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Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21

ished Communities where gas was first used for Illuminating purposes Its use was more for heating and for cooking than for lighting. 1t is true that fuel of an sorts has always been costly in Bisbee but that gas could enter into economic competition with coal or wood, even at high prices Of the latter the average householder could not conceive That it was more convenient and cleaniy was quite like ly but it took education Of the gem eral public to convince it of tEe ad- vantagea that gas had to offer AS thc public awakened to the advant ages of cooking with gas the company spread its mains further and further through the district until today its service reaches Co nearly every sec ton.
 The greater part Of the growth in the service Of this company has been made under che management of c. s Thompson.
 Warreu-5isbee Street Railway
 Street railway service. local trans portatlon Go all parts of the Warren District. was the last Of the publ. utilities Co receive attention. Fo. years it was not especially needed When Lowell grew up down the gulc' from Bisbee and became of sufficlen
Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21
Rich Postal Receipts

Postal receipts may be taken as certain measure of the growth and the business conditions of a commun- ity Those of the Bisbee post office indicate clearly the improved coudi- tons and the increases in populations over one short year ago. The average monthly receipts at this time are 24 per cent in excess of the average for the six months ending December 3lst last Postal savings deposits have iu- creased nearly IS per cent during the present year up to October 23rd
 lt was to be expected that when .hc mining companies Of the district curtailed production by 40 per cent or more during the latter part of 191I the receipts of the post office and the postal savings accounts would show the effects Of such curtailment Work ing forces were reduced and many in- diyiduals and in some in -tances. whole families left the district This the post office clearly reflected. Now that the mines are working to capacity again and wages are at new high level. the changed conditions are once more reflected
 Tn the last six months of 1914 tho postal receipts from Bisbee and Low ell fell oH 10 16,3i312. and average Of
Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21
Warren DstictSes Leading Pace for Municipal Improvements

were extended further to .he south and new shafts were put down Tho more level and open coun- try below Lowell ua a logical point for a residential dietrIct. Co make it accessible 10 B bee three miles away was tle one essential Am electric eystam between the two points was required Thr WarrouBisbec Street Railway compau was formed obtain ed its right Of way and construction commenced In 19D7 ln 1909 Che work vas completed and the road placed in operation Is westerly terminal was at the old city line in Tombstone Cam yon. but later it Haa continued 0u to Weed Canyon lsa chan haIf a mile cas. from the present city line.
 Half Hour Service
 The Wawanriebce street railway furnishes a half hour Service daily be- tween Bisbec oud Warren from a. m. to1a. m. and beeweca ho.o hours two service trips are made. lf also gives l- minute service between F'eboe and Lowell Oa h9ilsys and on pay day tHo Warren rIee. du ing the h1urs Of tHo bon .Hr day 's 15 minutes Each day certain se1sd- uied trips arc mad. To Iae Country . Club at Corta station below Warren
Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21

importance, a stage line was put on by Bowen & Hubbard in connection with their Palace livery business, and this they continued until service was established by am electric railway
 It was not until the town of Warren was laid out and was becoming settled that the real need for street railway was felt Before that most of the mine workings were close Go Bisbee and it was only a mile Co Lowell But mine
Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21

teams were generally in vogue, but 1t took tho motor truck to work the final solution, and now the delivery service of the company gives general sausfac- ton.
 Gas for Cooking.
 The general use of gas in the War reu District was eyer slower develop meut With electric lighting already established and in general use, condt uons were different from old estab-
Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21

end on Sunday these trips are made each hour
 There are many special occasions when the capacity of this street rail- way Is taxed to the limit but it has
 howu ability to handle 10000 passen- gers or more iu a single day during a Fourth of July celebration. and when crowds have to be accommodated, 1t rises Co tun occasion.
Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21
oas compaly Forms.

Some ten or a dozen years ago a company was organized to furnish the city with gas and was granted a fran chise. It erected a small plant manu- factured some gas and did furnish a limited amount of gas to very linn tied number of consumers. The ven ture was In no way a success and la ter the enterprise was purchased by the Bisbeo Improvement Company, which enlarged and improved the plant into a new one and for the first
Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21
LIaht. PoWer and Iee.

Early in its history Bisbee outgrew candles and kerosene. Power was needed for various undertakings and to supply these needs, to furnish the camp with various utilities the Bis bee Improvement company was form ed. One of the mining companies might have done that but paterualism was not in the line of their practice and the matter was left to private en- terprise. The company was formed by some of the most farseeing and progressive business men of the camp. An electric power plant was erected and equipped and the new company entered upon the project Later an ice plant was installed and that commodity. SO essential in @ warm climate, was supplied to the citizens locally mapufactured for the first tine.
Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21

CuIch. and some water was devel- oned. though never enough to meet the requirements of growing com munity. In at least one instance, how ever. it was piped and supplied to portions of the city.
 One of the mining companies of those days explored for water at Naco. put down wells. and. for its own use piped and pumped che water up to ita Bisbee property. lt was found uuprUHtable. however, and the plant was sold to several business men of the district who planned to further develop the water supply at Naco and thus meet the wants of the people of Bisbee. Thus originated the Bisbee-Naco Water Company
 To pump water a distance of eleven miles and lift it to the height of quarter Of a mile or more is a diff cult and costly matter Yet this is done by the Bisbee-Naco company To pump it in sufficient quantities for a population of 23OOO to 2lO0O and for important business and commercial purposes presented still greater diff culties These the company meets. lt has miles of mains running up and down hills, reaching practically every part of the district, and this service it is constantly extending An an- alysis of the water, which the com pany has made from time to time, shows this deep we'll water to be free from organic and vegetable matter and of exceptional purity
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15

eagles egg under hen and kept the
eaglet as Eet. He clipped it's wings
to keep it captive. 1t never ran from
the hawk. 1t often viewed the sky
with longing look. In harvest time
storm arose. Men rushed their
teams to the barn; the cattle came
into the yard and the poultry fled to
their shelter. In the flash however
the farmer saw Jack on the peak of
the barn. In the lightning's light the
eagle beheld the ills and they called
him. The next moment another flash
revealed him mounting on the storm
to the heights-his home. The storm
is on. Ten thousand warning ele-
ments crash around you, challenging
your manhood. Divine illumination
shows you the heights. Your soul
tells you that you belong higher. AS
sert yourself, you are part of the
Kingdom of Cod"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15
"PIONEER LADIES'"

An exchange from northern Iowa
county chronicling the death of an
early settler says she was one of the
pioneer ladies of the county"
Why this common distaste toward
the use of that best word in the
language, woman"
An obituary can scarcely be ridi-
culous but reference to an old sett-
Ter as one of the pioneer gentle
men" of the county would set mirtn
striving against respect to the dead.
There were no pioneer gentlemen
and ladies in those days when Iowa 5
settlement was in progress; but
there were a magnificent army of pi-
oneer men and women.
The true hearted wives who bold
ly followed their husbands to the
frontier with their babes in their
arms, who dared poverty and hung
er and the storms that gathered
strength across a thousand miles OF
treeless expanse were women. And
the husbands they followed were
men. Write the words in capitals.
They were men and, women.
In all the English Language there
are no words which so we'll des'
cribe high character as these: "She
was a good woman" 1t is all there,
all that the brave woman suffers and
endures for her own, her struggle
and victory. Those pioneer women
do not need the term lady. They
were pioneer women and when that
is said all that can be said in praise
and appreciation has been told.
Let us refer to those mothers o;
Iowa then as pioneer women. They
would have been first to ridicule OF
resent the term of pioneer ladies'. >
Withal they were something finer
than mere ladies, something elemen
Observation-Disclosures Times
Republican. ta
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15
DEBORAH CARRIER RESIGNS.
Walter Brakeman, II. +. ID. Carrier
Has Resigned His Position.

Last week w. A. Brakeman resign
ed his job of carrying Uncle Sam S
mail on rural route five out of De-
corah, after fourteen years of SER
vice here. Mr. Brakeman is one of
the local carriers who had four more
miles added to his route. We pre-
sumo this is one of the reasons he
resigned
He has been an efficient carrier
and will be missed on route five.
Carrier Butterick at Calmar has
also resigned, we understand. Car
rier Luzum of Calmar lost his posi-
ton, and his route will be taken
care of by other carriers, making
one less carrier for Calmar. They
previously had three. A carrier at
the Fort has resigned also.
Ole Hauge, carrier out of Ossian
lost his route, owing to more con-
solidation in that part of the coun-
ty. Chris Aim, carrier No. out of
Decorah gets four miles of Hauge's
route added to his. Mr.. Aim now
has 80 mile route. The addition to
his route gives him seventeen more
families to serve, but he only leaves
mail at two boxes on this addition to
his route. The patrons go to Os-
sian for their mail, and apparently
do not want rural route service, as
long as their regular carrier from
Ossian has been cut off.
A great many rural carriers over
the country have been resigning.
Three of the four rural mail car
riers working out of the Kenosha,
Wis, postoffice handed in their resig-
nations to Postmaster James German
short time ago, because they de-
clared it was impossible to cover the
revised routes, heightened under a
Washington retrenchment order,
without an automobile. Their salary
of $1O0 a month, they declared,
would not permit them to join the
automobile owning class.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15
HAUGEN GETS FIRST PLACE.
Is Republican Ranking Member on
the House Committee on
Agriculture.

Tom Steele, the lone democratic
member of the Iowa delegation, pull
ed down the plum the Iowa democra-
tic members have been unsuccess-
fully scrapping for in the last few
sessions when he was given mem
bership on the committee on agricul-
ture. AS a member of this commit
tee, Congressman Steele will have
stronger influence than is ordinar-
man Haugen of the fourth district
has advanced to a place of leader
ship by his work on the agricultural
committee. Mr.. Haugen is now rank
ing republica member.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15
AUTOM OBILES | n IOWA
KILL III PERSONS
During the Past Year Ending on
Sept. I, 1915, According to the
Secretary State Board
Health.
TOTAL NUMBER DEATHS IN
IOWA IN YEAR Fl 1858
The Accident Record Shows 1921
Deaths by Violence During
the Last Fiscal Year.

There were III persons killed in
Iowa by automobiles during the
year ending Sept. /, 1915, accord
ing to the records in the Office of DR..
G. II. Sumner, secretary of the state
board of health OF this number
eleven were killed in Polk county.
The total number of deaths in
Iowa during the period of this re-
port was 21,S53. OF that number
1,624 deaths were due to violent
means. Railroads killed 215 per-
sons; motorcycles took victims
suicides averaged % to so a month.
Fifteen persons died of starvation.
homicides numbered almost 100.
During August, 1915, there were ten
homicides.
According to the record, Decem-
ber, January, February and March
are the safest months of the year for
pedestrians. During the last fiscal
year there were only seven fatal au-
tomobile accidents during the four
mid-winter months. In April the
number of fatal auto accidents began
to increase and the rate stayed high
during the summer. The record of
auto accidents follows September,
1914, 49, October, IA; November,
20; December, l; January, 1915, =
February, /; March, 8; April, 8;
May, 10; June, IS; July, II; August,
IA.
la Dug that same period the rail-
foads killed the Following number:
September, 1914, "a; October, 22;
November, 20; December, IA; Janu-
airy, 1915, IA; February, 15 March,
II; April, 10; May, 20; June, 26;
July, 20 August 21.
Deaths are more numerous from
all causes during the months of jan
uary, February, March and April,
than during any other period of the
year, the report SHOWS. during tnat
period the number of deaths averag-
ed 1000 per month In the summer
the rate dropped to 1900 month,
The mortuary record for the fiscal
year follows: September, 1914, l.
662; October, 1880; November, l.
731; December, 1924; January
1915, 2,072 February, POPS; March
2,329; April, 2,034; May, LAG;
June, 1,571; July, 1882; August
,534.
In Iowa the probability of an in
dividual meeting death accidentally
| is one chance of $40. The accident
record shows 1924 deaths by vio-
lence during the last fiscal year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15
TAFT; ABOLISH POSTMASTERS.
Asserts Nation Could Save $4,000.
600 Annually by Using
Deputies.

William II. Taft is in the field
with a proposal to abolish all post
masters. AS class, the former
president contends, they are INSULT
cient, uneconomic. He asserts the
general government could save $4,-
100000 annually to start with if his
program were adopted.
Mr.. Taft might have added, as a
group of expert politicians who
heard his speech Friday afternoon at
Orchestra hall, Chicago, said-and
among them were two national COM
mitteemen on their way to Washing
ton-that postmasters are political
liabilities after their appointment
Winnetka case and the trouble it had
started for President Wilson
Mr.. Taft wants the postofIice de-
partment conducted on a single basis
of efficiency, he told 5000 persons
who listened to the second of his
series of lectures, which are financed
by the Ryder foundation.
Il want the postoffice department
managed by the United States as
any big going business is managed
privately" he said THE deputy
postmaster, named under civil SER
vice, could and should be the execu-
tive and we would have an end of
this interminable politics and actual
waste"
Mr.. Taft also suggested a bureau
at Washington which shall deal with
the railroads as to transportation OF
government officials.
THE government last year." Mr..
Taft declared, paid out $4,000
600 for railroad transportation, Pull
man carfares, and tips. l believe that
this total could be reduced to S.
100000 in the first year. l think
the interstate commerce commission
could interpose no obstacle to any
effective plan, whereby the federal
government could get, at least,
commuters rates.
Comment of the former president
as to current politics and the MESA SO
of President Wilson was centered in
a speech made at noon before the
Chicago Association of Commerce at
the Hotel La Sale.
AS to Theodore Roosevelt, Mr.
Taft concluded his speech with this
story:
'He (Col. Roosevelt has been be-
laboring Mr.. Wilson and me, and l
do not know that l can respond any
better than by repeating a story my
father used to tell. The Scotch DOM
inie took as his text, The devil is like
a roaring lion going about seeking
whom he may devour.' He said
4 shall divide my text into three
parts. In the first place, | shall in
quire, who the devil he is; secondly,
shall inquire, where the devil he
is going; and third / shall close my
remarks with the discussion as to
what the devil is he roaring about. >
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15
IOWA'S FIGHTING CHANCE.

The Cherokee Times points out
that those who imagined the Cum
Minis candidacy for the presidency
hadn't sufficient vitality to carry It
thru the preliminary campaign are
awakening to the fact that the sena-
tor is going TO be factor in the race.
Iowa seems to be awakening to
that fact. The Iowa candidate is
growing in consideration of the
country every day. The reports that
come back into Iowa of the high
consideration in which Iowa's candi-
date is held from coast to coast Is
beginning to stir Iowa into action.
" The little that has been done in
favor Of the Iowa candidacy has al
ready pat the Iowa candidate In a
prominent position among those re-
ceiving the most consideration for
the nomination. 1t is safe to assume
that when Iowa finally takes off her
coat and begins active operations
that the Cummins candidacy will be-
come formidable. 1t is the fighting
chance that wins and the courage to
fight such chance to a finish.
That is what Iowa needs now
Iowans behind an Iowa candidate,
faithfully, steadfastly and courage
ously. 1t is Iowa's fighting chance
for the nomination. Let's fight, says
the Marshalltown Times-Republican
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15
INDIAN BLOOD.
Many Older Families Show Pride i'm
Their Lineage Some Infusion
Indian Blood.

In the early days of the republic,
an infusion of Indian blood would
have been considered a bar sinister.
No one ever spoke we'll for the half
breed. But as the generations go on,
many of our older families are show
ing pride in having in their lineage
some infusion of Indian blood. Among
them is the family of Mrs. Gait, the
Presidents fiancee. Thus the Indian
tribes for the first time will now be
able to claim some slight kinship
with an occupant of the White house.
Seen near to, the Indian was never
popular. The idea that the only good
Indian is the dead one was always
the view of the frontier. He was q
rebel from the responsibilities OF
civilization. AS many of them are
now settling down and cultivating
land like white folks, the virtues of
his race may be better recognized.
Most of the aboriginal strains are
thick witted earth born creatures,
slow of thought and dull Of appre-
hension. The Indian was quick,
alert, nervous, 1.-THE of motion, pas
sionate. He was capable of affec-
tionate loyalty and fiendish revenges.
He had his own beauty of imagery
and was not lacking in fine ideals,
He was the poet or the stone age. a
dreamer and mystic.
Other undeveloped races have
gradually adjusted themselves to the
white mans regiment of sober indus
try. The negro never rebelled at
being a newer Of wood and drawer of
water. But for the Red man, tilling
the ground has been but slavery to a
proud spirit
Once the owners of a continent,
the Indian is but an Insignificant
factor in our life today. Only a
slight infusion of his blood has en-
tered our race. If old families like
Mrs. Galt's are proud of it, it is as Z
poetic sentiment and a sign of the
age of the family tree. The rem
nant of the race, however, inherits
qualities of endurance and imagina-
ton, which properly trained in the
! yoke of industry will yet be valuable
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15

A real protest against the curtail-
ment OF the rural mail service by the
postofilce department is now goinS
up from Mitchell county. Hither.o o
there has been but little said here,
as tbs county was not affected and
the fact that many other counties Of
the state were experiencing that
trouble didn't interest the people
here especially. Lately, however,
the McIntire, Little Cedar and Rice
vile postoffices, and possibly other ;,
have been affected. In all cases the
routes have been rearranged with a
view to economy, combining routes,
leaving off many patrons and oblig-
ing others to walk a considerable dis
tance to some corner to get their
mail. 1t is a step backward, and
people don't like to go that way.
Probably the most effective protest
will be uttered in a little less thai
a year from now, when the voters
can deal directly with the parties re-
sponsible-the democratic admins
tration. Press.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15
Hardly EUuitable.

Kansas City Star:-Those of the
opinion that all the stork work was
done by one stork are mistaken. A
Michigan man has discovered that
come storks are assigned to the ra. :
road yards and the tenements, and
are overworked. while others are Civ
en- the boulevards and wide avenues,
and have soft job"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15

A dispatch from Winsted, Conn,
says that skunk which someone
had placed in the piano broke up the
dance. Details not being given we
presume the animal, incensed over
its confinement, must have injured
the mechanism of the piano.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15

According to the records in the
office of w. S. Allen, secretary OF
state, the prohibition party did not
poll sufficient votes at the last cleo
tion to be entitled to participate in
the June primary as a party. The
total vote for governor was 422,579
The total vote of each party was:
Republican, 207,SS1; democrati:,
lS2,036; progressive, 1876; So
cialist, 5000; prohibition, 6,SS7,
The law requires each party to poll
at least per cent of the total vote
in order to retain its right to be
known as political party.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15

There is an old saying about
chickens coming home to roost. That
seems to apply to the democratic
party which has not concealed its ju-
bilation that the republican party
was split three years ago, giving
them victory, says the Oelwein
Register. 1t has hoped that this con-
dition should continue for at least
another year. Now the democratic
party is split from Dan to Beersheba,
or if you prefer from Washington to
San Francisco, over the war PROPOSE
ton. Mr.. Wilson is for preparedness
while Mr.. Bryan who made him
president, as Mr.. Roosevelt did Taft,
is for peace at most any old price. So
there yiu are. 1t is possible that
the history Of the republican party
in 1912 may be repeated by the dem
ocrats in 1916. g..r,, e
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15

E.. ]. Rose at Waupaca, Wis, is eX'
perimenting with process to grow
potatoes all salted and peppered. We
have heard Of the potato season. We
presume this Is 1t.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15

1t is unreasonable to expect wo-
man to listen to both sides of pro
position. She can't stop talking thai
long.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15

Many man imagines that if he
hadn't raised family he would be
wealthy-but usually he is mistak-
en-.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-15

The births In the city OF London
last year averaged $50 per day.