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The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-06-03

day and found the best roads in Dis
trict No. s. ...
Frank Alexander is building dou-
BILE corn crib and buggy shed. B. F..
Shelley and son, OF Rose Hill, are
doing the carpenter work.
The severe wind storm of Saturday
night only lasted few minutes but 1t
blew down many trees. Several went
into their caves thinking we were
going to have a cyclone.
Telephone line number 8 has made
arrangements for So rate per an
mum and has gone back to the Home
Company, which made connections
with the switch in Rose Hill.
The program at the White Oak
church was carried out in excellent
manner and the children are to be
Congratulated upon their work. An
American flag was placed at each sol,
dier's grave by A. B. Francis.
June l. T. A. b.
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WHITE OAK.

Mrs. A. D. Francis is slowly i'm
proving.
The river is going down and fishing
$ getting good.
A few who have corn up took adj
vantage of the nice weather to plow
Il.
Corn planting will be continued all
this week and into next If the wealth
er keeps rainy.
d. d. Fowler and daughter. Mrs.
Convey. took in the carnival at oska-
loosa a couple OF days last week.
Born. 10 John Woods and wife,
Friday night. a nine and one-half
pound boy and John is stepping high.
We had occasion to drive several
miles through the country last sun
".| |I
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FLEMING SCHOOL.
Closed With Well Rendered Program
Last Friday Afternoon.

Fleming school, Richland township,
closed Friday, May %, 1909, after a
successful school year. Friends and
patrons gathered at the school TO
listen to the following weil-rendered
program:
Song by the School--Flowers OF
Spring.
Recitation-"A Speech of Welcome, .
Dirkie Verwers.
Recitation = Conscious Ignorance, -
Katie Van Genderew.
Recitation-"On Being Ten" Carl
Fleming.
Song by the School-"All the Birds
Have Come Again.
Observation-Disclosures Day" Maud
Milledge.
Recitation--"What Grandpa Says,
Lena Van Genderen.
Dialogue Personating Elders" Lee
Ia and Katie Van Genderen.
Recitation Politeness," John Flem-
ing.
Motion Song-"rhis is the Way by
the little ones. fs--f
Recitation-"The Little Boy VINO
Cried" Chanley Fleming.
Professionalism Plans" by the
School
Recitation THE Politest Way,
Anna Van der Linden.
Song by the School-"Loyely Spring
Has Come"
Recitation - dissatisfied" Hattie
Van Genderen.
Recitation - Memorial Day." Leila
Warbelton.
Flag Drill--By the School
Song by the SchoolAHappy Days
Number OF pupils enrolled, 49, Az
erage daily attendance, 1873. Dale
Hess was successful in passing the
examinations for common school
diploma and two boys, ChanIey Elem
ing and Carl Fleming. were gwen GER
tificates Of award for being neither
absent nor tardy during the term OF
three months.
Mabel kinsman. Teacher.
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PINKERT0N ON THE TRAIL.
1.-THE Eye" Takes Up the Hunt for
Remaining Union Pacific Train
Robbers.

Omaha, Neb.. June 2.-William A.
Pinkerton, head of the Pinkerton De-
tective agency, known to all Crooks"
as THE Eye" arrived in Omaha to
take part in the search for the rob-
bers who held up the overland linn
tied on the Union Pacific May 90 He
declined to talk but quickly went to
work on the case.
The police now believe fifth man
assisted in the hold-up and they are
searching for him, as well as the
fourth man. who escaped from the
detectives at South Omaha. Word was
also received that city detective of
Spokane will arrive to-day with a
view to identifying the men now
under arrest as those who partici-
pated in the hold-up OF Great North.
ern train near that city May Is.
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TAFT DOWNS DAN CUPID.
Gets Toe Hold on Red Tape and Pre-
vents the Marriage of Mid

tr* shipmen. -f
Washington June big Bill"
Taft went to the mat with Dan Cupid
in the White House and in Is minutes
had the little love god beaten to
pulp. For IL minutes Dan gave the
big fellow a fair tussel, but then the
weight began to TELL and when the
bigger man got toe hold in a bunch
of red tape it was easy to pin the
kids shoulders to the floor. s,
Ole Maid, who refereed the bout,
slapped Taft on the shoulder and called
him winner. There waS little cheer
ing. A fine big stork which acted as
second for Dan flew from the arena
In other words President Taft to-day
formally signed the new naval regula-
ton which forbids midshipmen to
marry within the six years of their
cadet course, Heretofore. the. middies
were kept away from matrimony dur
ing their four years at Annapolis The
two years sea service which follows
the academic course was Che undoing
of many of the middies and many be.
came married men before they had
learned to use safety razor.
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STORM DOES DAMAGE
Downpour of Rain Carries Out Iowa
Central Track.

A terrific rain storm that was in
reality a cloudburst, occurred this
morning about eleven-thirty o'clock
between the South Skunk river and
Lacey station on the Iowa Central.
About forty feet of the Centralis
track was washed out to depth OF
two to three feet. The rails settled
as the ballast went from beneath
them. A freight train went into the
sag made by the washout and the
engine and twenty cars went into the
place before the engine could be stop
ped. The cars would dip down into
the depression and as they came out
on the opposite side the bumper OF
on car would oyertop that OF the car in
advance of 1t. Damage to bumpers
and airbrakes resulted.
tremendous flood of water came
down and the whole country north or
the river Is under water, Small creeks
are rivers and are running floods OF
water. The river, itself is out OF Its
banks and with the food from tribu-
taries Is sure to be the highest 1T has
been this season.
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GRoCERS THRoNG PORTLAND.
Hundreds Of Retailers Attend conven.
ton Of Their National Association
in the Oregon City.

Portland, Ore, June MANY hun
dreds of retail grocers were present
to-day when the annual convention of
their national association was called
to order The visitors represent every
part of the country, and the meet
ing will be the biggest and best they
have ever held. j. c. Mann, president
of the local association, called the
meeting to order and addresses of
welcome we're delivered by him. Pres
ident s. l.. Kline of the state retail
association, Mayor Harry Lane and
others. After fitting responses to
these greetings. the president OF the
national association. j. c. Kramer of
Little Rock. Ark. was introduced and
delivered his annual address.
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MORRIS WILLIAMS,
OTTUMWA, IOWA.

400 p. m.-Story Work, Miss Per-
kins.
7:45 p. m.-Rita Rich Co., Prelude.
500 p. m.-Wiliam Jennings Bry-
an, c'The Value of aSoul.")
Wednesday, Aug. 18.
$3.50 a. m-Story Work, Miss Per
kins. ,.a, 81
1O:00-Bible Hour. a
1O:45 a. morpheus Club. (16
Male Voices.)
200 p. m.--Prelude, Rita Rich Co
2:15 p. m.-Lecture, J. Frank Hanly.
400 p. m.-Story Work, Miss Per
kins. 81.
500 p. morpheus Club. Full
Concert, E.s
Thursday, Aug. 10,
$3.50 a. m.-Story Work, Miss Per-
kins.
10:00-Bible Hour.
1915 a. m.--Under Charge OF VIC.
T. u. Address, Mrs. Ida B. Wise.
300 p. m.-Prelude, Hearons Sis
ters. 81 ...,. ...a
2:15 p. m.--Humorist, Spillman
Riggs. ..
400 D. m.-Story Work, Miss Per
kins. ,. - .. ..,t
7:45 .m.-Prelude, Hearons Sis
tiers. m.
500 p. m.-Reader Edward p Ell
lott.
Friday, Aug. &c.
$3.50 a. m.--Story Work, Miss Per-
kins.
10:00-Bible Hour.
1915 a. m.-Lecture, Carrie Nation.
200 p. m.-Prelude, Hearons Sis
ters
2:15 p. m.-Lecture, Gabriel r. Ma
CURE.
400 p. m.-Story Work, Miss Per-
kins. ...., ...
500 p. m.-Full Concert, Hearons
Sisters.
Miss Emily Neagle, Pianist during
the Session. IN II "
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CROWD CHEERS DEATH VERDICT
oTTuMWA CHOIR SINGERS sLAY.
Err TO HANG.
Negro Probably Would Have Been
lynched Had Jurors Given
Lighter Penalty.

Centeryifle, Ia, June John JunS.
in was found guilty of the murder OF
Clara Rosen, the ottumwa choir sin.
ger, February last and was sen.
fenced to death by Judge NJ. A. Rob.
erts.
The jury returned its verdict after
a elaboration OF less than four hours.
There was an immense crowd await
ing the result of the trial and as the
last words were read by the clerk a
shout went up which was taken up
by the crowd in the courthouse
square.
Attorneys for the defense waived
their customary right of three days be-
fore sentence of death is passed and
agreed that Judge Roberts pass sen.
tence Immediately, which the court
did. Junkin will hang the last Fri.
day in July, 1910. He was taken to
Fort Madison for safe keeping till the
day of his execution.
Adj Gen. Guy Logan of Des Moines
was in the court room when the SEN
tence was pronounced. He stated that
there would be no need of militia to
guard the prisoner as the verdict met
with popular favor. 81
Junkin's crime was one Of the most
atrocious in Iowa He confessed kill
ing Clara Rosen with a stone while
she was returning from the home of
her sister. Later he dragged the girl
into an excavation and assaulted her.
Her dead body was found by a search,
ing party the next morning, b.
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German Raptists Of Iowa.

EIgin, Ia. June 2.-The annual meet
ing OF the German Baptist Young Peoi
pies union on iowa opened here last
evening with a largely attended sesl
sion over which President Emil John
son of Muscatine presided. The prin-
cipal address was made by Prof. l..
Kaiser Of the theological seminary at
Rochester, y. Y. Morning and after
nson sessions we're held to-day. This
evening the state convention of Ger
man Baptists VIII open
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has sent two murderers to the gallows.
One man has already paid the pen
atty for murder and the circumstances
surrounding Junkins crime leaves
little room for doubt that the sentence
pronounced tonight will be carried
out
Four years ago, ON Dec. 5. 1904
Judge Roberts sentenced Joseph smith
a negro miner, to death for the muir.
der Of Mrs. Mary Canedy. of Buxton.
Smith and the woman had been sweet
hearts In Virginia before coming to
Iowa. The woman married Robert
Canedy, miner. and removed to Bux-
ton. Smith worked in the mines at
Hooking, about ten miles away.
On the night of Oct. is, 1908. Smith
went to Buxton, and the following
morning he appeared at the door OF
the Canedy home When Mrs. Cane.
dy answered his knock he shot her
through the heart. Her husband
found her body when he returned home
a few minutes later after working all
night in the mines.
Smith escaped INTO the woods sur
rounding Buxton and was caught only
after two days chase, in which
blood hounds we're used to assist the
officers. His trial was held at Abba
in November of the following year
and on December 5 Judge Roberts de-
livered the death sentence
John T. Clarkson, of Abba. now
senator from the Monroe Marion dis
trict, defended Smith and secured
stays of execution which delayed the
hanging until Friday, April 20, 1906,
although Judge Roberts had set the
date within thirteen months after the
conclusion of the trial. Smith was
hanged in the prison yard at Fort
Madison. Governor Cummlns having
refused to longer delay the execution.
The hanging of Junkin will be the
third legal hanging to be credited to
the Second judicial district, Judge
II. H. Trimble. now resident OF
Keokuk, sentenced a murderer to
death in the Van Buren, county court
several years ago.
Rewards and Claimants.
For the capture and conviction of
the murderer of Miss Rosen the city
OF ottumwa, through Mayor T. J.Phil-
lips. offered a reward of $500. The
state of Iowa, through Gov. B. F. Car
roll, added S300 to this amount, and
individual amounts of 500 each were
offered by DR.. d. c. Brockman and
G. o. Nelson. The former placed his
amount with that OF the city.
The claimants in the order of their
activity in filing applications for the
rewards follow: Jacob Redman, John
W. Gray and H C. Williams, Sheriff
William Griffin of Abba, Daniel Han
non, Mrs. Ray Clutter, Chief Peter Gal
lagher, Officers Frank II. Harris and
Joseph Beeman. 1t is generally I'M
derstood that attorneys have been
employed by Mr. Redman, and Mr..
Gray states that he and Mr. Williams
have arranged to make applications
for their shares. OF the others, it is
not known what action has been talk
en-
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Boone county Remains Aprv -.

Lebanon. Ind. June Boone
county. which has been '.dry" BY re.
ponstrance for two years, decided
against the admission Of the licensel
saloon in a local option election yes.
serday. The dry majority wns
z.446. Not township voted wet"
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oskaIoosa did.

Not every town in the land can
boast of having three baccalaureate
sermons preached before three class
es of three separate institutions upon
the same day and date.
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Daughter Discusses Case.

II am awaiting the complete report
of the chemical analysis before MAX
ing up my mind what to do" said
Mrs Marsh. but from the coroners
report and from knowledge in my own
possession | am satisfied that my
mothers death should be investigated.
The death was totally unexpected and
! know of no explanation for II as a
natural event She was not subject to
bodily ills OF any sort, and had been
in perfect health. Two days before
she died she wrote me to this effect.
Her marriage TO Mr.. Archer was a
great surprise to me and to my sister.
Mrs. Kate Carleton Smith of Deland,
Fla, who is at present in Santa Anna.
Cal Mother was in the habit before
her marriage of keeping In close com
munication with us and she was par.
ticularly fond OF my daughter. Paul;
inc. Since her marriage. although
she has seldom complained openly, we
could read enough between the lines
TO learn that she was not altogether
happy. We did not realize how un-
happy she must have been until the
filing of her bill for divorce two weeks
before she died brought out the
facts"
Mrs. Carleton was the fourth wife
OF Richard Archer. His first wife died
many years ago, his second wife. il
seems, died under circumstances
somewhat similar to those surround
ing the death OF the last wife. A di-
yorce separated him from his third
choice. after which he remained I'M.
married for several years until he
met Mrs. Carleton.
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Corn PLANTING in prooress.

Many fields of corn in the county
have been put in this week. Much
planting remains to be done on low.
wet ground. June will be well ad-
vanced before the work is completed.
but we never fail to have the corn
knee high by the Fourth of July.
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pulley ExpIoded.

A monster pulley which carried q
conyeyor bearing at the time 1850 bar
rels of crushed rock. burst into q
Thousand pieces at Mason City at the
cement plant a dozen workmen mr.
rowly escaping with their lives from
dying bits OF steel. Several were IN
jured but not seriously.
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streams I, over Bottoms.

The rains of the week that have
come since last Saturday evening have
sent all OF the streams bank full and
over along the low lands. Bottom
lands will not yield corn crop this
season If the hard rains contilrc.
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Rumors Are Current.

There are persistent rumors from
different sources that construction
work on the big cement mill at liar.
yey Will be resumed by July LIST.
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Local Shriners are planning on at
tending the annual convention OF the
Iwearers of the fez which will he held
lat Louisville. KY, June TO Ii.
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WANTS & FOR SALE.

FOR sALE.-One 240-acre farm and
one l60-acre farm. in Edmunds Co.
South Dakota, near Onaka. on the
NJ. & ST: L. road. for sale by owner.
Save commissions and buy direct.
H. r. Skinner, Albert Lea, MINI.
226df2w2pd.
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CATCH OF 900 WHALES.
Norwegians Making Good Thing in the
Antarctic.

Six hundred whales have been taken
in the Antarctic by the Norwegian
whalers who went to South Georgia.
taking three steamers, the Edda. Sam
son and Hercules, together with a float
four months. The storeship or floating
station has taken home $4,000 barrels
of oil, valued at $225,00O. Each of the
steam whalers was of so tons register
and carried ten men, and there was a
crew of fifty on the storeship.
The island of South Georgia, where
the Norwegian whale hunters work, lies
just outside the Amarillo circle, 500
miles east-southeast of the Falklands.
1t is a British colony about 1000 square
miles in size, governed by Capt. G. A
Larsen, whaler, who was in command
of DR.. Otto Nordenskjold's exploring
ship Antarctic. In addition to the
floating whaling station which went from
Norway there is land depot on South
Georgia, and the colony, comprising
sixty men ashore and forty men afoat,
mans a fleet of three whaling steamers.
There is only one woman on the
brother, with the exception of a few
weeks in each year, when the captain S
wife goes there to pay visit. Mrs.
Larsen has in her house piano, an
organ and gramophone, besides books
and plenty of fancy work. A majority
of the men on the island and steamers
are related in some way. In addition
to his monthly wages every man re-
ceives a bonus of half a cent on every
cask of oil.
In those waters there are narwhals.
or unicorn whales, right whales and
humpbacks, and recently one blue whale
was taken, that measured 80 feet. The
oil is sent TO Buneos Ayres, whence it is
transshipped to Europe9 and to some
extent to New Bedford. The plant of
South Georgia has been established three
years. 1t turns out 200 barrels day.
Whalebone from the right whale brings
about $500 a ton and from the narwhal
$4,000. The product Of oil for this year
will be 10000 barrels. 1t sells for $50
a barrel.
Right whales are the rarest. There
are so many mars" and humpbacks that
only one steamer is sent after these,
while the two others go to the north end
to shoot right whales for whalebone. No
steamer is allowed to bring in more than
six whales at once.
The Norwegians talked of anneXing
South Georgia, but this made the Argen.
tines Jealous, and Great Britain settled
the question by sending a warshlp the
first year and planting the British flag.
The British government made Capt.
Larsen resident governor, with strict
orders not to allow the seals, sea lions,
sea leopards, sea elephants, or other
animals to be wantonly killed. A seal
may be killed only for food.
The rmean temperature of South
Georgia is about "a degrees and on the
whole island there is not enough grass
to cover the deck of a vessel. The wind
blows at the rate of 20 miles an hour.
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A Widening Market for Cottonseed Oil.

gA special agent of the United States
who has been studying the sardine indus:
try at Nantes, France, reports concern
ing the use Of oils in a way that would
indicate that good market might be
opened for cottonseed oil by frank
promotion of that article of commerce
The sardine packers have been using
olive oil and peanut oil, and as the for
mer has advanced in price very materi-
shortage in the crop, there is DISPOSE
ton to look for other oils which can be
used with more economy.
Olive oil turns dark after being used
once or twice. and imparts the darker
shade to the fish. and it is thought that
this may be avoided by the use of cot
tonseed OIL Two packers have agreed
to make tests with the American oil,
both in cooking and packing sardines
and for their encouragement samples of
the oil will be sent to them. If success
is achieved. these packers hope to be
able to establish a special trade with the
United States in fish that are cooked
and packed in oil that is acknowledged
openly on the label.
There has been much fraud in this
respect, and new order of things is
highly desirable. American consumers
know that cottonseed oil is chemically
similar to olive oil, and that it is whole
some. Its use or non-use is matter of
flavor. and if it had the same flavor as
olive oil there would be absolutely no
difference. But nevertheless cottonseed
oil has been surreptitiously utilized in
various ways, as though it were inferior
in nutritive value and unfit for incorpo-
rationin foods. The proprietor of one of
the largest retail stores at Nantes says
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Popu1arizing the Opera.

The significance of Oscar Hammer
STEMS return from Europe lies not in
his daughters revelations of his jaunty
and juvenile carriage while abroad not
in the fact that he has discarded his his
toric stiff hat and comes back in an ar
tistic Fedora, not in his disquisitions on
the eccentricities of singers, but in the
promise which it affords of an era of
cheap but good opera-of the pOpularza
ton of the opera in the United States.
He has shown his belief in the future
of opera in this country by his invest
ments in constructing spacious and pa
latial homes for it in New York and in
Philadelphia, as well as by his enter
prise in engaging expensive European
stars and bringing them here to sing.
America, he says, is the musical center
OF the world just now-and beyond DIS
pute he is doing what he can to make
that bold declaration true.
Heretofore opera in the United States
has been for the most part a luxury De-
yOnd the reach of the masses. Inc peo-
pie cannot afford to take their famllles
to hear even the greatest imported stars
at So a seat. From good opera at mod
crate prices-and of that there is an al
Turing prospect at the present time
much might be expected in beneficial re
suits beyond mere entertainment. IL
would cultivate the senses of sight ana
hearing and supply pleasing subjects 10 10
occupy the mind-a relief from tne
monotony of thinking only OF tnG az IF
mighty dollar or the feverish pursuit VI
business for its own sake. 1t would tend
to correct IS gro os and materiasm by
giving life a touch of color ana romance.
IT might help to restore the VISION ol the
ideal Which has faded so rapidly in the
glare of scientific discovery and indus
trial and commercial progress e our curing me
seemed danger lest it might utterly dis
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TIME THAT COSTS.
One Reason Why More Photographs of
Factories Are Not Taken.

'The statement that it cost the Stand
ard Oil company, $4,000 to cease opera
tons during the funeral services of III. H.
Rogers is an apt illustration of the value
of time in an industry" said the profess
sional photographer. eff it wasn't for
that we would do double our business.
1.-The officers of concern may be en-
Enthusiastically in favor of having a set of
pictures of the works, but they chill
when the general manager hands them a
little slip showing just how much the
time we use costs and how much net
profit they are going to lose, ETC., bal.
anced against the speculative value OF
the pictures as business getters.
Our price, no matter how high, cuts
no ice. It's the postage stamp account
comparatively. For instance, we took a
set of pictures of the Armour stockyards
and plant. We were there an hour. The
company paid only 5000 to us for the pic
lures. but it lost in time just $4,000. MAX
ing the cost of the pictures $1,000 for
about ten photographs. Four hundred
and twenty dollars each is a pretty good
price for pictures of beef."-New York
Sun.
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PAPERS b 4np PEOPL l.

irremedatle breach she naturally takes her daugh
ters side of the difference she is apt to do her best TO
heal it, Besides in time of trouble, who is SO ready
to help and to comfort as the wfe's mother!
The prejudice against mothersinlaw Is modern one,
for which Thackeray is largely responsible The moth
ers-inlaw whom he portrays drawn with lampback
and acid and it is difficult to man. though
endowed with the patience Of job could dwell In peace
and harmony with such women those whom he in
ficted upon Clve Newcome and Philip. But Mrs. Mac
kenze and Mrs. Baynes unusual let US hope as
improbable. any Of the villains of fiction and 1t Is
grossly unfair accept them as normal types Just
why Thackeray, whose written cynicism in the main
was kindly and who In social intercourse was among
the most genial Of should have shown such rancor
towards mothersinlaw is hard to guess Certainly 1t
not from personal experience since his wife had
long been orphan when he married her.