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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1908
Page
1
A garbled column from a 19th or early 20th century page blends jokes and social quips. It mocks finance and trade with lines about Zanesville currency, gold, and corks, lampoons officials and crime, and lampoons manners and politics. The piece wanders through witty asides on culture, crime, and society with numerous named places and figures.
The body of Dr George W. Jones, a Keokuk physician, was found two miles north of Burlington in a snow bordered forest. A bullet wound and knife cuts suggest he wandered away on Christmas night and ended his life, with no foul play suspected. The body was identified by A B Dunlap, with assistance from hunter Joseph Knapp and Jones’s brother W Clyde Jones.
Iowa Attorney General Byers and assistant Cas sel failed to move a special grand jury after Judge James Smyth refused the request. The Burlington case involved an indictment effort against a party tied to saloon law enforcement. Smyth said the current grand jury was honest and had investigated the complaint, declining further county burden. Jones had pressed charges through five grand juries without success. Governor Cummins advised Byers to pursue the matter, and County Attorney Kuhlemeier was urged to enforce the malci law strictly.
President Homer Loring of Fort Dodge Des Moines and Southern road spoke at a luncheon praising the completed interurban line as the longest in the west with private right of way. He urged local business support to attract capital and noted potential connections with the Northwestern Boone and Chicago routes increasing freight traffic.
The case centers on Carl L. Clemmens and his wife Harriet L. Clemmens. Clemmens sought letters from FR H Dosh at the Elliott hotel posing as Mrs Clemens, leading to a confrontation and a dangerous assault. Investigators link the hotel signature to years of ill will, clarified by the decoy name and prior letters.
Webster City laborer William H. Baker learns he is an heir to the $75,000 estate of the late Mrs. Augustus Muehler in Whiteside County probate court. Baker, a nephew of Mrs. Mitchler and one of six heirs, will receive about $12,000 from property in Sterling area farms and dwellings. His hard work and frugal plans highlight a sudden fortune affecting his large family.
The mangled body of 22 year old Jesse Kleming was found on a railroad rack below Riverton. Officials say he left home to aid a ditch project around 6 PM the previous evening. The cause and manner of death remain unknown and the family from Hiverton mourns the tragedy.
William Pickard of Conroe Texas, accused of killing W. F. Teets at Grand View on July 8 1879, was captured after a 28 year fugitive status. A requisition orders his transport to Iowa to face charges amid reports he used a iron bar to strike Teets. Herman Harris, wanted in Anamosa for false pretenses, was extradited by Nebraska warrants.
County farmers face a tenant shortage after two or three seasons of heavy rainfall. Many tenants have left for Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Canada, leaving hundreds of farms without renters. Local efforts include canvassing to attract a stable class of tenants to keep land in good condition.
Grand jury charges Dr. P. K. Dahl with manslaughter over an operation on Mrs. Dora Bowen who died shortly after in great agony. The case shocks the town with Dahl’s social prominence and Mrs. Dahl’s standing as a musician.
A blaze began at midnight in Bussey damaging Pasco & Jones general store for about 3000 with total Bussey business losses near 10000. The hall used by miners suffered 700 in building damage and 300 in furniture. Thomas Burnett’s residence burned down for 1000. Cause of the fire remains undetermined after investigation.
John R. Walsh former president of the Chicago National Bank was found guilty on fifty four counts for appropriation of bank funds. He faced possible ten year terms per count and appeared cheerful as verdicts were announced, with supporters greeting him.
Rio de Janeiro police uncover an anarchist plot aimed at destroying the American fleet in harbor. Conspiracy centered in Rio and Petropolis with ties to Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais. Chief conspirator Jeag Tedher, a Petropolis resident, is pursued as authorities coordinate with Sao Paulo and international police.
Guatemala City reports the Guatemala Northern railway opened yesterday linking the Atlantic and Pacific. It has long been a dream and symbol of effort dating back to 1882 when the first spike was driven and 1907 when the line saw its first train. President Estrada Cabrera pushed the project to completion.
In Boyertown Pennsylvania mourners bury victims of a theatre disaster that reduced the town’s population by a share. Officials urge relatives to inter the dead within three days while morgue crews prepare remains for home or cemetery burial. The death toll nears 180 with 172 known fatalities after Mrs. James Fryer dies from injuries.
Miss Mary Robinson, an American woman linked to the Druce case by claiming Druce as the duke of Portland, was arrested on a perjury warrant. In Vallejo, California three men died from wood alcohol poisoning linked to linoleum cement, with two more blinded and five others likely unfit for service.
The American battle ship fleet was joined Sunday in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro by a flotilla of six torpedo boats arriving from Pernambuco and anchoring near the sixteen battleships.
O B Hewitt a lawyer shot Batesman Al Donald Stevenson of Breckenridge Colorado near Taylorville on Friday. Hewitt fled or was released on bail after the incident.
Tangier News reports a ten hour battle near Settat between Gen. d Amade s French column and Mulai Rachid s Moorish forces. Despite heavy casualties on both sides the French won a decisive victory driving the Moors to the hills. Several officers wounded in the engagement.
In a decision by Judge Hough of the United States circuit court Harriman was ordered to answer all Interstate Commerce Commission questions except those about purchasing Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroad stock linked to the August 1908 dividend. Otto H Kuhn of Kuhn Loeb Co was likewise directed to answer all I C C questions posed to him.
A six story wholesale grocery building at 19 to 23 Market Street occupied by McNeil & Higgins sustained about 600000 in fire damage. The blaze began Friday night injuring several firefighters, but prompted no evacuation at the nearby hotel.
News from Stanley county reports plowing operations near Hayes and Phil during the first week of January. The winter across the central and western state has been mild.
Oil producing companies in the Caucasus report a mammoth gusher at the Bibi Hybat field in Baku starting to flow at about 180000 barrels per day. The news reaches St. Petersburg and is expected to boost regional output.
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