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IAHAL CRITICS HIT. in Special Message Calls Them Slanderers. PELLS OF HIS TRIP. Thorough Inspection of the Work Now in Progress. that an Epic of World-Wide Intprtrfancc-- Health BzFellen( and Yellow Fever Being- Drlren Out-- Worknea Seen at Work aud In Their and Are Interviewed by the President.

President Roosevelt sent a special age on the Panama canal to Congress Monday. He tells at great length his personal experiences on his rent trip to the canal zone, and scores critics and slanderers of the canal ommlssion, Ou this point the Presi- at says: "Where the slanderers are of foreign jin I have no concern with them. Fhere they are Americans I feel for em the heartiest contempt and indignation; because in a spirit of wantoa Sishonesty and in til Ire they are trying interfere with nnd hamper the exertion of the greatest work of the kind ever attempted and are seeking bring to naught the efforts of their ountrynien to put to the credit of neriea one of the giant feats of the ea. "The outrageous accusations of these llanderers constitute a gross libel upon body of public servants who for trained intelligence, expert ability. Itigh character and devotion to duty have never been excelled anywhere." Following is the President's message part: In the month of November I visited the Isthmus of Panama, going over the Cannl I Zone with considerable care; and a No visited the cities of Panama and Colon, which are not in the or under the United States flag, but as to which the United States government, through its agents, exercises control for certain sanitary purposes.

I WHS three days ashore --not a sufficient length of time to allow an exhaustive investigation of the min- of the work of any single department, still less to pass judgment oa the engineering problems, but enough to enable me to get a clear idea of the salient features of the great work and of the time to time. Tribute 0 FreB eh. wish to pay a tribute to the amount the biuldmits they put up w.re aud are still in use thouzh naturally, the houses are now out of repair aud are beiag used as dwelling only until other can be built and much of the work aid in the iC bra cut, am some of the work thov did diugms as bwu of i J-nent. Ibis country has never made a. bitter investment than the which paid to the French company for work and betterments, including Vspe- naly the Panama railroad.

A i 1 1 1 0 ot the ground at the height of the rainy season s-rved to con- me of the wisdom of refusms to adopt either a high-level or a sea-level cunal. There seems to bo a universal among all pooplc competent to judge that the Panama route, the one ai-tualy chosen, is much wmt.laim, 10 the isthmus ho' be itife-s lie tost of living and the from home, the wanes 01 they should be. even- man be distance really 1 -not as la fact, almost spoke to felt that he ought to oe reu'ivlttsr more money--a view. the iivvratte man who stuvs at home In the I nited States probably likewise hold, as regards himself. Hie white Americans are employed, some 1 0ra oirice the nwjorlty In Imttdlmij the great steam shovels, as en-1- live, superior to both Darien routes.

the Nicaragua and The wisdom of the canal management has been shown in nothing more clearly than the way in which tlip foundations ot the work have been laid. To have yielded to the natural impatient of ill- informed outsiders and begun all kinds of experiments in work prior to iho-on-h sanitation of the isthmus, and to a fairly satisfactory working out of the problem of gptring and keeping a sufficient labor supply, would have been disastrous. The various preliminary meastu-es had to be taken first: and these could not bo taken so as to allow us to begin the real work of construction prior to Jan 1 of the present year. It became necessary to have the typo of the canal decided, and the only delay has been the necessary delay until the day of June, tho'date when the Congress definitely and wisely settled that we should have an S'-foot level canal. Immediately after thnt the began in hard earnest and has been continued with incremiiu vigor ever since: and it will coiuinup so to progress the future.

When the contracts are the condhions will be such as to insure a constantly increasing amount of Performance. Many of them down their wives ana families and trie children when not In school are running about and behaving precisely as the American small boy and small girl behave at noine. I he bachelors among the employes sometimes in small separate houses, in large houses: quarters being runiHhed free to all the men. married and unmarried. The housewives purchase their supplies directly, or through their husbands, rrcim the commissary stores of the commission.

All to whom I spoke agreed that the supplies were excellent, and all but two stated a there was no complaint to be made; these two complained that the prices were excessive as compared to the prices In the States. I came to the conclusion that, speaking generally, there was ao warrant for complaint about the food. The Labor Quentlon. Of the nineteen or twenty thousand day laborers employed on the canal, a few hundred are Spaniards, work. Their foremen PBE8IDENT BOOSEVELf.

that has been made as regards the sanitation of the Zone. Colon and Panama, the caring for and housing of the employes, nnd the actual digging of the canal. The Zone is a narrow strip of land, and it can be inspected much as one can inspect fifty or sixty miles of a freat railroad, at the point where it runs through mountains or overcomes natural obstacles. I chose the month of November for tny risit partly because it is the rainiest month of the year, the month in which the work goes forward at the greatest disadvantage, and one of the two months which the medical department of the French Canal Company found most unhealthy. I inspected the Ancon Hospital, going through wards both for white patients and for colored patients.

I inspect- portions of the constabulary (Zone police), examining the men individually, I also examined certain of the schools and saw the scbool children, both white and colored, Rpenktag with certain of the teachers. At the Cnlrton cut-- the spot in which most work witl have to be dona in any we watched the different steam working: we saw the drilling and watting we raw many of the dirt trains (of the two different types used), both carrying the earth away from the Sanitation The first great problem to bp solved, upon the solution of which the success of I he rest of the work depemli'il. was the problem of sanilation. It must be remembered that I)r. Gorgas' work was not mere sanitation as the term is understood in our ordinary municipal work.

Throughout the Zone aud in the two cities of Panama and Colon, in addition to the sanitation work proper, he has had to do all i lie work that the marine hospital service does as regards the nation, that the health department officers do in the various Mates and cities. Just at present HIP health showin? on the isthmus is remarkably good--so much better than in most sections of the United States that I do not believe that it can possibly continue at quite its present average. There has been for the past six months a well-nigh steady decline in the death rate for the population of the this being largely due to the decrease in deaths from pneumonia, which has been the most fatal disease on the isthmus. In October there were ninety-nine deaths of every kind among the employes of the Kthmus. There were then on the rolls Ji.500 whites, seven-eighths of them being Americans.

Of those whites but two died of disease, and as it happened neither man was an American. Of the O.COO white AmcricaQx. including some women ami children, not a single death has occurred in the past three months, whereas in an average city iu the United States the number of deaths for a similar number of people in that time would have been about thirty from disease. This very remarkable showing cannot of course permanently obtain, but it certainly goes 10 prove that if good care is taken the isthmus is not a particularly unhealthy place. In Panama and Colon the doath rate has also been greatly reduced, this being directly due to the vigorous work of the special brigade ot" employes who have been inspecting houses where the stego- myia mosquito is to be found and destroying its larvit nnd breeding places, nnd doing similar work in exterminating the malarial mosquitoes--in short, in performing all kinds of hygienic labor.

The sanitation work in the cities of Panama and Colon hns been just as important as in the Zone itself, and in many respects much more difficult. CrltlclNiu In Unjnnt. Care and forethought have been cxerclied by the commission, nnd nothing has reflected more credit upon them tlian their refusal either to ahead too fast or to be deferred by fear of criticism from not going enough. It Is curious to note the fact a many of the most severe critics of the commission criticise thTM for precisely opposite reasons, some comjii.lining i that the work is not in a more nd- v.inced condition, i the others complain a it has been rushed with such haste tit.it there lias been iiistitHcient preparation the hygiene nnd comfort of the cm- These do excellent told me that they twice as well us the West India laborers. They keep healthy and no difficulty is experienced with them in any way.

Same Italian laborers are nlso employed In connection with the drilling. As miiiht be expected, with later as priced as at present In the United States, It has cot so far proved practicable to ae: any ordlmry laborers from the United States. The American wage-workers on the isthmjs "re the highly paid skilled mechanics of the types mentioned previously. A steady effort Is being made to secure and especially to procure more Spaniards, be- ciiuoe of the very satisfactory results that have come from their employment: and their numbers will be increased Is far as possible. It has not proved possible, how- over, to get them in anything like the numbers needed for the work, and from present appearances shall In the main have to rely, for the ordinary unskilled work, partly upon colored laborers from the West Indies, partly upon Chinese labor.

It cert a i ought to be unnecessary to point out rhat the American worUngmnn in the Timed Status has no concern whatever in the question as to whether the rough work oil the I which is performed by aliens in any event, is done by aliens from one country with a black skill or by aliens from another country with a yellow skin, ilur busings is to "dig the canal as efficiently and as quickly as possible; provided always that nothing Is done that is innu- inane to any laliorere. and nothing that interferes i the want's of or lowers the standard of living of our own workmen. a i in view this principle. I have ar- innged to try several thousand Chinese laborers. This is desirable both because we must try to nnd nut what laborers arc most a furthermore, because we not leave ourselves at the mercy of atn one type of foreien labor.

At present the areal bulk of the unskilled labor on the I done by West India negroes, clili'rty from Jamaica, Barbados, nnd the other English possessions. One of the governors of the lands in question has shown an unfriendly disposition to our work, and has thrown obstacles In the way of our setting the labor needed; and It is highly undesirable to give any outsiders the impression, however ill founded, that they are Indispensable and can dictate terms to us. The West India laborers are fairly, but only fairly, satisfactory. Some of the men do very well indeed; the better class, who are to be found as foremen, as skilled mechanics, as policemen, are jrood men, and many of the ordinary day laborers (ire also eoofl. But thousands of those who are luouglit over undor contract (at our expense) go nit Into the jungle to live, or lonf around Colon, or work so badly after the first throe or four days ns to cause a serious i i i of the a of labor performed on Friday and Saturday of each I questioned many of those Jamaica laborers cs to the i i of their work nnd a if any chances, they wished.

1 received many a i from them, but regards moot of these complaints, they contradicted one another, lii all ciisi-s where the complaint was ai to i a by any I i i a it proved on examlnailoii a i individual was himself a West I i a man of color, either a policeman, ft storekeeper, or an assistant storekeeper. Doubtless there must be many eicellent construction, toys when compared steam shotels, Just as the cars soein like toy with the long trains of huge cars, dumped by steam plows, which now use. This the enormous advance that UMS been made in ma- ctiiuery during the past quarter of a century. No doubt a quarter of century hence this new machinery, of which we are now so proud, will similarly seem out of date, but It certainly serving its purpose well now. The old French cars had to be entirely discarded.

We still have use a few of the more modern, but not most modern, cars, which hold but twelve yards of sarth. They can be employed on certain lines with sharp curves. But the recent cars hold from twenty-live to thirty yards apiece, and Instead of the old clumsy methods of unloading them, a steam plow Is drawn from end to end of the whole ves- tibuled train, thus immensely economizing labor. In the rainy season the steam shovels can do but little in dirt, but they work steadily in rock and In the harder ground. There were some twenty-live at work during the time 1 was on the Isthmus, and their tremendous power and eflclency were most Impressive.

The most advanced methods, not only In construction, but In railroad management, have been applied In the Zone, with spending economies In time and cost. Thil has been shown In the handling ot the tonnaue from ships Into cars, and from cant Into ships on the 1'auama railroad. the It Is not only natural, but Inevitable, that a work as gigantic as this which has been undertaken on the Isthmus should arouse every species of hostility and criticism. The conditions are so new and so trying, and the work so vast, that It would be absolutely out of the question thnt mistakes should not be made. Checks will occur.

Unforeseen difficulties will arise. From time to time seemingly well-settled plans will have to be changed. At present 25,000 men are engaged on the task. After a while the number will be doubled. In such a multitude It is inevitable that there should be here and there a scoundrel.

Very many of the poorer class of laborers lack the mental development to protect themselves against either the rascality of others or their own folly, nnd it is not possllle for a wisdom to devise a plan by Iowa State News MTBELEY BOIND OVBlt. Mm "VW and depositing it on the dumps of the dumps being run out in the Jungle merely to get rid of the earth. while in other cases they are beinn nwd for double tracking the railway and In preparing fcuild the p-eat dams. I visited many the different Tillages, fa- thoroughly many different buildings--the lodU receiving hospitals, the in whict workmen live, as well as the commiwan stores, and the machine witt, Wettam. I talked with of different men-- and head of wriiknw ud tnreaua Meam shore! mw, cndnctora, enjineen, WITH of the AmerkM health laborera, colored attend- Mta, tad mtmgtn of the comnlswry where rood MM to the colored wifw of tht colored ho ntrtfed.

Huh twrivt to ehjMm horn tn Ht Mtaf wwr Mkl tat thm WM MM, to pioyes. As a a of fact neither critl- eisia is just. It would have been Impossible to go more ijulckly a the commission lias gone, for such quickness would have meant Insufficient preparation. On the other hand, to refuse to do anything i every possible contingency hud been met would have caused wholly unwarranted delay. The right course to follow was exactly the course which hfis beeu followed.

Kvcry reasonable preparation was made in advance, the hygienic conditions In especial being made As nearly perfect as possible; while on the other hand there lias been no timid refusal to push forward the work because of Inability to anticipate every possible emergency, for, of course, many defects can only be shown by the working of the system In actual practice. In addition to attending to the health of the employes, It Is of course necessary to provide for policing the Zone. This Is done by a police force which at present numbers over men. About one-fifth of the men are whlie and the others black. Inasmuch so many both of the white and colored employes have brought their families with them, schools have been established.

For the pupils white American teachers are employed; for the colored pupils there are tome white American teachers, one Spanish tocher, sod one colored American teacher, most of them being colored teachers from Jamaica. Barbados and St. Locla. There seemed to me to be too many saloons ID the but the new blgb-llcease wblch goes Into effect OD January 1 belt will probably close four-nflbs of them. Rewlnte and efforts art Mlac made to nlnlmlM tad control of of ID iBporttoct to problem Itatioo, compblnts against Americans; but those to WIIOID I spoke did not happen to make such complaint to me.

There was no complaint of the homing. I was struck by the superior comfort and respectability of lives of the married men. It would. In my opinion, he a most a i a thing if much latter number of the men had their wives, for with i advent all complaints aliotit the food and cooking are almost sure to cease. One of the greatest needs at present Is to provide amusements both for the white men and the black.

The Voung Men's Christian Association Is trying to'do good work and should be in every way encouraged. But the government 'should do the they can iuvnrlitbly be protected. In a place which has been for ages a byword for unhcalthfuliiess. and with so large a congregation of strangers suddenly put down and set to hard work there will now and then be outbreaks of disease. There will now and then be shortcomings In administration there will be unlooked-for accidents to delay the excavation of the etit or the building of the dams and locks.

Each such incident will be entirely natural, and, even though serious, no one of them will mean more than a little extra delay or trouble. Yet each, when discovered by sensation mongers and retailed to timid folk of little faith, serve as an excuse for the belief that the whole work Is being badly manured. Experiments will continually be tried In housint, in hygiene, in street repairing, in dredging, nnd in dig- King earth and rock. Now and then an experiment will be a a i aud among those who hear of it, a certain proportion of doubtiui Thomases will at once believe that the whole work is a failure. Doubtless here and there some minor rascality will be uncovered; but as to this.

I have to say that a the most painstaking inquiry I have been unable to tind a single reputable person who had so much as heard of any serious accusations affecting the honesty of the commission or of tiny responsible officer under it. I investigated the most serious charge, that of the ownership of lots In Colon; the charge was not advanced by a rcptuable man. and is utterly baseless. It is not too much to say that the whole ntmosphere of the commission breathes honesty as It breathes efficiency nnd energy. Above (ill, the work has been kept absolutely clear of politics.

I never heard even a suggestion of spoils politics In connection with it. So much for honest criticism. There remains an immense amount of as reckless slander as has ever been published. Where the slanderers are of foreign origin I have no concern with them. Where they are Americans, I feel for them ihe heartiest contempt and Indignation; because, In a spirit of wanton dishonesty and malice, they are trying to interfere with, and hamper the execution of, the greatest work of the klna ever attempted, and are seeking to bring to naught the efforts of theif countrymen to put to the credit of America one of the giant feats of the nges.

outrageous accusations of these slanderers constitute a gross libel upon a body of public servants who, for trained Intelligence, expert ability, high character and devotion to duty, have never been excelled anywhere. There is not a man among those directing the work on the Isthmus who has obtained his position on any other basis a merit alone, and not one who hns used his position in any way for his own personal or pecuniary advantage. to Build tty Contract. After most careful consideration we have decided to let out most of the work by I I A RECORD OF YEAR. Men Senteucrd In lona In Tea Munthi.

Eleven hundred and twenty-eight years and ted mouths' incarceration were handed out to criminals iu Iowa during the lasl year, according to the official reports compiled by the Secretary of State. This shows a falling off in years to which criminals have been sentenced in as compared with those sentenced in of about ninety-three years. But the number of criminals sentenced were ninety-two less in the last year than in the previous year, and of the ninety-two more in thirty-five were felons. The cost of the conviction of the criminals iu ItHW was about $3:2,000 less than the cost of convicting the 1,301 of the year previous. The total cost was $438,230.

Of this the county attorneys drew or only about $800 less than in 1903. More than $17.000 less fines were levied during than in but the collections were only about less. The total fines levied the last year amounted to $107,001, and the collections to During the year there were five less murders than in 1D03. But there many more attempts to commit the most heinous crimes. Following are the most pertinent and interesting features of the report of this year on criminal convictions in the State, compared with that of Held Wlthmt Bwl Murder of Father.

Deserted by everyone save his faithful mother, who has mortgaged her property to provide means for her son's defense, Robert MtfFeeley. charged with the der of his father, was bound over to the grand jury in Crestou without bail. He was immediately placed in the county jail to await his indictment. A sensational feature of the day's testimony WM the introduction of evidence to show that a sister of the prisoner is a cripple at home unable to leave the house, uer injuries due, it is claimed, to an assault made by young McFwIey before the death of his father. The evidence is so strong that the boy is responsible for his father's death that attorneys for the defense stated that a plea of insanity will be introduced and an effort made to bare him sent to Clarinda.

Some time at the request of his parents he was before the county commission of insanity and was pronounced sane. Anger over the filing of such charges is said to have brought about a motive for the patricide. ATTEMPT TO HOLD t'P SOI 042 18 15 11 11 11 80.23 743 13 inoe. 1.2W "in 507 43 10 Number of convictions Misdemeanors Felonies Miscellaneous Murder Uanslaughtfr Assault with intent to murder Assault with Intent to commit a a Years In jail Tears in pentiteuiary sentences 1,541 Convicts who can read and write Americans Children sent to reformatory Convit'ts sent to penitentiary Sent to jail Fines levied tlOT.fifll Fines collected Expense of i i Paid to County Attorney. 107,430 100,023 12 29 8 63.75 1,035 B27 703 34 412 243 Central Pullman Conductor Beaten Up.

A bold Attempt was made to hold up and rob the Chicago and St. Paul limited train on the Illinois Central a short distance east of Farley at an early hour the other morning by two masked men. The bandits secreted themselves in the Pullman sleeper on leaving Dubuque, and when a short distance east of Farley they attacked Pullman Conductor Colliugs- berger, beating him into insensibility. After the attack the men left the train. The Pullman conductor regained consciousness shortly after the train passed Farley and notified the conductor in charge of the train.

A search was instituted, but no one could be found who had lost valuables. It is claimed that the thugs' intention was to rob the sleeping cars on the train. Conductor Col- lingsberger sustained injuries to his bead and hands. rtC WEEKLY 1792--Trial of Louis XVI. of France.

1811--William I'inckney of Maryland became Attorney General of United States. 1814--The Hartford convention was ed Benjamin W. Crowninsbield of Massachusetts become Secretary of the captured flotilla of American gunboats in Lake Borgue. 1819--Alabama admitted to the Union. 1SC2--Gen.

Banks superseded Gen. But- BANKS CAS 3TOT BE I.VSURED. Attorney General Ruling; on Seoul-Inn of Di'iMinHn. Attorney fipner.il Mullan has decided that bank deposits cannot be the subject of insurance in Iowa and the banks cannot take and bold stock of an insurance company organized for the purpose of insuring bank deposits, carrying such stock as part of their assets. Inquiries on these points were submitted to the Attorney General by Auditor of State Carroll, application for authority to organize a company to insure bank deposits having been filed with him by a Sioui County man.

Attorney General Mullan holds that the Legislature of Iowa has clearly defined the kind and character of risks upon which insurance may be written. The effect of the act of the Legislature is to prohibit insurance being written in this State upon any risks other than such as are defined and permitted by statute. Bank deposits are not defined by the statute as subject to insurance, ESTIMATES OX IOWA CROPS. If the of sMiirikf aid ea latonn, and otfcr main work. I have specifically called the a i of the commission to this mutter, and something has been accomplished already.

A i done for the welfare of the men adds tr their efficiency and money devoted to that purpose is therefore properly to be considered as spent In bulldins the canal. It is Imperatively necessary to provide ample recreation and amusement if the men are to be kept well and healthy. Work of The work Is now going on with a vizor and efficiency pleasant to witness. The three big problems of the canal are the LA liocn the Gntun dam nnd the Cule- lira cut. The Culcbra cut must be tnade anyhow: but of course changes as to the dams, or nt least BJ to the locks adjacent to the dams, may still occur.

The La Boca dams oltcr no particular problem, the bottom material being so good that there Is a piactlcnl certnlnty, sot merely as to what can he achieved, but as to the time of achievement. The (iatun dara offers the most serious problem which we have to solve: and yet the ablest men on the Isthmus believe that this problem Is certain of solution along the lines proposed; although, of course, It necessitates great toll, energy and Intelligence and although equally, of course, there will be some little risk In connection with the work. The risk arises from the fact that some of the material near the bottom Is not so good is could be desired. If the huge earth dam now contemplated Is thrown across from one foothill to the other we will have what Is practically a low. broad, mountain ridge behind which will rise the Inland lake.

This art! flclai mountain will probably show less seepage, tbat Is, will greater restraining capacity than the average natural mountain range. The exact locality of tbe locks at this dam--as at other dams--Is now being drtermlDed. In April neit Secretary Taft, wltb three of tbe ablest engineers of the conntry--Messrs. Noble, and Rlptey--will visit the Mbatu, tad will omit tbt nial and conclusive eMMlMtlons as to tbt exact sltt tor lock. Mwnwbllt tbt work fotaf Tbt cslebra cot dott lot ottr Met that ftuMfi NgMt to wmr contract.

If we can come to satisfactory terms with the contractors. The whole work is of a kind suited to the peculiar genius of our people; and our people have developed the type of contractor best fitted to grapple i it. It is of course much better to do the in larse part by coil- tract than to do it nil by the government provided it is possible on the one hand to to the contractor a sufficient remuneration to make it worth while for responsible contractors of the best kind to under, take the work and provided on the other it can be done on terms which will not give an excessive profit to the contractor nt the expense of the irovertiment. After much consideration the plan already prom- ulvated by the Secretary of War was adopted. The plan ns promulgated is tentative doubtless it will have to be chansed In some respects before we cnn come to a satisfactory agreement with responsible contractors--perhaps even after the bids have been received: and of course it is possible that we cannot conic to an agreement in which case the government will do thi work Itself.

Meanwhile the work on the isthmus is progressing steadily and without any let-up. I accompany this paper with a map showing substantially what the canal will like when It Is finished. When the Cale- bra cut has been made and the dams built (If they are built ns at present proposed) there will then be at both the Pacific and Atlantic ends of the canal, two great fresh water lakes, connected by a broad channel running at the bottom of a ravine, across backbone of the Western hemisphere. Those best Informed believe that the work will be completed In about eight years- but It Is never safe to prophesy about such a work this, especially in the tropics. Confident nt Of the success of the enterprise I an well convinced as one can of any enterprise that Is human.

It Is a stupendous work upon which our fellow countrymen aTM engaged down there on the Isthmus and while we should hold them to a strict accounting for the way In which they Mr- form It, we should yet recognize, with frank generosity, the epic nature of the task on which they are engaged and Its Importance. They are doing omethlng which will redound Immeasurably to credit of America, which will benefit all tbt world, and wblch will last for ages to A badge to be given to etci-y American cltlicn wbo for a speclfled time has taken part In this work; for participation In It Yield ot Corii IK IS.920 or 41 Butihela to the Acre. In his annual estimates of the crops Director Sage stives the yields and value of crops as follows: Corn. .388.348.920 bushels. 41 bushels to the acre, worth or 33 cents per bushel; winter wheat.

l.oOO.OoO bushels, 23 bushels to the acre, worth 07 cunts per bushel spring wheat. 5.G0.1.SSO bushels. 15 bushels to the acre, worth 03 cents per bushel outs. 142.030.riSO bushels. 34 ffushela to the acre, worth 27 cents per bushel rye.

LOW. 100 bushols. bushels to the acre, worth 48 cents per bushel: barley. 14.8.'S.N30 bushels. 20 1 4 bushels to the acre, worth 80 cents per bushel: potatoes.

U.onT.'iOO bushels. 101 bushels to the acre, worth 48 cents per bushel, ERECTS MAfSOLGUM OX FARM. Millionaire Marble Tomb from -Finest In State. A contract lias been closed wherein Charles E. Patterson of the Iowa Falls Marble Works, secured the erection of an 8.000 mausoleum for W.

F. Johnson, the millionaire farmer of Tama County. This monument that Mr. Johnson has planned to erect in his home county will be of the Grecian-Doric architecture with heavy Corinthian pillars at the entrance. The mausoleum will be built of granite and the interior finished in pure white marble.

It i contain eisht catacombs snd will be one of the finest structures of kind in Central Iowa. CHILD PLEAS STAY Son and Dnnithter More Governor CDumlni to Clemency for Father. The heart of Gov. Cummins was moved by the tears of two little children who knelt on tbe floor of the executive's office and pleaded for the life of their father, who was sentenced to be haLged the next Friday for the murder of his wife and the children's stepmother. Busse four times has had the day set for his death and has as many times escaped the hangman's noose.

His lawyers have delayed death by legal procedures, appeals and habeas corpus cases. The Supreme Court in its last hearing was equally divided and recommenced to Gov. Cummins, in view of this state of affairs, that he commute the sentence. The Governor took this action after the children of the murderer, a boy of 10 nnd a girl of 8 years, had pleaded for his life. IOWAX MURDERED IIV PERSIA.

Detail! of Death of Rev. Awaited by The news of the murder of Rev. L. O. Fossum in Persia is received with unusual interest in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa, where the young man who met his fate at the hands of Persian fanatics, had been prominent in church and educational work.

He was a son of C. Fossum of Emmet county, and was ordained a minister in the Lutheran dnirc'a several years ago. He was one of the founders of Waldorf college at Forest City, and was pastor the United Lutheran ciiurch at Slayton, Minn. The young man's wife's folks live in southeastern lowa, but neither family has yet received the of the tragedy, 3TEWHALL HAS 7,000 BLAZE. Barn, Carpenter Shop and Planlnc -Mill DeBtrored.

Fire, supposed to have started ii the office of the Andrews feed barn in New hall, destroyed the barn aud a large part of the contents, together with the pentor shop and planing mill of C. Wheeler, located iust west of the barn The loss on the barn will be about (3,000 while Mr. Wheeler's loss will be a greai deal heavier owing to a large amount ol valuable machinery that was destroyed, ler at Xew Orleans The UD troops occupied Baton Rouge, Fredericksburg, bombarded by Union troops, under cover of which they crossed the Confederates victorious at battle ot Frcdericksburg, Va. 1SC4--Fort McAllister captured by Gen. Sherman's army.

18C6--French occupation of Rome terminated. 18(57--Fenian explosion at Clerkenwell. 1S71--Grand Duke of Russia gave to the poor of New York City as a memento of his visit "Boss" Tweed arrested on a charge of felony and confined in the Metropolitan hotel. New Tork. 1ST2--Jay Gould restored $9.000,000 worth of property to Erie Railroad Company for sake of peace.

1874--Emigrant ship Cospatrick burned at sea: 4tio lives lost William Mosuer and Joseph Douglass, supposed abductors of Charlie Ross, shot and killed in Xew York. 1S7S--Gold sold at par in Xew York, for first time since January, 18C2. S. Supreme Court reaffirmed constitutionality of law prohibiting polygamy, 1SS9--Marquis de Caux, divorced husband of Adelina Patti, died in Paris. broke off diplomatic relations with ot Dufferin appointed British ambassador at Paris.

1S02--Prof. Henry p. Smith of Lana Theological seminary, suspended for heresy. 1S95--President Cleveland sent to Con- message on gress his memorable Venezuela, 1897-- Mother of President McKinley died at Canton, Ohio. 1SOS-- Gen.

Gairia. the Cuban leader, died in Washington Sir Win. Vernon Harcourt resigned leadership of Liberal party in England. 1899-- President directed Gen. Otis to open Philippine ports to commerce.

Boerg defeated the British at man participating Just honor upon a soldier to as It belonged to a ulfb.tr army In a great war for rlgbtooai- Oar fellow countrymen on the lath- are working for onr Interest aid for mattoial renown la apirlt and with MUM th7t tbTiwi of tnaf Mtr that It hrtoorw In Mr tin to an iS to MM tfcjhl ul t. tMtftS nwy wmy Uhrisjt tfctfr wttfe The Wilson opera house in Mason City was slightly damaged by fire, caused, it is believed, by some one dropping a lighted cigarette in the hallway of the stairs leading to the gallery. The floor was burned through and the fire was under good headway when discovered by attendants. Clinton Mwrderem Judge Barker at Clinton sentenced Richard Zimmers and William Phillips to sixteen years in the Anamom penitentiary on their pleas ot guilty to kllllnf Si Lanon tn a drunken quirei Oct. 14, which under the charge WM mar- tn In tbe second degm.

WMMM DIM amm Dinned by hatband, dMertod her Mmda, pmflen ud without work, MUM On CMwittoi i-Jdfo la MotaM fwttor thM tat fcc tart. iHW IHwBJB Vi IvW ACCUSED OFFICER A SflClDE. Wife Finds Indicted Conntr Super- vlkor Dead In Hay Mow, Matt Priestly of Rock Rapids, one oi the county supervisors recently indicted by the grand jury for misappropriation of road fundg, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a jnckknife. He was out on bonds of $0.000. His wife found him dead in a hay mow with the knife still clasped in his hand.

He was 65 years old. Within Ottr Bofderm, Rev. Henry Robinson of Jefferson has resigned his pastorate of the Baptist church. Fire in the midst ot the wholesale district in Keokuk did censiderable daicafA to the Carton-Daniels plant. William Kern and William Pallicheck were drowned in Bronner's pod in catine while playing on the thin Ice.

The cigar store of C. Miller of Davenport was entered by burglars ud as a result he to short 125 in money. Fire nearly destroyed the Nora 8pring. Drag Company's store and a put of the stock. Both were well mwrei.

A yonni girl by the name of StcQnery, who halls from MnKxtiiK, is being in Rock Island for running away trott faonn with the -Real Widow Brown" theatrical company, which pmyid Ik tint city a tow nlghu ago, IS-year-oM daughter of Mr. Mm. loMfk Strgtut of tanti whfle ttantaf kj 1900-- Queen Wilbelmina of the Nether lands gave a dinner to Mr. Kruger i Lord Roberts sailed from Town for England, after close of Boer a British at battle of Xooltgexlaciit. 1902-- Mrs.

Ulyssw S. Grant d'ed at Washington. D. Venezuelan government appealed through United States for arbitration of European claims British and German cruisers demolished Venezuelan fort at Puerto Cabello. 1905 Sultan of Turkey submitted to ttn demands of the powers concerning Macedonia.

of Miw Alice Roosevelt and Congressman Xicholas Lgagworth announced. for Working Men. A movement patterned after the Oar- den City Association of Great Britain, which is now building its first group of model working men's homes at Letchworth, is about to be started in this country under the leadership of Rev. Dr. W.

D. P. Bliss, who will resign the rector- ship of St. Mary's Episcopal church at Atnityville, L. and become secretary ot the Garden Cities of America.

Dr. BUs has been an active socialist worker fof jears and is a graduate ot Amherst college. The object of the association is tat founding of cities where men of small means may have attractive homes wttk their own gardens and combined, as far as possible, with attraction of both dty and country. The association such wealthy Xew Yorkers as John Chllds, proprietor of the string of modern cheap restaurants: President Ralph Peters of the Long Island railroad aa4 Bishops Burgess and Potter. B.

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