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he Unioa-Repub'iitar 3V H'K ar County, lovra. ntered at the pastosnee al J'SICS. tr.w i I PAID AilVASCE IFFICIAL BB That was a splendid tribute vrh-ch bar assutiacioc of tbis coumy accorded HO-J. 31. Davis ike opening session of court on Monday -)i this week.

aLd yet it no mere- was 'ioe the record of so able au NJot many lawyers are persaitted eijt-v the opportunities that have Mr. Davis in the many years he has been an ecnvs- member of the lets; Uiftrnity. For fifty-two UfeiiiBc for the ordinary it di- vidual, Mr. Dav has foaehl the battles of his clients before the courts of justice in this county. He has witnessed the growth of legal lore in the -state awl county from the crude beginnings of a backwoods infant to the mature product of the present ciay civilization.

Kot only has he witnessed these things, but he has been instrumental in bringing about many of the changes for the better in the laws that have been placed on the stat- books of the state siace first he began the practice of law in the log in Quincy, away back in All these things were brought out ia graceful tributes which his contemporaries paid him at the meeting Monday, particularly his work as an attorney. His indomitable energy has won many a suit where others less persevering would have failed. Once a client succeeded in enlisting the services of Mr. Davis in his behalf, he always rest easy under the assur- that-no stone would be left un. turned that might be of benefit or have a bearing on the question at issue.

The attorney who won a case against Mr. Davis has ever had occasion to feel that he had come off victorious in a suit that was fought for ail there was in it. And yet, notwithstanding all the more thaa half century of active endeavor, Mr. has the pleasure of i hearing the court and his fellow iabor- are say in his presence that they had known of his endeavoring to take unfair advantage in the slightest degree. contemplation of these long years of service that Mr.

Davis has experienced leads us to reflect upon the that are aSordcd the attorney for doing good in a community because of his vocation he is constantly thrown in contact with the best thought of society, affording opportunities to whet the intellect and broad -en the mind. Continually cultivating the art of speaking, the attorney is frequently invited to deliver public where his influence may be -felt to a marked degree. Thus it will -be seen that the environment which the lawyer is such that he rare opportunities to become a power for good. Whether these opportunities shall be wasted, or whether 'they shall be made the most of, depends the calibre of the individual. -He may devote his efforts to the small, pettifogging practice of accepting any and every case that offers a fee, leading -his clients into difficulties rather than assisting them out of trouble; or he may occupy the higher and? nobler of endeavoring to raise the stand- aid, of manhood and cultivate respect -for the laws of the land at the same.time -that be seeks justice for his client.

The attorney who can say to his client that he is in the wrong and had better -settle his case is as much deserving of -a fee for his counsel, as though he conducted a case through the courts, and much more worthy the respect of the community. Sach a character is the -one that commands respect and adrair- -ation, and we believe that tte profession is more and more tending toward the larger ideals. i Married, by Poetry. Up in northwestern Iowa is an Irish magistrate, who has his share of the A wit of the "ould sod." Recently he was informed that a couple whose names were Jim and Bet were coming to him to be married, and he prepared aad actually used the following ceremony: "Jim will you take Bet. Without any regret.

To love aod cherish, Til! one of you AaJ is laid uader tlie help you God?" All being answered in the affirmative by Jim, the 'squire turned to Bet acfi said: "Bet irtl! you take Jim And elisg to him Both out and in. Through thick and thlu. Holding him to your heart, 'Till death do you parr?" Bet acquiesced by a modest bow of the head, and now the happy pair was HAYWflTQD CLEARED Steunenberg Murder Trial at Boise City Results in an Acquittal. TEARS IN HAYWOOD'S EYES The time for the annual exhibit of -the Adams county fair association is approaching, the first big day being the 19th of August next This the big show of the county, and is looked forward to as the principal of the season in the way of We need not tell our readers that the fair will be as good as ever, as that has so frequently been verified that people expect only Tiigh standard. This year, owing to the fact that the Creston association has flunked on accepting the dates given them by the circuit it necessary that our people be even more loyal than usual to the kome association, as the Creston fair is to occur on the same dates as the A- Sams county exhibtion is scheduled for.

Every loyal citizen of Adams -county should hoost for his home fair, just the same as he does for on- other public enterprises. All the -indications point to a fine meeting this year, and the date is set a -time, that usually brings good weather, 'The state fair does not oocciir at the same time as the Adams fair this year, and we shall dismissed as follows: "Through life alternate joy and strife. I now pronounce you man and wile." --Brltt Tribune. therefore probably have an even better field of horses than usual, as we have for years divided up the race nags with the state association. Premium lists for the meeting in this county will soon he out.

Examine it carefully and bring whatever you can that will help advertise the county. Don't bring your stuff alone for what money there is in it for you, but bring it to assist in upbuilding your liorne county and Whatever prize you may secure will assist somewhat in paying for your trouble, but remember that those who have the association in charge have for years been working practically for nothing, with the hope of adver" tising our home county. You can certainly afford to do something in. that direction. Every good citizen, ought to make a special effort each year to add his mite to the success of the fair.

It is a real pleasure to the newspaper fraternity of this section to see the rapid advancement that the Keokuk Gats City is making. When G. P. Skirvin sold the Creston Advertiser he located in Keokuk and began the work building up the Gate City. Under the management of tDis energetic bustler that newspaper has daily been increasing in popularity.

material and enlargements of facilities have been added from time to time during the past two years, and now we note that a fine new Goss perfecting press, that will print from -i to 16 pages of a newspaper at a speed ranging from 10,001) to 20,000 per hour is being made for the paper. This will be the cap sheaf to the many improvements, and lands Mr. Skirvin in his accustomed place at the top of the newspaper heap. We are glad to see the Gate City pros'per. It deserves to.

"Our peerless leader and statesman," William Jennings Bryan, is out in a recent statement on the railroad question, made in a speech in his home tewa of Lincoln, Nebraska, in which he says: "Regulation cannot be suffi eiently tried within the next year. There is no desire anywhere to make government' ownership an issue in 1908." It was only a very short time ago that "our peerless leader" most emphatically asserted that government ownership was the only solution of the railroad question, and was going to read out of the Democratic party all those who did not agree with him on that question What kind of a president would such a statesman make? And yet he seems to be the most popular of all the Democratic aggregation. The pathways of business are strewn with wrecks of those who have refused to re-adjust their business or change their manner of conducting the same. They do not recognize that some other man bas gotten into the game and that bis competition must be met. Ihe country merchant has refused to realize that the mail order houses are pushing him.

He thinks he ought to fight them on the same eld lines by waiting for his customers to come to see him instead of going to see the customer. The country store that refuses to advertise to compete with the mail order house is tying itself to the dead past. The commercial procession has oassed Times. better field of horsesssssssssss iv' The state fair association is experi- eneiag a good deal of grief over the recent action of the Southern Iowa Editorial association, in passing resoln- to cut out free advertising for it and other like institutions. It claims the support of the newspapers on the ground that it is a public institution, in which all the people of Iowa are interested, and cannot afford to pay for advertising.

We note, however, that the carpenters who erect the big buildings on the grounds do not perform their labors for nothing; the railways do not carry people to the fair without pay simply because it is a public institution; police do not patrol the grounds gratuitously out of philanthropic motives, and the parties with bills and paste who are advertising the concern over the state, are not working for fun, The newspapers feel that their labors ate worth pay just as much as any The Defendant Gives Expression to Emotion--Given Liberty by the Court. Boise, Idaho, July the bright sunlight of a beautiful Sab bath morning, into the stillness of a city drowsy with the lazy slumbers of a summer Sunday, William Haywood, defendant in one of the most noted trials involving conspiracy and murder that the country has ever known, walked yesterday a free man, acquitted of the murder of former Governor Prank Steunenberg. The probability of a verdict of acquittal in the case of the secretary- treasurer and asknowledged leader of the Western Federation of Miners had been freely predicted since Judge Fremont Wood read his charge, which was regarded as strongly favorin: the defense in its interpretation of the laws of conspiracy, circumstantial evidence and the corroboration of an accomplice who confesses. It -was also freely predicted that in the event of Haywood's acquittal the state would abandon the prosecution of nis associates, Charles H. Mover the president of the federation; George A.

Pettibone of Denver. Statements from counsel and from Cover nor Gooding issued yesterday dispe this view of the situation. Governor Gooding said: "The verdict is a great surprise to me and I believe to all citizens pi Idaho who have heard or read the evidence in the case. "I have done my duty. I have no regret as to any action I have taken, and my conscience is clear.

As long as God gives me strength. I shall continue my efforts for government by law and for organized society. "The state will continue a vigorous prosecution of Moyer and Pettibone and Adams and Sim.pTd.ns, when the latter is apprehended. There will he neither hesitation nor retreat." Will Apply for Bail. Application -be made to Judge Wood to admit Moyer and Pettibone to hail, and it was said last night that in the case of Moyer, against whom the state is admitted to have it weakest case, a favorable consideration would not be unexpected.

Not the least interesting of the comments made upon the verdict yesterday was that of Harry Orchard, the self-confessed murderer of Governor Steunenberg and the witness npon whom the state chiefly relied to prove its claim of a conspiracy on the part of the Western Federation of Miners. When told at the state penitentiary that Haywood had been acquitted, Orchard said: "Well, I done my duty. 1 have told the truth. I could do no more. I am ready to take any punishment that may be metted out to me for my crime, and the sooner it comes the better.

It was after being out for twenty- one hours that the jury, which at first had been divided, 8 to and then seemed deadlocked at 10 to 2, finally came to an agreement shortly after the first faint streaks of the coming day showed gray above the giant hills which wall Boise to the north and east. The weary snow-bearded old bailiS -svho had kept an all night vigil before the door of the jury room was startled into action by an imperative knock from within. Events moved rapidly enough after this, and when at last the principal actors in the trial had been' gathered into the court room at a few moments before 8 o'clock the white envelope handed by the foreman to the judge was torn open and the verdict read. Tears in Haywood's Eyes. Tears welled to the eyes of the man who during the eighty days of his trial had sat with stolid indifference written upon his every feature --at last the icy armour he had thrown about himself with the first day of jury selection had been pierced and whatever the pent-up feeling had ben contained within was loosed.

Haywood's attorneys were fairly lifted from their seats, and Judge Woods made no effort to restrain them as they surrounded him to shake his hands and shout aloud their congratulations. James H. Hawley, leading counsel for the state, and O. N. Van Duyn, the prosecuting attorney of the county in which former Governor Steunenber? was assassinated, sat gloomy and unspeaking In their Verdict a suprise.

The news of the yerijict was eedved. reluctantly, in JSxtra editions of the carried tie tid- ings far and wide, and during tie day there was considerable discussion in clubs, cafes, hotel lobbies and Epos street corners. The surprise which had been so manifest in the court room was prevaleat every- lYhere. The long time the jury was out had conveyed the impression that there could be jjo other outcome than a disagreement The rumors which spread so rabidly and frequently throughout the night, and which were as unreliable as such rumors always are, were generally to the effect that a majority of the jurors nad votea for the conviction. Some were even so radical as to say thai the only difference of opiaioon existing in the jurrj" room was as to the degree of guilt.

The apprehension of disagreement spread even to members of the defendant's counsel, and when to this feeling was added the rumors of an adverse decision, which continually beat about their ears during the night, there could he found none to doubt the genuineness of their joy as the verdict was read. Interstate Commerce Rate Decision. The case of W. O. Mitchell vs.

the Santa Fe and Rock Island, sFrisco and Katy recently decided by the Interstate Commerce Commission- Senator Mitchell had quite a large amount of wheat on his farms in Oklahoma and had sold it to be shipped to Gainsville, Texas. This was two years ago. AVheat was almost a failure in Texas and practically all of the wheat from Oklahoma was being shipped there. The rate from Gnthrie and Oklahoma City to Gainsville and Ft. Worth was 22 cents per hundred.

The distance was 140 miles. The same rate was charged to Kansas City, a distance of 400 miles in the other direction. When the railroads saw the wheat from Oklahoma and southern Kansas going into Texas, they combined and raised the rate from 22 cents to 27 cents for the 140 miles, but left the rate in the other direction the same. They were charging the same rate for shipping 140 miles in one direction, as they were to Chicago, about 903 miles in the other direction. Mr.

Mitchell entered complaint with the interstate commerce commission at Washington, D. C. A great number "of intervenors came into the ease from Kansas and Texas, there' being about 140 intervenors. The case was decided last week in Washington, and fully sustained the contentions of Mr. Mitchell.

Tne rate was ordered from 27 cents to 20 cents to Gaiasville. The railroad companies never attempted to justify the rate. They simply claimed that they had a right to make arbitrary rates; and no one had any right to complain. It remains to be seen what the railroads will do now in reference to reducing these rates. The export rate from Guthrie to Galveston was about 30 cents per hundred, and from Kansas City, 400 miles further away, it was 18 cants.

The decision rendered does not effect the export rate, however. A Tragedy Brought Home. Prescott people were surprised Tuesday to read in the daily papers that H. L. Keever was among the survivors from the terrible accident to the steamship, Columbia, off the California coast and that E.

B. Keever was among the missing. The papers that evening brought the good news that Edgar had been rescued also. boys had been to San Francisco visiting Warren Keever and had started home on that ship intending to take an ocean ride to Portland. Warren Keever had written his parents here that the boys had left on that ship which letter reached them only a short time before the news of the wreck came.

Consequently the parents of the boys were greatly worried until more comforting news came. A telegram was received yesterday morning from Warren to F. M. Keever bringing the first sure news that the boys were safe. It was dated Wednesday and said he had received word tnat both were at Eureka, California, and safe.

It is reported that all were driven from the vessel clad only in their sleeping, clothes. They were lucky to escape at all. Herm Keever was aboard the United States transport Senator, when it was reported lost in a typhoon when transporting home the 51st from the Philippine Islands. He does not seem to be luck? when traveling on Argus. WORKINGMEN EVERYWHERE USE PE-RU-NA.

The Average Household Finds Pe-ru-na Not Only a Friend in Time of Need, ButaSav- ing of Doctor Bills. Pe-ru-na is to Be Found in; Thousands of Homes ofthes Working NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS, Items of Interest Gleaned. from Our Exchanges in This Part of the State. As Geo. Pbillis and wife were driving to their home a few miles northeast of town Tuesday night between eleven and twelve o'clock, a bolt of lightning struck near the buggy with the effect of rendering Mrs.

Phillis unconscious for about two hours. Her little child, who was asleep in her arms at the time, was apparently unaffected by the shock. Mrs. Phillis has now about Letter. 'After a terrific with tramp crazed by heat near Bedford Sunday evening, Sheriff Humphrey succeeded landing his man a batd fight in which the sheriff was struck with a board on the bead and again on the Mr.

Victor Pateeande, 328 Madison street, Topeka, a well-known cai- penter and member of Knights and Ladies of Security, -writes: "Twelve years ago 1 had a severe attack of la grippe and 1 never really recovered my tealtli and strength, bat grew -weaker every year, until I was unable to -work. "Two years ago 1 began using Peruna and it built up my strength so that in a couple of months I TVOS able to go to work again." A worMngmaa's home is usually one with a large family. Children of I all ages and both sexes are being reared. They are subject to slight ail- ments, -winter and summer. A doctor is sent for every time, i petty sick- ness occurs.

The expense will keep the family poor. In such a household Peruna becomes a real blessing. It promptly meets! the most common ailments due to the cold of winter or the heat of) summer. A stitch in time saves nine. A dose or two of Paruna.

prevents, i serious and extended illness many a time. The workingmen everywhere have come to realize thst Perana the worMngman's friend and saves him not only sickness, feat great dollars every year, KeY.J.G.Dokes, Pastor of the Unitarian Church of Pinetown, N. "My wife has been in a very bad state of health for several years, and nothing seemed to do her any good until she be- to use Peruna. Since then the color bas returned to her face, and she is gaining ia flesh every day, and I believe she is a well woman to-day. We i rest always keep a bottle in.

the and Mrs. Dnkes thiaks it has ctoae her more good than anything she has ever taken. "My little boy ten years old, was pate and had but little life. He begaa to use Peruna the day his mother began. To-day his face is rosy, and heisoutin the yard running and jumping ths of the children." arm, the first blow causing- a bad wound.

The prisoner gave his name as Bluer and claims Illinois his home. Einer was tramping through the country and hired out- to a farmer, but about midnight Sunday he crawled through the window and without a stitch of clothes oa his body started down the road. The sheriff was notified, who took up the trail and found Einer sitting in a pool of muddy water. When the sheriff attempted to arrest him he siezed a board and struck him a terrible blow. Einer was temporarily insane by the Table.

Yesterday afternoon a sad accident happened to the little child of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Orr, which may prove fatal We are told that the mother was doing her weakly wasning and lifted a bucfeet of boiling water from the stove and set it on the floor. The little child fel backwards into the boiling water anc was badly scalded, causing the flesh to separate from its litttle form. They took the child to Maryville this morning in hopes of saving its precious life.

--Lenox Time Table. Harry Conn, a well known Des Moines resident dropped dead in the jail at Council Bluffs. Kohn had been arrested and sentenced to spend thirty days for the alleged theft of brass -which was found upon him. He had just been locked in the county jail when he suddenly expired without a word. Secured Certificates.

The following named' teachers secured certificates from the examinations tafeen during the institute. A number of teachers, whose names do not appear in the list, had their certificates renewed. Eugenia Jacfeson Laura Preston Lou E. Coleman Addle B. CavenangH Earl B.

Delzeil Celia M. Budden Lottie M. Hoops Ella G. Richards Fanny J. Wycog Orra I.

Blxler Nora E. Laman Lee Odell Adaline R. Ross Wesley R. Burton Mary A. Patterson Dora Saunders Anna Harrison Sue M.

Booth Ethel Richards Gertrude B. Long Lottie E. Morris Mary Heimfee Susie May Harlow Laysure L. Lewis Maud McGrew Della.Tnomas Ruby Wallahan Phronia Wycoff Theresa P. Hight Katbaryn I.

Cruse Inez Bible Mary Luella Lowrey Clyde Thomas Lottie Goodwill Mabel Craft Perle Milliten Katie Ryan Dora Gibson Blanche Holben Kittle BelSnap Tillie J. Blezak Mary.L. Winegarden Edna Cavett Maggie B. Richards Mary Ruth Sterns Hazel Jackson Pearl E. Johnston Margaret Williamson Joseph W.

Barker Bertha Lowrey Harry R. Rogers Bertha Mitchell Lewis O. Gidley Cleq (Simpson Jessie Teagarden Edna Craft Katherine Dorsey Xulu M. Fowler Grace chappell Francis Dorsey Alice J. Bridgman Gertrude Ackley 'A man oiten.nn.ds/uimself when, he looks, iqjjfortune Murder Charge.

Last week the little town of Lenox was very much stirred up over the fact that Basil Mullen, a of about 18 years, was arrested on a charge of ing implicated in the murder of a Chinaman named Han Pak, in Omaha, on the morning of July 10th. The young man stated that he and two others, named Bowles and Humphrey, had been working in a chop house for Chinaman. They understood that he had saved aboat $5,000, and a plot was entered into to kill him for his money. About 3 o'clock on the morning in question they attacked the Chinaman, and Mullen says the other two did the- killing. They searched the apartments, but found only 3103, with which they bought tickets to Rock Illinois.

Here they read in the dailies that the Chinaman had died, and deemed it wise to separate. They accordingly divided the money and went in different directions, Basil coming to Corning, from whence te drove to the home his foster father, at Lenox and was working on a farm when arrested. The Omaha police sus- picioned the other two implicated in the murder, and Bowles was arrested in St. Louis. He confessed, implicating Pnmphrey and ilullen.

The boy was taken to Omaha to answer to the charge. Just three years previously to a day he bad been sent to the reform school at Eldora, and had been out of that institution but a short time when this deed was committed. A son was born Monday, July 22, to Frank Johnson and wife. A boy was born to Mr. and Mrs.

A. L.MeClure, some two weeks ago, at Greenfield, Kansas. Mrs. McClure will be remembered as Miss Mamie Shinn, formerly of this place. Style! Quality! Dear Sir: I beg to announce the arrival of the celebrated line of fine woolens for fall and winter, 1907-'08, and will take great pleasure in showing you the newest styles both in- of garment and materials.

Out workmanship will have the same care and attention that we hare always shown and we can assure yon of complete satisfaction. Yours very truly, The Taitor..