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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-10-15
IOWA Railro ada Are Busy.

iVW0 Jt0VVV0OO sNVG BUOY r
Contrary to the general superstition.
railroads are not busy alone with the
movement of crops The grain move
mNnt is enormous hut it Is not the
only item. The crop conditions have
in turn stimulated and created de-
mand for merchandise. The extraor.
binary movement of freight has been
great thing for the country in more
ways than one. 1t has been parti.
cularly happy thing for the railroads.
1t is enabling them to recover losses
of the last two years when the condi-
tons were against them and it 10 put.
ting them back on their feet. If It
had not been for this stimulation
some of the roads would have been
forced into the hands of receivers.
Not only is freight traffic heavy, but
travel is heavy and it is increasing.
The passenger business has picked
up with the freight traffic and both
departments of the railroads are ex.
periencing an unusual amount Of bust.
ness. People travel in prosperous
times. When 1t is dull they travel
only when they have to. Travel has
picked up wonderfully. And when
railroads are doing business it is .
sure indication that merchandise Is
moving and that money is circulating.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-10-15

Like the breath of mountain air,
That makes the pain-racked free,
That brings both health and happiness.
Is HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
Fred Lowry.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-10-15
Not Fair TO shankIand.

MOI = dJv 10 oUAUWUOUOs
Any criticism Of Representative
Ehankland's bill to use the ballot in
place of the petition in getting saloon
consents, on the ground that it is a
saloon measure, does Mr.. Shankland
an injustice. Many of the temperance
leaders of the state favor the change.
Mr.. Shankland, as an ardent champion
of woman's voting, should be credited
with proposing the most drastic crimp
for the saloon that anybody has pro-
posed il his attitude is to be deter
mined in roundabout way.
The secret ballot has been develop.
ed out of hundreds of years Of Anglo
Saxon experience with taking the pub.
lie judgment, and it cannot be i'm
peached today as calculated to aid OF
lnjure any cause without impeachine
our whole system of government.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-10-15
Proposed Measure Mean. Less Judge,

If the workingmen's compensation
act proposed by the employers liabil.
ity commission is passed by the state
legislature Iowa will have more judges
than she has need for, in the opinion
of George Cosson, attorney general.
Much OF the time of the district
courts of the state is taken up with.
settling disputes over damages for in.
juries sustained by employees. These
taken from the courts will lessen their
business notably.
"A change in our court procedure
also would be method Of cutting
d:.Nr. the number OF judges" Mr.. Cos.
son said. Little technicalities are
responsible for too many retrials. An,
other thing that causes trouble is the
belief that our penal institutions are
torture chambers. If juries knew that
the family of thc man OH trial would
be taken care of properly there would
be more convictions and necessarily
fewer trials
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-10-15
Iowa Agricultural College.

Iowa Agricultural College.
A new horticultural laboratory with
accommodations for several times the
number of students that the present
buildings hold, new poultry labora.
tory to follow in line with the reor.
ganization OF that department and
miniature packing house where the
students of animal husbandry may re-
ceive practical instruction in slaught'
ering cattle, are some of the things
that Dean Curtiss, head of the agri.
cultural department of Iowa State
college, will ask of the state board of
education when it meets in Cedar
Rapids. The enormous enrolment
this year has taxed every laboratory
and class room to the limit. While
the three buildings mentioned are
the ones for which there is the great.
est need at present, there is not a
single one of the forty buildings which
can even make q pretense of accom-.
modating very many moro students.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-10-15
CANADA AND U. S. PRICES.
Protective Tariff No Benefit to our
Farmers and Workingmen.

Rolla, N. D., Sept 2.-To the Edi-
tor of the World Herald: With the
very large wheat yield this year in
North Dakota, South Dakota and Can
ada, there never has been more
favorable time to compare the prices
paid:for wheat in the United States and
Canada than now.
Grand FORKS, N. D., is one of the
two principal cities in North Dakota.
1t is about 1876 miles south of Winni-
peg, Canada.
quote the wheat market from the
Daily Grand Forks Times of August q,
1912, and inclose the market page Of
this paper for your inspection. The
markets are substantially the same now
as on August 20, 1912.
Wheat market August 20, 1912:
Cash wheat, Minneapolis, MIMI, Csc,
Cash wheat Duluth, Mimi, Sec.
Cash wheat, Grand Forks, N. D., 96c
Cash wheat, Winnipeg, Can, $1O6.
To import wheat from Canada into
the United States, it is necessary to
day tariff tax of Is cents per bushel,
and our farmers have been asked to
believe that the tariff has protected
them against Canadian wheat. With
good crops in both countries, wheat
can never be shipped from Canada in
to the United States, emitting the tar
if entirely, without loss to the shipper.
On the present market, if wheat
could come into the United States from
Canada without any tariff tax, the man
who would try to ship wheat from
Winnipeg (the greatest wheat market
in Canada) to Grand Forks, N. D.,
would lose about 26 cents per bushel.
Allowing wheat to come in from Can
ada free, no one can ship wheat from
Winnipeg to Minneapolis or Duluth,
including shipping charges, without a
loss OF about 20 cents per bushel.
The eastern manufacturer wants the
farmer to believe that he gets more for
his grain on.account of the tariff, 80 that
the farmer will be willing to pay about
two prices for the manufactured ar
ticles he buys. The truth is, the farm.
er is paying more for what he buys.
without getting any more for what he
sells. than as though there had been no
tariff on wheat and corn.
In Canada SIG will buy as good suit
of clothing, as good an overcoat, as
good dress or as good a woman's coat
as $50 will buy in the United States.
Counting wheat at 81 per bushel in
both countries, and clothing of the
same quality, in trading wheat for
clothing you have this result:
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-10-15
THE BEEF: QUESTION.
Ames Expert Says Cattle Industry Is
Shifting To The Corn Belt
WILL MEAN MORE STABLE PRICES
Present Conditions Abnormal-Result
Will Be the Transfer From
Cheap Grazing Lands Of
West to This Section.

Des Moines.-Although prime beef
steers are quoted as high as $11 on
the Chicago market, although choice
porterhouse steak sells for 40 cents
pound in Des Moines, and although
from one end of the country to the
other the supply of beef cattle Is
short, Dean Curtiss of the Iowa state
college of agriculture, sees nothing
alarming in the situation. On the
contrary he declares that it is en-
couraging. That is little surprising
when those who are worrying about
the high cost of living are especially
frightened by the excessive high price
of meats, but Dean Curtiss ought to
know for he has been student Of
beef production for twenty years or
more.
According to Dean Curtiss, the ex.
traordinary beef cattle situation of the
present time has not grown up sud.
denly. 1t has been dveloping for
period of five to ten years. A mum.
Der of causes have conspired to cur.
tail beef production, he says. There
has been a gradual but constant
liquidation of large holdings Of the
range. Government projects have
put large areas under irrigation. Dry
farming and the siren song of the
land agent and colony promoter have
forced the cattle men off of large
tracts, some Of which might have been
retained for grazing purposes. The
supply of feeders coming from the
range to the corn belt is no longer in
sight. For ten years past there has
been marked tendency to put pas
lures under the pillow and curtail graz.
ing and feeding operations in regions
that formerly produced beef and pork.
During this time the dairy COW has
gradually extended her domain. To q
large extent beef producing operations
changed gradually to process of fin.
lshing beef grown on the range This
was followed by tendency to go out
Of the beef finishing business alto.
gether on account of unsatisfactory
prices and market conditions, and the
attractive prevailing prices for grains
and dairy products. Last years short
corn and hay crops, coupled with alb
normally high prices for these prod
ucts, reduced feeding operations to
minimum. High priced corn always
curtails beef production. The condi-
ton was still further accumulated by
the general drought conditions that
prevailed in 1911, forcing the prema-
ture marketing of stock. The season
Of 1911 merely brought about the Gull
mination of influences affecting the
beef situation that had been in opera
ton for period of five to ten years.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-10-15
Iowa Must Raise Cattle.

iowa Must RAISE Cattle.
The shortage in feeders and the
present high price of cattle call forth
from an expert tho following state
ment. The situation is not alarming,
but it is encouraging for these rea.
sons. 1t means that beef production
will be shifted from the cheap graz
ing lands of the west to the corn belt.
1t will undoubtedly result in more sta
BILE prices on more profitable basis.
The farmers of the corn belt will feel
warranted in making beef cattle feed
Ing permanent part of their farm.
Ing operations. 1t will mean better
agriculture-a system of farming bet
ted calculated to maiptain high priced
land. The farmer who raises good
cattle will have the assurance Of .
good market, whether he sells them
Is feeders or finishes them for the
block. Beef raising that has been
going out of the corn belt because It
was not profitable will come back be-
cause it is profitable. and that will
benefit both consumer and producer.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-10-15
State Loses Damage Suit.

The attempt of the state to acquire
additional territory for the Iowa stats
fair grounds was the cause of dam.
age suit, which resulted this week
in verdict against the state in the
amount of $4,000. Eva Brown and
children brought suit following the
condemnation of their property, alleg
ing that the condemnation had been
unfair and unjust, and that not an
equitable valuation was placed upon
the property when acquired by the
state. After several days trial the
fury agreed to give the family $4,000
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-10-15

Total. ....... 100 bu. wheat
Who gets the extra fifty-six bushels
of wheat that the farmer in the United
States pays for his four garments
1t IS the local merchant? No
1t is the factory laborer? No. H e
gets an average of less than 81. 40 per
day.
1t is the manufacturer of the cloth
and the manufacturer of the clothing
who get the extra fifty six bushels of
wheat on account of the tariff. The
farmer gets no more for his horses.
cattle, hogs, wheat or corn than he
would if there were no tariff on those
products of the farm. To-day a good
span of horses is worth 500 more in
Canada than in the United States.
Wages are higher in Winnipeg than
in Minneapolis, but for comparison we
will call them the same-common labor
So per day in either city. In Canada
the laborer will buy much better suit
of clothing for SIP than he can get in
the United States for $l8.
In the two countries, in trading labor
for clothing, we have this result:
In Canada
One suit of clothing, days work. .sl2
One overcoat, days work 49,. .$l2
In the United States
One suit of clothing, days work. .$ls
One overcoat, 6 days work. .....$l8
Wages are much higher in Canada
than in the United States and there is
q large demand for labor.
Section men, who work on the rail-
roads in Canada, are paid $40 per
day.
A resident of Saskatoon, Can a
place of $1,000 to 10000 people. told
your correspondent that the following
wages are paid there:
Carpenters. .55 cents per hour
Brick masons. $50. .65 cents per hour
Plasterers -. 20 cents per hour
From all this one must conclude that
the so-calIed protective tariff does not
give higher prices to the farmer or the
laborer in the United States. but that
it makes both pay more for living sup
plies.
This tariff puts the robber in the
home, where he takes about IS per
cent. more than fair price out of
every dollar spent for domestic sup.
plies. 1t is not protective, but
rather destructive tariff. George T.
pol.a. -, Ounnha Morld Ho.aA
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-10-15
Railroads Getting Even.

nevVo~oo 0S&SVv8 @vSu
The railroads of the state have filed
notice with the state railway commits.
sion that they intend to discontinue
the reduced rate on returned articles
which has been in effect for number
Of years.
The railroads are basing their &C.
ton on the ruling of the interstate
commerce commission, which some
time ago upheld the railroads in an
application for the right to discontinue
the rate as it applied to interstate
rates.
For years the railroads have charg.
ed only half the rate on agricultural
implements, vehicles and large list
Of articles which were returned to
factories for repairs. Farmers took
advantage Of these rates to send their
implements back to the factories for
repairs, and the revocation of this
rate will affect every farmer in the
state, as we'll as every machine man
and implement dealer.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-10-15
state College Want. Packing Hou.

The course in animal husbandry
taught at Ames is generally conceded
to be probably the best in the world
In order to still further improve the
course, however, Dean Curtiss is very
DESTROYS of establishing a slaughter
ing house on small scale at the col
lege. At present the students have
only very limited opportunity of do
ing practical work on the block
Should the innovation asked for bt
secured, however, graduates iron
Ames will be fully prepared to ente'
actual work At onn.,.
La Junta tribune., 1912-08-17
John A. Murphy. Postmaster.

John A. Murphy received his com.
mixston ss postmaster Monday and
was checked into hte office the first
Of tho week. Dan Malloy who has
been holding the position since the
dHath Of Mr.. Teagu, on rccommenda.
lion OF the lattcr's bondsmcn. grace
fully retired. Mr.. Mailoy thought he
had the office cinched when a meet
Ing cf number Of Republicans endors
I'd him. but the Taft men felt there
lad becn some sort OF a double-crosx
game worked and the fact tina, Mr..
MaIIoy seemed To be altogether
TOO close 10 the Teddites did not
make . hit with the powers that be
In the Republican party In this state
aud In consequence Senator Guggen.
heim recommended Mr.. Murphy whose
81 sodpat Republicanism Is without n
scratch or mar.-I.as Animas Demo
crat.
La Junta tribune., 1912-08-17
sl.s 0sI,.ss Al the Way to Denver.

rhe Santa Fe railroad has let the
cpntract to Thomas Mishou. OF Pueb.
10 for widening the cuts and .mbank.
m"nts on the Santa r. between Pu.
ehlo and Denver preparatory To rcbal.
lastinG the track and laying new ties
and heavier steel. The strip Of road.
way between Denver and Pueblo
Which In not as yet Stag ballasicd
Is the section bcwteen Colorado
springs and Castle Rock and II Is
h"re that the work will be done.
rhis week gang Of 200 ballast
men and trackm.n WAS transferred
from the Ia Jun,a division. the work
Of slax bAllasting between this city
aud Pueblo having been completed. TO
the section between Colorado Springs
and Castle Rock and the ballast
'rains will b. put on that division.
Tho rails now In use are cixhty.five
pound rails and they will be replaced
with niarty pound rails made NJ the
steel plant In Pueblo. The ties viii
be- creosots treated and will be equip.
ped With the steel plates to prevent
scsrtng a the rails. The ballast will
be taken from the Stag dumps at the
Pueblo am~lters and there viii be-
- he'd oe fifteen 10 eighteen inches
OF ballast laid over the present road.
bed.
The WORK will cost the Santa r-
about $1,000 for each mile bu. when
comp1stsd II win be permanent and
there Will b. little cost for main.
tenance. When this strip Ia com.
plcte6 the Santa Fe will have = solid
alag ballastsd track with ninety
ponpl rails between La Jupta and
pcnvef and the new track will be- ~
pcreeee - nsolsrn railroad building
scisaeo - maize II.
La Junta tribune., 1912-08-17
esve tn Day Adventist Camp Meeting

Seventh Day Advcutists OF this city
Boulder Denver, Pueblo, Greeley Col
orado Springs. Loveland. Longmon,.
Alamosa and other places in the
stat will attend the annual camp
meeting Of the Colorado conference
OF that donomiu alton. which will be
held at Rocky Mountain Lake Park.
August 18th TO 25th
About 100 tents for living purposes
will be pitched. and 1t is expected
thai there will bc daily attendance
OF AT least 1000. Forty-one churches
will be represented by l37 delegates
In the businses sessions. and ther.
~ also be additional dciegat'
n ns ~ workers IN the conference
La Junta tribune., 1912-08-17
Sugar city's Telephone Exchange.

The old order OF things has pass
ed, and Sugar City has come in.
10 her own, with one OF the very
newest and very best telephone ex-
changes, and no one to say yea, yea.
or nay, nay. II is all our own. and
boasts a corps Of as handsome and
efficient phone girls as any city twice
Its size
l.. p. Whittinphill. OF La Junta,
and force Of men have been at work
for the past thirty days and has in
stalled a complete new exchange. set
the poles and strung ten miles OF
wire TO adjacent ranches and our ex,
change now accommodates ninety salts.
fled and elated patrons with more
to come.
La Junta tribune., 1912-08-17
REMINISCENT
oa1lD mn MDlpC
ms q
WETt MA&A AGO

4. Alvord an,oune esi himself M n
candidate for county Judge.
J. W. HershperEer opened n new
grocery store In the Woodruff block.
Geo. W. Perkins was In town. Won.
der II he was trying to buy votes for
Roosevelt!
h. N. spaldinE aud Miss Jennie
Walsh were married In Denver tween.
~ years ago today.
W. q. Houston and Miss Bell. See
ley. both Of Ia Junta. were married
In Salt Lake City. August I3. 1919.
Tom Patterson was the chief clown
and rinEmAster In the political arena
twenty years ago Just ss he II today.
Russians were dying OF cholera a,
the rate Of 5000 per day. What has
become of the annual cholera and yel,
low fever ~pidemics,
There WAS = call out for n Rcpub.
Iican primary In otero county for Au,
ust 9th. There were only nine pre-
ctncts In the entire county.
n. u. Spaiding went To Denver To
be gone several days. combining bust.
ness with pleasure. said the Tribune
In this instanc" b. got married.
Bloody Bridics Waite. the grca,
reform candidate for governor. was
announced ~ the leading attraction
II . political meeting a. la Junts.
A constitutional amendment provid.
Ing that the rate Of taxation on
property for state purposes shall nev.
~ exceed four mills on each dollar
of valuation" was 10 b. voted upon
1t the election In November. 1899.
The Tribune observed: For the
benefit Of the people We wish To an.
nounce there Was no council meet.
Ing Monday night. "Bcnrsit u the
people" 10 good In this instance. and
would apply with equal force these
days.
La Junta tribune., 1912-08-17
Bull Moosers Have Strange Ways

The Progressive party national con-
Sehuon sang Onward Christian
Soldier the Battle Hymn of the
Kepublic' and Praise God From
Whom All blessings Flow" and was
nhaliy dismissed with the benedic-
ton. Aud that was only part OF
the proceedings to prove that the new
parry lacks the leadership OF ''prac-
ucal oliticians.-kansas City Star
La Junta tribune., 1912-08-17
s~sr Pound s.ssr sss..

o. A. Smith. living out Ncwdsie
way. brought In . cn.pound sugar
6cst this week. There seems to h.
more big beets thIs ysar than ever
eeeofe. and with six more weeks Of
srow'ns time ahead. the record IL
likely 70 be astonishins. .--Swink Ad.
vocats.
La Junta tribune., 1912-08-17
Go to He's~ Ring for II

Inc Craig Empire remarks that Hell.
eeh hing Robinson has her hat in the
ring for political office and that
those seeking information as to her
platform can so to Helen Ring for It.
La Junta tribune., 1912-08-17
Pretty Good Wheat Crop.

y check for $500 was given
meade county farmer the other day
eor the wheat he raised on 400 acres
and he still has 200 acres that has
hot been sold. Pretty good, don't
you think for western Kansas far
mer?
La Junta tribune., 1912-08-17
WHAT WE STAND FOR.

We stand for a nobler Am
erica. We star d for an undi.
vided nation. We stand for a
broader liberty. a fuller Jus.
tice. We stand for social bro.
iherhood as against savage
indiyidualism. We stand for
an inte lieent cooperation In.
stead Of reckless competition.
We stand for mutual helpful
ness instead OF mutual hatred.
We stand for equal rights as
a fac, OF life instead OF a
catchword of politics. We
stand for the rule OF the peo-
pie as a practical truth in
stead OF aningless pre-
,erse. We stand for "A repre-.
sentative government that rep
rcSenis the people. We battle
for the actual rights OF man.
La Junta tribune., 1912-08-17
SATURDAY. AUGUST II, 1912

Roosevelt and Johnson.
New York and California.
Hands across the continent.
For their Is neither east nor
west. border, nor breed, nor
birth,
When two strorg men stand
face TO face.
Though they come from the
ends OF the earth.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-06-18
STOCK MARKET
is QUITE DULL
Smallest Volume Of Operations on
Monday That Has Been Re-
corded In the Year.

NEW YORK. June 1.-THE one no.
table feature OF to-day's stock market
was the fact that It marked almost
the smallest volume OF operations
thus far in the current year.
Politics formed the one absorbing
topic and news from Chicago was
awaited eagerly. Veteran observers
opinioned that the market is likely to
continue in a virtual deadlock until
after the conventions.
Crop news was more favorable by
reason OF needed rains in certain Sec
tons and Western railway officials
submitted their usual weekly state
ments relative 10 freight movements.
These were encouraging in the main.
Prices OF stocks at the opening here
vera irregular, with some weakness
In Canadian Pacific on the heavy tone
OF that stock abroad. Later. the gen.
eral list hardened IN pronounced man
ner towards the end OF the day. by
which time Canadian Pacific had re.
covered the greater part OF It's de-
cline. Reading was the strongest OF
the speculative favorites. with late
underlying strength in Union Pacific
and United States Steel. Final Zeal
ings were attended by moderate ar
tivity. which contributed to a steady
close.
There were two dividend announce.
ments OF passing interest. one that
the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Tad resumed payment on preferred
shares. and an increase in the quar-.
terly disbursements by one OF the
Montana copper companies.
The only feature OF note IN the
bond market was an advance Of two
points in Wabash refunding As. Prices
elsewhere inclined to i~rregularitv.
Total transactions. par value, 81,
O99. 900.
United States government bonds
were UNCHANGED on call.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-06-18
WELLSBURG
Memorial Service.

Two lodges OF this city held mem
orial services Sunday. The nrst was
held by the Knishts Of Pythias at the
Palace theatre at , O'Clock. 4 lengthy
program has been prepared for this
service which was followed. The
music was furnished by the Uniform
Rank band. The annual address was
delivered by Hon. John p. Arb4ntz. OF
wheeling. Grand Master Arms OF
the Grand Lodge of West Virginia.
About I25 Knights We're In attendance
at the memorial service.
The other service was that of the
knikhts Of the Aaccabees held at the
Presbyterian church. at 7:fs O'Clock.
the annual sermon beling delivered by
Rev. ". J Holmes. pastor. OF the
church. About 100 Maccabecs we're
In attendance and a most impressive
service was held.