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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24
Rehibution Got Him at Last.

Rochester Tribune: A farmer liv-
ing not a hundred miles from this
city made it a practice through life
to borrow his neighbours paper. Be-
ing too busy one day. he sent his son
over after it. On the way over the
boy ran into stand of bees and his
yells could be heard for a mile and
his face had the appearance of a
jelly cake. The father, hearing the
boys cries, ran to his assistance, and
in doing SO ran into a barbed wire
fence, breaking a couple of lengths
and cutting deep cash in his abb
domen and running SIS pair of
pants. One of his cows took advan-
tage of the hole in the fence and
got into the corn field and killed
herself eating corn.
The stingy mans fe,thearing the
commotion, ran out, and in doing so
upset a churnful of cream into a
basket Of kittens, drowning the en-
tire lot. On going down the back
steps she slipped, fell and broke her
left arm. The baby took advantage
of the mothers absence and crawled
through the cream and into the par
lor, spelling $40 carpet. During
all the excitement the daughter
eloped with the hired man, taking
all the family's savings with them.
Moral: If you would avoid the
that befell this man you
should subscribe for your home pa
per at once and pay for it in adj
vance.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24
Billings was convicted and SEN

Billings was convicted and SEN
fenced 70 life in prison. Mooney
was tired next, found guilty and
sentenced to be hanged.
Mrs. Mooney was the third to go
to trial. Her case was taken. up
on May FL. Developments which
had followed her husbands convic-
ton focused new attention on the
cases.
F. T. Rigall of GRANVILLE, ILL.,, a
few weeks before Mooney was to go
to the gallows. charged F. c. Oman.
wealthy Oregon cattleman, with at
tempting to persuade him to give
false testimony against Mooney. Ok
mans testimony had been vital in
Moneys conviction. The appellate
court has been asked to grant Moon
ey a new trial.
During the weeks Of Mrs. Moneys
trial, few connected with either side
escaped the thrusts, charges and
counter charges of the attorneys and
labor leaders. The prosecution held
Mrs. Mooney and the four other de-
PENDANTS planned the bomb murders
to protest against patriotism typi-
fled in the preparedness parade; that
Warren Billings, Mooney and Mrs.
Mooney were driven to Stuart and
Market streets by Israel Weinberg
in his jitney bus and placed the suit
case containing the Internal machine
on the sidewalk there.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24
TRIAL OF ACCUSED
BOMB n IA X! D :! ON !

San Francisco, July 23.-The trial
of Mrs. Mooney is now on in this
city. On July 23, 1916, while thou
sands were gathered in demon
'stration for preparedness, bomb
explosion at Stuart and Market
streets killed ten people and injured
scores of others.
The crime sent wave Of horror
throbbing through the country.
Murder charges were filed against
Thomas J. Mooney, former I. w. w.
secretary and labor agitator. Mrs.
Rena Mooney, wife of Thomas Moon
ey-a music teacher; Warren X.
Billings, member of the shoe cut
tels' union; Edward Nolan, meu.ler
of the machinists' union, and l..sel
Weinberg. jitney driver.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24
A BIG MAN NEEDED.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: There
lis not the slightest doubt in the
minds of men who spend some time
lin Washington but that the army is
with incompetence.
There are in responsible places in
the departments men who are wholly
without qualifications for the tasks
imposed upon them. ~
Some confusion must be expected.
The organization of great army is
no easy task. 1t involves herculean
efforts. But the people have a right
to expect that men engaged in this
work shall get onto the job and put
in long hours. There are swivel
chair officials in Washington who
are annoyed by the interest people
are manifesting in this war. 1t in
terrupts their golf play and their
afternoon, maps, They are gruff and
discourteous and do not know any
thing about the work under their
supervision.
There has not yet been found q
man big enough to grip this situa-
tion and bring order out of chaos.
Inefficiency is prevalent clear down
the line. This is not the judgment
OF this newspaper alone. 1t is the
judgment of a man who has spent
the greater part of his time in Wash
ington since war was declared.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24
COLD STORAGE [ R ! [ FACTS
FURNISHED GRATIS

Washington, July 23.-Practically
every storage company in the Unit
ed States is now, cooperating with
the government in reporting the cold
storage holdings OF food products.
according to statement just made
by the bureau of markets, United
States department of agriculture.
These reports include meat, poultry,
eggs, butter, cheese and apples, and
are issued monthly by that bureau.
When the work first started, In
1914, the bureau says. only few
firms reported in response to the re-
quests for information; and there
never has been any legislation which
made the submitting of these re-
ports compulsory. Gradually, one
firm after another volunteered it,
reports, until now the field Is al
most completely covered. The Inn
portance of the statements of stor-
age holdings never has been 20
great, in the opinion Of the depart
ment, as it is today in connection
with the world food crisis.
No monthly cold storage statement
issued by the department gives less
than SO per cent of the entire hold
ings and most of them are fully
complete. The margin Of 2 per cent
or less is partially due to delay in
reporting, because Of unusual con-
ditions at warehouse.
On the present meat situation, for
example, the report shows that there
is storage response to the PROS
pectice demands for war emergen-
cies, and that more than hundred
million pounds of frozen beef are in
storage, or more than half again a.
much as was on hand last year, at
the same time. Moreover, during
the month Of June this year the stor-
ages kept on increasing their STOCKS
and added nearly per cent to what
they already had on hand, whereas
in 1916 the storages which reported
showed greatly reduced supplies, .
one-fourth or rs per, cent decrease
being noted during June year ago.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24
MEN SNAPPED
THEIR B FAMILIES
Wives and Children Exchanged on
Trip by Montana Men.

Havre, Mont, July IA short
time. ago Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Tur-
cote and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Jor-
don took trip to the southern part
of the state. When they returned
here the former Mrs. Turcotte was
Mrs. Henry Jordan and the former
Mrs. Jordan was Mrs. F.. w. Tur-
cote. Turcotte is lawyer and Jor-
dan is merchant.
The husbands declined to COM
ment on the exchange further than
to state that the separations and
were effected legally.
Each of the couples had children. 1t
is reported the trade extended to one
child in each family.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24
Rent Cottage at Clear Lake.

The Misses Meta Nicholson, Ma
omi Marsh, Myrtle Arnold, Clara
Ruppel and Hazel and Airline Sparks
have rented cottage at Clear Lake
for two weeks and all left for that
place Saturday, with the exception
of Miss Ruppel, who will join then
this week. They will be Joined at
the lake by three other girls, one
each from Sioux City, Emmetsburg
and Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Frank T..
Sparks leaves today for the lake and
will chaperone the party during
their outing.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

Referring to the Webster City
habit of claiming credit for them
selves for ever ygood thing done by
the whole of Hamilton county, the
Stanhope Enterprise last week very
rightly declares that "it's not worth
noticing hardly, because everybody
is getting used to their wind-it
doesn't cause a ripple on the placid
waters of the classic Boone. Jew
ell Record.
OF course it isn't worth noticing
because it doesn't exist, except in
the imagination of a few excited ed
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

There are not many land sales
taking place in this part Of Iowa just
at present, but when a farm is sold
it goes at good figures. A few days
ago a Webster county farm of III
acres, located two miles from Patton,
was sold to an adjoining property
owner at 1920 per acre. A 24O-acre
place was sold in, Calhoun county
last week at 1925 per acre.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

The German reichstag has no pow
Ter of consequence, further than to
talk and make suggestions, and 1t
doesn't use what little power it has
to good purpose. A short time ago
it undertook to declare the German
peace terms and in the preamble
said: Germany took up arms in
defense of its liberty and indepen-
dence, and for the integrity of its
territory" Yet everybody outside of
Germany knows, and. the war party
there knows, that Germany was in
no danger of losing any of her ter
ritory, any of her liberty or any Of
her independence. England, France
and Russia wanted to arbitrate the
questions Germany and Austria had
trumpet up as excuses for war, and
the German government fatty re-
fused. The demands of Austria upon
Serbia were beyond all reason, yet
Iuc OcIUldu 6OtcIuucu( dCqulcoCcu
to all of them save one, and that one
no self-respecting government could
comply with. Austria insisted upon
trying in Austria, before Austrian
officers, Serbians accused of a crime
committed in Serbia. What country
on earth would submit to such an
outrageous proceeding? The coun.
try that would not fight before it
would surrender in such a matter
would be unworthy the respect of
the world. Even Germany and Aus
tria would have despised Serbia had
she acquiesced. to the insulting and
demands. Germany
was looking for an opportunity to
get into war for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
II herself and for the extension of
Ter territory. She began by sending
ler hordes into little Belgium. Not
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24
AMERICAN CONSUL
At ODESSA N JAIL All

Amsterdam, July 23.-The Lokal
Anzeiger of Berlin hears that the
American consul at Odessa, John A.
Ray, has been imprisoned there, with
his British colleague, by soldiers for
having spoken unfavorably of the
revolution. The soldiers, the news
paper says, refused to liberate him.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

The allies seem to be breaking
about ven in the submarine war
fare. They are able to make ships
about as fast as the pirates can sink
them. 1t is believed that the capac-
ity of Germany is being strained to
supply the necessary material for
torpedoes and new subs to take the
places of those used and destroyed.
England is not SO wrought up over
the undersea terrors as she was a
few months ago, when it seemed pos
sible that she might be starved into
submission.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

The old kaiser talks harshly of
four enemies who attacked u.s." But
he fails to particularize, hence it
may be presumed that he has Bel
GUM in mind.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24
GERMANYs IMPLAcABLE FOE.

K GERMANYfS lMPLACABLE FOE.
The New Republic: Time runs re-
morselessly against Germany. 1t was
to defeat time that Germany chose
the summer of 1914 for the settling
of conclusions with. Russia. In an
other decade Russia might be too
strong to be readily disposed of. The
supreme Importance to Germany of
defeating time accounted for the I'LL
timatum to France and the invasion
of Belgium. Beating time was the
objective of the unrestricted subma-
rine warfare that brought the United
States into the war.
Grant the allies time and Ger
many is done for. Time will defeat
or outwit the submarines; it will re-
organize the fighting strength Of
Russia; it will bring the American
millions into the field; it will pro-
duce dissensions among Germany's
allies and eventually lead to apos-
tastes. And it is becoming increas-
ingly certain that the allies will
have the time they need. Russia
might have been brought to terms in
the late days of the autocracy or the
early days Of the republic, but hard
ly now. A German drive at the
heart of Russia would only harden
the Russian spirit. 1t was possible,
during the spring months, that the
submarine campaign would shake the
resolution of the allies. But already
the submarine has been assimilated
to the ordinary sea risks. It repre-
sents merely a new percentage of
wastage and tare, to be compensated
by the increased efforts of which
the allied productive mechanism is
quite capable. There is no longer
any fear that England can be starv-
ed. Nor is there a belief that sub
marine operations will seriously in
terfere with the transport of Ameri-
can troops to France. If one of Per-
shing's ships had been lost, then
Germany might take heart. They all
arrived in safety. and thousands
more will get through the blockade.
The Germans have played against
time and lost.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

It is quite evident from the way
the restaurants and hotels serve but
ter that they are trying to conserve
the food supply.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

" . T
temper, and LETT our common sense
fly away with 1t, If the editor makes
what we consider mistake, or falls
into heresy of some kind or other.
For, remember, we have our share
of the weaknesses that flesh is heir
to, and the heresies of today are the
dogma of tomorrow. You never can
tell; you may yourself praise next
year what you condemn now, and
it is better to disagree in a friendly
spirit with an honest opinion of an
honest man than be deceived by the
dishonest efforts of a dishonest man
who lies in order to keep you in good
humor, and get your cash.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24
THEY PREFER THH
IhItRMtAT CAMP
Bisbee Exiles Refuse to Leave When
Turned Loose.

Columbus, N. NJ, July 23.-The
1,169 men deported from Bisbee,
Ariz., who have been detained In
the military camp here, voted unani-
mously last night to remain in the
camp pending further action by the
federal government.
This action was taken after the
army officer in charge Of the camp
had announced to the men that they
were free to go whenever they de-
sired. N
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

The Illinois Staats-Zeitung, which
the few Germans of Hamilton county
who think the Freeman Tribune is
too hard on Germany, read and di-
gest with evident relish, is pursu-
ing course that gives aid and COM
fort to the imperial German govern
ment rather than to the government
of the United States. How loyal
American citizens of German birth
or extraction can tolerate and en-
dorse such things is beyond the abil-
ity of the Freeman-Tribune to COM
prehend. Fact of the matter is, the
person who endorses the course Of
any newspaper that is using its col
hmns to belittle the United States
is not loyal at heart, because a
loyal heart is stung by such treach-
cry just as sure as the heart Of a
virtuous maiden is stung by false
attacks upon her character. The
recently contained an
+ 4 I. y p ;.
editorial suggesting that the United
States should acquire Canada. 1t
has frequently maligned Great Brit
ain of late, declaring she is on the
verge of collapse and must lose in
the end. What would the people of
Germany think if a paper published
in that country should propose that
Germany annex Austria. insisting
that Austria is on the verge of col
lapse? It would not take the people
long to realize that such newspa-
per was a traitor to Germany and
the result would be one less news
paper published in the country of
the kaiser.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

This is not a good year for the
professional baseball player. Uncle
Sam needs his services in the field.
Good base runners are in demand in
France to chase the Germans back
into Germany.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

The federal loan board may be of
service to Iowa by furnishing an out
let for the surplus of Iowa farmers.
They will probably loan to the board,
provided the security. is gilt-edge.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

being content with leyeling Belgian
cities and numbering Belgian civil
ians, she seized helpless people and
held them hostages for money ran
som. A thing that no other nation
has done in modern times. And to
this day the imperial government of
Germany is carrying away non-com-
Blatant Belgians into slavery.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

The United States might make
more impression upon Europe in the
crusade for the use of more corn and
less wheat If our own people would
eat more OF the former instead OF
feeding it to hogs and cattle.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

What you can't eat you can can,
can't you ?-Oskaloosa Herald.
{ Yes, we can can it if we can get
the cans, and if we can't get the
cans tc can it we can dry it, can't
we?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

!; Do not take any stock in any news
that comes from Berlin. Everything
is censored and the kaiser is too
shrewd to permit anything to slip
through that would not be to the
advantage of the war machine.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

The kaiser Of Germany seems to
think it a crime for the allies to aid
\ in the abdication of the king OF
Greece in favor of his son, while it
is virtue to overthrow the king OF
Belgium. giving the throne to for
eigner in a military uniform.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24
tant Belgians into slavery.

\ The citizens of Bisbee, Arizona,
rounded up the I. w. w. to the num-
Der of more than a thousand, put
them under guard at the baseball
grounds, and finally loaded them in
freight cars and shipped them some
where west of Suez. The proceed
ings may have been a trifle irregu-
lar, as viewed with the sharp eye
of the law, but they were highly eff
Efective. They served, in addition,
to notify the 1. w. w. of an, infirm-
ity in the public mind which can
not be restrained when secret and
oath-bound organizations begin to
interfere with the orderly process of
daily life. The taking of law into
ones own hands is dangerous pas
time, in which there after occurs a
demonstration of the old axiom of
the physical world that action is
equal to reaction and in the oppo-
site direction. Neither the action
nor the reaction is to be commended.
But it happens occasionally that an
episode like this in Bisbee is salu-
tary. 1t undoubtedly will be so up
on the l. w. W., who happen to have
received side-door Pullman trans
portation free of charge, and it prob
ably will be upon others of the gem
try in other localities who may not
wish to travel in like manner from
the places which now know them
but which, like Bisbee, will soon
know them no more unless they
change the tenor of their deeds.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

It is said that the king and queen
Of England are growing more pop
ular with the people every day. This
Is no doubt due to the fact that the
king and queen of England have
about as much power as the reich
stag of Germany.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

There is talk of moving the Fort
Madison penitentiary to more CEN
trail location. Now just watch Des
Moines prick up her ears and listen
to find out if there is going to be q
chance to get something for nothing.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

A fellow in Chicago who married
to escape going to war is in the hos
pital in that city with a hammered
skull and cut throat, inflicted by
his wife of few months. War may
be hell, as Sherman said, but mar
riage to escape war IS likely to be
several hells in one, and then some.
In the first place, the man who mar
ries for such reason is coward,
and no woman worthy of good hus-
band would expect to get one under
such circumstances. In fact, she
would not be entitled to one.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24
itors. Moreover-but what's tn.
use Of talking about nothing?

Hollweg has gone to the scrap
heap to Join the innumerable Ger
,aan treaties which he declared were
only scraps of paper" Old Hollweg
has had scrappy time in more ways
than one, and Judging from the way
the German press is jumping up and
down on his spine, he is in for still
more scraps. Some of the newspapers
are charging him with being respon-
sible for the entrance of the United
States into the war, declaring that
his double dealing could have no
other, result.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

The little school district, of Jor-
dan, Boone county, casting only 226
votes, including votes by women, is
to have a new 100000 school house.
The question of bonds was submit,
ted few days ago, and bonds won
.by a vote of 1873 to SO. And to
think that Webster City, having a
population of 5000 and being worth
perhaps 100000, votes down a
bond issue Of $150.O0e. There is
probably no town in the state that
needs new school house more than
does Webster City.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

United States authorities are dis
covering that large percentage Of
the I. W. W. membership that is
causing SO much trouble in the west
are not citizens Of this country.
Many of them are unnaturalized
Germans. Austrians, Hungarians and
Bulgarians, the countries with which
we are at war. If this is the situa-
tion, such aliens should be treated
as prisoners of war and held accord
ingly. If they are convicted of be-
ing spies they should be promptly
executed.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

A police judge of Omaha asserts
that women are smoother and more
cheerful liars than men. He has had
years Of experience with BOTH
Carroll Herald.
Probably the Judge never had any
experience in the diplomatic service.
Fight shy of the fellow who is con-
stantly patting you on the. back and
calling you brother. Central City
News Letter.
The editor of the Newsletter
could drive his point home with more
force by telling just how much he
lost to the fellow who patted him
upon the back.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24

Many of our people have read of
the tales of German atrocities among
the Belgians, with the feeling that
they were without doubt greatly ex-
aggerated. Tales Of the cutting off
of the hands of little children were
so brutal that they were beyond be-
lief And yet they were true, says
the Estherville Democrat. N. p.
Walker, of the Walker Motor COM
pany, while on a business trip to
Des Moines recently, saw a little
Belgian girl with both hands cut
off at the wrists. He talked with
the man who had adopted the little
orphan and he told the story of how
the child had smiled at some foolish
thing an officer in the German
army had done. For this grave Of
Tense she was seized and her hands
chopped. off.