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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-04

ANNOUNCEMENT.
To the People of Ottun1va and Vicinity:

To the People of Otumwa and Vicinity
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the road Otumwa By the
goods prices
they have been offered during this by their special
sentative
perfectly confident offering Instruments
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purchased than those made this
antee of fine years IS Always given with every instrument Sold
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yet presents ITSELF woud like the store e
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K. S. FIELD.
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11

of but one member of the cOntesting delegation is so far given publicity. It is that of Frank McClintock, a resident of Phoenix. but the holder of a proxy from Joel White of Santo Domingo, one of the precincts created by the creden-
 tials committee last Wednesday. How Mir. McClintock came in possession of this proxy has filled Joseph Alexander with curiosity. There used to be a man by the name of Joel White living at Santo Domingo but he left there thir- teen months ago and there is said to be no man in Arizona who knows where he went or if he is living anywhere now. When the credentials committee came to making up the new precincts White was tEe last man who could be remem- bered IS a resident of that place. He was accordingly appointed and his proxy was given to Logan Rives Now Joseph Alexander wonders how and where Frank McClintock found this more or less fictitious Joel White. when the whole credentials committee could only guess at his postOffice address. Frank McClintOck has been for many years a constable of this precinct and has acquired the reputation of being q sleuth. The assigning of MT. McClin- tock to Santo Domingo was somewhat of a sarcastic joke. but the delegation as whole has been constructed with great seriousness.
 As has been stated, the contest is based mainly upon the work of the ere dentials committee in building up the precincts of Santo Domingo. Arizona Falls, Verde. New River, and the Os- borne Copper mines; giving an extra delegate each to Orme, Osborn. Alma. and District IA. and allowing the newly credited delegates to vote upon the question of their creation and allowing contests in District 31 and Kyrene to vote upon their own admission to tha convention
 There are allegations beside of minor Irregularities.
 Whether the contestants will succeed tomorrow or not, the Wilson folks think so, and the Smith people are somewhat apprehensive. It all depends upon whether the Wilson majority is suf- fciently partisan; whether it will let its favoritism of Colonel Wilson or it's
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11

bling the hearts of a majority of the survivors. With the ghastliness of the great loss before them the people for q
 moment Were paralyZed. Fifteen men were all that escaped out of a full com pany stationed at Beach barracks. At 11:30 Sunday morning the waters had receded from all portions of the city save the streets near the bay front, which still contained two to four feet of water. At the union depot Baggage Master Harding picked up the life less form of d baby girl. The parents are supposed to have been lost All the windows are out and portions of the walls of the depot were blown down. Escape during the storm was impOs- sible, as the building was surrounded by water twelve feet deep.
 Six great ocean steamers lie stranded along the beach. The big dredge. Texas City, was driven inland half mile and never can be returned to the water eX- ccpt in pieces. The steamer Pensacola put to sea in the face of the gathering storm and is believed to be lost. with her crew of thirty-siX Three grain elevators and the ReymerschOff mill are wrecks. The Moody Bank building is unroOfed. The engine room of the Ire mont hotel caVed in: the power house of the street railroad was destroyed. No wires of any sort are left and the streets are a mass of tangled debris in every direction.
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11
WILsON-sMITH CONTEST
The Former Is Confident and the
 Latter Apprehensive.

One can not safely say that ne is out of the woods until he has passed be- yond the range of a rifle in the hands of a man concealed behind the last tree. The game is not out until the last card is played. Nil desperandum.
 ''Mehercule!" cried the cOuntryman as he dropped the mouse and looked at his lacerated finger. Nothing is t0 be despised because it is weak. These mottoes aphorisms and fable are here introduced for the edification of the friends of Hon. Marcus A. Smith, who believed, as everybody else in Arizona believed last Wednesday night, except Judge w. H. Barnes of Tucson, and two or three others. that everything was all over but the shouting and that MT. Smith was clearly nominated delegate to congress. His formal nomination was expected to be made in just one week from that date.
 The next day there was talk of con- testing delegation, but it was not coun- tenanced by Colonel Wilson, for word having come the day before that Gra- ham had instructed for Smith, the last hope lay in Gila. Everything else had gone so unexpectedly wrong that Col onel Wilson expected Gila would rather contribute to his disaster or neglect to instruct for him. 1n either event d contest would be useless. Last Sat- urday night word came from Globe that the thirteen delegates from Glla hau been instructed for Wilson. counting upon a defectiOn of two Smith delegates from Cochise this clearly gave Wilson a majority of eight, leaving the per sonneI of the Maricopa county dele- gation out of the question. II was then and there settled that there would be a contest.
 In fact the movement had already so far progressed that the contesting dele ga,tion had been named, though the name of only one member has been made public.
 Judge James Reilly of Tombstone ar rived in the city yesterday morning He is a member of the Cochise count! delegation, and has two proxies Se- curely pinned in his upper left vest nocket. abou. 3-16 of an inch from his heart. He keeps feeling of that pocket whenever he thinks of those proNleS and makes the papers rustic, thus sat isfying himself that they are there' Judge Reilly has lived in Tombstone a great many years a contemporary or Our Mark" He early became not an admirer of MT Smith and preached against the idolatry of Cochise county. The first and only tangible result or all these years of preaching is pinned within his upper left vest pocket Ihefe will thus. including Judge Reilly's own, be three votes cast in the territorlal convention tomorrow in favor of any proposition not in the interest of Mir Smith.
 Thus the vote will stand:
 For Smith-Coconino, :; Yuma. D; Pinal, B. Pima, II; Santa Cruz, 4; Co., chise, Il; Graham, 17-60.
 For Wilson-Yavapai, 34; Mohave. 9; Navajo, 6; Apache, 4; Gila, 13; Cochise, 3-69
 For who can get them-MaricOpa "3.
 It has been mentioned that the name
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11
AWFUL DETAILS
 (Continued From FIrst Page.)

steamer stranded, death and destruc- tion on every hand. is the latest sum mary of the situation at Galveston There is hardly a habitable house in the city and every business house is damaged
 The storm commenced between 9 and 10 o'clock on Saturday morning and by noon the waters of the gulf had inun- dated the island as far inland as Twelfth street. At D. m. there were three feet of water in the Hobbies of the Fremont hotel. the highest point of the city. At the water on Market street was level with the seats of the street cars.
 When the wind reached a velocity of eighty-four miles an hour the instru- ments of the government observatory were wrecked. Seven hundred people cOngregated in the city hall were more or less injured. A Man from Lucas Terrace reports a loss of fifty lives in d building from which he escaped.
 A correspondent of the Associated Press counted sixty bodies in a space of one block. From St Mary's infirn- ary only eight persons escaped alive. The total number of patients and nurses usually aggregate about 100. Rodenburg school. selected as place Gf refuge, collapsed ami but few under the roof escaped. Police Officer John Bowie. recently voted the most popular officer in the city, was met by the correspol- dent. The toes of both feet were brok- en- his ribs caved in and his head bat tered. Tt is nothing" he said. My house. wife and children are in the gulf and I have nothing to live for"
 lie but voiced the sentiment grap-
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11

the cloud of dust way back. were 5rail- IEg behind in a blackboard. They reached the mines. but sec ing the judge and his men had made camp in the town. concluded that their show had scared him and a dance was given that night to rejoice over their success. As the judge desired to take considerable evidence bearing on the criminal aspect of the case, he took his own time and for four days. kept the Greene people guessing. Every time he or his soldiers made a move, away the Greene men would go, mounted and armed. to the mines. which are about q mile from the present Greene camp, where the judge established his head quarters.
 Tuesday, after sundown. Chief Com missary Ynclan, with the fifteen mounted police. suddenly made a move for the mines. taking the road. Tn Greene men, whose horses were sat- dl,' day and night. by taking the trail arrived at the mines and with the men who have been emp ing there for months. the Greene n'an ou;numbered the mounted police ven to one. but the whole republic of MeNico was behind those fifteen m II and they took posse ssion of the mir C.sily.
 he mounted police kept guard oyer he mines that night and the next morning the cOmmissary turned them over t7 Lindsay & Curtis for the InGi~ ana syndicate. A large force of men was immediately put to work. while the Greene men quietly retreatcd, leaving Lindsay and the Indiana syn dicate in full pOsssssion."
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11
THE CANANEA TROUBLE
The Indiana Syndicate Is Put in
 Possession.

The Republican some time ago pub | l.shed an account of contest by force
 betws en w. C. Greene ana an Indiana syndicate over a group known us the
 Lindsay claims at Canarca. \ l. tcr
 recently received in Phoenix "scl .Jcs
 the end of the contes st as follows:
 Greene wss called by the Mexican
 officials last Wednesday a the La Ca
 ranea camp. Since last wint-r, by an
 armed force of irresponsible Americans
 and MeXicans. Greene has h lG thr Lindsay min= in that camp. wL.,l MT. Lindsay, an American citizen.
 had held undisputed possession of
 under patents of the Mexican govern
 ment for nearly two years previous.
 Greene sought to compel Lindsay to
 Sell the mine to the Greene COnsOli-
 dated Copper company. Greene in
 cluGed the principal Lindsay mine i'r
 his Greene Consolidated prospectus
 The two principal mines described in
 this prospectus are the La S4Urtia ard La Ultema.
 "The ore bodies described in the prospectus as being in the La Ssurtia gre said to be. in fact. the ore bodies in the Lindsay La Eureka tunnel and the ore bodies as described in La
 Ultema the ore bodies found in the Lindsay la Sierra de Cobre.
 This did not scare away capitalists. for an Indiana and Chicago syndicate composed of such men as Editor Morse cf the Indianapolis Sentin5I. and ex- Consul-General to Paris Mayor Tag gerC, Hugh McGowan, president ard general manager of the Indianapolis street railway; Dr. Jamieson of the same railroad company: Crawford Fairbanks Of Terre Haute; H. Wason and John McCarty, eX-commis. sioner of public works of Chicago, af ter personally inspecting the ground and after the attorneys had passed on the titles. bought the mines from Lind say & Curtis.
 However, the Greene people, through Mitchell, White & Johnson. boasted of having forty men from Texas. each of whom was equal to seven Mexican sol dters. With these men they would hold the mines against the world. One day last week the judge Of Acizpe l quietly arrived in the camp with only fifteen mounted police to eject the ! Greene people from the Lindsay mines | Only fifteen men, they answered: we | will have no trouble to stand them off, ] and, immediately the road from the ! Cobre Grande camp to the Lindsay | mines became a cloud of dust. for tho | Greene people, from George s. Rob, | bins down to Martinez's 'Comouens' were immediately mounted and Id by | Martinez. Johnson bringing up the rear with imitation Apache war whoops | while Mitchell and Sheriff Scott White | Of Cochise county, Arizona, eclipsed in i
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11
THE DAMAGE AT HOUSTON.

Houston, Tex. Sept 1O.-The Ma sonic temple wrecked. and many other buildings damaged. with a total loss of $oOO,OOO, and one life, is the record of the storm at Houston. Not a house escaped damage. All the school build inSs were unroOfed, the tower of the Methodist church was blown down and the walls of St. Marks Episcopal church collapsed. The Capital hotel sustained damage of $15,0O the Lawler hotel $20,O0O and Hutchins ho- tel $l0,0OO, Merchants and Planters oil mill unrOofed and the Dickson car wheel works a mass of debris
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11
ON A BENDER.

Bella-I was on the beach and I met MT. Kulture. I was never so ashamed in my life.
 Edith-I shouldn't think you'd care. I'm sure your bathing suit covers you pretty well.
 Bella-Oh, it wasn't the bathing suit. I didn't have my glasses on. It seemed so immodest to be without them.-Boston Transcript.
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11

idea of fairness carry it to the extent Of Gisresarding the final result on NOVem- Der 6. 1t is said by the Wilson men that Mark Smith can not now be elected and the Mark smith men say that Wilson, nominated as a result of this contest would certainly be defeated
 MT. Smith arrived from the south yes terday morning and Colonel Wilson was expected to come in by freight last night
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11

Rats are fine swimmers. They are nearly as much at hone in a swollen stream as they are in tie placid cellar of a well stocked mansion. In fact the whole rodent family, including mice. squirrels. and other species, learn to make themselves at home in the water when necessity requires it.
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11
A MISANTHROPE.

Bowery-Staggers- a feller's down everybody tries to shove him down further.
 Pell Mell-Huh, You talk like some body's been offering you de vice presi- dency.-Puck
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11
AN APPEAL FOR AID.

Houston, Sept 1O.-An appeal for aid for Galveston has been issued from here. Mayor s. H. Brashear and B. A. Reisner, chairman of the relief commit ice. will reeve contributions.
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11
THE RED CROSS READY.

Washington, Sept. 1O.-Clara Barton wires Governor Savers of Texas: Do you need the Red Cross? We are ready
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11
THE PRESIDENTS OFFER.

Washington, Sept. 1O.-The president has wired the governor of Texas that he will instruct the secretary of war to furnish tents and provisions for flood sufferers.
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11
PUTTING OFF DUNS.

Ella-The gentleman who lodges above appears very attentive to you"
 Bella-"Ah. yes: I am even engaged to him. But yet I am tortured with doubt. Would that I knew whether he loves me for myself alone.'
 ElIa-"But why in the world should he marry you otherwise?''
 Bella-"Well. to tell the truth, he owes my mother six months rent."-St. Louis Globe-DemOcrat.
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11
A BULLETIN OF DEATH.

Dallas. Sept. 1O.-The Houston 6 Texas Central railroad officials received a bulletin at noon announcing that the loss of life in Galveston would reach 5000,
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11

went up 43 to 61 points this morning and the excitement on the exchange was almost unparalleled.
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11
EFFFCT ON THE MARKET

New York, Sept. 1O.-As a result of the storm the damage to cotton in Texas is estimated at 1,000000 bales. Cotton
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11

altar-but his leadership is apt to end there.
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11

DIFFICULTIES GIVE WAY to diI- igence," and all blood humors disap- pear when Hoods Sarsaparilla is taken. It purifies, enriches and vitalizes the blood, cures that tired feeling, and tones up the whole system. Take it now.
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11
PREMO CAMERAS ARE USED BY TIE Best Photographers

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Arizona republican., 1900-09-11

The non-irritating cathartic-Hood's 8 Pills.
Arizona republican., 1900-09-11
DO THESE LOOK GOOD TO YOU?

15c 1 pound Arbuckle C,ffee.
 10c l can best standard Corn or Tomatoes.
 $1.1O 10 pounds pure Leaf Lard.
 13c l pound Eastern Bacon.
 48c l pound Star Tobacco. t
 30: l pound very best Chewing Tobacco.
 45c 1 pound Schillings B. Powder.
 25c l pound M. & J. Coffee.
 10c l can Sardfnes.
 65c 1 dozen Pint Fruit Jars.
 85c ] dozen Quart Fruit Jars.
 1Oc 1 can Evaporated Creams. These are the prices that make them dizzy and crowds the Store that's Al ways Busy. MCKEE'S CASH STORE Pemb.rton block, opposite sourt house. EsIsphons 2ss.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-04-18
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

If anything had been lacking to
make a perfect metropolitan newspaper
of the ST. PAUL DISPATCH, the want
was entirely filed when it completed
arrangement for the special foreign
cable service which is now Frightening
its columns. 1t is really astonishing
how the recent war with Spain has
developed the American thirst for the
news of the world. 1t placed America
in q new position with regard to the
rest of the earth and gave new inn
portance to the events of the world at
large. If the movements of foreign
powers were once of interest, they be-
came doublv so when America rose
into place as world power. The st.
Paul Dispatch recognized this when it
secured this cable service, with its
news from first hands. No longer is
London the sole source of all European
news, and no longer Is the news of the
world filtered through British chan
nels and tinted with English ideas.
1t comes to the Dispatch straight from
each European center and without
bias or perjudice. This will be graft
flying to all intelligent people of the
Northwest, particularly so to that
large foreign-born element which de-
lights in information direct from the
fatherland. The Dispatch has secured
resident correspondent in every large
city on earth, who uses both cable and
mail in sending in every news event OF
interest and all public gossip that is
dear to the heart of the newspaper
reader. In the past six years the Dis
patch has made great strides to the
front and is today recognized as the
greatest evening newspaper Of the
northwest.
The subscription price being so small
it puts daily paper in reach of every
body. Send % cents for one month!
trial subscription to st. Paul Daily
Dispatch, st. Paul, MINI.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-04-18

4
| Mrs. Jos. Morton is over from Cal
mar, visiting friends.
Mrs. John Barton left for st. Pau
and Crookston, Mimi, Monday for {
visit
WIN. Poured went to Dubuque
yesterday, 70 act as an interpreter in a
trial.
"A. F. Smith came up from Wau-
coma last Wednesday, for brief visit
visit with friends.
The Fourth Ward republicans will
hold caucus at Hose House No. 2, at
7:3O p. m, May 4th.
Mrs. Helga Hoksrud, of Superior,
Wis, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Ole
Johnson, of Canoe township.
Mrs. Lewis Blodgett was called to
Usage Saturday by the illness of her
daughter, Miss Garlic, who is attend
ing the Seminary at that place.
Ben Bear, H. c. Hjerleid and Sam
Rosa went to western Minnesota Mon
day, to look over the land in that Sec
ton, with the prospect of making pur-
chases.
M. l.. Webster, of Castalia, was
brought to DEBORAH Monday by Sheriff
Christen, and adjudged insane by the
commissioners, and taken to Indepen-
dence by Deputy Otto Olson Monday
afternoon.
"A change of time on the Milwaukee
of the night train, to depart at IL 90 p.
M, is reported. Also change on the
Burlington, to arrive at one and depart
at two o'clock. These changes will
take effect in the near future.
When you give $3.50 to your local
paper just bear in mind that you are
not only getting your moneys worth,
but are contributing that much to the
upbuildiug of your city and county, for
nothing does more for the general adj
vancement of locality than its news
papers.
Long Beach, CAL, Press, March
10Th: Hon. H. A. Bigelow, one of the
most prominent citizens of DEBORAH,
Iowa, and one of the best known men
in his part of that state, has been Wis
iting in Long Beach for some weeks.
During his stay he has not failed to
keep the home people posted as to what
he is seeing ard the following are a few
of the good things he has been saying
about us ia the DEBORAH PUBLIC
OPINION: X
Ordinance No. 1877, passed by the
city council on the 18th inst, provides
against depositing refuse on the streets
or alleys of the city, as indicated by the
following title: Gan ordinance to regu-
late and prohibit the placing or depos-
iting of Paper, Straw, Hay or other rub
bish in the streets or alleys, and to regu-
late and prohibit the burning or des-
truction of the same on or in such
streets or alleys" The penalty for
disobedience of this ordinance is fine
of from 81 to $40 or imprisonment in
the county Jail for non-payment at the
ratio of one day for each SS5 of said
fine.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-04-18
Magic Towns.

To one whose life has been spent il
an old and thickly settled community
the sights and scenes attendant upon
the opening mp of q new country pos.
sess every element of novelty. Towns
spring up in open fields or on unfenced
prairie seemingly in single night;
elevators, lumber yards, farm machin-
cry warehouses, stores of all descrip-
tons, restaurants, banks, livery stables
and residences appear as If by magic,
| and the traveller, returning after short
absence, can scarcely credit his own
eyesight.
Such has been the history of the new
towns located along the Worthington-
Wilmont- Hardwick extension of the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern,
Cedar Rapids Route" which line was
projected and surveyed last summer
and partially completed and equipped
with train service the 10Th of Deem
Der. Two rapidly growing towns,
Reading and Wilmot, are now located
on this line and with the completion
of the road to Hardwick, two more
new towns will be built. The road
penetrates the heart of Southern Min
nesOta's richest wheat belt in Mobiles
and Rock counties, the farming COM
munities through which it runs are
exceedingly prosperous and the new
towns which have come into being the
past three months are assured from The
very start of an excellent trade with
wealthy and well established farming
community.
1t seems almost incredible that these
towns, started as they were in the dead
of winter, should enjoy the growth
which has been theirs. Within three
months and with the frost not yet out
of the ground, they have acquired all
the essentials of prosperous business
communities and have as well made
provision for church, Sunday School
and school work The opening up of
these new towns and of this new line
of road presents to the ambitious man
many opportunities for advancement
that are not to be found in the older
communities. Hustling business men,
talented professional men and exper-
fenced farmers are wanted in that sec
ton and will find it to their advantage
to locate there. The opportunities are
legion and force themselves on one at
every side. There is no question but
that this extension of the b., G.. r. &
N. will prove one of the most popular
and profitable that the road has ever
built, and Assistant General Passenger
and Ticket Agent John q. Farmer is
daily in receipt of letters of inquiry
from those contemplating locating or
investing in this territory.