Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 16, 1903, Page 4

NEWS OF COUNCIL MINDR MENTION. Davis sells drugs. Btockert sells carpets. Crayon enlarging, 308 Broadway. Expert watch repairing. Leffert, 40 B'y. Celebrated Mets beer on tap. Meumayer. Diamond betrothal rings at Leffert's, 40 Broadway. 14K and 18K wedding rinks at Leffert's, 405 Broadway. Seo the hand-painted china in the show window at C. I, Alexander & Co.'s, 33 Broadway. Detective Murphy's condition was much improved, yesterdsy and he expects 0 be out In a few days. Mrs. J. J. Brown of Fifth avenue Is home from an extended visit in New York eity and other eastern point Court of Honor dance at Maccabee hall, Thursday eve, September 17, admission 2 cents. Everybody invited. For rent, office room, 1rouna floor; one of the most central locations in the bu Bass portioh of the city. Apply to The Bee ce, Y. Miss Helen A. Dudley of Boston will re- celve "puplie I vocal and instrumentsl < usic. 504 South Bixth street, Councl Bluffs. lepione 302. The eity authorities have conidemned the vate bridge over Indfan creek on Bas oadway maintained by Geiss and have ordered it closed to travel. The Ladies' Ald soclety of 8t. John's Epg- lish Lutheran church will meet Thursday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Laura B, Snyder, 217 South Seventh: street. We contract to keep public or private houses from ronches by the year. In- gect Exterminator Manufacturing eqmpany, ‘ouncil Bluffs, la. Telephone ‘The richest, daintiest are trom the remodeled up-to-date Bugle: man Studios, 4 and 4 8. Main st. FREE, o _introduce, choice of life like, life size rirait or beautiful water color miniature ith a dosen cabinets, hotographic effects ‘Plter D. Burke, the' blacksmith under in- as fixed by the grand been spending_the his aunt, hl‘. Wil ton avenue, and attending of this city, will leave ther In Juneau, Alaska, s the publisher of the on_furni Judge amount ry. Ira Frame, who three years wit , on Washij the public school today to join where Mr. Fram Dally Record-Mines and Marion Nixon, the young men with stealing a repeating rifie from iman's pawn shop, were released yes- the ¢ity Jall on their father, a furnishi Y hearis ‘was set for Friday morning In police court. Mrs. M, C. Vanderveer of First avenue was awarded the $300 in gold presented b the carnival committee, The ton of coal goes to the holder of the coupon 256c; the fange to the holder of coupon t6a; the Haviiand ching set to M8a; the wurrey to lder of 180c, and e puncl wl to the holder of 478b. 2 rtment was called at 11/ A a still alarm | ‘adsworth, 74 st avenue, whe the fire from an open h grate had started a blage In the framework of t ouse, Th.dm.tflol the (lrvub"t'fl‘l. considerable difficul _x .zllltfl wil htclluc a l: SELECT LIBRARY ARCHITECTS Board Decldes on & Combination of a Chicago and a Local - —— 3 selection of a firm of architects to ;m-ul-um-mm-m«- of Carnegle lbrary buillding pro- & protracted and more or less heated at the meeting of the dibrary o last night. Dr, J. H, Cleayor, At- W. 8. Baird, Judge G. H. Scott, At- combination and argued strongly in favor ot appointing exolusively a local firm. Mr. Galvin made & motion to the effect that it be the/sense of the board that only a Bluffs firm be selected, but fatled 10 Secure a second. Vietor Bender was will- ng to wecond the motion if the word “only"” ‘wag omitted, but Mr, Galvin declded to 8bide by his original motion. By a vote of § 0 4 the firms of Woodward Bros, of this city and Patton & Miller of Chicago were selected. Cox & Schoentgen of this city received three of the four votes and John Laterwer of Omaha, one. The weléction is subject to the aceeptance by the architects of the contract, which will be drawn up by the committee, consisting of Trustees Stewart, Bender and Baird. ‘Trustee Galvin, before a vote was taken ballot, urged that the seléction of an architect be made openly and above board. He contended that the trustees were but ®eryants of the people and that they ought to state their position in matter publicly, The motion to take roll call failed to carry and a wécret ballot was the method by which the welection was made. The manner in which the members voted, however, was shown ‘when a motion to practically rescind the who opposed the selection of the two firms mamed and urged that the board not act 100 hastily in the matter. He called atten- tion to the fact that the board knew abso- Jutely nothing about the Chicago firm, ex- ©eept what one of its representatives had told the board at the time he submitted a Mumber of sketches of library bulldings. ‘When & list of new books, selected by the ook committes, was submitted, Trustee QGalvin objected to the purchase of Bal- mac’s works on the grounds of their notor- fous impurity. He took the position that the board was to a certain extent the guardian of the children who patronized the lMbrary and it ought not to place impure literature Within their reach when it could be avolded. other membeis did not look at the qQuestion in the same light as Mr. Galvin and contended that Balsac's works were wtandazd lierature and had a place in every publie Ubrary. The set of Balsac’s works ‘will be purchased and placed on the shelves, However, the librarian will, at thé request of the board, use her discretion in furnish- ing these works to those who may apply The report of Mis. Dalley, librarian, ‘for August, showed there were 3,79 registered Dookstakers, and that 4016 books were taken., A balance of $16.9 is on the right of the ledger In the account of books for the rental system. The bal- ance in the Mbrary fund, according to the finance committee, on Sep- BLUFFS. TALK OF FRUIT PROSPECTS Annual Meeting of the Sonthwestern Iowa Hortioultural Bociety. GRAPE CROP IS REPORTED TO BE SHORT Apples Are Not a ldkely to Be Realisci Will Make the Season & Remunera- tive Ome. The meeting of the Southwestern Iowa Horticultural soclety in this eity, which began yesterday and will last over today, 18 not the success in polnt of attendance that had been anticipated. It is the first early fall meeting ever held by the soclety and the experiment, it s conceded, has not proven a success, as many of the mem- bers of the society are too busy harvest- ing thelr fruit crop to leave home. Owing to the late arrival of several of the out-of-town members no formal morn- ing session was héld, afd those present indulged in an informal exchange of views and diséussion on crop prospects, prices and other matters of mutual interest. The afternoon session was presided over by J. H. M. Edwards of Logan, president of the soclety. Other officers present were A.'F. Collman of Corning, vice president, and W. M. Bomberger of Harlan, secre- tary. The visitors were extended a welcome by J. P. Hess, one of the most extensive fruit growers of this city, following which came an interesting discussion of the grape yleld, In which J. P. Hess, George Allingham, W. Keeline and Becretary Bomberger took part. Reports showed that the grape crop, instead of being a big one this year, as stated In the newspa- pers, would only reach 00 per cent of a full yleld. ‘Willlam Keeline and others reported that the blackberry crop was less than an 80 per cent yleld this year. Some talk of organizsing an apple grow- ers' shipping association on similar lines to the Council Bluffs Grape Growers' Ship- ping assoclation was indulged in, but noth- ing definite decided upon. Some opposed the proposition on the grounds that as the soclety drew its membership from twenty- four countles such an organization would be impracticable. Apple Growers Prosper. ‘While the apple crop is not an unusually | large one, reports showed that prices are good and owners of orchards will make money this year. Beveral growers, it was stated, have been offered 75 cents to §1 per bushel for their yleld on trees without culling, this offer being for choice apples, It was sald that indications pointed to $1.50 a barrel, which was considered a good price. F. P. Spencer of Randolph, In an inter- esting paper on “Disposition of This Apple Crop,” sald in part: The vrwrfl points to ba considered sposition of any- Thing De Benersi e un nwumprion sre little trouble , ‘at re- or. 1l fahey ‘well munerative prices, either when packed ored for market. thin 6 with me Bou that B2 Groatar herein lies rkets are not r sections. Taken as a ge roposition, the producer Bhitas enjoying special market advan y in the long run, make as much money by pelling when his’ stuff is ready and let the ‘other fellow do peculating. An cvening session held, at which generdl discussions were had on the grape and other fruit crops. Today will be de- voted to sight seelng and the visitors will be driven around the vineyards and orch- ards In this vicinity. A number of ex- cellent aisplays of choice apples were to be seen In the south court room of the county covrt house, where yesterday's ses- sions were held, 4 Among those present yesterday were: J. H. M. Bdwards, Logan; A. F. Collman, Corning; W. M. Bomberger, Harlan; C. H. Deur, Missourl Valley; A. P. Amdor, Car- son; B. P. Gay, Griswold; W. E. Bordner, Onawa; J. Longman, Logan; W. Patrick, Emerson; J. F. Record, Glen: i B P Spencer, Randolph; D, B. McCalla, Clar- inda; F. Meneray, Crescent; L. O, Wil- llams, Monroe, Neb.; H. C. Raymond, J. P. H.u R. White, A. T. Flickinger,. J. F. Gretger, Alex Wood, R. E. Swmith, A. W.y Keeline and Plumbing and Heating. Bixby & Son. LET_ CONTRACT FOR DITCHES - Brown & Company of Indiana w. A, Smith & Company Sec the Work. R. A Brown & Co, Ind., and W. A. Bmith & Co, of Missouri Valley, Ia., will construct the Harrison- Pottawattamie drainage ditches, the ocon- tracts for the work belng awarded them | yesterday afternoon by Auditors Innes ot Pottawattamfe county and Huff ¢f Harri- son county, Brown & Company wili con- struct the Allen creek and Willow creek ditches and Smith & Company the Boyer river cut off diteh. Brown & Company will recelve 104 cents per cuble yard for the Allen creek dilch and 8% cents for the Willow creek diteh, with % cents extra per yard for overhaul gnd 16 cents per.yard for embankment. Smith & Company will recelve 10 cents stralght per cublc yard for the Boyer river cut off diteh. Separate bids were made for the work In Harrison county and in Pottawattamie county and were opened yesterday morn- ing by Auditors Huff and Innes in the Jatter's office. The contracts were awarded in the afterncon, The bid submitted by lan & Shirley of Omaha for the work i Pottawattamie county was not consid- ered, as It was recefved through the mail by Auditor Innes one hour after the pre- | scribed time. Asalstant County Attorney Hess, to whom the question was submit- | ted, beld that the bid could not be con- #idered. The postmark on the envelope containing the bid showed that it had been matled in Omaha a few minutes after noon, hour at which it should have been in of Auditor Innes. It was not of Washington, f INTEREST FROM tawattamie county, 11 cents; Boyer river cut off, 10 cents. Browh & Co., Washington, Ind.—Allen greek ditch, Harrison county, 10% ocents; Willow creek ditch, #% cents: Allen e Pottawattamie county, 10% cents; Sritiost wreek ditch, Pottawnttamie county, cents; Boyer river cut off, 13 cents. Wickham was the lowest bidder on the Allen creek ditch, his bid being 9 cents as against Brown & Company's 10% cents, Auditors Huff and Innes, however, decided not to separate the two ditches and awarded the entire contract to Brown & Company. Had they awarded the Allen creek work to Wickham a saving of $5,000 could have been made. The total approximate excavation of the several ditches is as follows: Allen Creek ditch in Pottawattamie county, 33,218 cuble yards; In Harrison county, 30663 cuble yards; Willow creek diteh, in Pot- tawattamle county, 112,215 cuble yards; in Harrison county, 200,618 cuble yards; Boyer river cut off ditch in Pottawattamie county only, 83,147 cuble yards. W. A, Bmith & Co. stated they would begin work next week on the Boyer river ditoh and Brown & Company expect to commence operations on the Willow oreek and Allen creek ditches by October 1. The former bids, which were rejected as several, weére not according to specifications were as follows: sibclioShen, representing the Cenal Con- ction company o cago: Willow Greek ditch n both counties. $16 cents: Alien creek difch in both counties, 10 Boyer cut-off in Pottawattamie, i2% cents. The bid also called for a number of extras for excavation, sloping levees and bor- W. A Smith & Co. of Misgourl Valley: Stralght bid of 11% cents on -‘l?qm(lcml :;- cept one to forty on Willow creek, which | was 13% cents. BE. A. Wickham & Co. made a straight bid Igf'ciy}:‘. cents on all sections of the three R. A. Brown & Co. of Washington, Ind.: A straight bid of 8% cents on ail sections for dredging only, no levee work. Matters i Federal Court. Judge McPherson convened the Septem- ber term of United States court yesterday {morning and impaneled the grand jury with Robert Marshall of Atlintic as fore- {man. The only indfetment returned by the grand jury was against Joel Rice and George Black, charged with breaking into and robbing the postoffice at Montesuma, Ia., July 15 The men are in Jail at Oskaloosa and will be brought here at once. Ferdinand Kuehnel, indicted for embes- c returned at the March term, was arraigned and to the surprise of the court pleaded ‘“‘nolo con- tendere,” which means in English that he declined to say anything. Judge McPher- #on, as soon as he recovered from his sur- prise, as the plea Is one that is very rarely heard, told the defendant that he had bet- ter speak in English and plead gullty. Kuehnel, however, declined to change his plea and was sent back for sentence this morning. The amount of Kuehnel's em- | bezzlement was paid by his bondsmen, bath of whom were in court. Kuehnel was ar- rested in Detrolt. ‘The cases of L. T. Brown against the Union Pacific, Lucius Wells against James A. Patton, and H. L Forsyth and R. Burt against J. L. Sanderson, were continued to next term. It I8 understood that ral other of th) assigned cases will take a similar course. The bankruptey oases of Morris Cohn and Francls H. Ludwig were assigned for Friday before a jury. Judge McPherson heard and took under advisement the motion of the defense for a new trial in the case of Rosie DeTarr, administratrix of the estate of Willlam plaintift secured a verdict for $2,500. Wil- HNam DeTarr met his death In a crossing accident at Albla. D. E. Stuart of this city, L. B. Holmes and R. 8. Horton of Omaha and Lewis Hines of Cedar Raplds were admitted to practice in the United States courts. 2%0. Night, Feer. District Court. Teddy Hays, the mulatto, against whom two Indictments were returned for break- ing Into the Illinols Central and Milwaukee passenger depots, and Barney Fields, the colored . youth indicted for breaking into Wiley's harness shop on Bouth Main street, entered pleas of guilty before Judge Macy in the district court yesterday. Hays was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary and Fields to one year. They will be taken to Fort Madison today by Sherift Cousins. These sults were ordered transferred to the federal court yesterday by Judge Macy: D. H, Moss against Pottawattamie county, | Moss being a resident of Nebraska; J. |C. Clementsen against the motor company, (two cases); 'W. C. Utterback against W. A. Wells and the Btors Brewing com- pany, f In the suit of C, A. Morgan against the Dewey Furniture company and Sherift Cousins, Judge Macy found for the plain- \tiff and ordered that the temporary Injunc- .tion by him be made perpetual. N. Y. Plumbing Co. T« Matters Real Estate Transfers. These transfers were filed yesterday in | the abstract, title and loan office of Squire & Annis, 101 Pearl street; L. P. Judson and wife to M. B. Car- Heirs" bf Eiten Madden ta. W. 8 C T, 1 in tis and Ram- n a 1o W. 8. Cooper, “G,"” Curtis and Ramsey's addi- tion, 8. 'w. d.... ‘G. Ransom and Bor wood, 4, 5, & 7, 8, Crescent City, w.'d CENTERVILLE, Ia., Sept. 15.—(Special.) —Rev. J. W. Crushshong of Keokuk made ensational speech before the Colored Bap- tist convention here yesterday. He declared | that it was his belief that the negro is des- | | tined to go back to Africe and bulld up a ! { mighty nation; that the people of the north | | are becoming as bitter against the colored | | race us those of the south; that God in his | wisdom might permit of war that the rights | | of the negro shall prevail. He deprecated | | the tendency to lay biame for erime on the | negro, and sald that Senator Tillman and {John Temple Graves are dolng the negro | great injustice by charging that they are | dangerous to life, home and the virtue of { white women. Dr. Crushshong sald further | that he belived Africa was the Place4or the | future negro race, and not the lslahds of the seas which are controlled by the United IStates, After his address the Bapti | ernors of Iliinois and Indlana, also the sher- |Mt at Danvilie, for their impartial stand | against lynching. Acquitted of Murder Charge. Sept. 15.—After an hour beration the jury n the case | of the State against Harvey Peéa, the Eddy- | ville man charged with assault with intent to commit murder, returned a verdict of not gullty late vesterday afternoon. 'Pea was attention s passed resolutions denouncing mob violence | “nd comn.ending the. president and the gov- | IOWA, STATE FARMS YIELD WELL Reports Bhow Better Orops Then on the Surrounding Farms. REPUBLICAN SPEAKERS' BUREAU OPENED — Generous Response Being Made by Local Men to the Oall (From a ‘Staft Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Bept. i5.—(Special)—The superintendéfits of the various state insti- tutions met here ‘today for their regular quarterly conference on matters of Inter- est to them and to the state. Theré was precent Drs. Voldeng, Witte, Crumpacker and Applegate and Messrs. Horton, Fits- gerald, McCune, Rothert, Hunter, Jones and Gass. Rev. Fellx Pickworth, chaplain of the penitentiary at Anamosa, was also t and read a paper. The superin- %dmn report that the crops on the state farms this year are generally better than the crops on farms elsewhere in the same vicinity, that the farming has been of a high grade and that the results of good farming are visible. Last year the chairman of the state board sent to each of the institutions & letter directing that the seed corn be gathered early and that it be dried and kept. A test of the seed Iast spring showed that this was far su- perior to other seed; In the same way all the crops were carefully prepared and as a result the state has set a high mark on all its state farms. The superintendents report that more good weather is needed to bring the crops to maturity, but generally thoy are maturing well. A paper was read by Rev. Felix Pick- worth on “The Prison Chaplain,”” in which he pointed out the work that devolves on the chaplain and the good that he may do among the prisoners at the state peniten- tlary. D. H. Wylle of Chicago read a paper on the disposal of sewage at state institutions. Other papers that will be read before the conference closes will be by Chairman Cownle of the board and by Superintendent McCune and Superintendent Witte. A committse was appofhted to pre- pare a memorial to the late Dr. Powell of Glenwood, who has died since retiring from the state service. Will Stay in the Race. The mecretary of state today received the certificate of nomination of 'W. N. Larkin of Butler county as the republican nominee for state senator in the Bremer-Butler dis- trict. This means that all efforts to get Larkin to pull out of the race have falled and that he will stand as a candidate. He was nominated in a convention in which another man from the same county had tually picked a majority of the dele- gates to personally represent him. A few days ago the delegates called on Larkin and asked bim to withdraw, as he had evi- dently obtained *his nomination by fraud of some kind or betrayal of a trust. Lar- kin has refused to withdraw and the mat- ter will be fought’out In the campaign. The fusion tickef in Hardin county has just been completed. In that county a faction of the republicans who have been fighting the state' ‘administration have jolned with thé ocrats in a mongrel county ticket. ' The democrats naméd - two candidates; ‘Jacob ‘Bleekér for treasurer and Willam Wefrilar for superyisor, ‘and the bolting cans, headed by Jacob Funk of Towa Falls, have nominated on the same ‘ticket A, W. Mitterer for sherift and Willlam Weldon for: representative. Mitterér has been elected on the repub- loan ticket for four terms and will seek & fifth term at the hands of the democrats. Speakers’ Bureau Open: A. F. Dawson, private secretaty to Sena- tor Allison, arrivell In the city today and will take charge of the speakers' bureau at republican state headquarters. He has already had a great deal of correspondence with rpeakers with reference tg thair work in the campalgn, He reports that the state speakers have responded generously for the campalgn and will do a great deal of work In the state. He anticipates that the campaign will be a good one as soon as the speaking begins. ‘The conferences called for 'the various districts will be held beginning Thursday of this week at Ottumwa and at Council Bluffs on Saturday. ‘The democratic .committee is busy with organization work and the formation of a state club to further the democratic cause. Congressman and In ento: Congressman 'M."J. Wade is the !nventor of a new filing case for offices, which he has patented, and today there was filed with the secretary of stite the articles of incorporation of the Tabard Office Supply company of Iowa City, to manufacture this invention. The capital is $55,000, and it 1s organized by Martin J. Wade, W. A. Schnelder, P. A, Korob and others, The Bartlett Candy company of this efty was organized today. It is formed by Chi cago people and will have an office in 8t. LaGrippe Caused Heart Trouble, Nervous Prostration and Dyspepsia. My Friends Know Heart Cure Cured M. % g ooy ey b L 5 wel wn Ll T fi?lln ol Towa ag an ardeat worker in_the " E. Ghurch, he says: SLaGrippe left mé with & severe case of nervous depression and ervous dyspepsia, which soon affected my Rourt 1 aliored "trom siecplsatosm, head. ache, extreme nervousness and twitching of the muscles. The slightest exertion would cause shortness of breath, & numbness of my body and hot flashes vtha;un. Towill tef you what I am constantly telling my friends —he;num. K':u' HelrI:“ Cure ruredlllme 0 that all these disagreeable symptoms leit me. | 1 mayadd that for severe pain I hi mever found. saything to equal Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pm-mlmnfm erve and Liver Pills are @ wonderful stomach remedy.’ . “Our son was stricken down with heart trouble in his twentieth year. For twe months we got no with him at night, 50 we commenced to use Dr. Miles' Heart ure and Nervipe with the Nerve and Liver Jaee pasaedn phyvce! exachimaton sioce - ex sickness aod 1 with the Atmy"in the ines. I desire to add that Dr. Miles' s have certainly been a boon tly with sick and 1 have mever me 0 el there oot ook O, Hurd, 118 W, Third Musca- his s Phili Anti-Fain tome. Iam b SWELL SOFT HATS there is them. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Louis also. The capital is $25000; H. XK. Allen, president; L. H. Latimer, secretary. Des Moines District Conference. Large numbers of ministers and laymen of the M. B. church in southwestern lIowa passed through Des Moines today on their way to/ Indiancla to attend the sessions of the Des Moines conference of the church, which commenced this evening. The first program was the meeting of the Des Moines Conference Preachers’ Ald soclety. This evening Bishop Mallalieu delivered his an- nual address to the conference. Tomorrow the general work of the conference will commence, which will last for a week. Rev. Mr. Lomack is Cleared Rev. F. C. Lomack, the colored preacher, who was on trial for alleged bigamy, was released today by the justice. He produced a transcript of the court records in Chi- cago, showing that his first wife had se- cured a divorce from him. Lomack was marrjed in Councll Bluffs a number of years ago, and his second wife is now try- ing to get a divorce from him. As an in- cident to this she acoused him of bigamy. The state fair directors today gave permis- sion for the holding of the mext annual tournament of the State Firemen's associa- tion on the state fair grounds next summer, in case the invitation to come to Des Moines is accepted. Accused of a Fraud. On the receipt of a telegram today stating that C. M. Barkley of Fort Dodge was held at Wall Lake by the police, awaiting action of the Des Moines authorities, Dep- uty Sheriff J, Jones was despatched to re- turn the prisoner to this city, where charges awalt him of bbtainiug money under false pretenses, on Information filed before Jus- tice Duncan. The alleged facts in the case are that Barkley came to the Victoria ho- tel in Des Molnes and, stating to Manager C. A. Gay that he had money in the First National bank at Fort Dodge, Ia., drew a check for 3100 in favor of Gay and re- ceived that amount In money. The check was returned, dishonored, trom Fort Dodge, resulting in the above action. The state election board today directed a hearing In the controversy from northern Jowa In which it is claimed that both B. ¥. Robinson of Bmmet county and Dr. Fuller of Dickinson county were nominated by the republicans for representative, the hearing to be next Tuesday. Delegations from both counties claim their candidate was regularly nominated. Lay Cormerstone of Churoh. CRESTON, Ia., Sept. 15.»(Special)—Des- te bad weather, the cornerstone laying of e new M. E. church of this place, which was conducted by Fev. W. E. McDade, the local pastor, was & decided success in every particular, About 600 people, representing the different denominations of the ecity, were present and occupied seats In the partially enclosed church, while the e: ercises were conducted. They were partici- pated in by every denomination in the city, and each minister dellvered an address upon subjects of church benefits 'to the community and congregations. Five hun- dred dollars additional was raised to help pay for the chruch building and the corner- stone was sealed by the Masons, after hav- ing recelved a box, which contalned a list of all the subscribers to the bullding fund, a photograph of the old church, just after it wi wrecked by the tornado, & copy of the city papers and other articles usually deposited In cornerstones. The dedication of the church will take place some time in November. Republican Lekislative Convemtion. ONAWA, Ia., Sept. 15.—(8pecial)—The re- publican representatives convention of the Fifty-seventh district convened at the opera house at 1:80 and was called to order by C. E. Underhill. 8, M. Corrie of 1da Gro was made chalrman and W. H. Wapples of Castana secretary. On motion of Kendall the convention proceeded to ballot for rep- resentatives by counties. On the informal ballot Ida county passed and Monona voted six votes for L. B. Christle and three for Thos, E. Brown. In the formal ballot, Ida voted seven for Christle and Monona te which gave bim the nomination. Mr, Christie appeared and accepted the. nom. ination, stating he stood squarely on the platform of the republican party and would try bard to be elected. The district is now represented by W. C. Whiting, demoerat. Frateruals May Buy Park, CRESTON, la., Sept. 15.—(Special.)—The is a movement on foot among the different fraternal socleties of this city to purchase « plat of ground near Afton Junction and fit it up for & pleasure resort, where they may B0 to hold their plenics and log rollings and all outdoor exercises of the various lodges. This is something (hat has long been wanted by the various societies and as the cost will be comparatively light on each lodge when used jointly, it Is thought that the enterprise will be & success. e Mellen Talk. NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—President Mellen of the Northern Pacific rallroad declined 1o discuss the statement that he is to re- sign from the Northern Pacifi¢ to succeed President Hill of the New - York, New Haven & Hartford road. but there is every reason 1o belleve that the report is cor- rect. Ne Venom in "Em, Ne polsongus purgatives enter into Dr. King's New Life Pills. - Easy, but prompt, Ouly %e. ¥or -u-l we are showing for fall wear. Lots of young fellows (and old ones, too), are coming in for one of the new, smart and swagger Stetson Soft Hats Can’t tell you about them ~—you must see them on the head to appreciate all the style We are showing more Btetsons this fall than any other two stores in town. METCALF & METCALF MAIN 8T., THROUGH TO PEARL 8T, for a Full Size Package, GTS. such as is usually,sold for {6CTS. The largest food mill in the world, with the most approved labor saving machinery, en- ables us to make the best flaked Wheat Food at this Lower Price. ASKYOURGROCERFORTHE S EEN PACKAGE If your grocer does not keep it, send us his name and 10 cents and we will send you a-package, prepaid. Address all communications to Egg-O-See., Quincy, Il EARLY CORN OUT OF DANGER ‘Weekly Orop Sttuation. ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—The ‘Weather eau’s weekly crop bulletin says: Except in lows, northern Missouri and eastern Nebraska, where excessive molsture has prevented rapid ripening, the corn crop has made satisfactory progress, the bulk of early planting over the southern portion of the belt belng practically safe from frost. f In Iowa, morthern Missourl and eastern Nebraska the advance has been very slow, and the bulk of the crop over the northwest portion of the corn belt will require from two to three weeks of ripening weather. The northwest portion of the corn belt has been threatened with damage from the recent cold, the freezsing temperatures occurring In the northern Rocky Mountain districts, having extended as far westward as the tern portion of Dakota and northwest Nebraska, on the 14th and 15th, but with the exception of the Dakotas no serious Injury has resulted and the atmospheric conditions now indicate that the lowest temperatures of the present cold spell In the extreme northwest have been reached. The temperatures will, however, continue low in Kansas, Nebraska, easterd Colorado, ‘Wyoming and in the states of the upper Mississippl valley Tuesday night and slightly higher Wednesday night, but in the lower Missouri and upper Mississippl velleys the temperature promises to be somewhat Jower Thursday night. Further delays in the threshing of spring wheat in the spring wheat reglon east of the Rocky mountains have resulted from ex cessive rains and there has been consider- able damage to wheat in stack and shock. Delay in threshing and injury to grain are also reported from Washington, Idaho and Utah. Further deterforation in the condition of cotton s reported throughout the cotton -beit: Rust is extensive and quite general complaint is recelved in the central and western districts. The greater part of the cotton Jbelt is now suffering from drouth. Complaints of premature dropping of ap- pies are extensive and the general outlook for this frult is not' improved. Favorsble reports are recelved from southern Kansas and lowa. NEBRASKA ~CROP CONDITIONS Week of Cold, Wet Weather Retards the Maturity of Corn and Hin- ders Farm Work. Weekly bulletin of the Nebraska section of the elimate and crop service of the Weather bureau for week ending Sepe tember 14, 1903: The last week has been cold, wet and generally unfavorable for agricultural in- terests, S The mean dafly temperature has aver- aged & degrees below normal in eastern counties and from § degrées to 9 degrees below in western, The rainfall has been heavy in the east- ern part of the state, generally exceeding an inch and In some places exceeding two inches; in the western counties It was much lighter, rangiag from nothing to' balf an dnch. Threshing end baying have been retarded b by the rains and some grain and hay have been damaged. The wet weather this fall makes this work now much behind the normal stage of advancement at this season of the year. Corn has matured rather slowly tn south- eastern counties, but has made more sat- isfactory progress in northern and western countfes, SBome early planted corn is now beyond injury by frost, but much of the crop meeds two to three weeks of good ‘weather, The late planted corn is just in the roasting ear stage. Plowing and seeding have progressed nicely, with the ground in excellent con- dition In most parts of the state. Tows Crop Comditions. Bulistin of the Iowa section of the oli- mate and crop service of the Weather bu- seau for the week ending September 14: “The past week has been unseasonably cool, wet and cloudy. The average tem- perature was but little below normal, buf the large excess of rainfall and genere” prevalence of cloudiness made it unfavor- able for rapid maturing of crops and farm« ing operations, Threshing has been de- layed, and grain in shock and steck has suffered very considerable damage. 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