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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-22
Ole Olson.

Ole OISOn.
Aye was standing in de ralerode da-
pot de odder day vateing for de trane,
an aye go oop an way meself on de
wayin-masine. Van ay put mae nickle
in de slit Teller come oopp an sac,
You be damned fool" he say, ito
put yor monee in de slit" Haze say,
AYE bet you too dollar aye can way
mesself if aye blow in de slit" Aye
bet de Teller too dollar an he go oopp
on de masine an blow in de slit an
de masine he way him. So he win
mae money and aye offer him too dollar
more to teets me dat trick. An de fell
Ter he take de too dollar and he say:
AYE tell you how aye do it. Aye
spoot de nickle in me moout an blow
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-22

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25
DEATH OF MRS. EFFIE WARREN.
Occurred Early This 1lorning-Funeral
Will be Held Wednesday.
From Monday'S daiiv

s
Mrs. Fife Warren died this morning
at her home, No. III West Second
street, at the age of ~ years, after
an illness OF about one year. She
leaves surviving her husband, Claude
e. Warren, and little son, Cyrus Will
Jam. now 2 years of age, besides her
father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Cy-
rus v. Armstrong, and two brothers,
w. r. and Arthur, and sister, Martha
Armstrong.
Fife Lena Armstrong was born Jan
uary i, 1878, in Sedalia, Mo-, and when
but one year old removed with her
parents to Ottumwa, where she grew
to womanhood. She was united in
marriage with Claude r. Warren, July
5, 1895. To this union there was born
one son, Cyrus William. now 2 years
Of age. Mrs. Warren enjoyed the ac-
quaintance and friendship of large
number of persons who will feel a per-
sonal loss in her early death. She
was woman of many noble qualities
and in her period of long illness bore
her affection with patience and resig.
nation. This makes the second daugh.
ter that Mr.. and Mrs. Armstrong have
lost within a period covering but lit.
tie more than year, Miss May Arm
| strong having died one year ago this
month in Florida, where she had gone
for the benefit Of her health. The re
mains We're brought to this city one
year ago last Saturday and inferred
in the Ottumwa cemetery.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25

ing the summer. About ninety Des
Moines laboring men will be required,
much skilled labor being brought
in for the construction of the plant.
''Mr. Seibel said that for many years
not be cooked, but the new process,
called the Hemmingwa which is used
by the Universal Fuel company, which
Mr.. Seibel represents, will enable the
great state Of Iowa to coke all OF its
immense quantities of coal. The gas
will be used for fuel only and will be
OF about 14-candle power. 1t is the in
tention, said Mr.. Seibel, of the COM
pany to furnish fuel for all the manu-
featuring industries in the city. The
liquors arising from the manufacture
will be sent east.
s'The ovens to be erected in Iowa
will be built in the order named: One
hundred ovens in Ottumwa, 100 in Des
Moines, 100 in Council Bluffs, 100 in
Davenport and 100 in Dubuque. Owing
to the great interest taken in the mat
ter by the people of Ottumwa, Mr.. Sci
bel said that the company would build
the first ovens there.
"The cost Of 100 ovens will be $685.
900. Each oven will coke about five
tons of coal every twenty-four hours.
The ovens will employ about forty
men. The speaker was satisfied that
his company could in short time
furnish the fuel for all the manufac-
turing plants in the city and in that
way do away with all the dirt aud
smoke now incumbent on: the use Of
soft coal. The Introduction OF the
ovens will greatly cheaper the price
Of fuel gas and make it easily within
the reach of all down town plants.
Following the remarks of Mr.. Sci
bel, Calvin Manning, of Ottumwa, who
was present as guest of the exchange,
was called upon, and said that it gave
him great pleasure to announce to a
gathering Of representative Des Moines
business men that the Lowell of the
West which he had the good fortune
to represent would have the first coke
ovens. But the greatest satisfaction
he derived from the advent of coke
ovens in Iowa was that the grean coal
deposits could now be made into coke,
and in that way put the state. on an
equal plane with her sister states in
the east. Mr.. Manning's earnest re-
marks were warmly applauded."s
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25
GETS EIRsT OVENS.
Universal Fuel Co. Will Erect FRS
Coke Plant In Ottumwa.
From Wednesdays Daily.1

The first coke ovens which are to be
erected in Iowa by the Universal Fuel
company will be built in Ottumwa. The
exact location or the time at which
this work will be begun has not been
announced definitely, but the fact
that the first ovens will be blilt in
Ottumwa is assured. At least such
was the statement OF Kilian Seibel, a
representative of the new coke COM
pany during an address before the
Commercial Exchange at Des Moines
yesterday. Calvin Manning, Of this
city, was present and addressed the
meeting, Of which the Des Moines
Register this morning publishes the
following account:
"Kilian Seibel, representing the
company which projects the erection
of a battery of coke ovens in this city,
addressed a largely attended meeting
of the Commercial Exchange, on Tues
day evening with reference to the pro-
ject. The company proposesSto invest
$S5,000 in coke oven plant in this
city, standing ready to bring in an
outside company, which shall erect a
500, 900 gas works to distribute and
sell cheap fuel gas to down town
plants. The plans now contemplate
That 4he coke ovens shall be built dur
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25
Bizer vs. Bier Case Decided in
Supreme Court
DEFENDANT WON IN DISTRICT COURT
Grounds ON which Divorce was Asked
Observation-Disclosures Filed Crosse
sitl Alleging same Charge and
X Was Given Decree
From Tuesdays Daily.

The supreme court has reversed the
decision OF Judge T. M. Fee in the
case of Frank Bier VS.. Flora Bier, in
which cross bill was filed and result
ed in the defendant in the original case
being granted divorce. The case was
tried in district court in this city in
the fall of 1898. Attorneys Mitchell &
Hunter and w. w. Cory appearing for
the plaintiff in the original case, and
Attorneys McNett s. Tisdale represent
ed the defendant. The petition for di-
! vorce stated that the plaintiff and de-
PENDANT were married in 1882. They
had daughter II years old, and son
Is. The husband and wife separated
IN 1897. Mr.. Bier later commencing
Hction to secure a divorce. on the
grounds Of adultery, naming the CO.
respondent. The defendant pleaded
not guilty to the charge and filed a
cross bill, praying for the divorce,
charging her husband with adultGy,
hAbitual drunkenness and cruel and
tried before Judge Fee who dismissed
Mr.. Bizer's petition, and found the hus-
band guilty OF habitual drunkenness,
rendering Mrs. Bier decree of di-
4 yorce, and giving Mrs. Bier the custo-
& dy of the daughter, aud Mr.. Bier the
son. Mrs. Bier was also given $500 al
imony and one-half or more of the
household effects.
From this decree Mr.. Bier, thru his
attorneys, appealed to the supreme
court, and the reversed decision as
above referred to was the result, the
same just having been received. The
supreme court finds that Mr.. Bier is
not guilty of adultery nor of cruel and
inhuman treatment. The decision fur
Their states that Mrs. Bier is found
guilty Of the charge of adultery and
on this the supreme court over-ru1ed
the decision Of the lower court and re-
fused to grant Mrs. Bier a divorce,
also refusing to give her $500 alimony,
but on the other hand gives the decree
/ of divorce to Mr.. Bier, leaving the dis
position of the household effects and
the custody of the children to be deter
\ mined by the district court here.
A constable from Blakesburg came
up to the city this morning with d
warrant for Reuben Cook, the man
charged with horse stealing, mention
Ut which is made at another place in
this paper, and had the defendant in
tow ready to take him away. Cook
was out on bonds and Constable Camp.
bell got wind that the other constable
was after his man. He at once began
to work q scheme on his fellow minio1l
OF the law, and succeeded in getting
possession OF Cook under mittimus
from Justice Campbell's court. The
Blakesburg man wanted Cook on thu
charge Of stealing a set Of harness
but was forced to return to his native
II heath . somewhat wiser man.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25
A COURIER PREssMAN.
r. W. Miiburn. In the Days of the
Washington Hand Press.

From Tuesdays Daily.
I. w. Milburn, of the firm of I. w.
Milburn & Sons, millers, of Stansbury,
Gentry county, Missouri, was in the
city today in company with his father,
John Milburn, of Chillicothe, having
been summoned to Iowa recently by
the death of his aged mother. While in
the city today he and his aged father
called at the Courier office, the former
bearing the distinction of being one of
the first pressmen employed on the OF
tumwa Daily Courier. This was just
after the close of the war; and in the
days when the principal papers of the
west Were printed on the old Washing
ton hand presses. Mr.. Milburn was
what might be termed an expert with
a Washington, and today related a
pleasing bit of early newspaper history
in Ottumwa.
He was then young man about 10
years old. but very large for one of his
age, and as this was a quality necessa-
ry to make a good Washington press
man, he was quise naturally assigned
to that portion of the work. In fact
that was the part that suited Mr.. Mil
burn better than any other, and he
was envied by all visiting pressmen at
the Courier office in those days. The
Courier was then a folio sheet. One
side was printed in the morning, and
the. other two pages in the afternoon.
Mr.. Milburn said he worked in the
Courier Office little over three years.
finally being compelled, on account of
i'll health, to abandon the trade. He
liked it, and said had it not been for
his failing health, he probably would
have been at 1T today.
He one time visited Oskaloosa and
worked a halliday operating a Wash
ington hand press in an office in that
city. 1t was much larger than the one
then in use in the Courier Office, and as
he was not accustomed TO the change,
the extra efforts necessary to operate
the press resulted in brief illness.
Mr.. Milburn visited the Courier's well
equipped composing and press rooms,
expressing much amazement at the
wonderful strides that have been made
in the brief period since he was fore
man of the latter department of the
same paper.
His father was formerly engaged in
the milling business, and when L. w.
abandoned the printing trade put him
in the mill. Today he is at the head
of firm owning and operating rs
barrel Touring mill, the other members
of the firm being his two sons.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25
This space belongs 10 me. / nav

This space belongs TO me. pay
for it and use it to advertise other
people-to roast my friends and as a
vent to relieve my feelings. Some peo-
pie don't need vent as they haven't
any feelings. What they had blew out
like gas when Company g went away
speeches, bouquets, chicken sand
witches, bands of music, prayers and
tears then-almost utter forgetfulness
nov. To the few who helped the boys
make the alarming sum of about $s5
or $50, they are very grateful. To
those who would have helped but could
not afford it, they are just as grateful,
hut there are a lot of people in this
town who are about as generous and
patriotic as an old COW, and am not
afraid to tell them SO. Talk about
public nuisances! The grand jury
ought to indict some of these folks and
give them six months in the sewer.
There wasn't standing room in the OPP
era house at the Glove feast" you gave
the boys before they went away. It
didn't cost anything then, but when
they gave their concert and charged a
reasonable admittance, the crowd ran
the other way like dog with a tin
can tied to his tail. If some of you peo-
pie will bring me your pictures, I'll
furnish the tin cans, and the boys will
tie them on. At glance don't be-
lieve anyone could tell the difference.
M. Q. NNYMAN.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25
New Railroad for Upton.

Upton, Jan. 22.-Engineer T. B.
Downer has cocpleted the survey from
Muscatine to Upton and says the road
will be built. The old railroad grade
can be used almost the whole way
from Upton to Muscatine with the ex-
ception of six miles. If the weather is
suitable the survey will be finished as
far as Anamosa and independence.
Upton has two railroads now and she
has room for another. The new road
will pass thru the Eden of Iowa and
will strike nine good towns in dis
stance of 100 miles. There has been
much talk about this new road but we
expect it is a go now.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25
TO RECOVER oosT OF PAVING.
Suits Rrought by North Court stree,
Property Owners.
From Mondav's daiIy

& EAoA1 flouOdy . QdllTs
Now that the courts have declared
the front foot plan of assessing paw
ing tax unconstitutional, property
owners in this CITY have commenced
actions against the city of Ottumwa
to recover the amount of tax that has
been paid under the old rule of assess
ments. c. G. McIntire has commenced
an action and tomorrow will file the
petition in the CLERKS Office for his
clients, Estella Graves and Carrie
Graves, alleging that in 1892 the city
made an assessment against the prop
erty of plaintiffs to pay for the cost
of improving the street on which
their propertv ADULTS, and
known as North Court street.
That the assessment was made arbi-
trarily for the full expense of said inn
provement and without any attempt
to ascertain the benefits that would
accrue. That said tax was certified
to the county treasurer who now col
lects the same. Wherefore the plain
tiff prays that an injunction issue re
straining the defendants from the col
lection of the tax and for Judgment
against the defendant, the city of OF
tumwa for the amount OF the pay
ments that have already been made.
This case will be watched with
much interest by North Court
street property owners and if these
plaintiffs are successful other suits will
doubtless be instituted. That there is
reasonable ground to suppose such an
action will have standing in court,
lawyers say is indisputa'ble. But just
what figure the fact that payments in
many cases have been made for years
without protest, will cut is not known.
This case will be followed by from
twelve to fifteen others.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25
The ..squarlng OF The circle.

For over two thousand years, compe-
tent and incompetent minds have
striven to solve the problem known as
the "squaring of the circle" So many
Incorrect answers were presented,
that in the year 1775, resolution was
adopted by a prominent board not to
accept any more. There is another
problem as difficult, and for which peo-
pie have been seeking the answer since
the beginning Of life, and this is the
problem Of health-how to get it, and
how to keep it. If you have lost yours
thru neglect or abuse Of the stomach,
get Hostetter's Stomach Bitters in
stantly. 1t will restore health, and
keep you healthy. For fifty years it
has cured constipation, indigestion,
dyspepsia, fever and ague, malaria,
inactive liver and weak Kidneys.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25
THE EIsTEDDFoD.
wall be Held In Ottumwa ana Prom
~ Isea Much Of Ipterest.

The reorganization Of the Iowa State
Etsteddfod was effected at Hiteman
!, last week on a permanent and sound
financial basis. 1t was voted to hold
the next Eisteddfod in Ottumwa, De-
cember 25, 1900, and one Of the prin-
cipal features OF the occasion will oe
d band contest. The indications are
that it will eclipse anything Of the
kind ever held west OF the Mississippi
river and will make Ottumwa the mu-
steal center OF the state for the time
being. Nearly all Of the shares of
stock have been disposed OF, and 1t is
thought that those shares yet remain
ing will be taken by Ottumwa people.
The stockhold ers' meeting for the cleo.
lion OF officers will be held at Abba,
K February 2s. Mayor T. J. Phillips
and 81. y. Waterman are among the
4 Ottumwa stockholders.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25
NO BOEIs SYMPATHY.
Iowa Legislature Refuses TO Adopt
Resolutions.

Des Moines, Jan. 23.-The Beers
were denied sympathy by the Iowa
house of representatives yesterday af-
ternoon. A resolution expressing sym
pathy with the Beers was introduced
In the house by Representative Carter
Of Sioux county, in obedience to the
wishes OF the large Holland colony in
that county. Representative Hawk OF
Jasper county moved that the reso-
luton be laid on the table, and
that motion prevailed by q vote Of 81
10 %.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25
Corpora,,on. 70 he A.re..ed.

In THIS cOnnectlOn II Will De OF Inter-
terest to corporations in this city TO
know that there is section of the new
code which provides that for the pur-
pose of assessment they shall render
to the city assessor before the 25th
day of January OF every year a cersi-
fed statement of the capital stock of
the coronation, number Of shares and
the par value of each. 1t also provides
that the statement shall show the
amount paid into the treasury on each
share and the total capital paid in.
The date, rate per cent and the amount
of each dividend must also be shown.
Any real estate that is owned by the
corporation must be described so that
the same can be assessed as real es-
tate, The gross net earnings and
the surplus is also required to be
shown.
City Assessor Smith has received or
ders from the state auditor to be very
stringent about the matter and see
that all the corporations in the city
make statements according to the
spirit and letter of the law.
The section OF the code which
touches the matter is 1923, and is as
follows:
Shares of Corporation Stock The
shares Of stock of any corporation or
ganized under the laws of this state,
except those which are not organized
Tor pecuniary profit, and except cor
porations otherwise provided for in
this act, shall be assessed to the own
ers thereof, at the place where its prin-
cipal business is transacted, the assess
ment to be on the value of such shares
on the first, day of January Of. each
year; but in arriving at the total value
of the shares of such corporations, the
amount OF their capital actually in
vested in real estate owned by them
either in this state or elsewhere shall
be deducted from the real value of such
shares and such real estate shall be
assessed as other real estate, and the
property of such corporation, except
real estate situated within the state
shall not be otherwise assessed. Every
such CORPORATION annually on or before
the 25th day of January shall furnish
to the assessor of the assessment dis.
trict in which his place of business is
located verified statement, showing
specifically with reference to the year
next preceding the first day Of January
then last past:
/. Total authorized capital stock
and number OF shares thereof.
2. Number of shares of stock ISSUED
and par value of each.
8. Amount paid into the treasury
on each share and total capital paid in
4. Description and value of each tract
of real estate owned by said corpora
ton.
S. Date, rate per cent and amoun1
of each dividend declared.
6. Gross net earnings respectively
during the year and amount Of sur
plus.
z. Amount Of profit added to The
sinking fund.
8. Highest price of sales of stock
between the first and tenth days o.
January OF the current year.
9. Highest price of sales of stock
during the preceding year and average
price of such sales.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25
j. r. Smith and His Assistants
Complete First Weeks Work.
THE LISTING OF OMITTED PROPERTY
Some Are Not Waiting for the Investi.
cation to be Completed-Co Corpora.
lions TO be Assessed = Laws
Governing the Same
from Tuesdays Daily.

EIOIH ueSudt . DdiAy.
City Assessor j. T. Smith and his
assistants, G. E. Benson, Ed Smith,
Charles Mitchell and John Peck, conn
pleted the first week of their work of
assessing Ottumwa personal property
yesterday. Assessor Smith has been
on the sick nst for the past few days,
but will probably be able to be out
this week. He has until the first day
of April in which to make the assess
ment, and will in all probability have
it completed some time before that.
The work in which l.. NJ. Cooley is at
present engaged, that of securing list
of all assessable notes and such other
property and which has been withheld
property and which has been held
from the assessor in past years, is
having beneficial effect already. A
number of persons owning such prop
erty have voluntarily listed the same
this year, and have not waited for the
investigation to be completed. Sew
eral thousand dollars worth of prop
erty will be added to the assessable
list in Ottumwa this year from the
system now in progress, and quite nat
urally there is considerable opposition
to it on the part of those whom it is
affecting.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25

Work has again commenced on the
passenger depot Of the Illinois Central
at Council R.rHs. 1t will cost about
$4,000.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-08-27
sILAY VOWS WELL KEPT.
Artist Whose Masterpiece Was Due ts
 an Oath He Took.

The French artist. Gericauld, was determined to allow no distraction to interfere with the painting of his great picture, "The Wreck of the Medusa." He had his head shaved and vowed that he would never allow his hair to grow until his work was done This vow he religiouslS kept, in spite of strong temptation to break it, and the reward of his heroism was the most perfect painting of his life 4 story is told of young man in E.. gland, a great chess enthusiast, who was so annoyed at his failure to solve an ap- parently simple problem that he vowed he would neither sleep nor eat until the solution was found. He shut him. self up in a disused room and was found four days later by his relatives terribly emaciated and out of his mind. He spent a yearin the lHnatie asylum. as the result of his rash vow; and the problem remains unsolyed. It was for a very curious reason that an old lady, who died a few years ago. condemned herself to more than thirty years confinement to her house. She had married a WidoWer, as miser1y as he was unromantie, and he insisted that his second wife should wear the clothes left behind her by his first wife. The wife was as =mutinous as the husband was reselute, and she de- termined that until she could have her own clothes she would never leave the house-a vow she kept until her death. Woman appears to be at the root of many eccentric vows, for it was a ha- tired of the sex that once impelled 2 WelI-known lawyer to swear that he would never speak to woman again as long as he lived. Nothing would induce him to see a lady client, and he would never conduct case in which 3 woman appeared 1s witness. He never employed a female servant, and deliberately "eut9 all his lady aequain- tanees. The inevitable result was that the men deserted him. his practice dwindled and he died, less than year ago. alone in q squalId room.-Pitts- burg Dispatch.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-08-27
A New Rullet-Proof Shield.

The firm of Cammell & Co, the we'll known stee1makers of Sheffield, hove made a bullet proof shield wnlch weighs no more than seven pounds, and affords complete protection to the soldier against the service rifle at 100 yards range. The shield is attached to the rifle by special band. It can be detached as quickly as unfxing a bayonet It is hoped by tLe inveneor that by the use of this shield, trench ing operations will be largely avoided, and the often vexatious delays of pick and shovel work will be often rend red unnecessary.