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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-04

would have sheltered themselves UNI
der the cloak of commerce. The par
ties could not have been punished in
the state where the birds were killed,
because they had committed the Of
tense secretly and concealed their
identity in making the shipment. BY
destroying the market the temptation
to break the state laws is removed.
1t is this feature of the federal law
which makes it effective. The yari-
Gus state game wardens should now
be able to watch the markets and pre-
vent the unreasonable sale of all
kinds of game. 1t is of no avail to the
sell them, and he cannot market them
without shipment, and when Illegally
shipped they become subject to selZ.
ure. Sr
The legislatures of the various
states are now awake to the necessity
of preserving our remaining birds and
game from extinction The wild pigeon
has been exterminated; the prairie
chicken has become very rare and the
waterfowl that formerly clouded the
sky in the spring and fall are only a
"Reminiscences of their former multi
tude.
But change is rapidly being pro-
duced in public sentiment. No law
can be enforced which is not upheld
by the judgment of the people. For
tunately birds are prolific, and we'll di-
rected public sentiment may do much
to atone for the mistakes of the past.
The farmers have learned that the
birds are their best friends. The hor-
ticulturist now knows that whilst the
birds destroy some fruit, they protect
it from insect pests.
American women have permitted
fashions dictates to make them par
ties to unnecessary bird slaughter. The
mother egret has been shot on her
nest by the plume hunters, until the
woods of Florida, once so brilliant
know them no more. The embalmed
song bird and sea bird still stare with
glass eyes from the hats of tender.
hearted women. But fortunately this
barbarous custom is on the wane. The
Audubon societies are making an inl
preston
President Jordan, Of Leland Stan
ford University, wrote me last year
from Japan that the song birds of thai
archipelago had been practically exter
minated. He said there was no local
law for their protection and the trees
had been lined and the song birds
gathered almost enmasse for the mil
inery trade of the world.
The market reports show on a sin
gle day in this abominable traffic that
100000 skins We're sold in London, o:
which more than 100000 were hum
ming birds.
y The forests OF Japan have become
silent in order that the dead bodies
OF her songsters might be carried TO,
few weeks on the head gear OF fail
women in Europe and America.
The sea is being desolated as vel
as the woods. The tern that have
been protecting our harbors as scaven
gers, have been made the prey, too
of this cruel fashion.
1t is pleasing to note that the gen
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From the New York Evening Post.

Massachusetts. Under state law au-
thorizing the formation of such com
panies, the Heath Telephone company
was organized, about four years ago,
by some farmers living in that typical
hill town" with a capital stock of
$4,000, only $4,000 of which needed to
be paid the first year. All of the in
strnments were purchased and owned
by the company, which secured about
thirty subscribers during the first
twelve months. The line has since
been extended through Charlemont, a
town in the Deerfield River Valley on
the Fitcnburg railroad, and also,
through the adjoining hill town of
Colerain, to Shelburne Falls, another
river and railroad town, while furth-
er extension from Shelburne Falls to
Conway,a hill town, is under way this
spring. Meanwhile lie has also been
run from Heath to Jacksonville, vii
lage just across the Vermont border.
The company now has not less than
$50 miles of wire, and about 200 sub
scribers in the various towns which it
serves, with SO more soon to be added
in Conway. The original subscribers
in Heath pay but S. per year for the
use of the line in their own town, and
they can call up anybody for only ten
cents message. New subscribers
are entitled to the use of the whole
system, and the charge is only dol
lar month. Outsiders have to pay
ten cents for message from any
point to any other point. About So, 00G
of the capital stock has now been sold
The entire management has from the
first been in the hands of farmers.
A sample system in the middle ives,
is the cooperative one organized in
1899 at Bowers Station. in Montgom
cry county, Indiana, a district in the
central-western part of the state. The
farmers in that section raised money
enough to buy switchboard, and each
member of the organization bought his
own telephone instrument and contri
blted in either money or labor to the
erection of the line. Each subscriber
pays an initiation fee of So for the
privilege of joining the company, ant
in addition a monthly fee of IS cents
This sum has been found sufficient tt
keep the lines in repair, and, together
with tons paid by non-subscribers who
use the lines, enough to pay the
switchboard operator. At present for
ty towns are connected with this sys
TEN, and it comprises over 5000 tele
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think his friends had remembered him
and did not discover the deception for
several months.
And the gang spent the watch
fund"
Another time" said the doctor,
this same tailor came into our Office
and noticed a large bottle of brandy
on the shelf"
Whats that, Doc" he said"
That's brandy" ~ replied and he
took a big snit of it."
We'll, we could not afford that be-
cause the liquor was not intended for
ordinary drinking but was bought for
medicinal use. So determined to fix
the tailor. put. lot Of tartar emetic
in it and laid for the gentleman. The
next day became in and noticed that
the liquor was riled and asked what
was the matter with it. told him
that it contained poison and that
small sup would certainly kill per-
son. He meekly said Huh and went
out AS soon as he was out of sight
strained the liquor and clarified It.
! The next morning the tailor came
had a terrible thirst. He cautiously
looheu d. lue UolllS anu tuSu dL uS.
was busily engaged in doing some writ
ing and never looked up. He evident
/ ly saw that the appearance Of the
liquid had changed and thought it was
all right. The next thing heard was
a soft 'gurlge-gurgle-gurgle' and l
knew my man was caught. In short
time was called down stairs hurried
! ly to attend sick man and saw my
tailor. He thought he had been pois.
oned but knew better and / refused
to administer anything to him.
.But he never bothered us any
| more"
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logic. Mysticism cannot alter the
vulgar facts. it cannot lend to the
new freakish experiment any dignity
which was not possessed by the hun
dred others that have preceded it.
They have been all OF kind and all
wrong, notwithstanding the glamour
OF easuistry, and Professor Herron's
"eXsentric" ideas had been tried and
failed many times before he was born.
The only security for the infatuated
woman who has bought him and mar
ried him lies in the fact that she Is, in
truth, married, against his principles,
and SO is saved from terrible igno-
miny which she could not otherwise
escape.
Years ago, said an Ottumwa physi-
clan. when l first came to this town,
the late DR.. Douglas and myself were
in partnership with an Office over the
room now occupied by the United
States express company. Now to con-
meet up this story properly, I will in
troduce you to a tailor who was in
the employ of w. A. Jordan. He was
little fellow but could drink more
whisky than almost any other man of
ethS Div. ilS tsiNoJ aPPCulOu Go
though he had stepped from band
box, wore handsome gold watch and
was a hail fellow well met, especially
when there was anything to drink in
sight.
One day he got on a tear and al
most paralyZed himself with the brand
of whisky they sold in those days in
Ottumwa That night lot of fellows,
some of whom still live here, conclud-
ed they would have some fun with
the tailor. They took him down to the
Ballingall hotel and steered him into
the basement where there was a sal
loon and made him, if anything. drunk
er than he had been before. After he
was put in the proper state of inebrity
the fellows stole his watch. He was
| too drunk to notice it at the time but
! after while when he began to sober
up, he raised a great cry about being
touched" The fellows sympathized
with him aad said it was shame for
any man to take helpless person IS
watch. Finally the gang conceived
! the scheme of taking up collection
with which to purchase new time
piece and they began to put the idea
| into execution. Lots of people were
approached and many of them donat
ed,some a dollar, Others more and 9th
ers less, until something more than SIC
was raised. That did not quite make
enough to replace the lost time-keep
er and the tailor was asked to donate
/ IS himself, which he solemnly did
The gang took the tailor's watch down
to jewelers., had his name engraved
4 on it, and presented it to him with
4 the accompaniment of happy
speech. The tailor was very proud te
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Mankind are becoming aroused at
last to the Importance of protecting
what has been spared of the birds and
game once so plentiful. Even in dark
est Africa the great powers of Europe,
which have partitioned the wilderness
among them, have recently made rules
and regulations to prevent the indis-
criminate slaughter of the remaining
creatures Of the forest In America
the subject has claimed consideration.
but our people have been too busy in
the struggle for wealth for the indi-
vidual to give adequate attention to
the preservation of our natural re-
sources. Our coal, gas, oil, forests,
fishes, birds and game have been
wasted and destroyed with reckless
ness utterly unworthy of SO intelligent
and progressive people. 1t is high
time to call a halt. With favorable
and enlightened public sentiment moth
ing can fail. Without it nothing can
succeed
When several years ago the writer
attempted to attract national atten-
ton to bird and game protection, the
proposition was received with mirth-
full raillery in congress. A distin-
guished representative, since then
elected governor of his state, said that
Congress could be in better business
than in discussing the question of rails
ing goslings." But persistent effort
has won, and the work of the League
of American Sportsmen and the Aud
ubon Societies, supported by the farrn-
ers and fruit growers, created such q
sentiment as to make 1t possible to Sc
cure the enactment of federal law
supplem enting and making effective
the local laws Of the various states.
Even majority of the members from
the state whose governor had seen on
ly amusement in the idea, voted for
the bill.
Local laws had been evaded by the
shipment of game and birds killed in
their violation, by placing them on the
market in other states. Under the new
national law, commonly known as the
Lacey Act. this can be prevented,
because the interstate transportation
of the birds and game killed in viola.
ton OF local law is made illegal and
punishable in the federal courts.
The violator of the state law meets
with no profit in the secret breaking
| of the law of his own state, because
when he ships the fruits of his law
lessness to another state for sale in
the open market, he finds that while
he has escaped the sheriff at home he
runs into the arms Of the United
States marshal.
The magnitude of this nefarious bus
mess may be understood when it is
known that in a single seizure recent
| ly made in Chicago, more than TWEEN.
ty thousand birds were confiscated
| Thousands Of pairs of birds, migrat
ing to their northern summer breed
| ing grounds, had been killed and sent
to market in-defiance Of state laws in
this one instance.
| Before the enactment Of the nation
al law, this seizure would not have
| been practicable, because the dealers
would have claimed that the killing
had occurred in another state, ant
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will be great benefit to its member
ship.
The coopers' Union.
Better and greater than ever is
what the coopers claim for their III
ion. The coopers of this city are now
permanently organized and are push
ing to the front. At the last regular
meeting of this organization, there
was large attendance and enthusi-
assn was displayed from start to finish.
The Electrical Workers.
The electrical workers have submit
ted their scale to their employees and
anticipate no difficulty in having the
same adopted This organization all
though young in the labor movement
in this city has shown signs of ac-
tivity that older and larger organiza-
lions might do well to follow.
For Shorter Hours.
Prominent among the planks of the
platform on which the Trades-U Union
ism of today stands is that of shorter
hours; and in these days of labor-sav-
ing machinery and rapid production
its value cannot be over-estimated.
So much has been written and said on
the subject that it is very difficult at
this late date to produce any new ar
gument in its favor. Under existing
conditions the combination of the
present system of long hours means a
fierce competition for employment on
the part of the wage Garner, conse-
quent ruinous reduction in wages, I'M
employed workers, misery and discon-
tent. On the other hand a reduction
in the hours of daily labor to cores
pond in pro ratio with the improved
facilities of production means to the
workers less competition, consequent
higher wages, and steadier employ.
ment for all; while the increase in leis-
Sure time will bring added happiness
to the home of the toiler as we'll as
improved health and longer life to
himself.
Notes.
During the last fiscal year the Loco
motive Firemen's Union gained 3,7OO
new members.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-04
LOCAL MEN PROSPECTING.
ottumwa Men Will Locate Oil Claims
In the Southwest.

VI kiS SouAtWCSls
Some thirty or forty Ottumwa men
are interested in project to work oil
wells in the new oil fields in Indian
territory, and for the past two weeks
or more they have been quietly work
ing UP scheme to form companies or
associations of eight men each and
take UP land for oil and mineral pro-
ducing purposes. Some few weeks
ago, Fred w. Wilson, w. NJ! Reese and
j. A. Mangan went to the Indian Ter
ritory and while there they learned
that the prospects in that part of the
country are excellent for Oil wells and
mineral mines. On their return to
this city they began working up a
scheme to organize associations as
mentioned above.
Five of these associations have been
formed and each organization has sent
a man to the Territory for the pur-
pose of establishing title to the land
upon which it is proposed to have the
oil wells. The location is about forty
miles from the railroad, and In the vi
cinity of Fort Sill. The recent north
ward move of the oil industry from
Texas brings the oil country compare
lively close to the place where the OF
tumwa men went, and we'll may be
discovered on the land to be taken by
the Ottumwa people.sin which case a
neat sum will probably be netted by
the local prospectors.
w. NJ Reese, j. A. Mangan, Seneca
Cornell, f. Krapfel and C. A. Smith
are the five Ottumwa men now in In
dian Territory They left this city ear
~ in the week and will remain in the
Territory from ten days to three
weeks, and before they return they
will locate claims for their respective
associations. There are Indications of
gold, silver and lead in the mountains
near where the oil wells will be locat-
ed, and it is probable that mining
claims will also be established by the
local prospectors.
This country is parE of the Apache
and Kiowa reservations, which are to
| be opened in a few ,honths to settlers
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-04
Saves Two From Death.

"Our little daughter had an almost
fatal attack of whooping cough and
bronchitis" writes Mrs. w. X. Hayi-
land, of Armork, N. Y, "but when all
other remedies failed, We saved her
life with Dr.. Kings New Discovery
Our niece, who had Consumption in an
advanced. stage, also used this won
derful medicine and today she is per-
|fectly well" Desperate throat and
lung diseases yield to DR.. Kings New
Discovery as to no other medicine on
earth. Infallible for Coughs and
Colds. soc and 81 bottles guaranteed
by Clark G. Mollison. Trial bottles
free.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-04

AS yet no settlers claims can be taken
In the country, but it is possible to
take claims for the developing of the
resources of the ground, such as oil
and minerals, which are of the kind
the Ottumwa parties are to take. One
man can locate a claim of twenty
acres, and an association of eight, like
those formed here, can take claim of
100 acres.
Besides the men already mentioned
as interested in the venture, the fol-
lowing other Ottumwans are also
among the partners in the affair: B.
H. Picken, John Cfiley, John Spry, Ed.
French, A. G. Leighton, B. f. Suits,
j. c. Manchester, O.. j. Garriott and
w. B. Armstrong.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-04
BURLINGTON CROP REPORT.
Condition of Corn, Wheat and Oats In
Ioma

Chicago, May 3L-"The Corn Belt"
issued by the Burlington railroad com.
pany prints information concerning
the condition of corn. wheat and oats
in Iowa. A brief summary of which
follows:
Corn-Seventy-fve. reports say out.
look good, excellent, 16 fair Winter
wheat-Seventee reports good, fair,
2 poor and l reports hessian fly
Spring wheat--Thirty-six reports good
IL fair. about same as in 1900 and 8
poor. Oats--Forty-four reports good,
~ fair, excellent, 9 poor
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-04
White Man Turned Yellow.

Great CONSERVATION was felt by the
friends Of NJ A. Hogarty of Lexing-
ton, KY, when they saw he was turn
ing yellow. His skin slowly changed
color, also his eyes. and he suffered
terribly. His malady was Yellow
Jaundice. He was treated by the best
doctors, but without benefit. Then he
was advised to try Electric Bitters,
the wonderful Stomach and Liver
remedy, and he writes; After taking
two bottles I was wholly cured" A
trial proves its matchless merit for all
Stomach, Liver and Kidney troubles.
Only csc. Sold by Clark & Mollison,
druggists.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-04
ARE YOU PLUMP

or thin? red cheeks or sallow
life in your step or feel your
weight? are you comfortable or
hoping to be SO next spring or
summer or fall ?
One is health; the other is
not-quite health.
This condition Of not-quite
health can be turned into
health with SCOTS emulsion Of
cod-liver oil.
1t is a pity to get in the hab,
it Of thinking Of health as a
thing to be hoped for; why not
so for it now!
There is only one way to
make strength: by food. You
want appetite first, then food.
The emulsion will give you
food-rest, to master your food
with.
We'llsend you a littleto try, fyou like.
SCOTT & BOVINE, ~ Pearl street, New York.
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SEPARATIONS MAY RESULT.
Iowa College, of Law May Be indie
pendent,

u
Des Moines. May 31.-The relations
existing between the owners of the
Iowa college of law and Drake univer-
sity, with whichdts.is affiliated, and
which have been strained for the last
two or three years. are near the break
ing point. 1t was announced yester.
day by representatives of the owners
that the coming school year will be
the last one during which the law
school will be conducted in conjunc-
ton with Drake university. Also that
in all probability the end Of the year
will be marked by a lawsuit brought
by the Iowa college of law to recover
from Drake university under five
year contract, and the organization OF
a separate school by Drake university
to be conducted at the school.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-04

I'm n law-abitiin man. and bleeve In good
old fashioned institutions. ] am marrid
and my offspring resemble me II / am 4
Snowman. l think yoiir Ainerty bizness
is cussed noncents, besides bein Outrageous
ly wicked. Why don't you behave decent
like other folks?
1t is the same old story today with
the same old moral and the same old
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-05-04
TO-DAY'S TELEGRApHIC NEWS
Foreign News.

Berlin, May 4.-Chancellor Won Bue.
low is meeting with some difficulty in
the reconstruction OF the cabinet. Won
Podbielski refused to accept the minis
try OF agriculture. Herr Siemens has
declined the ministry Of commerce,
which has been accepted, however, by
Herr Moeller. Baron Won Rheinbaben
has become Minister of Finance, the
place made vacant by the retirement OF
DR.. Won Miguel.
Calcutta, May 4.-Twenty villages
have banded together 10 the Sialkot
district OF northwestern India 70 resist
measures taken for the suppression OF
the plague. Three hundred native
troops have been sent to Zafferwall 10
subdue the rioters there, who had killed
an official aud wounded several nurses.
Paris, May A dispatch from the
Cote D'Ivoire French West Africa,
states that the French troops have bad
a severe engagement with the rebels at
Bacule 10 which large number OF Of
ficers and men were killed and wound
ed. General Combes, commanding the
French troops in west Africa, has eor Q
TO the scene.
Amsterdam, May 4.-Advices received here
from st. Helena where 3 large NUMBER OF
Boer prisoners sre confined, state that Mrs
Cr;sje, wife Of the Boer General, Cronle, who
is with her husband on the island, has be-
come mentally unbalanced, owing to her ex'
periences in the war, and her life In her
prison home at Dsadvood. Mrs. Cronie I'm.
seines that she is the ex- Empress EuRenie Of
France. Five other Boer prisoners have slso
become insane.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-05-04

Manchester men charged with drug
ging Bessie Clark and taking advantage
Of her, were released on bail last nie'I
10 the sum of 81, 900 each to appear fof
preliminary trial Monday. NO test'
mony was heard.
Mr.. Swanson's friends carried their
minority plan for electipg delegates 70
the gubernatorial convention before
the democratic city committee OF
Richmond last night. This body was
tied for three ballots; in the fourth the
Swanson men adopted the minority
plan favored by their candidate. Inc
primary is to be held June 8.
Nominations for the constitutional
convention closed yesterday. The Dem
ocrats are known to have made nomi.
nations in all the counties except fioyd
and Franklin. Lee, Lunenburg, cray
SOD, aud Tszswell. There will be about
forty anti.denocrsts. One OF the last
to come out is Gen. james g. Field,
who yesterday announced himself 90
independent candidate in Albemarle.
He is running especially against Mr..
Lindsay, who succeeds Mr.. Massey %
one of the democratic sspirants. 10
Tazewell the democrats will have nc
! candidate, as the county is hopelessly
republican. Mr.. A. P. Gillespie, repub'
lican, will be elected without opposition
| To Floyd and Franklin and In Grsyson
the same Is probably true.