The Gazette from Cedar Rapids, Iowa • 8

8 THJB CEDAE RAPIDS EVENING GAZETTE WEDNESDAY. JA2TCJARY IB, 1008. several years, his last position being SPEC ALS PHYSICAL DIRECTORS CMS; of tra agent of the STATE INCOME ssimsk a sav a a a SB SBS. Si southwest division, which Is the I HilKXlIiY INI hH MIA tory surrounding 11 1 Willi at rk. IS OVEpAWN The committee of seven of the Bo- hOiUliiii Circle held a meeting Monday Iowa Y.

M. C. A. Men Here in i Jackson Gasi 6roury Co, Ml SECOND AVENUE. night and had various plans for the With Or.

Gee, of New I B. Beattyndjwtiker. Phone JL new gymnasium budding laid before k'l CASH -BOX IN VERY DE is hoped that a decision York, International PLETED CONDITION. Will DO Ffl.CriCQ 111 3. McClsnahtn left to St.

Paul. uainess trip I 1 1 ill ii inn Hi 1 new building will start in at Fails to It Is their intention A number of the physical (directors from the Toons; lien's Christian associations in Iowa are In the city to isiort for Neoesssry Expendi I bu not on a Rapids I but a building of which Cedar tures, and Funds Are Exhausted. lev wiKsoaad tiniiM to will be proud, to stand on the corner Mme. Clark Cow North Sixth st Masquerade rent, 50c Up to of Third street and Fifth avenue. day for the purpose of mooting Geo.

J. Fisher of New York, International secretary for the Tt M. A. physical directors. A meeting Is be MEAT'S (Special Correspondence.) Moines, Iowa, Jan, 15 The state Gas controllers.

E. F. Brecht, agent, Ga controlle Will Observe Anniversary. Sia Second avenue. Come see them.

312 Second avt The committee selected to make ar treasury of Iowa will be out of money ssLssssE ssC rm LT 10-Day rangements for observing the birth of of Prof. Laaimlr Kiacer on April i neo. in the city yesterday. a meetlnc Monday evening and the necessary steps for inviting all the sad Free Thinkers' associations in the of Tipton ts visiting het sister, Mrs. J.

inside of a month, at least by the last of February, and If the bills due January 1st were presented today the treasury would be emptied, he explanation is that the legislature has continued for some sessions back to make appropriations that were greater than tno Income of the state. While state to participate to this observ ing held in the association rooms this afternoon, at which thus reports wiU be submitted from the Iowa associations, and at the close of tho meeting the directors will be addressed by Dr. Fisher, on the subject, "The Physical Department, the Natural Line of Approach in Religious Work." following which a general discussion of the sub-, ject Will be held. Dr. Fisher, who to now on a tour around the world, during which he will visit the mors, important associations on his route, will also be the principal speaker at the gymnasium men's banquet to be held In the gymnasium this evening.

Among the Iowa physical directors sale still End of. won continues, and 12.60. ts at tic, 11.48 to. pkff Mrs. It Kaunke left last evening the balance at the end of each quarter in tho state treasury have fluctuated somewhat the tendency has been to grow less.

There was on Dec. 31, 1907, 1169,000 in the state treasury. There was due the state university, state normal, and state agrlcutural college on ance. In regard to a suitable program the matter will be laid before the local organisation of Free Thinkers and all other Bohemian societies in the city, which will be represented by delegates, and these delegates chosen from the various societies will arrange the program. To Short Course Students.

The local committee in charge of the arrangements for the Short Course desires to announce to prospective students from out of the city and to those for Mmnloapolls. to spend a few weeks Mrs. Higiey. H. Winter, son of Alderman E.

January 1 a total of $147,000 and the is 111 of typhoid fever in monthly salary list of the state is $40, -hospital, Chicago. Now in Progress A ihsv Cae aBflMsBftss) sa" Js PMS)BsA4 flour, Piiw coflefe ftMsyv sasfc aDc I paekafes Ueeea. Keceit Se OSS and the monthly support fund to the state institutions is about $125,000 tWjrant of Iowa City was vlslt- SV.i ftlnsBs In the' city last night, re- who are present at the meeting this afternoon are J. T. Maxwell.

Keokuk: F. E. Schofleld, Mt. Pleasant; P. A.

Lewis. Oskaloosa; J. B. Modesitt, Sioux City; A. Wageley.

Waterloo; J. W. Doe, Clinton; A. R. Hackett.

Des Moinea; A. B. Dawson, Mafshalltown A. A. Turner and George Phillips, Buxton.

J. A. Whitmore. religious work secretary for Iowa, is also here. who have already subscribed for scholarships, that arrangements have The total is $312,000.

There will be some receipts to the state treasury hot not such that the balance will hold turning Hone this moromr. been made with the local hotels for out more than a month or two and the rooms about 300 men. at rates rang Merrldlth. formerly city en- receipts from state taxes will not be gin to reach the state treasury, from tats placo, OOt aow ox jack ts visitor here today. ing from 35 cents a night for bed, with mssla wherever the guest desires to eat.

to 11 and $1.25 a day, board and the county treasurers till some time who has been lodging. The committee will be pleased SUnffacher. THE TRAGEDT IS UNEXPLAINED with relatives to have all parties desiring accomoda-. visiting for a few days A gigantic effort to sell out our entire stocks of winter clothing, bats and furnishings for man and boy all our profit and more is now yours. Entirely unlikely that any such sweeping price reductions as these will ever be even approach at Wcht BrasVh.

returned home yes- tlons to write in at once and state how expensive eccommodations they may Home' Men Killed by Youth at Two desire. and Mrs. George Wlngert left str. Boarding house rates are much less than those quoted above. tor Bdorm to visit for a few th Mr, Wtngert sister.

Mrs. of His Sweetheart. Golconda, 111., Jan. 15 News has Just reached here of an Inexplicable double murder near Eaisabethtown. A young man named Morrow went ed in the field of B.

Penrose aad family have re-sl from Twth Falls, Idaho, to 1 the winter with relatives and in April and May. For a good many sessions the legislature has been overdrawing Its account. During the seven years that Gov. Cummins has been in tbe executive chair he has not at any time recommended a direct expenditure of money for a specific purpose but each of the sessions he has called tho attention of the legislature to the amount that was available for special appropriations. The legislature has ignored this almost always and at the last session of the legislature though the governor called attention to the fact that there was but about $800,000 available for appropriations the legislature made appropriations amounting to a total of about $1,200,000.

For the session before the amount available for special appropriations was about but the legislature appropriated about $700,000. Warrants Will Draw Interests. Under the law In this state when a warrant Is presented and there Is no Mr. Penrose has nied on a of government land In the vtcln- ity of Twu Fans, ana reports me ae- off oh of the most pros- Here's) (he Sensational Story tit Dollars and Cents: Men's suits and overcoats worth up 7t to $12.50 communities in the fax to the home of Morton Banks, the father of Morrow's sweetheart, and with a gun began firing at every member of the family he could see. Morton Banks and his brother, Joe Banks, were killed by the frenzied man and while he was firing at Miss Banks Morrow was wounded by the girl's brother with a shotgun.

Morrow was disarmed and is now in Jail. The reason of the attack Is a mystery, as it is declared by surviving MM fanalBS; fir- Polios Court. No There, was no session of police court its morning, nothing transpiring yes- tr LJUmma or mgnt that maae it nec- Men's suits and overcoats worth up to $20 an arrest. that members of the Banks family there had been no quarrel. money -to pay it, it is stamped "not paid for lack of funds," and it draws ALCOHOL AT A NOMINAL PRICE Death of An Infant.

The Infant dimfhter of Mr. and Mrs. OwrSKi Browh died Monday evening at the family home near Palo. The fun- eral was held from the home today. lowans at the Hotels.

Montrose A. D. Clarke, Algona; J. D. Modesett, Sioux City; Wilma Hay-ward, Spirit Lake; J.

Smith Maxwell, Keokuk; Fred H. Kendall, Davenport; Miss Clara Frasier, Tipton; Sam S. Foster, Mason City; A. G. Rigby, Independence; J.

W. Hunter, Newton; A. K. Miller. Vinton; Ed.

Rodskiaer, Waterloo; D. Abbott, Clinton; L. H. Pam-mel. Ames; J.

G. Henry, Des Moines; B. H. Sexton, Davenport; S. M.

Up-ham, Des Moines; W. W. Kehier, Des Moines. Allison C. B.

Koeth, Ottumwa; J. F. Adair, West Branch; A. B. Lee, Dubuque; J.

H. Ramsey, Anamosa: John C. Gorman. Anamosa; A. H.

Snyder, Ames; M. E. King, Des Moines; W. L-Gillham. Moines; L.

-B. Carson, Maquoketa; A. J. Rowley, Vinton; E. E.

Swartz and wife. Keystone; George C. Selser, Dubuque; Robert Powers, Anamosa; G. K. Gilchrist, Vinton; T.

A. O'Hern. Clinton; W. E. Conner.

Vinton A. Saara, Dubuque O. C. Allen, Jackson; J. W.

Forbes. Waterloo; N. J. Mihill, Marshall town; George F. Walker, Marshall town.

Delavan J. W. Mercelles, Des Moines; Bert Roberts, Vinton; George Herbert, Clinton; L. E. Smith, Des Moines: DeKyle D.

Smith, Mechanics-ville; J. D. Gtlman, Jefferson; G. P. Hopkins.

Des Moines; A. B. Swan, Walker; C. L. Thomas, Des Moines; O.

H. Hiser. Nevada; George Kyler, Davenport: S. H. Simpson.

Sioux City; T. B. Voris and daughter, Oitn; Ed. Phealon, Muscatine; L. B.

Stuart, Monmouth; C. E. Hanna, Des Moines; E. Murphy and wife, Dubuque; W. M.

Jones. Waterloo. Inventor Discovers Method of Extract ing Fuel From Natural Gas. Washington. Jan.

15 A discovery of That Alpha Society. TheU Alpha society was enter- The talned las night by the Misses Mauae a process of making alconoi ror use in Binse Jensen, at tne nome Boys' double breasted knee pants -OA suits, $2.50 value adCf Boys' novelty suits worth up to $4 en's odd trousers, worth $4 and dS "St" A $4.50 reduced to 92119 Everything in the Bouse Has Been Seduced in Price for This Great Sale. running automobiles, locomotives, and furnishing power, and which can be HAMILTON BROS. eiatff Sts, tetSx. er on Fourth avenue west oi tne iornn manufactured at 2 cents a gallon, has VOrrecton.

In reporting an appoint- been made by Dr. Henry S. Blackmore, a chemist of this city. This alcohol can be produced from natural gas. receivejd by the Merchants Na na reserve agent, tne first It is found that 5.000 feet of natural gas can be converted into a barrel of National hank of Coggon was given which should hare been the First National bank of Corning.

fifty gallons of alcohol. The low price at which the alcohol can be made will naturally allow It to be sold so cheap that it can be used R. M. A. Entertainment.

nr w. I. a njr v-m had pueSt evening last night at the economically for heat, light and power, such as automobiles, motor boats, engines and the like, by the public in general, at a cost much below fuels of Mrs. Ueorsre Lowe, me la- interest from that date. The state treasurer has nothing what ever to do with preserving a balance In the treasury and no other state official has any authority in the matter.

The legislature makes the appropriations and Is solely responsible. It has had the information on which to work but has disregarded it. It is probable that the treasury will be out of money only till the taxes begin to come in in April and another session of the legislature convene before the funds will run low again. State officials have been aware of conditions all along. State Treasurer is Helpless.

Every effort is being made to make capital out of the condition of the state treasury. Hon. John Herriott, late lieutenant governor and one time state treasurer, said in this city a few days ago that when he left the state treasury there was a million dollars there. The records show only $800,000 but whether there was a million dollars or only a million cents the state treasurer has little control over the balances. He is custodian only of the funds and must pay out jis warrants are presented.

The most conspicuous attempt to make political capital out of the condition of the treasury has been on the part of the Des Moines Capital, against whose editor there is pending a suit for the recovery of several thousand dollars which it is alleged that he overcharged the state while he was state binder. It is being suggested that in the light of the condition of the state treasury the attorney general should now press this suit to an early trial so that these funds can be restored as soon as possible to the coffers of the state, ffhe amount would help to tide the state over till the taxes are paid is April. thelr husbands for the ts and entertained them In now emnloyedV without the disagree i JDHMSOII Of MINNESOTA 'i1 1. -I. able features now met with.

NAME DtlTY IN COISTITUTIGI OBSTACLE FOR BRYAN Grand Jury Today. v. M- McGaire and W. R. Ash- ford left for Burlington this morning.

Nebraskan and Supporters Fear an Alliance which May Deadlock No mi-' nating Convention. This afternoon they will appear, before the grand Jury of Jefferson county and tell of the. capture of and tbe confessions mane here by McClure and Clow, the two dangerous check, for- in Endorsed Check Is a Receipt' Pq Yw Bills Witt i Cttek tti American Trust Savings Bank i In tike Masonic Temple Four Per Cent Michigan Convention Seeks to Correct a Previous Omission Lansing. Jan. 1S Present indications are that the new constitution of the state of Michigan will carry the name of Deity in its preamble, a feature missing from the old constitution.

The convention now in session here passed on the first reading, the following preamble introduced by Delegate Cranor of Kent county: "The people of the state of Michigan, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of freedom, and earnestly desiring to secure these blessings undiminished to our posterity, do ordain this Qoed Meeting Last Night. There was a good service at the TUoa United Evangelical church last night safe the Interest in the series of Washington, Jan. 15 It comes very straight from Minnesota that the friends of William Jennings Bryan there are diligently at work promulgating the theory that Governor John A. Johnson is the candidate of the wicked "interests" for the democratic presidential nomination. The Bryan people have recently become genuinely concerned about John meetings Is increasing.

Tonight Rev J. E. Stauffacher, presiding elder of the Cedar Kaotds district. Will preach. and a cordial Invitation is extended to We invite yo to try our Glen Eft.

to come sua tuce part in tnis serv- mm v. rrv DEMOCRATIC CHANCE TO CAPTURE HOUSE H. W. YODREX, Taxed With Costs, of Justice Sloan yes- so A -Annual Interest tarda afternoon la case wherein Washington Possessed with Idea thst Luck will Favor Minority Party in Congressional Campaign. McDonnell im, rtOMBIRfi US HTTEB THE SOLAR COMPASS.

Was Invented by William Austin Burt in 1835. H. E. Burt of Waterloo recently read before the Michigan Engineering society a paper entitled "The Solar Compass, by Whom Invented, When and Where." Mr. Burt said that his grandfather, William Austin Burt, a deputy surveyor of the United States, invented this surveying instrument in 183S when in the field surveying In the vicinity Paid on Dei jKnegoto was charged with assault with latent to Inflict great bodily In-Jurjrjfh court discharged the prisoner for-waat of evidence and taxed the cosflgMw tho com plaining witness.

Frank Volek was the man who filed the information and the probabilities are that he will be more careful tho next tl una, uwtj for tt in a Gazette Want Ad NU.V Waslngton, Jan. 15 Whatever becomes of the presidency this year there is believed by politicians to be an excellent chance for the democrats to carry the house in the 6ist congress. This is conceded by republicans and democrats alike. One republican leader trying to explain his reasons for this faith said: "When luck starts In one direction, nothing can stop it. Luck is with the democrats.

The financial panic is luck for them, politically. Did you see the house drawing for office rooms in the new office building the other day? Hswssr Resident Dead. iTCtobn M. MUfl, a pioneer resident of Ce4lr BltpMa and formerly one of the dled Msa family residence, 618 Second avenue, at 6:80 this morning after aa Illness of only two days duration from heart trouble. He was 80 years of age, and had played a prominent in tho upbuilding of the city.

Funeral aTTf agsmwnts will be announced later. son's strength. Of this there is no doubt. It is admitted by the most devoted followers, in Washington, of the Nebraskan. They do not fear Johnson so much as they do the general plan of getting In excess of one-third of the convention lined up to stick against Bryan, and ultimately to force the nomination of some other man.

It is well known that this is the scheme by which his opponents are now trying to make Mr. Bryan Impossible; and they have had enough success with it to warrant the concern which is felt by Bryanitea. The democratic fight, it is universally agreed, would be all over today If democratic conventions made nominations by majority as do the republicans. But in the democratic convention the two-thirds rule has stood for so many years that It would be ruinous to any candidate who tried to repeal it. A close friend of Mr.

Bryan admitted that there had been thought Of repealing the rule; but it had been absolutely dropped Johnson of Minnesota is being advertised In his home state, at any rate, as the candidate of the octopus; the Parker of 1908; the man whom Wall street wants in place of Bryan. It to said that a particular agent of the Bryan Interest In Minnesota, has for two months past been wearing out the railroads between St. Paul and Lincoln, carrying messages to and from the Nebraska leader. More than this, there is excellent authority for tbe statement that the personal relations between Bryan and Johnson have been severely strained as a result of the remarkable growth of tbe tatter's boom. Tbe Bryan supporters by no means admit that a third of the Denver con of Milwaukee, and received a patent Feb.

25, 1S36. The instrument finally came into general use, superseding the common compass in the survey of fully 75 per cent of tbe public lands of the United States and caused a saving of millions of dollars to the country in the greater cheapness and accuracy of the survey. To illustrate: The, boundary line between Iowa and Minnesota was surveyed at a cost of about 1120 a mile, with the use of other instruments, while Mr. Burt himself surveyed the boundary line between Wisconsin and Michigan with his solar compass at a cost of $15 per mile. Why, in the first forty names that came out.

carrying the first forty WJH-fWtura to Chicago. Win M. Lttlto. whose exploits in choices of rooms, there wefb. only four republicans.

A democratic member Cedar Rapids during the past week or came over to me when the joke had be gun to be distasteful, and said: two have been of the sensational kind, left late yesterday afternoon for Mar- I reckon when we all get what we Xm It Is understood that he wll! want here, you all can get a chance at tarry there but will re-to look after what's turn at once 'Ms political The northern democrats are making to opinion of a demand that they be given charge of have undergone Cedar Rapids the campaign for election of the next since he arrived quite a radical house, on the ground that they under and the proba couple of bilities are that in the future he will stand the situation in the uncertain states and districts almost all of them in the north better than their south The government found the Solar compass indispenstble In the survey of the mineral lands of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Arkansas, Colorado and many other states. As so often happens with inventors of great and generally useful devices, Mr. Burt derived not more than MOO from his instrument which revolutionized the methods of surveying, making them independent of local magnetic attraction. Also he spent thousands of dollars on the instrument In the course of fifteen, or, twenty years, -in bringing ft to perfection. Just at a time when a renewal of his patent audi patents on the Improvements would have given him complete control over the Instrument and made Impossible Its use except at bis terms, the government of ern compatriots could expect to under Stand it- They want the southerners.

They want the vention can at this time be -counted at.lr-favor'thouga SyfIlltoh to give the' northerners admit that the number, on paper dan gpign. a chance. They point out that issues and meth ods are different in the two sections, and that naturally the northern men, having to live under northern conditions, should manage better than any gerously approaches that figure. If the Johnson movement In the east, where It Is befog With great results in lining up two or three Important states solidly against the Nebraskan. then the situation will be critical.

"The efforts of the Johnson people are being directed to hist this end. wipe Cedar Rapids off his map. Charged With Wife Desertion. Harry Webber was arrested yesterday afternoon on a warrant Issued by Justice Sloan, charged with desertion. Tbe complaining witness is d.

Wetoh, father of Webber's wtfe. Webber and the girt were" married December VT. Webber desert el her the neat day. Action has been commenced against him under the new state law which makes wife desertion a penitentiary offense. He was placed under J500 bonds and will be arraigned this aftetaoon for preliminary hearing.

to Having Hard Luck. She following from the Waterloo Reporter regarding M. E. Winn, for-Vnerly freight agent of the Rock Island Keep a package on a low 1 shelf. Let the drfkbtB help thwielym.

IBs 1 1 I Uneeda Biscuit I national biscuit ccmpajst ficials and many public body else. As a rule the congressional had look to him to forego such control campaign committee has been In eon congress tor such would result in a tree i trol of southern politicians. Lut year Chairman Griggs carved off half the republican majority in the house, and It 1s believed by northern democrats ment for all public was that neither he nor his heln. n- ROOSEVELT BLAMED BY A GERMAN that a campaign especially adapted to a dollar from cetredjt dollar from tbe govornrnenL the problem of meeting local situations Held Responsible for Shaking of Con-fldence and Bad Result. here, will be of interest: 'C.

B. Flake of Des Moines tn various northern states, especially In the labor and Industrial centers, would cut off the other half. Thehuman hair crop toprofltabto chants of London. PThed center orB trade Is Paris, where 200.000 pounds are harvested annually, with a valua tppbiated agent for the Cftwat Western ary comment. ou ni von aanus, oonservative, fn Waterloo and he will the sesiea mai trt responsible for situation exiwtlr the critical financial M.

E. Winn, who took the place of A. E. Ham a couple or years ago. Mr.

Winn has been la the hospital for sev entire world, i fiOfding to th peaker'was toosS tion of M.000.000. in the president's 'threats against tne eral months and seems to improve but slowly. Inasmuch as he was unable to assume acuvo control or local affairs New Books. At last the drama recognises the importance of the toiler, as witness the following: "Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model." "Edna, the Pretty Typewriter. "Bertha, the Poor Sewing Machine Girt." "Elaine, the Elegant Cook Lady." Others in preparation.

fine smoked whiteflsh. Tony Naso's, the company deemed it advisable to make a change, and then to provide a aunt von Kanltze remarks ransjli Bourse of an interpellation in refer nee to the high rate of discount by the imperial bank. He declared that the opponents of the trusts place tor nr. Winn azter his recovery. the financial activity of the United States, means interference with the entire economic situation in America.

"America's! error has been that she allowed the (trusts to go so long: without interference," said the speaker. Mr. Flake, the new agent, has been tn the service of tne ureal western for recognize that interference with.