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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-06

turned to Hedrick last Friday evening
to resume her work as primary teach
err This is her third year in Hedrick.
Milton Barwick, of Martinsburg, was
in town today.
Henry Osterfosse is hauling rock
from the Alderman quarry preparatory
to erecting barn on his farm south of
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Harrison, of Win
field. spent Sunday at the home of l..
B. Dreamer.
Mr.. Benson, of Gladbrook, assumed
his duties as principal at the North
school building today. Mr.. Benson
succeeds Principal Meisner, who is To-
Gated at South English.
Rev. Dillon, of Martinsburg, and Rev
lngham exchanged pulpits yesterday.
The Baptist young people have Sc
cured the necessary amount and have
ordered fine new bell to take the
place of the old one on the Baptist
church. The bell is to cost about $125.
A telegram yesterday from Fremont
announced the death of Mrs. Chris.
Leutz, whose funeral will occur today
| at p. m. Interment at Abel's cemc-
terry.
cSooS iCuSol1l dlu Nl. ouyuGI
| expect to leave tomorrow for an eX-
tended trip to Colorado and other west
ern points.
Hedrick, Sept. 5.-Monday evening
while riding his pony. Fred Utterback
met with painful accident. The
pony scared at a small piece of paper,
throwing him and breaking both
bones of the forearm. Drs J. D. Hen
y Nd
set the fracture.
Paul Houghton will leave for Mon
mouth, ILL.,, Friday of this week. He
will attend Knox college.
Mrs. Frank Shaffer and daughters
Helen and Zelma, of Oskaloosa, are
spending a few days with relatives
in Hedrick and vicinity.
Mrs. w. H. Spicer was shopping in
Ottumwa, Tuesday.
Chas. Wick is at the Big Four fair
at Eldon this week with his running
horse. His runner took first money
at Ollie fair last week.
Peter Enggeldinger went to ST.
courtney, Tuesday evening, to be with
his family who moved there recently.
Waldo Young leaves today for Ell
dora to visit his sister Mrs. L. c.
Clark, after which he will go to Mt.
Vernon to attend Cornell college the
coming year.
Miss Nettie Durfey left Tuesday
for visit at Clearfield.
Miss Alice Hawk has gone to Shell
by to continue her school work.
An attempt at robbery was made
at the home of Mrs. H. H. Owen,
Sunday. The intruders were discov-
cred before accomplishing their pur-
pose.
School opened Monday with an en-
rollment of 240, and sixty in the high
school.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-06
Selma

Selma, Sept. esquire Pepper
shipped lot of oats from here last
week
Quite number of young folks from
here attended camp meeting at Bir-
mingham last Sunday.
Will Doud and family of Leando,
spent Sunday at Mrs. j. MicheaPs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Passmore and daugh-
tiers entertained few friends at their
home last Friday evening in honor Of
their nephew and wife. Mr.. and Mrs.
Gus Clar, of st. Louis. Those pres
ent We're: Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. Writ,
of Leando, and their daughter, Miss
Daisy, and also Mrs. Hall, of st.
Louis, and quite an elegant supper
was served at o'clock.
Alpha Phelps, one of our leading
merchants, is on the sick list this
week.
Cole Swift is quite sick also at this
writing.
Mr.. Ed. Micheal and wife were in
Leando Saturday on business
Jake Matdix will begin painting on
| Charles Van Dever's new barn next
| week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clar returned to their
home in st. Louis Saturday, after a
three weeks visit at the home Of
their uncle, j. L. Passmore.
Will Elliott has just returned from
the field trials up north.
Ed. Dooley and James Black, two
of the most popular young men Of
Pleasant Hill, passed thru here last
| Sunday on their way to the Birming-
ham camp meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. Follno and Mrs. Hall,
who have been visiting at Mr.. D. B.
| Wirts, returned to their home in st.
Louis last Saturday evening.
Miss Bessie Van Dever attended
the box supper here last Tuesday
night
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-06
Mystic. e

Mystic, Sept. Con account of Mon
day being Labor day the city schools
did not begin until Tuesday.
Forsythe's drug store from Jerome
has been moved to Moravia. Dougal
Forsythe and wife have gone to that
place to take charge Of it.
Arthur Stone made trip to Des
Moines last week.
Robt Goodman returned from Wis
it in Kansas Saturday
Geo. Orr spent Sunday at home.
E. B. Crook, of North English, spent
Sunday here visiting friends.
Miss Nan Cate. of Walnut City,
spent Sunday with her mother.
The child of l. West, which was
scalded few weeks ago. died Satur-
day after a very painful illness. The
mother was washing and the child in
some manner loosened the cork of the
washer when the water escaped,scald-
ing the little one so seriously that
death was the result.
Misses Nellie and Mamie Mach are
visiting in Princeton, Mo.
J.. H. Swanson was in st. Louis last
week buying goods.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-06
Dudley.

Dudley, Sept. 6.-Lucy Gardner, Will
Stodghill, Lou Cramblit and Frank
Garfield went to Mt. Pleasant Monday
to attend school.
Alfred Peterson has gone to Des
Moines to attend Highland Park col
lege.
c. H. Stuber and wife left on No.
Tuesday morning for Belleville, Kan,
to visit relatives.
John Eyre loaded two car loads of
hay for the Smokey Hollow Coal Co.
this week.
DR.. Rambo, of Chillicothe, was call
ed to Dudley Wednesday morning to
see L. H. Shields and Miss Teresa
Hasselrooth.
Mrs. F. L. Garfield and son, Forest,
left for their home in Ottumwa Tues
day on No. after short visit with
relatives in the neighborhood.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-06

My wife used sew
eral bottles of S. S. S.
as a blood purifier and
to tone up a weak and
enlaciated system, with
ve.J marked effect by
way of improvement.
"We regard it a
great tonic and blood;
purifier. u. DUFF,
Princeton, Mo.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-06
Bunch.

Bunch, Sept. 6.-Robert Lepart. of
this place, died of consumption Aug.
80, while sitting in rocking chair
out in the yard. His wife died thir-
teen months ago of the same disease.
They had been married but nine
months at the time of her death.
The Misses Aida Brown, Rosa Hoov-
er and John Smith attended the coun-
ty Sunday school convention at Floris
last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Hoover are visiting
relatives in Henry county this week.
Elder Donohue has stalk of corn,
which has two ears on it that grew
opposite each other and measure just
six feet from the point OF one ear to
the point of the other.
Pearl Scott, of Henry county, is WIS.,
iting friends and relatives in this To-
cality.
Henry Ireland returned home few
days ago from Chillicothe, Mo-, where
he has been during the summer.
The social given by Clyde Adams
one evening last week was we'll at
tended.
Mrs. Mary Boomer, of this place, is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Cavins, of
Blackhawk, this week.
Mrs. Fletcher, of Ash Grove, visited
with her daughter. Mrs. P. K. Gilland
last Monday and Tuesday.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-06

Ash Grove, Sept. 6.-Prof B. F. Mar
tin was caller of Miss Addie Orman
of Hopewell, last Sunday evening.
Elmer Proctor and wife visited with
Ormanville relatives last Sunday.
A crowd of several of our Ash Grove
boys started to Missouri last Monday.
Rev. Connard of Keokuk, is holding
protracted meeting here.
Allen Day, of Ottumwa. visited with
friends of this place Sunday
Alonzo Hannah has purchased Mr..
Finfrock's store and will continue bus
mess.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-02-22
INUNDATED 1HECouRT..

SUPP ehe Court of Kestucky Afraid to Sit
In Open Session.
Frankfort, Feb. 2l-Uwing to the n.
rival ck a mob Of mouniaineers, the court
cid NOT sit In public today. There is
strong discussion of removing the Iegis-
lature to Louisville. The Republicans
propose. through Senator Lafferty, to IN
troduce resolution tomorrow to adjourn
sine die. Senator Lafferty said that any
laws passed now would be the subject Of
litigation in any event. The Democrats
regard such adjournment as too favor
able I'd Taylor and will defeat the move.
Reports that members of the supreme
court Will be assassinated are current.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-02-22
C||y Sl|1||eS
E|eV0|ed
, BETTER SALARIES.

sma,i Raises for City Onicials Made by the
~ Council.
Last night the city council fixed the
salaries for the next incumbents of Office
as follows: Aldermen 5000 per year:
city attorney. $3s per month; marshal.
SIS month and half the fees of his of
fee; street supervisor. SIS a month; com
missioner Of water works, $50; superin
tendent Of sewers, $40 month; police
men, $50 month; engineer, $50 month
police magistrate, S75 month and half
the ices of his Office; chief of fire depart
ment, 5000 year; health officer. $40 a
month.
The marshals salary was increased
SIS; street supervisors, SIS; FIRE chiefs,
500 year. An important change was
made in the manner of selecting the chief
of the FIRE department, who has practic-
lilly been chosen heretofore BY the vol
unteer department Hereafter that Of
6clal will be elected by the council.
II was ascertained that, by an agree.
ment with the Rollins Investment com.
pany, the city has no option to refund,
so that question will, probably, not be
submitted to the voters April 3. How.
ever, an ordinance was adopted submit
ting to the tax pages proposition for
the issue Of $4,000 IF bonds. bearing in
,erest at 4 per cent. sor enlargement and
Improvement Of the water works.
Chief Fonda and Alderman Wilson
we're voted power to act in the matter
Of repairs and supplies at the FIRE station
and $50 was voted for bedding, ETC., con-
tingent upon Boulder hose giving SIS
for furnishing the rooms.
Ii was ordered that the services Of Jay
Green. janitor at the park, be dispensed
With after March I and Chairman Austin
be authorized to secure the services Of
another jani,or. Mr. Green is i'll and
there are many repairs necessary, which
could be made by competent custodian
Of the grounds.
A liquor permit for druggists was
granted to J.. M. Lyons. All Boulder
druggists but one now have this permit.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-02-22

I helped to draw up the income tax
bill. voted for it. A Judge of the
United States supreme court changed
his mind and the Law was declared I'M
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-02-22
The S|0ug1|e|
Nos Terrible
BLOODY BATTLE.
stubborn Battle Fought and Mary Hun
dred Killed or Wounded,

Stubborn Battle Fought and Mary Hun
dred Killed or Wounded,
Taa1deburg. Feb 2I-Delayed-One
of the bloodi.st battles in.,he history 81
the pre- sent war was raging here all day
yesterday. Kelly Kenny attacked Cronje
throughout Sunday. British charges
we're rfpulsed and met again. Tuesday
C,onje asked for an armistice. Fifty
guns ate now bombarding his position
and the Beers are fighting like demons
An envoy of Cronje admits their loss was
800. The British have captured one
kopje and 50 men. Cronje's position
was VI changed las, night.
London, Feb. 77-lt is estimated that
General Roberts casualties since leav-
ing Jadoasdahl aggregated 1900 in all
ranks ih killed. wounded and missing.
A SPECIAL to the news from Taarde
burge ktates that Commandant Bolha at
tempted to relieve Cronje but his forces
were Scat,ered after heavy fighting
Boer endorsements from Natal are ar
arriving on the scene OF Roberts opera
lions.
The war office posted dispatch from
Roberts dated Taardeburg Feb 81.
which says on the 2otn he determined 10
bombs ia the enemy. directing FIRE at his
Inducements probably Both as) and
they were driven all directions. Fifty
Beers were captured Roberts states the
British loss at two officers and four mtn
slightly wound:d
Victoria B. c. Feb. 27-Vic,ori, is in
mourning for the loss Of forty per cent
of its South African contingent. The
Legislature adjourned today out Of re
spect To their memory and flags were
placed at half mast.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-02-22
The National Commit

Washington. Feb. 7a-Promptly al
noon Chairman Jones called the national
Democratic committee to order. The
scene was an impressive one and the
crowds especially large owing to the
warm contest between Milwaukee and
Kansas City for the honor of the con
vention. Half an hour was given to
representatives OF each city to presen,
its claims. II looks as though Kansas
City will carry of the prize.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-02-22
@YAN'5 JEWEL BOX.

Selected Gems by tho New York World
F.om Bry.n's Orstory.
Col. William Jennings Br, an, IN his
speeches in the east, used many illustra
tons to fortify points in his remarks
Here are some Of his favorite illustra
tons. which always met with hearty in
dorsement:
Lincoln and Hanna,
Between Lincoln and Hanna there is q
gulf liked, as wide as the gulf that sep
arated Lazarus in Abraham's bosom from
Dives IN torment-a gulf so wide that a
man cannot admire Lincoln's memory
and follow Hanna's doctrines.
Grsnd Larceny and Petty Larceny.
Cicero said to bis son: Don't 60 into
the retail business; that's vulgar" 1t is
easy to send man who steals little to
prison, but try to convict a man who
steals million and see what 4 job you
have. We want the laws so executed
that th. man who steals large amount
shall wear the same kind of striped
clothes that poor man wears who steals
a small amount.
The statue Of Liberty.
What shall we do with the statue oil
liberty in the harbor of New York If We
surrender the spirit Of liberty? Shall "
send it back 10 France and say that W
are no longer in the liberty business!
am IN favor of giving liberty to the Fill
pinos and helping them to erect statue
Of liberty in Manila bay.
The Income Tax.
helped to draw up the income tar
bill. l voted for it. A Judge OF the
United States supreme court changed
his mind and the Law was declared I'M
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-02-22

We have bought the stock Of the Mag
net and will close out our winter goods
at most any price to make room for our
spring stock. We carry ladies' and
gents furnishing goods. dry goods and
novelties. We invite your inspection.
T. J. PATE & Sons.
The Magnet, cor. nth and Pearl st.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-02-22
Orange Crop lnjuro

Pensacola, Fla, Feb. IA fearful
storm visited this section last night and
today, overturning many residences and
working great damage to fruit trees.
One ship was blown ashore and its crew
of six men are unaccounted for.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-02-22

constitutional. l was told that if the
Democratic congressman favored the in.
come tax all the rich Democrats would
leave the party. did not believe it, but
did not know the rich Democrats then.
My reply was that the poor Republicans
would leave their party on the issue. but
it seems did not know the poor Repub.
licans.
Cannot Draft Pocketbooks.
We have found out that in time Of war
we can draft the citizen but not the
pocketbook. Our government can take
a poor boy from his widowed mother and
place him in front of the cannon, but our
government cannot secure a revenue
from accumulated wealth.
Republicans and Trusts.
The Republicans dare not destroy the
trusts, for where would they get their
Campaign fund.- They will need more
money in the coming campaign than in
the last fight. and Heaven knows they
had plenty in 1896.
Option on the Fight.
Whip the Filipinos? OF course we
can whip the Filipino;. Spain was at it
for 500 years, and then we stepped in
and paid $40, ooo, 900 for an option on the
6ght The Republicans say that trade
will follow the flag. Republican syndi-
Gates follow the flag. The Americans
who will 60 to the Philippines will not
90 there to work the land. They will
90 there to work the Fllipinos.
Party Fealty and Public Good.
A party is means to an end, and not
an end in itself. Parties are for public
good. and party is deserving of the
support of citizen only so long as he
believes that the party is the best means
by which he can serve his country
The Dollar Above the Man.
The Republicans are placing the dol
lar above the man. II a man mentions
the plain people today he is called
demagogue. and yet Lincoln used to
talk Of them, and he was a statesman
then. But the Republicans have changed
their definition of statesman. Accord.
ing to them statesman is man whose
ear is trained to catch the slightest pull
sations Of pocket book or Wall street
ticker, and a demagogue is a man who
listens to the heartbeat of humanity.
Price on American Boys.
Republicans, dare you to set price
upon an American boy as measured by
Oriental trade. When boy dies for
liberty his mother rejoice<, but what
American mother wants to raise boys at
50 much head to sell to the govern.
ment, to be exchanged for trade in the
Philippines? Oh! that the men who
want those island should 60 there and
purchase them with their own blood in.
stead Of sacrificing the blood Of other
people.
Corporate Made Man.
The corporate man is a man-made
man. He is stronger than the natural
made man. When God made man He
breathed into him a soul and a con-
science, but when the corporate man was
made he was not given any soul, so that
il he can escape punishment here he
need not worry about the hereafter
New York World.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-02-22
Burke Suicides.

San Francisco, Feb. 77-Edward O..
Burke, 4 multi-millionaire, we'll known
on the coast, committed suicid by shoot.
ing today.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-02-22
Tho Addr.s. Wa. Read.

Washington. Feb. 22-There were
many ladies in the galleries when Sen
ator F raker read Washington's farewell
address today. At o'clock the senate
Adjourned.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-25
pounds, while the average price for
washed Ohio fleece was 90 cents per

pounds, while the average price for
washed Ohio fleece was 90 cents per
pound.
In the fiscal year 1897, the closing
year of the Wilson tariff which admit
ted wool free of duty, imports were
350,000,000 pounds and the production
only 259,0oo.Ooo pounds, while the av-
erage price in 1896 was 1874 cents.
In 1893, under the Dingley tariff
which thoroughly protected the wool
growers of the United States, the inn
ports fell to 7o,Ooo,O0O pounds, the pro-
duction increased to 272,0O0,OOO
pounds, and the price increased to %
cents per pound.
III. is not surprising, then, that the
value of sheep on American farms fell
from S116,0oo,OoO in january, 1892, to
SCI, 100000 on January i, 1897, and that
it increased under the restoration OF
the protective tariff to $122,OOo,OOo on
January /, 1900.
The election of Mr.. Bryan means the
restoration of free wool.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-25
SOME PRAIRIE BREEzEs.
:A BALLAD OF THE INFLUENZA,
He doesnH care for politics,

"a BALLAD OF THE INFLUENZA,
He doesnH care for politics,
The price Of wheat or whats thu
score,
He used to watch the papers But
He doesn't do it any more,
He's lost his grip . earthly things,
In mundane matters has no share,
The world might end this very day,
He's got a cold-he doesn't care.
sAchoo! Whoo-choo.. Oh, dab The
thig!!" 5.5
He cries and blows his reddened
nose,
His swollen ears with echoes ring,
And from his eyes a salt stream flows
Last week he was for Mac, but now
It might be Wooley, I declare,
Or Debs or Bryan-anyone,
He's got a cold-he doesn't care.
He's taken quinine by the pound,
And syrup, tolu, ipecac,
|%LE= T@- EFEH
No remedy has yet been found
BY friend, physician, book or quack
He hasn't crowded down his throat,
Until he'd freely take, / swear,
An ounce Of strychnine at a dose,
He's got a cold, he doesn't care.
He dare not put his slippers on,
He cannot sit in any breeze,
He must not have window raised
Or straightway he begins to sneeze
He cannot taste a bite he eats,
His pipes delights he cannot share
The doctor says he'll die--he sits
And shivers but he doesn't
He sneezes, sputters, coughs and blows
His nose is sore, his eyes + red,
He cannot speak except to say:
Il god an awfu' CODE by ded.n
The air be sweet, the skies be blue,
The world be more than passing fair,
It's nothing but a blank to him,
He's got a cold-he doesn't care.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-25

Col. Lounsberry says in the Buford
Tribune: Talk about imperialism
and government without the consent OF
the governed. In 1905 a little band Of
imperialists, if you choose to call them
that, under Lewis and Clark, wintered
rear where Fort Buford now stands
what remains of N. Nominally the
country then belonged to France. It
occupied by Indians and traders
whose highest ambition was to be let
alone and allowed to pursue their
course unmolested. But we found it
a goodly land and purchased tall OF
what is known as Louisiana-for the
sum of S15, OO0, .O00, 600 less than
we paid for the public improvement in
the Philippine islands, belonging to
3Spain-and assumed to govern it With
out the consent Of a single soul of the
governed. We proceeded to build up
states and giant cities, contributing
every year a manifold greater revenue
than the whole amount paid. Think
OF the oppression and the outrage IN
yolved in this and how the copperheads
sof those days must have trembled as
the ghost Of imperialism stalked
through the Missouri valley, along the
Missouri, following Lewis and Clark
over the mighty mountains and down
the Columbia to- the sea:
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-25

The Fargo Forum resents the infer
ence Of the Mandan Pioneer that be-
cause there is no extended euloglum
of the republican state ticket in the
Forum collmns--that paper is not as
loyal to the ticket as it might be. The
Forum says the most of the ticket
needs no eulogium-that it is the re-
publican ticket and as such the Forum
is for it---and expects ito see15,OO0 ma
jority for Mckinley and 5000 to H.
900 majority for the state ticket-and
there you are.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-25

Whenever MI. Bryan is confronted
with a challenge to answer some poll
tical issue, he states that he has moth
ing to say but will have something in
the way of an answer after while
Mr.. Bryan is probably waiting until
after election. He will have all kinds
of time then in the undisturbed soli-
tudes Of his Nebraska farm.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-25

The Minneapolis Star is a new fu-
sion daily paper published in Minnea-
polls. The News deyotes considerable
attention to North Dakota politics, in
the interest OF the fusion ticket. Its
understood THE pop and democratic
COMMITTEES of this state turns a portion
of its shekels to the Star in return for
support--patronizing home industry.
The supporters of the fusion ticket in
this state are am outside paper, and a
state daily whose editor was forced to
resign the secretaryship of the state
fusion committee because Of his oppo-
sition to union labor. The fusion
ticket Is well supported.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-25
SHEEP AND WOOL

The sheep of the United States are
worth twice as much money today as
they ait the close Of the year 1896.
Then their value was 67,OoO,O00 now
it is over 1922, 900. What is the
reason for this remarkable change?
In 1892, under the Mckinley protec-
tive tariff, the imports OF wool
amounted 70 but 14s.voO, 900 pounds and
the home production was 294, 100000
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-25

Foster county wants representation
in the legislature this winter and the
Darlington Independent is out for r.
n. Chaffee as the choice of the repub-
Leans Of the county. Eddy and Eos
ter can carry the district if they stand
together and the Independent thinks
they should do so for, Chaffee.