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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-01-22
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"A farmer who lives closer to
Grundy Center than he does to Eldora.
but who does all of his banking and
shopping in Eldora, was in one of our
local banks few days ago to get
bunch OF grain checks cashed This
farmer had had an account with this
bank before and the banker asked
him why Ire didn't do this part of his
business here continually The farm
er said he was very well satisfied with
the treatment he had received from
the bank, but he said they had gotten
into the habit of driving to Eldora to
do the most OF their trading and that
it was handler for him to do his
banking in the town where they pur-
chased their goods. He said it was
farther from his place to Eldora than
it was to Grundy Center, but that
they preferred to drive the extra dis
lance because the roads leading into
that town were kept up better and
that Eldora had paved streets and his
family could get out of their buggy
or car there without soling their
clothes. The influence that good
roads and paved streets have on this
farmer is an influence that is felt by
dozens of other farmers who should
do their business in this town, but
who do not because conditions are not
here what we should make them. The
roads leading into any town are
trade drawer or trade repeller as
their Condition may be. Our north
and south road, and the west road
has been trade repeller. These
roads instead of being better than
country roads farther out, are usually
much worse, and we have the word of
farmers themselves that they keep
trade away from here.
"A dilapidated road leading into and
in town impresses those who drive
over it about the same as does
broken down sidewalk in front of a
house you may want to call at. You
call at the house of that kind ONLY
when it is absolutely necessary and
outsiders drive into town for the
same reason when the roads leading
into it are usually as bad as they can
be.
Good roads and good streets are
not the only trade drawers for any
town. but they are at the top of the
list"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-01-22

5. BY buying foundation herds of
good cows and pure bred bulls, or
pure bred animals of both sexes, at
the present relatively very low cost
of such breeding stock, which, owing
to cessation of range demand, is al
most on a level with beef prices, to-
gether with economical. improved
methods of beef production, involving
the raising of more corn, the build
ing of silos for both winter and sum-
mer use, and the raising of alfalfa,
such a course can be made to pay
a large annual set profit on an aver
age through series of years-and
confer greater and more lasting bene-
fits upon both producer and public,
than any other now presented to the
corn belt farmers of the United
States.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-01-22
MORE COWS MUST
BE PRODUCED
Chairman Of Board Of Directors Of
Chicago Union Stock Yards Elk.
presses Views on Cattle.
DRoUTA OF 1910 ONE CAUSE
Thousands Of Young Cattle Forced to
Market Because Of General
q Drouth Of 1910.

Mr.. J.. A. Spoor, chairman of the
board of directors Of the Union Stock
Yards, Chicago. expressed his views
of the cattle situation recently in the
Record-Herald. Because of his long
and close connection with the trade in
cattle, it is reasonable to assume that
Mr.. Spoors remarks follow careful in
yestigatiOn. For that reason they. are
worthy of careful attention. We quote
as follows:
The decrease in the feeder cattle
movement from five markets during
the first eleven months of this year, as
compared with the corresponding Pc
Rod of 1911, is over $4,000 head.
Not only has the movement OF cat
tie direct from the ranges to the feed
lots ceased, but part of the feeder cat
tie movement shown by the above fig
ures consists of young and female cat
tie bought for the purpose of restock
ing the ranges, and shipped from the
markets to regions that have always
heretofore been regarded as sources
of market supply for such cattle.
The practical point to bear in mind
is that the full extent of the deficiency
belt feed lots is not indicated by the
decrease in the feeder movement as
shown by official reports from the prin-
cipal western markets, and that the
present general scarcity of such cat
tie is bound to show, in due season.
in a corresponding scarcity of finished
cattle at market.
Another grave consideration lies in
the fact that the partial drouth Of 1903
and 1911 in the United States, and the
general drouth of 1910, which extend
ed all over Canada, Mexico and the
western two-thirds of the United
States, forced prematurely to market
vast numbers of young and female
cattle, which still further reduced the
stock of breeding cows in the coun-
try.
The result is a big deficit of breed
ing COWS from which to produce calves
suitable for feed lot use. In fact there
are not enough breeding COWS LETT IN
the country 10 keep up the supply or
beef steers. More cows of suitable
breeding age must first be produced,
deyeloped and added to the stock OF
breeding COWS now on hand, which
will take at least four years, while,
meantime. those that wear out. de
and are slaughtered, must be replen-
ished. before the nation is ready to
begin breeding for an adequate supply
of beef steers.
To produce a crop of calves will re-
ouire another year. To raise and pre-
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-01-22
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!: LAST SURVIVOR OF !
!: THE MASSACRE DEAD. !.

< Marshaltown, Jan. 16.-Mrs. ::
:: Irene Thomas, of Albion, the last ::
:. surviving Iowan who was in the ::
\ Spirit Lake massacre of 1857 !
:: is dead at the age of SO years. :;
= Mrs. Thomas died at the home :
:: of daughter at Munden, Kas. !
:. according to a telegram received !
!. at Albion, and her body will be I:
! brought to Albion for burial. ::
! Mrs. Thomas passed through !
!. some of the most terrible ex- !
\ periences that have ever befall :;
!. en- woman. She witnessed the !
!. killing of her son, the wounding !
! of her husband and the burial ::
:: of her baby daughter as the re- !
+ suit of an Indian attack +
+ Although known as the Spirit 4
!. Lake massacre because the up ::
!. rising of the Sioux began at +
i. Spirit Lake on March 8, 1857, +
!. the massacre that Mrs. Thomas I
4 witnessed was on Minnesota +
:: soil, near where the town of +
+ Jackson now stands, just north !.
:. of the Iowa line. \
+ 1t was there that the settlers +
!. of southern Minnesota and north +
!. ern Iowa gathered at the double +
+ log cabin of James B. Thomas, \
!. to prepare for an attack of the +
+ reds. The attack came on the +
!. 26th of March, after thirty of the +
+ settlers, mostly women and chill +
+ dren, were fortified in the +
:. Thomas home. !
!. The older boys among the \
!! refugees fired at the Indians 4
\ through the portfolios of the \
= cabin, while the women and old +
\ err girls moulded bullets and !
!! loaded rifles. The bombardment +
!. continued for an hour. AS +
!. result of the raid seven were +
:. killed, including William and :
!. George Wood, Fl. Joshua Stew \
!. art, his wife and two children, :
:: and William Thomas. John B. :
:: Thomas was severely injured. <
< That night the party left with :
). a team of oxen and bObsled X
:. for Fl. Dodge, the nearest point \
!. of safety, and that about hun :
= dred miles away. On this long \
!. journey Mrs. Thomas buried her \
!. little daughter, Marietta 3 years :
:. old, who died of exposure. Mr.. !.
!. Thomas was always cripple as \
+ a result of his wound. !.
!. !. !. = ! !. J. + !. :: \ !. :. :. < !. !.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-01-22

pare the latter for market will re-
quire at least two years more, so that
under the most favorable conditions.
not less than about seven years will
be required to restore all adequate
annual production of beef cattle.
The present stock of breeding COWS
will not be bred before next May or
June, 1913. 1t will require nine months
CESSATION, so that the next stock of
calves, which will average about
80 per cent, only half females, will be
born in February or March, 1914.
These females must be at least two
years old before they can be bred,
which will be in May or June, 1916.
1t will then require nine months or
until February or March, 1917, for
their calves to be born, only half OF
which or 40 per cent increase, will
be bull calves from which to make
steers for feeding.
Another two years will be required
to raise and prepare these steer calves
for market as beef steers, which will
extend the time to the spring or fall
of 1919, or nearly seven years hence
at the earliest, before there can be re-
stored to the country an adequate
supply of beef steers ready for slaugh-
ter.
The above is a demonstration which
any practlcal cattle raiser will verify.
Meanwhile it is possible that there
may occur spasmodic seasons of tenn
porary guaranteeing of the meager
supply of beef cattle in the country,
which may depress values for short
periods, followed by seasons of severe
scarcity of market and abnormally
high prices.
Such a season is liable to occur
within the next sixty or ninety days.
but may be easily avoided if only
feeders of cattle will hold them, re-
CARELESS of market fluctuations, until
they are mature and ready for mar
ket.
The only danger lies in premature
rush of unfinished cattle on the part
of those who have not sufficient con-
fidence in the stability of market
thereby bringing upon themselves and
others the very conditions which they
fear.
For, gainsay it as they will, the
natural law Of supply and demand
governs the market values of live
stock; otherwise there would be no
explaining the prices of 1912, which
have been the highest ever known.
The summing up of the whole cat
tie situation is this:
l. There is a world shortage of
cattle, and cheap beef is thing of
the past.
2. The farmers and stock raisers
of the United States have nothing to
fear in the way of cattle or beef CON-
petition from either Mexico, Canada
or South America during the next de-
caed or longer.
8 Henceforth the corn belt farms
must be looked to more than ever be.
fore for our domestic beef supply, or
else the American people must face a
beef famine
4. To save the calves and to breed
to raise more and better cattle on
their farms is not only a duty which
corn belt farmers owe to their coun-
try, but also a necessity for preserva-
ton of the declining fertility of their
own lands.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-01-22
Coed Roads AS Trade Drawers.

The Grundy Center Democrat in a
recent issue gives practical illus
tration OF the value of good roads to
the business men of trading centers.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-21
SENATOR Lewis TIRES
OF Duties AS WHIP"
Declares Strain Is Too Great and An
noufees His Intention of Re-
signing Position.
WORK HAS BEEN INCREASED

A fly in the Democratic ointment in
cident to the passage of the currency
Dill is the announcement that Senator
James Hamilton Lewis will resign as
whip" at the next Senate Democratic
caucus
Senator Lewis confided his determina-
tion to renounce the honor-there are no
emoluments-to friends yesterday. There
always has been an indefinite notion as
TO the duties and limitations of the
whip" There has been a vague idea
that his business consisted mainly in
keeping Democratic Senators in haiIing
distance to answer their names on roll
call. But under the administration of
Senator Lewis the Office has taken on
new and onerous responsibilities.
The Senator from Illinois is getting
weary under the strain. He admitted
yesterday that he was expected to ad-
just small differences between Senators,
provide for their personal comfort and
answer daily a multitude of small in
quiries. Master of the Benches is a
title suggested for Mr.. Lewis office since
he took charge and injected into 1t a
significance-a pep" as they say in
ChicagO-not before known to its duties.
But he has been content TO be known
as a whip, not one that scourges but
a gentle persuader, tied with pink ribbon.
The Senator explained that he was suf-
fering physically under the strain OF the
office. He remains up late at night,
sleeps in down town hotels instead OF
going to his regular quarters, at added
expense Senator Lewis said he was not
going 10 interfere in the choice of his
successor but, If asked for a suggestion,
he would tag Senator Hollis or Sem
ator Walsh.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-21
WILSON HAS REVEALED
POLICY OF NEGOTIATION.
DECLARES PHONE OFFICIAL

New York. Dec 3O.-Vice President N.
c. kingsbury, Of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company, who conducted
Negotiations with the government for the
settlement of the telephOne-telegraph
combination. believes President Wilson
has now revealed his policy Of dealing
with the large corporations.
The policy is TO be one of negotiation.
'of course, it's all right" Mr.. Kings
bury said. referring to the President s
action in settling the question without
recourse to litigation. "and it is a thou
sand times more desirable from every
standpoint to settle all such matters in
friendly fashion and between individ-
uals. But-except in so far as it works
out practically-any one conversant
with the laws of the land knows that
in no individual is vested the right
to bind the government to any specific
action.
But this is of less significance in
itself than is the fact now established
that the administration has declared
itself regarding its attitude toward
big business generally.
When the Department of Justice wants
to find out whether any corporation is
doing something it has no business to do.
all that is going TO happen is that the
will be invited down to Wash
ington to talk the matter over
IF the corporation plays fair and
shows a willingness to be decent there
you are. In a word. Attorney General
McReynolds is imbued with the same
spirit as animates the President: You
behave decently and l shall behave de-
Gently That's their attitude in a nut
shell.
Naturally there is nothing in the world
TO prevent the administration from prose-
cutting us next week. There is nothing to
guarantee a continuance of this method
Of procedure by the authorities in Wash
ington. In Great Britain such commit
ments are legal and binding on Parlia-
ment forever. But here it is altogether
a case of Individual honesty of inten-
ton. And it is inconceivable that, during
the presence in office Of the present ad-
any change in front will be
made"
The Washington herald., 1913-12-21
PRISON FOR MUSIC FAKER.
Robert b. kellogg Held Guilty of
Using the Mails to Defraud.

New York, Dec. a-Robert B. Kellogg,
piano tuner, salesman. and composer,
today was found guilty. In the United
States District Court of having used the
mails to defraud. A sentence of thir-
teen months hard labor in the Federal
prison at Atlanta was imposed by Judge
Grubb. Mrs. Kellogg collapsed when
the sentence was pronounced.
The specific charge against Kellogg
was that he had defrauded song writer's
out of more than $4,000 by promising 70
have their compositions published in
return for certain fees
After sentence had been passed Kellogg
declared that justice and music never
could agree, but consoled himself with
the reflection that his temperament
would make music out of even prison
walls and stripes. Music is all bars,
anyway" he said. MY life has been
one long ragtime with many ups and
downs, or high and low notes. but
through 1t all 1 have always struck the
right note and never intended to jar the
senses OF any one"
Kellogg's counsel obtained a writ of
error and he probably Will be released
on bail.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-21
BUSTING OF TRUST ENDS
DANGER OF GOVERNMENT
PURCHASE, DECLARES VAII

Lyndonville. VT, Dec. a0-"we have
no fear of absorption of telephone and
telegraph lines by the government now"
This statement was made today by Theo-
dore n. Vail. president of the American
Telephone and Telegraph and the West
ern Union Telegraph Companies, which
are to be segregated according to an
agreement made with the government.
Mr.. Vail promised the freest competi-
ton in the telephone field. He said:
Conforming to the terms of our agree
ment with the government, the Bell tele-
phone system will offer every opportun-
ity for other telephone companies to con-
meet with its long distance lines.
1--WE shall encourage the independents
to come into our lines so that the public
may have a fair opportunity OF deciding
which service they want The Bell sys-
TEN stands on the quality of its service.
"As for the government ownership, IL
the people will only measure the serv-
ice they get from the Postofice De-
partment by the standard they apply to
the telephone ] am not afraid Of the
decision. Ny attitude toward govern
ment ownership is merely to point out
the quality of operation and service and
to let the public judge for itself.
I'VE have no fear of such a step be-
ing taken by the government now. But
even IL 1t should eventually by done 1t
would be a good thing for telephone
stockholders. Their property Is worth
more than it is actually capitalized for"
The Washington herald., 1913-12-21
Incorporation PAPERS
UNDER NEW LAW ASKEI

The first requests for papers with
which to secure Incorporation under the
Glass-Owen currency bill which, 1t is ex-
pected, will become law by Tuesday,
were received at the Treasury Depart
ment yesterday. More than a score of
them came by telegraph.
Many of the kilograms expressed ap-
proval OF the currency measure, while
others merely embodied requests for ap-
plication papers. 1t was noted that no
City.
Under the terms of the bill, as 1t pass
ed the Senate Friday, national banks
must cease to do a reserve business I'M
less they have made application for
membership in the new system by the
expiration of sixty days after the enact
ment of the new law.
The work of reorganizing the banking
system, by defining the reserve regions
and other steps, is to be done by the re-
organization committee of the Federal
reserve board.
Among the banks announcing their de-
sire to into the system were the Ma
tional Bank Of the Republic in Chicago
and other Western institutions; the Ma
tional Bank of Danvilie, Va, and the
following banks in Baltimore: Mer-
chants and Mechanics National Bank,
National Bank of Baltimore, National
Exchange Bank, Farmers and Mer-
chants National Bank. Drovers' and
Mechanics National Bank, National
Bank of Commerce, Second National
Bank, Maryland National Bank, Ma
tional Marine Bank, National Howard
Bank, oldtown National Bank.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-21
PHONE TRUST DISSOLUTION
GRATIFIEs MACKAY; HE HAS
PRAISE FOR M'REYNOLDS

New York, Dec. 9.-Clarehce NJ. Mac
kay, president Of the Postal Telegraph
and Cable Company, today indorsed the
proposed dissolution of the American
Telegraph and Telephone Company. The
Postal Company has long accused the
telephone trust of unfair dealings. Mr..
Mackay issued the following statement
this afternoon:
TT has been a bitterly fought contest.
The result is a gratifying solution of the
whole trouble. We hope and believe 1t
will work out so that no further cause
for complaint may exist either on the
part of the public or on our part Any
body with any perspective at all could
have seen during the last few years that
there would be an end to a huge ccmbi-
nation whose chief purpose was to throt-
tie competition I'm order 10 control and
monopolize. We feel grateful to the ad-
ministration and particularly to Attor-
ney General McReynolds for the result.
The Department of Justice took the mat
ter up of its own initiative and without
any attempt to shift or evade RESPONSE
bility the Attorney General has brought
about this complete solution"
The Washington herald., 1913-12-21
SLEEPING NYMPH' GETS
HOT SHOT FROM POLICE
German Censor's Activity Alarms
Fatherlands Lovers of the
Nude in Art.

Berlin. Dec. sO-Anselm Fuerbach's
celebrated nude painting. THE Sleeping
Eymph," is the latest work of art to
incur the disfavor of the German police.
All reproductions of the picture have
been confiscated, and the courts will be
asked to pass Judgment on It Other
works, copies of which have lately come
under the ban. are:
Titian's Venus" and "Poptiphar and
Joseph" Kaulbach's Gods of Life"
Lukas Cranach's "Old Man and a Maid, -
and Marta Bauer's marble statue. THE
Dancing Girl" The latter is the prep
erty of Duke Ernst Gunther, brother OF
the kaiserin, and stands in the reception
hall Of mis- castle Prinkenau.
German artists are demanding that
the Royal Academy OF Art use its infiu-
ence to check the zeal of the police CEN
sor.
The police. on their part. deny that they
are engaging in any special crusade
against the nude. They say they are
merely proceeding against a number of
fiagrantly improper pictures which re-
Gently have been brought to their at
tention.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-21
MANY NOMINATIONS
PASSED BY SENATE
President Sends to Upper House List
of His Choices for
Office.

The Senate yesterday confirmed the
nominations of Thomas Butterworth, OF
Cincinnati. as appraiser of merchandise
at Cincinnati; Frank b. Niles, Of Ohio
as collector of internal revenue for the
Tenth district of Ohio, and Harry II.
Weiss, of Ohio, as collector OF internal
revenue for the Eighteenth district of
Ohio; Thomas D. Sanford, as United
States attorney for the Middle district
of Alabama: Robert n. Bell, as United
States attorney for the Northern dis
trict of Alabama; Alexander d. Pitts,
as United States attorney for the South
ern district of Alabama: Roger II. Bur-
nett, as United States attorney for the
Middle district of Pennsylvania; Joseph
Binnard, as register of the land Office
at Helena, Mont; John d. McNeal, as
collector of internal revenue for the
District of Alabama; Frank c. Daley,
of Indiana, as United states attorney
in that State.
President Wilson sent to the Senate
the nominations of Clarence Carrigan.
of California. to be consul at Grenoble,
France: Ezra NJ. Lawton, of Ohio, to
be consul at Tegucigalpa, Honduras;
Paul A. Henry, to be collector of inter
nal revenue, First district of Wisconsin;
Francis D. Winston, to be United States
attorney for the Eastern district Of
North Carolina: w. T. Dortch, to be
United States marshal for the Eastern
district of North Carolina; Charles A
Webb to be United States marshal for
the Western district of North Carolina:
John Z. Robins, to be register of the
land office at Elko, New; Ashley G.
DawIey, to be receiver of public moneys
at EIko, New.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-21
NO HOPE FOR PEACE IN
MEXICO, SAYS EXPLORER
Russell Hastings MiIlward Returns
from Making Geographical Survey
in Southern Republic.

New York, Dec. eo.-Russell Hastings
Millward, F. R. G. s., arrived here to-
day from Mexico, where he has spent
the greater part of the last five years
in making a geographical survey Of the
southern section of the republic.
The troubles in Mexico are only be-
ginning" said Mr.. Millward. "In al
parts of the country revolutionary bands
are being organized. No Mexican Is even
going to work again II he can earn
nearly two pesos a day by plunder and
murder. Give him a promise of the
privileges of loot and the average Mexi-
can will leave hearth and home and
family.
The most fearful atrocities are COM
mitted on women and children and the
insurrectos, in turn, treat any federal
soldier they capture in medieval fashion.
There is a certain code Of punishment
against attacking their own women folks.
One of the penalties is the cutting out
of the eyes, so that the culprits shall
not be able to find any other victims.
The barbarities committed defy descrip-
ton.
'.At Santa Cruz de Bravo, in the terri
tory of Quintanaroo. some 2,10o prisoners
are kept on one-fourth rations, without
shelter or clothing. The fearful condi-
tion of these unfortunates Is beyond
imagination.
'HThe fall of the Huerta government Is
only a matter of a short time. The
whole country is at war and the govern
ment will soon be without resources.
Huerta is now opening the prisons In
order to fill the places Of his dead or
deserting soldiers.