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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
81 DIE IN CRASH
OF TRACTION CARS
FrightfuI Loss OF Life Near
Staunton, III.
COACHES COLLIDE ON CURVE
Twenty-Six Are lnjured-orders Arc
overiooked--Dead, Dying and
MANNED Are Thrown Into
Bloody Mass.

Springfield, ILL.,, Oct. 5.--Thirty-four
persons were instantly killed and 26
others were injured when two interur
ban cars on the Illinois mckinley
Traction system collided head-on at
Dckerson curve, two miles north OF
Staunton, Ill.
Both cars were going at a high rate
of speed and as the curve where they
met is at the bottom of hill, both
cars were plunging down hill. They
met right on the curve and so sudden
was the collision, the motormen bare
ly escaped with their lives by jump
ing.
Victims Piled In Bloody Mass.
Both cars were demolished and the
dead. dying and injured were piled
in one bloody mass, while the screams
OF the manned and bleeding added hor-
ror to the scene.
Car No. IA, north bound. had orders
to meet both sections Of train No.
70 at Stanton. The orders were
carried out so far as the first section
was concerned, but it Is officially re.
ported that the orders to wait for the
second section Of No. 70 were over
looked.
Road Officials Are Killed.
Among those killed were three Of
the prominent officials of the traction
system:
J. e. Berry, Springfield, land COM
missioner for the Illinois Traction sys-
TEN.
w. N Street, assistant train mas
ter at Stanton.
D. V. Black, assistant superintend-
ent of motive Ipower and equipment
of Springfield
Old Employees Mutiny.
Old employees of the company re-
fused to go out on learning of the
wreck. They complained that new
men, employed for the state fair traf-
fic, We're disobeying orders and run.
ming by switches where they were un-
der orders to stop. 1t is reported that
four full crews mutinied and refused
to go out. The system has been
taxed to its extreme capacity since
last Saturday by the immense crowds
Fastening to the state fair. Many ad-
ditional men, mostly motormen and
conductors employed in various cities
of central Illinois, have been pressed
into service on the hight speed crowd,
ed interurban cars.
The killed:
W. S. Street, Staunton,. divition su.
perintendent Illinois Traction system.
A. Price, Champaign, auditor of dis.
Sursements of the Illinois Traction
system.
j. w. Miller, Gillespie. general su.
perintendent of the Superior Coal
company.
], H. Habbegger, jamestown, Ill,
general merchant
c. Werner, Chaplin, Ill.
Herman Bauer, st. Louis.
D. E. Black, Springfield, assistant
superintendent of motive power of the
Illinois Traction system.
T. J. Kerwin, St. Louis.
Manuel A. Inbermill, Baden, Ill.
DIR. H. c. Janaway. Decatur. III.
]. G. Schaefer, St. Louis.
Mrs. William Cloud. Benld, SIll.
S. C. Hill, Princeton, Ind.
John Blotna, Benld, Ill.
Mrs. John Blotna, Benld, III.
DR.. B. F. Redshaw, Curran, NJ
H. B. Robinson, Benld, ILL.,, miner
e. NJ. Rose, Chicago.
Eighteen unidentified men Aand
women.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
Simmer Il Red OK.

Red Oak, la, Oct 5. Special
shriners over southern Iowa are pre-.
pairing to attend one of the largest
meetings of Tag Ga Zig Temple at
Red Oak Thursday ever held in south
ern Iowa. Red Oak is making big
preparations for the entertainment of
the big crowd. A feature will be an
oriental parade. In the evening big
banquet will be served A big crowd
will come from Council BLUFFS where
the Sioux City Temple will hold an
other big meeting Friday. Several
bands will be in the parade.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
To Take Religious Census.

Marshalltown, Oct. Special. In
order to ascertain the church and Sun
day school utilization of the people,
of this city, the MarshaIltown Pas
tors association will begin within two
weeks a religious census. Preliminary
plans for taking the census were dis
cussed yesterday at meeting of the
association.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
JUDGE MOODY HAS RESIGNED
ILL HEALTH CAUSES SUPREME
COURT MEMBER TO QUIT.
President Taft Accepts Resignation
With Great ReIuctance-Justice
Has Been ~ More Than Year.

Beverly, Mass, Oct. Especial:
President Taft has received the resig-
nation of William H. Moody as assO-
ciate justice of the United States SUI
preme court.
The president wrote Moody, who is
at Magnolia, accepting his resignation
and expressing his high regard for
the retiring jurist. Justice Moody will
receive the full pay of an active men,
Der of the court, $4,000 year.
1t has been known since early sum-
mer that Justice Moody would retire.
Mr. Moody has been i'll for more than
a year Despite the fact that he has
known for some time that Mr.Moody' S
retirement was inevitable, the presi'
dent said he accepted the resignation
with great reluctance.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
Bio Fair.

Guthrie Center, Oct. Special:
The Guthrie Center county fair, which
opened yesterday, is expected to be
great success. A large crowd attend
ed yesterday and much interest was
shown in the stock exhibits, which are
said to be the finest in years. The
automobile and horse races are the
best ever held in this county.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
To Organize Club,

Corydon, Ia, Oct. Especial: Suf-
frage leaders today announce that
B. o. Aylesworth, formerly president
of Drake university of Des Moines, of
late lecturer for the National SUI.
frage Associatian, will be here Nov.
II to address the State Suffrage AS
sociation. He has recently organized
suffrage protective club in Colorado
and win start a movement for club
in this state
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
October Strawberries.

Knoxville, Ia, Oct Especial:
While the State Board of Control was
here today installing a new superin-
tendent, an inspection OF the garden
about the state hospital for drunkards
developed strawberry bed with near.
ly 80 quarts OF Strawberries ready
TO pick.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
Auto Collision.

Waterloo, Ia, Oct. Especial. j.
B. Hawkins, a plumber, is badly in
jured and Chas. Christensen is badly
bruised as the result of an automo-
bile accident near Dixie last night.
They were riding in Christensen's
automobile at high rate of speed
when they collided with a car in the
road and their car turned turtle.
Christensen was picked up from un-
der the car and released by passing
farmers. Hawkins has a broken nose
and other injuries.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
Aviators Injured.

Paris, Oct. Especial; Leon Mo.
rane, one of the best known French
aviators, was seriously injured and
his brother, Robert Morane. critically
hurt today when his aeroplane fell
from a great height,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
Iowa Deaths.

Humboldt, Oct. SPECIAL: o. M.
Marsh, aged "a, died here yesterday.
He was a pioneer of Humboldt and
was Well known throughout this vi.
entity He leaves wife and several
children.
Des Moines, Ia, Oct. 5.--Speoial:
Daniel Trullinger, aged 92. died here
today, He came here In 1912 and
laid the first brick ever handled In
Des Moines. He leaves number of
relatives
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
To Have Water and Sewer.

Corydon, Ia. Oca. Especial: The
town of Corydon bond issue of S45,-
600 for water and sewer purposes to
bear interest at Az per cent was sold
last night to ]. K. Green, cashier of
the Wayne County State bank.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
Ample Tree in RIonm.

Boone, Oct. Special: An apple
tree owned by Fire Chief William
West, of this city, is blooming. This
is very rare sight for the month of
October, and much interest has been
aroused by the freak tree.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
FIRE DESTROYS
ELECTRIC PLANT
Attempted Murder in Des Moines
for No Known Reason.
SHRlNERS MEET AT RED OAK
Guthrie Center's Fair--Dubuque Wo.
man Suicides Sidney Woman
Receivers Kidnapped Son--Mar.
shaltoWn to Take Census,

Corydon, Ia, Oct. Especial: The
recently completed electric light plant
at Allerton was totally. destroyed by
fire late last night with loss esti-
mated at $4,000. The plant had been
in operation only about month and
had been turned over to the town in
its entirety. There was no insurance
and the cause of the fire is unknown.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
LIahtnIna klIIs Cards, Zoe.

Napoleonyille La, Oct. Shine
diately after Pierre Gros. bad de-
ciined TO enter aeard,game at a dance
hall he was killed by lightning The
card players received slight shocks
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
Attempted Murder.

Des Molnes. Oct, Especial: Mrs.
Cora Van Hynlng was shot and ser
iousIy wounded last evening BY Rich
ard Bradford, AZ her home. Bradford
lIled the Woman to the back door
the house while she and her hun,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-10-06
somnambulIsts Walked Ear.

Cases in the medical books show
that somnAmbulists have walked Al
far as Is miles 10 their sleep.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-22
GIFT OF $1,000
TO THE PRIoRY
st. Andrews Church Now Plan
ming Fund for Home
for the Bishop.

St. Andrew s Priory is now entirely
free from all Indebtedness, Bishop Res
tarick having yesterday received gift
of $4,000 from friend to make the
final payment. The building and furni-
ture have cost $4,000. Much of this
money has come from unexpected
sources as a recognition of the fine
work which the school is doing.
Now that this building is finished
the laymen of the church are making
an effort TO raise money in order that
a house for the bishop may be built.
A committee has issued letter on the
subject, and Che vestry Of st. Andrew S
cathedral has voted to devote the
Easter offering TO the bishops house
fund. There is already about two thou
sand dollars ON hand in the fund. 1t
is expected that the offering will be a
large one.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-22
RAPID TRANSIT
SUED FOR $4,000
Don Robinson Estimates at that
Amount the Damages He
Received in Collision.

Don Robinson has filed suit in the
circuit court against the Honolulu
Rapid Transit and Land Company for
$4,000 damages on account of injuries
which he alleges he received as a re-
suit of the wagon he was driving being
struck by street car.
1t is stated in the complaint that
Robinson, who was a teamster in the
employ of the quartermaster depart
ment at Fort Shafter, was driving a
four-mule team down King street on
November 20 when, near the Palama
fire station, the wagon was struck by a
rapidly running car and the plaintiff
was hurled off, sustaining a fracture
of the foot and sundry other bruises
and Commissions.
In addition to the $4,000 damages
asked for, Robinson demands doctor
bills and pay for the loss of wages,
amounting to forty-eight dollars, be-
sides costs and attorneys fees.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-22
JAPANESE SAYS TAFT
IS 0vERSHAD0WED

The Chuwo says if the report of Mr..
Roosevelt s visit to Japan can be trust
ed the japanese will make preparations
to welcome him as Zone of the great.
est men the world has ever produced. !"
Notwithstanding the fact that Mr..
Roosevelt has temporarily retired from
official life, his influence in the United
States is SO great that President Taft
is totally overshadowed Upon his re.
turn home the ex-President will surely
be accorded as enthusiastic welcome
AS was accorded Napoleon Bonaparte
on his return frob Elba. The journal
acknowledges that il was Mr.. Roose'
welt who put an end TO the Russo
Japanese War, with view to spread.
ing the blessings of peace among all
nations, His timely mediation In this
bloody conflict will long be remembered
by the japanese. The japanese are
now eagerly awaiting the arrival Of
definite information ~ 10 the visit Of
Mr., Roosevelt 10 this country on bis
way home from Afriea,-Japan Gazette,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-22
GIGANTIC FRAUD
Is BROKEN UP

COUNCIL BLUFFS, March ELL. G.
Mnybray and thirteen associates have
been found guilty Of fraud by the fed
eral grand jury. The conviction breaks
up the greatest swindling gang OF the
age, IN the opinion Of the government
prosecutions They estimate that NAV
bray and his assoc .aied gang have clean
"a up ten million dollars 10 the last
ten wears. The defendants we're GOA
sletsd under the postal law Of using tho
mails Tor fraudulent purposes
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-22
SENATOR GALLINGER'S
SHIP SUBSIDY BILL

New forms of ship-subsidy are crop
ping out in congress. Senator Calm
ger, of New Hampshire, has offered an
amendment to the postoflice appropria-
tion bill establishing regular postal
steamship lines to South America,
China, Japan, the Philippines and Aus
tralasia. Special provision is made for
mail lines to the Isthmus of Panama.
If there are two or more lines to
South America from Atlantic Coast
ports, one is required to stop going and
returning at two ports of the South
Atlantic States south of Cape Charles.
The expense of the service is restricted
TO the amount received from it. 1t is
stated by the postofIice department that
there is now surplus of $4,000 ap-
plicable to the starting of the new
lines.
The bill would compel the construe-
tion Of from twenty to thirty steam
ships Of a speed probably between six
teen and nineteen knots, costing from
81. 100000 to s2.500.000 each. Under
the existing ocean mail law, of which
this bill Is an amendment, these new
steamships would have TO be construct.
ed on designs approved by the navy
department for use as auxiliary cruisers,
fast transports or supply ships, and
would have TO be turned over 10 the
government In war,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-22
Nippon Maru Rescues Three
Perishing Japanese Off
BARRIERS Point.
SAMPAN sWAMPED THURSDAY
Drifted for Three Days, CIinginy
to Boat and Were Picked
Up Yesterday.

Three dark specks on the horizon
south of Barber's Point attracted the
attention of officers on the bridge of
the Togo Kisen Kaisha liner Nippon
Maru yesterday as that vessel was ap.
preaching Honolulu from Yokohama.
The vessel IS course was changed as the
specks, magnified by the marine glasses,
turned out to be human beings appar-
emily clinging to wreckage. When the
liner neared the wreckage the human
derelicts waved their arms feebly. A
boat was lowered from the japanese
liner and was soon alongside the men.
They were Japanese, clinging to cap
sized wreck of a fishing sampan. The
men were in an exhausted state when
transferred to the steamers boat.
They were taken aboard the liner
and placed in the room of members of
the crew, stripped of their clothing,
provided with blankets and were given
cordials and refreshments. and although
feeble they revived under the influence
of stimulants and nourishment, and
were soon chattering their tale to the
Japanese officers.
On March 16, last Wednesday, the
three men, who are residents of Ka-
kaako, left in their sampan for the
fishing grounds off Molokai. They went
to point about seventeen miles south
and west of Molokai and when return
ing met heavy seas and a gale of wind,
which capsized their boat. They strug-
gled in the water, and being good swim
mers, got back to their wrecked boat
and chung to it desperately. They at
tempted to right the boat but their Ell
forts were unavailing. They managed
to break holes on the bottom and in
this way got it half way home.
The accident happened about three
thirty last Thursday afternoon. The
japanese chung on and watched and
waited for help, all the time drifting
westward. All Thursday night, with a
bitter cold wind blowing and awash the
men waited for daylight, believing they
would be in the track of an island YES
sci, but nothing came their way.
They drifted all day Friday and Sat
urday and Sunday, when they saw the
liner coming up from the west. Luckily
their signals were observed. They
had been in the sea nearly seventy
hours, without water to drink and only
a little fish to eat. Their faces were
burned almost black and their lips be-
came cracked, and as they sat in the
steerage, wrapped in their blankets,
they looked like mummies.
The sampan was allowed to drift on
after the men were rescued from it.
They were Dasaki, Tonuzawa and Ha-
mano Their sampan was known as
Sumiyoshi Maru.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-22
PLAN ARTIFICIAL
NITRATE PLANT
Scheme Considered to Use Power
Available From Hamakua
Ditch Water.
FEASIBILITY DEMONSTRATED
Five Power Plants to Furnish the
Electricity for Waipio or
KaWaihae.
FEASIBILITY DEMONSTRATED

Nitrates for the fertilization of Ha.
waiian fields, manufactured from nitro.
gen extracted from Hawaiian air and
fixed with lime manufactured from Ha-
waiian coral, are to be manufactured
on the island of Hawaii in the not far
distant future. The establishment of
an artificial nitrate plant is include
among the plans of the Hawaiian Irri-
cation Company, owners of the Kohala
and Hamakua bitches, and the sites
for at least five power plants have been
determined on.
Careful estimates of the amount of
available electrical power which may
be economically developed through the
use of the waters of the Hamakua ditch
have shown that 5000 horsepower can
be secured at minimum cost. This
power is to be collected at some avail
able landing and used for the separation
of the gases of the air, the nascent
nitrogen to be chemically combined with
coral to form calcium nitrate. 1t is
planned, as far as the scheme has been
matured, to locate the nitrate plant at
the mouth of the Waipio Valley, but
should it be found that no landing place
can be made there the power win be
carried to Kawaihae and the plant
placed on that side of the Big Island.
Hawaii contains no coral deposits that
may be worked, and what coral will be
used will be shipped from Oahu. For
this reason the plant must be somewhere
on the coast.
The Territory imports yearly many
hundreds of thousands of dollars worth
of fertilizer. The promoters of an artl-
fetal nitrate plant have no maIket to
seek, therefore, and are assured of Il
ready sale for all their product At
the present time there are artificial
nitrate plants In operation IN Norway
and at Niagara Falls, Canada, working
proatably. The systems Of these operat-
lug plants have been studied, and the
Norwegian system, which Is owned IN
Germany, has been decided upon for
Hawaii,
In addition 10 manufacturing nitraies,
the power developers expect 10 sell elee.
trieily 20 the plantations foI pumping
purposes, 10 carry the waters from their
lower ditch onto the lands Of the plania,
iions not already reached by the waters
from their upper ditch. II ~ possible
also, that power mas DO trahsmifled
lnio diAlHriH other thar llamnkus anl
ussd FOR missing water from springs on
tla IuNpr lHgNl. al nklsilug uluufui luus
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-22
EX-PRESIDENT.
" AN is NO
POLITICS
First Word From the Returning
Lion Hunter to the Ameri-
can People.
BWANA TUMBo Is OUT OF 1T
If There Is a Reception He In
sists That It Shall Be Nom
Partisan.
BwANA TUMBo is OUT OF IT


SHELLAL, Egypt, March ELK
President Roosevelt stated today that
he would sail for New York on June
10, at the latest. The ex-President said
he was very anxious to get home. He
declined to discuss political affairs, but
said that he would insist that any re-
ception that might be rendered to him
on his return be non-partisan.
Roosevelt emphatically stated that he
would refuse to be made part of any
political demonstrations, and this is
taken to indicate his intention to keep
away from active politics.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-22

emocrat
his the result of the political battle, Cannon
limit
sustaining allowing
Speaker.
defiance the radical if they
car gather will
all unsatisfed
party political involving
believed belief
will
Republican opponents planning
resolution declaring Speakers If this motion prevails
practically control of the Democrats.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-22
SALOONS HERE
ARE DOOMED
Political Guessers Say Prohibi-
ton Is Likely to
Carry.
KUHIo WILL SUPPORT IT
If Special Election Fails Re-
pubIicans Will Demand
Local Option.
KUHIo WILL SUPPORT IT

A considerable inquiry among politi-
cal leaders of all sorts shows strong
impression that the prohibition law will
be approved by the voters of the Ter
ritory if it is submitted next July.
according to the plan in Washington.
While neither of the party organiza-
tions seem to want to take tine issue
mp as matter of formal party policy,
most of the leaders in both parties
seem disposed to support the prohibi-
tion side as individuals.
In the country districts the native
voters are beyond doubt very strongly
in favor of the bill, and the anti-liquor
vote will be overwhelming on Hawaii,
Maui and Kauai, according to the best
opinions obtainable Kauai is already
salo0nless, and wants to remain so, and
the proposed prohibition bill is regard
ed as at least ,anti-saloon bill, wheth-
err it proves to be an effective prohibit
tion bill or not.
There is still considerable doubt as
to whether the joint resolution calling
special election will pass congress
Most of the party leaders hope it will,
in order that the issue may be disposed
of in July, so that it will not compli-
cate matters in the November elections.
If the July election fail to come off,
the Republicans, it is predicted, will
declare for local option. They may do
this in any event, as the proposed spe-
cial election seems likely to be held
under conditions which may make its
verdict unsatisfactory. If both the
parties stay out Of the campaign, the
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-22
HABEAS CORPUS =
CASE STILL ON
Decision May Rest Upon Whether
or Not a Felony Was
Committed.

Is the crime of conspiracy in the
third degree, of which Maxine and the
three other strike leaders were con-
victed, an infamous crime or only
misdemeanor7 This is the question
which it is up to Judge Robertson of
the United States District Court to
answer, and upon his answer, in the
opinion of the attorneys in the case,
or some of them, hangs the constitu-
tionality of the trial of tine Japanese.
Attorney Lightfoot, who is trying to
get them out of Jail on writ Of habeas
corpus, contends that the crime of
which they were convicted was infam-
Gus, felony, and that, therefore, their
trial without previous Indictment by
the grand jury was unconstitutional
and they should be released on writ
of habeas corpus. The attorneys for
the Territory, of course, take the
ground that the offense was only mis-
demeanor, basing their contention on
the sentence imposed, which was i'm
prisonment for ten months and fine
of 5000 each.
81 never knew before,' said Deputy
Attorney General Sutton yesterday,
that there was SO much question as to
what constitutes an infamous crime.
1t has always been taken for granted
here that any offense punishable by i'm
prisonment of one year or more con-
stitutes felony, but that now seems
to be doubtful and the best definition
appears to be that any crime for which
man may be punished by being con-
fined in the penitentiary, having his
head cropped, being made to wear
prison clothes and being obliged to do
hard work in public is felony"
"This is hardly the view of the mat
ter that Mr.. Lightfoot would take,
however. He contends that, although
his clients were given only ten months
each in Jail, they could have been SEN
fenced to year, and that furthermore,
in the event of their not paying the
$500 fine, they would have to work it
out, and this would mean confinement
in the penitentiary for 300 days more.
making a total of over one year.
The matter of the petition for the
writ of habeas corpus was argued long
and loudly yesterday, but the lawyers
did not get anywhere. At the end of
the afternoon session, the matter was
left in the hands of the judge, who said
he would consider the arguments made
| and read the authorities submitted
and at the end he might or might not
render a decision. In case he does not
the argument will be resumed, with
every prospect of its lasting a week OF
more.