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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-04-26

Prescott was visited by $30, GOO fire last Saturday night. The yalu- able library of Congressmen Thos. c. MeRea was part of the loss.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-04-26
PINE BLUFF, ARK. AIR. 26, 1S99.

Entered at the Post-ofice at Pine Bluff, Ark, as second-elass mail matter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-04-26

Capt. Coghlan's veracity and frankness are to be commended, but his lack of discretion is 10 De de. plored.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
THE PAcKING HOUSE PICNIC.

The annual picnic of the employees
of John Morrell & Co., pork packers OF
this city, was held at Grinnell Thurs
day, and was, as usual, great success.
This annual picnic is an affair which
may almost be termed unique in the
line of social gatherings. Few. if any,
big manufacturers are thoughtful or
generous enough to give their EN-
ployes holiday at full wages once a
year in order that they may enjoy an
outing with their friends and families.
One day in August of each year OF
'tumwa's big packing plant closes
down, and all the thousand or more
men who work in it. together with
their wives and children, and anyone
else who cares to go, betalle them-
selves 10 one of the small surrounding
towns for a big holiday. They always
have a good time and always come
home tired but thoroughly pleased.
That they appreciate the kindness Of
their employers and the efforts Of
their own committees on arrangements
is shown by the fact that each year
more and more people go on these pic
MICS. Thursday 1000 tickets were
sold, a larger number than ever be-
fore. 1t would be good thing if more
institutions had annual otings of this
kind
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22

not less than $4,000, if the republican
vote is gotten out to the polls. Not
only is it impossible for NJ. White to
be elected, but his candidacy, Wapello
county democrats are free to admit,
will down their county ticket this fall.
In extreme contrast. to the harmony
that exists in the republican party in
Iowa, is the dissension that is more
and more manifest in the democratic
ranks. So many so-called issues have
been sprung that every leader of any
consequence is sure to be at logger
heads with every other leader, on one
or more of the many topics of the
day, out of which the democrats are
trying to make political capital
The Courier cordially welcomes
those democrats who do not believe
in the free silver fallacy and the
candidacy of Fred White, into the re-
publican party, and invites them to as
sist in rolling up the largest majority
ever given to a governor of Iowa, by
casting their ballot for Leslie NJ.
Shaw, the most conservative, level
headed and common sense governor
that Iowa has ever had.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
Boy. wouldn,t Like i.

Among the things heard at the ho-
tells in Des Moines by the Leader lis
tener is the following: Bring the
Fifty-first Iowa to Des Moines?" de-
manded the southern Iowa man at the
Savery yesterday. swell, should
say not. What do we want the boys
to come to Des Moines for? Whey,
there isn't a town in which company
rs located Athat wants them brought
here. All it would amount to would
be to give Des Moines shopkeepers a
chance to gouge the boys out of all
their money, and tire them cut worse
than ever. They dop't want to be re-
,ceived when they get back to the state.
What they want'is to get back to their
homes. You couldn't bring them
here, anyhow. They would climb off
the train at Omaha and take the Bur-
lington for home, and you wouldn't
have corporal's guard of them to re-
ceive when the special train got to
Des Moines. No, The people don't sym
pathize with Mr.. Kissick's scheme at
all and neither will the regiment
when it is heard FROM
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22

wa. Thus the matter stands, and I'M
less some change in the condition of
things in the past few days is soon
made, the project will fall through;
all the labor of months will be for
naught aud Ottumwa will take long
er step backward than it has taken
forward for many years.
Are the citizens of Ottumwa going
to stand quietly by and see this NAM
moth enterprise, which guarantees to
employ from 200 to 400 people, slide
from her grasp and into the arms of
some more enterprising city, because
Ottumwa cannot be sufficiently awak-
enedif to the realization of
the immense good to be de-
rived by the city and her bust
ness men from the bringing of such a
large institution to our midst? If we
are to judge by the past, this will
not be the case, but from present APP
pearances it looks very much as if this,
the largest enterprise ever undertaken
by our business men, will fall through
after it has been almost assured, be-
cause q few hold-backs and kickers
cannot be induced TO see the i'm
mense value that such large manu-
featuring plant will be to ottumwa.
1t has been said, and rightly too, in
the past, that 'What Ottumwa under
takes to do, She never fails in" This
should be our motto in this project.
The members of the committee are
becoming very much discouraged and
have about given up the work as i'm
possible TO accomplish. 1t now re-
mains for the citizens of ottumwa to
rouse up and either assist these COM
mittees in their work of disposing of
these lots, or to lie down and forever
after cease their complaints about OF
tumwa's not being an enterprising city.
What will it be? Go ahead, or go
backwards? 1t remains for you to de-
eide.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
FOR oLD sET1TERs, DAy

The banks Of this city have agreed
to close on Aug. 81 in order to allow
their employees to attend the annual
picnic of the Wapello County Old Set
tiers association. which win be held at
Agency on that day. On the same day
and at the same place the Sunday
schools of the First Presbyterian and
the First Congregational churches will
hold their yearly Dicnics.
As was announced in last nights
Courier there is a movement on foot
to have all the business houses of the
city close on Aug. 81, or at least on
the afternoon of that day, giving ev-
erybody a chance to attend the fes-
tiyities at Agency. This would certain
ly make very pleasant and interest
inc occasion. 1t would give the young
men of the city an opportunity 10
mingle with the pioneers of this coun-
ty, and to learn something about the
early days of southeastern Iowa. A
young man cannot learn too much
about such things-and the opportuni-
ties presented by the move contem-
plated would undoubtedly be appre-
GATED Es
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
Wa. Anxieu. to Please.

Des Moines Capital: The expurga-
ton of Kipling's "Drums of the Fore
and Aff'' from the Charlottesville,
Ind, library, has revived the story of
correspondence between the distin-
guished author and Edward Box, edi-
tor of that very ladylike publication,
'SI'he Ladies' Home Journal" In go-
ing over one of Kipling's stories before
its publication in the journal, Mr.. Bok,
noticed the sentence, FLASHED off a
glass OF wine and rushed out of the
room" Mr.. Bok as delicately as he
could. wrote to Mr.. Kipling explaining
the character of the publication Of
which he was the honored editor. He
said the readers of the journal were
very nice people, perhaps over-nice,
and that many of them seriously OBJ
jected to the use of alcohol in any
form-even in mince meat, and that
they would be likely to object to the
above sentence, appearing, as it did,
alone, unaccompanied by any explana-
tory or deprecatory phrase. Mr.. Box
gave Mr.. Kipling to understand that
he himself did not object to a, little
glass of wine now and then, but as
the head of a great moral publication,
he had to be extremely cautious. He
therefore asked Mr.. Kipling's permits
sion to either omit or to revise the Of
Tending sentence. Whereupon, Kip
ling answered:
Edward Box, Publisher Ladies'
Home Journal, Philadelphia: Make it
Mellen's Food. Kipling.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
A VITAL QUESTION.

A crisis has been reached in the
matter of bringing the Dain Manufac-
turing company to this city and the
next few days will determine whether
Ottumwa has gone backwards, or
whether its citizens and business men
will unite and push it forward. Briefly
stated, the situation is this: While
nearly 200 lots have been sold there
are yet about one hundred that must
be disposed OF before the Dain Manu-
featuring company will sign a con-
tract to move their immense factory
from Carrollton, Mo-, to Ottumwa.
The committee that originally secured
the proposition from the company to
move to Ottumwa, has been giving the
project almost their entire time for
the past month. For the past two
weeks a large number of 0ttumwa
business men have been out every day
soliciting lot purchasers, each mem-
her of the committee giving the pro-
ject from two to six hours of his
time each day. The city has been
about worked over and the commit
tees are becoming discouraged at the
frequent refusals from well-to-do citi.
gems and business men, to assist in the
kr;nging of this enterprise to Ottum-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
A NEW POEM.

Kipling, the supreme poet OF men
and things. has written a poem called
Cruisers" in which he describes them
as daughters of the Frigate. People
familiar with Kipling will, perhaps,
detect something bit foreign to the
poets usual style in this latest produc-
ton. We give the three following
stanzas as typical of the rest of the
poem:
And when we have wakened the lust
of the foe,
To draw him by tight to our DULLES we
go:
Yet never so hasty that he is outrun,
And never SO hating that we are I'M
done.
Then lurching. and lunging he follow
eth far.
With hail of long pieces our beauty to
mar;
Till. ware of fresh smoke stealing
nearer he flies,
And our bullies close in to make him
good prize.
Anon we return, being gathered again,
Across the gray ridges all drabbled
with rain.
Across the keen ridges all crisped and
curled, ~ f'9l 1
To join the long dance round the
curve of the world.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
Now that Fred White has put hin

Now that Fred White has put him
self once more in the public eye by
accepting the democratic nomination
for governor there is little doubt. but
that some of his record will be recall
ed to mind. This win be. unpleasant
for Fred because it will make his de-
feat eyer. ;snrer than it is at present.
The part Of his past that will be, most
gleefplly remembered by republican
editors is his congressional life, and
particularly the occasion when be
made his famous speech advocating
the abolition of the navy. Many
times before this campaign is over
will Fred have cause to rue the day he
ever wanted to haul down the stars
and stripes from the high seas. He
will be reminded that had the speech
which, his friends boosted, was trans
lated into six different languages, pro-
duced the desired effect the great
American nation would have last year
been at the mercy of such a little pow
err as Spain. This is only one of
the unpleasant memories that will be
recalled to his mind. Long before the
list is exhausted he will wish that
when he opened his mouth to speak
he had been able to see few years
into the future.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
IOWA DEMOCRATS.

To say that the nomination of Fred
White as the democratic candidate for.
governor of Iowa, is displeasing to
the democrats of Wapello county and
the sixth district, is putting ii but
mildly. Ever since his campaign of
two years ago, and even before that,
popular in his home district, but, as is
very unusual in such cases, no atten-
ton was paid to the feeling in Mr..
Whites district, and he was nominated
despite the protests of the home lead
ers OF his party, and his own better
Judgment. The nomination of Fred
White simply insures the reelection of
Governor L. M. Shaw, by majority of
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
GEN. ALeER OUT OF PoL1TIcs.
Former War Secretary Makes q State.
ment In Montreal.

Montreal, Que, Aug. 18.-;"I am alb
solutely out of politics." said General
.Alger. former secretary of 4. war in
President McKinley's cabinet, yester-
day.
General Alger called at. the, Bank Of
Montreal to see General Manager
Clouston. The general looks much
younger than when he was at the post
in Washington, bearing the brunt OF
criticism. He said he was grateful to
the Canadian press for its courteous
tone during the recent controversy.
"'rhe American newspapers" he add.
ed, were severe" but he thought it bet
ter not to discuss this question furth-
err at the present.
And you have really abandoned ac-
tive politics." he was asked.
Absolutely out of it, said he, and
this was uttered in a tone that left no
room for doubt.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
ootJ.SotaaboaM
aza7 z5sll:lsl

s d
hogs being marketed. Total western
packing for the week 100000. COM
pared with 100000 the preceding week.
and 100000 two weeks ago. For the
corresponding time last year the nun.
Der was $4,000, compared with which
the past week shows decline of 49,.
600. From March the total is 9.ssO..
600, against 9,s0OOO0 year ago--a de.
crease of 10000. The quality is irreg-
ular, the larger part of the supply be-
ing good, but less uniformly SO than
previous to the recent past. Prices
have been somewhat variable, average
ing higher than for the preceding
week, and closing with an advance of
about 10 cents per 100 pounds COM
pared with a week ago.
The following shows the lowest,
highest and closing prices of leading
articles at Chicago for the week, for
deliveries indicated, with also the clos
ing week ago and year ago:
Sept. Sept. Sept.
pork. lard. sides.
Lowest 500. ...$s121h SHAY $4.921s;
Highest 800. -. s.37i4 5.27la $40
Closing ~. 49,. $40 5.17Ia 500
Week ago ..... s.25 $50 500
Year ago -. -. 900 5.271s $685.
For current delivery, green hams IL
pounds selling at s9.25@$9.s71s, green
shoulders $5.371s@5.5O per 100 pounds.
Sweet picked hams 16 pounds $685.,
@10.00, shoulders $5.50@5.75-at Chit
cago.
The weeks export clearances of hog
product compared with corresponding
time last year:
Pastsweek. Last VT.
Bacon pounds ....ss, e7s,ooo IL, 1s5, 900
Total meats ......22, 94s,oo0 1902, 900
Lard, pounds $50. 9,6s1,00O s,549, 900
Total product ..... 80 1928, 900 26,511 900
Special reports to the Cincinnati
Price Current show the number OF
hogs packed since March i at UNDER
mentioned places, compared with last
year as follows:
March to Aug. TO- 1890. 1898.
Chicago 80. .......2, 995, 900 3,28o,OOo
Kansas City -. .....1 100000 I,430,OoO
Omaha $3.50, ........ 1,070,00O 100000
st, Louis ........... $4,000 100000
indianapolis ........ 53S,0O0 s4SO,oo
Milwaukee 800. 49,. $4,000 211,O00
Cudahy, Wis ......H 100000 $4,000
Cincinnati ..... $50. 274,000 2s6, 900
st. Joseph, Mo ..... 672,5oO e40s, 900
Ottumwa. -. -. -. 100000 2ss,000
Cedar Rapids. j. i. 176,7O0 100000
Sioux City ......... 100000 100000
st. Paul, MINI ...... $4,000 .e136, 900
Louisville, Ky ~. -. 100000 $4,000
Cleveland, 0 ........ $4,000 100000
Wichita, Kan ....... $1,000 y $4,000
Nebraska City, Neb.. 135, 900 ITO, 900,
Marshalltown ....f.. $4,000 $4,000
Bloomington, Ill 80. 4S,4OO 49,5oo
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
Harvest in the West.

Burlington Gazette: There is no
question but what the tidal wave of
prosperity is spreading over the west
ern country to a most satisfactory de-
gree. The wheat harvest and oats har-
vest in this state has been extraordi-
nary in quality and excellent in guam
tity. 1t has been years since such high
grade oats have been harvested and
years since such excellent wheat has
been threshed. The corn crop is full
of promise; the agricultural bureau at
Washington, from carefully compiled
statistics. has estimated that 10 per
cent of the corn crop of this state has
reached maturity, or at least beyond
the danger of frost by Sept. Is, and
all OF 1t will have reached this desir-
able stage by the both of the month.
If we have no frost to DESTROY This
crop it will be the largest in the his
tory of Iowa.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
Action il Unwise.

Keokuk Constitution Democrat:
Since the cutting down of their supply
of tobacco. the convicts in the Iowa
state penitentiaries have been sullen
and hard to manage and some 300 of
them have refused to work. Chicago
physicians interviewed on the subject
say the action Of the prison authori-
ties was unwise; that tobacco in mod
crate quantity does no harm, and that
its quieting effect makes prisoners as
we'll as soldiers more amendable to
discipline and less disposed to mis-
chief.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
DEATH OF A PIONEER.

Hardly week passes now that the
Courier is not called upon to chronicle
the death of one of Wapello county's
pioneers The latest death OF an old
settler occurred Wednesday night
when Reverend Hezekiah England
passed away at his home in South OF
tumwa, at the advanced age of SO
years
Reverend England came here in
1913, the same year that Wapello
county was opened to settlement by
white men. We who know the coun-
try now can hardly conceive ofit as it
was in those days. What is now a
populous, wealthy. civilized communi-
ty was then Gods unbrokeni wilder
ness, trayersed, perhaps, by a few
deer paths or Indian trails. but other
wise as serene and undisturbed as
when it came from the hand of the
Maker.
Into this desert came men like Hez-
ekiah England and transformed it..
They were trappers, ,woodsmen, farm
ers, preachers, teachers, and mission
aries; and they set to work, each in
his separate way, to do the task that
they found before them. They sowed
and reaped, and preached, and taught,
and fought, till a great commonwealth
grew up under their hands, and civil
ization triumphed over chaos. For the
one talent that had been given them
they returned many more.
Only we who come after them to en-
Joy the fruits of their labor can realize
to the full what great task they
have accomplished. Let us never cease
to do honor to the pioneers, or to be
proud that their blood runs warmly
through our veins.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
OUR SPECIAL FEATURE.

With Thursdays issue of the Semi
Weekly Courier the readers of
this popular paper will be
presented with n weekly spe-
cial feature, the like and scope OF
which has never been attempted by
any other paper in the city of Ottum-
wa, or the sixth district. This spe-
ecial feature, which will be free to all
subscribers of the Semi-Weekly
Courier, will be four addi-
tional pages of up-to-date gen
eral reading matter, especially
adapted for Sunday reading, and illus
trated profusely. In Thursdays spe-
cial feature pages, there will be com
menced that new and much-talked of
serial story, entitled SIN His Steps"
The author of this story, which has
created such widespread comment, is
Charles M. Sheldon, pastor of the Sec
ond Presbyterian church. at Topeka,
Kan, and the story was first read by
him, chapter at a time, to his CON
gregation on Sunday evening, in place
of a sermon. No story in years has
4 been more discussed and debated. 1t
has supplied conversation in all walks
ofslife, and is therefore a story that it
becomes a duty to read. This story
Will be commenced in tomorrow's spe-
cial feature pages, and continued until
finished. Besides this story there will
be a special department, under the
head of Farm and Garden which
will contain timely and up-to-date in
structions and comments. on matters
pertaining to the soil. Tn addition
there will be several short stories,
I complete in each issue. A page of hui
morous hits, culled from the best eff
forts of the leading funny papers, will
at once appeal to all readers, old and
young. Then there will be an illus
trated page of information on matters
that are being discussed in the daily
press. This page will contain story
from Santo Domingo, with pictures of
some of its most important points.
There will be a picture and the story
of the house where Yankee Doodle
was written, besides many other short
items of special interest.
In presenting its readers with these
special feature pages each Thursday
the Courier believes that it has made
y - Il
the greatest hit for years with its
thousands of readers. The matter in
this, four-page supplement, is especial
ly selected for Sunday reading and is
of the same class as that furnished by
the Sunday Chicago and New York
papers. AS has been stated, the ex-
pense Of this additional feature is
greater than anything yet offered by
the Courier to its readers. But with
the belief that this arrangement will
prove great drawing card with Cou-
rier subscribers, it is undertaken
cheerfully and the expense not consid-
cred.
Watch for the, feature pages in, your
Thursdays paper.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
what is tl,e Matter.

Muscatine Journal: What is the
matter with the anti-expansionists?
Are the bottles of their wrath all
emptied? They fail to show true in
dignation over General OTIS attempt
to interfere with home politics by
sending word that he has captured in
surgent dispatches predicting victory
for Aguinaldo through the overthrow
of Mckinley by his Lafayettes in this
country. They are strangely submis-
sive under the outrage.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
Birdp OF a Feather.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: General
Buckner saysiit is natural that Bryan
should endorse Goebel and the fraud
ulent methods by which he secured
the nomination, as Bryan knows how
it is himself, having protted by the
unseating Of the regular delegation
from Nebraska in 1896 and the seating
of the contrasting delegation of which
he was member, thereby making it
possible for him to be presidential
candidate! 1t seems to be clear case
of "we'uls must stand together
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE POISONED
Picnic Lemonade Prostrates an Entire
Community In Illinois.

Rockford, ILL.,, Aug. 1s--Two hundred
people were poisoned at Oregon, ILL.,,
yesterday by lemonade which they
drank at picnic. AS vet no fatalities
have been reported.
The picnic was the annual celebra-
ton of the Modern Woodmen of Ogle
county and was attended by 1000 peo-
pie. The sickness developed during
the afternoon and towards the close
of the day the. doctors in the communi-
ty could not begin to respond to the
calls for assistance. Doctors were
summoned from neighboring villages.
The poisoning is supposed to have been
the result of citric acid in the lemon-
AIDE sold at one of the stands, The
most violent cases are Of small chill
dren.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
We Shall See.

Des Moines Leader: Mr.. White, be-
fore leaving Des Moines, was asked, it
is said, whether or not he intended to
make his campaign principally on the
silver question. He is represented as
having replied that he did not so in
tend, but would address himself chiefly
to the new issues. He said that he
had not abated any of his silver views,
but nevertheless recognized that the
political orator cannot make the is
sues, and must address himself to
those in which the people at the time
are most interested.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
FRANEY BEATEN TO DEATH.
The Autopsy, However, shows That
He Was Out OF Condition.

San francisco, Aug. 49, By Assoc
ciated Press.)-An autopsy on the re-
mains of Jim Franey, the pugilist,
who died after being knocked out by
Frank Mcconnell. Wednesday night,
shows that his vital organs were dis
'eased and he was in no condition to
enter the ring. He had. however, been
pummelled and beaten to death by.
Mcconnell. The latter, with Others.
connected with the fight, are out on
hail.