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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-02-19
OPERA HOUSE CO.
ELECTS OFFICERS
Meeting Saturday Afternoon Attended
by Seventy-Five Business Men
and Farmers.
II. c. FINNERN is PRESIDENT
Deal for Soencksen Property to be
Closed at Once-Enough Money
to Warrant Going Ahead.

At a meeting last Saturday after
noon at the Saggau hall, on West
Broadway, seventy-five prominent
German farmers and business men
took the first steps toward the forma
tion of an incorporation which will
mean that Denison will have a fine
new opera house in the very near fu-
ture. For some time the talk of a
new opera house has been in the air.
Recently the leaders of the project
got together and agreed to pool their
interests instead of fighting each 9th
er. For some time it was thought the
new project would fall through, but
all differences have been settled and
everything looks favorable for the
much-needed improvement.
The result of the meeting was that
before they adjourned it was decided
to form STOCK company, to be known
as the German Opera House company,
and officers and directors of the COM
pany were elected. The new company
will be capitalized at $5O,0O00O and
stock will be sold for $50O.O0 per
share. Nearly $23,OOO.0O in stock has
already been solicited, so the project
is assured.
H. C. Finnern, editor of Der Dem
okrat, acted as temporary chairman
of the meeting and c. F. Denker as
secretary, and after vote the tenn
porary officers were made permanent.
Officers of the new company were
elected as follows: H. c. Finnern,
President; John Saggau, Vice Presi-
dent; c. F. Denker, Secretary, and
John Nehls, treasurer. These officers
were elected for the ensuing year. Di-
rectors of the company were elected
as follows: For period of one year,
Peter krauth, Peter Meggers, Philip
Schlumberger, Max Roeh and August
C. Lochmiller; two years, B. Broder-
sen, Thomas Nielsen, Herman Jochs,
Chas. Speck and John Saggau; three
years, John Nehls, c. F. Denker, H.
C. Finnern, H. w. Moeller and VIM.
Brandt The officers elected are
splendid ones, made up as they are of
active and progressive farmers and
business men who we believe will give
their best work and thought to the
mattar Tho SucceS of the ENTERPRISE
is now up to the officers of the new
company and we feel safe in saying
that the new opera house is as
sured, for if these men will make it a
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-02-19

The old soldier, Mr. Ed Sierer,
could be seen Monday trying to pro-
tect his home from a fire which had
been thoughtlessly set in his front
yard by a passerby. When he discov-
cred the flames his sidewalk was be-
ing burned up. The affair can we'll be
a warning that with this dry weather
destructive fires can easily be set by
throwing lighted match on the
ground.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-02-19

Continued on Page 12.)
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-02-19

Mr.. Jones, who led the singing dur
ing the late special meetings, has
found employment in the grocery de-
partment of the Menagh store and
finds it much better than coal mining
with it's darkness and dirt.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-02-19

Mrs. P. J. Farrelly received word
this morning that her nephew, Mark
Lynch, whose home is at Dubuque,
passed away at Centralia, ILL.,, on Tues
day. He was young man twenty-one
years of age and the cause of his
death was due to heart failure.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

The Savings bank of Taibau, n. NJ,
was closed by the State Banking De-
partment, L. B. Wooters, deputy bank
examiner, being placed in charge.
A masked bandit robbed the mail
car of Southern Pacific train No. 90,
near Burlingame, Cal, rifled the reg
istered mail pouch and escaped.
The Niobrara land opening which
continues for two weeks, is attracting
large crowds, over 5000 having regis
tered during the first thirty-siX hours.
Joseph Faulkner was arrested at
Tulsa, Okla. charged with having
struck and dangerously injured his
wife with a brick because she swal-
lowed diamond valued at $500 to
prevent his obtaining possession of
the gem.
Riddled by bullets and believed to
have been robbed of 50 2,400, the body
of William NJ. Larry, wealthy farm
er and merchant, was found at Ur-
bana, ILL.,, in corn field near the
house where he had gone to close
real estate deal.
p. X. Lewis, Lee Torrey and Thorn
as Barrett, ranchers near Startup,
filed damage suits against Snohomish
county, Wash, for a total of $3.50 for
ravages to crops caused by the elk
herd brought into the county from
Yellowstone park some time ago.
AS a result of confessions made at
Calumet, Mich, by Luke Plese and
George Brisk. copper strikers, to
Prosecuting Attorney Lucas, admit
ting, it is said, completely in the kill
ing of Deputy Sheriff James NJ. Pol
lock- Jr, at the Isle Royale mine, nine
men, including Plese and Brisk, We're
arraigned on a charge of murder.
The final chapter in the Diggs-
Caminetti elopement case, insofar as
it affects Marsha Warrington and Lola
whom Diggs and Caminetti eloped to
Reno, New, was written in Sacra-
mento when petitions to declare the
girls dependent children We're dis
missed on the recommendation of the
county probation committee.
All absolute ulNorce ana dliHiony Vi
more than $1,000,000 are asked by
Mrs. Mabel c. Williamson of Spokane
and New York, in suits filed by her in
Spokane against Volney d. William
son, one of the wealthiest mining
men and realty owners in the North.
west. Before her marriage to Will
hanson, in 1904, Mrs. Williamson
was the beautiful Mabel Cotter of
Denver
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
WA ASHlNGTON.

President Wilson is ill, and though
all reports from the White House are
that it is but trifling affair, his
friends are alarmed
Charles A. Prouty will retire soon
as member of the Interstate Com
merce commission, to become direc-
tor of the physical valuation of rail-
ways.
On the motion of Senator Thomas,
Attorneys Asher b. Wilson, Akron
and e. J.. Regenitter, Idaho Springs,
were admitted to practice before the
Supreme Court.
The necessity for a national inven-
tory of social assets and liabilities,
with a special investigation of the
economic program of the Socialists,
is urged in a report made public from
the committee of the National Civic
federation which is preparing to un-
dertake such an inquiry.
BY the closest vote of the session,
Ill to LOG, the House voted to recede
from its conferees' disagreement anu
TO concur in the Senate amendment to
the urgent deficiency appropriation
bill which provides for the removal of
deputy internal revenue collectors
and deputy marshals from civil sery-
ice regulations.
The government could expend pro-
fitably in ten years $100,0OO,OOO in the
reclamation of arid, semi-ard and
swamp lands located in that part of
the country west of the Missouri
-iver," said Secretary Lane of the In
terror Department, on returning from
his extended trip through the west.
The lands, once reclaimed, could be
divided into farms of from thirty to
sixty acres, every one of which would
be taken up promptly" Mr.. Lane
added.
James II. McKenney, for thirty-three
years clerk of the Supreme Court of
the Uuited States, died at his Mary
land home in the outskirts of Wash
ington of a complication of diseases
from which he had been long .uffer-
ing.
Secretary Lane, in talking of his
Western trip, indicated that he does
not agree with Assistant Secretary
Jones of the Interior Department and
Secretary Houston of the Agricultural
Department in their disapproval of
the plan to make of Estes Park ma
tonal park.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
SPORT.

Denver defeated Milwaukee in the
third game of the series at Denver
Ralph Rose, world champion shot
putter, is fighting for life in hos
pital in San Francisco against ty-
phoid fever
Mrs. Phillip Mersinger, owner of a
$5,100 collection of prize cats and
widely known as an exhibitor at cat
shows, died at Joliet, Ill. She was
siXty-five.
Mrs. Agnes Ravenor, baseball mag
nate, owner of the Milwaukee Ameri-
can Association baseball club, was
married in New York to A. F. Timme,
recently elected president OF the Mil
waukee club.
Albert Rebel" Russell, one OF the
star pitchers of the Chicago American
league baseball team, was married in
Chicago to Miss Charlotte Benz. OF
indianapolis, cousin of Joe Benz,
another of the teams twirlers.
Ad Wolgast of Cadillac, Mich, met
Battling Nelson of Hegewisch, H., in
ten-round no-decision boxing con
test at the Elite arena in Milwaukee.
Wolgast had the better of eight of the
ten rounds, while two We're even.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
Held on Daughters Story.

Grand unction.-Charged with an
attempted offense against his thirteen
Xear-old daughter, Cyrus Miller, a
Palisade rancher was arrested and is
now in the county Jail. Three of his
daughters are witnesses against him,
including the complainant, who pos
sesses the peculiar name, Av 8. Mil
Ter is said to justify himself by saying
he wanted to give his wife an excuse
to obtain a divorce. Miller was con-
victed of non-support a year ago in
Palisade.
boys, were arrested there charged
with an offense against a nine-year
old girl. The boys are both under
eighteen years of age.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
FOREIGN.

Remarkable simplicity for royal
ceremonial characterized the wedding
of Prince Arthur of Connaught and
the Duchess of Fife in the chapel of
st. James palace in London.
When the steamship Carmania an
chored in the Mersey at Liverpool,
Captain Barr told newspaper men his
story of the Volturno rescue. 1t
agrees with other stories of the fire.
Confirmation of the discovery of
new land in the Arctic ocean was re-
ceived by the Russian admiralty at
st. Petersburg in brief official wire
less report from Commander Wilt
sky. of the Russian navy.
More than 400 Welsh coal miners
after-damp in the Universal colliery,
near Cardiff, Wales. A terrific ex.
plosion shattered the works shortly
after 931 men had descended the pit
Charge O'Shaughnessy was in
structed to formally notify the author
tiles at Mexico City that the United
States. could not recognize as consti-
tutional the election to be held Octo-
Der 26, in view of General Huerta's s
decree announcing his assumption of
Legislative powers.
Among the rescued from the Vol
turno on Devonian, which docked in
Liverpool, was baby which the hys-
terical mother had flung into the sea.
Arthur Hazelwood, seaman of the
Devonian, sprang overheard and res
cued the child. Another pathetic fig
ure was that of a tiny girl, four years
old, whose nationality is unknown.
She stood among the survivors, be-
wildered, unrecognized and I'M
claimed.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
HAYES FAVORS PROBE
THRONG AT FUNERAL OF MAN
KILLED IN LUDLOW BATTLE.
Governors ENJOYS Probing Situation
Put on Full Force at Min
nequa Plant.
we.tern Newspaper Union News servlee.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Trinidad, Colo.-Twenty-five hun
dred striking miners, forming a col
umn nearly a mile long. followed the
hearse bearing the body of Mack
Powell to the Masonic cemetery north
of this city. Powell was killed in the
battle between strikers and guards
south of Ludlow. At the time of his
death Powell was herding cows for
William Green. Until a few days be-
fore he had been at the strikers col
ony at Ludlow.
Among those who appeared in the
procession were many who walked fif-
teen miles to attend. Over 200 walked
from Segundo, fifteen miles west of
here.
International Vice President Frank
j. Hayes said that the union welcomes
an investigation of the present strike
by Congress. He thinks as far as the
union is concerned the strike is car
ried on in a peaceful manner. 1t is
his claim that many things will be dis
covered in a congressional investiga-
tion of conditions here of which the
ieuelal dulliorllleS are lsHordnl'
Claude Fairchild, who was sent here
by Governor Ammons, visited the
Ludlow tent colony and will visit 9th
ers during the week. He had no
statement to make now relative to his
visit. He says he will study condi-
tions and give an impartial opinion to
the governor.
Major G. NJ. Lee of the national
guard is also here, but says his visit
has nothing to do with sending of
the militia.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
GEN ERAL.

Governor Eugene N Foss of Massa
chusetts, three times elected as a
Democrat, field nomination papers as
an Independent candidate for COVER
nor of Massachusetts.
1t was stated at ST. Louis by q
lawyer intimately connected with
Adolphus Busch that the estate oi
the dead brewer would total in the
neighborhood of $4,000, 900.
The body of Adolphus Busch, mil
lionaire brewer of st. Louis, who
died on his estate in Germany, was
taken from Langenschwalbach. Ger
many, to begin the last long journey
to st. Louis for burial.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has given the railroads in the
Transmississippi territory until Nov
l. to file schedules of proposed re
duced commodity freight rates be
tween Denver and the East, in con.
formity with its recent order in the
case brought before the commission
by the Colorado Manufacturers Asso
citation.
Allison Mcfarland, acquitted last
October in Newark of the murder OF
his wife, arrested ten days later for
counterfeiting, convicted and sen
fenced to eighteen months in Atlanta
federal penitentiary, was married in
Niagara Falls to Florence Bromley
the Bunny of the famous Bunny
letters" that appeared as evidence al
his trial.
e. c. Won Klein, alias Jack Lewis
the alleged marrying swindler, ar
rested in Chicago last summer and
taken to Portland, where his first
trial resulted in disagreement
failed to obtain a writ of mandamus
to dismiss the indictments. The prin
cipal witness, Miss Ethel Newcomb
who caused his arrest, has disap
peared. Won Klein is in Jail at Port
land
Captain Francis Inch, whose
steamer, the Volturno, was burned al
sea with the lost of 1876 lives, told his
story of the disaster In New York. II
is plain seamans tale, but in it line
by line the horrors of the disaster ano
the terrible ordeal through which pas
sengers and crew passed are brought
out all the more clearly, perhaps by
the marked directness and simplicity
with which the story is told.
The twelve jurors before whom
Mrs. Jennie May Eaton will be tried
on the charge of numbering her hus
band, Rear Admiral Joseph Giles Ea
ton. at Assinippi last March, by Civ
ing him poison, were chosen in the Su
perior Court at Plymouth, Mass.
While the ceremonies attending the
practical completion of the Panama
canal were taking place, Lieut.. Col
David du Boise Gaillard, who directed
some of the most difficult engineer
ing feats in the Culebra cut division
lay unconscious and dying in john
HOPKINS hospital at Baltimore.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
Decides Picketins is Not LEGAL.

Boulder.-After a long night ses-
sion of court District Judge Robert
Strong held that it was not legal to
picket in Colorado and denied the mo-
tion to quash informations filed
against thirty-seven striking miners
recently arrested for picketing in the
northern coal fields.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
Springs Court Frees Affinities.

Colorado Springs.-Trial OF the case
of Mrs. Jacquemena Russman of Chi
cago, charged with statutory of
fense, terminated Unexpectedly in the
District Court when Judge J. w.
Sheafor directed the jury to return a
verdict of not guilty. That the Chi
cago beauty and Keeler are not guilty
under the Colorado statute, was the
courts ruling.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
Full Force at Minneoua Plant.

Pueblo.-The report that the Min.
nequa plant of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron Company here will put on full
force of men was partially confirmed.
The Pueblo officials will go no far
ther than to say that they will hire
back large number of men who were
laid off just prior to the coal strike
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
Sentenced for Murderous Attack.

Grand Junction.-David Williams,
arrested for murderous assault upon
Joseph Perry, near Cameo, was SEN
fenced by Judge Black in the District
Court to serve from one to three
years in the penitentiary.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
Just Wed, Held as SLAYER.

Grand Junction.-Charged with at
tempting TO sell his young bride into
white slavery, Edward st. Claire was
arrested here by Deputy Sheriff Wat
son at the request of Montrose citi-
zens. st. Claire was married to Miss
Maude Wilson in Montrose only two
weeks ago
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
Potato Crop 100 Sacks to Acre.

Kersey.-Potatoes are surely com.
ing back" and Foss Dix, a well-todo
farmer of this section is digging his
crop which is running around 100
sacks to the acre, and which he feels
sure will be far more than this before
the harvesting is done
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
Horse Thief Gets Five.Year Term.

Littleton.-Elbert G. Ryan, who con-
fessed to five separate charges of
horse stealing from Arapahoe county
farmers was sentenced to serve from
four to five years in the state peni-
tentiary, by Judge Henry Glass of the
District Court
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
Attack on Deputies Confirmed.

Walsenburg.-Th attack on H. E.
Porter and A. w. Brown was verified
by citizens of Aguilar, but Sheriff
Farr is emphatic in stating that no
one was killed, as a report stated, at
Cameron.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
Cattle Purchases Many.

La Salle.-Farmers in this district
are heavy purchasers of cattle and
the feeders expect to make good
profits.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19
D0OcE1EI Tc TAIF OF THE TANNING OF THE PLATT MACHINE
Tells of His Decision Governor OF New York to
Appeal to the People, if Necessary Against Organization
Dictates-Some Controversies with the EASY Boss
and Measures Which Were Adopted
to Avoid an Open Rupture.

little interest in any fight of mere per
sonalities They were not influenced In
the least by the silk stocking reform view
of Mr.. Plat. | knew that If they were
persuaded that | was engaged In mere
faction fight against him--that IL was
mere issue between his ambition and
mine-they would at once become indif-
ferent and my fight would be lost.
But | felt that could count on their
support wherever | could show them that
the fight was not made just for the sake
of the row, that il was not made merely
as factional contest against Senator
Plat and the organization, but was
wAged from q sense of duty, for real
and tangible causes, such as the promo
ton of governmental efficiency and hon
esty. and forcing powerful moneyed men
to take the proper attitude toward the
community at large. They stood by me
when ! insisted upon having the Canal
Department. the Insurance Department
and the various departments OF the state
government run with efficiency and hon
esty: they stood by me when ! insisted
upon making wealthy men who owned
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19

state LEGISLATURE but I'm the last resort
the people behind these legislators had a
still greater control over them. | MADE
up my mind that the only way / could
beat the bosses whenever the need TO 90
so arose land unless there was such need
/ did not wish to try was, not by at
tempting to manipulate the machinery
and not by trusting merely TO the profess
sional reformers but by making my APP
peal as directly and as emphatically as
knew how to the mass OF voters them-
selves, to the people, TO the men VINO II
walked up would he able to impose their
will on their representatives. My success
depended upon getting the people In the
different districts TO look at matters IN
my way, and getting them to take suci'
an active interest In affairs as To enable
them 10 exercise control over their repre-
seutatives.
There were few Of the Senators and
Assemblymen whom | could reach ny
seeing them personally and putting be-
fore them my arguments: but most OF
them were too much under the control OF
the machine for me TO shake them loose
unless they knew that the people were
actively behind me. In making my APP
peal to the people as whole ] was deal
ing with an entirely different constitu-
encv from that which. especially In the
big cities, liked TO think OF itself as the
better element" the particular expo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19

taqonizei or Inundated them | did not
wish 10 humlliate them or TO seem VIC
torious over them: what | wished was TO
secure the things that l thought IT es-
genital to the men and women OF the
state to secure. II ! could finally per-
suade them to support me, well and
good: I'm such case / continued to work
with them In the frlendliest manner
II after repeated and persistent eff
fort failed 70 get them to support
me. then | made fair fight in the
open. and In majority of cases | car
ried my point and succeeded In getting
through the legislation which | wished.
In theory the executive has nothing 10
do with legislation. In practice. az
things now are. the executive Is or
ought 10 he peculiarly representative
of the people as a whole. AS often as
not the action OF the executive offers
the only means by which the people can
get the legislation they demand and
ought TO have. Therefore a good exec
utive under the present conditions or
American political life must take "A
very active interest In getting the right
kind OF legislation. in addition To per-
forming his executive duties with an
eve single TO the public welfare. More
than half OF my work az Governor was
I'm the direction OF getting needed and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19

yIEN | became Governor the con-
NJ science Of the people was in no
w way or shape aroused as II has
since become reused. The people accepted
and practsed in a matter of course way
as quite proper things which they would
not now tolerate They had no definite
and clearly outlined conception of what
they wished In the way Of reform. They
OF the whole tolerated, and indeed APP
proved OF, the machine; and there had
been no development, on any considerable
scale, Of reformers with the vision to see
what the needs of the people were, and
the high purpose sanely to achieve what
was necessary In order TO meet these
needs. knew both the machine and the
silk stocking reformers fairly well. from
many years close association with them.
The machine as such had no Ideals at
all. although many of the men composing
il did have. On the other hand the ideals
IF very many of the silk stocking reform
ars did not relate to the questions OF zeal
and vital interest to our people; ana,
sirgularly enough, in international mat
ters, these same silk stockings were no
more to be trusted than the average le-
norant demagOgue or shortsighted spoiis
politician | felt that these men would
be broken reeds TO which to trust in any
vital contest for betterment of social and
industrial conditions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19
SO TOLD THE SsAATOR WAS VERY Sonny. But
THAT Could NOT APPOINT HIS MAN'

important legislation. L accomplished
this only by arousing the people, and
riveting their attention on what was
done.
Ora iually the people began to wake up
more and more to the fact that the ma
chine politicians were not giving them the
kind OF government which they wished.
AS this waking up grew more general,
not merely In New York or any other one
state. but throughout most OF the nation,
the power OF the bosses waned. Then
curious thing happened The professional
refor ners who had most loudly criticised
these bosses began to change toward
them Newspaper editors. college pres'-
dents, corporation lawyers and big BUSH
ness men all alike had denounced the
bosses and had taken part in reform
movements against them so long as these
reforms dealt only with things that were
superficial or with fundamental things
that did not affect themselves and their
associates But the majority OF these
men turned TO the support of the bosses
when the great new movement began
clearly TO make itself evident AS one
against privilege I'm business, no less than
against privilege I'm politics, as one for
social and industrial no less than for po-
litioal righteousness and fair dealing. The
big corporation lawyer who had antago-