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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1910-09-15
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The Lyman Twins and their
big company of comedians,
singers and dancers will ap-
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Times.
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Lost-An automobile crank. Leave
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NJ Valley hospital Or. Hiese
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Sewer Pipe.

We have in stock a full line
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nections for connecting house
line to the City Sewer.
Harry r. Newton.
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For Sale-For sale or trade several
full l'looded Rhode Island cockerls at
Chas Nitts 2O6 LIST St.
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Eastern Star Meeting.
Valley Chapter No. 26, o. E.
s., will meet in regular session,
on Friday evening, Sept. 18th,
at 7::30 p. m. A full attendance
is desired.
"p Mrs. G. A. Walker, w. M.
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REMEMBER that the Spa.
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Mrs. Ed Casey and daughter,
were Council Bluffs visitors to.
day.
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Lost-An automobile crank. Leave
at F. A. Heaths grocery store
Lost-A heavy black lap robe be-
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dence east Of this city, Finder please
leave at j. M. Beckley's and receive re-
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FOUND
Found-A travelling salesman's order
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this notice.
Found-A pocket book containing
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and paying for this notice
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Notice.
Any person hunting or trcsspassing
on my land will be vigorously prosecut-
ed. ]. F. McGavren.
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Wanted: One dozen hens,
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Mr.. Bert Faith is at Excelsior
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ton.
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A capable woman for second
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and chamber work. Previous
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Notice.

Any person hunting or trcsspassing
on my land will be vigorously prosecut-
ed. ]. F. McGavren.
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Mr.. Hay maker, we are head :
quarters for haying tools at
McGavren's Hardware store.
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A special examination for
teachers will be held at Logan,
Friday and Saturday, Sept. 16-
IL. D. d Brainard, Co. Supt.
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Boost The Church!

''Boost' The Church.!
How? Attend prayer-meet
ing rain or shine. That is one
way. 1880 is the hour tonight,
if you want to begin going. At
The Presbyterian church the
-opic will be "Jesus Just Like
God" Hebrews first chapter
and third verse will tell you
about that
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For your supply of apples for
the winter. See G. U. Myers
$1:25 to $1:50 a bushel and SIS.
per barrel
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The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-14
POLITICAL.

Charles E. Hughes has filed
with the secretary of state his resig-
nation as governor of New York. He
will soon take up his duties as associ-
ate justice of the supreme court of the
United States.
The Independence League, which
nominated John Hooper of New York
for governor and William X. Hearst
for lieutenant governor, met in con-
yention again, and completed a
straight Independence League ticket.
Precedent ruled the Massachusetts,
Republican state convention and Gov.
Eben S. Draper was named by accla-
nation for third term. 1t has been
many years since a Republican gov
ernor has been refused third nomi.
nation in the state.
United States Senator Robert l..
Taylor. three times governor of Ten
nessee, whose term in the United
| States senate does not expire until
1912. has been nominated for governor.
by the regular Democratic convention.
Hoke Smith was Wednesday elected
to serve second term as governo..
of Georgia. Gov. Joseph NJ. Brown,
who defeated Smith two years ago and
whose name was placed before the
voters as an independent Democratic
candidate. did not receive a majority
in a single county.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-14
News Summary of the Past Week

Nothing is apparent in Lisbon to
show that the Braganza dynasty has
ended and republic has been set up
except small bands of provisional
troops stationed about he city. and the
cheering everywhere of the red and
green flag of the republic. Business is
proceeding as usual. At Cabinet
council presided over by President
Braga, the new governments program
for betterment of conditions of the
country was formulated. A circular
note, sent simultaneously to all the
powers. by Provisional President
Braga. announcing that he has been
successful and that he has appointed
a cabinet, has been received by the
state department. The United States
has not replied to the note. The
state department will not commit IT.
self by any form of communication
until proof of the stability of the new
government is forthcoming.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-14
SPORT.

Oldfield went a mile on a muddy
track in so seconds at the state fair.
The officials had declared the meet off
on account of the muddy conditions.
At Cincinnati. Sheldon Lejeune, of
the Evansville club of the Central
league. threw base ball 426 feet 6H
inches, or 25 feet, 10A inches over the
old record, which has stood for So
years.
After a season, in which the De-
troits. three times winners of the
American league championship, we're
ousted fro mfirst place, the American
league season ended Sunday. with
philadelphia in first place.
The series of post season games to
be played under the auspices of the
national commission between the local
National and American league teams
Will start Thursday. and games will
be played daily, excepting Sunday, al.
ternating at the two parks until one
team has won four contests. Should
seventh game be necessary, the
place and date will be decided by the
toss of a. coin.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-14
crusheu 10 Death.

Aspen.-While tightening a set nut
on a compressor in the Smuggler Min
ing Company plant. Dick Pierce. fore
man of the compressor department
was instantly killed by being crushed
in the five-foot fly wheel of the ma
chine. His head was severed.
Pierce noticed the lose nut while In
specting the machine and had the com
pressor stopped. To tighten the nut
properly it was necessary for him to
put his head and shoulders through
the spokes of the wheel. which sud
denly turned backward. crushing
Pierce against the machine and sever.
ing his head.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-14
TERRIBLE TALE
OF FOREST FIRES
SEVERAL TOWNS IN NORTHERN
MINNESOTA DOOMED BY
THE FIRE KING.
1000 UNACCOUNTED
WILD BEASTS AND HUMAN BE.
iNos FLEEING; vANDALs
LOOT AND ROB DEAD.

Winnipeg, Man.-With forest fires
still raging and famed by gale of
their own creation several towns in
northern Minnesota are in grave dan.
ger and late .ports add to the horror
of the situation.
Estimates OF the number who have
perished range from $50 to 1000. the
latter figure being given by calm. con.
seryative men who have been close to
the line of fire
Besides those known to be dead,
hundreds are missing and, 1t is feared,
lost in the smoke and flame-filled
woods.
At present the officials of railroads
and public minded men are bending
every energy to the rescue and relief
of the thousands of fugitives from the
burning district-helpless, homeless
and destitute men, women and chill
dren.
Vandals, armed and desperate are
at work robbing the dead and the help
less and looting homes deserted be-
fore the flames reached them.
Stories of wild animals. fleeing for
safety side by side with human be-
ings: of mothers burned to death with
babies on their breasts and of men
cremated while endeavoring to shield
their children were among the tales
OF horror brought In.
The Duluth express, when 1t arrived
brought many refugees from the scene
of the confederation
The engineer of the train thus de-
scribed the situation:
IF the fire keeps on the way it is
going there is going to be mighty lit
tie, left OF the population of that part
of Minnesota. For miles around Bau-
dette and Spooner, Wisconsin, where
there were large tracts of bush. it is
now as level as the prairie. There
have been forests in that part OF the
country for such long time that the
earth is practically peat and when a
tree falls 1t sets fire even to the roots
and the earth around the roots. Ev-
eryone in Warroad who had revolver
is carrying 1t. The survivors are des-
perate and great deal Of vandalism
is abroad Men are robbing women OF
their Jewels
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-14
Hotel Responsible for Baggage.

When a Colorado hotel accepts the
check for guests baggage, respon-
sibility for the safe delivery of the
baggage is shifted to the shoulders
of the hostelry. If the luggage hap
pens to have met with disaster. in a
railroad wreck, miles from the hotel,
1t makes no difference. That is a
score to be settled between the rail-
road and the hotel management. This
Is ruling of the Supreme Court just
handed down. Justice Hill wrote the
opinion in the case of James L. Keith
VS.. w. w. and G. F. Atkinson. pro
prietors of an Ell Paso county hotel. Il
is reversal OF the judgment of the
District Court of that district.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-14
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

I Springs, shows an increase of $1,10O
over the corresponding quarter of 1909.
being ss7,5s5 this year and $36.474
last year.
The sugar beet crop for the state
| 900. according to careful estimates.
About $4,125.OO0 will be distributed
among the farmers between Nov. is
and the middle of January.
A Denver man, Andrew Brot., Just
as flyer. has designed and built and
successfully made two flights in an
aeroplane indulging in all the dips,
turns. spurs and angles common to a
mining section.
A balldog killed porcupine at Col.
orado Springs the other day: not, how.
ever. until enough of the victims out.
Fer covering had been transferred to
make it a question as to which was
porcupine and which was deg.
The Mutual Light and Power Com
pany will ask for a franchise in Pali-
sade. and announces that the wires
Will be extended to include Clifton.
In this event, many ranchers no doubt
will be able to secure the same serv-
ice.
While driving his automobile across
the railroad tracks into Fort Collins,
Dow Law, wealthy farmer of this
district, was struck by a freight train
and his little daughter badly hurt. Mr..
Law escape with minor injurier. The
child will recover.
With the grade of the Dent-Fort
Collins railroad entirely completed
through western Weld county into
Fort Collins all men and teams have
been pulled off of the new line and
the railroad company is making its
final settlements on the twenty-five
miles of grade costing s175.0OO.
The Salvation Army Fall Congress
will meet in Denver Friday. October
14-1S. This congress is in the inter-
ests of the work in Colorado, Utah,
Idaho. Wyoming. Montana. Arizona
and New Mexico. Commissioner Thom-
as Estiol of Chicago will preside. He
is territorial commander for the West
ern department.
AS the result of report received
from Pathologist B. F. Kaupp of the
Agricultural college at Fort Collins,
on the condition of a dog sent there
from Greeley four persons will depart
for Pasteur institute, Chicago, within
forty-eight hours.
Owing to the large number of big
timber wolves infesting western Mont
rose county the stockmen of the Para
dox valley have formed an association
to rid the country of them. The wolves
have killed many calves and young
stock and stockmen offer $50 for each
wolf scalp taken.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-14
WESTERN.

M. C. Barlow, who is nationally
famous by his pen name. Bill Barlow.
under which he edited SageDrush
failure.
Seventeen of the twenty or more
who lost their lives in the explosion
which wrecked the Times newspaper
plant at Los Angeles eight days ago.
were laid to rest Sunday in graves
side by side in Hollywood cemetery.
James B. Lawson, a concessionaire
at local amusement park in Oakland,
CAL, sent bullet through the brain
Of Harry Coogan, an attendant at a
neighboring concession Sunday. Coo
gan died. Lawson didn't know it was
loaded"
]. L. Meredith of Mason City. Iowa,
was killed and j. Wallace, an employe
OF the Sears Automobile Company OF
Des Moines, was perhaps fatally in.
jured when the cars they were driv.
irg in the fifteen mile race IT the Des
Moines fair grounds coliided.
Four hundred children escaped in
their night clothes from the fire which
destroyed the Mount. st. Joseph Or.
phan Asylum, San Francisco. The
eighteen Sisters quickly aroused the
children and despite the excitement
and confusion marched them through
smoke-filled halls, out of the building
without injury to anyone.
Funds for the relief of families left
dependent by the Los Angeles Times
explosion displayed sign Of mounting
up to figures which may soon bear
C, mparison with the amounts appro-
priated for the capture and CONVICTION
of the conspirators. B'nks have
Joined with the newspapers in collect
ing funds, and 1t is announce! that the
total SO far collected is more than
$4,000.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-14
GEN ERAL.

Six convicts have made sensations
al escape from Sing Sing prison. over
coming their keepers.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, on the
way from Atlanta to Hot Springs
Ark, made fifty speeches.
VIM. McAbee, believed to be the old
es veteran of the Civil War, died at
States naval home.
A case of cholera developed in the
steerage of the Hamburg american
liner Moltke, which has been detained
at quarantine as a possible cholera
carrier.
The South gave Theodore Roose-
velt a hearty welcome on his trip.
Throughout the first day. which took
him across Virginia and->a part Of
Tennessee. he received many honors.
The furry of uneasiness over the
possibility of the entrance of cholera
at New York was abated with reas-
suring statements from both state and
federal health officers and the release
to the 615 cabin passengers detained
at quarantine.
Harvard scientists who have been
experimenting with rubber plants at
the Arnold arborteum believe it will
be possible to grow rubber on the
abandoned farms of New England.
They have had trees brought from
China growing since last spring and
SO far they are thoroughly satisfied
with the results.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-14
FOREIGN.

The expulsion of the monks from
Portugal has begun. Several hundred
nuns have been assembled and will be
deported out of the country.
The overflow of Manuel. the de-
posed King of Portugal, is certain to
spoil the marriage between the young
ruler and a niece of King George of
England.
King Alfonso of Spain. is trembling
on his throne. With the fear tugging
at his heart, that his people will fol-
low in Portugal's footsteps. he has
strengthened every military garrison in
Madrid with troops of whose loyalty
he has not the slightest suspicion.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-14

The house of deputies of the Protes-
tant Episcopal church in Cincinnati,
Thursday passed an amendment to the
constitution providing for suffragan
bishops throughout the church. The
debate brought out the fact that the
object of the suffragan bishops was
not only to look after the people of a
particular nationality or race, but also
to assist bishops who preside over
large dioceses.
Another big insurance promotion
bubble has been pricked by the New
York Insurance Department the
United Insurance Company of Chicago
and New York, one of the Van Laning-
ham enterprises. They find that OF
the $4,000 contributed in cash by
the investors in its stock sold at So
for each 81 share, only $4,000 re-
MAINS the rest has all been consumed
by the high-pressure methods of the
company's promoters and stock sales
men. The cost of actually selling the
stock was 140 per cent of the par
value. and the cost. including salaries
and other expenses, was 242 per cent.
Mr.. Josiah W. Thompson of Union
town, Pa, has just closed a deal by
which he transfers to the Standard
Oil Company $4,000 acres of coal
land. located in Washington and
Greene counties. Pennsylvania, and in
six West Virginia counties. The deal
involved about $1O0,0OO.0OO. and is
without parallel for magnitude. The
Greene coal land involved in the trans
action amounts to about 10000 acres,
while the Washington county block
contains 100000 acres. The remaining
277.000 acres are located in Ohio.
Marshall. Wetzell. Lewis. Harrison
and Monogahela counties in West
Virginia.
The Standard Oil company through
its official publicity representative, j.
/. c. Clarke, has announced that the
company "has inaugurated a cam.
paign to increase the worlds con-
sumption of refined OIL" and is lower
ing prices of kerosene in Europe and
the far east. This action follows that
OF August last, when the Standard OIL
company reduced refined oil in bar
reis l cent a gallon from 9% to SA
cents at the refinery. and refined oil
in tanks from 61z to 51k cents a gal
Ion. In part the statement reads:
THE Standard Oil company has ina.,-
gurated a campaign to increase the
worlds consumption of refined oil
The level of prices for refined oil to-
day in the United States is lower than
at any time during recent years, and
as direct result of these prices the
consumption of refined oil in this
country is increasing. The same pol
icy is now being actively pursued
abroad"
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-14
Aviation EXHIBIT at Pueblo.

Pueblo.-The Commerce club has
practically completed arrangements
for big aviation meet here next
month, when exhibitions will be given
with three or four of Wright brothers
machines. The aviators will be on
their way from St Louis to meet in
Los Angeles. and the plans are to have
them stop off here for day.
The plans to secure the aviators
we're turned over to commii,es OF
business men.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-14
Minor Mention.

Sterling Is to have a K. of P. lodge
Montrose will have a poultry show
in February.
An electric light plant for Montezu-
ma is being planned.
Colorado Springs will entertain the
1911 Dry Farming Congress.
Canon City Elks are about to build a
100000 clubhouse. They have 500
members.
Magpies are killing off Chinese
pheasants around Greeley. The
Chinese must go.
Ten ears of potatoes were sent out
OF Greeley by one firm Wednesday at
80 cents a hundred.
There is no longer doubt OF Colora-
dos ample representation at the big
Pittsburg land show, Oct. 1928.
Several deer have been bagged near
Canon City although the dry, warm
weather is detrimental to hunting.
La Sale has substituted chain
gang in place of the proverbial latch
string for impecunious visitors of the
hobo variety.
Denver automobiles must not aD-
proach closer than four feet to street
cars, and stern and forward lights
must be provided.
The President has signed procla-
nation eliminating 1851 acres from
the Arapahoe national forest in the
state of Colorado.
The community kitchen" and din
ing room to accommodate about fifty
families planned by the women of
Greeley is progressing.
Colorado Springs physicians are
active in making arrangements for the
annual convention of the State Medi-
cal Society in this city October 11-13.
A Denver man has leased the ex-
elusive privilege of hunting frogs on
several large reservoirs in Weld coun-
ty. believing there is fortune in it
from the jump.
The Pueblo Canning Company has
made one shipment of IL carloads of
Pueblo county picked cucumbers tc
Tacoma, WASH. the largest cucumber
shipment on record from this county
Larkspur, aconite, loco weed and
other poisonous growths, common to
some sections of Colorado are being
experimental with by government ex-
perts with the primal object of saving
stock.
The enormous crop of fall and win
ter apples which the Manzanola dis
trict has raised this year. which ex-
ceeds by 100 per cent any crop ever
before produced in this district, is
moving.
Local postoffice receipts for the
quarter ending Sept. 80. at Colorado
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-14
Women In Control.

Aurora. M.-Nine women are now
owners of the Western Wheeled
Scraper Company of Aurora. million
dollar corporation. The company en-
ploys more than 500 men and is one
OF Aurora's biggest industries. The
women are left in control OF the COM
pany by the death OF the late Captain
Charles H. Smith. its president. who
bequeathed all his stock to his widow
and three daughters. Stella. Edna and
Genevieve Smith.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-14
A Mile-and-a-HaIf Dam.

Greeley. Colo.-A map and state
ments of Farmers reservoir No. S
were filed with the county recorder
Wednesday by p. d. Jones OF Greeley.
The proposed reservoir will have a
dam mile and half long and IS
feet high and is to cost s725,00O. The
water supply will be through the tun-
mel and bitches of the Greeley Poudre
system and the reservoir will have 4
capacity of $500, 100000 feet. The land
to be irrigated lies north and east of
Greeley