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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18
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Uncle Sam Asks All to Swat the Fly

job the fight against the insect began
to assume proportions of magnitude.
That little insect which the average
citizen was wont to regard merely as
a domestic pest Is now branded as the
most dangerous creature on earth The
house fly has been publicly indicted as
murderer of the, human race, the
greatest disease propagation and the
carrier of more menacing and malig-
nant germs than all other creatures
put together.
This little, but potent, messenger of
death wanders from the sick room,
from the filth of the garbage pail,
from the heaps of refuse of all kinds
into the peaceful, happq homes of our
land, walks upon the butter, the meat,
the fruit, the sugar, takes bath in
the milk, leaving everywhere the
germs of disease that have gathered
upon Its furry feet and body.
About half the deaths from typhoid
in New York. according to the health
authorities, are attributed directly to
the distribution of germs by house,
AlAOo. Anu WI DO luoA IAdt, Iuc uS uEc6l
show that of 1000 deaths of cooling
babies in that city from infantile dis
eases, more than 5000 were traced to
infection carried by house flies.
According to a noted scientist the
determination of the pest Is compare
lively easy. All that Is necessary, he
says, is a systematic effort on the part
of the public. If all the people will
practise the utmost cleanliness, 1t Is
declared, the house fly will be extinct
in this country within few years, for
the house fly cannot exist without
filth.
Cleanliness, then, Is the watchword
for the American public to put an end
to an insect that is not only terrible
nuisance, but terrible instrument Of
death to thousands of our population
every year.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18
w. j. AYNOR SHOT DOWN
ON DECK OF STEAMSHIP
Chief Executive of New York City Badly Wounded by
Discharged City Employee He Is
About to Sail for Europe.

Gated in Flatbush, Long Island, where
he soon after successfully carried out
a reform movement.
Having smashed the political rings
of Flatbush, the young lawyer in 1885
changed his place of residence to
Brooklyn, in which city Boss Hugh
Mclaughlin had welded despotic pow
er for a quarter of century. Mr..
Gaynor then studied the great Nc
Laughlin ring, and formulated a plan
for the overthrow of the boss" His
great opportunity came In 1889, when
the town of New Lots was annexed to
Brooklyn There was a little water
company in New Lots known as the
Long Island Water Supply company.
The Mclaughlin ring secretly bought
up the company through dummies, for
$4,000, and then got Alfred c. Cha
pin, mayor of Brooklyn, and his asso-
ciates to make a contract to buy it for
the city for about $1,000, 00O-a profit
for the ring of more than 81, 300,0 900.
Mr.. Gaynor denounced the deal as
a swindle and said 1t would not go
through if he could prevent it. The
mayor and the ring smiled and ig-
nored him. He, however, went about
Brooklyn, seeking for some taxpayer
who would allow him to use his name
as plaintiff In suit to stop the steal.
But none Of the leading citizens to
whom he applied dared to court the
enmity of the powerful Mclaughlin
machine, the mere mention of which
was enough to make a property owner
tremble, because everybody knew the
BOSS" was vindictive and unforgiv-
ing. Mr.. Gaynor, however, finally in
duced one of his old clients, William
Ziegler, to allow the use of his name.
That suit, carried through every court
to the highest, defeated the $1,30O,00O
water swindle and carried consterna-
ton to the ring. Mr.. Gaynor was a
comparatively poor man, but he paid
the whole cost of the fight, $14,7 700.
out of his own pocket. It was great
victory and completely exposed the
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18

NEW ORLEANS.-More than 1,000,-
~ 900 acres of marsh land lying with
In SO miles of New Orleans are to be
drained, reclaimed and transformed
from wilderness into gardens, homes,
hamlets and towns. The work of re-
claiming some $4,000 acres within the
corporate limits of New Orleans is
now we'll under way, while contracts
have been let for the reclamation of
fully 100000 acres additional in ad-
joining parishes.
This means that within two years
the alligator will no longer find abort
ginal harborage in the Carnival city,
that the breeding grounds of countless
billions of mosquitoes will be turned
into highly productive farms on which
mosquitoes cannot breed, that hun
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18
Barker Formally Named.

Barker Formally Named.
State Senator Henry w. Barker of
Sparta qualified to be candidate for
the Republican nomination for COVER
nor of Wisconsin, when petitions in
his behalf were filed in the office Of
Secretary of State Frear, bearing the
Endorsement of 2,843 voters
Second Assistant Attorney General
Frank T. Tucker of Neillsville filed
petitions, with 6,08S signatures, quail
flying him as Republican candidate
for the Office of attorney general.
Other petitions for Republican can
didates for state Office were: Julius
G. Rowland of Chippewa Falls to be a
candidate for state treasurer and Levi
H. Bancroft to be candidate for at
torney general The petition of the
former had 1888 signatures and of the
latter 3,O53
Petitions for the nomination of AS
semblyman Wallace ingalls, of Racine
to be Republican candidate for men,
Der of congress in the First district
were filed. This is the district repre-
sented at present by Henry E. Cooper.
Petitions for senatorial nominations
we're filed for Christian F. Mohr of
Portage, Republican in the Twenty
seventh district; for George E. Scott,
Republican of Prairie Farm, in the
Twenty-ninth district; for Charles S.
Douglas, Republican, of Walworth, in
the Twenty-third district; for Emery
W. Crosby, Republican, of Abbotsford,
in the Twenty-f1fth district.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18
rottenness of machine politics.
On the State Supreme Bench.

On the State Supreme Bench.
In 1898 the people Of Brooklyn be-
came fully aroused. The sight of one
man whipping the combined forces of
political corruption in battle after bat
tie stirred the city profoundly
A mass meeting asked Mr.. Gaynor
to run for mayor. He declined, saying
that he had worked to create a public
sentiment that would drive the ring
out of power; that was his object, not
to get an Office for himself. A few
weeks later he was Unexpectedly NOM
mated for justice of the Supreme
court. He at first refused the nomi-
nation, but was finally persuaded to
run to help elect Mr.. Schieren, the
fusion candidate for mayor. The
election was tremendous victory Tor
reform. The standing ring majority
of 10000 votes was wiped out. Mr..
Gaynor was elected to the Supreme
court by a majority of $4,000 votes,
and the whole ticket with him. That
was the end of the famous McLaugh
lin ring. 1t never got back into power.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18
WILLIAM JAY GAYNOR
were quickly on the scene.

were quickly on the scene.
Mayor Gaynor was carried from the
ship on a stretcher and taken to St.
Mary's hospital in Hoboken. AS he
was being borne away he said in a
whisper: Say goodbye to the peo-
pie" When he reached the hospital
he was still conscious, though blood
from the wound kept getting into his
throat and choking him. Drs. Stewart
and Brewer of New York took charge
of the case and expressed hope of the
mayors recovery.
Sketch Of His Career.
William ]. Gaynor was of Irish-Eng-
lish stock and the son of man who
supported Gerritt Smith, the abolition
jst friend of John Brown of the Har-
pers Ferry antebellum period. He
was born on his fathers farm at Oris-
kany. near Whitestone, Oneida coun-
ty. N. Y. in 1851, the soil of which
farm was cleared by his struggle for
bare necessities on that little farm
and Mr.. Gaynor's boyhood was one of
hard toll.
He studied law in Boston and To-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18

rHICAGO.-"Well, I don't know what
~ under the shining forceps | am go
ing to do, anyway" and a dentist in
the Masonic temple sighed perfect
mammoth of a sigh.
THE matter? Hair, just plain hair
Eo-not plain, either. Now, for in
stance A lady came up to my. office
the other day and wanted her teeth
fixed, and finally | took hold of the
Top of her head with one hand, while
worked with the other. Then I
turned away to get an instrument,
and my sleeve button caught in her
hair and the whole back of 1t, about
fifteen fat, shiny curis, came along
with me. She simply froze me up,
and she didn't come back to pay her
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18

New York-Mayor w. J. Gaynor,
who as city executive has made a re-
markable record in New York, was
shot and seriously wounded Tuesday
morning by Jules James Gallagher.
formerly employed as a Waterman in
the department of docks, while stand
Ing on the promenade deck of the
the pier in Hoboken. The mayor
was about to sail for Europe on a
months vacation.
The assassin, who was discharged
from his position recently for neg
lect of duty and misconduct, fired
three times at Mr. Gaynor. One bullet
struck the mayor in the neck behind
the ear. Gallagher, when arrested,
said the mayor had deprived him of
his bread and butter.
The attending physicians and sur
geons are very hopeful Of the mayors
ultimate recovery. They say that
about the only thing to be feared from
the wound is the possibility of blood
poisoning. The wounded executive suf-
fers but little pain and did not at any
time lose consciousness.
Party Was Posing for Photograph.
Mayor Gaynor and number Of city
officials were standing in a group to
have their pictures taken. Gallagher
quietly walked toward them, drew a
revolver and fired three shots. Two
of them went wide Of the mark, but
the third struck the mayor in the
neck, and he fell to the deck with the
blood squirting from the wound.
officer Fitzgehring, one of the
North German Lloyd guards, was
standing near. The assassin lifted
the revolver again to fire at his pros
trate victim when the German police
man felled him to the deck with a
terrific crash from his club. A rush
was made for the man, but captain
and officers of the liner, with revolv-
ers drawn, fought back the Infatuated
spectators and police from Hoboken
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18

NEW YORK.-The whole United
IN States government, with its vast
treasury of wealth, It's brainy states
men and Insurgents, its army and
navy, it's immense horde of high
brows, against the poor little house
fly! That's the lineup in bitter war
of determination scheduled to set the
ageous support of every man, woman
and child in this broad land The
final knell of the house fly has been
sounded and the battle has just be-
gun. Catch 'em and kill 'em; show
no quarter"-that is the war cry of the
army of determination that Is to put
forth every effort to rid the land of
the Musca Domestica, the polite name
by which the house fly should be ad-
dressed by strangers.
Until the scientists got busy with
their Investigations the house fly was
considered merely as a pestiferous in
sect, designed by the Creator of all
things merely to take it's bath in the
sweet cream and maple strip, annoy
the late morning sleeper, skate about
with abandon on the polished surface
of shiny baldheads and practise the
Morse telegraph code on the cleanest
of windows.
Long suffering housewives since
time began were the only really active
enemies Of the seemingly insignificant
little fly, and they alone and unaided
applied the imprecations and dish
cloths vigorously against the nuisance
But after the scientists got onto the
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18
VIZ ASHfNGTON.-'T have often heard
N a nuaetinn 90 To whafhar West

w ASHfNGTON.-'T have often heard
w a question as to whether West
Pointers wore corsets. 1t is absurd in
a way, because should any effeminate
youngster resort to such thing 1t
would BIO impossible to keep the affair
a secret, and once known his school
life would become burden to him on
account of the endless amount of criti-
cism he would receive from his fell
lows. He would be made the laugh
ing-stock of the school and would soon
findahimself the possessor of any num-
Der of effeminate nicknames that
would crate upon his ears in any but
a pleasant manner
'Tt Is true" continued the old sol
der, who was no other than Col K.
B. Collins, retired army officer, in a
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18
Frear Prepares Ballots.

Secretary of State James A. Frear
and his clerks began to prepare the
primary election ballots to be for
warded to the various county clerks of
the state.
The new law requiring that the
names of candidates rotate on the
ballot, in order that there shall be no
difference in advantage as to position,
adds much to this work.
The ballots must be forwarded to
the county clerks at least twenty-five
days before the primary election,
which will be on Thursday, and Mr..
Frear expects to be able to comply
with that provision of the law.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18
Couldn't Do II.

Shortleigh-I say. old nan. can you
lend me $40?
Longham-Impossible. I've tried to
lend you money several times, but you
always seem to look upon it as a gift.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18
State Fair Premiums.

State Fair Premiums.
Premiums for the coming state fair,
amounting to s36,169, were announced
by the board of managers. The pre-
miums will be divided as follows:
Horses, 1882; cattle, s9,S45; sheep,
1892; swine, s3,515; poultry, $1,052;
pigeons, Sill; pet stock, sos; goats,
s5S; agriculture, s1,02S; county exhib-
its. $1,000; dairy exhibits, s2,065; hor-
ticulture. S1.s60; bees and honey, $4SS;
art, 1854; educational exhibits, 1857;
woman's work, 1894
The judging program follows:
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18
IL BRINGS Few Returns.

The habit of merely sitting around
and waiting for something to hap
pen" is generally followed by en acute
attack Of pessimism.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18
About 80.

"Pop!"
Yes, my son.
what are the middle ages?'"
why, the middle ages, my boy, are
the ones which when the women reach
they stop counting"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18
New Life Insurance Company.

The Guardian Life Insurance COM
pany has elected its officers and will
GERS are: President, James A. Frear,
secretary sof state; vice-president, Ar
thur L. Sanborn, Judge of the United
States district court; second vice-pres-
ident, George A Boissard; secretary,
Stanley G, Hanks; assistant secretary,
Clarke NJ Putnam; treasurer, Albert
G. Schmedeman; general counsel, John
A. Awkward; medical director, DR.. w.
w. Gill; actuary, DR.. James g. Glover.
Ann Arbor. Mich.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18
Useless.

useless.
Il will go out with you," she said, IF
you will promise not to rock the boat"
Never mind" he sadly replied:
well not go. If you think I'm fool
enough to do that without being
warned not to 1t will be useless for me
TO waste any more time with YOU"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-08-18

University Leases Land.
Twenty acres of the Paine-Ostel
farm at North Greenfield have beer
leased for the summer by the expert
mental station of the University Of
Wisconsin.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-23
SENATOR GORE WILL NO
ATTEND DRY" CONGRESS

Spokane, Wash, Sept. 19.--United
States Senator Gore of Oklahoma,
says in telegram to John T. Burns,
secretary treasurer of the dry farm
ing congress, that while he cannot at
tend the convention in Spokane, Oc-
tober to 6, he is deeply interested
in the movement, which is for the bet
Iterment of agricultural conditions. The
full text of the message follows:
Il regret the impossibility of ac-
cepting your kind invitation to attend
the fifth dry farming congress at Spo-
kane. I feel the deepest interest in
the objects of the congress and in the
great good already accomplished. The
system will revolutionize the farming
of the west and will react beneficially
upon the farming of the whole coun-
try. l hope to see your entire section
as garden. Dry farming is good
farming. Whenever l can be of serv-
ice commend me-"
Commenting upon the foregoing,
Secretary Burns said that when Sena-
! tor Gore declared dry farming to be
good farming he sounded the keynote
of the modern method of tillage in
semi-arid and so-called arid districts
adding:
1T has been demonstrated in Okla
homa and other states that profitable
crops can be grown successfully il
the principles of dry farming are faith
fully carried out. There is nothing
mysterious about this system of ag
riculture. 1t calls for deep plowing
discing and frequent narrowing to
open the soil, thus conserving the
largest percentage of natural moisture
and precipitation"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-23
GIRL CDNFESSES KILLING
HER FATHER AND UNCLE

Newkirk, Okla, Sept. 10. - After
being sweated by County Attorney
Burns and Sheriff RAIDER of Kay coun-
ty. Ebby Shepard, the 16-year-old
daughter of J. w. Shepard who, with
his brother. Taylor Shepard, was muir
dered at the home near here Friday
morning, confessed Saturday night,
the officers say, that she herself beat
her father and uncle with an axe, so
that both died of the injuries. She
also went to the woodshed of the home
and produced the bloody axe,
She gave as her reason that her
father and uncle had whipped her. 1t
now is the general supposition that
both men probably misused her. The
girl and the men resided alone. The
double funeral of the Shepards was
held at Newkirk Sunday.
The girl has always been feeble
minded and now y said to be insane
The Cassidy boy is to be held until
after the inquest, which will be re-
sumed Monday.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-23
CLOUDS PREVENT AU|ATORS
FROM CROSSING THE ALPS
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
Brig, Switzerland. Sept. 49, - The
clouds and fog hiding the mountain
peaks prevented the attempts of Way
mann, the American, and Chavez. the
Peruvian, to fly across the Alps today
Chaxez reached an altitude of seventy
five hundred and forty-six feet, but
came down because he couldn't see
his way over Sompleon Pass. Way
mann went up seventeen hundred feet,
struck violent wind and returned. The
competitive agreement provides that
the flights may be made any time be-
fore September 26, but they must start
here and go seventy-five miles over
the Alps to Milan, Italy. A heighth
of seven thousand feet must be main
tanned to pass the peaks.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-23
Delegates to Kansas City Congress End Their
Labors and Start for Home Sunday---New
Contract is Practically Complete Victory
for the Miners---State Labor Commits
sioner of Kansas Selected By
Both Sides to Act as Arbi-
ter of all Disputes.

The aid money, as it was called, was
small, amounting to about $5 week.
The countenances of the delegates
were bright last night as they hurried
around the lobby of the Orient hotel.
For the first time in more than five
months they smiled from satisfaction.
They crowded to the desk to pay their
hotel bills and then fastened to the
depot. They believed that, perhaps,
"a train going home might slip from
the depot without the information bu-
reau knowing it. They took no
chances. At 10 O'clock last night only
two or three men remained in the
hotel lobby where two hours before
three hundred had crowded.
Those whose trains did not leave
early spent the evening using the
long distance telephone to spread the
news to the miners at home.
eve got what we wanted" they
said, "and now we are willing to go to
work. 1t is great victory for or
ganized labor"
The expenses of the three hundred
delegates to the convention were paid
by the national organization. The
men on the conference committees,
who have been trying to draw up a
contract all summer, were paid by the
organization. The district presidents
and secretaries will remain here until
tonight to sign the contract and to ar
range for the printing of it.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-23
WEST WILL | STAY OU
OF COUNTY SEAT FIGHT

Guthrie, OKLA, Sept. 19.--Attorney
General Charles West has decided
not to interfere in the affairs of Swan
son county, and in a letter to John
Fain, county attorney of Comanche
county, held that suit should properly
be brought by the county attorney of
one of the counties affected. He states
that action might be brought by the
county attorney of either Comanche,
Kiowa of Tillman county.
The attorney general previously had
promised to bring an action in the SUI
preme court, but states that since he
made that promise that the county at
torney has the right to bring suit in
matters affecting more than his own
county. The district court of Greer
county had before that time held to
the contrary effect and Attorney Cen
eral West says that he was acting un-
der that holding when he made the
promise.
THE theory upon which you want
the action brought is that Swanson
county does not exist" says the at
torney general. Therefore the dis
trict courts of Comanche, Kiowa and
Tillman counties have Jurisdiction
over the parts taken from those coun-
ties"
Inasmuch as the case does not af-
feet the entire state and the county
attorney can bring the suit, he thinks
that it is better for him to do so.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-23

as we'll as to the laboring classes OF
our district.
l am addressing to you individually
this communication, because you and
| are the candidates and are respons-
ible to each other for such statements
that are made in the campaign either
by ourselves or by our campaign man.
ayers, and / shall expect an answer
direct from you. / shall expect you
to hold me personally responsible for
any statement made in this campaign,
either by myself or by my campaign
managers, and | shall hold you per-
sonally responsible for any statements
made by either you or your campaign
managers in this campaign | shall
not circulate anything about you or
permit anything to be circulated dur
ing the last four days of the campaign
as you circulated and permitted to be
circulated about me the last four days
of the campaign two years ago, which
was known to the majority of the
voters as we'll as to yourself to be
untrue.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) JAMES S. DAVENPORT.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-23
New Railroad Chartered.

Guthrie, OKLA Sept. ia charter
has been issued for building what is
to be known as the zinc belt railway
from Davis in a westerly direction to
Lawton, an estimated distance of
eighty miles. The capital stock is
$4,000. The principal place of busi-
ness is Davis and the directors are:
Gertrude Sober, R. c. Hope, A. o. Nc
Cord, T. H. SLAYER and w. S. Lewis,
all of Davis.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-23
By Associated Press.

Arkansas City, Kans., Sept. 19.-It
is believed by the authorities at New.
kirk, Okla, where Ebby Shepard con,
fessed last night that she killed her
father and uncle with an axe that she
had an accomplice in the commission
of the crime. The officers at New
kirk do not believe the girls father
and uncle abused her, but that they
were killed, when they returned home
Unexpectedly and found the girl and
young man in the house together.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-23
Bio Ere Loss at Hutchlson.

Hutchison, Kans., Sept. 19.-Fire
destroyed a large part of the stock of
the Hutchison Wholesale Grocery
company today. The loss was seventy.
five thousand dollars, fully covered by
insurance.