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The Alaska daily empire., 1913-10-27
Mexico Fails to
 Choose President

WASHINGTON. Oct. 27.-Returns received up to late this afternoon from the Mexican election indicates that no President has been chosen. The vote was very light The opinion prevails here that the new Congress will de clare the election void and that Gen. Huerta vii retain his authority.
 Huerta Leads Poll.
 Gen. Huerta is now leading the poll in the voting. Gamboa is second.
 20
 Gamboa Leads in Early Returns. MEXICO CITY Oct. 27-Ihe Indl- cations here this morning are that there were not a sufficient number of votes cast at yesterdays election to constitute d legal choice for the Presidency In many sections Of the country there were no votes cast at all.
 Frederico GambOa, former minister of foreign affairs, is leading in the meager returns that have been col lated at the capital. If any one has been elected it is probably GambOa.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
WALL OF WATER HITS TOWN
cLoUDBURST iNUNDATES LARGE
PART OF ELY, NEVADA.
One Man Drowned When ne rs
Caught by Flood in Base
ment Of Hotel.

Ely, New, Aug 27.-One man was
drowned when wall of water from
cloudburst last evening swept down
Murray creek, which flows through
Ely. The food rose above the banks
of the stream and inundated portion
of the business and residence sections
to a depth of several feet.
When the torrent struck the corner
of the Northern hotel it quickly found
its way into the basement, where Z.
ID. Vautrin and Edward Hillock hap
pened to be at the time. The water
poured down the stairway in such vol
ume that they were unable TO make
their exit. Axes were obtained and
hole in the floor of the bar room was
cut out, through which both men were
dragged Efforts to resuscitate Hill
lock failed.
A number of stores and residences
we're Hooded, but the damage is es
timated not to have exceeded S5,OO0'
Several persons had narrow escapes
from being carried away by the HOOD
which came almost without warning
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
PREPARING FIGHT
ON BRIDGE TRUST
IF IOWA WINS SHE WILL SAVE
$25o,ooo PER YEAR.
INJURED IN STREET CAR WRECK
Several Cases of Smallpox Reported
in Marion county--oskaIoosa Girl
Married In Des Moines-Meth-
odists in Alsona, la.

Des Moines, Aug. 27.-Henry Il.
Sampson, assistant attorney general
is in the East securing evidence which
will be used in the suit to be started
by the state by authority of the last
Legislature against the Luten patents
held by the bridge trusts by which
the trust collects a ten per cent roy
atty for all bridges of concrete and
many other devises used. There are
over twenty of these patents and in
many states the trust has reaped
rich harvest Iowa lawmakers came
to the conclusion that the patents
were not good and so started the ac-
ton. he evidence will be secured
In eastern states to show that the
methods said to be patented We're in
use many years ago, before the pat
ents were issued in 1902. III Iowa
wins it will save $25O,000 annually to
the state and other states are expect.
ed to fight the trust. The action Is
to be in the federal courts here.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
COURSES IN SEX HYGIENE
URGED BY SPEAKERS TODAY AT
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS.
Attention Called Especially To the
American Federation Which Most
Strongly Favors 1t.

Buffalo, Aug. 27.-The establish
ment of courses in sex hygiene for
teachers in universities, colleges, nor
NAL schools and grammar schools and
compilation of text books suitable for
school use was urged by speakers at
today's sessions of the Fourth Inter
national Congress on School Hygiene
presided over by DIR. Charles w. Eliot,
president emeritus of Harvard uni
versity, and president OF the Con-
gress.
DR.. Thomas M. Ballot, dean of the
School of Pedagogy, at New York
University; President William Tru-
FAINT Foster, of Reed College, Oregon,
and DR.. Hugh Cabot, of Harvard Uni
versity, spoke on the subject of in
struction for teachers and preparation
of text books in sex courses. Atten-
ton was called especially to the re-
port of the American Federation for
sex hygiene which favors the use of
nature study and biology as a medium
for sex instruction and which OPP
poses instruction in the schools by
sex specialists. 1t was argued that
specialists not trained to teach chill.
vi Gil COulu uOI SdJioldCtOIlly 30 ihJO
the details necessary without POSSIBLE
ity of offending sensitive natures of
the children. On the other hand, it
was pointed out, teachers specially
trained in sex hygiene could, with
their knowledge of instruction, be
made to be better fitted for this
somewhat delicate task.
One of today's features was the
discussion of oral hygiene in SYM
postum arranged by the National
Mouth Hygiene Association. Atten-
ton was called to experiments work
ed out in the Cleveland schools where,
lit was declared, very good results
have been obtained.
DR.. J. f. w. Wallin, of the Univers-
ity of Pittsburgh, called attention to
the need of municipal provision for
psychological clinics for the purpose
of classifying school children mental
ly. "Only thus" said DIR. Wallin,
"can we economically and scientific
ally train all the children of all the
people"
Under the topic, Health Direction
in the Public Schools" DR., Clinton P.
McCord, medical inspector of schools
for the city of Albany, remarked that
the health director should be the Off
Ger to keep the physical needs of the
child before the public and education
al authorities. He should act as an
expert for the board of education, =
said DIR. McCord, and he should pass
on the physical fitness of candidates
for the teaching force"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
PRESERVATION Sent BY Wireless.

Sydney, N. S. W., Aug, 27.-Once
more has the wireless been brought
into play to save life, and 1t has
proven successful When the steam
err Wimmera locked here today the
ships physician told of having ex.
hausted his knowledge to save one OF
the passengers who was desperately
i'll. During an exchange of news with
the Maheno. outward bound from
here the presence of specialist on
board the Maheno was made known
to the Wimmera's doctor who asked
for advice regarding treatment of his
Datient
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
Injured in Street Car Wreck.

Des Moines, Aug. 27-One man pro-
badly was injured fatally and eight
other persons were bruised and cut by
lying glass In rear end collision on
the Grand View street car line almost
directly in front of the old sanitarium
at $3.50 o'clock last night.
NJ. G. Camrfek, motorman of car No,
lao, is In the Des Moines general hos
pital, his right leg fractured in two
places, his left leg with hole in 1t
where the leg of a stool was forced
through, and internal injuries.
The injuries to the others were
slight in comparison. Sheriff Gus
Flyers OF Lincoln, Neb., being the only
other one to suffer seriously from the
lsmashup His right elbow was crush
ed and his back sprained.
The others injured
Mrs Lucy Koon, Des Moines, hands
cut by glass.
Mrs. Mary Howe, Osceola, bruised
by force OF collision. n,
James L. Campbell, Ogden, badly
bruised over body.
Orlie Hayhurst, Promise City, hands
cut by glass.
T. M. Corken, Des Molnes, hands
cut and bruised.
Mrs. |. Nj. Corken, Des Moines, left
leg bruised.
Mrs. Grace Jones, Sac City, left arm
badly bruised.
The absence OF the red lantern on
car No 131 was the direct cause of
the accident, according TO Conductor
Dick Conklin, who was in charge OF
the car Car No. 131 was going south
when the trolley jerked off and broke
the trolley rope. The lights on the
car went out, and Conklin ran back
to flag car No. 140, which was follow
ing close behind. @iat eso&s ~
Camrlck was running his GEAR down
/, long hill about forty miles per hour.
Conklin had got back just about 100
feet from the rear of his car, when
Camrick saw him. Not having a lam
tern Conklin waved his arms up and
down, but Camrick was going so fast
he could not stop.
His car crashed into the rear end of
car No. 131 with terrific force, tele-
lscoping the front end Of car No. lao,
and completely wrecking the front
vestibule where Camrick was stand
ing. He was thrown back violently
against the legs OF his steel, which
was overturned. One leg of the stool
pierced his left leg just below the
knee, the end sticking out on the
other side.
! Except for Camrick the injured
We're able to go to their homes and
hotels unassisted. Camrick was taken
to the Des Moines general hospital in
the police ambulance.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
QUESTIONS SERUM REMEDY
CASS COUNTY MAN LOSES 200
HEAD AFTER VACCINATION.
He believes hog cholera is not vet
fully understood.-Oue to local
Conditions.

Des Moines. Aug. 27.--H C. Brand.
es is one of the first Iowa hog raisers
to question the value of vaccination
against hog cholera. Mr.. Brandes
lost 200 head of swine after they had
been treated with the anti-cholera
serum, and he believes he is justified
in his position.
MIR. Brandes. who is attending the
Iowa state fair, has farm west of
Atlantic. He was a member of the
Thtrty-second and Thirty-third assem-
bles. Mr.. Brandes points to the fact
that a large herd of swine was lost
this summer on the farm of the Home
for Predetermined Children at Glen
wood. He believes that hog cholera
is one of the effects of cause which
is not yet fully understood. After
his own experience he is dubious
whether the anti-toXin now being
used is an absolute protection against
the dreaded scourge of the swine
pens.
Mr.. Brandes believes that the cause
of the disease is due to some local
condition for which food, soil or
weather may be responsible.
81 had 100 head in one pen when
they we're taken sick" he said land
lost every one. | paid S75 to have
the rest of the hogs treated with the
new anti-cholera serum, but | only
saved twenty-five out of the lot. |
believe that the condition responsible
for the disease is due TO some local
trouble. gave a relative some pigs
out of the same herds as those | lost,
and they are doing fine and have new
er manifested symptom OF the dis
ease. | also sold some to neighbor,
but the stock is healthy and vigorous.
When the disease broke out in my
herds the pens were lined, the ami
mails we're dipped, and every remedy
was resorted to in order to arrest the
progress of the disease.
ut has been claimed that uncleanly
pens are responsible for some OF
these troubles. but my pens are large
and clean and the animals have plen-
Nv OF room 10 run III. nave NO'hN
TO the conclusion that the trouble Is
due to some condition on the farm.
i fail to understand Why my herds
should be thinned ort BY cholera
while those of my neighb1rs escape
infection. 1t is true that fhe disease
sometimes takes on the characterize
les of an epidemic but 1t has to start
somewhere and there are evidently
conditions at the starting point which
often do not appear to exist on sur
rounding farms.
ct is my opinion that the use OF
the anti-cholera cure for hogs would
prove more effective il It we're admin
istered by experts o. u government
or at least under their direction. The
quality of the serum and the method
of injecting it, no doubt conspire to
determine whether the treatment Is
going to be success or not. Untll
I have a chance to see more success
full result from the cure ] shall ques-
ton its efficiency as an absolute pro-
lection"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
Motor Boats supplant eondolas.

Venice Italy. Aug. 2I.--The desire
for rapid transit has killed another
romantic custom in romantic Venice,
With the formal inauguration today
of mower boat service on the his
toric Venetian canals, the gondola's
doom is sealed as was the doom OF
the cabby of London and New York
when the taxis were put on the street.
There have been one or two motor
boats on the Venice canals before hut
they were rarities. Twenty of the
ohugging, sputtering boats driven by
erstwhile gondoliers were put in SER
vice today and twenty more viii be
launched shortly
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
A Good One For Johnny.

Chicago. Aug. 27.-When freckled-
face Johnny leader of the West End
gang. goes marching regretfully back
10 school in few days he will have
the backing of the Chicago depart
ment Of health il he tells dad that
his chances of living are lot better
out OF doors than il cooped up in
school houses. The health depart
ment. in a special bulletin issued to-
day. explains that there has been a
marked decrease in the number of
reported contagious diseases common
to youngsters since the closing OF
school in June. Cases of scarlet
fever, diphtheria. measles. chicken
pox and mumps have decreased on an
average of sixty per cent since John
ny and Jimmy and Susie and Sallie
put their books away last June for
their summer vacation
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
cr.matinnists In SESSION.

Detroit, Mich, Aug. 27-The first
annual session of the Cremation So
ciety of America met here today to
discuss a systematic plan for distrib-
utlng propaganda to have cremation
supplant burial of the dead. The Gre
mationists were formally welcomed
by the mayor and other city officials.
The most important resolution sub
mitted today was that urging "the
Congregation of the lnquisition of
the Roman Catholic Church to rescind
the DEGREES opposing incarceration"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
Machine Guns On elplanes.

Rome. Aug. 27.-Italy today made
its first experiments with biplanes
armed with rapid fire machine guns.
The latter are intended for the de-
struction of other aeroplanes and
diriglbles In time of war. Lieuten.
ant Laureati. who manipulated the
machine gun in today's trial flights,
will be, in charge of the biplane ma
chine gun corps which is soon to be
organized.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
Victim Reoains CONSEQUENCES.

Winterset, Aug. 27.-Peter Clear.
aged 70, the only survivor of the triple
tragedy yesterday. regained con-
seriousness today and told his story.
He said that Brobst blamed him be-
cause his wife left him. Clear said
when Brobst came into his dooryard
yesterday he had bottle OF whlskey
and offered him a drink. Clear said
Continued ON Page 81
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
TWO KILLED BY FAST MAIL
oTTuMWA GARBAGE COLLECT.
oRS RUN DOWN BY TRAIN.
Their Wagin Struck At Crossing and
Both Men Were Maneled Be-
You'd Recognition.

Ottumwa, Aug. 27-Jobn Parker,
aged %. and John Wyatt. aged 80,
both garbage collectors, were instant
ly killed early today when their wag-
on was struck by Burlington fast
mail train, No 10, at Jefferson street
crossing. Both men were mangled
beyond recognition. One horse was
killed and the other so badly injured
ii had to be shot.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
Aid to Dean Suicides.

Champaign, ILL.,. Aug. 27.-Miss Oh
i've Saxton, for sixteen years secretary
to Thomas A. Clark, dean of the Uni.
versity Of Illinois, committed suicide
in her room last evening. The first
coroners jury composed of women
that ever served in this county return
ed verdict that death had been caus-
ed by asphyxiation.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
smaIloox in Marion county.

Knoxville. Aug. 27.-Several cases
OF smallpox are reported in the Dom
ley and Buckeye neighborhoods, four
to six miles west and northwest Of
Knoxville. The following families are
under quarantine: NJ. M. Wren, s.
T. Jerrold, Ferd Cooney aud ]. P. Nc
Laughlin
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
Methodists to Alaona.

Algona, Aug 27.--The Algona dis
trict conference of the Methodist
church will convene in Algona Thurs
day. Thirty-five ministers OF the dis
triet will attend. The main address
viii be delivered on Thursday evening
by the Rev. A. L. Craig, president of
Morningdale College.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
Ross-paxton.

Des Moines, Aug 27.--The clerk Of
the courts here has issued marriage
license to Robert l.. Ross of Berkeley,
California, aged 81 and Miss Rose
Dayton, of oskaloosa, Iowa, aged II.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
MUST Be REORGAN|zED NOW
URGENT NECESSITY OF EARLY
ACTION URGED BY SENATOR.
Prosressives Up for Reelection Next
Fall Want Chairman Hilles to
Call Committee Meeting.

Washington, ID. c., Aug. 27-Sen-
ator Lummins seems obsessed with
mis- idea that the republican party
must reorganized right away quick"
In the senator's opinion, it will not
do to wait any longer, the party must
be reorganized now. The senator
wants Charles d. Hilles, chairman of
the national committee, Immediately
TO issue a call for the members of
the committee to meet this fall and
arrange for a national convention or
national conference, whichever name
shall be thought the more desirable.
The urgent necessity of early &C.
ton was the burden of Senator Cum
Minis talk to the members of the
committee named at the Chicago con-
ference of progressive republicans,
who were his dinner guests last
Thursday evening at the University
club. Those who attended the dinner
were Senators Crawford, of South
Dakota; Sherman, of Illinois, and
Jones, of Washington, every one Of
whom, like Senator Cummins, is up
for reelection next year and has bull
moose and other troubles, and Repre-
sentative Anderson OF Mime
sofa, Champion, of Michigan,
and Rogers, of Massachusetts.
Senator Cummins stated to the
committee, which he styles the con.
Citation committee that il should
be suggested at once to Chairman
Hilles that the meeting OF the national
committee should be called right
away. The committee agreed with
Senator Cummns. Since that night
there has been considerable discus
sion among the members OF the
Cancellation" committee as to how
the request should be made, what
should be stated in the letter to Mr..
Hilies, etc. One member of the com
mittee thought the best way would
be for two or three OF them TO go to
New York and make the request in
person, but it is said Senator Cum
mins does not approve OF this plan.
that he prefers to make the request
in writing so that it viii be Of record.
Washington, ID. C., Aug, 2I-Repre-
sentative Charles A. Kennedy, OF the
First Iowa district, is in receipt of a
copy of resolutions unanimously
adopted by the directors of the Keo-
kuk Industrial association, composed
of the manufacturers, merchants and
professional men of that city, protest
ing against the passage OF the admin
lstration currency bill The resolu-
tons declare 1t is the belief OF the
directors that the BILL ii enacted into
law, would result in violent contrac-
ton OF the very essentials OF growth
and progress and that compulsory
transfer OF immense sums to the pro-
posed reserve banks could only be
followed by a contraction of credit
which would work disaster to the
business interests of the country.
I'VE do not look with favor upon
the establishment of new political
machine, even under the guise OF a
bank" the resolutions further de.
clare, nor do we believe financial in.
terests OF the country should be con.
trolled by partisan board whose
only fitness for the position may be
party loyalty"
Representative Kennedy has filed
the resolutions for reference to the
committee on banking and currency
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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23

two men were seen running toward the
volcano. Captain Barnaby exclaimed.
Lord bless me. the foremost is old
Booty. my next door neighbour They
then vanished in the flames, a fact OF
which every one took note.
In addition to the testimony of Cap
tain Barnaby aud his friends, old Boo
tvs clothes were brought into court
and identified by several witnesses as
being similar to those worn by the fore
most man who ran into the cratet.
The judge. Chief Justice Sir Robert
Wright. was so impressed by this evi-
dence that he said: Lord have mercy
upon me and grant that | may never
see what you have seen. One, two or
three may be mistaken, but not thirty"
Mrs. Booty lost the day. and the case
still remains the only judicially ac-
cepted ghost story on record.-London
! Chronicle.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23
Family CompIications.

Many ingenious complications in gen.
ealogy have been compiled. but the fol-
lowing one has the merit of being def
mite as to time, place and people. 1t
concerns family living at Faversham.
in Kent, in February. 1850. Old Ha-
wood had two daughters by his first
wife, of whom the elder was married
to John Cashick. the son, and the
younger to John Cashick the father
Cashick senior had daughter by his
first wife. This daughter old HAYWOOD
married and by her had a son, which
led to the complication summed up in
the following distich supposed to be
spoken by Cashick's second wife:
My father is my son, and l am my moth
er's mother
My sister is my daughter, and I'm grand.
mother to my brother.
London Taller.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23
Paternal Germany.

A government. says writer in the
Twentieth Century Magazine, which
tells you how to carry your umbrella,
which fOrbids ladies who wear long
hatpins to enter railway trains, which
fines you if you throw cigar stubs or
papers on the street, which does not
permit your children to make noise
so that others are disturbed-such a
government does restrict individual lib
erty, but just as certainly it enlarges
the common liberties and pleasure of
everybody. The government thus eu.
logized is that of Germany, which the
writer quoted prefers to our "go-as
you please" system.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23

1t is interesting to record that the
first grating of a pecan tree was ac-
compiShed by negro slave. and it is
doubtful whether any other member of
the black race has ever performed an
economic service to this country that is
so signal in its Importance. In 1871
Antoine. the slave gardener of Teles-
phore j. Boman of Louisiana. grated
sixteen trees of the variety that is now
known as the. Centennial. He later
succeeded in grating 40 other pecans
and these We're the only grated nut
trees in America before lS65.-Archi
bald Rutledge in Outing
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23
FATE OF OLD BOOTY.
The Only JudicialIy Accepted Ghost
Story on Record,

The Only JudicialIy Accepted Ghost
Story on Record.
Stromboi. the island volcano, known
as the lighthouse of the Mediterranean,
which is in violent eruption, once fig
ured in a court of law in connection
with one of the most circumstantial
ghost stories on record. In 1858 a Mrs.
Booty brought an action of slander
against a certain Captain Barnaby for
saying that he had seen old Booty run
ming into the flames of hell, pursued by
the devil.
The words were admitted, but for
the defense it was proved that May 10,
1857. the day of old Booty's death. the
captain, with large party of friends
went ashore at Stromboli to shoot rab.
hits. At about $3.50 in the afternoon