Pocahontas Democrat (Newspaper) - March 8, 1906, Pocahontas, Iowa march 8, 1906. 1 I.: of the New in y our faulten and as the decided to engage in the Mercantile i will MARCH 10, 1906 Open to the ' Stoek of waint your Will same at once and pay cash op trade on on street in this stock is full and complete of all the choicest dise money will I will continue to carry a complete line Hats and for fact usually kept in a first-class general here to stay and can sell goods as cheap merchant in the I will endeavor at all times to please my 3 T a PROBLEM prof. O. A. 1. Tbat afi ' any and declared mas mum That the Commer Commission is a useless bod that it is no one affording any one on the Is tive of endless litigation and In support pf .tl ' point it has met in land Its own admission garding 3, if a Commission maintained not the present adequate i; could be - asked or hoped TheS there have been veb since 1903. To quote their own wo existing law is 4. That roads will public against 5; That the Commission is an it necessarily vil r unqualified to pass the hi technical and determining 0. support of this they a. fraction of a pounds in the of the mean or success in their ' In other words n so technical and dete one but the manager can adjust it to Increase the V Interstate the extent asked ' Is to hazard 1' the greater the owing to the proportionately greater increase in the volume of the pages 19 and 21.) Interstate Commerce self-seeking and and asks for f power In order to gratify its ate and dominate the They charge iis with at any and thinking people will to let well enough ahd apply this to railroad management is well as to other What the general of President annual sage to the present of stock charges of railroad maie by Gov. Cummins in his message to the present free bribery the general seductive resorted to by increase in rates past eight ( Also that are in sitate and owing railroad especially That the people are being made to pay dividends on watered stocks of excessive That it costs less to roads in than to S comparatively level unbroken and they ' be operated at less ' and rates to be much lower here than in other at any npt expected to pay dividends on no matter how loy in mind what has already been the relation that between the bonded ' indebted bess and the cost of the following Of railway income and expenditure for ending June will prove 146,509,031 335,708,406 67,49,569 on bonded 277,891,209, 41,94S.l^ 41,6l8t;341 What the Interstate Commission That the public be protected from road corporations unless j the authority it has repeatedly asked for be the To quote from the Cummins report for 1904, page 8: ' We said in bur reports to Congress in 1902 and 1903, and now that in view of the rapid disappearance of railway competition ' and the maintenance of rateSi established bv * * this matter as and desires to emphasize its conviction thai the safeguards required for the protection of the public will not be provided until the regulating statute is thoroughly That there exists little if any competition between cites the fact that recently and certain traffic rates have been on all roads the same amount on exactly the same That in of its efforts rebates and andf as in favor of the big the Meat the Steel Private Car Reports it. meets almost insurmountable difficulties to get at the truth to rebates admits that thus far attempts to the railroads have a and declare that no. very large measure of success can attend its efforts unless Its power be greatly ONLY U be true pall la the above it is readily seen that the only alternative on the one perpetual expense and trouble in what must ever prove a not a futile effort to regulate these public service on the government with its possible dangers and To abandon these and seek justice in the benevolence of the railroads when left without restrictions of any this ls just what the declare the wise thing to absurd to coalder The folly of such a proposition is well expressed bv the Commission in its Report for 1904. interests of one be safely relied up on to determine and protect the rights of years these hM me only -is of. ably ' the and to attempts at ' of Fonda received In Pocahontas last that George had died in Los the day February 28, death coming almost instantly from heart Mr. and Mrs. and Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Straight had left Fonda the latter part of January for a trip to the coast and the deceased being in apparently good George was born April 19, 1850, near and came to America with his parents when ten years of the family locating at Here the boy school and when advancing into entered the office of his D. A. secretary and treasurer of the Dubuque and Sioux City as an It was while he was engaged in this railroad office that he was given the of selecting a location in western and was offered any station on the line of the Illinois Central Port Dodge and Going over the line he finally selected on the town of now and located there October 15, 1870, as Along with his railroad work he did not pass an opportunity to do other business wherein a chance to invest profitably and by the time he had been agent seven years bis business ventures had become so large that he resigned and disposing of a lumber and coal business which he hW he started the first bank the the Pocahontas County 5, 1871. he was married to Miss Susan Olive Wilson and to this union four children were the first born having died in early those livins being Edward engaged as assistant cashier in his father's Frank A. engaged in the practice of law in and Mrs. C. J. now residing in Des body arrived in and the funeral was held Tuesday being conducted by the Symbol No. 432, the deceased being one of the charter The funeral oration was delivered by Bishop of Dos The remains were Interred in the Fonda The business bouses of Fonda closed during the funeral service and a large number of friends of the family were present from other a number of masons from Des Moines and Iowa cities being J. G. Duling of will give a lecture March 14, at the M. E. and Mrs. G. of Pocahontas were visitors here the first of the Clarke of Webster City spent a few days here this week with his A. F. O. B. Gill and S. Cols attended the Woodman banquet at Storm Lake last W. O. Sidwell returned Tuesday afternoon from a short visit with friends and relatives at Eagle Miller entertained quite anum her of his little honor of bis sixth temperance lecture given by C. L. Baxter M. E. church Sunday evening was well attended anS very interesting and are closing out the large general merchandise at Mallard and expect to leave for Oregon in about a Thompson with quite a painful Sunday He was runnine near the bank corner and fell over the large cinder striking his head on the cutting several ugly gashes on his face and A number of were Estate transfers are furnished by the Pocahontas Loan Trust office under the First National B O to H w Gust Olson to ii lit ot lie qr seit wd W. made a business trip to Harris transacted business and Mary Donohoe Mrs. Beyman Pere Moines was in ' ' Charlton of was up Henderson building a large 20x80 sheep Nicholas returned Tuesday from a trip to Des H. family have moved back into the Thompson was elected school director at the election here Hughes left with his car for his future home near Des C. Budolfson is in Pocahontas this week attending the session of the board of Crawford who has been visiting tiis brother south of left Tuesday for his home at McEiven arrived here from Seattle recently and is visiting this week with his Joe and other Pat Shaughnessy arrived here from Monday with his car of and is moving onto the place which he traded for about a year meetings are still Is progress here and much Interest is being The house is crowded each night and over sixty conversions are reported up to this J. and J. R. Risley the the week attending to some business J. has recently purchased the Hughes farm and we learn has rented it to Mr. and v family of City arrived here Tuesday for a visit with They were former of Plover many years ago and have many relatives and old friends Cady left Monday fpr his future at Soutli He loaded bis oar at Mrs. and children will visit at Gilmore City also relatives la Tama county before ' jO. 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