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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-07-11
iowa RAILROADS
REPORT GAINS
SIX MILLION INCREASE IN GROSS
EARNINGS THE EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL DECLARES.

! Des Moines, July s.--During 1910
steam railroads which operate IN
Iowa increased their gross earnings
NEARLY 100000, says the statement
Just issued by the state executive
council, which will meet next week
| to assess the companies.
The net earnings for the same per-
iod, however. according to the COM
panies' reports. is less than $1,)o0,000
because of heavy expenditures within
the state.
With total gross earnings OF $751;
1914, 996, the Chicago and Northwest
ern leads the list. The Rock Island Is
second with gross earnings OF $l5,al7,-
465. but the Rock Island leads i'll net
earnings, reporting $3,9s5.712. In gross
earnings the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul and the Chicago. Burlington
and Quincy are third and fourth re-
spectively.
Five Roads Report Losses.
The following roads reported net
losses for the year:
Great Northern, $7S,670.61.
Muscatine North and South Ry.,
s667.7s
Southern Iowa Traction Co., Sc.
1886. ...-.
Union Pacific Ry.. $2e,o19.e1.
Wabash Ry., $51 .440.87.
All the other roads in the preceding
table registered net gains.
fnterurban companies show an in
crease In gross earnings amounting
to little more than 100000. The net
earnings OF the interurbans are bet
ter than the 1909 earnings by S2071o.
No lnterurban company reports a net
loss ~
The statement Of the gross earn
ings Of each interurban Is follows: /
Abba Interurban railway 5 31,394.09
Boone Suburban railway 7,333.05
Cedar Rapids & I. G. Ry.
& L. CO. ...... 1882 so
Cedar Rapids g. Marion Ry 2,946.S4
Centerville Light & Trac-
ton CO. 3s,o4o.s2
Fort Dodge, Des Mo;nes &
Southern r. r. ....... 504.04S.7S
inter- Urban Ry. ....... 2e9,651.42
Iowa 4 Illinois Ry ~. 162,697.97
0skaloosa & Buxton Elec-
trio Ry Go. .......... 11,ss3s0
Mason City & Clear Lake
Traction co. .......... s5,4s4.s7
rama & Toledo Electric
Ry ....... 15,ss5.9e
Waterloo, Cedar Falls & !
Northern Ry ......... 2se.2es.21
Total .......:... 80. 1,7s1, 70s.21
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21
JUDGE LowELL,s REPLY.

Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., re-
gently directed a letter to Judge S.
A. Lowell, OF PendletOn, who is Op-
posing him for the senatorial nomi-
nation at the coming primaries. The
Judge had invited the Senator to q
joint discussion Of issues before the
people and in his reply Mr.. Bourne
took occasion to say that Mr.. Lowell
was not sincere in his political stand;
that he had denounced the assembly
OF 1910 but supported the assembly
candidates; that further he was not a
supporter OF the Oregon system,
and some other things; and Jonathan
lurther made great claims for his own
work as a senator and what he had
accomplished for Oregon, and the
good committee appointments he
has attained in his five years as a
senator from this state.
In replying to this letter, Judge
Lowell saws:
81 received a copy Of the letter on
the day it was published in a Port
land paper i is about what could
be expected from the man, and is al
mass of buncOmbe and pretense. !
Where, pray, are the local benefits |
which the state has secured from his
Eve years senatorial incumbency? I
We. in the great interior, interested |
in the subjects OF forestry, admins
tration OF the national reserves, pub
Hc lands, mining and irrigation, have |
searched in vain. His record is more
than "a blank. 1t is one Of neglect.
Where is theimpress ofhis statesman
ship in western Oregon? Our har-
bOrs still await development, and
soon the Panama canal will open
and commerce demand them. What
appropriations the state has received
are those which come to each state
as a matter of course, and would
have come had Washington never
known Mr.. Bourne.
He has attained his committee
assignments not through merit, but
through the accident of death, retire
ment and defeat OF many of the i'm
portant figures in the senatorial
body.
"Again there are thousands Of new J.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21

voters in the state, some who have
come from other states and Others
who have reached their majority in
recent years, who are entitled to
know the facts regarding Mr.. Bourn's
connection with the legislative hold
up of 1897 The older residents are
familiar with it, and few Of them are
likely to endorse it. When man
seeks public office his public career
should be analysed and discussed
that the electorate may vote intelli-
gently. Mr.. Bourne's letter ignores
the subject, but some of his friends
and political beneficiaries, notably
Frank Davy. receiver of the Burns
land office, are crticizing me for call
ing attention to that episode in the
Bourne history, asserting that Others
were equally responsible. Perhaps
that may he true, but those Others
are not now candidates. When they
lre we will catechise them. Mr..
Bourne is now on the stand"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21

The PendletOn commercial club
took a decisive stand in favor of the
West Extension, but the people
some OF them-of Stanfield and Pilot
Rock die hard, figuratively speaking.
They are now taking up the fight,
principally to seek revenge, and re-
sorting to skullduggery. According
to the East Oregonian, they are try
ing to disrupt the commercial club
and discredit the action OF that body
taken at it's meeting on last We'd
nesday evening. This is usually the
result iwhen people place selfish in
terests above those for the general
good. The above localities have
some great patriots, and the results
they desire would be defeated by
their own actions.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21

other fellow and put him on the pay
roll Of the county, adding further eX-
pense to the taxpayers. The exper-
fence of our people so far with the
work OF the veterinarians and deputy
veterinarians in this county, should
putevery citizen of the county against
this proposition good and strong.
1t is not needed; the county health
officer has done the actual work, is
now doing it, and will continue todo
1t, and this deputy veterinarian
would only add to the burdens we
already have. He is about as much
use in this county as fifth wheel to
a wagon.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21

The west extension of the Umatilla
project is worth working for. 1t is
feasible. Every engineer who has
examined it has so reported. Just as
sure as the government abandOns it,
private interests will take it up.
Who wants to see a $4,000, 900 private
project if it is possible to get Uncle
Sam to do it? In the first clash op-
ponents to the extension have been
put to rout and the chief has lost
many of his supporters. No doubt
every further effort possible will be
made to continue the fight. Hermis-
ton and every person in Oregon hav-
ing the best interests of the state as
a whole at heart want to be ready
at any minute to combat every move
made by the few agitators who are
back OF the Opposition.-HermistOn
Herald.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21

Fred Wilson of Athena is a brainy
young man, and will make himself
heard to a good advantage in the
Forthcoming congressional campa-
ign. To native shrewdness and abil-
ity that have carried him forward
in his professional and business aft
airs, he unites a laudable ambition
to make the most OF himself. Being
a lawyer, he turns to politics as nat
urally as a cat to yellow cream, and
he is enabled to bring to bear upon
the public problems of the day, the
power of a well-trained and well-bal-
anced mind. Moreover, he possesses
a happy and pleasing facnlty of plat
form eXpression.-W Weston Leader
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21

The repeal OF the ordinance requir-
ing peddlers of meat and farm pro-
duce to pay license, as proposed by
the council of Heppner town, is a
good thing and meets with the hearty
Endorsement OF this paper. We be-
lieve in an open market for such
things and to shut out the farmer
and rancher by imposing upon him q
license fee that is prohibitive, is not
right. To repeal this ordinance is a
good move in the right direction.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21

An article in last week Timesfrom
the pen OF J L. Knappenberg, of
lone, touching upon the controversy
as to what the disease is that has
killed so many hogs in the county,
contains one suggestion that inter-
ests the taxpayers of Morrow eoun-
ty, and that is the proposition OF
deputy veterinarian. This has been
before the county court In a small
way for its consideration, and the
plan is to pay deputy of this sort
500 per year, the said deputy TO d.
vide time between this county and
one or two other counties adjoining.
In other words, create a Job for an-
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21

There is no reason ON earth why n
labor organization should resort to
violence. 1t is fanatics or spies who
advocate it every time. They are in
all organizations attempting to do
anything for the advancement OF hui
manity.-LabOr Press.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21

1t is not so much matter OF poll
tics as it is OF selecting the best men
Oregon has and sending them to the
house and senate in Washington.
No state in the union is so badly in
need of representation in that body
right now as Oregon.-Eugene Reg
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21

Irrigon, Umatilla and Heppner
were in the fight for the extension
and Hermiston is proud of the com
pany. Those communities will stay
in the fight to the end and will be OF
good service for a great work.-Her-
miston Herald.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21
VERY truly yours.
"F. H. NEWELL,
Director. -

blICNlOl.
There is apparently nothing to the
''John Day project" at all, so far as
the government is conceroed, and to
talk it at this time is simply to pre-
judice the minds of the people against
a project that is feasible, that is on
the program OF the Reclamation Ser
vice to be completed, and which is
within our grasp. Morrow county
wants the Umatilla proiectcompleted
and is lined up there to stay.
This talk of John Day project,
rights of Umatilla water users and
a lot OF other stuff that is thrown in
fOr good measure OF hot air, is all
buncombe and is made on behalf OF
selfish interests. 1t deserves to fail,
and it will
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21
w WASHINGTON, ID. G.
December II, 1911.

"Hon. c. c. Patterson,
Heppner, Oregon;
Dear Sir
"Your letter of December has
been received with copy of letter OF
November %, to the Stanfield Com
mercial club I wish to thank you
for sending this to me.
The surveys made during 1911 for
the west extension OF the Umatilla
project, have not yet been received in
this office, but they are expected al
most daily. Upon receipt, they will
be given careful examination and re-
view by a board OF engineers, and
recommendation made to the Secre-
tary with reference to future action.
Il am not quite clear as to what
you mean by the so-called John Day
project. Nothing Of this kind has
ever been adopted nor even seriously
considered, so far as | can recall, and
the information available is exceed
ingly meager.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21
Help Wanted.

The services of a middle aged
women ora girl wanted to do
general house work for family
of three. Inquire at this office.
st.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21

Insure your house with the
Oregon Fire Relief of McMinn-
ville-the old reliable company.
GEO. CURRIN, Local Agent.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-21
THURSDAY, December q, 1911
rs NOE KNOWN.

Week before last this paper made
the statement that the Stanield and
Pilot Rock people, in their advocacy
OF the John Day project" as a sub
stitute for the west extension OF the
Cmatilla project, were not sincere;
that they We're asking to have a
scheme promoted that is not on the
program OF the reclamation service.
In this connection, the following
letter is pertinent. 1t comes direct
from the director of the U. S. Recla-
nation Service and can be taken as
authoritative.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26
All Aboard for Toyland

Boo big lion just opened his mouth and almost scared the writer stiff It wasn't truly ion just almost life size that rolls his eyes and wags his head something fierce
 Right next to him the preest hair doll that all the way from Switzerland.
 Then there other dolls and funny clowns from Nurem burg Germany where most of the toys But a for here train made in America that and is lighted wholly by electricity No foolish battery to order just attach the extension wire to a socket and turn on
 For Monday, also, have provided
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26
In All The Linen Sales, There's No Such Linen as This. 0-1.. CO.,

In all the linen sales about town there is nothing to equal our Red Star Special Table Damask at 88c.
 But, then, our Red Star Special Is really worth more. Many stores usually get SIPS for the same quality; no store that we know would regular. iy sell 1t for less than $1. Our price is always s8c.
 This Table Damask is all pure linen-every thread. Choice of Austrian or Irish flax, in full or half bleached. t2 inches wide.
 $1 all linen 36 in. Lunch Cloth, special 75c. (Mair FIoor)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26
Sale of Work Baskets
Handbag CULT

Do you wear your bag with a long cord or a leath- CT handle?
 Do you wear it over your shoulder, or down at your ankles or in your hand? Have you a long one, a short one or a deep noe?
 Is it leather, velvet, moire, silk or tapestry?
 Is it black or a color to match your gown?
 Never before have there been such beautiful Bags in the Steele-Smith Leath- CT Goods Section.
 Lined with dainty col ors. Shaped after the newest models, whether they come from abroad or are made in America. soc to $15. (Main FIoor)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26
Sweaters to Banish the Chill

Chilly breezes can penetrate these closely all wool Sweaters Warmth without bulk; style at little cost Plain an dsalor collars Solid white and cardinal with colored trimmings. Single and double breasted Women's sizes,$ $250, $35o
 to IT.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26
DRESS GOODS: A Sale of Serges

Women buying serges eagerly for suits and piece dresses. Good oo for nothing better looks heater.
 Get samples of these and shop around the townsee if you match the quality anything like these prices: 59c Serge, 36 inch, 47c. $125 Serge, 50 inch 89c $1.50 Serge, 54 inch $122 $165 Serge 56 inch SIPS
 
 $ss Also free-comparsons
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26
Free Trave1ogue Pictures

These represent in foreign countries
  (ToyIan Floor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26
Union Suits: Save a Third!

To full third Underwear just the start of the cold bit of good luck made possible by of jobber's desire to close out the last of two lines Both numbers offer choice white saving
 $1.50 Union Suits $1 $1 Union Suits 79c
  OVN Sizes 12. IA and Fioorl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26
Embroidery Threads
Scrap Baskets: A Sale at 25c

Scrap Baskets: A Sale at 25c Every has need of scrap paper basket and here is opportunity to supply that need at little cost
  with braid Prety colored either red An 
 Sale of Work Baskets These made of sweet grass willow raa Just hint of some of the styles:
  $1.o Tow llowa m afia looking school satches 59c Sweet basket oth kes sspIac 0 Main Floor PS-There is special display of hampers and waste bas ke fourth floor in the Housefumisngs Section. Hampers and square, and to fit in Waste baskets of all shapes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26

Needle Workers Should Start
 Their Xmas Gifts No,U Embroidered articles make appropriate Xmas presents for they stamp the gift with the handiwork of the glver But for goodness sake don't wait until the eleventh hour to your piece Begin now SteeeSmth ready to help Some suggestions:
 All these articles stamped ready to be embroidered linen, soc 75c.
 
 ToPs-Of and bulap, 25c and soc. CENTERPIECES-Of white linen Is 20x6 x5o to $160
 GOWNS-Of nainsook, dalntly stamped, 59c Embroidery Threads Ne,U Yarns of all fol all makes Reldng Peril Red Society nearly all the wanted colors sss Pin Cushion Mo1ds 15c Pin
 
 sNfstssa~sHSe 7st (Art Needework, Floor)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26
lowest Price in Years! 10 Yards EOc ,6-inch Full Bleached Domestic at y

In sympathy with cotton, sheets and domestcs have dropped to the lowest point years We hasten to give our friends the benefit.
 weight quality dressing 10 yards for all may 81x9O Dixie Sheets, better than Pepperel, 58c
 S1x90E Emdale Sheets, 54c
 6Sx Lnene
 Seam 81x90,
 77x90Ii weld
 25c hemst Pillow full size 19c
 200 Lnene Cases 1e (Main Foor)
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-26
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Henry Beach Needham in the Sat
urday Evening Post: told the col.
onel, word for word, what his admir-
er, Mr.. Hoodwinkle, had said about
him. The charge that he is "a men.
ace to prosperity" has been brought
so often against Col. Roosevelt that
he has come to regard it philosophi.
cally. Pointing to a policeman on
duty at the station where our train
was standing, the colonel said:
I'm an enemy of prosperity in just
the same sense that that officer out
there is a menace TO prosperity when
he gets his grip on a burglar; if he
ever runs for office he won't get the
burglar vote. Nevertheless, he is a
friend of the honest man. In de
nouncing crookedness in business
have always drawn a clear distinc-
ton between the dishonest man in
business-,he man who accepts re-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-26
p PROGRAM.
County Superintendents Association
Chickasha May II.

SOunty ouPeTIHtenueHtS NssoS'at'o''
Chckasha May II.
Following is the program to be Civ
en- at the meeting of the county SUI
perintendents at Chickasha, May II.
$50 a. Welcome address, Supt.
VIM. F. Ramsey, Chickasha.
Response, County Superintendent
Fred Tucker Ardmore.
1000 a. inflow the County Su-
perintendents may vitalize the pub
lie schools through the organization
Of the teachers and school board
niscussion-Co County Supt G. A.
Witt Duncan; County Supt. II. w. C..
Shelton, Vinita; County Supt. Geo.
Rainey, Enid.
11:0O a. m-"The Reading Circle
Work l. Its importance-County
Supt J. 7. Davis. Miami. .. County
Supt J. w. Higginbotham. Cherokee.
Method or organization-Supt. F.
O Hays. Alva. Supt p. G. Rawson,
thanuler.
1880 a. m.-"The disadvantages of
opening school promiscously through
out the month"-County Supt. w. f.
Gill. Pawhuska: County Supt. Mrs.
Anna Burks Love, Oklahoma City.
300 p. m.-"The Summer Normal
work" l. Discussion. Pres. VI. l..
Cotton. Stigler. >. Discussion, Supt.
4 A. Rogers. s. General discussion.
$500 p. CONSOLIDATED schools
l. Methods of organization and the
problem of transportation, County
Supt E. H. Hester, Claremore. ,.
The benefits of the consolidated rural
schools, Supt. f. y. Collette, Musko-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-26
S.S.S 8.
GREATEST
Of ALL TONICGo
BECAUSE
GREATEST OF ALL
BLOOD PURIFIERS

ANY system that needs tonic needs also blood puher TOR IS
weakened and impure condition Of the circulation that responsible
for rundown of health We have only to recognize me
importance blood preserving health TO realize the Danger
weakened or impure circulation The great majority of persons
are rapidly coming understand the importance OF preventing disease
hey know that poorly nourhed system resist germs and
microbes which pufeS and enrcheS the blood Will
often ward off serious spell of illness later on. .
That Spring the trying on the health IS m well
known every 1t the of when constitutions are
required the San and unless the system receives
the proper amount blood the health bound be affected
The general bodily Weakness tired WornOut feeling tickle appetite
poor digestion etc. directly result of weak Way blood
IF You need tonic you need medicine that has real blood pur
flying properties great called oncs mere nerve S
Ilans often producing eXhaang effect, but aIg
with decided injury system If your system weak and run
down you only by supplying increased amount OF
blood nurmen and this only through pure rich blood
ANY tonic which purify the blood dangerous because leaves
the impurities the circulation constantly prey the health
greatest of all because it is the greatest ot all
blood purifiers and the medicine rely on to supply
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-26
Kicked by a Mad Horse.

Samuel Birch. OF Beetown, Wis,
had most narrow escape from los.
ing his leg. as no doctor could heal
the frightful sore that developed
but at last Bucklen's Arnica Salve
cured 1t completely It's the greatest
healer of ulcers. burns. boils, eczema.
scalds, cuts, corns, cold-sores, bruis.
es and piles on earth. Try it. 25c al
Ringer Drug Co.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-26

Bad breath, bitter taste, dizziness
and a general mo account" feeling
is sure sign of torpid liver. HERE
me is the medicine needed. II
makes the liver active, vitalizes the
blood, regulates the bowels and re,
stores a fine feeling of energy and
cheerfulness. Price soc. Sold by
Hoffman, Drug Co.