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3 1 err THE SIOUX CITY JOURNAL: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1907. M. O. A FAILURE IN DUBUQUE STOIXy Ot'1 THE CITY'S STRUGGLE I OIt GOOD WATER. SUCCESSFUL PLAYWRIGHT.

For 50 years i 1 we have been making 1 fl a SYSTEM -NEVER PROFITABLE A 0 I The City Purchasctl a Plant that Had Declared a Dividend, Going In Debt for It, and the Trustees Produced Nothing but a Deficit. hi E3 in the same old way, Dubuque," Feb. H. Special: A bill amending the existing law In relation to municipal water plants has passed the Iowa senate and Is pending; in the house. It ill In, at the same old place.

in, ''WW'" Is so ui-nvu as to affect Dubuque only, being limited fit application to special it is tne same pure charter cities of So.000 population or over. whiskey with the same It provides that the tenure of trustees serving under the old law shall end with its enactment and publication and that fine distinct flavor it their successors shall be appointed by the mayor for a term of two, four and six years respectively, and that the succeed i i has had each year Mr. E. G. Case, a mail carrier of Canton Center who has been in theU.

S. service for about sixteen years, says: "We have tried many cough medicines for ing, terms shall be. four years each. The mm "Since 1857" salary of o(K) a year now attaching to the office Is abolished. When the bill becomes a law Mayor Schunk will try to find three men who can and will make a success of a municipal' ownership expeii Bottled in Bond IjOttle Ulair I'arkcr.

One of the successful women playwrights ment in Dubuque, which admittedly has been a failure up to the present time. Dubuque's entrance upon this expert of recent years if Lottie Blair Parker, whose "Under Southern Skies" will 1 at ment was the result of long continued agi the New Grand theater Saturday after it tation. In 170 the late Selah Chamberlain, noon and evening. Coughs, Colds of with local capital, organ but ized the Dubuque Level and Lead Miuin croup. company to develop and drain the lead IT 71 rmTii mines beyond the bluffs overlooking the city and incidentally furnish Dubuque with water.

The company was given an ex elusive rrancnise running: lor fiity years and providing that the city might acquire the property at any tune after the espira tion of twenty years at Its actual value, exclusive of the value of the franchise, This actual value was to be determined by five non-resident appraisers, two to be sell to the city for $515,000. The committee reaches! Its conclusion respecting the value of the property without having made a survey of the plant or an examination of the books. The question of value was investigated for the committee by its chairman, a citizen who was and is of the highest standing, but his conclusions were ba.sed on the testimony given before the appraisers -by a witness for the company. J. W.

Alvord, the well known consulting engineer of Chicago. Ilis testimony in turn was based largely on information given to him by the company. The Municipal league's committee over six years later severely criticised Mr. Alvord for his testimony before the appraisers. The committee's recommendation in favor of purchase at was made subject to confirmation of its claim that WHOOPING COUCH, HOARSENESS, BRONCHITIS, SORE THROAT, IsciPiBJfT Consumption AND ALL PltlMSS OF TB THROAT and LUNGS.

selected by the city, two by the company, and the fifth by the four first chosen. The company originally supplied all the water from the level and by gravity pres Pniiivh sure. Then the water was good and cost of operation low. Later on the level clined. the demand for water in creased and it became necessary to find new sources of supply.

An experiment with drive wells was costly and and complaint arose it had expended $167,000 for improvements. Outwardly there was professed reluctance A. Gnekenheimer Bros. "Since 1857" Distillers Pittsburgh, Pa. Manufactured only by Clailierlain Heinle Co.

Manufacturing Pharmacists, DBS MOINKS, IOWA, IT. S. A. AND TORONTO. CANADA, concerning quality and quantity of water.

to sell, but the company's friends in the council lost no time in ratifying the com The city council in. 1S92 gave the required six months' notice of Intention to buy, mittee's recommendation and preparing the but did nothiug further upon the expira proposition tor submission to the neonle. tion of the six months. Five or six years fater, at the city election, the people were is king of all and one to be relied upon every time. We al- CEHTlj FOR PURE MEAT PRODUCTS.

given opportunit to express their sentl ments on municipal ownership, and the rCoDTTtebted bj OoaaiMrlata Oo 1880.1 The vouchers respecting the expenditure of $167,000 were examined on Sunday to enable the council to ratify the committee's recommendation on Mouday. In the campaign preceding submission to the people a newspaper, not published at present, which was known to be friendlv to the Kvery Suspicion 'Against Tlicm to Be Removed. proposition was carried by an overwhelm ing majority. But this was a mere ex pression of sentimeut and followed no de bate. Never Paid a Dividend.

Feb. 14. It will not be the fault of the president if water company, assumed an attitude of hostility to municipal ownership and thereby encouraged the impression that the company did not wish to sell. every suspicion as to the purity of American meat products, both at Jiame and abroad, is not completely In 1898 a local syndicate which may or may not have been coucerned in procuring this expression at the polls bought the also find it is the best remedy for coughs and colds, giving certain results and leaving no bad aftereffects. We are never without it in the house property from the Chamberlain estate.

Its management had leen left in the hands of As fi-step toward inducing- Ger many and other countries to aban First Trustees Unsatisfactory. The proposition was submitted to the a resident relative or Air. cnarauenam people February 28, 1900, and was carried don their policy of exclusion of and it had never paid a dividend, notwith with little opposition. The next steD was standing the popular Impression tnat it was immensely profitable. All the earnings the appointment of three trustees bv the judges of the district court.

The result had gone into improvements of the make American cattle and meat products, the president has appointed a pathological commission, which will examine the rules and regulations promulgated under the meat inspection law with a view to their if was a disappointment to the peonle. who shift order and into extensions which the city council, under authority, of the char had been told that politics would not weigh in the selection of trustees. Not all the selections w'ere The ter, ordered so freely that tne company in ti i 1S98 had fifty-five miles of mains, ten if possible. The rules and regulations appointment of ex-Alderman Philip S. Kv- aiboiijsc are to.be made so, strict that it will J- -be impossible to sell diseased cattle der was distasteful and was thousrht tn miles more than Sioux City, though the revenue was much smaller than the Sioux City plant yielded, and 90 per cent, of this revenue came from 50 per cent, of the mlle-atre of mains.

The other half of the dis ri meat tn npnn ft represent political influence. He had been treasurer of the democratic committee in the campaign of li96. Manv believed that tributing system was found In residence if It had not been for the appointment of Mr. Ryder, which did not inspire nubile districts in which cisterns were used be cause the inhabitants were thrifty and be HBX3B3TRKS8B confidence, the subsequent controversy might have, been avoided. water tax was doubled.

Formerly there was a levy of 1- mill for water service. Out of the proceeds of this the water company paid its taxes, so that its net re cause the water supplied by the company 8 The first duty of the trustees was to sell had long. -been of poor quality. The Chamberlain company had a con LOW RATES Via the the $545,000 of bonds to be issued in payment for the plant. It had been promised that these bonds would be sold without xtructlon account of over $600,000,.

the local syndicate bought the capital stock. trouble at 4 per possibly ZVa or 3 per $400,000, at 65 cents and assumed a debt of making the purchase price about wnt)ther country. -ahad y5; This action has been taken simulate' a360118 with negotiations between doWpr'OXj merican and German commissions "Vicans tak. i Berlin. a report of which is now '3 ere hthe hands of the president.

These dodimlssions considered the attitude So i unabUermany upon American meats as 'also fa.s upon American importations 'vropeKierally. The report has not been public, but probably will be i'JiV transmitted "to congress before the end tr.y of the session. It is admitted that a fh treaty of reciprocity will bo sought. Germany has excluded American meats on the ground that they were 1 1' diseased and injurious to health. It will, be possible for the United States v'e to give Germany an absolute In tee of purity as soon as the report of McC the pathological commission is com-pleted.

The commission consists of Dr. $335,000, expended $167,000 on cent. One of the trustees went east and found that no broker would buy the bonds in advance of a decision by the supreme court of the state affirming their validity, notwithstanding the city had' already ex TH-WESTER LINE and In litigation, and In 1WW sold to tne city for $545,000, thus making a profit of about $45,000. The waterworks agitation which has since ceeded the constitutional limit of indebtedness. Hayes Ac of Cleveland, offered continued began in the summer of 1SS8, a premium of $10,000 for $545,000 of 4 or 4 when the local syndicate announced its per cent.

Donds on condition that the trus purchase, declared its Intention of making 25 extensive improvements which would as 00 One Wav second ciasR colonist tickets will bo sale daily. March lt to April IJOtli to Seattle, Tacoma and Puget Sound points. I'm porlionately low rates to points in Alberta, -lsli Columbia, Idaho and Montana. station, which would largely reduce cost of operation, and to install meters, which would reduce consumption and increase revenue. They said they had been hampered for want of money and could sell no more bonds, as the banks, owing to the decision of the federal courts in the Ottuni-wa case against the validity of the bonds, could not sell what they already hold, and no outside broker would buy a bond that had a federal court decision running against it.

Investigation and Whitewash. These explanations were not accepted. The two living trustees were denounced as traitors to the cause of municipal ownership. Those responsible for their appointment originally demanded their investigation by experts to be selected by the city council. The trustees resisted investigation, but the council finally ordered It, though composed in the main of their friends.

Pogson, Peloubet of Chicago, were appointed to examine the books and J. W. Alvord to pass judgment on the improvements and estimate their value. The pert are believed to havo been employed after consultation with the trustees. They reported in March.

19. Poison. Feloubot Co. found little to criticise and no graft whatever. They found a floating debt of $37,000 or thereabouts, but also calculated that the plant bad earned 4V2 per cent, on the purchase price.

To reach this conclusion they uc- tees put the question of their validity into litigation and get a favorable' decision from the supreme court. Declining this proposition, they made a 4 per cent, bond sure the city an abundant supply of pure water, and requested the council to, wave All the city's right to buy in order that tne company might secure the money required and sold it at par to the local banks, the ceipts from the public service during the five years preceding the municipal experiment averaged only $12,000 a year. Under ownership the municipal levy has been 2 mills, 1 for interest and 1 for sinking fund, and this yields over a year. For five years, however, the advocates of municipal ownership alleged the success of the experiment and defended the trustees against all criticism. Their conversion from defenders of the trustees to critics came in the fall of 1905.

when the statement that they had contracted a flouting indebtedness of over $20,000 was published. At first this was denied, but finally the trustees admitted it and admitted also that In their quarterly reports to the city council they had not revealed the true cost of the utility, as required under the law of 1902. but had reported only receipts and disbursements, as required under the code of 1.897. They said they had not reported the coal bill of over $20,000, as a coal bill unpaid was neither a receipt nor a disbursement. They admitted that they had never from the hoginniiig of the experiment made a report showing the actual financial condition of the plant.

They said they had kept the debt secret for five years because advised that the validity of the could not be ques-tioned after the lapse of this period. They said the gradual failure of the artesiau wells had made it necessary to use com -Vj William H. Welsh, of Johns Hopkins ye. a for the improvements. water company taking what the banks did not want.

To enable the banks to sell Through Tourist Cars Daily, Minneapolis and St. Paul to Pacific Coast Points -v tUn V. l-l a rill hi 1 1 Vl This request for waiver of the city ngnt to buv started the fireworks. The agita Heckler, of the Univer the bonds to local investors the city council agreed to exempt them from taxation. tion for municipal ownership began Imme sity of Chicago; Prof.

V. A. Moore, Ihe city took possession of the plant on diately. It was started by the late John of Cornell, and Drs. Joseph Hughes and Leonard, of the University of Murphy, of the Dubuque Telegraph.

June 1, 1900. The law authorizing the district court to appoint the trustees having been declared unconstitutional, and a law The local syndicate controlled only one bank. The influence of all the others was thrown upon the side of municipal owner- Round Trip Norih- West Special homeseekers tickets-, will be on sale urst and third Tuesdays of March and April to points in Idaho, eastern portion of state i Washington and also to a large southwest territory. The rate will be about one fare plus rn the round trip. authorising the mayor to appoint them having been enacted, Mayor Berg, a repub Pennsylvania.

BOY PREVENTS BAD WRECK. Flas Passenger with Sweater as It is Burned Trestle. 1 1." I llll lican, in the spring of 1902 appointed Philip S. Ryder and John Ellwanger, democrats. shin.

The company's rates were declared extortionate, its service poor and its plans for Improvement ridiculously inadequate. Statistics were gathered from other cities tn shnw that rates to the city and to and the late Judge J. B. Powers, republican. Mr.

Ryder, a wholesale grocer, was one of the original trustees. Mr. Birmlnirham, Feb. 14. Mad if you contemplate a trip uo matter where, for rates and oilier call on or address ison Jones, a 12-year-old farmer boy.

F.llwanger, a wholesale liquor denier and discovering a portion of a 600-foot cepted the statement of the trustees respecting: the value of the water supplied to the cltv and made no eharze for denre- capitalist interested In manv local enterprises, was loyal to Bryan In 1R96. though trestle had been burned on the South ii. (JciktuI Agent, Sioux City. SMITH. Ageut.

Houx i n.i pressors and to resort to the use of drive ntr? railway, twenty miles from Bir- not a silver man, was on the ticket wells. and heuce the enormous increase in elation. Mr. Alvord found that the im- Vham thi- mfirnlllff. left his 2S3 for presidential elector for that year, and was a liberal contributor to the Brvau 0CI0rfn in the road, and, taking off his campaign fund.

He was and is president sweater, flagged an approactiing cl Vontrof train from Birmingham. cost of coal and operation. They said the 1 provements for the greater part had been additional artesian well sunk by them had wisely made and that their cost had not not been a succcvss. but that they had been overstated by the trustees. His rec-irade a success of the drive wells.

They ommendatlons concerning improvements admitted having made some unprofitable wore mainly such as the trustees had pre-extensions. but said some of them had yiouslv suenested. of the Telegraph-Herald company, and his appointment was sought by the representa ti Praefterei la a. curve not far from tives, of the free silver democracy. The private consumers were extortionate.

Many estimates were published' to show that municipal ownership, by cutting off the profits of the company, alleged to be enormous, and giving service to the people at cost, would lower rates very materially, besides which muuiclpal ownership would surely mean a plant adequate to the present and future needs of the city and giving an abundant supply of pure and wholesome water. Forfeiture of the Charter. The company relied on the city's inability to buv bocause it had already exceeded the constitutional-limit of It also had its friends in the city government, but thev were careful about showing their heads after the firing Public sentiment forced through the council a resolution forfeiting the company's charter on th o-imind that.it bad not observed the j'stle and the boy proceeded to the Jmendt-ve to flag the train, which carried out 100 passengers. appointment of the two democratic trustees The investigation cost the city over was alleged to be the result of a political it 4 been made to improve the service, others in response to the council's demands, and still others under, false promises as to the number of abutters who would take the water. Thev asked the council to help The Telegraph-Hera Id, which had demanded it, accepted the conclusions of the experts, but the Municipal league's com mi t- CDt Twotnrk TTH mif deal to secure the re-election of the republican, mayor.

tee attacked them, though it read condem good. Try them out of debt by making an allowance Higher Instead of Ixnver Hates. Municipal ownership did not result in for hydrant service and to assist them In ato) i lower rates to private consumers. The? making certain improvements at the main WELL DESERVED. HUSHING PRESIDENT READY FOR NEW TASK.

ntrat tn furnish jtu ample supply of, Uhe cht pure water. The effect; was to injure the comnanv's credit with i X. W. I ippliedi.p. iiMis( That Conies from Thankful iM 4 ts Vnt evei nation of the trustees between the lines of Pogson, Ploubet report.

It dwelt especially on the showing that coal consumption had iuereased out of proportion to increase iu revenue, and hinted that the city had been paying for coal never received. The Telegraph-Herald, adopting the views of the Municipal league's committee, also indorsed a resolution before that organization demanding the resignations of the trustees, and opposed the re-election of Mayor on the ground that he would reappoint Trustee Kyder. The Present Deadlock. The mayor did so after his defeat In April, and appointed his campaign manager, ex-City Treasurer II. B.

Huiffke, to succeed Judge Powers, who had died the previous year. One of the first acts of the new mayor, Schunk. was to call for the resignations of the trustees. They paid no attention to him nor to the Telegraph-Herald's demauds. But operating expenses and th floiitinj; debt, continued to increase, and it was- clear thnt it would not be pnid off nor the improvements mode while they remained trustees.

SSomo lawyers said they were person.ily liable for the debt because It had been Incurred in violation of law. To relieve the situation and themselves Mr. Ellwanger and Mr. Kyder. hi January last, decided to resign.

They sent their roslsr-cations. not to the mayor, but to the chairman of the committee of the whole, to be by him delivered to the mayor when the la tier had procured Jnlffke'a resignation, and not before. Uiiiffko stubbornly refused to resign and Alderman Hopkins entered feuit for his removal from office for wilful neglect of duty. This consisted mainiv, according to the allegations of the petition, in allowing Superintendent McArthur to handle the revenues of the plant in a manner other than that provided by statute and in the board's failure to compel everybody to pay up. Judge Matthews suspended Gniffke on an ex parte hearing and without notice and on the strength of the affidavits attached to the petirion.

and the case stands for trial at the term. The mayor made a written agreemeut to feelect the successors of the trustees from a list to be submitted by the city council. He later repudiated this agreement ou the ground that the aldermen had verballr agreed to place the uame of John T. Adams, of Carr. Ryder Adams, sash and door manufacturers, on the list aud had failed to do so.

So the resignations are not yet effective and. there Is a dead lock which will be relieved if the bill now pending becomes a law. lis oViel. A ''iiurhich One kidney remedy never fails. jOysV City people reiy Upon it.

jnsotnat. Wlast, om That remedy is Doan's Kidney Pills. i Is given to SPLENDID Flour because its surpassing; excellence is recognized by all good bakers on first trial. 3 lade By Sioux City testimony proves it ai- Co, of Chicago, its financial backers. J.

be mavor appointed a committee of citizens to co-operate with the city's legal department in the progress of the negotiations for municipal ownership. The majority of this committee, like the mayor himself, was really friendly to the company and persuaded the council to repeal the forfeiture resolution on the ground that the work of improving the city's water supply should not be embarrassed and delayed. The com-panv. however, finding the tide of public sentiment running strong against it, and perhaps disappointed in the financial results of the first year's operations, agreed t6v an, appraisement. Ex-Gov.

Bodes and Judge Xey. of Iowa we're selected to represent the city. The company chose Hon. John A. Baldwin, of Council Bluffs, Cf reliabie.

and Cu-ftndrew of 214 Grace ave- MARTENS BROS. MILLING CO. babvis Allt Greenville, Sioux City, says: lira8 vVDoan's Kidney, Pills' do all that is CoocetclaImed for them. My trouble was FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS An Old aud Well Tried Keiuedy, MUS. WINSLOW'S SOOTlIlG SYRUP, il-li nin in the Bmall of my back, ana in jcii f-r s.

Us V-7 "OS xr and Benzette Williams, consul tins: engineer of Chicago. The fifth man selected was Col. Stanton, of Centerville. J10l ft iA, i UJ Ur lriri5r CAI PS iflll 'raiiion io iuio mo On the annralsement the company re- Has been need for over SIXTY YHAKS I whairTd colored. .1 procured Doan MILLION'S of MOTHERS for their CUH DHK.V WHILE TKKTIIINO.

ITH PEI fiispd to produce its hooks and there was much conflicting testimony. The result dtMflereeraent. The property was FECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES thd CHILD. SOFTENS the GUMS.

ALLAY fney Pills af Howard S. Baker's fk'Stf store, and they proved to be just t'l" Oil fc valued at $449,000 by the city's representa all PAIN: CUKES WIND COLIC," aud the best remedy for DIARKIIOLA. So by druggist in every part of the worl tives, at $673,000 by the company appraisers, and at $551,000 by Col Stanton, who. seeming to snsoect that the company lie sure and ask for MRS. WIXSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP.

neys was the backache was wished to soil at the tugnesr ngure ue would concede, declined to make any figures until the company's appraisers bad nrf I felt benefited in many cue i submitted theirs, after which he ruaac nis return and hastened to the train. This A.r. WML DIRECTORY AMERICAN BLOCK Sixth and Pierce Sts. StrattonV PIANO HOUSE 51 Pierce. c.

kneedler Suite 226." Real Estate. Loans an'd Insurance. Suite 205. DR. MARY C0UNSELL Physician.

216-217. MISS FLORENCE YOUNG China, Water Color and Oil Paint- Firing of China. Evening bketch cIukk, tuition Jl month. Unframed Pictures I ITLX till was In the summer of 1S98. "nent.

(Statement made in 1898.) Curetl to Stay Cured. June 2 8. .1906, Mr. Anderson "The relief described in testi- Company Agrees to Sell. Some months later negotiations were re On Ready-Made Frame Framed Pictured EEFUSED MEDICINE; IS DEAD Prominent Sunday JSohool Worker Victim of Ptomaine Poisoning.

Kansas City, Feb. 14. Bradford vllibbard Cox. a Sunday school worker and evangelist with a national reputation, died here as the result of ptomaine poisoning from eating oysters in a local restaurant. Mr.

Cox awoke with severe pains in his stomach. Hist wife too was ill, and a physician was summoned. An emetic was administered at once to Mrs. Cox. but Mr.

Cox he did not believe in medicine and Vie refused to be treated. He became rapidly worse and died, but Mrs. Cox will recover. Mr, Cox as a Sunday school worker employed his methods for more than twenty-live years In Boston. St.

Loui.s. Omaha, San Francisco. Cincinnati and other large cities. was 67 years old. A fcon in Columbus, survives him.

fotton. newed through an organisation cauea tn Citizens' -Kefonn club, iu which the com id: baany I gave ue pany was known to have friends. 1'ro-fessiug to speak for the, people, the club Induced the city 1 council. In which the Beaumont mi. AV.

S. LEWIS. cure. I feel it only my xuctii ivianey company nau ineiios, in'iwse a conference with a committee of citi 416 Nebraska Street. t.vir sale oy i zens toe the purpose ef agreeing, on prtctv for the plant.

The company "con- Pro not without a "string." It will be necessary lo raise a considerable sum of money in order to tsecure it. With characteristic optimi.sm Dr. has mUl he will "take off his coat" immediately and proceed to do 'his best to raise the Mct'essary amount. for i The recent announcement that John U. IlAckef idler will give $00,000 to Morning Side college has been received with much by friends of the college, but the donation tlll mean more hard work for the industrious and hustliug, president, Dr.

AV. S. Lewia. The Uockefeller donation, is Kented on the ground that it loo the United If a woman can't bras about ner huban patriotic to hold the plant gainst the will for anylliinj else It will be alxmt how ne: he caioe to going iuto the uilnMry when 1 Vrftemmber the name- -Doan's and of the people. After a long period of ncsotlatiop aa agreement was reached to iiu other.

was young. if A- iiiiii i ii.