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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-14
,wner of new sewing machine.

owner of a new sewing machine.
Pearl Smith has finished his work
at Harry McCombs' and gone to work
for Ernest Day, north of your city.
Mrs. MackintoShs broken hand is
much improved and she is doing her
work with the mems help.
New Sharon callers from this neigh
bOrhOOd Saturday We're Mr.. and Mrs.
VIII Hte and Floyd, Mr.. and Mrs. G..
w. Dewitt and Jerry Stout and daugh,
ter Bethel.
Lille Dewitt assisted Mrs. Stout
with her sewing last week.
Dec. Is. DEW DROP.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-14
COUNTY NEWS.
CEDAR.

4
Charley Charnock and daughter
Nina, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
returned TO their home Thursday.
The news reached here of the birth
of fine baby boy on Thanksgiving,
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Pike
of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Mrs.
Pike is known to us as Blanche
Garrett.
The Arte Club met at the home
of Mrs. Billie Steele Wednesday af.
ternoon About thirteen were pres
emit Luncheon was served and all
had good time.
The Ladies' Aid of Fairview met
at the Mart Barnes home on Wednes-
day afternoon. About twelve were
present
The news has reached here Of the
death of Mrs. Allie Bowles of Okla
homa, Dec. 1, 1911, they having lived
here few years back.
Mrs. L. B. Keller visited with her
daughter, Mrs. Pearl Mahaffey of
Eddyville. on Thursday. "
The Ladies' Aid Society met at tho
Mrs. Sarah Davis home on Thursday
for an all day meeting, about &c be.
ing present.
Mrs. Pearl Mahaffey and two chill
dren, of Eddyville, are visiting at the
parental l.. B. Keller home. r.
John Fox has been hauling feed to
Oskaloosa. Hay SIS ton; corn 60
cents bushel, and baled straw at IS
a ton.
Howard Myers delivered 1000 bush
els of corn to T. X. Moore at the ele
vatoT.
Miss Callie Gibson and sister, Mrs,
Edna Powell of Eddyville, were
through these parts on Friday selling
Cook Books. The proceeds go for
the benefit of the Christian church.
The recipes are of home talent, with
name given with each recipe.
TIL Wright I. o. o. F. Lodge went
to Rose Hill Thursday evening to
confer the second degree work and
to partake of the bOuntiful supper
which was furnished by the Rose Hill
Those from here in the team were
J. H. Haines, J. d. Hayes, E. Lyon and
J. c. Coleman, the rest of the team
being from Wright. For further par
.icuiars call on or phone A. S.Pringle
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Smith spent
Friday at the parental Jarad home
north OF Wright.
A number from these parts attend
ed the Ladies Aid Bazaar at Wright
IN Friday afternoon and evening.
Talk about going South for good
weather;-what can beat old Iowa's
weather the past week?
Most every one through these
PARTS have finished shucking corn.
There is some left here and there,
but a few always wait till spring to
finish.
Floyd Arnold has been hauling corn
to H. Linley, east of Eddyville.
Mrs. Z. Lyon spent Friday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Norton at
Fremont.
Mrs. Anna Brubaker spent a few
days visiting in OskalOOsa at the
Mary Holloway home.
Miss Emma Lloyd spent a few
days with her sister, Mrs. Henry
German, at What Cheer.
Miss Edith Sears has been hired
by L. B. Keller for clerk in the store.
Mrs. Anna Steele, who has been
on the sick list for some time, has
been very sick the last week.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society will meet at the Mary l..
Garrett home Thursday, Dec. II, for
an afternoon meeting.
We had an April shower in Deem
Der last Saturday evening.
Miss Jessie Dunn, who has been
clerking in the E. Lyon store, has
gone to West Liberty, Iowa, for the
same purpose.
Dec. L. b. b.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-14
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

chicago, Dec. 10.
HOGS.-Market steady to strong
quality fair. Mixed and butchers
$5.7j66.25; good to choice $6.05 q
6.271a; rough heavy $5.S566.O0; light
$5.4506.10; Workers $5.95@6.O5; bulk
$5.95@6.20; pigs S3.75@5.4O; clear
ance yesterday fair.
CATTLE.-Market 100000 lower.
Beeves $4.55@S.90; COWS and heifers
$1.9O q els; stockers and feeders
$3.1O@5.60; westerns $4.40@6.65; ma
tive calves, $5.50@S.OO.
SHEEP.-Market mostly 10c lower
Sheep $26OG41O; western sheep
$2.75 q 40; yearlings $4.25 q $50;
lambs $40016.10; western lambs
$4.25@G.1O; ewes $2.OOG3.GO.
Official receipts yesterday: Hogs
1887; cattle 6,062; sheep 23,150.
Official shipments yesterday: Hogs
1888; cattle 3,243; sheep 2,940.
Hogs closing 5m1Oc higher than yes
terday average; top $6.40. Mixed
and butchers $5.S5mG.35; good to
choice $G.15@G.4O; rough heavy $500
oslo; light $5.55@6221a; Workers
$6.1O@615; bulk $GOO@G25; pigs
$4,000 $50.
Cattle closing 1Od25c lower than
yesterday.
Sheep closing weak and mostly 1Oc
lower.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-14
HAgs
Officers Elected.

Des Moines, Dec. 1S.-Special: The
convention of the Iowa Building &
Trades council closed this afternoon
with the election of the following OF
ficers: President, Gus Brook, of Des
Moines; vice presidents, Charles
TowIe. of Cedar Rapids; Roy r.,
Burke. of Waterloo; J. A. Mears, OF
Des Moines, and G. H. Sweeney, OF
Marshalltown; secretary-treasurer, w.
II. Clifford, of Cedar Rapids.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-14
HAWKEYE

Mrs. Fred Fehd is eonvalescing
nicely from her recent illness. She
il now able TO be out of doors some.
Little Alberta Winderss spent Sun.
day at the home of her grandma,
Mrs. Il. !. Jones.
Mrs. Sam Davis visited recently at
the homes OF Mrs. Willis Allgood and
Mrs. Il. l. Jones.
Mrs. william Christopel was Wis
itor recently at the Comfort home.
nee ~ White Lily.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-14
phessants For creston.

Creston, Dec. 1S.-Special: Deputy
Game Warden Bryant of this city has
been promised several pairs of pleas
ants for this county if the supply will
admit, and if not, he will receive
several pairs of Hungarian cartridges
instead. The ones sent here earlier
in the year are doing we'll and Union
county bids fair to have good supply
of game birds.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-14
Rohber Sentenced.

webster City, Dec. 1S.-Special:
Jndge Wright this morning sentenced
Richard Morrison, confessed bandit,
caught in the Channer store, and
member of the gang which has COM
nitted many bank and store rob,
berries in north central Iowa, to ten
years in the penitentiahy.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-14
Murderer Acquitted.

Webster City, Dec. 13.-Special:
VIM. Green was acquitted by jury
this morning of the charge of assault
with intent TO kill Owen Dillon. This
verdict created a sensation. Green
stabbed Dillon in the abdomen, the
provocation being alleged stories told
Of him.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-14
eored to Death by Cow.

ottumwa, Dec. Especial: While
playing in the barn yard near her
home near West Point, Alta Telohrei
was gored to death by COW.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-14

include in your list of holiday pres
ents as many as you can OF the thinss
made In Oskaloosa.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-14

defendant to appear, was the suit for
alienation of affections, filed against
o. w. Miller by Fred Hazen. Hazen
was awarded $4,000 by the court.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-14
Cash Quotations.

Chicago, Dec. 13.-Wheat, No. 2 red,
95@95%c; No. red, 93@941sc; No.
2 hard. 97c@$1.O1; No. 3 hard, 93c@
$1.O0: No. / northern, $1.051a @1.O7R,
No. 2 northern, $1.O3@1.O6; No.
northern. $1.O1@1.O4; No. 2 spring,
9Sc0$1.02; No. 2 spring, 95c@$1.02;
No. 4 spring, S5c@$1.0O; velvet chaff,
9OcM$1. O2; durum, 9Oc@$1.04.
Corn-No. 2 yellow, old, zoe; No. 3
5G1GM6OAc; old, Csc; No. 3 white
J9I9 mG0Hc; No. yellow, 60@60Rc;
No. 4. 051a@57Hc; No. 4 white. 5612
6jSc; No. 4 yellow, j7@5Sc; old, CSC
Oats-No. 2 white, 4S1A @49c; No
3 white, 47A G4SAc; No. a white
4G1a standard, AN @4Shc.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-14

Peoria. Dec. 13.-Corn, No 3 white,
JS@5SAc; No. 4 white, 5G056%c;
No. 3 yellow, 5S@5S%c; No. yellow
54M 56Mc; No. mixed, 5SU5SAc;
No. mixed, 5G@5614c; sample, 53c;
oats, No. white, 4Sc; standard, 45A.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-14

To-day's Markets.
Chicago Union Stock Yards, Dec.
arrivals Of hogs to-day
we're some six to eight thousand short
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-12-14

st. Louis, Dec. 13.-Wheat, No. 2
red, 9412 G96c; No. hard, 95c0$1.05.
Corn, No. 3, 5S@5Shc; No. 3 white,
sic; oats, No. 2, 471&c; No. 2 white,
4SH0aS%c; rye, 94c.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-10

Fine Job Printing, Sta once.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-10
BY j. A BRECKoNs.

Especial Correspondence Of the starr
WASHINGTON, July 27.-Among
the innumerable Investigations under
taken and proposed by members Of
this Congress, the investigation of the
administration of the public land
laws, proposed by Congressman Raker
of California, will meet with approval
in the Western public land states.
The California member disclaims any
intention to get any public omciaL
and bases his demand for an investiga-
ton upon the complaints reaching
Washington from all classes Of citi-
zens, protesting against alleged hard
ship, injustice and unnecessary red
tape in the administration of the pub
lie land laws.
One of the greatest sources of COM
plant comes from those who seek
rights of way across public lands, and
in a statement made by Mr.. Raker the
assertion is made that there is abso-
lutely no provision of law by which an
easement can be secured across the
public lands for a telephone line,
while other rights of way are only to
be secured by the issuance of tenn
porary permits, revocable at the
pleasure of the department. OF this
condition Congressman Raker says:
are discouraged and seriously retarded
by the maze of doubt and uncertainty
surrounding this whole general subject
of rights of way across the public
lands, and by the constant menace
and threat of litigation if any move
is made. Complaint is made repeat
eddy also that there is a tendency on
the part of some government agents
and officers to penalize and to ques-
ton the motives and integrity of those
who wish to take such questions into
| the courts for adjudication. This is a
very serious complaint and should be
! sifted to the bottom, especially, in
view of the circumstances in wnicn
honest men must find themselves il
considering the legal phases of the
situation. The scope and effect O
many of the statutes when considered
singly, and the effect of some of tn,
later ones upon those passed pre-
viously remain unadjudicated. No
only the scope and effect of these law
in a general sense, but even the sig
nifcance of many of their most in
portant words and phrases remain III
determined. They refer in terms t
= railroads, reservoirs, canals, ditche
pipelines, fumes, dams, highway
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-10
TOO MUCH RED TAPE IN
ADMINISTRATION OF LAND LAWS

trails, tramways and transmission and
telegraph lines, and yet the purport
and logical effect of a recent ruling
by the standing master in chancery OIL
the United States circuit court at San
Francisco would seem to be chat rights
of way across the public lands Of the
West can no longer be secured even
by irrigation companies or for trans
continental railroads.
Congress some six years ago enact
ed statute apparently granting
rights of way for reservoirs, bitches,
pipelines, tunnels and canals for mu-
nicipal, mining, milling and ore reduc-
ton purposes. Now complaints, Sc
rious complaints, are heard that this
statute has been so stripped and whit
tied away by construction and applica-
ton that its beneficial objects and pur-
poses are utterly defeated. l do not
say that these complaints are true or
well founded, but l do say that they
are seriously important to the West
ern people and that they are worthy
of careful attention and thorough in
vestigation at the hands of the public
lands committee.
There are many complaints lodged
also by miners, homesteaders and des.
ert land claimants TO the effect that
the practice and decisions have tend.
ed of late years to handicap need
lessly and unnecessarily to annoy and
harass those who have faithfully and
honestly compiled with the public land
laws. Perhaps the most violent Of
these protests have come from the
miners. The National Mining Con
gress last year added also it's ofIicia
protest, l am informed. 1t is alleged
that the prospecting and development
retarded, and that many of those whC
have for years been engaged in min
eral exploration and development
along thoroughly legitimate lines ar
! being discouraged and driven to fol
sake that pursuit because of unneces
| sary or technical obstacles.
? q do not know what the truth O
falsity of any of these charges ma
l be, but l do know that very many con
e plants have come to me from tho
= oughly reliable and trustworth
It sources, and l consider that no subjet
S is more important to the general pu
= lie or more worthy of the attention
L Congress than this subject of the sc
n tlement and improvement of our Yves
% ern states and the reasonable az
S, proper use and development of the +
S, sources of our public domain"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-10

in the Standard Oil Company on ac-
count of the dissolution ordered by
the United States Supreme Court UNI
Ger the Sherman antitrust law, the
following facts relative, to the COM
Ipany are worth knowing:
The Standard Oil Company has a
capital stock of $11O,OOO,OJO of which
I$1OO,OOO,OOO is common and $1O,)OO,- |
600 is preferred. 1t is supposed to
have surplus of about $500, 100000.
THE stock the day before the court
action advanced from 675 to 679% a.
share 1t closed on the curb after the
decision was known as $50 bid and
700 asked. The cash assets of the
company, according to the last an
nual report, were about 1888 share
These assets do not include the value
of the company's oil above ground,
which is figured at $500, 100000, or
about 5000 share, so that in actual
liquidation the value of the Standard
Oil stock would be about 688 a share.
The company has 5000 miles of trunk
} pipe line, $4,000 miles of feeders ana
controls 20 per cent of the refining
business of the country, having
twenty-three refineries, each with a
daily capacity of from $4,000 to 10000
, barrels. 1t has erected and maintains
T oil supplies in nearly 1000 stations
, all over the United States, holds So
100000 barrels of oil continually in
reserve, and requires 5000 tank cars
and 5000 tank wagons to handle the
6 domestic distribution. More than
one-half of the company's refined
products is consumed abroad, 200 yes.
sells, including sixty ocean trunk
: steamers, being engaged in transport,
II ing its products, and this foreign bust.
r ness has brought to the company
more than $1,OO),OOO,OOO of foreign
n gold
It Big List of Dividends.
t The oil companies listed on the
; San Francico Stock Exchange are
- credited with having paid a grand
:, total of $3S,771 1928 in dividends up to
r June 80, 1911. The following list
/; shows the number of dividends paid
. by each company, the rate per share
# of the dividend last paid and the to-
g tai dividends paid by EACH
g Amount Total
. Company No. per share to date
: Alma Oil Co., IS s % s 2O5,2OC
y, Anal. Oil Co... 80 100 1000 ,OOC
" Am. Pet. pfd. .21 .66 2,422, 573
Am. Pet. COM. p .66 2,422,57S
Apollo ....... 2 OF 1900
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-10
A WILL

should be carefully drawn by some
one who is familiar with the law.
Our Legal Department will prepare
your will free of charge. If you have
not already made a will or if the one
you have made is not entirely salts
factory, why not attend to the matter
now.
Call and let us explain what the
law will do with your estate if you
should leave no will.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-10
OIL MEN DISCUSS
Continued from page five.)


share of the latter corporations $40,-
100000 capital. A similar story was
published several months ago and re-
suited in rise in Associated shares
from $42 to $50 in the San Francisco
and New York markets. Recently
the stock has been sagging off to
about SAT, and the drive bore indica-
tons of professional manipulation.
w. F.. Herrin of San Francisco is at
the head of the Associated Oil Com
pany, representing in the corporation
the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany. He has been abroad for more
than two months, and it is rumored
that he made the trip to London for
the purpose of agreeing upon the
final details in the proposed transfer
of the company to its prospective
new owners in England and Holland
Mr.. Herrin wired Los Angeles that he
would leave London for New Yorl
| this week
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-10
Oil Output in June.

The following is the number of
active producing wells during the
month of June in the various fields OF
California: Coalinga, 7O2; Kern
River, 1897; McKittrick, 2O7; Mari
copa, IS; Midway, ass; Salt Lake
256; Fullerton, 312; Whittier Coyotes
1873; Ventura, 277; Newhall, IA; Los
Angeles City, 400; Summerland, 1876
The number of new wells being act
lively drilled is as follows: Coalinga
100; Kern River, 16; McKittrick, II
Maricopa, "a; Midway, 2)4; Sal
Lake, IA; Fullerton, SO; Whittier
Coyotes, 81; Ventura, AZ; Newhall
4. The following are the stocks OF
hand June 80 at the wells and do no
include any pipe line stocks as tina
in reservoirs, etc.: Coalinga, $685. 65
Kern River, 652.575; McKittrick, 91S
600; Midway, 2,6OS,296; Salt Lake
$4,000; Fullerton, 42,75O; Whittier
Coyotes, 1O3,5OO; Ventura, 52,575
Newhall, $500; Los Angeles City
$4,000. The gross total production o
all the oil fields of the state durinl
the month of June was 6,967,471. TIL,
total gross production for the montl
of June is at the rate of S9,6O9,65.
barrels per annum, which at the rate
of 80 cents per barrel, would yielC
$25, 1882, 1850
Standard Oil Showing
In view of the public interest taker
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-10
BORN

LONG-At Kauluwela, Honolulu, July
IS, 1911, to Mr.. and Mrs. Henry N,
Long, a son.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-02-25
Likes American Golf.

Certainly you are in good luck as
golfer If you go to America at all, for.
they are gloriously hospitable In that
land, writes Horace Hutchinson, In the
London Graphic. So far as could see
the idea that some have here-that
the American notion of the object OF
playing game is purely to win 1t,
not to enjoy the playHg-is perfectly
mistaken. never had the impression
more strongly anywhere of being In
the company of men who were playing
the game for pleasure, not for the
mere sake Of winning the match. But
then 1t is certainly true, as l heard
one OF their judges Il mean a legal
Judge, though he was a Judge of golf,
tool say In an after-dinner speech that
1t is 1.-THE cleanest sport in America"
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-02-25
Ready With Proof.

An earnest preacher in Georgia,
VINO has custom of telling the Lord
all the news in his prayers, recently
began petition for help against the
progress of wickedness In his town
with the statement:
70 thou great Jehovah, crime is on
the increase. It is becoming more
prevalent daily. can prove it to you
by statistics. Everybody Magazine.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-02-25
The Safe Side.

There is a story Of peasant won.
an In French church who was found
kneeling before marble group and
was warned by priest that she was
worshiping the wrong figure-namely,
Beelzebub. Never mind" she re-
piled, ut is we'll enough to have
friends on both sdss."--Moncure d
Conway.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-02-25

It is nothing new for any intelligent and
thinking person to be told that the average
prowling dog and cat is not safe compan-
ion for children or a proper inmate of our
homes, but the writer begs most emphat-
ically to take exception to the opinion Of
gsne iearned speciaiast wno places all Of
these faithful Preside companions under
the ban.
Take, for instance, the beautiful Per.
sian and other fine breeds of cats which
adorn SO many homes these days and also
are to be found in many of the fine cat
teries of the city.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-02-25
Some
FelineS
Not K
OfrOuSe
Carriers
By MRS. S. $. KELLOGG

They never see the outside of homes harness or carefully
guarded must they perfor be banshd the face of the earth
because the providers dangerous?
WI" the learned doctor be little faier and between
those that dangerous and those that would
these family pets to entirely eliminated there would be lack of
nome OF which poets have for many years sung
Leave us lew just little longer DOCTOR for many among
Us who love dogs and cats and need them friends
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-02-25

Should woman balk at the idea Of
living with her mother-in-law and carry
her objection so far as to part with her
husband on that account?
She cannot in our community, at least,
maintain valid divorce suit on the ground
OF being deserted by her husband.
Recently Denver wife asked for a
legal separation on the ground that her
husband insisted that they make their
home at his mothers. To this she would
not agree, and the pair went their several
ways.
One of our Judges before whom the
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-02-25

Willie Knew the ouadrupeds.
Teacher-Willie, are there any
feathered quadrupeds.
Willie-Yes, sir.
Teacher-Name one.
Willie-A feather bed.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-02-25

HAT would you think
Of coaching your
hearts tender and
sentimental overflow
In the dots and
dashes of the Morse
code? You can't brush
the parental parlor
rug with your knees
by wireless; you can't
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-02-25

The church bells whose tolling we are
so much accustomed to hear seem indis-
pensable for announcing the time of meet
lngs and church services.
Among the Mohammedans, instead of
the bell, man, priest stands on ton of
the temple to announce the time of service
Among the Hebrews in little Russian
towns they formerly had Synagogue call
ers'-stentors-whose main duty was to
walk from street to street to call the
people to the synagogue.
But in modern times a clock or watch
is found in nvorr hn,sa al IL !.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-02-25

card and obtained suit OF Clothes asking the dealer
to send the bill around to the hotel the following
ing. His expense funds were expected, the mans
excuse for not paying cash. He had missed his check
in the last town.
The merchant consulted a "rating" book, and as
Mr. Vances firm was well rated the credit was grant
ed. Needless to say, neither the dapper young man
nor the suit of clothes to be found in the hotel
the following evening. The register showed that Mr..
Vance had left that morning.