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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-02-02
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION.
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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08
Dolliver ana tI,e sena,e.

Emmetsburg Reporter: The Des
Moines papers are worrying consider
ably over what they tenn Congress
man Delivers senatorial aspirations
The Capital declares that he is cam
didate and that he has to be taken into
consideration when, estimates are made
on the senatorial situation. The Regis.
ter takes the other tack aud says that
Mr.. Dolliyer is stalking horse for
Senator Gear. Both of the Cummins
DREAMS of the capital city are mistake
en-. for Mr.. Dolliyer is not an avowed
candidate, neither is he the stalking
horse for Senator Gear in the Tenth
congressional district. If Mr.. Dolli-
yer were candidate he would have
made it known long ago ana his friends
would have put up a vigorous fight for
him, with a good show of winning.
We know not what Mr.. Delivers posi-
ton Is in regard to the senatorial
question, but we do know the position
that his friends take in the Tenih dis
trict, and that position is perfectly
legitimate and logical. 1t is that six
years hence Mr.. Delivers friends Inc
tend to endeavor to make him senator,
and don't propose to put in a man WAC
would be fortified by the patronage of
the Office to more successfully oppose
Mr.. Dolliver at that time. AS to Mr..
Dolliyer's being a stalking horse for
MfasGear, it is all cant and nonsense,
and fEe Register ought to know it.
Let EditSE Clarkson come into north
west Iowa and. get out among the re-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08
senator Gears Promptn 3,

Clinton Herald: The Herald has
heretofore referred to the promptness
and good nature of Senator Gear in
his correspondence with people and
the readiness with which he always
responds to every request. This most
commendable course has made him
hundreds of friends who support him
regardless of other considerations.
This is forcibly brought to mind by a
find yesterday among some old papers.
1t is six page manuscript giving an
outline of an argument against the
excessive use of veto power as exer-
cised by President Cleveland. The let
ter was called out by request from
students at Tilford academy, Vinton,
who were preparing for debate on
the Cleveland vetoes. A request was
made of Senator Gear to give informa-
ton as to where authorities on the
subject could be obtained, it being re-
called that he had at one time while
governor spoken or expressed himself
upon the use and abuse of the veto
power. Instead of merely sending the
Information relative to the authorities,
he wrote ont an argument on the sub
ject. The joke comes in when it is
told that we sent the senator's manu-
script to the students and they return
ed it with the information that nobody
in the school could read it. We had
it copied and that is how ,the original
came to be preserved.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08

One of the noblest and most heroic
deeds of modern times is reported this
week from Chicago. EN-Judge Rich
ard Prendergast lay dying at a hospi-
tai, suffering with pernicious anaemia.
Overwork had robbed his blood of its
vitality and it was not strong enough
to sustain his life. John Morrissey, a
big, strong and brave young man. for
merly private secretary in the Judges
office, heard of his condition. and
learning that the physicians believed
blood TRANSMISSION was the only means
of saving Judge Prendergast's life, vol
UNFAIRLY offered blood from his own
body that the judge might live The
physicians accepted the offer, and the
TRANSMISSION of blood from the wrist
of John Morrissey, through rubber
tube into the arm of Judge Prender-
CAST was performed in Chicago hos
|pitaL For more than an hour Nor
rissey lay on the OPERATING table, and
watched his life blood flow into the
tube that conveyed it into the body of
his old employer. When the operas
ton was finished, he was lifted from
the table, weak but able to walk with
assistance. Such a heroic deed is GER
tainly unusual and stamps Mr., Nor
rissey as a true hero.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08
ACTION NECESSARY.

The citizens of Ottumwa must awak-
len to the necessity of vigorous, definite
and immediate action with reference
to the matter of securing the Dain
Mfg. Co. While the sale of lots so far
has been excellent, yet the fact re-
mains that the crucial period is at
hand, and that the hardest part OF
the work is now before us. There
are 299 lots which must be sold, and
up to this time III have been contract
ed for and marked off. Quite num-
Der more promises are out, but the
parties have not yet selected their
lots. The situation is such that our
citizens must arouse to the necessity
of vigorous, determined and effective
action. 1t is recognized by everyone
who has examined the ground, that
the prices at which these lots are offer.
ed, are so exceedingly reasonable as to
be the occasion of general comment.
When it is considered that no contract
is binding, unless the Dain Manufac-
turing company is located on the
ground, the desirability Of the invest
ment in one of these lots becomes
quickly apparent. The addition of the
Dain Manufacturing company to the
Industrial enterprises of this city,
means SO much for the future of OF
tumwa, that there is no room for ar
gument in discussing the question.
This factory can, and will be, secured
if our citizens come forward and p,lr-
chase the lots, which are being offer
ed at prices that are conceded to be
low, regardless of any new factory,
and which in connection with the new
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08
Have Taken or Tneir Green cl...e,,

Keokuk Gate City: Ottumwa wants
to secure the Dain company and is en-
gagged in selling lots to get it. Out of
the 300 lots, 101 have been sold. So
far there has been no effort to sell the
lots aside from the petition to those
who visited the headquarters of the
Dain company. Henceforth. however,
there will be thirty or forty promi-
nent business men of the city who will
devote their time to selling the lots
and finding possible purchasers. Ten
committees were appointed yesterday,
each committee consisting of three men
Each committee will have certain
number of men to Sc and if they are
unsuccessful, then some other commit
tee can take hold. There was a large
number of lots sold up to last night,
and the committees are greatly en-
couraged. They believe that if they
take hold of the matter right they will
be enabled to close up the whole affair
within month or six weeks. There
is not a business man, or right mind
ed citizen in Ottumwa who does not
want the Dain company to come there,
and it is an assured fact that the Daln
company wants to come.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08
BANK WILL HELP HAWAII.
Perry s. Heath Enthusiastic over His
Venture In the IsIands.


New York, Aug. 5.-Persons in this
city interested in the organization OF
the national bank recently established
at Honolulu are enthusiastic over the
outlook for the new institution. Per-
ry S. Heath, assistant postmaster gem
eral, who is in the city, said:
1--WE have already shipped $75O,O00
in currency with which the bank can
begin business in earnest as soon as
the formalities are complied with. De-
lay has been caused by the omission
to obtain certain signatures to papers,
which are required by the Hawaiian
government before the charter can be
issued. The oversight has been cor
rected. but not in time to carry out
our plans as at first formulated.
Hawaii presents an attractive field
for the employment of banking capi-
tai. Merchants there have never had
adequate banking facilities. There has
not been half enough money in circu-
lation and for years the custom has
been to rediscount paper in San Fran
cisco and New York to meet the de-
mands of local trede. In other words
money has been forwarded from San
Francisco and New York to carry on
the business of the islands. / obtain.
ed the charter for the bank in 1898, in
the belief that the islands would be
ultimately annexed TO the United
States"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08
Driven From De,nocracv.

Davenport Times: Hon. C. S.Ranck,
one of the old line leaders of the DEM
ocratic party in johnson county, was
one of the delegates to the republican
state convention at Des Moipes. This
will be his first appearance in a
state gathering of that party, but it
will not be his last, for he was driven
from the democratic household by the
free silver plank and he proposes to
stay out as long as that issue is the
leading tenet of the party's faith.
That will be as long as Mr.. Bryan will
occupy the saddle, which will be at
least through one more presidential
campaign. The example set by Sena-
tor Ranck is one that should COM
mend itself to the sound money advo-
Gates of Scott county. for it is the
most effective way to hasten the de-
mise of the silver issue and turn the
question over to the political coroner
that the cause of dissolution may be
properly noted and recorded.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08

While the question of the United
States senatorship did not get into the
republican state convention last week,
the friends of Senator Gear and
Mr.. Cummins We're actively on the
alert and there was some pretty spar
ring to prevent either side from gain
ing an advantage. Itlooked for a few
moments as if the contest over the
Judgship would bring the senatorial
question to the front; but the efforts
OF the Cummins men to gain some
slight advantage in this matter were
overmatched by the Gear forces with
consummate tact, and if any advantage
accrued to either candidate, it was Sc
cured by the Gear party. The two
decisive acts which made Judge Sher-
wins nonina ton certain were, first,
the action of Van Buren, county, the
home of Judge Sloan, in withdrawing
its support from the latter on the
third ballot and giving it solidly for
the victor, and second, when Senator
Gear, as chairman OF the Des Moines
county delegation, gave nearly the en-
tire vote of that county to Judge Sher-
win early in the fourth ballot. Then
it was a race between the Gear and
Cummins men, outside of the Fifth and
Eleventh districts, to see who could
contribute the most towards the sue
cess of Judge Sherwin.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08
"DoLcE FAR NIENTE..
SWEET IDLENEss."

A dreamy lake, balmy air,
Nor winds enough to drift my boat,
Which rests among the islands fair,
And with them seems almost to float.
Between the hemispheres of light,
Scare outlined by the azure hue,
While mountains to their utmost
height.
Are family outlined in the blue.
Within my boat the oars are drawn;
They shall not break the CLASSY
lake,
As often in the early dawn
They bend and leave silvery wake.
Reclining as would in sleep,
With eyes cast vaguely towards the
shore,
Or watching languidly the deep,
While resting on the waiting oar.
Here ] would live within this vale of
mists,
Which slumber on the air,
And dim the distant drooping sail,
While drift on without a care.
IS. K. B.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08
DEFINITION of Enterpri.e.

Keosauqua Republican,: Charley
Walsh is back at Ottumwa again. He
says he walked through snow and over
ice in bitter cold weather, distance
of 600 miles, while journeying to the
states from the Klondike gold fields
to attend the recent free silver con-
clave at Chicago, leaving his gold mine
in the care of his partner, Mr.. Stewart.
His partner digs the gold while Char
ley stays here as secretary of
the national democratic COM
mittee and shouts for 16 to 1 free sill
yer. That's enterprise and he is bound
to make quite mark in the world
he is a product of Van Buren, county.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08
Brave Men Fan

Victims to. stomach, liver and kidney
troubles as well as women. and all feel
the results. in loss OF appetite, poisons
in the blood, backache. nervousness,
headache and tired, listless, rundown
feeling. But there's no need to feel
like that. Listen to j. w. Gardner,
tdayille, Ind. He says: Electric Bit-
tiers are lust the thing for man when
he is all run down, and don't care
whether he lives or dies. 1t did more
to give me new strength and good ap-
petite than anything could take. I
can now eat anything and have new
lease on life" Only SO cents, at Clark
q Mollison's drug store. Every bottle
guaranteed. ..
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08
some Con,parisons,

Burlington Hawkeye: The yellow
press has laid so much stress upon the
alleged loss OF life of the American
troops in the Philippines that a COM
parison of the mortality of the Oregon
regiment, just returned home from
Manila, with the Fifty-second Iowa,
which did not leave the United States,
is pertinent to the discussion. The
Oregon regiment lost forty-nine men
during its one year of arduous service.
The Iowa regiment was in camp at
Chickamaugua three months and lost
thirty-nine men. This corroborates
the experience of the civil war that
camp life is more dangerous than act
i've service. 1t also reinforces other
evidence that military life in the Phil
ippines is not essentially more un-
healthy, because of climatic conditions
than in other countries. The health
of our troops there, despite the heat
and rains, has been exceptionally good.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08
The following splendid endorsement

The following splendid endorsement
of Iowa's governor is from the Chicago
Mmes-Herald:
Governor Leslie NJ. Shaw's unani-
nous denomination by the republicans
of Iowa is the fitting tribute to the
governors courage and abilities. While
Iowa may have had as able executives,
| not in recent years has she had q
governor who has stood out before
the whole nation as the embodiment OF
political courage as has Mr.. Shaw. 1t
is to his clear perception of the mani
fold advantages of a sound and stable
| currency and to his fearless refusal to
listen to any compromise with repudia-
| alton that the west owes its salvation
from. the stigma of coquetting with
false weights and values.
Wherever Governor Shaw has APP
peared in Iowa he put new courage in
to the hearts of believers in the single
gold standard. Unlike the majority of
politicians, he had convictions on the
subject. They were built on the single
standard plan and admitted of no va
ration to suit the shifting winds of po-
litical expediency.
IF any hating Thomas doubts
whether it pays to have convictions and
courage in politics let him study the
career of Leslie M. Shaw. His success
| is not due to exceptional brilliancy or
circumstances. 1t is traceable to the
Straightforward and undertaking nature
of the mans convictions. His mind is
tsingularly free from decisions and his
record is correspondingly free from
those conyolutions which mark the
demagosues efforts to make his acts
and speech tally.
"As Iowa stands on this question so
stand the great central states of the
west. of which at this time it is the
mirror and Governor Shaw the mouth
1 piaoa -
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08
A wheel Within !. Mheel.

Davenport Democrat: The Gear men
at Des Moines yesterday We're courte-
GUS to the supporters of Mr.. Cummins
to the extent of being chivalrous. They
showed that they had little or no fear
of the Des Moines candidate for Unit
ed States senator, and they were will
ing to please Mr.. Cummins SO far as
they could consistently do so. F.NY.Bick-
nell, one of the best informed of the
capital city correspondents, says that
Mr.. Cummins really wants to be sena-
tor, but what he is really working for
us to get before the party in such a
way that he can have the nomination
for governor two years hence. There
is most always q wheel within a
wheel.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08

factory, are recognized as safe and
most desirable Investments, purely
from an investment standpoint. But
the number of lots to be sold is large,
and this project cannot be carried to
a successful conclusion unless every
business man and property holder,
arises to an appreciation of the situa-
ton and does his share towards bring
ing about a successful outcome of this
matter People cannot encourage this
project by talk. There must be ac-
ton, and that action directly in the
line of at once picking out and pur-
chasing lot.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08

President McKinleys name was
cheered and re-cheeredsto the echo, at
the republican state convention last
week, so much so that Chairman Pick
ett paused in his address to say, what
better evidence of the esteem and love
of the people for our president" The
names of Dewey and Roosevelt were
occasions for other great outbursts OF
applause. When Chairman Pickett
reached that portion of his address
where he said, "The resurrection in the
Philippine Islands will be put down
this question Of expansion will be solved
by the people, and solved right-the
flag 81 the United States will never, be
lowered where it has once been raised, y
the applause that greeted these senti-
ments was deafening. and clearly indi-
Gated the feeling of the majority of re-
pubiicans upon this matter.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08
oLp-TIME RErAIL. PRICES.

Rev. j. NJ. McElroy, of this city,
while going over some old memoranda
and accounts the other day, ran across
an expense account kept by him from
1862 to 1866, and jotted down the fol-
lowing items as an example of what
was paid for ordinary necessities in
those DAYS:
1S62-December 3, coal oil, one-half
gallon. 63 cents. Bought COW and calf,
$13. Ton of coal, $3.50.
lS63vJuly ~, one gallon coal oil,
Toe; October "a, eight bushels potatoes,
$500; October 20, gallon coal oil, Sl.OO;
November 81, pound black tea, $1.35;
thirty bushels coal at 12A cents,
$3.75.
1854 Twelve yards calico at 22A cents,
S2.70. June 3, paddock, IS cents; bug
gy whip, So cents; shoeing horse, $500;
ten yards lawn, $3.50; one yard drill
ing, As cents; one set hoops, $500;
eleven yards delaine, $40; fifty pounds
flour, $3.50; seven pounds nails, n
cents; twelve pounds nails, $1.20.
September s, one hundred pounds
flour, $500; 10 yards flannel at Csc,
$s.45. October IS, five bushels potatoes,
$500; ten bushels apples, S12.50; bride
bit, IS cents; one gallon coal oil, $1.20.
1S65-January 10, four pounds cof-
fee, $500; tea pot, $1.00; June "a,
federal tax, $11.05; five and half
wards muslin, "a inches wide, $1.90;
fourteen yards calico, at % cents, $3.OS.
1s66-May 3, tub, S1.75; tea kettle,
$1.75; coffee pot, rs cents. June %,
federal tax, $22.55; one kit fish, $3.50.
Aug. 81, dining table, $21.00; one
pound tea, $1.20; barrel flour, 5000;
drayage, 40 cents; package corn starch,
30 cents; six and a half yards flannel,
at rs cents, $4.Ss.
Wages OF laborers, $1.5O to $500;
carpenters, $3.50; shingles, oak, Soap
creek, $500 per NJ; best pine, $500;
lath, $500 per Nj; siding, $3.50 to $500;
finishing lumber, $3.50. (Then haul
your lumber to the planning mill, pay
for dressing, then haul home. Plaster
ing church, corner Fourth and Green
streets in 1866, cost $520.39, or go cents
per yard.
If the reader will compare some of
the prices of those early days with the
present prices on the same articles,
it will not take long to learn that liv-
ing is much cheaper now than then.
For instance, take coal oil. In 1868,
'AiiSh fNeS NoiiAE liz Nui, IaSN. -hSi1i-
roy paid a dollar a gallon for oil, which
is now to be had for from 10 to 10
cents per gallon. An in those days
there was no Standard Oil trust, but
competition. A paddock which he paid
rs cents for can now be bought for
from 10 to 25 cents. Black tea, which
he paid $1.35 for, can now be had for
from 40 to so cents. Twenty-Five cents
per yard he paid for calico, which can
now be purchased anywhere for from
3H to ) cents per yard. And all the
other articles mentioned are in the
same proportion.
There is certainly food for refec-
tion in the comparison of these prices.
OF course it must be taken into con-
sideration that war times existed in, the
'6os, and the people paid wartime
prices, but even then we have for the
past year been in the midst of war,
and the only change in prices, is the
war revenue stamps required in bust
ness, which as a general rule, are not
SO heavy that they have raised prices
to any extent.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08

IF 10 to I is abandoned there is
nothing left to talk about in the sill
yer question:" says the democratic
Huntington Gazette, which further de-
clares: There never was anything
in it except the idea of an arbitrary RAJ
ito of s16 to /. y Why attempt to
revive political corpse? The mo-
ment we Tin Iowa), like Indiana,
frankly and honestly abandon this
whole silver issue, which has led to
one overwhelming defeat and will
surely lead to another, that moment
may we hope for a reunited party and
victory. Give us a chance to fight
something besides a political wind
mill"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08

There is more than the usual amount
of sadness in the announcement that
Clara Barton, the founder. and head OF
the Red Cross society, has broken down
from overwork and the terrible strain
under which she has lately been labor
ing during the war, and is unable to
continue the work. No nobler woman
ever lived than Clara Barton, and no
monument will be required to perpet-
uate her memory. Her epitaph will
be forever written in the grand good
work her society has accomplished,
and the love and sympathy OF every
American man, woman and child will
go out to her in her affliction. She has
truly won the title of the angel of the
Battlefield
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-08
President Mckinley had better recall

President Mckinley had better recall
General Otis at once. Why? Because
the editor of the Bloomfield Democrat
says so. He (the editor) has read
james Creelman's screedy criticism of
the general and says shat the repu-
tation of Creelman is such that there
is no question of veracity." Whether
the editor enjoys personal acquaint-
ance with Mr.. Creelman is not stated,
but after reading the correspondents
story about how the mighty Creel-
mans manuscript was blue-penciled
by General Otis, something which he
has not had happen to. him in many
the administration is engaged in a war
Of conquest which does not meet the
approval of the people. and is endeav-
oring to withhold from them the truth
concerning the fearful sacrifices that
are being made" What rot.