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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-20
MACHINERY DELAYS BRIDGE.
CentraPs Bridge at keithsburg to Be
Opened About May I.

Owing TO the delay in receiving the
machinery. which operates to the lift
span of the new Iowa Central bridge at
Keithsburg, the bridge has not vet
been finished and the opening of it for
traffic has been postponed several
weeks. 1t is now expected that the
bridge will be opened about May l
The Central has completed the ap-
proaches and the bridge is ready for
use as soon as the machinery of the
lift span is IN place.
Chief Engineer r. G. Kenly, of the
Iowa Central, arrived in the city Tues
day night from Keithsburg, where he
had been inspecting the work on the
bridge. He left for the north this
morning, accompanied by Superintend-
ent H. G. Kruse, Of Oskaloosa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-20
JASPER COUNTY VETERAN DEAD
Thomas Kerr, Of Monroe, Dies at SOL
diers' Home.

Thomas Kerr. aged SO, who entered
the soldiers home from Monroe, Jas
per county. Jan II last. died at $40
Tuesday evening in the hospital of
chronic rheuma tfsm. Mr. Kerr was a
native of Indiana. where he was born
July IS. 1870 He enlisted in Com
pony G. Seventh iowa cavalry, June II.
1866, He was discharged at Fort
Leavenworth. Kan, June II. 1866. Mr.
Kerr was widower, and is survived by
two sons, Ray and Roy Kerr, OF Truro,
Madison county. A telegram from the
sons directs the burial TO take place
here. and says that they will reach
Marshalltown tonight.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-20
OFFICE WELL ALONG.
Headquarters of Marshall Oil Company
BEING Pushed Rapidly

The new office building which the
Marshall Oil Company is building just
south of the Linn creek bridge on
Third avenue, and the large addition
to the main building are being pushed
rapidly. The good weather. excepting
the last few days, has allowed the
builders 10 go ahead without Interrupt
ton. The walls of both buildings are
up to the second story.
The office building when completed
will be the most handsome structure Of
Its kind in the city. The outer walls
of the building are faced with tan col
ored brick, trimmed in reddish brown
brick and gray stone.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-20
LOCAL MARKETS.
Prices Paid to Farmers by Marsh all
town Dealers.


town Dealers.
The following prices are quoted by
Marshailtown dealers for the different
varieties of farmers provisions, grain,
produce and poultry. also for hides,
talloW, wool, pelts and skins.
D. S. Good Grocery Company quotes
the following prices in trade for coun-
try produce until further notice:
Best country butter-28 in trade
Fresh eggs-1Sc in trade
GRAINS.
Z. f. Benedict & Co. will pay the
following prices al their place OF bush
ness in this city:
Corn-50.
Oats-35.
Timothy hay-130O
Oats straw-S0O
HIDES, FUR AND WOOL.
H. Willard, Son & Co., quote the fol-
lowing prices:
Green hides.
Horse hides 50G3.0O.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-20
POTATOES 40 CENTS
Fancy Rural New York Potatoes Can
Be Had Of Olson Very cheap-Good
For Seed

AS we are overstocked on potatoes,
we will sell the balance of our stock
per bushel. These potatoes were dug
last fall before the hard freeze, and are
part of the car we received then.
They are in fines hape, good for plant
ing if You want a late potato. RemeTn-
Der they are only 40 cents per bushel
OLSON,
West End Grocer
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-20
Licensed to We'd.

T. w. Swarner, railroad employe. of
Mason City, aged 50. and Mrs. Rose
Runyan, aged IL, of this city.
Fred Ensminger, machinist, aged %.
and Clara Kliebenstein, aged 10, both
Of this city.
Cornelius Thompson, farmer, aged
%. OF LeGrand, and Selma Anderson,
aged %, OF Quarry.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-20
COMPLETE LAND PURCHASE.
marshaIltown Men Acquire 1924
Acres in Canada

Messrs. c. H. Hull, P. S. Balch, E. NJ.
Singleton, and NJ. E. Andrews, of this
city, and Alex Dobbin, of state Center,
arrived home Tuesday night from Can
ada, where they completed the pur-
chase of 1920 acres of land in Sas-
katchewan for local syndicate. Six
teen sections. all available in one town
ship. were bought at SIS per acre DR..
L. F. Kellogg and "A. P. Bratt, who
We're with the party in Canada, stopped
in North Dakota to look after business
while ntheir way home
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-20
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Supervisor.

I wish to announce my candidacy he
fore the republican primaries for the
office of supervisor of Marshall county,
to succeed Elias Bueghly, whose term
expires Jan. I, 1912
DANIEL c. MAYTAG.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-20
FRUIT GROWER SUFFERS.
Freezing Weather Hits Marietta Man
Hard-loses Most Of Cron

Among the many fruit growers of
the county who suffered heavily from
the recent freezing weather y. B.
Herme, OF Marietta township. was
among the heavier loses Mr. Herme
estimated today that he had suffered a
loss OF $500 by the freezing of his ra sp-
berries, plums and some Strawberries
he SAID his plums and raspberries
were totally destroyed and that the
earliest Strawberries were frozen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-20
tude .isnna Township News.

40 forsZiflf, accompanied a car of
cago last week He ar
aturday morning. having
back the sI-1 Cedar Rapids on his
which we wris.
pants which flANate Burwell were
shoe and stretch uesoay because OF
thigh, the ones W
were the "first beanssfe and daugh-
siras with the polon Moines Thurs
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-20
WOMAN FILES ON CLAIM.
Mrs. Cora Willis, Of This City,
Homestead in South Dakota,

Mrs Cora Willis. a nurse of this city,
has returned from Oelrichs, S. D.,
where she filed on a quarter section
claim in Fall River county. Mrs Will
lis expects to settle On the claim as
homestead on Oct. 1. The claim Sc
cured by Mrs. Willis corners a claim
owned by her brother, John Trip, for
merly Of this city.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
BUSINESS MEN USED AS
DUMMIES TO TAKE LAND
Alaskan Land Claims Under In
veStigation in Seattle Similar
to Cunningham Group

SEATTLE, Sept. 23.-The Alaska
claims which are said to be under in
vestigation by the federal grand jury
at Spokane are similar to those of the
famous Clarence Cunningham group,
which caused the Ballinger charges.
Cunningham went to the Katella
district as a mining expert to investi-
gate the reported oil discoveries. He
was disappointed about the oil, but
found enormous fields of coal. Obtain
ing powers of attorney from capital
lists in Idaho, Seattle and elsewhere,
he located 160 acres of land for each
OF these persons. as the law permits.
The Cunningham group of claims
has received great prominence be-
cause of the attempt to hurry 1t to
patent, and has overshadowed the
other groups located by promoters.
A list of the claimants in these other
groups contains names as prominent
in politics and business as those Of
the Cunningham group. 1t was not
alleged in the Cunningham hearing
that there had been dummy locators.
or any irregularity in the filings, but
the claims were held up because some
of the claimants had entered an agree
ment to sell the land to the Guggen-
helms. In the other groups, which
are supposed to be now under investi-
cation, some Of the men whose names
appear as claimants say they did not
authorize the use of their names.
Portland, Ore, furnishes a long list
of claimants, largely politicians and
bankers, and many Californians Of
high rank are Alaska coal claimants
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
AUTO DRIVER INJURED
TAKING PRACTICE SPIN
George Robertson Thrown from a
Machine Going Seventy
Miles an Hour

MINEOLA, N. Y, Sept. 2S.-George
Robertson, the automobile driver, was
thrown from his automobile today
while taking trial spin on the Long
Island motor speedway. He was un-
conscious when picked up and was
rushed to hospital.
Robertson was going at an estimated
rate of 70 miles an hour in the new
Benz car which he was to have driven
in the Vanderbilt cup race next week.
When he struck Massapequa curve,
considered the most dangerous in the
course, the car gave a jump, sWerVed
and was completely overturned. ROD
ertson and Stephen Reynolds, New
York man whom he was carrying as
passenger, were thrown thirty feet or
more, clear of the wreckage.
Both Robertson and Reynolds were
unconscious when another car came
along and they were picked up.
REYNOLDS was found to be surer1ng
from internal injuries.
A hasty examination led the physl-
clans to fear that Robertson's injuries
were fatal. At the Nassau hospital,
however, it was found that they We're
less serious. 1t Is thought that Rob-
ertson attempted to take the dangerous
curve at too high speed.
Robertson's injuries are not serious.
Reynolds was only slightly hurt.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
PRISON GUARD AND NEGRO
CONVICT ARE CAPTURED

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23.--William
Spillman, the supposedly insane negro
slayer who disappeared last wednesday
from the detention ward of the Pre-
sidio hospital, and Forrest W. Brooks,
the guard who is accused of having
aided the negro to escape, were cap
tured yesterday in a sugar refinery at
Salinas, where both had obtained en-
ployment.
The arresting officers at the point Of
revolvers took the fugitives into custo-
dy and placed them in Jail.
Spillman Is said to have talked freely
to his captors. According to the OFF,
GERS, he said he had told Brooks of
buried treasure In the Philippines, the
location of which was known only to
himself, and that upon promising to
divide the treasure with Brooks he had
induced the guard to assist him in gain
ing his liberty from the hospital.
They had secured work at Salinas,
1t was said, in order to raise funds for
a trip to the Philippines.
Spillman is under life sentence for
killing a fellow soldier.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
PATTEN TELLS STUDENTS
OF TEMPTATIONS IN LIFE
Retired Operator Declares mo-
Greatest of Words

CHICAGO, Sept 2s.--James A. Pat
ten, retired board of trade operator,
yesterday told the students of North
western university how to resist temp
tation. He said it was by learning how
to say mo-
The occasion was the first chapel
service of the year.
Teach the boys to say mo- while
they are young" said Mr.. Patten.
MANY man has been lost just be-
cause he had never learned in his youth
to say mo- My young friends. when
you grow older and embark on the
rough seas of life, you will know of
what value 1t is to you to be able to
say that word.
"Just learn how to say the word.
Spell 1t over and over, so that when
ever you feel the need 1t will come to
you naturally to say mo- to all the
evil temptations and vices which beset
young manhood in a large city.
II would also caution the boys to
stay out of Chicago, especially at night,
when the city is aglow with brilliant
lights and attractions to ensnare the
weak and unsuspecting."
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
DENVER BANDIT DRUGS
AND DISROBES VICTIMS

DENVER, Sept. 2S.-A highwayman
with a mania for disrobing his victims,
operated in Denver last night to the
discontinue of three different men,
who were found by the police dazed
from the effect of a drug, and minus
their valuables and part of their
clothing. William Sanford, a Kansas
City travelling salesman, was robbed
of his gold watch, diamond stud, money
and his coat, vest and trousers.
Emanuel Sanchez was the next VIC
tim. The robber had here again car
ried out his ideas. Sanchez retained
only an overcoat and a pair of socks.
Edward England was the third vic
tim. He was found in an alley with
string tie about his neck. and that
was all.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
COMMITTEE TO HASTEN
LORIMER INVESTIGATION
Senators Refuse Request That
Hearing of Election Fraud
Charges Be Postponed

CHICAGO, Sept. 23.-The senatorial
subcommittee on privileges and cleo
tions, which convened here to investi-
gate the alleged fraud in the election
of United States Senator william Lori
mer, decided today to proceed at this
time with the taking of testimony and
not to postpone action until after the
November elections, as urged by the
senator's attorneys.
At the opening of today's session
Chairman Burrows announced that the
committee would permit Attorneys AL
fred Austrian, representing the Chicago
Tribune, and Elbridge Hanecy, repre-
senting Senator 'Lorimer, to appear in
the hearing.
Attorney Hanecy presented his for
NAL motion for a continuance of the
hearing until after the November cleo
tions. The Tribune's list of witnesses
was submitted and the committee be-
gan consideration of methods of pro-
cedure. The committees decision over
ruling Senator Lorimers plea for delay
was announced by Senator Paynter Of
Kentucky, who said:
1.-THE committee has given due con-
sideration to the petition made for a
continuance of this hearing until after
the November elections and has not
found the reasons of sufficient weight
to warrant the delay"
A short conference resulted in the an
nouncement that the session would ad-
jonrn until Monday morning, to permit
Senators Bulkley OF Connecticut and
Frazier Of Tennessee to be present.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
SEATTLE'S ACTING MAYOR
CHARGES POLICE GRAFT
Asserts Entire Department Per-
meated with Corruption

SEATTLE, Sept. 2S.-Acting Mayor
Max Wardall, who devoted last night
to a Summing expedition, made
statement today charging the police
department with grating.
almost every part of the depart
ment is permeated with corruption, .
said the acting mayor. 1.-THE restricted
district of Seattle is the worst ever
saw, and I have been in Suez, in the
Orient and in places on the continent
of Europe. Seattle is the worst"
Petitions for the recall of Mayor Hi
ram c.. Gill have been prepared, but
have not been circulated because OF
doubt among attorneys as to the val
idity of the recall provision of the city
charter. The mayor is absent on a
tour of Alaska. Chief of Police Charles
w. Wappenstein is in California.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
WASHINGTON'S GOVERNOR
RAPS CONSERVATION PLAN

SPOKANE. Wash, Sept. 2S.-"I am
not one who believes that our system
of government is a failure and that
there is no hope except through new
nationalism," declared Governor M. b.
Hay in an address before the State
Press association at Wenatchee today.
"God knows that as a nation we are
suffering from many serious economic
and social ills, but what we need Is
the scientific application of practical
and sufficient remedies, not the wild
incantations Of a savage medicine
man.
"Those governors who favor control
of our national resources direct by q
federal bureau come from states that
have little or no public domain. and
practically nothing in the way of un-
appropriated natural resources to con-
serve. This state has proved its ca
pacity to deal with the larger problems
of government that every state must
face"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
Plus X REGRETS SPEECH
MADE BY R0ME'S MAYOR
Pontiff Expresses Sorrow Over
Anti-CIericaI Address

ROME, Sept. 2S.-Pope Plus x today
addressed a letter to Cardinal Ros-
pighi, vicar general of Rome, saying
he wished to express to the cardinal
his own deep sorrow because of the
anti-clerical speech delivered by Mayor
Nathan at the celebration last Tuesday
of the fortieth anniversary of the fall
of temporal power of the church.
The letter sets forth that Mayor
Nathan, as a public official, was not
satisfied with recalling solemnly the
day on which the sacred rights of pom
tifical sovereignty were trampled on,
but dared to offend the doctrines of
the Catholic church and the vicar Of
Christ's church.
The pope adds: Speaking in the
name of Rome which, according to
authoritative statements, should be
honored as the peaceful home of the
supreme pontiff, he aimed directly at
our spiritual jurisdiction denouncing
with impunity, to public contempt
even, the acts OF our apostolic minis
try -
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
CHIEF WAPPENSTEIN SAYS
CHARGES ARE RIDICULOUS

Chief of Police Wappenstein of
Seattle, who is in Los Angeles on
short vacation, when told of the
charges that Acting Mayor Wardall
had made against the police depart
ment and several officials of the north
ern city, stated that in his opinion the
move was simply a play of small
CLIQUE of politicians to discredit Mayor
H. G. Gill and the present admins
tration.
'"The politicians who are opposed to
the present administration have sim
ply jumped at this chance, when every
one is away, to make charges against
us that they would not dare to make
when we are at home" said Mr.. Wap-
penstein last evening at the Lanker-
SHIN. "However, 1 am not worrying
in the least about WardalPs charges.
1 came to Los Angeles to place my
boy in school, and 1 intend to stay
until Sunday evening, no matter how
many ridiculous charges may be made
in my absence.
"The charges are foolish. Wardan
has lived in Seattle for the past TWEEN
ty years, and claims in his charges
that he did not know Of the existence
of restricted district which was es-
tablished twelve years ago.
Legally the district referred to does
not exist. 1t was abolished seven
years ago and the inmates of 1t scat
tered throughout the residence dis
trict Four years ago, at the orders
of the mayor, the police department
drove all these women from the resi-
dence section of town. They returned
to the old district, which had been
uninhabited during their absence.
"That happened four years ago, yet
Wardall, who has lived there all the
time and has been in politics enough
to be elected councilman, claims that
he has just discovered the existence
of the place. If he has it looks to me
as if he was not wide awake enough
to represent any section of the city
in the council.
'rWardall and a number of older pol
iticians who are opposed to Mayor
Gill and his administration simply
took this chance while the mayor was
away on his vacation to spring
trumped up charges and attempt to
ride into power on the sentiment they
might create.
"In my opinion it will do them no
good Gill is a popular man and a
good mayor. He could be reelected
again tomorrow should an election be
called. We had planned to move the
district referred to within a month,
and this program will undoubtedly be
carried out. AS soon as Gill returns
from his vacation Wardall will be
deposed and his charges will not
amount to anything"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
PRINCIPAL WITNESS IN
BURKE CASE RETURNS
Lou Eta Smith Comes Back
from Orient When Re-
mittanceS Cease

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23.-Declar-
to testify for the prosecution in the
trial of DIR. Willard P. Burke, charg-
ing him with having dynamited the
tent in which she and her baby were
asleep at the Burke sanitarium, Lou
Eta Smith arrived here today from
Japan on board the Chiyo Maru. She
was met after the vessel was released
from quarantine by District Attorney
Lea and Sheriff Smith of Sonoma coun-
ty, who escorted her ashore. Miss Smith
was not placed under arrest and VIII
return in company Of the Sonopna
officials to Santa Rosa, where the Burke
trial will be held.
In q statement made before she
landed, Miss Smith declared that she
had been sent to Japan by persons
who did not want her to testify against
the accused physician. She said that
she was impelled to return by the
failure Of these persons to continue to
extend financial aid to her after her
arrival in Japan. In her wanderings
she was accompanied only by her
baby.
In answer to a question propounded
to her by District Attorney Lea, she
declared that she did not write the
letter generating Burke, which was
made public shortly after her depar-
ture for the Orient. She said that
the signature attached to the letter
had been made by her to verify a
checking account with bank, to be
used while she was travelling.
Lea admitted that he had been told
the names of the persons responsible
for Miss Smiths trip to the Orient, but
he declined to make them public for
fear that the accused might leave the
Jurisdiction OF the court which will
try DR.. Burke.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
SERVING LIFE SENTENCE,
HE INVENTS AER0PLANE
Convict Sends Two Flying Ma
chine Models to Patent Office

NEW YORK, Sept. 2S.-Henry Brit
ton, New York civil engineer, aged
so, who is in the Queens county Jail
under a life sentence as an habitual
criminal, has turned his attention to
the aeroplane. He already has sent
two models to the patent office and Is
now working on monoplane.
Britton is an expert machinist and
claims to have discovered principle
of flying which has not heretofore been
known to aeroplane builders. He ex-
plains this as consisting of the "ap-
plication of a dead weight center to the
plane, thereby securing equilibrium"
Britton's life sentence was brought
about by the exposure of a swindling
game in which he advertised extensive
ly for a governess to go to California.
His scheme was to accompany the vic
tim to the train and on a pretext Of
buying her ticket, secure her money
and decamp.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
STATE PROPERTY JUMPS
$8,0o0,00O N-TW0 YEARS
San lose and AgneWs Buildings
Swell Total Valuation

SACRAMENTO. Sept. 2S.-State prop
erty this year will show an increase OF
$s,OOOOOO over two years ago, accord
ing to an opinion expressed by State
Controller Nye today.
The increase is due not only to higher
real estate values, he says, but be-
cause new buildings have been erected
for the normal school at San Jose,
while about 81, 1,000,00 has been expend-
ed for buildings at Agnews state hos
pital. Figures so far compiled show
also a great increase on the San Fran
cisco water front property.
The total valuation of state property
two years ago was $52OOO0OO.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
DENY LIFE OF JAPANESE
EMPEROR IS Threatened
Arrest Anarchists Accused of
Manufacturing Bombs
Play

TOXIC, Sept. 2S.-ofhcial and posi-
tive denial was made today of the re-
cent statement of the Hochi Shimbm
that conspiracy against the life of
the emperor had been discovered
among some OF his own subjects and
the plotters arrested.
The police state that number of
anarchists have been arrested on sus-
picion of having been engaged in the
manufacture of bombs.
The leader of the alleged anarchists
is one Kotoku, who was formerly con-
nected with a Toxic newspaper and at
believed, he was associated with a
political organization on the Pacific
coast. He is awaiting trial with the
others.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
NAME OF WOMAN CROWDS
DECREE IN DIVORCE SUIT

oROTILLE. Sept. 2S,-Lilian Five
Dead Aunts Butts Gilstrap was di-
vorced in the superior court of Butte
county from her husband, D. d. Gill
strap of Gridley.
In the long history of Butte county
actions no such name as that given by
Mrs. Gilstrap has been recorded by the
county clerks office. The name had to
be abbreviated to Lillian d. A. B.
GiIstrap, so as to be written into the
space allowed in the decree.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
BALLINGER DECLINES TO.
DISCUSS REVENGE TALK

CHICAGO, Sept 2s.-Richard A.
Ballinger, secretary of the interior de-
partment, on his way to Washington to
attend cabinet meetings beginning next
Monday, vehemently denied today that
one of these meetings would be devot-
ed to consideration of a request for
his resignation.
He also refused to discuss the state
dent credited to him In the west that
he would seek revenge on his "ene-
mies' after he had left public office.
When asked at what time he expected
to leave public Office. his reply was a
smile and a shrug.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-24
NAVY DESERTER ARRESTED
BY SAN DIEGO OFFICERS

BAKERSFIELD, Sept 2S.-H. j.
Stroud, gunner's mate on the United
States steamship Hull, who deserted
the service about a week ago while
the vessel was in port at San Diego,
was arrested here today by local au-
thorities and will be delivered to the
government officials when they ar
rive. The commanding officer at Mare
Island has been notified Of his arrest