
shifting their precarious positions Of
ten as the steamer was tossed by the
great seas.
A heavy northeasterly gale is be-
lieved to have been responsible for the
Hestia's fate, although it is supposed
that a mistake of the man at the
wheel in believing he had picked up
Gannett Rock Light, while discerning
the CLEANS of the lighthouse on Ma
chias Zeal Island, several miles south
west, was the principal cause Of the
disaster.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
COTTON is GOING UP
Prices Are Again Making New
High Records.
Sensational BuIlsh Estimates Of Crop
and Reports That Planters Are
Holding for Higher Prices.

New York city.-There was contin-
ued excitement in the cotton market,
with prices again making new high
records, and most Of the active
months selling above IA IL cents on
sensational buIlish estimates Of the
crops and reports that planters were
holding for higher prices. Both the
southern and western bulls were cred
tied with being aggressive buyers at
times during the day.
December cotton sold as high as
14.47 and May 14.6S. Realizing Gauss
ed slight reaction later but the mar
ket closed very steady and from 8
to 20 points net higher.
Two prominent southern authorities
issued estimates OF the crop, one
placing it at 100000 and the other
at i0,250, 900, comparing with last
years commercial crop OF aboIt 49,
100000 bales.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
FORTY GIRLS POISONED.
Students Of Athens, Ala. Female Col
Iege Become Ill.

Birmingham, AIa.-Perhaps fifty
girls, students at the Athens Female
College, at Athens, Ala, have pass
ed through Birmingham, or stopped
here, going to their homes. The
school has been disbanded, owing to
a malady existing there. Some of
the girls passing through were on
Invalid beds. The school was dis
banded.
Relatives of the girls arriving say
that there are forty-odd girls at the
college too i'll to be removed. 1t is
said that Nashville specialist has
pronounced the malady, which was at
first thought to be fever, to be
ptomaine poisoning, and it is also
said here that it is an epidemic of
grip. Whatever it is, there are dog
ems of sick girls. No deaths are
reported. Seven trained nurses from
Nashville are said to be at Athens
The college is under the auspices of
the Methodist Church.
Advices from Athens are to the
effect that the school has been sus-
pended for ten days. The president,
Miss Mary N. Moore, was thrown
from her horse about ten days ago
and sustained a broken rib. For
several days she has been at the
home of her sister, Mrs. F. w. Bran.
don, in Bessemer. Rev. F. w. Bran
don, presiding elder of the Bessemer
district, is now at Athens in charge
Of the school,
1t is stated that about 100 students
have left the school in the last few
Hnx oh hoe
been maintained about the situation
at the school because of the fear
that it would do the institution in
calclllable hard, it is understood that
the doctors have been greatly puz-
zled by the malady. The first symp-
toms are said to be a severe aching
of the lower limbs, followed by VIC
lent vomiting That it has not been
really serious is shown by the fact
that there have been no fatalities.
The sickness, Is it said, passes off
in two days.
Bessemer, AIa.-Regarding the cpl
demic of illness at the Athens Fe-
male College at Athens, Ala, which
has caused ten days suspension Of
the institution, the president, Miss
Mary N. Moore, who is in this city,
suffering from a broken rib. issued
statement in which she says:
"Of the ITS girls in the school, As
were taken sick of ptomaine poison
from eating fish, and while none of
the sickness is of a serious nature,
it was thought best to give the holt
day. To decide exactly what the
sickness was, the state bacteriologist
of Tennessee came from Nashville,
and made diagnosis and gave as his
opinion that the sickness was pto-
maine poisoning from eating fish, and
the same report was concurred in by
DR.. Cunningham Wilson Of Birming-
ham
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
FLOOD DESTROYS MEXICAN TOWNS.
Property Damage viii Reach Into
Millions.

Mexico City, Mexico.-An estimated
loss of five millions of pesos, lnclud-
ing crops of corn, beans and other
grain, fruit and fine hardwoods, two
lives known to be lost, and many
others, it is feared, sacrificed in the
floods, hundreds of homes in country
and town washed away and thousands
of head of cattle drowned are the
known results Of the disastrous cloud
burst and storm that broke over the
state of Tabasco, following on twenty
one days of incessant rain all over
this region. Rivers are out of their
banks. towns are inundated, thousands
are homeless and no relief is yet in
sight.
A total of 80 ~ inches of water has
fallen in the state in three weeks,
which is the record for waterfall in
so years. A large part of the lower
section of San Juan Bautista is under
water The Barrio of Santa Cruz has
been totally depopulated, and the wa
ter is three and four feet deep in
many houses. Temporary lodging
houses have been fitted up by the au-
thorities of San Juan Bautista, and
more than a thousand people are be-
ing fed and lodged at the city's ex
pense.
So complete is the inundation of
Santa Rosa that it resembles an arm
of the sea. Streets, parks and gar
dens are inundated by three feet of
water, and the population is living on
roofs, shivering and starving, praying
for the waters to recede.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
WOMAN FLIES WITH WRIGHT.
Wife of Army officer Goes With Avi-
ator In Aeroplane.

College Park, Md.-With her skirts
tied tightly about her ankles to keep
the garments from futtering in the
breeze, Mrs. Van Deman, wife Of Cap
tain Ralph G. Van Deman, twenty-frst
infantry, United States Army, occu-
pied the passengers seat beside Will
bur Wright when he assembled on the
governments aeroplane here.
For four minutes she experienced
the sensation Of soaring in the air.
"Ohv exclaimed Mrs. Van Deman,
when she returned to the ground,
now / know what makes the birds
sing
The machine circled the aerodrome
and was put through some intricuate
maneuvers, the fight lasting four min
utes. The landing was made without
the slightest mishap.
Mrs. Van Deman was the first won-
an to fly in heavier-than-air machine
in the United States. Mr.. Wright and
his brother, Oryille, both have had
women as passengers in their aero
plane abroad and Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth at Fort Meyer recently wisheI
to make a trip In the aeroplane, but
the Wright brothers have refused
heretofore in the United States.
II was only after Mrs. Van Deman
had obtained permission from her hus-
band that Mr.. Wright consented to
take her for a flight. Mrs Van De.
man expressed herself as delighted
with the unique sensation.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
WILL CHANGE PROHIBITION LAW.
Mississippi May Adopt Constitutional
Liquor Statute.

Jackson, Miss. The prohibition
leaders Of Mississippi, not satisfied
with the present prohibition law as a
whole, will ask the Legislature at the
next session to pass additional laws
for the purpose of tightening 1t up and
strengthening 1t in its weaker places.
Particularly will they suggest meth.
DDS of securing its better and more
uniform enforcement
AS to the statutory changes, it is
the practically unanimous opinion that
II the present law is to be tempered
with at all the tampering ought to be
done by those who made the law in
the first place. At the time they
thought they were getting up the best
law they could frame and pass. 1t
will have had practical test of a
year by the time the lawmalSing body
meets, and its weak points will have
been shown.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
U. S. NAVY WILL TRY WIRELESS.
Experiments To Be Conducted With
Long Distance System.

Washington, .. C.-The navy is
soon to conduct experiments in long
distance wireless telegraphy. I'M
pressed with the importance of a sys-
tenn which will in cases of necessity
transmit messages from some place
on the Atlantic seaboard a distance
Of three thousand miles, the subject
was taken up in earnest almost a
year ago.
The desirability of such long dis
lance communication, the officials
say, is obvious, for in times of war
it would prove invaluable to the gov
eminent BY it's means the navy
department will be able to control
and direct readily from shore the
movements of the feet This, togeth-
er with the proposition to install
wireless apparatus in the specifica-
tons inviting proposals for construct
ing the proposed high powered station
as well as for the apparatus abroad
ships
The messages from shore must not
be interrupted by atmospheric dis
turbances or international or uninten-
tional interference by neighboring
stations. The messages also must be
transmitted with entire secrecy. The
apparatus aboard the ships must be
capable of transmitting and receiving
messages at all times, in all seasons
and in all ATTITUDES for one thousand
miles, and to receive messages from
the high powered station for three
thousand miles at all times.
Upon the result of these expert
ments will rest the question of the
erection by the navy of a wireless
tower at Washington, D. c., as con-
templated originally, that in Massa-
chusetts belonging to a private com.
pany.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
GREAT WASTE OF FUEL.
louisiana viii Force owners to Pre-
serve Wild Gas

Louisiana VIII Force Owners to Pre-
serve Wild Gas.
New Orleans, La,-What is declared
by experts of the federal government
to be the greatest waste of fuel in
the United States may be checked by
legal action taken by the state of Lou
isiana. wild" gas wells in the Caddo
parish oil fields have for the past two
years sent their flames with unabat-
ing force high into the air, entailing a
loss Of millions Of cubic feet of gas
daily
In response to inquiries, Attorney
General Guion expresses the opinion
that the state in its sovereign capac-
ity can bring action to stop the end
less waste.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
WEALTHY WOMAN A SUICIDE.
Mrs. 5eauchain of Boston Found in
Jacksonville Hotel Dead.

jacksonville, Fla.--With her throat
cut from ear to ear, Mrs. Mabel A.
Beauchain of Boston, Mass, was found
dying in her room in the Aragon Ho.
tel by her private physician, DR.. E.
e. Banker of New York, who accom-
panied her here and occupied room
across the hall. She died short
time later
Mrs. Beauchain was the widow OF
the late John L. Beauchain, part own
or of the Moxie Nerve Remedy, and
was quite wealthy. She was "a years
old, and had been in bad health for
some time. In committing suicide she
used q razor belonging to DR.. Banker
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
1--WE GlrIS Dle in FIre.

Lynchburg, Va.-Five children, all
inmates of the nursery, were inciner.
ated in fire which totally destroyed
Shelton Collegefi the home Of the girls
at the Virginia Synod Presbyterian
Orphans, Home. The children were
all on the second floor of the wing of
the building, and were caught by the
fire in manner that made their res
cue impossible.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
COURT DIRECTORY.
8. w. CIRCUIT.

Y. A. Littlejohn, judge.
j. T. Williams, solicitor genera
Convenes Srst Mondays in May
November.
City Court.
H. L. Long, sr., Judge.
w. G. Martin, solicitor.
Convenes fourth Wednesday in
month.
Justice Court, 915th District, 6
A. A. Paul, ]. P.
]. M. Hines, N. P. and exc
]. P.
J. f. Hines, bailiff.
Convenss first Monday in
month.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
KeeplnQ LIQUOR From indians.

Washington, D. c.-The Indian Sc
cret service for the suppression Of the
liquor traffic among Indians is max
ing vigorous campaign in Wiscon-
sin. Notwithstanding the local pref
udice encountered and the active work
Of the organized liquor interests, good
results are being reported from small.
er towns in which roaming Indians
have secured liquor.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-10-29
Tribe Murderer COnfeSSeS.

Kansas City, Mo.-James Mcmahon
confessed he murdered his sisters,
Miss Rose Mcmahon and Mrs. Alonzo
Van Royen, and his brother-in-law,
Alonzo van Royen, on a farm near
Kansas City, Kans., last week. A
long-standing family quarrel caused
the tragedy.