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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-08

Levi Thompson was shot and killed
near Carbon, while cleaning an old
shotgun. He attempted to blow down
the barrel, when it was discharged.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-08
Board Of Trade Man Killed.

Chicago, Nov. 6.-Samuel Friend, a
retired member of the board of trade,
was struck by a north-bound Illinois
central express train yesterday at
Twenty-ninth street and instantly
killed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-08

Two young men at Cumberland are
under arrest charged with causing
the death of a young girl.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-08
SUCCEEDED HIMSELF.
Will be One Democratic Senator at
Washington, Anyway.

Atlanta, Ca, Nov. 6.-The general
assembly in joint session today, elect
ed United States Senator Bacon to
succeed himself,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-08

The claims committee reported the
following claims with the recommen-
dalton that they be not allowed, which
action was concurred in. These bills
and amounts are as follows:
]. M. Harris, for cost Of scavenger
work, $3.50.
Bill from George D. Brown for dam
The daily sentinel., 1900-12-29
Presbyterian Watch Meeting.

On New Years eve the Presbyterian
membership and congregation will meet
in their house Of worship for combined
church family gathering and watch
meeting. The two-fold purpose is that
the church members and congregation
may know each other better and receive
impressions from two centuries.
The church doors will be thrown open
at $50 m., thus allowing the individ-
ual families New Years eve at home
before coming to the church.
At $3.50 p. m, all the members and
friends are invited to be present for a
heart to heart fellowship. Light refresh
ments will be served.
at II an address will be given by
Prof. Shaw on 1.-THE Best the Nineteenth
Century Has Given U.s."
At 11:3O devotions will be conducted
by the pastor.
At 11:55 the watch for the new CEN
tury will begin.
just after u o'clock short address
will be given by Prof. Miller on "The
Opportunities of the New Century"
The daily sentinel., 1900-12-29

Try The Progress bread.
Monday night is the big ball.
Kitchen utensils at Rio Grande Store.
Try The Progress Next to Hardy's.
Plate Glass Insurance. Goff & Mar
shall.
Anderson's Bargain House for furni-
ture.
The best mince meat you ever saw at
The Progress.
Cheap prices always prevail at the Rio
Grande store.
The Progress has free delivery to all
parts of the city.
IL your floor looks shabby, get a new
carpet at Anderson's.
"Cleanliness is Next to Goodness" :"
Try the Star Laundry.
! For Sale-New five room cottage, close
in Inquire at this office.
Always fresh and pure-the confec-
tionery at the Boston Handy Kitchen.
Did you ever stop at the Rio Grande
Store? II not, it will pay you to do 30.
Go to the Rio Grande Store for any
thing in the way of granite or tin ware.
Agents wanted. Town and country
work. International nurseries, Denver,
Colorado.
Never grows old-the fruit cake like
they make at The Progress. 1t i'm
proves with age.
John E. Phillips, president Of tho
Town company, left for his home in Den
yer this evening.
District Attorney Samuel g. McMul-
lin leaves for Denver tomorrow night to
be gone several weeks.
The good reputation of the Boston
Handy Kitchen established years ago
for pure Candies still sticks with it.
We have fine line Of china and are
prepared to make you low price.
Rio Grande Store.
5000 to loan on city and ranch pro-
perty in sums form 500 to $1,000. Reas-
enable rates. Ramey Bros.
Home made candies are the best if
they are made right. and that is the only
kind you find at the Boston Handy
Kitchen.
Wanted to Rent-Forty saddle horses
for Sunday, January 9th, 1901, for
mounted drill. Apply to Lieut.. T. Il.
Van Buren, for further information.
Aaverly's New Mastadon Minstrels in
an up, to date makeup is one of the
early bookings at the Park opera house.
A performance Of musical merit and de-
cided novelty is promised.
BACK UP your New Years
resolution With a suitable pres.
ent and you will start to stay.
Gourley has goods in that line
that will suit.
City Clerk Truman Ketchum says
that there will be a rebate OF per cent.
allowed on all sewer assessments against
lots il paid within the next thirty days;
after that there will be no rebate OF any
kind whatever, and the payments run
through period OF ton years.
A good story is told on L. M. Miller,
one of the banqueters at the recent feast
held at the annual meeting OF the
Knights Templsr. Mr.. Miller did not
reach his country home till 2 o'clock,
having to drive two or three miles. Az
ter he got to sleep, so it ie said he told
several friends. he appeared to be at the
Episcopal church. He was called on for
prayer and looked around for his
friend Rev. Sanderson, but he was not
there. de was in an awful dilemma and
he thought Of many passages both in
sacred and masonic writ, but he could
not gather any one OF them intelligen tly
together and he was just about becomi z
desperate. when he awoke. Mr.. Miller
laughingly says he has been to many
banquets where Templars and Masons
have been together, but never Affected
as the last one did. And Mr.. Miller is =
mighty sober man.
The Springfield herald., 1900-04-13

many years bracelet which belonged
to the unfortunate Macmillan, en-
peror of Mexico. The queen OF Eng
lands second son. the duke of SAKE
Coburg, not only wears bracelet. but
me- has a chain round his neck. The
example, as may be seen, comes from
high quarters. and 1t is natural that
princes should have many imitators,
not only among those around them but
further aneld The prince OF Wales
sets the fashion In dress and the slight
est fancy of his is accepted. as rule.
The latest talk is Of the prince fasten-
ing his frock coat with coat link. We
do not think the fashion will find imI-
tators in France. Our young men
have adopted uncut stones set in gold
for waistcoat buttons. but these links
for frock coat appear too marked for
us. The prince de Sagan might have
risked them, but assuredly no one
would have followed his example,
LArt de la Mode.
The Springfield herald., 1900-04-13
lNDlA's PECULIAR PEOPLE.
Tho Bicycle Has Nearly Emancipated
Tho Parsi Women.


The most peculiar people of India
are the Parsis (or "Parsees." meaning
-'PersiansD, who feed their dead to
the vultures upon the Towers of ST.
lence,- says Harper's Magazine. They
ned to India from Persia when that
land fell into the hands of the Arabs
Twelve centuries ago. Their men are
the first very singular persons the
traveller sees on board the ship which
takes him to India, their singularity
consisting in their long, sallow faces
and large eyes, their shiny! patent
leather-looking. tubular hats and their
long and ugly coats. They are most
numerous in Bombay, but one meets
them in other cities on Bombay side."
md in Madras and Calcutta on the
other shore. They are the richest ma
tives of India and have made and still
make their money in trade. They are
the only Indians who, as body. ad-
mire and cultivate western progressive
ideas, who treat their women fairly
we'll (according to our ideas), and who
permit their widows to marry again.
Their first rule of life is to practice
more literally. They maintain nearly
two-score charitable institutions in
Bombay alone. They are the only peo-
pie in the world who do not smoke,
and this is because they will not trife
with fire, which is sacred in their be-
tief They never expectorate and they
will not in any way contaminate the
earth or water or defile the trees and
flowers. That is why they destroy
their dead without burning the bodies.
They have no beggars among them;
they are monogamists; they are not
caste-ridden Tor rooted), like the Hin
docs, for they acknowledge but two
classes-the priests and the people
They keep new year day, not only as
a religious fete day, but, much as we
do. as a day for general visiting. Their
women are not imprisoned with their
servants or otherwise degraded, but
may be met anywhere and everywhere
to the same extent as English women
In India. So often are these women
comely, and so beautifully are they
clad-ip such soft and exquisitely col
bred silks-that, ss one writer says:
''They appear as houris floating ABOUT
the earth in silk balloons, with a BAL
lasting of anklets necklaces, earrings
and jewelry." 1t is no more than falr
of the Parsi men to let this be as 1t
is, for they are the ugliest men that
The Springfield herald., 1900-04-13
COL. BADEN-POWELL.
DEFENSE OF MAFEKINo HAS
GAINED HIM DISTINCTION.
HIS Long Resistance of = Superior
Eorce Has Made Him = Hero in Brit
Ah Eyes-Typs of the Army Made
Mana Fighter by Trade.

Col R. s. S. Baden-Powell. defender
OF Mafeking, is seasoned frontiers
man. At the beginning of the Trans
vaal war Col. Baden-Powell undertook
the defense with force consisting Of
n par. of the First Battalion of the
Lancashire (Royal North) Regiment,
the First Battalion Munster Fusiliers,
and 1000 colonials. with one battery OF
artillery-in all probably 1000 men.
The siege began on October 10, 1899.
and was led by Gen. Cronje in person
until he went to Kimberley to oppose
Methuen. Baden-Powell was bonn
barded almost daily. He made occa-
sional sorties. but his force was too
small and his weapons too ineffective
to make headway against the besieg-
Ing force.
Col. Baden-Powell Is a cavalry Of
ficer, who joined the Hussars when be
was nineteen. and is now "A lieutenant
colonel in a regiment of Dragon
Guards. His life has been spent In
the army and in special service and
travel, and he is an authority on cav
airy tactics, having written manuals
on reconnaissance work and scouting
Like Cecil Rhodes. Col. Baden-Pow-
The Springfield herald., 1900-04-13
MARCUS DAILY.

tana in 1880, as the representative OF
a syndicate of which Hearst was
member, to develop some property
there. DAILY was given working In
terest. This was the foundation OF
his fortune. He took hold of the An
aconda copper properties of his princi-
pals and developed them to such an ex-
tent that his interests have amounted
in twenty years to $20,0O0,OOO. The
Anaconda, with its mines at Butte, Its
smelters at Anaconda, its sawmills In
the western part of the state and Its
coal in the eastern and northern por-
tions, is the largest employer OF labor
in the state, employing 10000 people
out of a total population of 25O,OOO. IL
reduces 1000 tons of ore every day and
during 1898 cut more lumber than any
other establishment in the United
States.
Daily is not remarkable man except
as a money maker, nor has his career
been eventful. His diversion is the
breeding of horses and raising fruits
He has the second largest apple or
chard in the country and his horses
have won fame on the race track
Probably the happiest days of his busy
life are spent on his Bitter Root ranch
Each summer he is there with his fam
lily. He always has friends there. They
are not, as rule. people who have
fine places of their own. Boys and
girls of the age of his own children
are the principal visitors. and to see
DAILY with the youngsters one would
not suppose he was carrying the bur-
dens of one of the biggest enterprises
in the northwest.
The Springfield herald., 1900-04-13
.a Secret Process.

Lovers of the exhilarating cocktail.
which cheers and makes a difference IN
the morning, ought to be interested In
the experiments which are being made
in this country to produce a good YER
muth. We have succeeded in making
a passably good quality of Vermuth.
said liquor man, but | am afraid it
will be long time before we can equal
the foreign article. The best Vermuth
comes from Turin. Italy. and the next
in quality is made in Marseilles. In
fact, about all the Vermuth sold is
made in these two cities. The latter
named city produces practically all
that comes from France. 1t is not
easy to arrive at the quantity of Yer
muth imported to the United States for
the reason that it comes classified as
wine. The secret of its manufacture is
closely guarded in both France and
Italy. and it would not surprise me II
we were making a first-class quality of
champagne in the United States before
we can make a prime quality OF Yer
muth."-New York Commercial.
The Springfield herald., 1900-04-13

ell is the son of a minister. He Joined
the Thirteenth Hussars in 1876 and. as
adjutant, served with his regiment in
India and Afghanistan and in South
Africa. Early in his military career
he became familiar with the parts OF
the African continent with which his
name will hereafter be associated. In
1887 he was again at Cape Town as
assistant military secretary to Gen. Sir
Henry Smyth, and during his two
years stay there he served in the
Zululand operations. After serving
three years at Malta, he again re-
turned to Africa, charged with the
special service Of raising and COM
manding the native levies in the Ash
antee operations. For his work in this
campaign he received the brevet rank
of lieutenant colonel After the jane
son raid, when the Matabeles rose a
second time, he was chosen as chief
stan officer OF Gen. Sir Frederick Car
rington. At the beginning of the
Transvaal war rlhe was selected to pro-
ceed to South Africa to raise mill
tary force on the spot and to drill 1t
into efficiency. That he succeeded In
doing so was attested by his long re-
sistance against a superior force.
The Springfield herald., 1900-04-13
NOW A CAPE NOME NAHos.

Several scores of men in the new
and extraordinary gold fields OF Cape
Nome, away up in northwestern Alas
ka. have made marvellous leaps from
direst poverty into the zap OF riches
during the past year But no one al
Cape Nome has had a more unusua.
career and has gone more swiftly from
poorest, pinching poverty to abundant
wealth than Jacob B. Halsey, who is
known all along the coast of Alaska,
Jake, as he is called. is one of the six
richest men in the Cape Nome gold re.
gion.
Jake is native of Maine and is now
thirty-two years old. He was born in
poverty, and up to the age OF thirty
had tasted deeply of its bitterness. For
fifteen years his total annual earnings
never amounted to over $215. Five
years ago Jake worked on wharf in
Rockland, Me-, and later was a freight
brakeman for a while. Three years
ago he tramped from Chicago to Kan
sas City and beat his way on the cars
from Kansas City to San Francisco
He wandered around Frisco during
July, 1897, without cent in his pocket
He then got odd Jobs cleaning windows
or doing something of that nature, and
by strict economy managed to save a
little. In February. 1898. with but $1o2
in his pocket, he started for the Klon-
dixie gold fields. Here ne endured ter
rible hardships, nearly dying from
hunger and cold, and found that all
the claims were taken. He managed 10
live for while doing chores at Daw-
son hotel. He received $65 from a man
whom he nursed while sick. and was
about to start back tor Frisco when he
heard wonderful tales of the immense
gold deposits at Cape Nome. He start
ed for the new field, located claim on
Snow Creek, six miles from Nome. and
struck 1t rich from the start. His luck
was phenomenal. Today he has $685.
600 on deposit in San Francisco
bank He owns two placer mines at
Nome easily worth $4,000 more. Be-
sides he has real estate at Nome that
rents for S70O a month and might be
The Springfield herald., 1900-04-13
CHINA AND SEWERAGE.
Impo.slbllity of Introducing ideas Into
That Country.

WI.
That Country.
1t appears strange to us that, when
railroads and machinery are SO useful
to us. any one in China can be so
stupid as to fight against their intro
duction. But what does the introduce
tion of our civilization and our ma
chinery mean to the Chinaman? 1,
means that their population will be re-
duced by at least 500O0,000. They say
If railways, gas works and machinery
are introduced 1t will throw a lot of
land out of cultivation. American and
European travellers on visiting China
are shocked at the filth which is ap-
parent everywhere. Their nostrils are
outraged by the nauseating odo-s,
They say that the Chinese have no
idea at all of decency, cleanliness o.:
sanitation; that our modern system OF
sewers has no existence in China. The
Chinese on their part look upon the
waste of our sewerage system as criml-
nal folly. The quantity of nitrogenc
Gus matter that is discharged by tn
London sewers would make a whole
should introduce our sewers and GU.
sanitary appliances into their country
one-half of the Cinnamon would die ci
starvation during the next ten ycars
England can enjoy the luxury OF sani
tary appliances and still prosper, be
cause England lives on other nations
II all the food consumed by English
men had to be raised in England il L
very evident that it would not do TO
allow any organic substance to go to
waste. We should have to do exactly
as the Chinaman does. But England
itself is comparatively small country
and obtains the greater part of hef
food supply by dealing with other and
larger countries. 1t is necessary tina
the food should come from som :
where; some one has to raise it. an.
as England is small country there IL
no trouble in finding sufficient food TO.
her population. But would such
thing be possible in China? If the
Chinese should adopt western civiliza
tion and should only be able to pro
duce as much off their land as is pro
duced. say in France or England, she
would very soon run short of food, and
being the most populous country in the
world it would be eventually quite i'm
possible for her to draw an adequat
food supply from foreign countries. Il
might be said that as far as food sup
ply and giving employment to grea
number of workers is concerned the
| Chinese system of civilization has
been intensified to the highest posi-
BILE pitch. and the population of Chin
is so numerous at the present tim'
that this high state of skill and cult
vation is only barely sufficient to sup
port the population. Therefore i
would appear that any interference
from outside nations in the interna
economy Of the country can only di
minish the food supply and lead to tn
most deplorable condition of affairs
Flelden's Magazine.
The Springfield herald., 1900-04-13
Bed-SOres.

Bed-sores are likely to occur in the
patient who is aged, paralyzed, debil-
itated or suffering from fever. partic-
ularly continued fever, like typhoid;
In short. their formation is liable in all
cases where the blood Is vitiated, or
its circulation retarded and the consti-
tutlonal powers reduced; pressure, un-
cleanness and moisture hasten their
appearance. To prevent them, keep the
patient clean and dry, changing his
position whenever practicable; keep
ing the feet warm assists circulation:
keep the under sheet free from wrin-
kles and crumbs; remove pressure
from prominent parts by using air
cushions or like appliances. Soap plas-
ter is sometimes applied to exposed
portions, or bathing with bay rum,
whisky. witch hazel. camphor OF vine
gar, etc, but the best way is to
strengthen the skins resistance by
bathing with alcohol. pure, or with the
addition of two grains Of bichloride OF
mercury to each ounce; keep the bot
tie handy and bathe eoften-whenever
opportunity offers. This treatment
hardens the skin and promotes circu-
lation, and should be commenced at the
BEGINNING of illness. before the skin is
even Redeemed. Should reddening ap-
pear. apply flexible collodion or dust
with zinc oxide, talcum. comfort or
other good powder after bathing.
The Springfield herald., 1900-04-13
BISHOP RIDLEY.

There will be no more striking ng-
ure than William Ridley, bishop of
Caledonia, British Columbia, at tho
Ecumenical Conference on Foreign
Missions to be held at New York.
Bishop Ridley was sent to India In
1866 by the Church Missionary Society,
of England, to work on the confines OF
the Ameer of Afghanistan's domain.
and had his missionary training In
that most difficult field. A few years
later, however, his health obliged him
to leave India, and he was appointed
chaplain to the British Church at
The Springfield herald., 1900-04-13

crawl upon this globe. An English
lady advised me to go and see the rich
Parsi young women riding bicycles on
the road beside the sea at o'clock of
any afternoon. What an ideal. The
bicycle has SO revolutionized young
womanhood in England that men who
return there after short absence can
not cEedit their senses as they note
the change in the maidens and their
home government. What will 1t do
or not do-in India? Truly that mod
est-looking toy has worked as much OF
the change In this swift-booted cen
tury as many of our important inven-
tions. 1t has proved a steed which
leaps the highest bars OF prejudice,
runs away with the deepest-roo. ed con
ventions-even outpaces the plans OF
women for their own emancipation
l try to fancy what 1t may do in India.
but. after all, 1t has only a few thou
sands of Parsis upon whom to work.
The Springfield herald., 1900-04-13
COMPASS AS A LlFE-sAvER.
Two Men Owe Their Lives to tho Littl.
Needle.


Needle.
Two men were saved from death on
the Lake Erie Ice during the recent
blizzard by one of those chances which
are seemingly inspired by Providence,
Matt Carrig and Dennis Foley. who
had gone out from Buffalo to fish
through the ice, were suddenly caught
by the binding snowstorm when a
mile from shore. They packed their
kit and started their dog. trusting the
animars sixth sense to find the shore.
The dog wandered about for time,
shifting the air, and lay down, com
pletely lost Carrig then started out
alone to find where they were, II pos
sible, keeping up a continued shout
ing, that he might not lose Foley. He
came upon a stretch of ice from which
the wind had blown the snow, and
found several holes cut where fisher
men had been. A box imbedded in the
ice attracted his attention and he dug
it out. 1t contained pocket compass.
Carrig is an old sailor. and the find
saved him and Foley. By the compass
they determined the direction of Buf-
falo. When they landed at Michigan
street they were nearly exhausted by
the cold They had been nearly eigh.
hours lost upon the ice.-New York
Mail and Express.
The Springfield herald., 1900-04-13

Dresden. Saxony, where he remained
two years. After this he occupied
parishes in England a few years. In
1879 he was appointed the first bishop
of Caledonia, British Columbia, bring
ing to his work there the fruits OF his
experience In his previous fields. and
now for over twenty years he has ad-
ministered the affairs of that diocese
with singular ability. a ffH
Bishop Ridley is well known as
scholar, and his contributions to
philology have been considerable. He
ia the author of number of works on
The Springfield herald., 1900-04-13
COPPER KING DAILY.
THE MAN WHO OPPOSES SEN
ATOR CLARK.
iAstracted Attention hv His Fight Against
the Montana Contestant for . Seat In
Upper House of Congress - How He
Made His Millions.

Marcus A. DAILY. the Montana copper
king, has attracted attention by his
tight against Senator William A.
Clark. both in the Montana legislature,
and since Clark's arrival at Washing
ton. He Is worth 10000 .00O-all ac-
Quired within twenty years. Born In
New York. of Irish parentage, he
drifted west at an early age and
worked in the mines. One of his en-
pioyers In the latter '70's was George
r. Hearst. who recognized Days
shrewdness and his magnetic influence
over other men and sent him to Mon