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The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29
Eighteen Persons Killed and a
Number Seriously Injured
PROPERTY LOSS IS ENORMOUS
Estimated It will Exceed One
Esi||ion Dollars.

New Orleans, July 24.-Further re-
ports from isolated points along the
Gulf coast of Texas continue to swell
the death list resulting from last
Wednesdays hurricane. Angelton,
Tex, reports eleven dead instead of
one, bringing the total death list of
the hurricane up to thirty-eight. Many
more are still missing.
New Orleans, July 23.-Eighteen
persons dead and sixteen seriously
hurt and property damage exceeding
$1,000,O0O as far as can be ascer-
tanned is the grim record resulting
from the destructive sweep of the
hurricane along the Louisiana and
Texas coasts.
The number of dead as reported
from various towns and cities is as
follows:
Texas-Bay City, 8; Galveston, d:
Eagle Lake, 1; Wharton, /; Kendle.
ton, 1; Ramsey, /; Ell Campo, i:
Palacios, 4.
Louisiana-Mudd Pass, q
The number seriously injured is re.
ported as follows:
From Texas points-Eagle Lake, l.;
Bay City, is.
That the hurricane which swept the
gulf coast Of Texas and Louisiana
levied Q far heavier toll in loss OF
life and property damage than at
first supposed was indicated when
points which had been cut off from
communication again got in touch
with the outside world. Many isolat.
ed places yet remain to be heard from
and anything like full list of dead
and injured may not be completed for
several days.
That the property loss will run into
the millions was made a certainty
when whole towns which were not at
first believed to have suffered were
definitely reported to have been
wrecked.
Fatalities are reported from many
sources.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29

ments made by the senate and house
leaders, taken in connection with the
attitude Of President Taft, the indi-
cations are that the conference rates
upon the important questions still in
dispute will be as follows:
Hides. free: oil, free; lumber, rough,
$1.25 per thousand feet, with proper
tionate differentials; coal, 45 cents a
ton, with the house reciprocal clause:
iron ore, Is cents ton; print paper,
$$3.15 ton.
Practically one full week has been
occupied by the conferees in an effort
to settle these questions.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29
President Wins One Point In
Tariff Contest
LOWER DUTIES ON PRODUCTS
Manufactured Leather Goods to
g. Be ueduced.

Washington, July 24.-Hides will be
put upon the free list and existing
rates on all leather goods will be sub
stanttally reduced, some of them be-
low the duties fixed by either the
house or senate tariff bills.
BY making this reduction on the
finished products of leather part Of
the agreement for free hides it is said
that the conferees will be acting with
in their powers and that it will not
be necessary to recommit the bill
either in the house or senate to Sc
cure reduction in the leather sched-
ule.
Senators Crane and Lodge were
among the earliest of the presidents
callers and told him that New Eng
land was willing to make concessions
In the matter Of reduced rates on
shoes, etc., as part of the bargain
for free hides. This opened the way,
they said, for an agreement in the
conference committee, for the West
ern senators who have been fighting
the proposition to place hides on the
free list have announced time and
again that their objection would cease
whenever the rates on shoes. etc.,
were accordingly reduced.
The rates on shoes will be lowered
from IL to 10 per cent, according to
the presidents advices.
sorah Consents to Scheme.
Senator Borah of Idaho, after a con.
ference with the president following
the call of Messrs. Crane and Lodge,
said there was no longer any doubt
that hides would go on the free list.
along with substantial reduction in
the rates on finished leather products.
The generally accepted programme is
as follows:
Hides, free: sole leather, s per cent
ad valorem, the same as the house
rate and 10 per cent lower than the
senate rate: leather for uppers, ~
Per cent, which is one-half the rate Of
the senate and the house bills; boots
and shoes. 10 per cent, az against IS
per cent In the house bill and 20 per
cent in the senate bill.
From careful analysis Of state
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29

The Acme Is Very Popular at Nicollet.
Nicollet County Commissioner Ed.
Arnold, the Acme agent at Nicollet, is
having a large sale on Acme machines
at that point.
An Exhibition Witnessed by Twenty.
Two Farmers; Seven Acme Har.
vesters Sold on the Spot.
Mr.. John A. White the Acme general
agent and MIR. Fred Cote, blockman,
with Expert Shannon were driven in
an automobile from this city Tuesday
morning to the farm of julius Stolt two
miles west Of Nicollet to witness an g.
foot Acme Queen binder acquit herself
in splendid form in a field of very heavy
and tangled rye.
The agent, MIR. Ed. Arnold, had ar
ranged an exhibition to test an eight
foot Acme Queen binder on the Stolt
farm as above, at ten o'clock Tuesday
morning. Although this is very busy
haying season twenty-five Of Nicollet
county's most substantial farmers were
present to observe and criticise the
work the machine did. The testimonial
subscribed to by the twenty-one farm
ers present which is appended, speaks
volumes and shows the favorable criti-
cism of those present.
The Acme Has No Equal.
The eight-foot Queen binder has pos
itively no equal when it comes to hand
ling the heaviest and badly tangled
grain. The machine is very strong
with great capacity; handling the
heaviest tangled grain with perfect
ease and freedom, as the twenty-one
farmers whose names are attached am
ply testify.
The Eight-Foot Acme Queen Runs
Lighter than six-Foot Deering.
Mr.. julius Stolt, proprietor of the
farm where the exhibition occurred
stated publicly to those present that
his team handled the eight-foot Acme
Queen easier than it would handle his
old six-foot Deering. Mr.. Stolt was
strong on this point.
Mr.. Currier, agent for the Trust at
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29
ACME HARVESTER A BIG WINNER
From Mankato (Minn.) Daily Free Press.

} Daily Free Press.
Nicollet, was present and had only
words of praise for the Acme Queen,
frankly admitting the excellency of it's
performance under very trying con-
ditions. Mr.. Arnold will have printed
and distributed in due course various
postal card photographs taken during
the exhibition.
The Testimonial Signed by the Twen-
ty-0ne Farmers Present Follows:
We, the undersigned, have today wit
messed an eight-foot Acme Queen bind
er cutting very successfully in afield of
the heaviest down rye, and badly tang
led, the machine cutting all the way
around the field a number of times
without missing a single bundle or
shocking in the least, at any time and
we enthusiastically pronounce the work
done entirely satisfactory, four horses
handling the eight-foot machine with
perfect ease.
The driver and owner of the team,
julius Stolt, stated emphatically and
publicly that this eight-foot Acme
Queen machine runs lighter than his
six-foot Deering.
We cheerfully recommend the Acme
as good and safe machine to buy. We
have seen test here which convinces
US that the Acme is rightfully to be
classed as a first-class and reliable ma
chine in every respect.
Julius Stolt,
Louis Wenholz,
j. c. Stolt,
j. w. Johannes,
Peter Morson,
Fred Wills,
John c. Zins,
III. R. Heiser,
IN. B. johnson,
"A. H. Norman,
Joe H. Schouweller,
WIN. Burg,
"A. C. Grams,
M. w. Burg,
Matt. Schouweller,
j. B. Bean,
M. j. Eschouweller,
Charles Stolt,
Peter Pecker,
f. L. Bode,
IF. Kranz.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29
JEROME IS IN CHARGE
Conducting States Case In the
: Thaw Insanity Hearing,

White Plains, N. Y, July 27.-Alien-
lists have begun their slow march
across the stage in the Thaw case.
The efforts Of Stanford Whites slayer
to obtain his release from the Mat
teawan asylum for the criminal in
sane are eliminating in the testimony
Of the experts called to prove him
sane and when they are through the
prisoner will take the stand himself.
In two respects the hearing was a
reminder of the two homicide trials
which Ihaw underwent. District At
torney Jerome of New York, at the re-
quest of the attorney generals office,
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29
Big DEMONSTRATION HELD
English Labor Party Protests against
Cars Visit,

London, July ga huge demonstra-
ticn by the organized labor party was
held here to protest against the visit
Of the emperor of Russia to England.
Various women's political leagues and
socialistic and other organizations
were represented.
Numerous banners, which headed
the different professions, were in.
scribed with uncomplimentary mot
toes, such as LET the hanging czar
remember" "Shall we grasp his
bloody hand?" "A message from hell
welcome, little father"
James Keir Hardie, the socialistic
member of parliament, and others
made speeches voicing angry protests
against the proposed visit.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29
INDIAN STUDENT MUST DIE
Slayer Of British Official Convicted at
London.

London. July 23.-Madarlal Dhina.
gri, the Indian student who shot and
killed Lieutenant Colonel Sir William
Hutt Curzon Wyllie and DR.. Canvas
Lalcaca, was found guilty and SEN
fenced to death at the conclusion of a
trial of less than an hours duration
at the Old Bailey police court.
During the recital of the occur
rences at the Imperial institute on the
night Of the tragedy the prisoner sat
in the dock listening unconcernedly
and only once broke his silence by
saying:
Whatever I did was an act Of pa
triotism."
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29

appeared in court and took entire
charge of the states case. Mr.. Je.
rome and Thaw sat so close together
that their chairs touched, but if the
prisoner had any fear of the man
who prosecuted him his face did not
chow 1t.
All but one of the witnesses were
Thaw's and his equanimity was un-
disturbed. At times he and the New
York district attorney chatted and
smiled like old friends reunited.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29
RESULT OF A cLouDBuRs1
Serious Property Losses Occur II
Northern Wisconsin.

Milwaukee, July 22-Reports from
Northern Wisconsin. particularly in
the neighborhood of Ashland, tell of
serious losses as result Of a cloud.
burst, the estimates of the loss vary.
ing from 100000 to $750,O0O.
Innumerable bridges and dams are
reported as being carried out, and
the situation on the Odanah Indian
reservation is now the most serious,
as the high stage of water is just be-
ginning to affect the red mems sec.
ton. No trains are running to Ash
land on any road, only one North
western train having been able to
get through. The river power plant
is wrecked at heavy loss, the entire
dam at the White river rapids being
carried out. This property alone cost
100000 and is practically q complete
ruin.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29
SEVEN ARE KILLED IN WRECK
Part Of Wabash Train Plunaes Into
Missouri River.


Kansas City, July 26-Seven per-
sons we're killed and three perhaps
fatally injured In the wreck of Wa
bash passenger train No. when it
plunged into the Missouri river thirty
miles east Of here.
OF the eight cars which made up
the train five and the engine are in
the river, with the water covering all
of them except one end of the Des
Moines sleeper. A dead-head Pull
man, mail, baggage, day coach and
sleeper followed the engine into the
stream. The chair car and two Pull
mans alone remained uninjured.
Eight mail clerks were saved be-
cause the roof of their car was torn
of, permitting them to get out on top
Of the car and swim to the shore.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29
ForoefuI Renarks.

II understand your husband is some.
thing Of an after dinner speaker"
"Yes," answered young Mrs. Torkins,
"what Charley Is liable to say after .
dinner Is the reason we can't keep q
cook."-Washington Star.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29
HELD UP BY GIRL BANDITS
One Party Of oIIdden Tourists Re.
lieved Of vaIuables.

Denver, July 26-Two pretty girl
bandits, in all the approved regalia
Of the ancient bad man of the wild
and woolly West, held up and robbed
Charles M. Babbitt of Buffalo, N. Y,
who was in the Glidden tour party.
The holdup occurred in a secluded
part of a mountain road near Ster.
ling, Colo, and at the point Of pistols
the occupants of the car were COM
PEELED to give up their money and
valuables.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29
TwELvE-YEAR-0LD ENDS LIFE
Boy Hangs Himself After BEING Rep.
rimanded by Mother.

Des Moines, July 26.-Laurel Laid
ley, twelve years old, committed sui
eide, hanging himself to a rafter in
his fathers barn on the farm near
Guthrie Center.
The boy had been reprimanded by
his mother. aud fed from the house.
declaring he would kill himself.
Search revealed him hanging dead.
He had used his suspenders and
tied them around his neck and to a
beam overhead.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29
FOUR PERISH IN cLouDBuRs1
Wall Of Water Descerds Upon Picnic
Party.

Denver, July PA picnic party of
twelve was overwhelmed with cloud
burst in narrow defile in Two Mile
canyon, three miles from Boulder,
while they were eating lunch, and
two were drowned and two fatally in.
jured.
The cloudburst broke on mountain
. mile from where the picnickers were
at lunch and the first warning that
they had was when a wall of water
two feet deep descended upon them
with great speed. In few minutes
the water was twelve feet deep in the
canyon,
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29
TANNERY MEN RESUME WORK
While Not Settled, Strike 10 Believed
to Be Over.

Kenosha, Wis.,, July 24.-Work was
resumed in all departments of the Al
len tannery and it is thought that the
strike, while not settled, is prac-
tically over. Nine hundred men are
at work and one of the officers of the
tannery says the strike is over. No
trouble Of any kind developed.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29
AT THE C0MPANY's TERMS
Butler (Pa.) Steel Plant Strikers Re.
turn to Work,

Pittsburg, July 2e.-The strike at
the Standard Steel Car company's
plant in Butler, Pa, has ended. More
than 1000 former employees returned
to work at the company's terms.
Seven leaders of the strike movement
were discharged.
Ohicials of the company say that
given preference in all departm ents,
particularly in the construction Of
cars.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-29
AUTO is STRUCK BY TRAIN

Eseanaba (Mich.) Banker, Wife and
6rother.in-law Killed.
Menominee, Mich, July 24.-An au-
tomobile containing Ole Erickson,
president Of the State bank of Esca-
naba, his wife and brother.in-law,
Dell Erickson, was struck by North
western passenger train at Birch
Creek and all three were instantly
killed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06
LAMP EXPLODED; FOUGHT FIRE
Mason City Woman, Badly Burned
Saves Lives Of Children.

Mason City Woman, Badly Burned
Saves Lives Of Children.
Special to Times-Republican.
Mason City, Sept. 6.-Shut off from
her neighbors by quarantine for diph-
iberia and out of reach of their aid
when gasoline filled lamp exploded,
Mrs. Oscar Richard of this city hero
lcally saved her children and home
from destruction by fire, but herself
suffered severe burns. Mrs. Richard
had sent can down town for kerosene
and the grocer filled it with gasoline.
She did not notice the difference when
she filled the lamp. But when in The
evening she lighted it the explosion
occurred. Bits Of glass and flaming
OIL were thrown all over the room and
some of the fire struck Mrs Richard.
She kept her presence of mind and
quickly eXtinguished the flames in Inc
room, but in the meanwhile she was
terribly burned. Mrs Richard lives
alone with three children, one of whom
is dangerously i'll with diphrheria. Ply
sicians say that her burns will not
prove fatal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06
PATENT BRINGS $4,000.
Barber of West Union lnvents New
Corn Planting Device.


West Union, Sept. 6-Bert Wescott,
formerly farmer and now barber,
employed in this city, who recently
came here from Fayette, made trip
this week and sold corn planting de-
vice, his own invention, for $4,000.
Mr.. Westcott is not an investor in the
ordinary sense He has never thought
or worked along inventive lines, but
one day last spring while blowing for
corn, he was struck by an idea, and
half an hour later the plan was com
plete in his mind. He went at once
to Dubuque, had drawings, patterns,
and castings made, and two weeks
later was at home using his planting
device attached to planter, and found
out that it was a practical wireless
check rover. 1t weighs less than 100
pounds, and can be attached to any
planter. A patent was issued to Mr..
Westcott July 26, and this week he sold
it to the Smedley Pump Company of
Dubuque. Mr.. Westcott has not lost
his head. but continues to work at the
barber trade on wages.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06
WORSE EVERY YEAR.
Plenty of MarshaItswn Readers Have
the Same Experience.

Plenty Of Marsha!ltswn Readers Havs
the Same Experience.
Don't neglect an aching back.
1t will get worse every year.
Baokache is really kidney ache.
To cure the back you must cure the
Kidneys.
II you don't, other kidney ills fol-
dow
Urinary troubles, diabetes, Bright's
disease
"A Marshalltown citizen tells you how
the cure is easy.
o. r. Wilson, $40 North Second ave-
nue.. Marshaltown. Iowa. says: For
seven years I was sufferer from kid
ney complaint, my condition at times
being quite serious. The kidney, Sc
cretions became very irregular in pas
sage and deposited a sediment If al
lowed to stand. / had heavy pains in
my back and to bend or lift increased
my suffering A short time ago,
procured a box of Doan's Kidney Pills
at the Mcbride & Will Drug Co., and
began using them as directed. They
gave me great relief from the pains in
my back and regulated the kidney Sc
cretions. am in a position to testify
as to the merits of Doan's Kidney
PILL
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doans-an
take no other.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06
EAR TORN OFF IN RUNAWAY.
Fremont County Farmers Wife Suf
fers Severe Injuries,

Percival, Sept. Cone OF the most
distressing runaway accidents happen
ing in Fremont county for long time
occurred near Percival, in which Mrs
Ed Boyd was injured in dreadful
manner, one ear being torn almost
completely off. a bad scalp wound on
one side of her head and numerous
bruises being also sustained Mr.. Boyd
and their two small children We're also
thrown out, he and one child escaping
with nothing worse than severe bruises
but the other child had one foot hurt.
The runaway occurred as the Boyd
family were nearing their home from a
visit to the home of Wallace Hume, OF
Brightside, and was caused, it is said
by the horses taking fright at man
walking toward them in the road, who
was swapping a buggy whip.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06

open window near where he was sitting
in his home.
That some of the more recent Mikes
are afraid of violence is claimed by the
attorney, who told of one of the men
who came here sometime since from
Canada in relation to prospective
suit to recover his alleged loss. This
man asked Crawford, after their inter
view, whether 1T would be safe for him
to venture ON the streets Of Council
Bluffs alone.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06
ASKS FOR REINSTATEMENT.
Iowa Federation of Labor Will Appea
to National Rody.

/ loVva SGSTdtlCTl OF LABOR VIII Appear
to National Body.
Des Moines, Sept. 6-The executive
committee of the Iowa Federation of
Labor has taken up the formulation of
an appeal to the national federation for
reinstatement. following the expulsion
of the body last fall because of its
seating delegates in the so-called in
surgent convention of the electrical
workers in st. Louis. An appeal will
be presented at the national meeting
of the labor federation to be held in
Montreal Nov To-
The Iowa Federation will have to be
reinstated before it's delegates will re-
csiva privileges ct ether conventions
The expulsion followed the controversy
over the demand on the part of certain
unions of electrical workers that the
national officers of the union give an
accounting for distributing funds. This
Gemand was refused time and again.
The local unions met in special con-
vention at ST. Louis in September, 1908,
and perfected Independent organiza-
tons, elected new officers and new
executive board and refused to longef.
recognize the old union as the national
union of electrical workers.
The new organization then demanded
Of the old that the books and records
be given over to the new officers This
demand was also refused on the ground
| that the five locals that first petitioned
for the special convention were not all
| in good standing. Because of the fact
| that the Iowa federation seated it's
delegation in the special convention
that revoked the authority Of the old
organization, it was expelled from
membership in the national federation
Of labor and it's charter revoked.
Other states are said to be ~ ire
same predicament. The petit!as1 $eeAed
by the COWS federation sets Gvftd the
case Clearly. The closing stAkSn,Nr,N of
the petition follows:
Taking all into consideration, we
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06
Court at Forest City
Special to Times-Re Republican.


Forest City, Sept. 6.-Dstrict court
for the September term will open here
tomorrow with Judge Clark. of Mason
city, presiding. The calendar is not
heavy and it is expected that the work
of the term can be completed within a
fortnight. There will be no criminal
cases unless some result from the
grand jury. but there are several i'm
portant cases in equity to be tried.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06
TAX LEVY is INCREASED.
Mason City Needs More Money Fc
improvements and Park.

Special to Times Republican
Mason City. Sept. Elm fixing the
municipal levy for the coming year the
city council has raised the city levias
s mills over that of last year. OF this
increase u mills is a new tax for park
purposes. the board of park commits
sioners for Mason City having been
elected for the first time last year
Next year the total city levy will he
SO mills and last year it was but 2s
mills, or less than the school levy. In
creases in the city levies have been
made SO that the work of Improvements
of the city by the building of sewers
water mains, and paving, may be ac-
complished more rapidly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-06
MANY FARMS LEASED.
Farmers Near Traer Securing Desir
able Tracts for Next Year.

Special to Times Republican
Traer, Sept. 6.-Farmers in this vi
cinity are busy hunting farms for next
year. The past week the Clifford farm
of over 300 acres, north of town, was
rented to Ernie and Oma Nation for
next year at a. per acre. A gentle
man named Worthington, of Algona,
was here looking at Peter Mccormack s
farm south of town with a view of
renting it for a term of years, and went
to Des Moines to consult the owner,
Mr.. Mccormack. James Cassen. north
of town. has rented his farm to Marcus
Nelson for the coming year. Mr. Mel
son also rents forty acres of the Clifford
farm including the buildings The
Bunker homestead of 100 acres has
been rented TO Mr.. and Mrs Ed Bailey
for the coming year at IS per acre.