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78-NiICE Sn trXTns 5 cents. DES MOINES, IOWA, FBI DAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1C. 1901. THE WEATHER Fair. PIE HAS SUMMARY OF WAR.

SITUATION AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER "GIVE HIM SOME OUT OF THE BIG CAN. HE ORDERED IT, BUT I FORGOT OFFICERS IN CAPTURE BANDITS TODAY IS SHOT DDI SETTLED OVER 11 1 I'-lr I r-. it Hl, ra. Toledo Blade. There has been no renewal of fighting since the retreat of the Russian army un-uer General Kuropatkln to Mukden.

Conditions there, within the Japanese and the Russian lines. Indicate that a month may elapse before the great armies in central Manchuria again enter upon a general engagement. At St. Petersburg the expectation Is that the next conflict of moment will occur at Port Arthur, where there has been a respite from heavy fighting for several weeks The spirit of the Russian troops at Mukden, which was frequently depressed and bordered upon panic following the reverse at Liao Yang, has been restored, and business In the city Is reported to be recovering. The Japanese are said to be entrenching on tiie Tat Tse river, and the bridge over that stream, which the Russians wrecked as they retreated from Liao YaDg, has been tebuilt captain give a written guarantee that the Lena shall not leave San Francisco until peace shall have been concluded; that the officers and crew shall be paroled not to leave San Francisco until some other understanding as to their disposal may be reached between the Untied States government and both the belligerents; that after disarmament the vessel may be removed to a private dock for such reasonable repairs as will make her seaworthy and preserve her In good condition during her detention; she may be so repaired at the navy yard If the Russian commander should so elect; that while at a private dock the commandant of the navy yard at Mare Island shall have custody of the ship, and the repairs shall be overseen by an engineer officer to be detailed by the commandant, and that when so repaired, If peace shall not then have been concluded, the vessel shall be taken back to Mare Island navy yard and be there held In custody until the end of the war." TODAY'S NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD DES MOINES.

Cold wave Is over and corn will be safe if the frost does not come before ten days. Page 1. Voting machines are expected to arrive October 1 nnd will be used for the November election. Page 2. Iowa Grain Dealers' association Is not against farmers.

Page 6. Mrs. Minnie Clayman comes in the nic of time and opposes her husband's divorce. Page 8. State board of control Is considering the plans for the Knoxvllle Inebriate hospital.

Page 8. Ex-Mayor MacVioar makes a study of tax rates in cities and finds Des Moines paying a high rate. Page 8. Enrollment in the public schools of Des Moines breaks all previous records. Page 8.

Lively war on between Iowa and Mutual telephone companies. Page 5. Class of nurses at Mercy hospital are graduated. Page 5. IOWA.

John Nelson is shot down by 17-year-old Jimmte Seibert after a race for life of half a mile down a country road near Oskaloosa, Page 1. No doubt exists that five men seen near Winfield are Rock Island train robbers, and it is confidently expected that they will be captured todav. Page 1. Dr. MeCormick, retiring president of Coe college at Cedar Rapids, says his farewell word to the students.

Page 3. Strike leaders In Sioux City are placed under Indictment on a charge of conspiracy. Page 3. Thomas Baker of Mason City Is thrown twenty feet through the air and his skull fractured as a result of approaching too near churning machinery. Page 3.

POLITICS. Democratic leaders will confer In Des Moines todav with a view to aiding Judge Wade In his fight In the Second district Page 1. Announced that Senator Fairbanks, republican candidate for vice president, ill speak in Iowa on his return from his western trip. Page 3. Higgins ticket is unanimously nominated by the New York republicans, Woodruff withdrawing at the last moment.

Page 5. DOMESTIC. Shift in Wind is all that saves the business portion of the city of Halifax from destruction by the flames. Page 1. Severest September storm In history causes terrific damage along the Atlantic coast.

Page 1. FOREIGN. Russian and Jajjanese armies seem to be resting from their superhuman exertions at the battle of Liao Yang. Page 1. SPORTS.

Des Moines loses a hard fought game to Sioux City by a score of 3 to 1. Page 1. Osteopaths of Still college rule out football as being contrary to the" principles which thev teach. Page 2. Candidates for the Drake football squad Indicate that the team will be light In weight this year.

Page 2. MARKETS. Snow In Canadian northwest and a shortage In Russian crop boost wheat prices in Chicago. Page 6. Operations on New Tork stock exchange are on a scale of activity not warranted by the news of the day.

Page 6. OFFICIAL WEATHER REPORT. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. Forecast for Iowa: Fair Friday and (Saturday.

The following table shows the state of weather tit the plHcea mentioned at 7 p. central time, September 1ft. Minimum temperatures are for the past twenty-four hours: Stations. Wind. Weather.

Tr.Mx.Mn.rr. Abilene clear) 78 W) Arnarlllo clear) .,.,.,...,..74 78 4ii Illsmarck clear) 4 6S 8'5 Ohcvenno clomiy) 7S 44 Chicago clear) 62 SS 4H Concordia olear) .72 7fl 4H Davenport (., clear) 63 63 42 Denver cloudy) 70 60 Tr Dps Moines (sw clear) (S3 fW Detroit (., clear) 62 4ft Dodge City (., cloudy) 80 4H Dubuque clear) ,.64 68 SS El Paso clear) 74 7a C6 Galveston part .78 7S 72 Gd Junction cloudy) 74 80 llavre( part cloudy) 68 70 48 Helena (e part cloudy) 7J 71 Eo Huron clear) 66 S4 44 Kansas City clear) 68 72 Lander clear) 70 78 MiHlens clear! 73 '6 North Platte part SS 46 Oklahoma clear) 72 8 fx) Omaha part cloudy) 68 72 Pueblo part cloudy) 80 86 48 44 Rapid City clear) Santa Ke (sw clear) St. Louis clear) Paul (.. clear) Salt Luke City pt. cldy).

Siutlt St Marie (., Valentine. clear) 61 78 52 66 70 46 68 68 En 70 H7 74 S2 60 .50 60 .70 88 44 44 Willlston cloudy) 64 68 SO The temperature as observed at the Pulled Sintes weather bureau office yes- toni.iy was as ioiiows: 1 p. p. 5 p. 7 p.

66 ...,.68 68 IB 7 a. Hi' LAO FLEES FOR LIFE HALF A MILE DOWN COUNTRY ROAD. PURSUER FOLLOWS IN BUGGY FINALLY 18 KILLED ON VERY THRESHOLD OF SAFETY. A TRAGIC MISUNDERSTANDING Jchn Nelson, an Organ Peddler, Is Killed By 17-Year-0ld Jimmie Seibert Outcome of Rape Case, OSKALOOSA, Sept. 15.

(Special.) After pursuing his fleeing victim for half a mile along the country ro-id, Jimmie Seibert, 17 years old, shot and killed John Nelson of Avery, aged 27, this evening at 6 o'clock. The shooting occurred two and one-half miles northeast of here at the home of Ellas Mason, a farmer, where Nelson had attempted to tnko refuge. Just as the terrified man was rounding the house to safety, the infuriated boy, rising In his buggy seat, fired a shot which struck Nelson in the back. The boy leaped from his buggy, ran into the yard, and fired again, this shot also striking Nelson In the back. Nelson fell Into the doorway of the homo, while the lad was reloading his gun.

Young Seibert would have shot again had not Mrs. Mason rushed from the house and compelled him to desist. Stooping over his dying victim, the boy cried: "You'll never bother us any more." Nelson died soon afterward. He had gone to the Seibert home to sell an organ. He had never seen any members of the Seibert family before.

The boy Is now in jail at this place, awaiting the action of tho coroner's Jury. Outgrowth of Carpenter Case. The shooting was the direct outgrowth of the Carpenter rape case, which is now pending before the Iowa supreme court, and will come up for a hearing on September 20. About a year ago Carpenter was convicted for the rape of May Sicbert, the sister of the boy who did the shooting today. He was sentenced to the penitentiary, but appealed and has been out on bond.

Today Carpenter was driving through the country when he met Nelson, who was on foot, and took him Into his buggy. Nelson said that he wished to stop at the Seibert place, and Carpenter turned inio the yard. Ever since the trial, the Seibert family, who are simple folk. -have lived in terror of Carpenter. When Carpenter turned into the yard, the little children creamed "There is that Carpenter man." Mrs.

Seibert, terrified, called for her husband, who a gun and fired at Carpenter. Nelson, who was unarmed, leaped from the buggy and ran Into the hazel brush which surrounds the house, while Carpenter turned his horse and disappeared down the road. He has not yet been located, although orders have been Issued for his arrest, and it is not known whether or not he was struck by the bullets. Young Seibert saw what was going on, and took a hand in the fight. He leaped into the buggy and chased the innocent Nelson, who was doing his best to escape down the road.

The fatal shooting followed, after a half mile chase, In which Nelson, on foot, made a desperate effort to shake off his pursuer. CITY OF HALIFAX IS SAVED BY SHIFT IN WIND Billows of Flames Headed for Business Center Are Turned Aside to Warehouses and Wharves Buildings, Dynamited. HALIFAX. N. Sept.

15. A fortunate shift of wind saved Halifax from destruction by fire today. Nevertheless the city suffered a loss of a half million dollars in the business part of the water front and the progress of the flames was only stayed by the dynamiting of a dozen buildings by the sailors from the fleet and soldiers from the garrison. Petween 3 and 4 o'clock this afternoon, when the fire was at its height and a fearful southerly gale was pushing it straight toward the heart of the business center, consternation reigned throughout the entire city. Shortly after 4 o'clock, however, the wind suddenly shifted to the west, and turned tho flames along tho wharves and warehouses.

There the fire raged on lower Water street, practically beyond control until 7 o'clock tonight, when 2oO sailors with torpedo apparatus landed from II. M. S. Ariadne and Indefatigable, and with the assistance of 200 troops from the garrison, checked further progress by removing, with the aid of dynamite, a dozen small buildings. Tho fire consumed six wharves, two coal piers, two hotels, a dozen warehouses and a number of small retail shops.

During the fire a large tree fell, killing Flora Ring, 28 years old, and wounding two others. Admiral Sir Archibald Douglas personally directed the sailors tn protecting imperial property, and two hundred marines patrolled the street. The burned district, which covered about two acres, was one of wooden buildings, three and four stotrles high, many of them built years ago when Halifax merchants dealt heavily in fish. The buildings wore saturated with fish oil and burned fiercely. Crowds of people, who had rushed down Smith wharf found themselves hemmed In with the fire on one side and tho harbor on the other, and all had to be taken oft by launches from the warships.

An Heir is Born to Italy. Italy. Sept. In. Queen Helena was safely delivered of a son at 11 tonight the royal palace hern.

Roth mother and child are doing well. The Infalil has received the name of Humbert uml the title of Prince of Piedmont. WEARY ARMIES RUSSIANS AND JAPANESE REST AFTER TITANIC LABORS. VWAS NO FIGHTING WEDNESDAY JAPANESE, HOWEVER, ARE SAID TO BE ADVANCING. STRONG BODIES ON THE MOVE Presence of Russian Armed Auxiliary Vessel in the Pacific Causes a Commotion.

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. Kuropatkin telegraphs that there was no fighting on Wednesday. The general says strong detachments of Japanese Infantry have advanced three miles north of the Yen Tai station. VICTORIA, B.

Sept. of the crew of the H. M. S. Grafton Just arrived from Comox report the presence of the Russian armed auxiliary vessel Korea In the I'aclfio off the northern coast of Vancouver Island, steaming slowly southward.

They expect that the Korea will come to Esquimau or Victoria. She Is described as a larger vessel than the Lena and is commanded by an officer of high rank In the Russian navy. The news has caused much excitement at Esquimau where preparations to deal with her case, should she enter, are now being made. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept.

15. A dispatch from Lieutenant General Stoes-sel, commander of the Russian military forces at Port Arthur, says the Japanese are actively constructing fortifications in the Samhon mountains, and at other points and that they continue to bombard the forts and harbor. On September 2 they threw 250 shells Into the harbor. The Japanese, tbe dispatch adds, have Issued a proclamation to the Russian troops demanding their surrender. SHANGHAI, Sept.

15. The taelal till delays giving a formal answer to Ihe Japanese demand that the crews of the Russian protected cruiser Ask-titil and the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Grozovol be confined on board those vessels, but it Is understood that Japanese cruisers will frustrate any endeavor to ship the crews away from liere. The disarming of the Askold Is concluded. THE NATURAL CONSEQUENCE. Complete Quiet is Regarded as Natural at St.

Petersburg. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. a. The aimoKt complete quiet prevailing at Liao Vang and Mukden Is accepted here as the natural and Inevitable consequence of the furious activity of the pest three weeks The view taken at Mukden that there Is not likely to he a resumption of righting In that Immediate locaUty fur a month Is regarded here as most probably correct.

It can hardly be expected that much actual news will develop In central Manchuria for some time to come, and attention is now turning toward Port Arthur, where, as General Stoessel's latest report Indicates, the Japanese are gathering strength for another spring at the fortress. It is taken tor granted here that there will soon tie news of Importance from Port Arthur, since the Japanese throughout the war have seemed to alternate their at-tentiors between the belnagured fortress end the RusMan army towards the north. It thus appears that It Is Port Arthur turn to keep up the excitement while Field Marshal Oyania Is preparing for the fall campaign. Grand IH'ke Alexander Michaelovltrh, head of the Russian mercantile marine, l.as gone to Llbau to Inspect the converted cruisers there before they depart for foreign waters. The Ualtic fleet remains at Llbau awaiting orders.

MUKDEN, Sept. 15 (Via St. Petersburg, Sept. 16. a.

m.l The panicky conditions prevailing Immediately after the battle of Liao Yang have entirely disappeared from the Russian army now concentrated here. Business has been resumed and the city Is quiet. The Itusso-fhlnese bank has reopened. The Japanese are reported to be entrenching around Liao Yang and to have repaired the bridge over the Taitse river. Twelve thousand soldiers wounded at Liao Yang have been treated at the Red Cross hospital here.

RUMOR ROYAL CONFERENCE. Said That Czar and Emperor William Are to Meet. BERLIN, Sept. IS. The newspapers tills morning print special rilsixttohps from St.

Petersburg saying that it is rumored that there, would be a meeting between Czar Nicholas and Emperor AMIllam at Bklerniewloe, Poland, but beyond the fact that Emperor William left today for C'adlnem, where he will spend several days on his private hunting grounds near the boundary of Poland, nothing Is obtainable hero confirmatory the report that a royal conference will be held. It has been known for several weeks that Emperor William would visit Oadlnem, but hitherto It was not surmised that this customary shooting trip would have any connection with Russian affairs. THE LENA WILL BE DISARMED President Issues Order Finally Deter, mining Disposition of Russian Auxiliary Cruiser. WASHINGTON. Sept.

Secretary of State Adee today gave out the following statement regarding the Russian ship Lena, now at Han Francisco: "The president hns today Issued an order, through the acting secretary of nt ate, directing that the Russian armed transport Lena, now at Pan Francisco, be taken In custody by the naval authorities of the United States and disarmed. The main features of the conditions prescribed are that the Lena be taken to the Mare Island havy yard nnd there be disarmed by the removal of small guns, breech blocks, large guns, small arms, ammunition and ordnance stores, and such other dismantlement as may be prescribed by the commandant of the navy yard; that the FIVE MEN SEEN NEAR WINFIELD SAID TO BE THE ROBBERS. THEIR IDENTITY IS CERTAIN PRIVATE INFORMATION IS RE CEIVED IN BURLINGTON. THE POSSES ARE CLOSING 1:1 Officials Are Full of Confidence That Band of Desperadoes Has Finally Been Run Down. BURLINGTON.

Ia' Sept. Special.) Private information wlioso source er.nnot ha revealed, was received In this city arly this (Kriday) morning saying that the five men discovered hiding In a straw stack near Winlield yesterday are the bandits who held up tho Roek Island train near Letts last Monday night. Tosses from Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Columbus Junction ihave closed In on the place and the capture of tho robbers la confidently expected today. Tha credit for this discovery and the running down of the desperadoes Is due to Jlayor Caster of Burlington, who furnished the officials their information. MUSCATINE, Sept.

The five bandits who held up and robbed Rock island passenger train No. Tuesday morning near Letts, were seen near Winfield yesterday morning. This fact came to light today. Four of the men were sleeping and one was standing guard. The guns were plainly seen, together with heaps of cartridges on a blanket.

Later the men flocked to a restaurant and ordered a meal and lunches for several people. After supper the men loft but are npw being hunted by Rock Island detect-ivfs and county officers. Yesterday morning Kd Heamis, a farmer four miles north of Winlield, while at work on his farm saw a party of men at a straw tstaek on his place. He went up to where they were and saw four men asleep and one man standing guard. At this time Heiimls had not heard of the robbery and was under the iinpiwMiiii that the men were hunters, which thoy took care to deepen.

Lust Mr. Heamls crime to Winfield and heard of the train robbery. He communicated with tii Washington county Fheriff and the police at Burlington. Meanwhile the very men Mr. Beamis hud seen came, to the restaurant of Ed M.

Sewoll and ordered supper. This was about 9:30. They also ordered food which they carried away with them. These facts lead the authorities to tha conclusion that the Rock Island bandits were tracked almost to their lair. The description of the men given by Sewell tallies with the description oC the two train robbers in the possession of tho Roek Island detectives.

Mr. Sewell says one of the men Is heavy set and wore a black suit. He was five feet, six or seven feet in height, and middle aged. His countenance i3 of a Hebrew cast. The other man is six feet in height, wore a gray suit and had a mustache, heavy and dark, either brown or black.

Ho also had two weeks' grow tit of beard on his face, The description tallies exactly with the tall man of the gang given by the scorer, service men. lioamis also says the man with the Hebrew cast of countenance could have been no other than tho man who waH standing guard at tho straw stack at his place previously. George Fish, a hardware merchant at Muscatine, stated to the detectives today that he sold the cartridges that fit the revolver of a peculiar pattern found at Letts. He says he will he able to identify the man, as the cartridges were purchased the day before the hold-up. Fish's evidence will ba utilized in case the men are caught.

TWENTY ARE PRECIPITATED TWENTY FEET INTO WATER Bridge Over Lake St. Croix at Stillwater, Collapses When Crowd and Fire Apparatus Attempt to Cross Two Killed. STILLWATER, Sept. 15. The bridge across Lake Ct.Croix, which Is a half a mile long, extending to the Wisconsin side, caught fire late this afternoon.

The fire created some commotion and the fire apparatus in responding to the alarm was followed by the usual crowd of persons. The fire had so weakened one of the spans of the rather ancient structure, that when the fire apparatus and the crowd at tempted to cross it, It fell Into the wa ter about twenty feet below. About twenty persons were precipitated with the wreckage Into the water and two were killed and five seriously injured. The de8d: ADOLI'H BOO, aged 22. GEORGE M'GATH, aged 18.

The injured: Ray French, probably fatally injured. Edward McPheters. James McGann, fireman. A number of others were less seri ously hurt One of the fire horses were drowned. It is thought that all the dead have been recovered.

The fiscal loss Is about $2,000. DECIDE TO STAY ON STRIKE Sheep Butchers in Chicago Allege That All Packers Except Armour Co. Have Discriminated. CHICAGO, Sept. 15.

Because of alleged discrimination against sheep butchers employed at the union stock yards, the sheep butcher workmen have decided to remain on a strike. All of the packing companies excepting Armour are alleged to be discriminating. According to the packers 3,500 nonunion men are still being housed in the stock yards but all will have left at the end of this week, DEMOCRATS PL TO I JUDGE IDE STATE LEADERS WILL CONFER HERE TODAY. DESMOND FEELS CONFIDENT SAY8 SECOND DISTRICT IS SURE THING FOR DEMOCRACY. Chairman Spence Attacked for Solicit ing Campaign Funds of Federal Employes Political Gossip.

The democratic state central committee and leading democrats of the state will hold a conference here today for the purpose of trying to devise scheme of campaign for the whole state and to aid Judge Wade fu the Second district. Judge Wade, himself, will attend the conference. Committeeman Mercer of Iowa City, who is chairman of the ex ecutive committee of the central organ ization, arrived lust night and stated that Judge Wade would bo here. Former Tnlted States Marshal Des mond and Committeeman C. W.

Miller of the Third district arrived in the city last nighl. Also committeeman Mc- Uinlty of the Eighth district. The meeting today will Include not only the executive committeemen, but also prominent democrats in addition to Messrs. Wade and Desmond. Retire' sentative Whltmer, the Eleventh district candidate for elector, Is here.

It is understood that nil of the state candidates and the electoral ticket will be present. Mr. Mercer said last night: "We want to talk over the eeneral sltuif tfon. The republican managers have ucen claiming everything in sight and we want to take an invoice. As far as the Second district is concerned there is not the slightest dlfllcultv.

Judge Wade will defeat Mr. Dawson by fully 2,000 and perhaps more." Mr. Desmond, who resides nt Clinton, Insisted that the democrats of the Sec ond district are conlldent of Wade's re-election. He said that the people there were very frWndly to Governor Cummins, it was true, and a great many democrats had voted for him In the past; but at this time the democrats are going to stick to their ticket and will not bolt it to vote for Daw son as they did for Cummins. The Cummins vole, therefore, is not a criterion.

He said that the absence of Mr. Dawson from the district had had its effect with the voters also. Chairman Morrlsev said that the conference wits for the purpose of talking over the general campaign and was not for Second 'district purposes especially. ATTACK CHAIRMAN SPENCE. Iowa Federal Office Holders Do Not Want to Pay Assessment.

A Washington dispatch appeared in a Chicago newspaper yesterday morning stating that Chairman It. II. Spence of the Iowa republican committee had solicited campaign subscriptions from Iowans employed in governmental departments at Washington, addressing them as "Iowans." It was said In the dispatch that this was in violation of law. and that the civil service commission or the president would at least assure the employes that they would suffer no injury if they Ignored the suggestion that they help pay the necessary expenses of the campalgr. Of course tha request was not preferred by Chairman Spence with any Idea of retaliation for failure to pay the solicited subscription.

He was not here last night, nor any of the other managers of the campaign, so that an authorized Statement as the publication was not obtainable. But it is not understood that there is a provision of law prohibiting persons not in the employ of the government from suggesting to government employes the desirability of helping pay the expenses of the campaign whose outcome may determine the duration of their tenure In fat office. It is understood thtt there is a law which prohibits the solicitation of campaign contributions on government TERRIFIC STORM SWEEPS THE ATLANTIC COAST Lives Are Lost, Property Destroyed and Several Ships Wrecked By Tempest One of Severest September Storms. NEW YORK, Sept. 15.

A number of lives were lost, much property damaged and several ships were wrecked in the storm which swept up tho Atlantic coast last night and todiy. It was one of the fiercest September storms on record, thunder and lightning adding terrors to a howling gale, which swept drenching sheets of rain over sea and land. Tonight telegraphic reports say that the storm has swept out Into the ocean and from the Canadian coast. The greatest loss of life "was nenr Wilmington, Del. From Jacksonville comes the report that five men were drowned off Charleston.

New York suffered comparatively little. The wind and rain and thunder and lightning were terrific, but little actual damage was done. Nineteen coal barges went adrift In the bay and tonight their wreckage strews the shore from the battery to the narrows, but no lives were lost. Several small vessels also went ashore on various parts of the coast near New York. One fatality was reported in this city when a piece of cast iron fire escape was blown from a building nnd struck one person, killing him instantly.

From Wilmington, tonight comes the news that great destruction was caused by the storm. Trees were uprooted, houses flooded and crops ruined. In Chesapeake bay the storm was particularly fierce. Incoming steamers arriving at Baltimore report that never in their experience has such a furious gale swept down on them at this time of the year. EIGHT MEN ARE DROWNED Tug Israel W.

Durham is Swamped By Heavy Seas in the Delaware River. WILMINGTON, men wer? drowned today by the sinking of the tug, Israel W. Durham, in the Delaware river oppoflte this city. Tha tug was swamped during the heavy storm. Her captain and crew of five mon and four employees of the Amerlcnn Dredging cempanv were aboird when the tug sank.

Only two were raved. STEAMER SMASHED TO BITS. Captain and Crew of Twenty-One Men Saved With Difficulty. TRt'O. Sept.

IS. -The fishing steamer. Joseph Chcrch. of Oreenport. L.

struck on eaked Dill rork ami was smashed to ploes. Captain Martin Ionian Slid his i row of twenty-one men Vers- saved The wreckage of the steamer is strewn nlong tho shore for miles. RESCUE SHIPWRECKED MEN. Members of Crew of Fishing Smack Are Brought to Land, JACKSON, Pept. IS-Captaln In-giam of Ihe steamer Huron, brought to Jacksonville today three men of tha crew of the fishing smack Gray Eug'e, which waR supposed to te lost off Charleston Par.

DON A. BERRY GETS HIS GRANDFATHER'S FARM Well Known Indianola Young Man Will Take Up Science of Agriculture and Make It Hi Life Work. INDIANOLA, Sept. Don A. Berry, son of Senator v.

H. Berry and one of the best known young men of Indianola, was yesterday presented a line 15 acre farm two miles north of this city by his parents. The farm was originally sottled by a grandfather of Mr. Berry, and was purchased a few days ago by Senator Berry, the purchase price being understood to be IJO.000. Mr.

perry Is a graduate of Simpson eollege, and for the past eighteen months has been doing efficient newspaper work In Dos Moines. He determined to take agriculture as his life work and will apply to it modern methods, lie expects to take a curse In the agricultural college at Amet this winter, and will assume the manai ment of the farm next spring. Mr. Derry's decision to take up agriculture was a decided surprise to his many friends, who murki-d out a cntecr (or him us sueoetisor lo his abh father at the Iowa bur, but ho believes Unit agriculture opens Just ay good sin opportunity to brains and ability as aus' other profession. COLD RECEIVES 11 FARMERS BELIEVE THE CROP TO BE SAFE.

THE DAMAGE IS BUT SLIGHT THOUGHT THAT WARM WEATHER WILL FOLLOW. Ten Days Will Be Ample to Ripen the Crop and Allow the Corn to Be Brought Out in Good Shape. With what iR regarded as the backbone of tho cold spell broken, the farmers and grain men of the state feel that the corn crop is reasonably safe from the ravages of the frost and think that the fields of the state will be free to ripen at leisure from this time forward. Yesterday's frosts did much damage to the crop althoueh those in a position to say do not hold a pessimistic view of the situation. The reports from various portions of the stale show that a very considerable damage was done In places but no general harm resulted.

On the whole the corn crop Is safe for another ten days. While the weather bureau has forecasted a cooler temperature for today the difference in the temperatures of today and the three or four days previous is such as to trive ample assurance that there will be no further damage to the corn eron. The grain receivers of Des Moines feel that the backbone of the spell has been broken and think that the corn crop Is beyond the attacks of the frosts which was so Imminent three days ago. Sage Talks. Director J.

R. Sage of the Iowa crop and weather service, who made a careful survey of the situation yesterday after the reports of the ueneral frost stated that the damage hail been magnified much In the reports rendered yesterday. He said: "I do not believe that Wednesday night's frost did more than 5 per cent damage in those few sections where any damnee was done at nil." "Probably in the northern part of the state, where the temperature was lowest, there was some damage, but it could not have been much more than a 5 per cent damage. I have no definite reports from the coldest sections as yet, but I base my estimates on general conditions. "I spent a large part of today in going through the corn fields in this immediate section.

There was no sign of damage, and yet the low pieces of ground were covered wllh a white frost early this morning. The corn here is In perfect condition as far as frost Injury Is concerned." FROST DOES NO DAMAGE. Farmera About Fort Dodge Regard It as Being Beneficial. PORT DODGE, Sept. The first frost of the season came last Telephone communication over a wide range of country In this section of the state shows th frost to ba genoraJ, hut not sufficiently heavy to do damage.

Farmers regard it as being beneficial to corn, and say It will check the growth and hasten on maturity. BULK OF CORN UNHURT. First Killing Frost is Reported at Ce-' dar Rapids. CEDAR RAP1D3. Sept.

flrt Hlltng frost of the visited this vicinity last night, killing tender flowers and garden truck snd Injuring corn In tome nt the low places. The bulk of the corn crop was nut damagei THERMOMETER TO 33 DEGREES Farmera About Waterloo, However, Report Little Damage, WATEPllO, Sect. The thermometer In this section dropped to degrees last night, according to Weather Observer Newton. Some farm- on Paiio 2, Column 6.) 0 0 (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.1 W'. -a.