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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27
Heavy Immigration to OREGON.

Portland, Ore, Dec. 26.-The immi-
grafton of homeseekers to the north
west is now very large. The home
seekers rate on the railroads is now
bearing fruit in crowded cars and
long trains. Many farmers who came
to Oregon last year and saw the
bountiful crop harvested beneath a
kindly sun that never made the farm
hands uncomfortable, were favorably
impressed with the state, and so went
back resolved to arrange their affairs
and give the coast genuine trial
Many of these homeseekers are now
in Portland, and the hotels are crowd
ed. They came principally from the
Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa
and Kansas, and many from the Mis-
sissippi Valley, and are mostly farm
ers.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27
DISCOVERY IN eoEBEL CASE.
Bullets Like the Fatal One Found il
Kentucky Auditors Office.

Frankfort, KY, Dec. 26.-One of the
clerks in the state auditors office, in
found cartridge box containing eight
metal-patched smokeless powder cart
ridges, 1888, corresponding exactly to
the bullet found in the blackberry
tree and which was believed to have
passed thru Senator Goebels body.
The significance of the discovery lies
in the fact that Henry Youtsey, con-
victed of participation in the Goebel
assassination, was clerk in the audi
tors Office at the time of the assassin
alton and had access to the vault where
the cartridges were found, and that
George Barnes, another clerk in the
Office, testified that he saw Youtsey
with box of cartridges.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27

most melancholy outlook for the fut-
ure. That such, conclusion is I'M
warranted is the consensus of the
best thought of the day. The New
York Outlook, in careful review of
this subject, gives expression to ,ne
following thoughtful and, as we be-
lieve, truthful observation:
Slowly but surely humanity does
Climb the steep ascent of heaven.
Painfully and with almost tragic toll
the race moves upward making no
progress without the shedding OF
blood, gaining no ground without deep
and bitter sacrifices; and yet, in the
anguish of it's long march, slowly but
surely disciplining itself in self-deniai
self-control and care for others. 1t is
safe to say that no previous age has
felt more keenly the, sorrows of hui
manity; nor in any previous age have
individuals entered so deeply
into the experiences Of the
race. More men and wo,
men are sharing the burden of painful
knowledge of human suffering and
degradation which Christ fore than
ever before; more men and women are
painfully striving in numberless unre-
corded ways, as well as in many
which are obvious to share their own
better fortunes and to lift little the
load which rests on the disinherited.
There is more peace and good will in
the heart of humanity today than there
has ever been before; and the roar OF
guns in South Africa and the foreign
battalions marshaled in China mus,
not Lake us deaf to this music which
once came from heaven, but which
finds every year wider resonance in
the hearts of men,"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27
NEW BARNUM SHOW PLANNED.
James A. Bailey Will Begin Work al
Once on $500 900 Project,

New York, Dec 26.-James A. Bail
ey. the noted Snowman, announced
Monday that he is going to organize
an entirely new show for America to
be called "Barnum & Bailey's New
and Greatest Show on Earth"
Work will begin at once and the
new enterprise will be ready to open
on March Is, 1902, at Madison Square
garden in this city. 1t will require
all that time to get ready, collect the
animals for the menagerie, build the
cages and the chariots for the street
parades and the cars for it's transpor.
tation over the country and to con
struct the big tents in which it will be
exhibited. Altogether it will cost
more than 100000.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27
TRUSTEES RESIGN IN A BODY.
Another Crisis in the Affairs of the
kearney Military Academy.

Omaha, Dec. 26.-St. Luke's Mill
tary Academy, an Episcopal institu-
ton in Kearney, has reached another
crisis in it's short but checkered ca
reer. A few days ago differences be-
tween the bishop and the trustees in
regard to providing certain improve
ments reached that acute stage from
which there is no retreat. The refus-
al of the bishop to allow the funds
necessary for the improvements de-
inanded by the trustees was the last
straw. All of the trustees, including
Principal Atmore, sent in their resig-
nations and the school was left to the
care of the bishop once more.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27
SAYS TREATMENT WAS BAD.
Men Who Ship on Cattle Vessels AL
Iese Hiendish Cruelty.

Liverpool, Dec. 26.-Liverpool news
papers allege that men employed on
the cattle ships that run between New
York and Liverpool are subjected to
the most fiendish cruelty The men
allege that when sea sick and unable
to work, that the bosses beat them
with broom handles and ropes. One
young man jumped overheard after
being subjected to such treatment and
was drowned. The death was report.
ed as an ordinary suicide.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27

A casual glance at the situation
would indicate that the city fathers
are in favor of another system of
waterworks and that that system
should be under municipal control.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27

A Des Moines special says that a
young woman Of that place was di-
yorced from one man and married to
another within fifteen minutes. That
fifteen minute part is little over
drawn, but perhaps not very much.
"a similar case happened in Ottumwa a
few years ago, but the court upon be-
ing requested to tie the knot read the
woman lesson, the subject matter
of which was to the effect that had he
known her intentions, he would have
required more evidence than that up
on which the decree was granted. For
a time he seriously entertained the
idea of cancelling the decree. Mature
deliberation, however, convinced him
that it was her funeral and he allow
ed the decree to stand. 1t is needless
to add that the nearest justice receiv-
ed fee for performing the cece.
mony.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27

Judge Prouty, now holding term
of the district court at Des Moines,
has decided that so-called 'tax ferrets"
may collect back taxes for the year
1896 as well as taxes accruing since
that time. In his opinion he holds, in
effect, that Chapter AZ of the code of
1897 gives county auditors the power
to place omitted property on the tax
books, and that section 1874 gives
county treasurers the same power.
A few district judges have rendered
decisions along the same line, while
others have held differently. Judge
Prouty's decision will, by no means
settle the trouble, but will stand as a
precedent until the supreme court de-
rides IL,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27
BUYING CAVALRY HORSES.
Heavy Purchases Being Made for Brit
ish Army in South Africa.

Kansas City, Dec. 26-Captain Hey
gate of the British army is purchas-
ing $4,000 cavalry horses and mules
for the British army in South Africa.
He came here more than a year ago
to buy horses and mules for the Brit
ish army, but he was ordered home a
short time ago because it was thought
that the Boer war was over. But the
renewal of hostilities has
made the purchase of more horses and
mules absolutely necessary.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27

i The Omaha police are almost COM
PEELED to give out some theory as to
the identity of the person who abduct-
ed young Cudahy. In lieu of a bette"
one they are endeavoring to saddle
the matter upon one Pat Grove. who
is said to have petty criminal record.
It has also been discovered that Grove
is an Iowa product, and along with our
big corn crop and general prosperity,
we suppose we will have to take Grove,
Just to show that all silver clouds
have black spot.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27

AS the kidnaper is in a peculiar
sense general enemy of society, the
hunt for one should be continued until
he is run down and given the limit of
punishment
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27

! The question of securing never
failing arc light for street lighting
seems to be one that has not yet been
solved, SO far as the city of Ottumwa
is concerned. Residents near the cor
ner of Woodland avenue and Court
street say that the light at the inter-
section Of those streets has not burned
all night for nearly two weeks.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27

Fort Dodge is to be congratulated
on its promised Christmas present in
the shape of a new public library
building to be donated by Andrew Car
negie. Fort Dodge is a thriving, pros
porous city of decided culture and Mr..
Carnegie need have no fears that his
generosity may not be properly appre-
ciated,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27

Ambassador Choate takes especial
pains to inform the American people
that there are no large unsettled es-
tates in England, and if they insist on
being swindled they will have to go
back to the old reliable gold bricks.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27
CATFISH FOR SALMON.
Scheme to Use Mississippi River Prod.
uct for Canned Goods.

Clinton, Dec. 22.-Some of the Mis-
sissippi river fishermen have discover
ed a gigantic scheme to defraud the
public, it is said, by feeding the PEG.
pie on the Mississippi river catfish un.
der the name of choice Columbia river
salmon. One of the fishermen has Civ.
en- the scheme away, and this is what
he said:
The story that Mississippi river
fish are being canned and sold for
salmon is true. At present the indus.
try is in the experimental stage, but !
have private information that it has
proved a. complete success, and the
people behind it are going into the
business in the spring on large scale
The factory is to be in Chicago"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27

Doubtless the jury in the Kuhn
murder case rendered a verdict ac-
cording to the law and the evidence,
but hundreds of Courier readers who
followed the trend of the evidence,
wonder how they connected her with
the commission of the crime.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27
CIRCULATION.

The Ottumwa Courier guarantees
more than double the circulation of all
other Ottumwa papers combined.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27

HENRY cLEWS ON TRUSTS.
Henry Clews,. the New York finan-
cier, says that trusts must give up all
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-27


Every politician in the state is wait
ing for the decision of the supreme
court on the vitality of the Titus
amendment. If that is sustained the
situation will be quite different from
what it would be if the campaign for
governor is to come in 1901 1t is
quite generally expected by politicians
and by a majority of lawyers that the
court will sustain the amendment and
Save the state this reform, which the
people have declared they want and
prevent the upheayal which would
follow it's overturning.
Mentioned for Governor.
Among the men most prominently
mentioned for the republican nominal
Ition for governor il Mr.. Shaw is not
given a third term are Senator w. r.
Hartman of Hampton, George D. Per-
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-25
THE BAVIN' OF BRYAN.

The following clever parody appeared
in the Glens Falls "Times" four years
ago. 1t is equally applicable to the pres
ent situation:-
Once upon a midnight dreary, as pom
dered weak and weary, in a state of Au'
gust stupor on my quiet chamber floor;
while l drowsed there, Oh the night air,
came voice from out the Somewhere,
penetrating, sience.breaking, shaking all
my chamber floor. Twas the Bryan,
William Bryan, shaking thus ny cham
Der hoor-talking, talking evermore.
Bryan" said l, quite emphatic, "Pop'
ulist or Democratic, whether fate or sill
yer miners sent thee to my chamber floor;
dost thou think that l am daunted, at
thy red flag, ever Haunted, DER this land
by silver haunted? Tell me truly, l i'm
plore-is there money in it for your Tell
me, tell me, implore."
"Bryan," said l, "think of talking, who
through West and East is stalking-by
the rhetoric that thou lowest, by the talk
thou dost adore-tell this land with par
ties laden if within that distant Aidenn
which you promise us, prosperity, like sill
yer, is galore-will our money be more
plenty-do we work eight hours or twen-
ty-tell us, Bryan, William Bryan-or
will hard times then be o'er?" Did he
answer? Nevermore.
And the Bryan, never weary, though
the day and darkness dreary, still is talk
ing, talking nonsense never nation heard
before; pours his fallacies outAowing as he
travels, eastward going Ger the waste of
Western prairies to the wave-washed Jer'
sey shore, in grand, triumphal progress
to the open White House door. Will he
enter? Nevermore.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

The remains of an ancient galley were
recently found six feet below the surface
at Tottenham marshes during the excava-
tons for the new reservoirs of the East
London Water Company. 1t is supposed
to have belonged to the Danes, who were
defeated in Lea Valley by King Alfred in
1914 A. d.
There are three claimants of the reward
of $3.50 which was offered by the city of
New Orleans for the capture, dead or
alive, of the negro, Robert Charles, whose
murder of a policeman precipitated the
recent race conflict in the Crescent City.
Arbitrator will be asked to decide which
one is entitled to receive the reward.
One of the skyscrapers in New York
has daily population of 3,lO0, and the
mail sent out from it averages Is, 900 pieces
a day. Every forty.five minutes a mail
wagon from the postoffice carries away
from this building about seventy.fve
pounds of outgoing mail. Another New
York Office building sends out 30, 900 pieces
of mail every week day.
Kennekuk, a post Office in Jackson
county, Kansas, which has just been dis.
continued by the Government, was promi-
nent az stage station on the old overland
route in the later '40s. 1t was named after
a chief of the Kickapoo Indians, and has
been listed among the postoffices of the
United States for more than fifty years.
The hotel at Kennekuk was built in 1850,
and its register contains the signatures Of
many prominent MISUNDERSTANDING those
of Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain.
The latter mentions Kennekuk in his
"Roughing it,.
John Mcdonald, Kansas journalist
who is touring Scotland, says in letter to
one Of the papers of the Sunhower State
that he recently went into store in lit
tie Highland town and inspected the
goods displayed for sale, finding among
them the following American products
Corn, flour, canned beef, canned peaches,
canned apricots, canned pears, soap, roll
ed oats, washboards, churns, cheese,
hams, flour, salmon, apples, forks, hoes,
axes. hammers, saws, joiners' tools, braces
and bits. "This partial list of things used
in Scotch mountain village" says Mr..
Mcdonald, twill give some idea of the
immense trade between the United States
and Great Britain"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-25
LET THEM CALL TlLLMAN.
Philadelphia Press. !

Philadelphia Press.
James X. Jones and William r. Hearst,
the former chairman of the Democratic
National Committee and the latter the
president Of the National Association OF
Democratic Clubs, have Issued an adj
dress asking for proof of the coercion or
intimidation of any voter by any employ
er, single person, company or corporation
The ostensible purpose of the address is
to aid every one in casting his vote I'M
trammeled and uncoerced. The object is
a worthy one and should have the aid Of
every American voter.
The first witness Mr.. Jones and Mr..
Hearst should call is Senator Tillman of
South Carolina. He has told in blunt,
brutal language how voters are coerced
and ntimidated in South Carolina. In a
speech delivered in the United States
Senate during the latest session Of Con-
gress Mr.. Tlllman described election
methods in his State and how the colored
voters were treated as follows: ave took
the government away. We stuffed ballot
boxes. We shot them. We are not
ashamed oft With that system-force,
tissue ballots, etc.-we got tired ourselves
So we called a constitutional convention,
and we eliminated all of the colored peo'
pie whom we could under the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments.
There are at least 10000 colored men
twenty.oue years of age and over in South
Carolina, every one of whom, according
to the Constitution of the United States,
has right to cast ballot for Presiden'
tial electors and for a member of Con-
gress. The population of which these
colored voters are part was the basis on
which Congress apportioned to South
Carolina four seats in the House of Rep
resentatives and four votes in the Elec'
toral College. But these voters have been
shot and robbed at the ballot boxes I'M
til no vestige of their political right re-
mains. To use the mild language of MIR.
Jones and Mr.. Hearst they have been
"coerced and intimidated.
Here is an example for Jones and
Hearst to begin on. They need 90 to no
trouble to make a costly investigation.
Senator Tillman acknowledges the facts
and boldly proclaims them. Let them
call him as a witness. Mr.. Jones and MIR.
Hearst claim that any man guilty of CO.
ercing or intimidating voter observes,
like Cain, to be "a fugitive and vagabond'
on the face of the earth" Very well.
Let them proceed to make "a fugitive and
q vacabond" of Senator Tillman.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-25
Came Near Dying.

"For three days and nights I suffered
agony untold from an attack of cholera
morbus brought on by eating cucumbers, y
says M. L. Lowther, clerk Of the district
court, Centerville, Iowa. 81 thought |
should surely die, and tried dozen differ
ent medicines but all to no purpose. |
sent for bottle of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and three
doses relieved me entirely. l went to
sleep and did not awake for eight hours.
On awakening few hours ago l felt so
gratified that the first work | do on going
to the office is to write to the manufacture
ers of this remedy and offer them my
grateful thanks and say, God bless you
and the splendid medicine you make. "
This remedy is for sale by JOHN E. JACK
SON.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-25
One Phase of the Question.
Detroit Free Press, Dem.l

In 1896 Bryan warned everybody who
believed in the gold standard not to vote
for him, because / promise him that it
will not be maintained in this country
longer than am able to get rid of it.
In 1900 he has asserted that the Demo.
cratic party Islands where it did in 1896
on the money question" In this connec-
ton 1t is waste of time to say that the
expressions, Democratic party" and
"Mr. Bryan" are synonymous; for, as
President of the United States, Mr.. Bry.
an would be the party in respect to exec
utive control of the currency. Mr.. Bry.
an has repeatedly refused to say whether
or not he would pay Government obliga-
tons in silver, and his refusal is suscepti-
BILE of only one Interpretation. His si-
lence has made it impossible to believe
that he would refuse to exercise a power
that Congress has rashly entrusted to the
executive. In other words, Mr.. Bryan
would do what no European monarch
would dare do-debase the currency of
his country. The "Free Press" invites
its readers who believe that imperialism is
the paramount issue" to consider this
phase of the question.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-25

Or all The judicial infamy that has eyer
dsgraced the civilized world that which
is now being witnessed in Kentucky is in
the lead. The bloody Jeffrey was not
more hideously cruel than the Kentucky
judge who is presiding at the Youtsey
trial. He has already assisted in the
conviction of two men imposing life
sentence upon one and the death penalty
upon the other-at whose trials the public
stood appalled, by the brutality of the
Judge; but the Youtsey case is far ahead
of the other two in brutal cruelty. Just
think of judge insisting upon going on
with the trial of a man who was in a pro-
tracted unconscious condition. Youtsey
was brought into the court on bed, and
it was demonstrated that he was in state
of Inconsistencies; but the judge had
him carried from the room, and proceed.
ed with the trial.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-25
1t Happened in a Drug Store.

Zone day last winter lady came to my
drug store and asked for brand Of cough
medicine that did not have in STOCK
says Mr.. q. r. Grandin, the popular drug
gist Of Ontario, n. Y. "She was disap-
pointed and wanted to know what cough
preparation could recommend. l said
to her that l could freely recommend
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and that
she conld take bottle of the remedy and
after giving.it fair trial if she did not
find it worth the money to bring back the
bottle and l would refund the price paid.
In the course of day or two the lady
came back in company with a friend in
need of cough medicine and advised her
to buy bottle of Chamberlain Cough
Remedy. l consider that very good
for the remedy" The
remedy owes its great popularity and ex-
tensive sale in large measure to the per-
sonal recommendations of people who
have been cured by its use. 1t is for sale
by JOHN Z. JACKSON.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-25
A Thousand Tongues

Could not express the rapture of Annie
K. Springer, of Philadelphia, when DIR.
Kings New Discovery cured her of a
hacking cough that for many years had
made life burden. She says: "After all
other remedies and doctors failed it soon
removed the pain in my chest and l can
now sleep soundly, something | can scarce
~ rememember doing before. l feel like
sounding its praises throughout the Uni
verse" DR.. Kings New Discovery is
guaranteed to cure all troubles Of the
Throat, Chest Or Lungs. Price SOC and 81.
Trial bottles free at JOHN f. JACKsoN's
drug store.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-25
No Tammanylzation of the United States.

Brooklyn Eagle DEM.
The Eruption of Organism and of Tam
manyism into one another in Manhattan
will raise the inquiry Are those the
multitudes that should, OF do, or shall,
preponderate in American suffrage? Ere
long men will ashland let them ask them
selves now-Is the Tammanyization of
New York State and of our national gov
eminent desirable, considering the Tam
MANIPULATION of New York County now
Ere long they will ashland let them ask
now-Will our Commonwealth and our
nation do well to hand over their sover.
eighty to disclaimers of Disorder, to advo-
Gates of Clipt Money and of Surrender, to
fomenters of Hate between classes, to SOW.
ers of Discomfort, Distrust and Defama
ton, on whose behalf relapsed sophists,
followerless "leaders," bruised egotists
and sentimentaists, discarded for cause,
hold an unhonored brief? We await
without apprehension, but not with exul-
tation, the recoil of the United States from
the congestive and repulsive consequences
of the administration of Organism as an
evoking emetic to Tammanyism in Man.
haitian. If our people are ever at loss
what to choose, their instincts can be
trusted to tell them what to avoid The
Tammanyization of the United States is
what they will avoid. That can be de-
pended on.