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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-12-09
TRAFFIC BEING
RESUMED IN COL.
0RAD0 CAPITAL
Fate of Snowbound Passenger Train
on Mountain Pass Becoming
Critical.

Denver, Colo, Dec. S.-Denver
continued to emerge from it's deep
covering of snow yesterday.
Warm sunshine and the work of
almost 1000 men with shovels sue
ceeded in opening several of the
street car lines to traffic, and many
men and women returned to their
homes yesterday for the first time
since the storm last Thursday.
Railroad traffic was also greatly
improved, though still far from nor
NAL.
The fate of the passengers on
Colorado Springs. Cripple Creek &
Florence train, snowbound at one of
the highest Rocky mountain passes,
is becoming critical. 1t is not known
whether rescue crews which started
out on snow shoes and skis have
reached the train with provisions.
Every effort is being made by snow
plow crews to reach the snowhound
train.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-12-09

officers, who have discovered that
since the state is keeping tab on
things it is best to be very careful
about the letter of the law, were get
ting ready to supplant women depu-
ties with voters. This grew out of a
story that the question had been
raised and no authority was found
in the statutes for women deputies.
But the department will not un-
dertake to oust women, so Chief
Wall says; for it has been discovered
that number of years ago, c. w.
Mullan, when he was attorney gen
eral of Iowa, rendered an opinion
which held that public official may
employ anybody he pleases as dep
uty, without regard to sex, age or
previous condition of servitude. This
was based, not on anything decided
in Iowa, but the decisions of courts
in other states. The theory is that
the head official acts through the
deputy, who is practically no more
than the personal representative of
the chief.
The department is going to rely
on that decision, at least until some
cne makes test case and gets some
ruling to the contrary.
The Iowa supreme court has TAX
en- broader ground as regards pub
lie officials, but might lean toward
the ladies in matter of this kind.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-12-09
LOSES
DRAINAGE SUIT
Chicago & Northwestern Company
Defeated by County in District
Court.

The Chicago & Northwestern rail-
road company, appealing from the
assessment in the Arnold drainage
district near Kamrar, was defeated
Saturday by the decision of Judge
Albrook in the district court. The
judge sustained the assessment made
by the board of supervisors.
Chas. Cessna appeared in court
Saturday and entered plea of
not guilty to the crime with which
he is charged.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-12-09
TWO KILLED IN
STRIKE REGION
Shots Fired Into House Fatal To
Brothers-Six Under Arrest.

Calumet, Mich, Dec. S.-Arthur
and Harry James, brothers, were
killed, Thomas Daily was fatally
wounded and Mary Nicholson was
badly injured by rifle bullets fired
before daylight yesterday into the
apartment house in which they liv-
ed The James brothers came here
Saturday from Toronto, Canada and
obtained employment in the Copper
Range Consolidated, whose men are
among those on strike.
They took up their abode with
Daily, who was both miner and
ing-housekeeper Miss Nichoi-
son is the daughter of William
Nicholson, who occupied the other
side of the apartment house in which
Daily lived.
All the victims were in bed when
shot. Three kinds OF rifle bullets
were imbedded in the walls Of the
house. Ten or twelve shots were
fred.
Six suspects are under arrest.
The murders aroused great indig-
nation throughout the copper mine
strike zone and big meetings of citi-
zens were held yesterday at Hough-
ton and Calumet. Both meetings
adopted resolutions demanding that
the sheriff use all means TO rid the
city of murder melting mercen-
aries" and that all law abiding citl-
zens unite in giving peace officers
all assistance to restore peace and
normal conditions.
The citizens paraded the streets
in spite, of the intense cold of Lake
Superior blizzard.
The strikers also held meetings
and speakers eXhorted the men TO
stick to the Western Federation OF
Labor and be prepared to defend
their homes against raids of officers
All the mines in the district VIII
be closed Wednesday to enable work
men to attend law and order meet
ings at Houghton and Calumet.
| Miss Fern Riley is assisting In
the Ed McFarlane store during the
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-12-09
1877 RESCUED
FROM STEAMER
Swanmore Saves Passengers From
Burning Ship.

Norfolk, Va, Dec. S.-Wireless re-
ports received here last night told of
the transfer at sea of 1877 passengers
from the steamer Rio Grand, which
had caught fire while bound from
New York for Brunswick, Ga, to the
steamer Swanmore, the subduing of
the flames and the safe return of the
passengers to the vessel. The Rio
Grande is now on her way to Bruins
wick.
The wireless operator here receiv-
ed the name of the fire ship Ring
reade, but no such vessel is register
ed and marine men say the vessel
undoubtedly is the American coast,
ing steamer Rio Grande. The trans
fer took place 2O5 miles northeast
of Diamond Shoals.
The meager reports reaching here
said that fire was discovered in the
Rio Grande's hold at O'Clock yes
terday morning and wireless calls
for assistance were sent out immed.
lately. The Swanmore, outward
bound from Baltimore. responded
and soon had the American vessels
passengers on its decks. Then at
tention was turned to the fire ant
when it had been subdued the pas
sengers were taken back to the Rio
Grande.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-12-09

while the oldest son Mort, led in a
prayer of thanksgiving, after which
the pangs of the inner man were
amply satisfied. The afternoon pass
ed quickly in listening to tales of
pioneer life related by the older ones
present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Royster came to
Hamilton county, in 1854, settling
in Homer, then one of the principal
towns on the frontier, and have liv-
ed there continuously since.
They were married fifty years ago
just few yards from their present
home. They have both been active
and useful citizens and have done
their part in developing this section
of the country from a vast wilder
ness of swamps and unproductive
hills, to one of the most productive
sections of the Union. Eleven chill
dren were born to this union, of
which ten are living, one passing
away at the age of twelve years. All
of the children were present except
two. Those present were:
Mrs. Maynard Martin, Ft. Dodge.
Mrs. J. E. Courtright, Duncombe.
Mrs. Roy Grouse, Des Moines.
Mrs. Chas. Julian, Mrs. w. M.
Bower, Mrs. c. N. Douglas; and M.
B. and Samuel Royster of this place.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-12-09
The Cradle Roll.

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Burnett,
who reside on west Boone street, are
the parents of an S1a pound baby
son, born Sunday morning.
A 91a pound daughter was born
Sunday night to Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse
Black.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-12-09

Clerk Sterling has just issued mar
riage licenses to the following par
ties: Sever 0. Torgeson and Helen
Thompson, E. l.. Crosby and Myrtle
Bard, Walter c. Denny and Gather
inc Lang, Christopher Orton and Eva
Tysdal.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-12-09

Mrs. G. B. Pray, who has been Ill
for the past couple of weeks with a
severe attack Of bronchitis, was able
to be up yesterday.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-12-09

Clerk Sterling has just issued a
marriage license to William Ander-
son and Hannah Hanson.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-12-09

Miss Fern Riley is assisting in
the Ed McFarlane store during the
holiday season.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-12-09

Typewriter supplies at this once.
Douglas Island news., 1913-02-19

Lieutenant Michaelis, formerly sta, tioned at Fort Seward in Southeastern Alaska, has been found guilty of e&- treme carelessness in handling the bus mess affairs entrusted to him, and sens fenced to receive a reprimand. He was ordered released from arrest and re- stored to duty wi:h his regiment. The lieutenant was known in these parts az great practical jokerAbut jolly good fellow.
 Dr. Marie Slopes, of London, has been interested for nine years in the study of fossil botany, and has in prep~ aration a book that is expected to throw new light on the subject of coal geology. She has visited the interior of mines in all parts of the world, in-' cluding mine in one of the Japanese islands extending out under the sea- She says that coal cannot be less than 20,0o0,000 years old, and that the first plants which entered. into it's formation were twice as old as that.-Mining Science.
 The Alaska Packers Association has paid into the clerk of the district court at Valdez the license for twelve can~ neries and two salteries: S39, ,29S.04 was paid in hatchery certificates and SS9S.SO in cash for salted salmon, which can- not be paid in certificates. During the past quarter the clerks office received S46,65904 in certificates from the can neries; all this causes the Prospector to remark: Through the keen fore- ! sight the A. P. A. always manages to hatch a sufficient number of salmon spawn to cover the amount of license 1 due the government for salmon canned. A greater farce and more bold-faced robbery was never committed on g. people than the use of these certificates in the payment of government licenses. The Alaska fund is being robbed an- nually in order to fatten lot of hun- gry outsiders whose maws appear never to be appeased."
 No doubt there are eager politicians in Manila demanding independence with impassioned eloquence, says the i New York Tribune. So there are people who would like statehood in Alaska, and there were people who wanted statehood in Arizona long before the territory was fit for it, with just as good logic to back their demand forthe sacred right of f.government. The Fillipinos are exercising self-governs ment as fast as they are able to exer- else it safely. They have made great progress under American guidance, but when, as Senator O'Gorman points out, only few hundred thousand can read and write, when the islands are peopled by diverse and antagonistic races, some of them savage, some semI-civilized, and even the civilized tribes just learn ing self-government, it is the height of absurdity to think that they could be safely trusted to govern themselves and perform their international obli- gations, and to compare them, as as- pirants for independence, to homo- geneous peoples trained through hun- dreds of years for the exercise of self government. Senator O'Gorman be- lieves in self-government for the Philip pines, but his common sense teaches him that it may require one or two generations of training to fit them for it's full responsibilities.
Douglas Island news., 1913-02-19
The N0rthIand
The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.

Prince Rupert has set it's foot down on Sunday pool.
 Fresh halibut climbed to 121a cents at Seattle last week.
 A forty-stamp mill is planned for the JuaIiu mine this summer.
 Juneau has about decided to build a Thew school house this summer.
 The scourge of measles and whooping cough at Metlakahtla is abating
 Petersburg fishermen report an en- counter with man-eating shark. E.P. Refing has been elected Arctic Chief of the new A. B. camp at Peters ! burg.
 Ice twenty inches thick and clear as crystal is being cut in the Chilkat river, for use at Haines.
 A Juneau paper jealously suggests that move is on foot to move the cap ital of Alaska down to Seattle. George Wilkes, better known as the "Burn 'em up Kid," has plotted an ad dition to the town of Ketchikan.
 Packing 1O5 boxes of halibut in three hours and fifteen minutes is the record for such performances at Ketchikan. The Dominion telegraph station at Tagish caught fire ou the morning of the 10th inst. and burned to the ground.
 pr. Juan Butista Ruffo, a former surgeon in Madero's army, has decided to locate in Juneau, "far from the mad ding strife"
 Walter k. Zott, of Juneau, hunting ptarmigsn on the mountain side, slid down over cliff five hundred feet. No bones broken.
 Owing to the mildness of the weather Atlin lake did not freeze over until late in January, almost month later than for some years.
 A Juneau paper has it all figured out that c. M. Summers, the convicted banker, sentenced to serve five years in the pen, will get off with less than two ] John J. Folstad and Alex Fredolf both of Seattle, were found guilty in the district court at Valdez, of stuft1ng the ballot box at the delegate election last fall
 Fred Berg spent night in crevasse of Valdez glacier and escaped with nc greater injury than frosted hands and feet, but is not at all anxious to try il again. A bowling blizzard prevailed al the time.
 The court of appeals at San Francisco will decide the question whether ar Alaska Indian who solicits others tc furnish him liquor is guilty of crime under the law. Selling.or giving liquor to an Indian is felony.
Douglas Island news., 1913-02-19

Sixty men are employed at the Cliff mine, near Valdez, and it is said that the ore values, which are already ex- ceptional, increase with the depth of the workings.
 Mrs. James Wood, formerly of Nome, but now of Seattle, we'll known yachtswoman, was found guilty ot stealing three gasoline engines and was sentenced to serve year in jail.
 As the result of the attempt of pr. Parker to climb Mt. Mckinley last year, and failing by few feet, another party from Cornell University is form ing for the purpose of attempting the ascent.
 In appeal from the decision of Judge Lyons of the First judicial di- vision of Alaska, the government has taken the now famous transportation case to the supreme court, where a hearing is set for Feb. 25th.
 Chas. E. Ingersoll, Ketchikan mem- Der of the lower house, will be present when the first Alaska legislature con veues next month at Juneau. He has about recovered from au injury re- ceived by fall on the ice some time ago.
 A company of Valdez business men has been formed to send Mir. Sidney Laurence, an artist of note, to point south of Mt. Mckinley to sketch the grand old pile, from which later on to make painting for exhibit at the Pan ana. Pacific exposition.
 Government flower seeds are being distributed free by the Skagway Im- provement society, which has the aim in view to make Skagway the "Flower City of Alaska" Every home owner is asked to cooperate. Skagway now has reputation to be envied.
 Cordova.-No word has yet come from the expedition which was recently sent up the Bremner river to try and locate Harry Happle and Johnny Van Iderstein, who were expected out from ! that country not later than the first of ! October, and who have not arrived as yet.
 Because of the shortcomings of the | U. s. commissioner, or the U. s. mail service, the voters of Noland, in the Koyukuk district, were denied the right of suffrage in the November cleo tion, aud now they are up in arms and want the whole election declared il- legal.
 No doubt the we'll trained New York hubby will prepare his own meals and makes his own bed while his wife is galivanting across the continent on horseback in the cause of woman's suf- | IraB0. we UelleFS lO WoS III EAi1ono c bus band chastised his wife when he re- turned from work to find that his wife had not attended to her household duties.-Valdez Miner.
 A suit is pending in the United States district court at Seattle, in which the government seeks to recover from the Pacific Coast Coal O., the Northwest ern Commercial Go. and the John J. Sesnon Go. the sum of sloo,oO0, on ac- count of alleged fraudulent bids sub- mitted by the said companies to fur nish the government coal at it's mili- tary reservations in Alaska.
Douglas Island news., 1913-02-19

Alaska's greatest resources lie dead because of lack of railroads to connect the inland waterways with the coast, and because of inadequate coal land laws, Secretary Fisher told the house territories committee. "There has been a dog in the manager policy in Alaska" be said.
 Wm. Carless, of Katalla, is authority for the statement that the govern ment's attempt to bring to salt water $50 tons of Boring river coal will prove a complete failure; that the trails are breaking up aud it will be impossible for the men to get through with even a single ton.
 The people of Alaska are asked to pass resolutions urging President Will son to make the construction of Alaska railroads one of the first subjects for consideration in bis recommendation to the special session of congress. Delegate Wickersham and others are back of the appeal.
 The Skagway Alaskan, always cratic, has new one. Here it is: There Is growing sentiment favoring abollshlng the office of governor of Alaska. In the past, governors have spent most of their time in Washington, and it has been observed that things ran along as smoothly, and in some cases more smoothly than when that functionary was on the job.
 One of the markets available for Alas ka coal, were the coal fields of the ter ritory developed, would be to supply coke to the smelters and foundries on Puget sound and at Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other cities on the Pacific coast. Most of the coke now consumed on the coast is imported from Germany or England or is brought from the Eastern States.-Ex.
 The amount of beef and mutton con- sumed yearly by the people of Nome amounts to 150 tons. Beef seems to suit the palates of the Nomeites so much better than mutton that ten tons of the former are eaten to every ton of sheep. In addition to beef and mutton the people of Nome eat about 50 tons of game and fish, which brings the grand total up to 100000 pounds.
 All is excitement at Atlin over the new gold strike to the southeast. Up to date, five creeks have been discov- cred and staked. While no extensive prospecting has been done, on account of the presence of snow and the frozen condition of the ground, good prospects have been found in various places on all of the creeks. Over three hundred claims in the new district have been re- corded
 Remarkable accomplishments ln wireless communication are noted at the U. s. army station at Eagle, Alaska, which recently picked up Key West, Florida. The conditions necessary for good work are as nearly perfect as pos sible in Alaska and countries of corre- spending climate. The sending range of a station is doubled, and sometimes trebled, at night, and the long nights in Alaska are conducive to the best dis tances. The low temperature also helps radio communication by the absence of the static that is found in warmer zOne>
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-25
Atlantic Fleet Starts
For Mediterranean

HAMPTON ROADS, VA, Oct. 20
With feeling of uncertainty here
prevailing as to the ultimate destina-
ton which fate might hold in store,
nine battleships of the Atlantic fleet
sailed away from Hampton Roads to-
day. Although the official destination
of the fleet is the Mediterranean Sea,
each commander was anxious to keep
in close wireless communication with
the United States naval stations in
the event that it became necessary to
turn the squadron toward Mexican
waters.
The ships making up the squadron
are the Wyoming, Arkansas, Della
ware. Utah. Florida, Vermont, Kan
sas, Connecticut and Ohio
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-25
/ HUSBAND SAYS
STAR bOARDER'
RULED HOME
Tells Court He Stood Wife's At
tention to Another Man Un-
til Ordered Away.

Even the forbearaDce of a meek,
mild ma nnered, forgiving husband
reaches its limit when his wife's
"star boarder" attempts to completely
shear him of his husbandly authority
and Dust him from his own home, ac-
cordlng to John Cook. of No. 1874 East
Hunter street, an employee of the
Light and Power Company.
Cook told Recorder Broyles Satur-
day morning that he had silently
borne much. He had not complained,
he said when his wife did such little
things as to force him to eat scraps,
while she fed E. A. Martin, the "staI
boarder," on warm, luscious biscuits.
appetizing steaks, and portly pork
chops; cut the buttons from her chill
6ren's clothes to sew on his trousers,
and received presents from him. He
didn't relish all of this, of course, he
explained, but he stood it.
But he couldn't stand it any longer
he said, when the star boarder,"
flushed with the preference he was
receiving from Mrs. Cook, ordered
him from his own home and demand
ed to know what he had done with
his weeks pay.
Wife Denies Charges.
j. "This was too much, Judge" eX
claimed the husband. when he
asked me what I had done with my
weeks pay, and told me to get out of
my own home, or else he would
knock my teeth down my throat, !
decided to appeal to the court for
, protection. | don't think ! ought to
be expected to stand everything"
Martin and Mrs. Ludie Cook, the
wife against whom the husband had
cases made because Of this "humilia-
ton" stood close by as Cook related
his story.
Judge Broyles, that's not true
there's not a word of 1t true" cried
Mrs. Cook Indignantly.
Martin said not word
Judge Broyles sympathized with
the complaining husband, but In
formed him there was no evidence to
show that Mrs. Cook or Martin had
violated any law on which he could
impose a penalty.
Problem Solved in Court.
why don't you put this man Mar
| tin out Of your home?' suggested the
court. at seems this would be the
proper solution"
That's just what I'll do" exclaimed
| Cook.
Turning on the "star boarder," the
| husband shook his finger In his face.
| and cried:
you get out of my house. and get
out at once. Get your trunk and all
your belongings and hit the grit. I'll
give YOU just one minute to get out. .
Fearing the angry husband might
make it personal matter right there
in the courtroom, Recorder Pro TEN
Preston raped vigorously for order.
Martin FASTENED from the court
room. Arm in arm, Mr.. and Mrs.
Cook followed Cook wore a smile of
satisfaction.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-25
Daylight Bandits in
Auto Stay Bank Head
And Miss Big Haul

ADDISON, ILL, Oct. 25.-Two au-
tomobile bandits to-day shot and IA
tally wounded President E. Roth
mund, of the Addison State Bank.
menaced the employees of the bank
with revolvers and escaped with only
500 in cash. The men were after
$4,000 which it was known had been
delivered to the bank. The bandits
chose broad daylight at busy hour
for their raid on the bank.
The shot which wounded Rothmund
when he failed to raise his hands was
heard by everyone in the business
section of the village. Two bank
clerks who had not noticed the two
bandits until the shot was fired, ran
into the room. One Of the robbers
swept a sackful of bills and small
change off the cashiers counter and
Hpd
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-25
Policeman Is Diva's
Musical Prodigy

ANN ARBOR, MICH, Oct. 25-Ed
ward James Mcnamara, Paterson, N.
j., policeman, go captivated Nine
Schumann- Heink when she heard him
sing that she has undertaken his edu
cation along musical lines and he is
entered as a student in the University
Of Michigan School of Music
Nine. Schumann- Heink's son heard
Mcnamara sing and told his mother
She went to Paterson and had NC
Namara sing for her.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-25
Big Homecoming
To Take Place at
Tabernacle Sunday

Sunday RS expected to be the big
gest day in the history Of the Bap-
tist Tabernacle when members will
celebrate Home coming Day" The
day win commemorate the healing Of
the split that developed soon after the
departure or DIR. Len G. Broughton.
The factions have gotten together, and
since DR.. Lincoln Mcconnell assumed
the pastorate all trouble has van
ished.
The city has been canvassed TO To-
cate every person who Is or who has
been a member of the Tabernacle. An
invitation has been extended to them
to attend this service.