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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-04
CENSUS OF CITIES.
Population of Towns Having Less
Than $4,000

Washington, Dec 4.-The population of
INCORPORATED places in Kansas having n
population of more than 1000, but less
fha n 25 900 in 1900 is as follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-04
.RAIN-O
THE FOOD DRINK ~

Coffee Injuries growing
children, even when it is
weakened. Grain-O gives
them brighter eyes, frmer
flesh, quicker intelligence
and happier dispositions.
They can drink all they
want of Grain-O-the
more the better-and it
tastes like coffee.
~ R0sas; lss. and CSC.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-04
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.
Two Butler County Farmers in a
Fight-One Will Die.

Ell Dorado, Dec. 4.-Crit Elder, far
mer living near Bodarc, it is alleged,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-04
MISSOURI PACIFIC LINES
FROM KANSAS CITY.

veibued
Smoking Reclining Chair
ST. with eastern lines for New York
and Atlantic points
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-04
JOHN l. OUT AGAIN.

Ex-Champion Leaves Hospital After
a Sixty Day Sojourn.
New York, Dec. 4.-Ex-champion John
l. Sullivan is out of the hospital and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-04

Everybody reads the State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-04

Wen send you little my If you Ike.
SCOTT & BOVINE, 4os Pearl street. Nsv York
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19
Pleasant Birthday Party.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Hasting pleas
antly entertained number Of their
friends and relatives at birthday
dinner, Sunday afternoon. at the
home of Mrs. Hastings sister, Mrs.
A. Erb, on Sycamore street. Music
and social conversation were the
chief enjoyments of the day. Ice
cream and cake were served, and all
present declared their host and host
ess royal entertainers. At a late hour
all departed wishing Mrs. Hasting
many happy returns. Those present
were: Messrs. and Mesdames w. T..
Parker, H. Erb, 3. Erb, A. Erb; Miss
es Ida Lindquist, Fannie Crawford,
Helen Badgley, Fannie Erb, Virgie
Badgley; Messrs. Pearl Rodgers, Rob.
ert Brooks, George Johnson, James
Erb, Ben Johnson.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19
100000 Per Day.

The Conservative: There is an ex-
porter of American products who gets
each twenty-four hours more than a
hundred Thousand dollars in gold from
the 'blarsted foreigners" This Amer
lean gold-getter in Europe is exceed
ingly well equipped for business and
has been growing more and more eff
Gent as home-bringer of gold for ten
years. During that term of years this
grabber of English, German, French
and other alien gold has, no doubt, av-
eraged a hundred thousand dollars a
day. 1t has ships by the score, and
cars and tanks by the hundreds, and
thus it has assaulted the oil trade of
all the world, and driven Russia and
other oil producers from the markets
by selling oil of better quality and at
lower rates than anybody else.
This is the Standard Oil company.
This is combination Of energy, brains
and capital which the attorney general
of Nebraska is trying to drive out of
the state SO as to make an opportunity
for candle factory. The crime Of
brains, intelligent management and
capital combined, to make an article of
common use among plain people cheap
er, must be punished. Put out the oil
and light the candle
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19
FEEDING THE WORLD.

Exports of provisions from the Uni
ted States during the fiscal year about
to end will exceed those of any pre-
vious year. The total will be fully
$1S0,000,000, thus averaging a half
million dollars day, and SURPRISING
the phenomenal record achieved by
that record-breaking year, 1899. For
the eleven months ending with May,
1900, the total exports of provisions,
including meat and dairy products, is
$166, 707,S94, against $159,37S,603 for
1.-THE corresponding period of the fiscal
year 1899. Of this large sum, the
principal items are: Lard, with to-
tai export during the eleven months
of $3S,691, 900; bacon, with total of
$35,47S,O00; hams, $1S,192,0OO; pork,
$9,459,000; oleomargarine, $4,000
and beef. $7.555, 900.
American beef is finding an enlarg-
ed market abroad, especially in the
United Kingdom, France, Africa, and
the Orient. Comparing the exports of
the eleven months ending with May,
1900, with those of the same months
of 1899. it is found that the United
Kingdom increased her purchases of
canned beef from 81, $4,000 to $685.
900; France increased hers from $751;
057 to $117,254, while Germany show
ed a slight decrease. the value falling
from $2S1,942 in 1899 to $241, 56S, rep
resenting a shrinkage of a half million
pounds in the volume of exports. To
Asia and Oceanica the increase was
from S15s.0OO to 100000, and to At
RIGA, from $437, 722 to $1,033,700, rep
resenting an increase in quantity of
exports of more than 100000 over
1899. In the export of fresh beef, the
principal increases are to the United
Kingdom with total of $26,113,9
as against $20,830,949 in 1899, and to
the West Indies which took in 1900 a
total of $3S9,039, as against less than
one-tenth of that amount in 1899,
when the total was but, s34,O27.
In hog products, including pork,
hams, bacon and lard, no marked in
creases occur the figures for 1900
scarcely eaualling those of the pre-
vious year. 1t is gratifying to OBJ
serve, however, that our export trade
in cheese is showing evidences of re-
vival, the total for the eleven months
showing an increase of 100000
pounds, representing value of over
$1,1C0,000 over that of last year. For
1899 the total was less than that OF
1898, being .3O,995,6s2 pounds, valued
at $2,7O5,24o; for 1900 the total is
36,795,124, valued at $3,S09,S53. or
this increase practically the entire
amount was in our exports to the
United Kingdom, whose share of the
total was 33,O00,OOO pounds, valued at
$3,423,OOO, against 100000 pounds,
valued at $1,500,000 last year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19

tude, altho you differed from me in
the matter of my. purpose to support
President Mckinley. You propose to
do evil that good may come. do
not
Winslow's letter that called for this
rebuke by Senator Hoar contained the
following: ~
But you, sir, have chosen the part
in your change of attitude, not even
of fair opponent of him who reared
up the standard of liberty, which yon
emblazoned, but of one who maligns
his character and denies his personal
honesty. Americans are not much in
f1uenced by this kind of attack. Espe-
cially is the moment badly chosen for
it when the object of your invective
has just convinced the people of his
inflexible sincerity by refusing, as it
We're, to cast even the grain of incense
on the altar. and thus to compromise
his convictions thru consent to what
was speciously urged as merely YER
bal concession likely to win political
success.
at is melancholy fact that your
venerable hand has been the first to
be sullied with the mud-slinging of
the campaign of 1900, but it has done
much, thank heaven, to weaken the
effect of your apostasy for the cause
of liberty"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19
a STRUGGLE AHEAD.

The gloomy news of Monday was
lightened by Tuesdays dispatches
which told of the capture of the walled
or native portion of Tien Tsin by the
allied forces and the rout of the
Chinese troops. Americans were also
pleased to learn from Admiral Remey
that in his opinion the losses to the
American troops had been exaggerat-
ed in the first reports. There seems to
be no doubt that the entire civilized
world has entered upon long and
bloody war with oriental fanaticism.
All of China is becoming aroused by
the thirst for blood and 1T will be no
easy task to subdue and conquer four
hundred millions of people who are
fighting for their religion and whose
courage is buoyed up by intense hat
red of their foes. America and Eur
ope tho not actuated by hatred, see
the utter uselessness of attempting
to reconcile heathenism and savagry
with progress and civilization. The
horrible outrages that have occurred
in China make it plain to the world
that no thin veneer of civilization
will insure against further trouble in
the Orient. The job must be done
thoroly if the east is to be made safe
and the Christian religion is to con-
tinue to spread over the earth. 1t is
to the best interests of the world that
heathenism be stamped out. Tie law
of the survival of the fittest must pre-
vail if civilization is to triumph in
the end. Gentle measures have not
been effective, and Europe and Amer
lea are beginning to realize this fact,
a settled determination to use force
to the bitter end is becoming apparent,
and it is one of the. hopeful signs of
the times that nowhere do we hear a
clamor for vengeance rising above the
quietly expressed sentiment that pag-
an power in the Orient must give way
to some form of. control better adapted
to the needs of evolution
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19
Why the Ministers STAYED.

Some people are SO thoughtless as
to wonder why the ministers of for
eign nations did not leave Picking
when they had an opportunity to do
80. But such leaving would be worse
than desertion in time of war. 1t
would be tantamount to a general for
saking his army before battle. Min
listers are sent to foreign courts to
see that the citizens of the country
they represent are duly protected and
respected. They are supposed to be
at their post of duty in times of dan
ger as we'll as in times of safety.
Their duty is all the greater the
greater the danger is. No minister
could consent to leave his station I'M
til the last citizen of his country had
been placed in safety, and even then
it would be his duty to do what he
could to protect the property of his
country. Minister Conger is soldier
enough to have stayed at his post. He
is soldier enough to stay there until
death. Anything less than that
would be the shrinking of duty. In
this light one can readily see that to
be the representative of country at
a half-civilized court is not an easy
task. The man who guards nations
interests thru such crisis as is now
going on in China is a hero of the
loftiest kind. AS the duties and re-
sponsibilities of a minister are varied
and great, SO the killing of one is to
be regarded as a very serious crime
and can be avenged only in the most
exemplary manners. No nation could
see it's foreign representative killed
without bringing the offenders to his
knees, as the German emperor pro-
poses to do with China.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19

The Abba Union, Uncle ALT Barnes
paper, which has been opposed to the
denomination of Major Lacey, has done
the wise thing, and has placed the
Lacey congressional ticket at the head
of it's editorial columns. In American
politics the majority must rule, and
no person or newspaper is bigger
than ,the party with which it affiliates.
With the development of the great
coal mining interests in Monroe coun-
ty and the substantial growth which
Abba is at present enjoying, there is
now splendid opportunity for a first
class local newspaper to do
business and make money
in that city, and we believe Barnes &
Son have the stuff in them to make
just that kind of a newspaper. Here's
congratulations and we'll wishes.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19
3, OR. &N. Excurs, ON.

AS is it's custom, the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids and Northern railway
has arranged for reduced rates to a
large number OF important places
for the coming summer, among which
we mention the following most promi-
nent:.
Chicago, nl.-National encampment
g. A. r., Aug. 27-Sept. /.
Detroit, Mich.-Biennial conclaye
knights of Pythias, Aug. 27-Sept. 1.
st. Paul, Minn.-Biennial convention
National Republican league of the
United States, July 1919.
Summer tourist tickets will be on
sale May Is, to resorts in different
parts of the country, and Important
information can be obtained by calling
on any ticket agent or writing to the
undersigned.
Send for copy of booklet entitled,
"Okoboji Outing"
Jno. 6. Farmer, A. G. T. & T. A.,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19

The constitution of the United
States provides that if vacancies hap
pen in the United States senate "by
resignation or otherwise, during the
recess of the legislature of any state,
the executive thereof may make tenn
porary appointments, until the next
meeting of the legislature, which
shall then. fill such vacancies. No
person shall be a senator, who shall
not have attained the age of thirty
years, and been nine years citizen OF
the United States, and who shall not
when elected be an inhabitant of that
state for which he shall be chosen
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19
REPUBLICAN Ar1oNALTIcKET
MONTHLY STATEMENTS.

Every business house in the coun
try that is conducted on modern and
up-to-date methods, sends to it's pa
irons monthly statements of account
T This is found necessary in order tc
keep the accounts straight and in or
der that errors may be avoided. The
Courier has decided to adopt this
modern method of doing business and
hereafter monthly statements of &C
count will be sent to all patrons OF
the Courier, where the account is due
or about to become due. These state
ments are not duns in any offensive
sense. Of course it is recognized by
every one that the safeguard of all
business enterprises is in prompt col
lections. Experience also proves that
short settlements make long friends.
The Courier is publishing, what we
confidently believe to be the largest
and best semi-weekly newspaper in
the United States. The price at which
this paper is published leaves only a
small margin of profit, and unless
collections are promptly made the
paper cannot be published except at a
loss. The history Of the newspaper
business in ottumwa for the past six
years has clearly demonstrated this
fact. We make the above statement
SO that none of our subscribers will
take offense at the receipt of the
monthly statements which will here,
after be sent out.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19
WI TALKS Of TEN rsIN.

No one in this country knows more
about the city of Tien Tsin thar
Chinese Minister WI, at Washington
He listened with wrapt attention
while the dispatches telling of the
first great battle there were being
translated to him, the other day.
The scene of the fighting came home
WILDLY to the minister, as he has liv
ed for long time at Tien Tsin, the
close friend and associate of Ii Hung
Chang during the latter's vice roy,
atty there, and every detail of the
engagement around the walls could be
followed by him with a personal
knowledge of the surroundings. In
his minds eye he pictured before him
the scene of action.
Here, he pointed out, was the great
walled city, within which the native
Chinese population lived. Around the
city swept the Pei Ho river, very sin.
uous, from Taku toward Picking. Be.
low the walled city, full hours ride
by chair, lay the foreign settlements
or concessions, or compounds. At
this latter point, well away from the
walls of the main city, the foreign cit.
liens, with the allied troops, have I'm,
til now been located.
The news of the fight at the walls
meant, therefore, that the allied
forces had advanced from their posi-
ton we'll down the Pei Ho and had
attacked the city itself.
Altho Mr.. WI has made no public
utterance, the Associated Press thinks
it is able to give what is believed to
be the aspect of the situation from
the Chinese standpoint. According to
this view the move of the allied forces
from the foreign settlement down the
river upon the native walled city was
not only unfortunate but was fraught
with the greatest danger. With the
fate of the foreign legations and min
listers at Picking still in doubt, the
allied forces might well have turned
their attention to cutting a way thru
to the rescue of their officials and cit
liens at the capital.
In that event, it is said, the normal
conditions around Tien Tsin would
have continued and the status quo
been maintained. But by an assault
of the walled city the natives within
the city might naturally be expected
to defend themselves, believing that
their homes were about to be attack
ed. They have been penned up with
in the city, knowing nothing of what
has occurred without, and from the
Chinese standpoint 1t probably will
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19
The Sixth District Unified.

Des Moines Register: The nomina.
ton of Congressman Lacey, for the
seventh time, is the very best evil
dence that the republicans Of Iowa's
sixth district have become thoroly
unified in sentiment and purpose. The
Register predicts that that district
will cast the largest republican ma
Jority on its records this year, and
carry every county in the district.
MAJOR Lacey has rendered the district,
state and nation conspicuously able
and faithful service, and his renom-
nation is creditable to the good sense
OF the republicans Of that district,
Iowa's delegation has been the strong
est and most influential in congress
for several years, and it is cheering
to republicans everywhere to know
that every Iowa congressman desir-
ing denomination has been or will be
renominated. Congressman Lacey is
one of the strong men of the Iowa
delegation. The unity of the party
in his district is also proof of his
strength with the people and the good
management he has exercised In the
party and public affairs placed in his
charge. He has represented one of
the best areas on earth in such
creditable and satisfactory manner
that the sixth district has been re-
moved from the doubtful list and is
actually working its way upward to.
ward the top of the list. This is to
be a campaign for the control of the
government, and the continuance of
the general prosperity of the people,
and the working republicans of Iowa's
sixth district will be on their mettle
until the votes have been counted out
of the ballot boxes.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19
HoAR- ON REPugLIcAN,sM

Erving Winslow, secretary of the
New England anti-ImperiaIist League.
issued public letter the other day
attacking the venerable senator from
Massachusetts,, Geo. F. Hoar, for ex-
pressing his utter lack of confidence
in William Jennings Bryan and the
democratic party in a speech delivered
by the senator at Mansfield, Mass
Mr.. Winslow allowed the language of
his letter to become extravagant, and
incidentally called Senator Hoar a
mud-slinger and charged him with
apostasy. In reply the senator has
issued a public letter rebul1ing Mr..
Winslow for his wild language and
reiterating his purpose to support Nc
kinley as the nominee of the party
thru which the triumph OF justice,
liberty and republication is to be
wrought out" Senator Hoar says:
i have within few minutes read
your letter, published in the papers
this morning, in which, referring to
my speech at Mansfield, you charged
me with 'mud-slinging and .apostasy'
to the cause of liberty | should not
select you for a public correspondent
on this or any other question, usually.
But, as you have addressed this letter
to me, may as well say what 1 have
to say in answer to these charges in
the form of letter to you as in any
other way. You seem to me to be a
sincere and well meaning person, who,
when deeply stirred in great cause,
are apt to get extravaganza in your ex-
pressions. | suppose this is your me-
thod of saying that you incline to
differ from me as to my duty in re-
gard to an important question. At
any rate, | have the means of satisfy
ing you that il 'apostasy' means a
change of opinion or position, you are
the person who has changed and
not I.
What said in my recent speech at
Mansfield, both as to the matter of my
continued confidence in the honesty
of President Mckinley, my purpose to
support him, my belief that the tri-
umph of justice, liberty and republi-
canism is to be wrought out, if at all,
thru the agency of the republican
party, and my total want of confidence
in Mr.. Bryan and the democratic par
ty, has been said again and again"
Senator Hoar then proceeds to an
swer each assertion made by Winslow,
reiterates his determination to sup
port Mckinley, and sets forth the
shortcomings of Bryan. He refers to
his attitude concerning the Paris
treaty and explains it. In conclusion
he says:
IF I have done wrong. or do wrong
hereafter,~I cannot justify myself by
other mems certificates. But when
you impute to me a low and base prin-
cipal motive in what have said and
done, and in what propose to do, l
have the right to appeal to the fact
that when I had said and done the
same things, and when you know well
that purposed to do the same things,
you and the leaders of the anti-impe-
rialists turnout the country expressed
your extravaganza praise of my atti-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19
The Senatorial Succession.
Des Moines News, uud

Des Moines News, Hud
Mingled with the expressions of re.
greet at the state house because of the
death of John Henry Gear, were innu.
merable speculations as to the prob
able course that will be pursued by
Governor Shaw and the effect the SEN
ators death will have at this time on
the somewhat complicated situation in
the republican ranks.
There is confidence among the state
officials that the governor will not al
low the state to be without full repre-
sentation when congress meets in De-
cember, and there is a like feeling of
certainty that he will lot revive the
senatorial fight now by calling an ex-
ira session of the legislature.
Governor Shaw's personal ambition
suggested to some that he might re-
sign as governor and allow Lieutenant
Governor Milliman to appoint him as
successor to Senator Gear, but this
idea receives little favor as it is be-
lieved it would be blow at his popu-
larity and he would not be elected by
the next legislature. One of the po-
litical friends of the governor said this
morning he was confident Governor
Shaw would not attempt to work him
self in for this short term, the ap-
pointment will be good for but a year
and a half, but that he has strong
ambition to be a United States senator
and will make the appointment with a
view to his own election when the leg
islature meets in 1902. The name
most frequently heard this morning
was Geo. d. Perkins of Sioux City,
editor of the Sioux City Journal.
cummins Men Hopeful.
The Cummins men say the governor
now has the chance of his life. BY
putting aside factional feeling and APP
pointing A. B. Cummins, he would
make himself the most popular man in
Iowa and when opportunity offered he
could have whatever he desired. But
great hit as it might make there is
little belief he will do this. The Gear
men laugh at the idea of the COVER
nor naming Mr.. Cummins. They say
that issue has just been fought out and
to the victor belong the spoils. Gear
men are talking Perkins hard. Per-
kins now and Shaw in 1902.
Appointments Will be Delayed.
There is almost no possibility of the
appointment being made until late in
the fall as congress will not meet I'M
til December, and there is already talk
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-19
May Lose His Prestiue.

Centerville Citizen: Judge Eichel-
berger is in fair way to lose his
prestige with the fair sex if he keeps
on making decisions against woman's
rights. At Ottumwa recently he rem
dered his decision in the case recent
ly brought by some Ottumwa citizens
by which they sought to restrain the
city council and city officers from ac-
cepting the library proposition as
adopted, on the grounds that the cleo
ton was illegal because women voted
unconStitutionally.