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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10
EIGHT KILLED IN OHIO WRECK
SEvEN OTHERS INJURED u
CRASH ON PENNSYLVANIA.
Rear End Collision Near Dresden
Comes When Engine of Train
Breaks Down.

GAINESVILLE. Ohio. Dec Eight per-
sons were killed and seven injured,
Bome probably fatally. in a Pennsyl-
vania railroad wreck near Dresden,
Ohio. Three Of the dead are Mrs. B.
A. Emerson and two small children,
Of GAINESVILLE. Mrs. Emerson's father.
Jacob Burgy, 81, of this city, was on
the train and is among the probably
fatally injured. Mrs. Emerson was
%, her little son two years and her
laughter three years of age.
The rest to meet death are: Henry
Balbiou, Cleveland manufacturer;
Max Harris, Lodi, Ohio, a travelling
salesman; L. H. Blaney, GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, a brakeman; and Henry Bartles
Of Albian. Michigan.
A Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley
passenger train was following Cleve-
land, Akron & Columbus division pas
senger on the single track between
Trinway and GAINESVILLE. The engine
Of the latter broke down and a train
man was sent to flag the Cincinnati &
Muskingum Valley train, but it was
TOO close.
The engine ploughed through the
rear coach. The dead and injured
we're all in this coach.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10
TH0U6HT HIMSELF INVISIBLE
cHIcAGoAN SWINDLED az CON.
JURER ROUGHLY HANDLED
Another, Also "lnvisihle,' Hurt BY
Auto, Does Not Blame the
Chauffeur.

Chicago, Dec. 2. George A. Pu.
pausky, a banker.conjurer, recently
released from the house of correction
where he was sent by Judge Lands
to serve six months sentence for
selling invisibility ointments and love
charms, has been arrested again. Pu-
pausky sold Anton Lokoritz, a fellow
countryman, black cats ear to make
him invisible. Lokoritz gladly paid
s25 for the charm and put the ear,
according to directions, in his left
waist coat pocket.
Confident in his invisibility Lokor-
tz then entered saloon with the pro-
prietor of which he was not on friend
ly terms. He stepped behind the bar
and began to help himself to bottled
goods. The bartender Immediately
fell on Lokoritz and hustled him into
the street.
"Why, you can't see me. How did
you know l was there?" exclaimed Lo-
koritz in bewilderment.
81 saw you all right Keep out Of
here admonished the bartender.
Lokoritz went to Pupausky's house,
thinking something must be amiss.
He did not see the conjuror but was
met by woman who heard his com.
plant.
The trouble is," she said, that you
should have had a magic bean. The
cats ear is no good without the bean"
Lokoritz bought bean and returned
to the saloon. No one noticed him and
he thought this time he had the right
magic. He went behind the bar again
out was deserted without difficulty by
the bartender, who elected Lokoritz
more theoretically than before so that
he had several bruises to show the po-
lice when he made his complaint.
Another man bought black cats
ear and was run over soon after by an.
automobile. The man did not make a
complaint. his friends said because he
was invisible and could not blame the
chauffeur for not seeing him.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10
CITY WATER PROJECT.
Shows Of Mt. chasta May Become the
Supply Of San Francisco
Cost Nominal.

Redding. Cal, Dec. 1.-The SHOWS OF
Mt. Shasta, 300 miles from San Fran.
cisco as the crow flies, may become
that citys' water supply as the result
of the refusal of Secretary of the In.
terror Fisher to turn over the Hetch.
Hetchey valley as reservoir for the
purpose.
Leon E. Hunt, assistant chief en-.
gineer Of San Francisco, has arrived
here and with nine other civil engi-
neers went in automobiles to Baird, a
town on the McClond river, where all
began surveying and measuring the
flow OF water.
The McCloud rises on the slope Of
Shasta. and after Joining. the Pitt riy.
err, flows into the Sacramento.
Advocates of the McCloud river pro.
ject say that it could be put through
for less than $20,oOO,00o, the sum vot.
ed by Los Angeles for the construc.
ton of the Owens river aqueduct,
which is intended to supply water to
that city.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10
Army Partisans Are Loyal.

West Point, N. Y, Dec. 2.-The de
feated Army football team arrived
home and Notwithstanding the play
ers' detection over the loss of Satur
days game to the Navy, the cadets
generally were enthusiastic over thu
teams work. Five hundred Of them
headed by band, were at the station
to meet the team and gave it a rous
ing cheer. Headed by Devore, thei,
captain, the players walked quietl!
to their quarters. They were all IL
splendid physical condition.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10

Thomas Sterling, the newly chosen
senator from South Dakota, Is law
yer and lives In vermIIion. He was
born In Ohio and admitted to the bar
In Illinois. He went to Dakota when
Il was territory and was member
Of the constitutional convention Of
the state. He has been member Of
the legislature, but has held no other
public Office
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10
Good Grounds for Defense.

ICCO 0TOUH0O tOT 0SiSuoes
Floyd Jacobs, assistant prosecuting
attorney, tells this story upon a not
altogether obscure member OF the
Jackson county bar:
THE lawyer In question had been
retained to defend a man charged
with assault to KILL" said Mr.. Ja-
cobs. Il looked into the facts care.
fully and, being convinced that tho
man was guilty and could easily be
convicted, I suggested to the lawyer
that he plead guilty, throw himself
upon the mercy Of the court and save
the state the expense Of prosecuting
him.
"I couldn't think Of it-couldn'e
think of it at all-quite absurd, pre-
posterous-monstr Of the states
attorney to suggest such thing, ex-
ploded the attorney for the defense.
"'Your case hasn't a leg to stand Oh
hasn't the shadow of a Defense /
protested.
eve have two excellent grounds,
sir-two excellent defenses, either one
of which will acquit my client
"What are they?'
''An alibi and self-defense, sir!'"-
Kansas City Journal
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10
Student Editors Have Say.

Chicago, ILL.,, Dec. 5.-One more in.
depreciation of the situation existing
between the University of Michigan
and the big Nine" was projected
Into the conference scene with the
publication of the resolutions adopted
BY the student editors of the daily
papers of Michigan, Chicago. Wiscon.
sin, Minnesota, North Western and
illinois. The undergraduates Journal
lists take direct issue with the confer.
ence faculty representatives declar.
Ing the training table to be the only
stumbling block to the resumption Of
relations with Michigan.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10
Primary Proposal Adopted.

Helena, Mont. Dec. 5.-Canvass Of
the vote on initiative measures voted
upon in the November elections, shows
that the proposal for direct primary
law was adopted by majority of 3d.
b5S. The measure limiting campaign
expenditures to Is per cent of the
salary for one year of the Office to
which candidates aspire and that for
the direct election of United States
senators were also carried. The vote
oh a proposal for preferential vote
stood 1924 for and 12,143 against.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10
Want. To Question Kramer.

New York, Dec. 5.-When District
Attorney Charles s. Whitman heard
Of the capture Of Samuel Kramer in
Chicago. he said the most important
point upon which the authorities here
would like to question Kramer, was
whether he was aided in his escape
from the house Of detention during
the ecke;-Rosenthal trials while he
was being held as witness The dis.
trict attorney said there was no in
dictment standing against Kramer.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10
The Skin and Not the Blood.

The Skin and Not the Blood.
Until recently it has been "a gener-
ally accepted theory the eczema was a
disease of the BLOOD Scientific investi-
CATION have taught US that eczema is
positively skin disease and durable
through the skin lone. Meritol Ecze-
ma Remedy is applied directly to the
diseased skin, the effect is marvellous
and its results permanent. Do not de
lay trying Meritol Eczema Remedy.
For sale by Fred Lowry.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10
McGraw May Be President.

New York, Dec. 5.-John McGraw
may be real baseball magnate before
the championship season OF 1918
opens. 1t is reported that McGraw, in
addition to his duties as manager Of
the New York Nationals is likely to
be elected president Of the New York
club to succeed the late John T. Brush.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10
To Urge Better Waterways.

Washington. Dec. 6.-Delegates are
gathered here in large numbers from
all parts Of the country to attend
opening sessions Of the ninth annual
convention of the National Rivers and
Harbors congress. An interesting pro.
gram has been prepared and men Of
prominence both in this country and
Canada will urge upon congress the
necessity Of adequate appropriation
for improvements Of the nations
waterways. President Taft will speak.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10
Fixing the Blam..

Fixing the Blame.
The car had nearly slid over the
embankment.
"Heavens!" cried Slithers. Il
thought you said this car wouldn't
skid?"
$50 I did," said the demonstration.
well, what did you call that" de-
manded Slithers.
ooh, that" said the demonstration.
"Why, that wasn't the car; it was the
road-the road Is very slippery this
morning.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10

Cresco. Iowa, Nov. Goth. 1912.
w. l.. Barker, Attorney.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10
A Full Stop.

A Full Stop.
The chauffeur was toiling laborious-
~ over the tire.
"Well, Tommy" said the invited
guest. II guess we're likely to stay
here for an hour or two"
Il guess &c." said Tommy. 1T takes
our shutter a long time to fix up .
punctuated tire."-Judge.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.
Estate of Margaret McHugh, Deceased.

Estate OF Margaret McHugh, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given, That the subscribers
have been duly appointed Executors to the
Estate OF Margaret McHugh late of Cresco,
in the county of Howard, State of Iowa, de-
ceases. interstate, and have taken upon them
selves tAat trust as the law directs
All persons having demands upon
the estate OF said deceased are required to
exhibit the same; and persons indebted to the
said Estate are called upon to make pay
ment to
ORNINEJ j. McHUGH,
JOHN L. McHUGH,
Executors,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-12-10
Company quito rheater.

Company Quits Theater.
Cleveland. O.-Because the Colonial
theater management refused to d.
vide the receipts for Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday. Marie Cahill and her
company quit.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY.

If the legislature does what every
body assumes it will do, passes q
presidential preference primary cleo.
ton law, will it adopt statewide
plurality as the basis OF representa-.
ton in the national convention, OF
will it hold to the longtime rule Of
republican conventions, district rep
resentation?-Des Moines Tribune.
The farther we get away from
some of the longtime rules OF re-
publican conventions the better of
we will be. What caused the trouble
In the California contests in the ma
tional republican convention last
June was the action Of the national
committee In overriding state law
merely because that law was con-
trary to the CUSTOM Of the COM
mittee.
The plan of choosing delegates by
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03
WILL HIT THE ROCKS.

On the fourth of next March the
democratic party will hit the rocks
of discord. The reactionary element
in the party is not going to surren-
der meekly and the disintegration
of the party will begin just as the
disintegration Of the republican par
ty began upon the day that Taft was
inaugurated. Taft was not strong
enough to hold the party together as
Roosevelt had done and at the very
first congressional election republic
canism encountered a stunning de-
feat. That President Wilson will be
up against the same thing is dem
onstrated by the following from the
New York Sun, one of the most in
fluential organs Of special privilege
in the United States:
The deadly influence Of Bryan and
Organism upon democratic fortunes
and usefulness ends with the inaug-
uration OF President Wilson-if
President Wilson so Wills.
The best wish that the Sun can
express for the. president-elect, a
comparatiyely untried man facing
an unparalleled opportunity. is that
he may seize upon the windpipe OF
Organism at the very start, and with
all the strength that the sinews Of
his long. lean fingers possess. throt-
tie that persistent and fatal thing
into eternal silence.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

the entire vote of the state appears
the better policy. Elections are un- u
der that plan. The candidate who
gets the most votes in Iowa has the
electors from the Tenth COMPRESSION
al district whether he carries the
district or not. BY insisting upon
the district plan it will make it cas-
Ter for the democratic party to re-
sort to what was known a few. years
ago as the Michigan plan. The
democrats secured control of the leg
islature and passed law making
the congressional district rather
than the state the unit. Under that
| law the democrats would have gain
ed few electoral votes, as several
Michigan districts were democratic.
| OF course the democratic party did
not enact such laws in democratic
states, as that would give the repub-
licans a fair chance to win in those
states what they lost where states
had been "Michiganized."
BY all means let Iowa pass pres
idential preference primary law ana
make the state the unit, giving the
| candidate who gets the most votes
the entire delegation and fix 1t in
such manner that the winner viii
have more than the perfunctory sup
port of the delegation. Let him
name them or at least acquiesce IN
the personnel of the delegation:
Roosevelt carried Illinois by a tre-.
menduous majority at the primaries
last spring, as he did Oregon, but
some of the delegates from those
states betrayed him and by joining
with other instructed Roosevelt deli
egates made it possible for the Bar
neses land the McKinleys 70
thwart the expressed will OF the re-
publican voters of the country. Such
possible situations should be guard
ed against. Had Roosevelt had any
/ thing to say of the personnel OF the
delegates elected at the primaries IN
the states he carried, forty-eight Of
his instructed delegates would not
have joined the opposition and as
sisted in the theft Of the national
4 convention. The best way for law
1 to be framed is the way that makes
i it easy for men to be honest ana
hard to be dishonest. A delegate who
disregards the instructions OF the
people whom he is given commits
sion to represent Is just as dispicabbe
as the representative in congress
who sells out to Standard OH for e
price or to the administration IN
the hope of receiving fayors.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

With no political advantage to be
gained by knocking him, 1t is ex-
pected that progressive press and
public will not be long in admitting
that Uncle Joe Cannon Is a pretty
good old scout.-Sioux City Journal.
Why, of course, We have been
taught to speak respectfully and
charitably of the dead.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

Down in Kansas the men who vot-
ed the progressive ticket are all go
ing into an organization pledging
themselves to do 1t again.--Council
Bluffs Nonpareil.
A voter who pledges BIS vote two
years in advance of an election Is a
chump. No telling what might hap
pen in that time. He may want to
support the other ticket then.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

1.-THE Terrible Turk is terrible
only when warning upon defenseless
women and children. When he is
confronted by virile men Of the Bull
garian, Greecian or Servian army he
goes down like the ordinary barn
yard fowl on the eve Of Thanksgiv-
ing.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

When business and professional
men are confronted with saloon
consent petition and an anti-saloon
consent petition they invariably
wish that the Shankland bill were
the law of the state. 1t would re-
lieve many people of much embar-
rassment. They are now having a
siege of it in Waterloo.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

No matter whether we are in dan
ger of war with any foreign nation
or not, the coast defenses of the
United States ought to be as good as
the best. We have the resources and
the wealth, then what's the use OF
taking a back seat? We like the
Roosevelt way, in this respect.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

land that had been lost through the
inefficient handling Of the school
land grants. He has also recovered
for the state millions of dollars
worth of water rights wrongfully
held by non-users. Mr.. CLAWS likes
his work and now has a free hand
to aid the people of his state, as he
has at his back Hiram w. Johnson
instead of William Howard Taft.
William Barnes, Jr., chairman OF
the republican state committee, call
ed on the president at the home of
Henry w. Taft, No. sc West Forty
eighth street, in the afternoon. Mr..
Barnes said later they had discussed
the general political situation and
ideas that have been suggested for
the reorganization of the republican
party. He said he was very sure
that the president would lend what
aid he could to that end.-New York
Herald
And where were Guggenheim and
Smoot and Penrose? And WASH
Cannon at that conference? The
name of John D. Archbold Is also
lacking. Then there is Mckinley.
He ought to be in on anything that
Barnes is going to reform. Crane
would also be a valuable adviser.
And is Ballinger to be forgotten by
these re-organizers?
Pass a presidential preference
primary law and there will be no
need of limiting presidents to one
term. If the people want man to
serve two or three or four terms
they ought to have that right. The
great fight for national railroad reg
ulation would not have been won
had Roosevelt held the Office only
one term. There will be no trouble
1 in getting rid of an incompetent
president at the end of his first term
If the people are given the power to
pnminafa Jf we ara to continue in
| allowing the bosses to make the
nominations we ought to reduce the
tenure to one year and make 1t inn
possible for the president to succeed
himself. But if we are going to
have a government of, by and for
the people let the people re-elect a
president just as often as they want
to.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

The thing that made Milwaukee
famous fiim-flammed woman suffer
age in Wisconsin to fragile.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

DR.. Cook, it has finally leaked out,
voted for Wilson, but Wilson is not
to blame for that.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

Colonel Roosevelt is demonstrate
ing that he can keep still under GER
tain circumstances.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

An honest confession is always
appreciated. A Chicago paper ad-
mits that Chicago Is the dirtiest city
in the world.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

There is no trouble in distinguish
Ing a good trust from bad trust. A
good trust is one in which you have
stock or other interests. The bad
trust is the one in which the other
fellow has his money.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

John D. Rockefeller is Sunday
school teacher and one of the mild
est hammered men who ever ground
the faces of the poor or put wild
owed mother out of business.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

If, as it is claimed, it cost So
900, 900 to elect Mckinley president
in 1896 it was a genuine bargain.
The election of Mckinley knocked
one of the Bryan theories into a
cooked hat, as Prof. Wilson would
put it.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

When you discover man who has
something to sell and thinks the
market price is too high please rev
port his name to this Office. The peo-
Die of Hamilton county would like
to look him over.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

To be strong hand in the dark
to another in the time Of need. to b
cup OF strength to human soul
in a crisis OF weakness, Is to know
the glory OF life.-Huge Black.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

When President Wilson has that
extra session of congress on his
hands he'll wish he hadn't called 1t
together. An extra session was the
beginning of the humiliating down
fall of one, William Howard Taft.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

America ran the bicycle fad to
death. Will she do likewise with
the automobile fad. 1t is safe to pre-
dict she will not. 1t took hard work
to propel the bicycle. The automo-
bile is propelled without the exer-
lions of the driver. That makes all
the difference in the world.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

Every noble acquisition IL attend-
ed with its risks. and he who fears
to encounter the one must not ex-
pect to obtain the other.--Metastas-
ito.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

In the book of poetry are 500
odes. but the design OF them all may
be embraced in one sentence--havs
no depraved thoughts.-Confucius.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-03

Some one got off a Joke" in
Ames the other night that was no
joke at all. Such things might lead
to serious consequences and should
be condemned A straw man was
placed in the street, lying prone up
on the ground, put there to fool
some automobile drivers. 1t worked
all right and two young men were
scared half to death by it. They
were driving an automobile up the
street when they saw. something in
the road, but thought at first 1t was
only a mud puddle and paid little
heed to 1t. But when nearly upon
it, and when too late to avoid pass
ing over it, they discovered it to be
a man. They tried to stop, but
could not and were Mortified to
think they had probably killed or
seriously injured some unfortunate.
That they were young men OF con-
science is proven by the fact that
they stopped the car as soon as they
could and returned to ascertain the
damage done, when they rejoiced to