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The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
TODAY IN THE LEGISLATURE
BILL TO ALLOW sTEP.cHILpREN
| TO INHERIT WITHOUT TAX.
Indications Are That Senate Commit.
tee viii Report Favorably On
Anti.lntermarriage Bill.

Des Moines, Feb. 5.-The house ju.
dietary committee has agreed upon
the bill by Grout of Waterloo to al.
low step-children to inherit fortunes
without paying the collateral inherit
ance tax.
A public hearing will be held Fri
day before the senate committee on
schools on the Cowles bill to pension
teachers.
Negro lawyers were on hand to
fight the anti-white and black inter-
marriage bill but the indications are
that the senate committee will report
1t favorably. Twenty-three states
have passed the bill and members of
the legislature fear unless Iowa
passes 1t the state win become the
center of mixed families from the
South. ..
Representative Kulp has a bill to
force auto dealers to report every
sale promptly to the Secretary Of
State, which would prevent purchas-
ers running their cars under dealers
license for months as Is done now.
The senate committee on agricul-
ture will favorably report a bill to re-
ward farmers whose animals are kill
ed by orders of state veterinarian
when suffering from contagious dis
ease.
February 25th has been fixed as the
day for the joint session of the sen.
ate and house for memorial services
for the late Governor William LARA
bee.
Senator Cowles introduced a bill
permitting trust companies to act in
a fiduciary capacity.
Senator Allen introduced in the
senate loan shark bill that appear.
ed yesterday in the house.
The committee on schools this
morning reported for passage a bill
giving increased state aid to high
schools.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
THE IOWA OPEN AIR SCHOOL
OAkDALE HAS ONLY INSTITU.
TON IN STATE.
Pupils Are Wrapped in Blankets, dc
Not Feel Cold and Are
Comfortable.

.Oakdale, Feb. 5.-Oakdale has the
only open air school in the state. All
of the school work is done in the
open air and the children are wrapped
in blankets and have sacks to pull
over their feet and knees. They do
not feel the cold and are very com.
Portable. II. A. Oliver of Fairfield is
the teacher. The first school of this
kind was opened in January 1907 and
In 1910 only IL We're in existence.
They are now over 200. Massachu-
sets leading all the states with So
fresh air schools. In Boston alone
there are over so. New York is sec
ond with 20 and Ohio third with 81.
1t Is estimated that over 100000 chill
dren now i'll school in the United
States will die of tuberculosis before
they are Is years of age and the loss
in wasted education each year
amounts to over S1,000,000.
| This loss and much of the incident
suffering could be materially de
creased if open air schools for these
children and those who are slckly
were provided.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
HAPPENINGS IN WASHINGTON
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE LISTEN
ING TO KENYON BILL.
IMorknsmen in Dangerous oeeupa
lions Plead for Enactment Of
Compensation Bill.

Washington, Feb. 5.--The judiciary
committee today planned favorably to
listen to one of the numerous bills
providing for restraint upon inter.
state shipments of liquor from wet
to dry states. The committee vote
was scheduled for this afternoon. To
day the judiciary committee took up
several liquor bills, including those of
Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, Senator
Sheppard of Texas, and Representa-.
tive Webb, of North Carolina These
bills propose to prohibit the ship
ment of liquor into prohibition states
and contain important points regard
ing seizuere of such liquor.
Pleas for protection of workers in
dangerous occupations by the enact.
ment of the proposed workmen's COM
pensation bill flooded the mails today
of members of the house Action up
on the bill was requested at the pres.
est session of congress. President
Gompers, of the American Federation
of Labor, and representatives of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
joined in with letter to every con-
gresham in support of the measure.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
ASKS CHANGES IN
SHIPPING LAWS
Taft Sends in Special Request to
Congress.
HAS APPROVAL OF CABINET
Requests Acts Pertaining to Msnifests
Amended to Show Accurate Lists
sof Merchandise Sent Out
Of Country.

Washington, Feb. 5.-Acting on the
advice of Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh and Secretary of Commerce
and Labor Nagel, President Taft sent
to congress a special message recon-
mending that the laws relating to the
preparation of shippers manifests
be amended in such a manner as to
compel the preparation by exporters
OF accurate and complete lists in re-
gard to merchandise sent out of the
United States"
WouIc Show U. S. Export Trade.
The president took this action be-
cause he has been informed of the
great difficulty experienced In secur-
ing data for the preparation of ia
bles Of exports and to determine the
foreign trade of the United States.
TIE president recommended that
fines of $50 be provided for any omis-
sion or incorrect description of the
merchandise in any manifest; the fail
ure of the transportation compan:' to
procure from the exporter such a
manifest and for the disclosure by
any employe of common carrier of
any information regarding the mer-
chandise carried by 1t Tor exporta-
ton.
Has Approval Of Departments.
The president concluded by inform
ing congress that this plan has the
approval of the treasury department,
and the department of labor and com
merce.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
JUDICIAL REDISTRICTINC
MEASURE PLANS ESTABLISH
MENT OF COMMISSION.
Task Believed to be Too Large for a
Committee to Settle In One
Short Legislature.

Des Moines, Feb. Establishment
of legislative commission to make
a thorough study of court conditions
throughout Iowa and recommend to
the next general assembly a plan of
judicial re-districting is included in a
bill now being considered by Senator
Robinson, of Hampton, chairman Of
the senate committee on judicial dis
tricts.
Senator Robinson states that he be-
lieves the task Is too extensive a one
for legislative committee in a few
weeks to settle satisfactorily. Let
ters by the hundreds have poured in
to him from all parts of the state
making complaints of congested
work In the coFjssvs lie is convinced
however. that readjustment of dis
tricts would solve the problem, and
will accordingly offer bill providing
the appointment of commission to
be composed of member of the SUI
preme court, state senator and a
state representative to make thor
Ough investigation of conditions dur
ing the next two years and to report
to the Thirty-sixth general assembly a
plan of adjustment. Senator Robin
son, from what he has already inves-
tigated, is in favor of keeping large
circuits and even of readjusting cir
cults so as to leave no one county
with it's own judges. He is not in
sympathy with allowing single cOun.
ty to elect the judges who will hear
all the cases within that county, and
it may be concluded accordingly that
those counties making o demand for
such this session will have some diff
ficulty getting past his committee.
Senator Robinson's theory is that
while judges man not be Influenced
by local conditions, they at least have
a prejudice to overcome which is not
found where judge comes from an
other county to hear cases. The
largest district now in Iowa has seven
counties and five judges. Under the
senator's advice the number OF dis
tricts might even be reduced and the
judges for the remaining districts in
creased, practically establishing the
old circuit riding of cid. The senator
believes this establishes a healthy
condition in the courts.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
BY MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
SEN. FRANCIS CONFRONTED BY
DISCOURAGING FIGURES.
His Home Town Had Electric Plant
Given It, Run II In Debt and
Sold For a Song.

Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 5.--When Sen-
ator Leslie E. Francis of Spirit Lake
arises before the Public Utilities
committee of the Senate to champion
the cause of home rule" of city util-
ity plants, on the theory that politi-
cal corporations are capable OF sue
cessful business management, as pro-
vided in his measure, he will be con-
ironted by discouraging figures from
home.
Members of the subcommittee on
the draft of a bill have been making
a careful investigation into the oper-
alton of municipal plants in Iowa,
with view of being able to solve
correctly the problem of how extern
tsiYe should be state supervision, and
they have found that nowhere in the
! state was there a more dismal failure
of municipality owned plant than in
Spirit Lake.
1t is found that the Spirit Lake
Electric plant was built in 1894 by
B. f. Stevens at cost of $4,000. In
1890 Mr.. Stevens left for the West
and, wishing to do something for the
city where he had lived so many
years, made an absolute gift of the
plant to the city of Spirit Lake. This
plant was secured without the ex-
penditure of a cent and consequently,
there being no bond issue, there was
no interest to pay. The municipality
undertook the management of the
plant. 1t commenced to lose money.
Hundreds and hundreds of dollars
were sunk by the city in operating it..
| 1t was an elephant on the city pay
roll. The council was in despair
when in 1909, an ambitious young
man by the name of Harry Wiltse ap-
peared and offered to buy the plant
for $1,000, and furnish the city free
street lights for five years. The coun-
Gil grabbed at the opportunity Wiltse
had no money, and had to float notes
among his friends to raise the 81 900.
He commenced to make the plant a
success. He paid off the notes; put
| 200 worth of earnings back into
the plant in improvements; furnished
the city free street lights and made
a good living for himself and family.
Last August he sold the holding to
Jim Ehret for $4,000, the purchaser
agreeing to fulfill the contract with
the city. So in practically three years
Harry Wiltse made $4,000 out of
that which had run the city in debt,
and during all the time the rates for
electricity to private consumers has
not changed. Besides this Wiltse be-
gan thousand dollars in debt, where
as the city had an even start.
Senator Francis will accordingly be
confronted with the necessity of eX-
planning to the committee why, if
cities are as he says competent to run
their own utilities, his home town
failed with the same plant of which a
private individual made an excep-
tional success.
/ A rather new and interesting plan
of permitting cities and towns to en-
ter utility businesses is outlined in a
bill just introduced by Representative
Sidey of Greenfield, which would give
municipalities the right to buy power
from power companies outside OF
their corporate limits, and to resell
it to residents of the city In a
phrase this would permit cities to be-
come jobbers instead of manufactur.
ers of utilities.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
TO REPORT A MURDER
MINNEAPOLIS POLICEMEN ARE
CALLED ON CARPET TODAY.
While Patrolmen Were Standing On
Corner Woman Is Killed by
Rejected Lover

Minneapolis, Feb. 5.-Two Mime
apolis policemen are to be called on
the carpet today to explain why they
failed to report sensational murder
late last night. Patrolmen Redien
and Thompson were called to the
home of Mrs. lamar Collins Hanscom
and told to watch for the arrival of
Clayton Smith, who had telephoned
he was coming to the house to kill
the woman. While the police were
standing on the corner Smith entered
the house through the window and
shot Mrs. Hanscom after having a
desperate battle with her brother,
Ralph Collins. Smith, who was a
rejected lover, has not been captured.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
ADMITS Staying |
WOMEN BY BOMBS
New York Janitor Confesses to
Double Murder.
SWEETHEART WAS A VICTIM
Contrived Internal Machine That
Killed Mrs. Herrera and Injured
Two Others sunday-Attempt-
ed to Assassinate Judge.

New York, Feb. John Paul Far
rell, worn to the verge Of hysteria by
the unrelenting processes of the police
third degree" pursued for "a hours,
confessed to Deputy Commissioner
George S, Dougherty to being the in
fernal machine murderer.
He said that he had made the bomb
which killed Grace Walker, sometimes
known as Helen Taylor, in her apart
meuts just year ago Monday.
Attempted to Assassinate Judge.
He made and sent the engine of
murder that exploded in the apart
ments of Judge Otto Rosalsky on
March l6, of last year.
He contrived the mechanical bomb
which exploded last Sunday night in
an apartment at 1875 Fulton avenue,
the Bronx. instantly killing Mrs. Made
line Herrera. binding her husband,
Bernardo, and seriously wounding
Miss Sarah Soughtman.
Farrell's actions and words during
the making of his confession were at
times those of a mailman. He told
conflicting details, some of them of
the most circumstantial character;
contradicted himself the next minute
or refused altogether to elucidate some
OF his statements. But out OF the
whole mass of the mans mental wan
behring's Dougherty picked a sufficient
number of facts. capable Of vertical
ton from other sources. to convince
him that Farrell was guilty of the muir
der of the Walker woman and of Mrs.
Herrera. as well as the attempt on
Rosalsky's life.
Killed Woman Through Jealousy.
Farrell at first said that Grace Wal.
ker was his daughter and he gave the
name OF Kid Walker, murdered by
Henry lie Strang in 1887, as the man
who caused her downfall Then he
changed his story and said that he had
sent the internal machine to Mrs.
Walker because he was wildly in love
with her and was jealous OF the atten.
lions of other men.
Farrell first said that his brother
had been sent to prison by Judge Ro-
sslsky for 20 years and that he had
sent the bomb to the Judge out Of re-
venge. Then he changed his tale and
gave the name of friend whom Ro-
salsky had sent away for five years for
burglary. Dougherty, in a partial in
vestigation of Farrells record, discov.
cred that he had spent at least ten
years in various prisons.
drilled for Many Hours.
Through many hours Of his final ex
animation in Dougherty's Office the
gaunt, white.haired prisoner strove
desperately to prevent the full record
Of what was written on his mind get
ting to the police official When caught
IN the lie about the Walker woman be-
ing his daughter Farrell merely
grinned and gave another story-that
of jealousy prompting the deed. .
There was much that the deputy
commissioner would have asked furth
er concerning the motives that lay be-
hind the killing of Grace Walker and
the crazy notion that prompted the at
tempt upon the jurist's life. but when
he admitted the Staying Of the Walker
woman Farrell's vitality snapped and
the commissioner did not dare to
press the relentless processes Of the
third degree too far. He feared the
criminals reason would give way al
together.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
BISHOP ASKS A NEW TRIAL
Declares Evidence Did Not Justify
Verdict In the Cope Case at
Kansas City, Mo,

Kansas City, Mo, Feb. Attorneys
for David II. Moore, Methodist bishop
OF Cincinnati, fled a motion i'm the fed.
eral court in Kansas City, Kan. for a
new trial of the suit brought by Mrs.
Carrie e. Cope of Topeka. asking $780,.
900 from the bishop for alleged libel.
The first trial resulted in a verdict for
Mrs. Cope, assessing 81 damages and
the costs against Bishop Moore
The motion filed was based on the
contention that the evidence did not
justify the verdict.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
Wisconsin Butter Makers Meet,

Milwaukee. Wis. Feb 5-The
twelfth annual meeting of the Wiscon.
sin Butter Makers association opened
in the Auditorium last evening with
ceremonies over which Lauritz Olsen
Of West De Pere presided. Governor
McGovern welcomed the members and
F. e. Bower of CazeLovie responded.
Addresses we're delivered on creamery
management by Prof. J. ID. Jarvis Of
Chicago, and on the gas engine and
the creamery, by P. S. Rose Of Mad.
ison. The exhibits of butter and ma
chinery are unusually good and the
prize list Is very generous.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
WIRELESS RULE IS STRICT
Only One Station Passes the Federal
Test, Though Hundreds Are
Examined.

Washington, Feb. 5.-Since the
radio communication act went into eff
feet recently, only one license has
been granted to commercial station,
that being one In New York, although
already there have been issued 965
licenses to commercial wireless opera
tors, 5S1 to amateurs and three TO sci
entitic investigators. Several hundred
other ship and coast station wireless
plants have been tested by the inspec-
tors. but all we're found to have i'm
PROJECTIONS which must be corrected
before license can be issued.
Regulations slightly changed, differ.
ing only in few technical points, have
heen prepared to govern wireless oper.
alton.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
WOMEN OPPOSE 8-HOUR DAY
la Toilette Bill Would impose Bur
den Without Rettering Conditions,
They Inform Senators.

Washington. Feb. Some ofWssh.
ington's woman workers object to hav.
ing their days labor limited to eight
hours. Contending that the La Fol.
lette bill for that purpose would i'm.
pose an undue burden instead of bet.
tering their condition, they appeared
before a senate committee to oppose
it on the ground that, without over
time pay, it would be almost impos.
sible to make living.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
NEWS OF IOWA
BY TELEPHONE
DIES MONIES THUGS BEAT UP Po-
LicEMAN AND ROB HIM.
BIG AIR COMPRESSOR ExPLODES
Nevada After Auto Factory--TraveI.
ingmen Of Mason City Score Rail-
roads-Haf Frozen Baby Is
Found In Waterloo.

Des Moines, Feb. 5.-Robbers who
later looted residences and held up
pedestrians early to-day slugged
Policeman Joshua Suits, stole his re-
volver, club and star and left him
wandering the streets covered with
blood. He was semi-conscious but
still patroling his beat when found by
fellow officers at six o'clock this
morning. A pool Of blood in an alley
showed where he had been struck
down. Surgeons say his skull may be
fractured and his condition is serious.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
Many in Anamosa Prison.

Anamosa, Feb. 5-The Reformatory
Press. published at the prison, placed
the number of prisoners at $50. 1t is
said that this is the largest number
ever at the local institution so far as
state prisoners are concerned. Since
the Underestimate sentence law went
into effect the prison population here
is said to have increased.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
JUDICIAL RECALL IS LOST
Lower House Of Washington LesisIa.
ture Twice Rejects Proposed
Amendment

Olympia, Wash, Feb. 5.-A proposed
constitutional amendment providing
for the recall of judges was rejected
twice by the lower house of the Wash
ington legislature. On the first vote it
was defeated, go to 80, and on recon.
sideration was lost again, SO to 40.
sixty-five votes we're required to pass
the proposition.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
Nimoekc Reelected.

Ottumwa, Feb. 5.--A boosters meet
ing of baseball fans reelected Post
master Frank A. Nimocks as presi-
dent of the club and pledged $4,000
to the support of tire Ottumwa Cen
trail association team during 1918. A
total of s6l5 was dropped into the
hat when n collection was taken at
the meeting. Manager e. F. Eagan
has been retained.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
Murderer. Pleads Guilty.

Davenport, Feb. 5.-Floyd Sheets,
the youthful self confessed murderer
of Ernest Dalldorf. pleaded guilty at
be sentenced by Judge Theophilus
without a trial Alienists believe
Sheets mental state comes under the
classification of moral degeneracy
rather than insanity.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
Says BRIDGE ain win Pass.

Keokuk. Feb. 81 congressman
Charles A. Kennedy to-day notified
the officers of the Inter-City Bridge
company that he anticipated no
trouble in getting the bill through the
house which will give the company
the right to use the big dam across
the river here as railroad bridge.
Mr., Kennedy declared that the &C
ton of Senator Cummins in Directing
to the bill would cause only slight
deloy.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
AR compresser Exnlodes.

Burlington, Feb. g. Three en-
ployes We're seriously hurt and two
big holes torn in the roof and hun
dreds of windows blown out in the
Burlington round house when big
air compressor exploded at an early
hour today. The injured are Charles
Kulp, locomotive fireman, Herbert
Seller and John School, round house
employees. All were taken to a hos
pital. Kulp's injuries are more seri-
Gus than the others.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
ottumwan Goes West

Ottumwa. Feb. 5.-Robert w. John
son of Ottumwa, for ten years sales
manager of the Ottumwa Box Car
Loader company, has accepted the
general managership of the United
States Coal company at Kemmerer,
Wyo., which has plant equipped to
mine $500 tons Of coal day. He will
leave for the west within week.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
BIackhander Insane.

London, Feb. 5.-Percy William
Collins, who wrote blackhand let
ter to King George aud Lillian Nc
Carthy, popular actress demanding
large sums OF money under threats
of death, is declared insane and will
be sent TO an asylum as the result Of
a trial today.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06

Reinbeck,, Feb. ga Rock Island
freight train ran into Great West.
ern work train at the crossing here.
The Great Western engine was knock.
ed off the track, the front end lading
so feet from the rails. Only few cars
were derailed. Both engineers and
firemen jumped.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
consIderInq Auto Factory.

Nevada, Feb. 5.-Last evening at
the regular meeting of the Nevada
Commercial club the Nevada Manu-
featuring company put their PROPOSE.
ton for the floating stock for funds
to erect factory for auto trucks and
tractor plows.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
Two Railroads Scored.

Mason City, Feb. 5.--Resolutions
condemning both the Rock Island and
the Great Western railroads at a
meeting OF the United Commercial
Travellers here. The train service,
since the new cards have gone into
operation, make 1t inconvenient for
the travellers, they say.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
orders Sheep Quarantine Rals.d.

Washington. Feb 5,-Secretary OF
Agriculture Wilson issued an order re-
leasing from federal quarantine for
sheep scab with with counties in Cali
fornia and certain counties in Nevada.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06

Anamosa, Feb. 5.-.The voters of
the school district will vote on the
issuance of bonds for $4,000 for the
erection of a new high school build
ing on Feb. II. The question was
submitted last fall and was lost by
a small majority.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
Jodidi Goes 70 Mashlnaton.

Ames, Feb. Samuel L. Jodidi, a
Russian chemist, who has been a soil
chemist of the Ames government ag-
ricultural experiment station, has
gone to Washington TO take posi-
ton in the bureau OF farm manage
ment
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
promIn.r. Shoe Man Dies.

Deland, Fla, Feb, 5.-Leonsrd G,
Bliss, president and director of the
Regal Shoe company and one of the
best known shoe manufacturers In
the country. is dead. He was In his
seventy-eighth year.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
Much Suffering Among Poor.

Chicago, Feb. 5.-The mercury reg
istered two below at five o'clock this
morning and the weather bureau Of
fered no hopes for warmer weather.
There is much suffering among this
poor. William Childs, Waterman,
was frozen to death while on duty.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
Half Frozen Baby Found

Waterloo, Feb. 5.--Clad scantly and
nearly frozen, an 11-months-old boy
baby was found yesterday in an alley
near Fourth street. The child was
found in a cab. The baby's life may
be saved.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
Must Stand Trial,

Chicago, Feb. 5.--Jack Johnson, the
negro fighter, must stand trial Febru'
airy 25th before Federal Judge Car
penter on a white slave charge, The
demurrer to the indictment was over
ruled today. IL
The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-02-06
Chaplain Cole m.

Marshalltown, Feb. 5.-Friends Of
the Rev. Jesse Cole, chaplain OF the
Iowa Soldiers home, are worried re-
garding his illness of Ia grippe which.
since Saturday night, has assumed a
serious aspect. A complication due
TO weak heart Is causing the most
alarm.