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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30
IOWA FARMS IN DEMAND.
Homeseekers Rates Brought Many
Buyers Last Week.

Sioux City, Oct. 24.-The homeseelS-
ers' rates of the railroads last week
induced an unusually large number of
people to travel, and railroad officials
say that not for long time have SO
many real homeseekers ridden on the
tickets. 1t is estimated that into
northwestern Iowa alone there came
several hundred men to look at land,
and it is said that large proportion
of these came from the state Of Hill
noiS.
From land agents of railroads it Is
learned that all of these investigators
have money with which to buy land.
Many of them are ready to sell for 500
or $50 an acre their farms in Illinois
close to good sized cities, and buy for
less money in northwestern Iowa near
small towns. In the opinion OF these
land agents there will be heavier pur.
chases of farm land in northwestern
Iowa this year than there ever were
in any previous year. This buying al.
ready has begun, and it is believed
that by Christmas the purchases OF
farm land in this section of the state
will aggregate hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30
Very Low Rates Northwest.

In addition to the regular Home
seekers Excursions run on every first
and third Tuesdays of each month, the
Iowa Central railway will sell Settlers
Excursion tickets to points In Mon
tana Idaho, Washington, Oregon and
British Columbia on every Tuesday
during OctoDer and November at very
low single or round trip rates, as fol-
lows: From Hedrick to Helena Butte,
Anaconda, Great Falls, kalispell, Mis-
soula, Grantsdale, Ogden and Salt
Lake City, and intermediate points.
one way $4,000; round trip $4,000. To
Spokane, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle,
Vancouver and Victoria and intermed-
late points, one way $500; round trip
$4,000. Final limit of tickets thirty
days; stop-overs on round trip tickets
granted in certain territory. For f"r-
Their information inquire of any Iowa
Central ticket agent, agents of con-
Meeting lines, or address, Geo. S. Batty,
/ G. P. & T. A. Marshalltown, Iowa.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30
WEATHER IDEAL FOR FARMERS
Corn Crop Ripened Nicely and Iowa
Yield is $4,000 900 Bushels.

Des Moines, Oct. 25.-Director Sage,
of the Iowa weather and crop service,
said yesterday that the weather of the
past month has been unprecedented
for fall farm work, that the husking Is
farther along than at this time of the
year for a number of seasons and that
the weather has been all that could be
desired for bringing the corn crop to
maturity.
When the preliminary estimates Of
the crop yields were made up early In
the season, Mr.. Sage was fearful that
the yield would not come up to the
first husking returns which showed an
average yield of forty-three bushels to
an acre. The weather was damp at that
time, with every prospect that 1t would
continue SO. This meant delay in get
ting the crop in field and failure OF
some of the corn to properly mature.
Director Sage in making UP his esti.
mate took the conditions into account
and figured the yield at forty-one bush,
els to the acre, making a difference OF
over 100000 in the crop. He says
that with the favorable weather of the
past two weeks he believes the cror
will come up to the full estimate OF
| forty-three bushels to the acre, max
ing the total crop for the year in Iowa
about 37O,O00,OO0 bushels of about "a,
900 900 in excess of the heaviest previ
GUS yield in the history of the state.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30
A NOVEL PLAN.
ottumwa People May be Asked to HELP
EndoW Home.

One of the smoothest, legitimate
plans to raise funds with which to con-
duct the affairs of charitable insti-
tuition, known as the home for the
aged located at Des Moines, was pre-
scented to the finance committee Of
that institution yesterday at that
place. Ottumwa people may be called
upon to go into it to help the good
work along. The plan is novel in the
extreme, is perfectly legitimate and
will at once appeal to those who can
afford to enter into 1t.
The question came before the
finance committee of permanent en-
dowment for the home. One of the
members, Miss Theodore Wadsworth,
a bright shrewd woman, at one time
teacher of the Ottumwa schools, had
two excellent ideas, one of which was
that one hundred persons should be
| induced to pay $40 year for 1000 in
f, surance made payable to the Home for
| the aged. According to the tables of
mortality there would be thirty-three
deaths in that hundred within twenty
years at the average age of forty-five.
Thus there would be guaranteed to be
paid to the home, an average of 81 $50
per year. At the end of twenty years
the sixty-seven people who have not
died will have cash surrender value
on their policies amounting to $6S,162
The plan means that the Home
would have $3.50 a year and at the
end of the period, the sum of $6S,162
In the event Of the death of any one
of the individuals insured, another
person would be insured, so that the
number one hundred would remain in
tact, thereby instituting fixed en-
dowment of 100000, which would
yield the sum stated above.
The second plan is for the trus
tees to get 200 or 300 people, each o
whom would pledge $40 or SIS pc
year, this sum to be turned over t.
the trustees for investment in insur
ance as they might see best. In 1T
results the second method does no
differ from the former. Both plan
were taken under advisement, to b.
reported upon later.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30
ADDRESS TO scANDlNAvIANs.
Republican Scandinavian League Is.
sues An Address to Voters.

The Scandinavian Republican
League of Iowa has issued the follow
ing to the Scandinavian voters thru
Svithiod
The National election--on which side do
you stand? 1t seems superfiuous to remind
vote right themselves, but to urge indiffer-
ent voters to cast their ballots for McKin-
ley prosperity and Roosevelt
Seldom has the history of the country
so generously shown a prosperous Condi-
tion as during. the last four years. The
protective tariff with a sound currency has
led to an unexnmpled development OF the
resources Of the country.
The republican party took charge OF
affairs nearly four years ago, and has, thru
Its administration, guided us from econo-
| ity. Is this not worthy our serious con-
sideration!
Our farmers receive higher prices for
| their products, our laborers better pay for
their toll; prosperity and contentment ls
| apparent on every hand; this is result of
a wise statesmanlike administration as ex-
cmplified by the republican party. 1t
should not be necessary to defend the re-
publican party's administration or its prin-
ciples to our. clear sighted Scandinavians.
e Sv The and whsn
congress 1t became necessary to vote for
n constitutional amendment it soon appear:
ed which party was on the right side-ot
| the republicans there were only two who
voted against the amendment, while on the
other hand only four democrats voted for
thence for the lack Of the requisite mum
Der of votes this important amendment waf
lost by adverse democratic votes, and still
| they go about like n voice in the wilderness
trying to fool people into believing that
democracy Is the only protection against
trusts.
The expansion question can only have one
logical result, viz. the civilizing OF these
Filipinos, and the extension of our trade
and influence as world power.
Had we attempted the conquest of thu
Philippine archipelago perhaps this noise
would be justified; but when these Island:
have come under our protection thru cleal
providential leading we ought not to hest
Late long as to our duty.
That the republican party has led In al
beneficial undertakings Is too well known
to be successfully controversial; that thu
democrats have urged the contrary ough
it is nothing else) as a misleading will o
the wisp.
If we have faithful servant ought w
not to retain him? If Mckinley has serre
: us well, then his reelection ought to fol
; low as n matter of course, as an evidenc
that the people are not ungrateful.
That the administration of the state gov
| one knows who has followed events an
i, carefully observed them.
That Senator G. S. Gilbertson and all tn
others on the republican ticket Will recetv
every Scandinavian vote is a natural result
, and an evidence of their party loyalty. Th
accusation that the Scandinavians hav
fallen down and worshped the silver cal
, insult to a people who have always stoo
on the side of honor, honesty and justice
Ole y. Roe, President.
C. r. Winnerstrum, Secretary.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30
treaty with Mexico and the discovery

sSAAsA
OIL gold.
1.-THE letter was very voluminous and
was made up in the form of a little
book, with its pages numbered and
with an index to aid the reader in read
lily referring to any topic treated in
the communication. 1t told Of the
overland journey, described the condi-
lions in the strange, new country in
which the writer was located, discuss
ed the politics of the day and other
questions, and was evidently the prod
uct of many hours of labor, by which
the writer warded off inconsistencies in
inditing his experiences and reflec-
tons for the benefit of those in the old
home in the states.
THE discovery of the letter alone
would have been sufficient reward for
the search, but more surprising dis
covery was that which was made when
from between the leaves of the little
book there fell bank draft for 5000,
which the young man had evidently re-
mitted to his father along with the let
ter. The draft was in favor of the
! father, Charles B. Fitch, and had been
drawn by bank at Columbia, Cal,
upon a New York bank. The date it
bore was in the early f1fties.
I'VE should be glad if we could fin
ish the story by telling how the draft
had been forwarded to New York for
collection, and upon presentation there
had been duly honored by the bank
upon which it had been drawn. Truth
however, compels the statement that
the finders attach little value to the
paper, except as a precious family
relic, and never expect to realize any
financial benefits from the discovery
1t is quite probable that duplicate
draft was issued and paid many years
ago, but in any cuse the one now found
has doubtless been outlawed by the
lapse of time and is worthless, except
as a curiosity"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30

He must be defeated in November, or
the country, by the new policy he has
inaugurated, will be ruined.
And who is most frequently quoted
in support of this contention? The
coarse despot of 1864! And what is it
the people should now make such
heroic efforts to save? The constitu-
ton which. according to the anti-im.
perialists of 1864. was then destroyed
by the saving Of the union by force!
And yet Mr.. Bryan and his friends eS-
pect to be taken seriously about their
so-called paramount issue.
The people will take them seriously
enough to vote them an Appomattox
which would last for another genera
ton. Smith D. Fry.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30
Rufus 8. Townsend Dead.

Abba, Oct. Ex-senator Townsend
received telegram from Winthrop,
Ark, announcing the death of Rufus b.
Townsend, the senator's brother, who
died at that place. The funeral was
held here yesterday, the body having
been ordered shipped home. Rufus B.
Townsend was the oldest son Of the
late Judge John S. Townsend, pion-
eer settler, lawyer and judge.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.
Schedule Prepared for Meetings ii
keokuk County.

October so. S. Wylie, Jackson
township.
October 31.-Hon. N. E. Kendall at
Keota; ]. T. Brooks at Martinsburg;
H. F. Wagner at Keenerburg school
house, Van Buren, township; ]. S. Wy
lie at Warren township.
November Hon. N. E. Kendall at
Delta.
November q t. c. LeGoe at Cen.
ter school house, German township.
November 3.-Hon. John Morrison
at Harper; II. F. Wagner at Carter
school house, Jackson township.
November 81. S. Wylie at Ollie;
Hon. John Morrison at Kinross.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30
WORKING NIGHT and Day

The busiest and mightieso little
thing that ever was made is DR.. Kings
New Life Pills. Every Pill is sugar
coated globule of health, that changes
weakness into strength, listlessness in
to energy, brain-fag int. mental pow
er. They're wonderful in building
up the health. Only 25c per box. Sold
by Clark & Mollison.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30
Stomach Troubles Cured.

Tabers Pepsin Compound makes
weak stomachs strong, enriches the
blood, builds up nerve tissues, gives
one new appetite and makes one take
a healthy, wholesome interest in life's
pleasures. You Will be surprised and
delighted after taking one bottle. All
druggists sell it or sample bottle will
be mailed free. Write DR.. Taber Mfg.
Co., Peoria, Ill
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30

Many woman has periodic crying
spells. She meets her husband with
eyes red and swollen and he cries out
uWhat has happened1" Nothing" his
wife replies. III don't know what Is the
matter with me, but just had to have
q good cry" Men don't have crying
spells. It would seem therefore that an
affection confined to women must have
its cause in the womanly nature. There
is no doubt that diseased condition of
the delicate womanly organs, is In gen
era1 responsible for feminine nervous
ness and hysteria.
The use of DIR. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription makes women happy by max
ing them healthy. There are no more
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cures Inflammation, liberation and fe-
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There is no medicine vjust as good"
Accept no substitute.
uFor three years, writes Mrs. Mary A. Sasser
of High, Lamar Co.. Texas, III suffered with fall
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After using three bottles of your Fayorite Pre-
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in paper covers, is sent free on receipt O.
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only. Cloth binding 81 stamps. AID
dress DR.. r. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30
"Red.Hot From the Cum"

Was the ball that hit G. B. Steadman
of Newark, Mich, in the Civil War.
Tt caused horrible Ulcers that no
treatment helped for twenty years.
Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured
him. Cures Cuts, Bruises, Burns,
Roils, Felons, Corns, Skin Eruptions,
Best Pile Cure on earth. rs cts. a
box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Clark
6 Mollisop, druggists.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30
MILK AGENTS REPORT.
Result of Milk Tested During the
Month of October.

Month of October.
e. B. Hill, milk agent for the city O.
Ottumwa, has made the following re
port of milk tested during the month
of October:
M. Osterberg, 4.6, SIS, ga.
N. G. Simmons. 40, AZ, Al
]. Harsch, AZ.
D. E. Cundiff, "A, "A, 4.6.
j. Schmitz, 43, 4.3, So.
N. Montague, 3.S, 40.
B. F. Micheal, AZ, 40, ga.
]. r. Bier, SO. 5.5. SO.
e. r. French, SO, 81.
A. Frecke, 4.6, 4.S, so.
D. M. Silence, $50, SO, "A.
T. M. Thornburg, so, 5.2
T. Morse, AT.
c. BURNETT, 60, "A.
d. S. Bonwell, 40, Az.
]. Martin, 3.S, 3.S.
]. S. McClung, ZIG.
A. Potter. So.
N. w. Spragg, 40.
J. G. Casby. A.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30

secretary's office showed that her re-
ceipts for the past year had been over
$4,000 more than the year preceding,
while the expenses had been little
less. Following is recapitulation of
the financial statement:
Total receipts for the year for
dues and dispensation fees .S6,207.40
Rituals sold ...... ...... 1925
Supplies sold, including those
sold by grand matron to U.
D. chapters ....... $500. 2es.s7
Grand matron's mileage refund
for 1879 80. ......... 62.le
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30

During the first TWO weeks of this
month 23,500 cattle and $4,000 hogs
were received in the stock yards at
Sioux City.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30

Balance 800. 5000. ...... IS ,3U2.3U
Mrs. Ella Houston, grand treasurer,
of Red Oak, submitted her report. 1t
showed the total receipts of the order
for the year to have been s7,465.36, and
disbursements for all purposes S1,S75.-
3S, leaving a cash balance of $6,0S9.9S.
Mrs. Houston is also grand treas
urer Of the grand chapter charity fund.
She submitted her report, showing
that there is now s77774 in this fund.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30

Total receipts to closing
books, October IL $6,677.6S
Total expenses to closing
books, October II ....... 1883
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
Decisions Handed Down by loWa's
Hiqhest Tribunal.

Highest Tribunal.
Des Moines, Oct. 27.-The following
decisions We're handed down by the SUI
preme court yesterday.
Witter VS. board of supervisors, Polk
modified and affirmed.
Diemer VS. Guernsey & Johnson, ap
pellant, Tama, reversed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30

Tax ferrets are at work in Delaware
county.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-30


Gains in chartered chapters
Initiated in 1899 ..... ......... 1,407
Reinstated in 1899 ............ 4S
Affiliated in 1899 ........ 49,. 1856
Total gain in chartered chapters 1,640
Losses in chartered chapters
Died in 1899 ................ 100
Omitted in 1899 .............. ass
suspended in 1899 ............. 292
Expelled in 1899 .............. z
Total losses in chartered chapters S55
Leaving net gain in chartered
chapters of $50. ........... 1856
Recapitulation-
Membership reported in 1899 ..12,297
Net gain in chartered chapters. 1856
Gain in chapters under dispen-
sation (estimated) -. ...... 900
Present membership ..... 1882
Being net gain since last re-
| port of ................... 1855
| Finances of the Order.
The report on the finances of the
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-08-30
Khedive's Poem to Victoria.

The Pail Mall Gazette gives this
translation Of the Arabic poem pre-
sented by the khedive to the queen
when he visited Windsor last week.
The poem was written by WE'LL
known Egyptian man of letters, is.
mail Assem:. 20 Lady of the Hing
dom, o Thou Offspring of Those
Mighty Suns, who scared along with
their Realms to Spheres under which
rollsas humble lnaidens the Heavenly
Planets bright. Around Thy Sacred
Head do the Angels wreathe their
Love garlands interviewer with the
Love jewels of Human Souls. But are
Thou Goddess, too. that before Thee
have Times f1inched and lSnelt with
an affrighted look. To Thy Sway have
humbled themselves the Countries of
the Earth, and the mighty Oceans,
with their rolling. foaming Plains,
and the fearful deserts, with their
rolling, sandy waves, thunderstrnck
stood before Thee" The London
Daily News gives somewhat differ
ent, perhaps freer, translation, and
relates curious circumstance, show
ing that the poem is in part remark
able tour de force: ",rhe last hem-
stitch is 'quantitative' in an uneN-
pected sense. Each letter has in the
Arabic alphabet it's arithmeticalv value,
and if all the letters of this hemi-
stitch are added together they amount
to 1900, the date of the sixty-tilir6l
year of her maiesty's reign"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-08-30


\ moderate wind was blowing out
of the southeast, carrying with it the
smoke and SCOT sand gases from all
the cllimneys of the city. Straight
into the teeth of the northwest thun-
dcrstorm blew the southeast wind
laden with it's smoke clouds. The two
winds met
Instantly the smoke clouds were
caught up in The vortex Of the storm,
were whirlcd alof! to a great height
and there began TO circle about i'm
wide gyrations. The thunder clouds
alone were enough to darlscn the land
scape, but when reinforced with the
clouds of SCOT and smoke and dust
from the city, they made night be-
meath them. Not a particle of sun
light could penetrate the sable canopy.
Folk who did not know the cause
of the extreme darkness were greatly
alarmed. There was something terri
flying in the aspect of things. The
city looked like big veloN print, with
the buildings and the figures on the
street all done In sonber shadows.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-08-30
The Douglas Shoe.

The best advertised and consequently
the best known shoe in the world to-day
is undoubtedly made by the w. Z. Doug
las Shoe Co. of Brockton, Mass. The one
idea Of this company has always been to
sell shoe for $3.50 which equals in cv-
cry way the So shoes of any other con-
Germ. They are able to do this on account
of there being no middle mans profit, ~,
the goods are sold direct from the factory
cities Of the country they have their own
retail stores. The goods are made in all
sizes and widths, and few shoes equal
them for style and durability.
The factory at Broclton employs over
100 hands, and all labor troubles are
settled by the State Board of Arbitra-
ton. Nothing but union labor is EN-.
ployed, and pay about the best average
wages Of any shoe workers in the United
States. The factory pay roll amounts to
SIT ,435 per week. This company makes
shoes for men only, and it is their proud
boast that over one million men wear
them.-Denver (Colo) Post.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-08-30
u : - ------------e----
DARK AS MIDNIGHT at MIDDAY.
Terrifying Gloom Gives Kansas ci,

Terrifying Gloon Gives Kansas CITY
Scare.
Kansas City, Mo-, Aus. ao-Tiis
city was plunged into darkness at
midday yesterday, causing lights to be
lit in stores and offices. The phenom-
enon prevailed for half an hour, dur
ing which time rain fell in torrents.
Much alarm was felt, many people
seeking cover in fear of tornado. At
the union depot daylight signals could
not be seen and train service was
stopped for thirty minutes, while wait
ing women and children rushed about
crying. No damage resulted.
The phenomenon was due to pe-
culiar condition of things in the air.
A thunderstorm, which had formed in
the southeast corner of Nebrasiyn
Sunday night, was coming down the
valley, following, in general. the
course OF the Missouri river. As it
passed over the country it darkencd
it considerably, for the clouds were
very dense. Hail fell at st. Joseph
and in several other towns. When the
storm reached Kansas City new con-
dition gave rise to the strange phe-
nomenon people saw here.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-08-30
! 90 :z::: s:s Thonpson'sEyeWatel
T,.nly Rural.


Ohio State Journal: The boys of Co.
lumbus, especially those who live in
the neighborhood of the deaf and
dumb asylum, have fought and played
with the inmates of the same for so
many years that it is no uncommon
thing for them to be almost as fa-
miliar with the sign language as
though compelled to use it. So there
was nothing unusual in the sight the
other day of a boy who was asking
some questions verbally of q compan.
ion and then telegraphing his an.
swers with his fingers to deaf mute
over in the grounds. A country wom-
an who was passing, however, stared
at him, nonpluscd for a moment, and
then, catching her daughters arm, eN-
claimed: ooh, look, Mary Jane! Look!
There's deaf and dumb boy and 1,
common person all in one"