Decorah public opinion., May 03, 1922, Image 1

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TWELVE PAGES
Vol. XXVIII.
WRITES FROM
CANON CITY, COL
Former Resident Writes From Color
ado City, and Tells About Its
Industries.
GLAD TO SEE
ANY OLD FRIENDS
■Says His People Are Sure Commun
ity Boosters And Are Doing
Worth While Things.
The following letter from Wilson
Pearson, a brother of Jack and G.
P. Pearson, of Winneshiek county,
will be read with interest by his old
friends here. Mr. Pearson is a vet
erinary surgeon and has been located
in Colorado for many years. He
left Winneshiek county about 30
years ago.
Canon City’, Colorado.
April 24, 1922.
Decorah Public Opinion,
Decorah, lowa.
Gentlemen: —I frequently pet cop
ies of the old home paper and while
it has been a long time since it has
been my good fortune to visit my
old home town, I am still interested
in its progress and my old friends
there.
We like our home here in Canon
City very much. It has an ideal
health climate and is the best en
trance of the famous Royal Gorge
and is a fine fruit and garden spot.
The scenic attractions are among
the very best that I have ever seen
anywhere and I am wondering if you
would not make some mention * of
them in your paper for the benefit
of any of our old friends who want
a good place to spend part of their
vacation. I know they would be well
pleased with what there is to see
here in the heart of the Rocky Moun
tains. Besides the Royal Gorge,
which is one of the grandest sights
in America, they have a very unique
drive that is called The Skyline drive
that is built on the crest of a moun
tain overlooking the city and is three
miles long and was built by the con
victs from the penitentiary. Another
beautiful drive'is known as the Phan
tom Canon Highway between Canon
City and the great Clippie Creek
gold mining district. The people
here are sure community boosters
and last year they opened a new
attraction called the Red Canons
Park and built two miles of road
by volunteer labor with business men.
This is a wonderful park and has
over eight miles of deep red canons
and many pillars and monuments
scattered thru the park.
The State I. O. 0. F. Home, State
Armory and State Penitentiary are
located here and they have both
hot and cold mineral springs. The
convicts from the pen are worked
on the roads and are now building
a mile of cement highway just west
of the city. This is quite a coal
district, and there are fifteen mines
in this district, several large indus
tries and the only oil fields in this
state are within nine miles dis
tance.
We would be glad to see any of
our old friends if they should come
here. The city has two good free
camp grounds for tourists.
Very truly yours,
WILSON PEARSON.
DOWN 225 FEET
CASING COMING
Pioneer Oil and Gas Co., Now Down
225 Feet. Drillers Waiting
For Casing.
DRILLING WILL BE
RESUMED SOON
Car of Casing Expected Any Day
Now And Night and Day
Drilling Will be
Resumed.
The Pioneer Oil and Gas Co. are
now down 225 feet and last Saturday
were compel led to stop drilling on
account of waiting for a car load
of casing, which is expected any day
now.
Big crowds have been going out
to Bakke Lease No. 1, daily, and
much interest has been manifested
the past weeks.
A great many people have been
buying stock during the past week,
and more interest than ever has been
manifested in the company.
Dr. Peebles asserts that he has
established communication with the
other world beyond the grave. Be
fore he rings off will he please in
quire whether Bill Hohenzollern is
to be quartered in elysium or draw
what he deserves over there and
didn’t receive here?
Nearly everything is camouflaged
these days*—except legs.
Utecuvui) Public ©piuiou.
HENRY C.RUEN TOR
STATE SENATOR
▼illo Township Man Making
a. V s Canvass for the Winne
9. Nomination.
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PLACED INCLINATION
% ON APRIL 8
Was Endorsed by Big >ieeting of
Farmers |at Courts House, >
And Consented to Run.
Henry O. Ruen, candidate before
the June Primary for state senator
from the Winneshiek-Howard dis
trict, is going to make as active a
canvass for the nomination as it is
possible for him to do.
Mr. Ruen comes from the southern
part of the county, Frankville town
ship, and is one of‘the representative
farmers of that vicinity.
Mr. Ruen has been active in farm
work and farm legislation for many
years, and at the present time is
Secretary and Treasurer of the Win
neshiek Equity Co-Operative Society.
He was also secretary of the
Farmers Elevator at Kenyon, Minn.,
for 12 years, one of the largest ele
vators in the state of Minnesota.
Mr. Ruen is not only a practical
farmei-, but he is interested in many
things for the good of the farmer,
and has put forth much of his time
and efforts in working for just legis
lation for the farmers, and he has
gained much valuable experience.
At a meeting of farmers held at
the court house in Decorah on April
8 he was unanimously endorsed for
the office of state senator, and con
cluded to make the race, which is
now a three cornered affair.
Mr. Ruen has the backing of a
good many friends in both counties
and he is a formidable candidate for
the office.
WARM CONTESTS
IN JUNE PRIMARY
Senatorship is Not the Only Political
Bone of Serious Contention for
Primaries Which Fall on
June 5 to Settle.
BURBANK SHARPLY OPPOSED
FOR STATE TREASURER
Bitterness From Previous Campaign
Exists—State Superintendent
McClenahan Says He is
For Vindication.
Des Moines, lowa—lnterest in the
contest for the distinguished honor
of being a member of the United
States senate has somewhat over
shadowed other contests within the
ranks of the republican party thus
far for political preference in the
state wide primary to be held Mon
day, June 5.
Nevertheless the 1922 primary is
replete with interest. The fight for
the republican nomination for state
treasurer will be a heated one. The
present incumbent, William J. Bur
bank, of Waterloo, out for his second
term, is being opposed by Col. Leon
Ainsworth, of Des Moines.
Opponents of Burbank have been
successful thus far in keeping the
field clear of other candidates so that
their strength will nqt be spilit thru
a division of their vote. Prominent
among Burbank’s opponents are
friends and admirers of the former
state treasurer, Edwin H. Hoyt,
whom Burbank unexpectedly defeat
ed in the primaries two years ago.
Colonel Ainsworth has gained a
wide acquaintance in recent years
among members of the legislature,
having served as secretary of the
lowa senate in the last general as
sembly. During the war he was sta
tioned at London and was in charge
of the cable service.
The nomination for state superin
tendent of public instruction is also
■attracting much attention. State Su
perintendent P. E. McClenahan is
seeking vindication against opponents
whom he charges with bringing on
the investigation against him in the
last legislature.
Miss Mae Francis, formerly in the
state department of public instruc
tion and later in the collateral inher
itance department of the state treas
urer's office, is also out for the state
superintendency.
Secretary of State Walter Ramsay,
for re-election, is being opposed in
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DECORAH, WINNESHIEK COUNTY, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3,4922
BRINGING IN
AN OIL WELL
M. J. Gill, of Tesla, Okla., is in
Decorah This Week And Will
Show Pictures of Oil
Wells at Lyric.
IS PRESIDENT OF
OKLAHOMA OIL COMPANY
Pictures Will be Shown Wednesday
And Thursday And Will be
Well Worth Seeing.
Today, Wednesday afternoon at
the Lyric theatre an interesting
moving picture of an oil well will
be shown at a matinee and evening
performance and also on Thursday
evening.
The pictui’es will be shown by Mr.
M. J. Gill, of Tusla, Oklahoma, who
is in. Decorah now. Mr. Gill is
president of the Shepard and Tipton
Oil Companies, of Oklahoma. He
is in Decorah now looking up leases,
and if enough can be secured he will
open up another drilling company
here.
The pictures to be shown at the
Lyric were taken a year ago in the
Oklahoma section and show five
wells of one company and the oper
ating of sinking the drills in each
and completed results on . one, in
which a gusher was found and oil
in large quantities secured. The
views show preliminary preparations
for drilling, the starting of work at d
the sinking of the drill deeper and
deeper in the ground. It shows the
placing of the casing, withdrawal
of the drill and ’sharpening of the
bits, with other details of the work.
When oil sand was found a huge
charge of nitro glycerine, contained
in a long shell was lowered and
then exploded, following by a dense
cloud of gas, soil and black oil. Then
the reduced casing was inserted in
the hole, lowered and connection
made with pumps which soon had
a steady flow of black fluid pass
ing through the pipes to the tanks.
The pictures show how power for
tl>e drilling is supplied for several
wells from one power plant and how
it could be shifted from one to an
other by a simple motion. The en
tire exhibition is a most interesting
one and will be thoroughly enjoyed
by everyone.
the primaries by Miss Lillian LefFert,
former deputy secretary of state and
for two terms a clerk in the lowa
legislature.
Governor Kendall, Attorney Gen
eral Ben Gibson and State Auditor
Glenn Haynes, elected two years ago,
have no opposition for renomination.
Dwight N. Lewis and Charles Web
ster, of the state board of railroad
commissioners, are candidates for re
election.
There has been much talk that Ex-
Senator Milton B. Pitt would come
cut against Congressman Greene in
the Ninth, but thus far he has not
done so. Pitt is widely known not
only in his own district but thruaut
the state and has been suggested as
a possible opponent of Col. Smith
Brookhart for the United States
senatorship.
In the fourth district L. J. Kehoe,
of Riceville, is out against G. N.
Haugen, and in the Fifth State Sen
ator R. P. Scott, of Marshalltown, :s
opposing Congressman Cyrenus Cole.
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CONG. HAUGEN IS
A BUSY MAN
Twenty-three Candidates Have Been
Nominated by Him For
W est Point and Academy
at Annapolis.
HAS SECURED
PENSION FOR TWO
Farmers in lowa Will Possibly Get
Market Quotations From Radio
Station.
Twenty-three candidates from the
Fourth Congressional District of
lowa have been nominated by Con
gressman Haugen as principal and
afternates for appointment to the
military academy at West Point and
naval academy at Annapolis. Their
status was based upon the rating
they received in competitive examina
tions.
Farmers in lowa who ai’e equip
ed with radio apparatus will get
daily market quotations from ( the
government radio station at lowa
City, if the postoffice department
carries out a plan now under con
sideration, which is to broadcast
these market quotations through the
air mail service department.
The agricultural committee has re
ported favorably the Game Refuge
Bill which provides protection for
migratory birds and for the purchase
by the government of lands for pub
lic hunting grounds.
Congressman Haugen this week
secured a pension of S3O per month
for Mrs. Estella M. Edwards of Ma
son City ami secured an order for
the balance of the compensation due
Rudolph F. Hein of Postville.
The agincultural committee is hold
ing hearings on a pi’oposal to use
certain forest lands for l-e-cuperation
camps for ex-service men who are
now in hospitals. Members of the
lowa delegation, as is nearly every
congressman, is in favor of the plan.
It is believed sites for these camps
will be available this summer.
Congressman Haugen’s bill to pay
overtime to the meat inspector of
lowa and other states has been pass
ed by the house.
Legislate For All the People
All of the lowa candidates for the
senate agree that there is something
radically wrong with the Cummins-
Esch law and that it must be repeal
ed, in whole or in part, says the
Knoxville Journal. All agree that
the federal reserve act must be
amended. All are in favor of ad
justed compensation for the soldiers
and all hold out the idea that they
are particularly interested in going to
Washington to be the special cham
pion of the farmer. In the judgment
of this paper all of them might well
give a little prayerful consideration
to this sentiment from M. B. Pitt’s
speech to Tama county farmers, a
few days ago. Senator Pitt, who is
himself a big farmer and the leader
of the fight against paved roads in
the lowa legislature, said: “I want to
say to you that any legislation that
is not for the good of all the people
is i absolutely against public policy
and the principles of the founders of
the republic.”
After father reaches the age of 55,
about all he expects is a change in
the weather.
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KNEESKERN ASKS
NEW TRAIAL
By Agreement of Attorneys in the
Kneeskern Case Defense Grant
ed Until Aug. 15, to File
For New Trial.
WILL REMAIN
The State Has Until Sept. 10 to File
Resistance of the
Motion.
Attorneys for Frank Kneeskern
convicted of murder in district court
here last week have asked for a
new trial /for Kneeskern, and /the
matter was discussed between the
attorneys this morning for about an
hour. Judge Taylor has granted the
defense until Aug. fls, to file a
motion for a new trial.
Sentence will not be passed on
Kneeskern at this term,)'the time
have been extended to the third
regular day of court following the
time set for the motion of a new
trial. Kneeskern will remain in the
Winneshiek county jail until that
time.
The defense may have the testi
mony of the trial just closed between
the first and thirteenth of July.
“ALL ABOARD”
NEXT MONDAY
Home Talent by American Legion to
Be Presented at Matinee and
Evening Performance
May 8.
SEAT SALE OPENS
AT PARMAN’S SATURDAY
Play Said to Have More Fun to the
Square Inch in it Than Any
Presented Here in Years.
There are no draggy moments in
“All Aboard,’ which travels at the
rate of a “laugh a minute” all even
ing. The production is to be staged
by local talent Monday, May 8, at
the Grand Opera House at a matinee
and evening performance at 8:30.
The play will be put on here under
the sponsorship of Anton Bematz
Post, American Legion. The play
is a medley of snap, pep, music,
and artistry, and it can be safely
said that this above show is going
to be the best thing of its kind
ever seen here in the history of
amateur theatricals. The director
representing John B. Rogers Produc
ing Company, declares that he is
satisfied that Monday night’s per
formance will surpass anything he
has yet staged. The scenery and
costumes have arrived, and proved
to be far mote elaborate than even
the promises of the company antici
pated. The scenic settings are es
pecially beautiful. Capacity houses
are expected and there is every
evidence that there will be a sell out.
Seats on sale at Parman’s Saturday
at 9 a. m.
The Webster City Freeman-Jour
nal unkindly asserts “as a successor
to Claude Porter as the standing
democratic candidate of lowa for
anything 1 in sight Clyde Herring
seems to be making good.”
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IS ACQUITTED
Jury in the Case Brought in Not
Guilty Verdict Yesterday
Afternoon.
VERDICT PROVED
IN JAIL HERE
Defendant Released From Custody
And Is Now Home With
His Family.
Matt Dotseth, charged with the
shooting of his brother Alfred Dot
seth at the firemen’s dance last Feb
ruary, was acquitted by the jury
Tuesday afternoon in Judge Taylor's
court, after being on trial since last
Thursday.
He was defended by Atty. Frank
Sayre, of Decorah, anil Atty. W.
S. Hart, of Waukon.
The state was represented Vby
County Atty. J. A. Nelson and Atty.
C. N. Houck.
The jury went out at 4:15, and
returned to the court about thirty
minutes later with a verdict of “not
guilty.” It apparently proved a
popular verdict, as the audience
practically all cheered when the
verdict was announced.
G. O. Kvale, of Madison Twp. was
elected the foreman of the jury. Only
one ballot was taken to decide the
case and that one was an unanimous
one for not guilty.
The case was opened Thursday
morning and it took practically all
day to select the jury. There were
thirty jurors examined, and sixteen
more talesmen were drawn in order
to get enough to select a jury from.
Atty. C. N. Houck gave the open
ing .argument for ithe state. !He
opened by very briefly telling of
the evidence the state expected to
prove. After giving a description of
the hallway and stairway going up
to the dance hall he told of the
scuffle and general trouble that pre
vailed and of the shooting of Al
fred.
Atty. Houck was followed by Atty.
Hart for the defense who took up the
opening argument. He stated that
Matt Dotseth was to go on the wit
ness stand and testify to everything
that happened hat night. The num
erous difficult things the police force
had to deal with were mentioned,
and Atty. Hart showed that Matt
was street commissioner and a police
man. He told of the troubles Matt
had at the dances and particularly
the trouble at the fireman’s dance
of Feb. 2. Atty. Hart explained in
the witnesses words a little more
fully the encounter Mat had with
Alfred and the unavoidable way the
revolver was discharged. He showed
the raspect Matt had for his duty,
by calling the mayor after the
tragedy had happened, and in clos
ing Atty. Hart said to the jury
“gentlemen, if there is no criminal
liability shown .there can be no
guilt.”
The following witnesses testified
for the state: M. J. Musser, Dr. J.
D. Hexom, Thos. Courtney, John
Peterson, Oscar Buer, Henry G.
Haas and Marshal Herman Tavener.
Messrs. Musser, Courtney, Buer
and Peterson all testified that they
were in the hallway ami saw the
scuffle and shooting. Dr. Hexom
testified as to the condition of the
wound.
The defense called John H. Blaess,
Fred Reum, Aldermen W. B. Reed,
M. A. Lange and Ed Istad, Robert
Schmidt, G. E. Bakken. E. A. Water
bury, Warren E. Hoyt and Rev. O.
Glesne to testify to the character of
Mate Dotseth and all said it was
good.
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The Correctionville News remarks
that “regardless of whom the judges
pick as the most beautiful woman in
lowa there are many who will con
tinue to regard their little wrinkled
old mother as the most beautiful
woman in the world.”
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The Vinton Eagle suggests that
“after we have celebrated all kinds
of weeks and days it would be a
good idea to have a Work Week.”
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NO. 18
POPULAR ONE
THE JURY
51. I>. Wells, Manager Gas Co„
Decorah.
Sam Stoskopf, retired farmer,
Decorah.
V. T. Jordahl, student Deeornh.
O. A. Skor, painter, Calmar Ist.
M. \. Kinkor, farmer, Sumner
township.
Sander Anfinson, farmer, Pleas
ant township.
P. A. Ask. carpenter, Madison
township.
G. O. Kvale, farmer, Madison
Township.
Elias Meyer, Washington, 2d.
M. J. Drew, Madison township.
Louie Beal, Lincoln township.
John Collins, Military township.
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