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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1912
Page
3
Southeastern Iowa Teachers will hold their next convention in Fairfield Iowa confirmed by Professor Flower after discussion with Prof Blackmar and Prof Schall. A definite date is pending but the meeting is likely the first week of April with about five hundred members expected plus three hundred from the county.
Fairfield September 25 grand jury ruled Jefferson county jail unfit for humane confinement and ordered two prisoners moved to Wapello county prison. No indictments were announced.
W P Kenney of the Great Northern left for Helena to supervise transport of the western grain crop and efforts to relieve freight congestion. Reports from St Paul say over 350 Montana farmers have been crowded from their homes by bumper crops. Homes are filled with grain to second story windows and harvesters camp in tents awaiting cars. Rolling stock is being rushed to the district.
The Chinese Six Companies offer an $800 reward for punishing the Chinese responsible for Gee Sam's murder last Saturday. Life imprisonment earns $400, second degree murder $240, and manslaughter $160. The reward was forwarded to the post office department.
In Duluth Minnesota Judge Homer B. Dibell in district court ruled that picketing is lawful in the Duluth Street Railway company strike dispute. The court found the case trivial and said such matters should have been directed to the police department.
An advertisement touts Booths Hyomei as the fastest cure for catarrh claiming it clears mucus in an hour. It offers a $1 inhaler kit and 50 cent refills with a money back guarantee from Lemona Pharmacy.
Judge Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the Southern Pacific board, declares a $100,000,000 improvement plan for the Ogden and Sunset routes. The project, foreseen by the late B. H. Harriman, aims to eliminate mountain grade constraints, enable new freight rates, and withstand interoceanic competition within five years, linking Los Angeles to New Orleans via the Sunset route and Imperial Valley to San Diego.
Benezet A. Hough of Danbury Connecticut asks the superior court to direct what to do with a $480000 estate he has administered for twenty one years while drawing $3050 annually. He admits years of non reporting and seeks relief from his long oversight. The Arkansas land deal tied to Mississippi Ouat chita and Red River bonds dates to 1870s with Redfield and Gould connections and a 50 cent acre land purchase that largely vanished after Redfield’s 1889 death.
Plans presented in Plymouth Massachusetts aim to raise 500000 dollars by subscription to fund a perpetual memorial to the 1620 Mayflower voyage. Leaders favor improving the Plymouth rock area and removing surrounding buildings to create an unobstructed harbor view. A second proposal suggests removing ground between the rock and shore to let the tide flood the site.
About twenty nine college professors from twenty one schools in nineteen states spent summer in Pittsburgh mills to gain industrial experience. They earned roughly 20 cents an hour about $40 a month and lived in mechanics boarding houses eating at factory dining halls during a thirty minute lunch. Westinghouse employed ten instructors under Professor George B. Thomas of Colorado University with nightly lectures after work.
At Plymouth England the most powerful battleship yet ordered will be laid down in November. The vessel will be about 780 feet long with a 30 000 ton displacement and turbine engines enabling 29 knots. It is reported she will carry fourteen inch guns, a first for the British navy.
In conversations with Gen Joseph E Johnston the author recalls fortifications near Fayetteville North Carolina built to keep troops busy rather than to fight. Johnston admits forgetting them yet recalls their purpose as delaying tactics while Sherman moved north and he pursued peace and national welfare.
Henry Johnson of Grantham Lincolnshire, a veteran acrobat, marks his 103rd birthday. He began at age six in a circus, joined Hughess circus at eight, and toured China. He later partnered with a Chinese jug dealer Mullabab, performing before William IV and Queen Victoria, and received congratulations from King Edward VII on his 100th birthday.
Chronicle records a sequence from Saturday to Tuesday about Mrs. Jim Jones. Jewelry valued at first $200000 is reported stolen from her hotel room, later reduced to $150000. Police allege deception by Mrs. Jones over $50000 in jewels. Jewelry then found in pawnshop for $27.60.
A long column lists numerous real estate transfers and deeds across Washington, Cedar, Riverside, Kalona, and surrounding towns. Names include Carlton Wilson, A L Braden, Geo H Paul, J C Wombacher, Frank Knotek, John W Frank, Mary Bouquet, and J P Tucker among others. Amounts range from $1 to $14 000 with parcels described as acres or lots and multiple tracts in Washington and adjacent counties.
St Joseph Missouri September 25 former British MP Francis Neilson warned at the courthouse that America is rapidly moving toward a landlord and tenant system like England with similar taxation issues. He linked England’s land value taxation to the American single tax movement during his remarks at the courthouse.
Washington reports Juan Iriag a former Zelayist has gone to Nicaragua to command rebel forces there after circulating a petition in San Jose Costa Rica calling for removal of American forces. General Mena, leader of the uprising, is said near retirement.
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