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TViis oL tEe stSPI!ttiItS HIVE SSSItt NLEt+ict
II not they would be willing to abide
lhe result OF such a contest.
Mr. w. Carter, chairman OF the Mar
-insvil!e Committee, formed in the inter-
st of the candidacy OF Judge s. G.. Whit
& Tor the vacant seat on the Supreme
Court bench, has been here in active charge
u Judge Whittle's headquarters, at Muir
hys, since the buttle started UP. Mr.
earter who, by the way, is one of the
-hleSt and most successful lawyers in his
section. is Il most attractive gentleman,
md has nude a great many friends among
he members and political leaders. The
art OF the work which he has so ad-
:,irabiy executed for Judge Whitt1e could
Tot have been done in a, finer manner by
ny one.
The Senate Committee on Courts OF Jus
ice ths.-d a meeting yesterday afternoon
20 consider the auction CT the tenure OF
flee Of Judge John C. Dew, and TO re-
oort whether IN its Judgment It IS COM
petent for the extra se5.Sion to eiet his
sccessor. Or whether he holds under the
overnor's appointment for the entire
esrired term of the late Mr. RyIand.
Captain r. S. Parks, of Page. made
'oWerful argument, setting forth the
ew that there was no vacancy n the
eiiice and none weule exist until January
tst. 1872 when the regular ssssasS;on o5ss4e
Legislature will elect Mr. Ryland's o.
.essor, Hon. 4 p. Stables. of Roc
appeared for the opposite side. and made
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IN talking on the same subject. Hon.
Thomas H Edwards, OF King William,
said a meeting would be held by the
oyster planters of his section at West
Point, on Friday, for the purpose of form
ing an association for the protection of
seed. oysters. He said. III case general
legislation should be gone into. a large
committee would come here, repre-
sentins the proposed association, .nd ask
that the law be SO amended as to limit
the time to two months in which seed
oysters could be removed from their beds
1t is alleged that people from New Jer-
say and Delaware come down after the
limit is up in their own States and com
nit depradations upon the property of
Virgimians along the coast. 1t is said
that they even violate the law when it is
not proper for any one to remove seed
oysters-the time being up for their re-
moval-and pay the fine and go at ii
again. The people OF King William say it
IS q greut hardship upon them and they
ask relief.
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Miss Harrison will give luncheon party
party at the Jefferson to-day.
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che House Committee on fenrts q JLs
rice held a meeting yesterday. and report
ed several local oils favor,,o.E -. 80.
rem was one allowing Harold 5 Riooni-
800. IN anoIy for license 10 practice Nv,
De baipo,> utyder age and Il graduate in law
from Richmond College.
Uncle Billy wilson. the faithful Il
rsrt,n az the Senate. was at his post
,,estarday. after several days absence on
account OF sickness.
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Tt is the view of many cnnservatiF
members of the House that the two
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Among those who were in the city yes
terday actively engaged in Judge S. G.
Whites interest for judge OF the ou-
prerne Court, was Colonel Robert Catlett'
commemorative attorney OF Rochoflase'
and prominent cand date Tor the Deislo-
cratic nomination for Congress IN the
Tenth District last fall.
Another active WhittIe supporter "hQ
was on the ground was Hon Thomas n
Williams. ex-senator from MecklenburS.
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rrha House C,orrlnr.slee on Finance met
,,s.terdav aud heard 4 speech from
Mrs. Judge n. c Minor in favor OF I
=, 10 k.sep ~ the graves of Confederate
g soldiers in the state Argument was
800 ON several other bills. bat the COM
nittee decided NOS 10 pass on any 'ees-sia-
ton until the question of taking up gen
erai bills had been deternlIne6 ay tsie
legislatures
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25

dar's fins being plentiful. This spring
the water was high and the bayous
and low places along the river filled.
Naturally fish run to quiet places
when the turbulent stream is forcing
Its ice toward the gulf and these low
places have been Ravens for the time
being to be fish cemetery later.
The water in receding has left the
fish high and dry and now their car
casses strew the ground. The drift.
wood is filled with great pickerel, pike
and bass, our best fins. The worst
loss is in the Wash Myer lake, where
there are probably three tons of dead
fish. There is another large lot in the
dry bayou near the Matthias Miller
farm. Joe Schiel and Willard Lantz
went fishing yesterday and discovered
tons of the dead denizens of the wat
er. There is usually some loss every
spring from this source, but nothing
like the great destruction of this sea-
SON
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last and all the time. 1t is true that
some or the editors who have testified
to the character and ability of Mr..
Cummins are called upon to support
home candidates, and it is also true
that some who would not be for him
under any circumstances, because
close affiliation with what is known as
the machine" wing of the party for
bids, have been fair eraugh to say
that Iowa has no brainier, better
equipped or cleaner man. The news
papers that have not referred to the
splendid character of Mr.. Cummins
and credited him with mental endow.
ments of the highest order are few.
and those that have charged him with
being lacking in any of the qualities
required in governor may be count.
ed on the fingers of one hand"
What is true of the newspapers is
true of the people of Iowa. and the
growth and present strength of Mr..
Cummins' candidacy in every section
of the state are results which his
friends everywhere confidently ex.
pected. The reasons for this faith are
best set forth in the newspaper com,
ments which appear in this paper,
That Mr.. Cummins will be the next
governor of Iowa appears certain. His
candidacy has not received a single
check, but has grown stronger each
day, until now the belief is general
that he will be nominated,
On the second page of the supple
ment, as, now planned. will appear Mr..
Cummins' magnificent Labor day
speech on the dignity of work and
workers. The third page will have
the full address made by Mr. Cum
MINIS before the medical graduating
class of the State University recently.
The remainder of the supplement
VIII be devoted to extracts from the
press relative to the candidacy of Mr..
Cummlns. Like the leading editorials
and sketch, this symposium will be
plentlfully supplied with references to
the record of Mr.. Cummins in behalf
OF the people as against the corpora
tons, railways. etc. There will be CO.
plous extracts from many of the lead
ing papers of the state, including the
Register, and some from the '.inde-
pendent" and democratic press in
Guiding the Leader, the Marshalltown
Times-Republican, the Dubuque Her.
aid, the Des Moines News, etc. There
Will be twelve columns of these press
comments clipped from perhaps sixty
papers.
Adorned with pretty border heads
and border enclosed extracts from
speeches, the supplement will be read
with interest all over Iowa the latter
part of the ensuing week.
1t is estimated that if sixty papers
issue the supplement the coming week.
as planned, about $4,000 copies will
be circulated in the state
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
GAINED FIVE VOTES
Wapello County Will Have as Dell
egates at State Convention.
RESULT OF REPUBLICAN SUCCESS
Cedar Rapids to Have the Largest
Convention in the History of Repub-
lican Particularly All Counties
Have Increased Representation.

. Wapello county will have twenty
five delegates to the coming republican
state convention. This is the crafty
ing result of last falls election when
Wapello showed such a handsome in
crease in its republican vote. Two
years ago Wapello county sent twenty
delegates to the state convention Wa
pello county is not alone in its increas-
ed representation at the state conven-
ton. Every county in the state shows
an increase of from one to twenty-five
votes with the exception of three.
These are Davis, Keokuk and Winnie
skiek. In these counties the repre-
sentation remains the same. Polk
county shows the banner increase in
its representation. This year it sends
sixty-four delegates to the state con-
vention, an increase of twenty-five ov-
er two years ago. The number of dele
gates are figured on the basis of re.
publican votes cast at the last election
According to this basis of calculation
there will be 1883 delegates at Cedar
Rapids when the state convention is
called to order. This is the largest
number of delegates ever assembled
and the convention promises to be one
of the liveliest in the history of the
republican party.
The Delegates.
Following is a complete list of the
counties showing the number of dele
gates to which each one will be EMIT
led, according to the Forthcoming of
fetal call by Chairman Weaver:
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
COURT coNvENEs.
Lucas County Has Ninety.seven Cases
on the Docket.

Charlton, April 22.-Court convened
here today with Judge Robert Sloan on
the bench. The docket contains nine
ty-seven cases, only two of which are
criminal. The balance is divided as
follows: Thirty-three law, thirty-six
chancery, and twenty-six probate
There is no case of universal interest
and the lawyers and judge hope to
clear the docket of all old cases this
term. The appeal by the city of Char
iton from the decision of the county
treasurer in listing the city electric
light plant for back taxes will be
heard this term, and the Osborne-Van
Dyke personal damage case which was
recently reversed and sent back for
trial, will probably come up also.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
He Unconsciously Takes His
Own Life.
SHOT HIMSELF In HEART
Read Account of Similar Suicide Newspaper Just Be
fore Retiring for the Night-The Matter I'm
pressed Itself on His Mind.

Clinton, April 22.-One of the
strangest cases of somnambulism on
record has just come to light in this
county, but too late for the sufferer, as
the victim of the strange malady took
his life by firing load of buckshot in
to his chest while in his sleep. A few
days ago Clifford Saddoris, who re-
sided with his parents, got up in the
night, went to the barn and fired a
load of buckshot into his heart. He
was found the next morning by his
father, coroners inquest was held
and a verdict was returned that de-
ceased committed suicide. Since then,
1t has come to light that Saddoris was
deeply afflicted with somnambulism,
and did many strange things while
asleep and the theory now is that Sad
doris was not conscious of his act The
case probably has not parallel in the
history of somnambulism.
On the evening that he committed
suicide he read in newspaper of a
man going to the barn and shooting
himself in the chest with load of
tbuckshot.. He was moved by the &C.
count of the death and stated no man
in his right mind would commit such
an act. That night he went to the
barn and killed himself in the same
manner as the man he read about ear
ly in the evening, and it is now
thought that he had no knowledge of
the terrible crime which he committed.
Saddoris' parents and relatives tell
many strange acts performed by the
young man while asleep. One night
he carried his bed down stairs, set it
up in another room, slept for couple
of hours, carried his bed back upstairs
and put it together without awaken
ing. AT another time he took down
his gun, loaded some shells and start
ed out to hunt, just as his father came
down the stairs and recalled him. He
had been known to go to the barn in
the middle of the night and harness
and feed the horses and do the chores
the same as in the morning.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
STATISTICS.
Work of Gathering Data is Now in
Progress in Iowa.
THAT ON STRIKES WILL Be COMPLETE
State Labor Commissioner wenner.
strum is Engaged In Sending Out
Blanks to Employers Second Time,
Some Having Failed to Respond.

Des Moincs April 22.-(Special)-
The gathering of statistics concerning
labor and industries in Iowa is going
on under the direction of CT. Venues
trum, commissioner, and it is probable
that the statistics relating to strikes
and lockouts which will appear in the
annual report to be prepared and sub
mitted to the governor by August l.
next, will be the most complete on rec
ord. Mr.. Wennestrum has been great
ly aided in this by the fact that the
national bureau has recently sent an
agent through the state and he and the
state commissioner worked together.
Mr. Wennestrum is planning to have
all the work in his Office done, as near
ly as possible, just like that of the ma
tional office so that results can be
compared. This cannot always be
done, for the national bureau is amply
provided with funds and spares no ex-
pense in securing the facts which are
desired. Mr.. Wennestrum attended
the national conference of the commits
sioners of the thirty-one states having
bureaus, held in Milwaukee last year
and obtained information as to meth.
DDS which have been of inestimable
value to him. Next month.
beginning the twenty-third, the
national conference will be held
in st. Louis and will be presided over
by Carroll d. Wright, national COM
missioner. Mr.. Wennerstrum will at
tend, although he must bear his own
expenses in so doing. He will urge up
on the conference that steps be taken
to secure uniformity of methods be-
tween the states and under the direc.
ton of the national commissioner: al
so that so far as practicable the lines
of work pursued by the national COM
missioner be followed in all the states
at the same time. Some years one line
OF inquiry is taken up and others the
inquiries are different. 1t would be
better, SO Mr.. Wennestrum thinks. if
there was absolute uniformity. which
can only be secured by placing the
whole under the control of the nation
al commissioner.
Could Be Improved.
The work of the Iowa commissioner
is greatly handicapped. He has Meth
er the funds nor the authority to do
the work properly This bureau
could be made of great value" declar.
ed Mr.. Wennestrum, eff it was proyid.
ed with the funds and we were author
lied to do that which is necessary.
For instance, we have a small appro.
priation for. travelling expenses, so
much each year, and if tits not all
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
PREACHERS CUT HERON.
Will Not Have Anything to Do With
Iowa Man.

New York, April 23.-The Celtic
gether club is having hard time to
secure speakers for it's monthly meet.
ing at the Pouch Gallery, Brooklyn,
next Monday night, all because Pro-
lessor George D. Heron is to be on
the platform. Since the Brooklyn
public began to learn of Herron's his
tory considerable sentiment has
grown up against him.
DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, pastor OF
Plymouth church, declined positively
to appear on the same platform with
man of Herron's views and Heron S
record.
DR.. Hills was emphatic in giving
his verbal refusal to Mr.. Meserole' s
request.
Il decline to appear on the same
platform with man like Professor
Heron DR.. Hills told Mr.. Meserole.
Il refuse to appear with him not be
cause | am a Christian-that is too
high a ground; not because am a
gentleman--thati is also too high a
ground; but because | am plain, or
binary, brute man.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
STRANGE RIVALS IN LOVE.
Mother and Daughter Enamored {
Same Man,

Kansas City, April 23-At the police
station the facts in regard to the de-
tention of Mrs. Eva Fetterholf and her
daughter, Anna, called Dot" are in
the main concealed dot" is but four
teen years old There is a strange
story back of their arrest, for it seems
that mother and little daughter are
rivals for the love of the same man,
and each appears to be jealous of the
other. Dot" is a pretty girl Frank
HILL painter, is also arrested in con-
nection with the case. Friday night,
Mrs. Fetterholf attempted to commit
suicide by taking chloroform.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
CUMMINS CAMPAIGN
Circulars to be Issued Day Before
Conger Returns.
$4,000 COPIES WILL BEDISTaIBUTED
Pro-cummins Newspaper Subscribers
viii Receive 1t All Over the State
One Page Will Be Adorned With a
Likeness of Mr.. cummins.

| Des Moines, April 23.-Under date
OF April rs, the day before Minister E..
II. Conger Is expected to arrive at San
francisco, the newspapers of the state
which are supporting Hon. A. B. Cum
minis for governor as against all the
other republican candidates, will is
sue supplement devoted to the pop
ular candidacy of Mr.. Cummins. The
supplement will be four pages big, the
pages being the size of the Des
Moines Daily Capital. and issued from
Col. Lafayette Young's fine new press.
Copies of it will go to every subscrib-
er on the books of the pro-Cummins
| papers of the state.
The fourth page of the supplement
will be adorned with a speaking like
ness of Mr.. Cummins, front view. 1t
will be four columns wide and half a
newspaper page long. Under it will
be printed the Legend 'Hon. A. B..
| Cummins, Leading Candidate for the
Republican Nomination for Governor"
The top of the middle three columns
of the first page of the supplement
will be devoted to extracts from ad-
dresses, one made by Mr.. Cummins at
Iowa City, and the other, published in
full by The Register, February 90,
made at Algona, on Washington Day.
| These are printed with the Keokuk
Gate City's modest comment that they
deserve to be lettered in silver and
framed in gold" Mr.. Cummins' AL
COMA speech is printed in full on the
last page of the supplement, also.
| AS a leading editorial for the sup
! plement there will appear sketch of
! Mr.. Cummins and his excellent and
we'll directed efforts toward advancing
the cause of good government in To-
wa, especial reference being made to
Ibis efforts on behalf of the people as
against the dominance of certain of
these corporations" (railroads) which
won him ''the lasting hatred of their
| political managers This sketch will
be headed "Hon. A. b. Cummins for
governor Something concerning the
life, public and private, of the man
Who it is generally believed, will be
the states next chief executive Fol
lowing will be the paragraphs regard
ing Mr.. Cummins' popular candidacy
for governor Which lead the sketch
of his life and work:
! Zion. A. B. Cummins' candidacy for
governor has the support of large
number of the republican newspapers
of the state, and, like the individuals
that are on the side of Mr.. Cummins,
these newspapers are for him first,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
VOTES NEW WAR LOAN.
British Chancellor Is Given Authority
to Borrow 100000, 1000.

London, April 2O-The house of
commons by vote of Ill to 127, au-
thorized the chancellor of the excheo-
uer to issue war loan of $500 OOO, 600
Sir Michael Hicks Beach chancellor
OF the exchequer, refused to state how
he intended to raise the new loan. He
SAID 1t might be raised by any or all
OF four methods-namely: 2A per
cent consols, further war bonds, treas
ury bills, or eXchequer bonds.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
HILL FOR PRESIDENT
Movement Has Been Started in In
dianapolis.
A PLAN TO GUST CHAIRMAN JONES
Mayor Tassart, of indianapolis, to Be
Made Chairman of Democratic Ma
tionaI committee-supporters of
Hill Are Backing Tageart:

Indianapolis, Ind, April 22.-If the
plans that are being matured here do
not miscarry, Mayor Taggart will be
made chairman of the democratic ma
tional committee before the end of the
present year, and systematic organ
ization will be begun throughout the
states, south and west to make David
B. Hill, of New York, the party nom
inee for president at the next national
convention. Preliminary steps in this
organization have already been taken,
and more than majority of members
of the national, committee are now
pledged to Taggart and the men who
back his candidacy are pledged to Hill.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
BURLINGTON GIRL HAzED.
Daughter Of a Minister Faints Under
the Ordeal.

Burlington, April 22.-Friends of
Miss Elizabeth Bronson, the youngest
daughter of Rev. Dr. Bronson, former
ly pastor of the First Methodist church
at this place, were shocked to learn
that the young lady was one of a party
of "co-eds" of Northwestern university,
Chicago, who was hazed by her class
mates and became unconscious under
the ordeal Sophomores desired adj
mittance to the hall where the "co-
eds" were holding a class dance. This
was denied them and they went to the
basement where they turned the gas
off and on until the room was filled
with the deadly illuminant. The "co-
eds" were game and stayed but sever
al of them became unconscious from
inhai'ng the fumes, among them being
Miss bronson.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
SMALLPOX In Jefferson county
TAKES ENGLISH WAR LOAN.
American Financiers Subscribe for
One.Sixth of It.

New York. April 23.-One.sixth of
the new British loan has already been
taken in the United States. The
American underwriting syndicate
headed by j. P. Morgan & Co. and in
Guiding the National City bank, Bar.
ing, Magoun & Co., and the New York
Life Insurance company, has taken
91O,000,000 of the 83O,0O0,O0O still
unplaced of the e60O00,0O0 issue of
British consols. Subscriptions are
coming in rapidly and bid fair to ag-
gregate much in excess of the G1O,-
100000 arranged for.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
BOY STOLEN AT cREsToN.
Parents Not Wealthy-supposed to Be

Parents Not Wealthy-supposed to Be
In Tow of a Tramp.
Creston, April 22-Willie Steinberg-
er, eleven years of age, the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Herman Steinberger, has
been kidnapped bySa tramp. The pair
are bound westward, trace of them
having been obtained at Red Oak.
Authorities at that place advised the
officers here that the tramp is using the
boy to beg for him. The boys moth
er is distracted over the outrage. Mr..
and Mrs. Steinberger are poor and the
theory of abduction can be accounted
for on no other ground than that the
tramp desires some one to help him
procure food without working for it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-25
WORKED A SIMPLE FRAUD.
cIairvoyant Separates Workingman
From His Hard Earned Cash.

Des Moines, April 3.-(SpeciaD-A
Dse Moines workingman named Rock
ey, photographer by trade, was made
the victim of the trickery of a sharp
schemer and lost s475 thereby. The
trickster, who gave his name as c. M.
Bates, pretended to be clairvoyant
and showed how he could double the
amount of money in a pocket book.
Rockey tried it with half dollar, then
with a S. bill and then $40 bill In
each case it worked finely. Then he
brought down his savings and put
S475 in the wallet and was told to
wait several days. The money and the
clairvoyant left town hurriedly.