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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-03

lty or affinity within the fourth de-
gree, or where he has been attorney
for either party in the action or pro-
ceedlng. But this section shall not
prevent him from disposing of any
preliminary matter not affecting the
merits of the case
Four Judges a Quorum.
That it would be most satisfactory
to the people of the state if decision
We're rendered on the Titus amend
ment by only those judges who are
not personally interested in the meas
ure goes goes without saying. This is
not possible, however. 1t requires
TOUR judges OF the six constituting the
supreme court to form quorum.
Section 1913 of the revised code of
1897 says: "The supreme court shall
consist of six judges, four of whom
shall constitute quorum for the
transaction of business, but one alone
may adjourn from day to day, or to
particular day, or until the next
term"
Not only are four judges required to
form quroum, but four must concur
in order for decision to have force.
Section 1874 of the code says: mo
decision of the court shall be filed I'M
til it shall have been considered by
the whole court and concurred in by
not less than a majority of the
judges
Were the suit other than a friend
ly one, that is coming up from the
district court of Washington county,
to bring about an early decision on
the Titus amendment, the probabili-
ties are the supreme court would shut
out of hearing and determining it.
1t is apparent if the amendment is to
be passed on by the supreme court, it
will require the concurrence of at
least four judges, one of them being
directly interested in the case. 1t is
probable the two attorneys in Wash
ington county, being personal friends,
will agree to overlook such disqualifi-
cations. Were the suit unfriendly,
then by objecting to the Disqualified
tons of the three judges named above
either party to the action could at
once prevent the supreme court from
passing on the case and thus force
the decision of the lower court to
stand. A decision such as this, how
ever, would have no effect outside of
the particular case it involved.
The circumstances are unfortunate
for those members of the supreme
court whose terms are extended by
the amendment. They, or at least
some of them must take part in the
decision, or the question will remain
undetermined. If decision shall be
rendered upholding the validity of the
amendment, by reason of the posi-.
ton taken by judges whose terms are
extended, they at once place them.
selves in a position open to criticism.
The situation is undoubtedly one of
the most peculiar that ever confront.
ed the supreme court of the state, and
it may prove, as some believe, con
tributing cause to knocking out the
amendment completely
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Illinois Central R. R.
OF INTEREST TO
STOCKHOL DERS.
Free Transportation to Attend the
Special Meeting at Chicago.
ILLINOIS cENrRAI, RA1nKoAn cow,

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY y
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
Public notice is hereby given that specia1.
Central Railroad Company will be held at lid
company's office in Chicago. Illinois, on Satur,
day, January 26, 1901, at eleven O'clock in the
forenoon.
To permit personal attendance at this meet.
ing, there will be issued, to each holder of one
or more shares of the capital stock of the I'LL
nois Central Railroad Company, as registered
OH the books of the com pany, a ticket enabling
him, or her, to travel free over the company q
lines from the station on the Illinois Central
Railroad nearest to his or her registered adj.
good for the journey to Chicago only during the
four days Immediately preceding, and the day
OF the meeting, and for the return Journey
from Chicago only on the day of the meeting.
and the four days Immediately following, when
properly countersigned and stamped during
business hours-tl1at is to say, between 900 a
M and p. Min the Office of the assistant
secretary, Mr.. w G. Bruen, in Chicago. Such
ticket may be obtained by any registered
holder of stock OIL application, in writing to
the President of the Company in Chicago
Each application must state the full name and
address of the stakeholder exactly as given in
the number and date of such Certificate. No
more than one person will be carried tree i'll
respect to any one holding of stock as regis
tered on the books of the Company.
For the purposes of this meeting the Stock
Transfer Books will be closed at three O'Clock
p. m on Thursday, December 20, 1900, and
remain closed until the morning of Monday,
January 7, 1901. A. G.. HACKSTAFF,
Secretary.
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OBITUARY.

Antonett A. Goodman Brainard was
born at Crawford, Wyandot county,
Ohio, December 2, 1885, and fell
asleep December 20. 1900, at the age
of 65 years and 81 days. In her child
hood she was converted and joined
the Baptist church. About the year
1859 or 1860 she came to Iowa, and in
1860 or 1861 she Joined the First Con-
gregational church, of Ottumwa,, with
the one who afterwards. became her
husband.
May %, 1862, she was Joined in mar
riage to A. e. Brainard. This union
was blessed with six children, three
sons and three daughters, one son
and two daughters having preceded
the mother to that blest home of the
soul, in their childhood. She leaves
to mourn her demise a husband, two
sons and one daughter and a number
of grandchildren, together with host
of friends and an invalid sister in
Ohio.
In 1864 she and her husband were
transferred by letter from the Ottum-
wa Congregational church to the
Agency Congregational church, she af-
forwards uniting with the Free Will
Baptist church, of Agency, in which
denomination she remained in good
standing and a faithful worker until
the summons came from the Master
saying: ut is enough; come up high
err"
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&c" IS A CANDIDATE.
Guard Company From This City
Want to Go to Washington.

Guard Company From This City
Want to Go to Washington.
One company of the Iowa National
Guard will accompany Governor Shaw
to Washington to attend the Inaugural
ton of President Mckinley, March A.
Why should not Company &c" have
this honor? 1t is not known what the
adjutant generals intentions in the
matter are, but it is hoped he may
see his way clear to detail Company
&c" of the Fiftieth regiment.
Captain Armstrong when seen to-
day said he would file an application
with the adjutant general at once ask
ing for the detail and the company
will work hard getting themselves in
first class condition to be ready to go,
should they be selected. The citizens
of this city who are interested in the
company will be asked to use their in
fuence in the matter, and it is hoped
to have several of them go to Des
Moines to see the governor and adju-
tant general in person.
The honor could be no more fitting
ly bestowed, than upon Company &C."
and it would please the citizens of
this city in general if 1t should get the
detail. From technical stand
point Company &c" ransk with
any company in the state, therefore
no one could say, any other company
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is A MATTER HITHERTO OVERLOOKED.
If the Titus Amendment is Held Valid the Terms Of
Judges Given, Waterman and Sherwin Will Be Ex-
tended-They Are Part of the Court
That Will Decide the Matter

Des Moines, Jan. 2.-While they
were committing that legislative
I tragedy, the Titus biennial amend
ment, the lawyers also bungled it up
so that it's constitutionality cannot
be tested except by court one-half
OF whose members are directly in
terested in it's fate
An important phase of the deter
mination of the validity of the meas
ure by the supreme court has hither-
to been passed over without atten-
ton or reference. While much has
been said of the terms of office that
would be affected by the amendment,
1t has not generally been considered
the amendment would, if held valid,
extend for one year each the terms
of three judges of the supreme court,
or half the judges on the supreme
bench
Those Whose Terms Are Extended.
The judges whose terms will be ex.
tended If the amendment is held val
Id are Judge Josiah Given, whose
term would otherwise end December
; 81, 1901; Judge Charles M. Waterman,
whose term will expire December 81
1903 land Judge John G. Sherwin
whose term will end Dece-ber 81
1905. Their terms are extended di.
rectly. as the following sentence OF
the biennial elections measure indi
dicates:
The terms of Office of the judges
Of the supreme court which would
otherwise expire in odd numbered
years, and all other elective state
county and township offices whose
terms of Office would otherwise ex
pire in the year 1901, and the mem.
bers of the general assembly, whose
successors would otherwise be chos.
en- at the general election in the year
1901, are hereby extended one year
and until their successors are elected
and qualified"
Even without this provision, how
ever, the fact of having biennial cleo.
tions would result in extending the
terms of those judges of the supreme
court whose successors would ordinar
lily be chosen in the odd numbered
years, since without any election in
the odd numbered years each judge
whose successor would ordinarily be
chosen then would remain in Office un,
til after the election in November OF
the even numbered year.
So far as the judges of the supreme
court are concerned, the fact three
terms are thus extended cannot bu,
prove embarrassing in considering the
4 Titus amendment. Ordinarily, Judge
Given, Judge Waterman and Judge
Sherwin would be disqualified from
passing on the validity of the amend
ment. BY the mutual consent of the
parties to the action, however, they
/ may take part.
Section 2S4 of the revised code UNI
der general provisions says:
when Judge Disqualied.-A judge
or justice is disqualified from acting
as such, except by mutual consent Of
parties, in any case wherein he is q
party or interested, or where he is re
lated to either party by consanguin
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eossAeE SAW HIM SHOOT.
Former ottumwa Man Witnesses
Killing by Desperate,

Joseph B. Gossage, formerly of this
city, but now publisher of the Rapids
City Daily Journal, in that paper tells
of a killing he witnessed some years
ago, the article being called forth by
the recent death of the man who exc
cuted the job:
"A report is current that doc" Mid
dleton, a former noted desperate of
the Nebraska sand hills, is dead. He
is reported to have died at Ardmore,
Neb., few days ago of smallpox. This
famous outlaw has been leading an ex-
emplary life for the past few years and
had wife and family for whom he
had the deepest affection. There are
many people in the Black Hills who
well remember Doc and his ex-
ploits. for which he paid dear in many
instances.
81. B. Gossage witnessed his first
serious misdemeanor, which was the
killing of man at Sidney, the cir
cumstances of which were such that if
he had stood trial he would have
been acquitted. He ran away, how
ever, and became a fugitive from JUS
tice, and for that reason became the
noted outlaw he was for many years.
was more entitled to the honor than
company &C."
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out the insurgents; that being the
case Uncle Sam will take hold of it
and run it on his own hook for a
while.
l think there will be plenty of
chances here to make money when the
government gets these '.gugus" tanned
down; they will not work under any
circumstances and all they seem to
want is vino" the native drink.
When they get filled up on that they
are satisfied. They are like Mexicans
all they want is full stomach and
a drunken feeling.
almost forgot to tell you that we
had scrap three miles south of here
Sunday evening; one officer and two
privates were wounded The Ameri-
cans captured fourteen "gugus," eight
rifles, some ammunition and a few
bolos.
AS it is pretty near chow-chow time,
will bring this to close.
F. c. Parker.
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MEN OVER IS YEARS OLD
DON'T NEED EXERCISE

"A business man should get all the
exercise he needs from the require
ments of his business. A long walk
only further calls upon his reserve.
Violent golf or tennis only puts
greater strain upon his system. If he
says he needs fresh air, oxygen, he
can get it in his Office, if the latter. be
properly ventilated. He DOESN'T need
to exercise to breathe fresh airs
|pca Rockefeller Cited.
"John D. Rockefeller drives fast
horse. That gives him air but it
doesn't give him exercise. Joseph
Chamberlain takes no exercise except
what he gets from stepping from his
office to his carriage. He is never
sick. Senator VIM. NJ Evarts is
very old man. He never exercised.
That is his boast
But business men say, But need
exercise. do not feel well unless
have it, That means generally that:
they eat too much You can poison
your system by eating too much, put
ting into yourself more than the kid
neys can eliminate. Now Chamber
lain, who takes no exercise, have no
doubt, is light eater"
What We Have Always Said.
We are pleased to note that scien-
lists of reputation are coming to share
the views held by the proprietors of
Warmers Safe Cure for the past TWEEN
ty years, viz: that the kidneys are the
great eliminating organs of the sys-
tenn. Nature made them SO and man
never has or can improve on nature.
If the poisons of the system are
driven out as nature intended, health
is assured, but if these great organs
are overworked, sick, and breaking
down, allowing the poisonous, waste
matter to be retained in the system,
ill health is certain, and unless help is
given death will result.
The sensible course to pursueiis to
put the kidneys in good working order
by the use of Warmers Safe Cure
vegetable specific for all kidneyhsdis-
orders; a cure that has been put to
the severest tests in all parts of the
civilized world and never failed of do
ing all that was claimed for it.
1t is not physical exercise men and
Women want, but that the great or
gans Of the system exercise their ma
tural functions and Warmers Safe
Cure is the aid needed to put them
and keep them in perfect health. A
free sample of this great remedy will
be sent to anyone applying for same
to Warmers Safe Cure Co., Rochester,
N. Y.
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Chicago Hygienic Expert
'Propounds a New and
Startling Theory.

Especial to the New York Worldly
Chicago, Dec. DIR. Albert H. Hoy,
after years of patient research, says
exercise is positively unhealthful for
men past thirty-ffve years of age. Dr.
Hoy has published book on Eating
and Drinking which is praised by the
profession. He is specialist in
hygiene.
II say that exercise for the business
man or men past middle age is detri-
mental. exclude the young and the
laborer. Every action, whether of the
brain or OF the muscles, destroys cells,
uses up tissue and creates waste mat
ter to be taken up by the blood and
to be eliminated from the system.
Nov, unless such waste is elimin-
ated 1T becomes so much poison in the
system. The great eliminating ma
chine of the human body is the kid
neys. Unless the kidneys do their
work the system is saturated with
poison.
Senator Davis Case in Point.
For instance, there is the sad case
of senator Davis. His toe was poison
ed by his stocking and refused to heal.
Kidney complaint developed, or rather
the kidneys for long time had not
done their full work, and the system
was so poisoned that the toe became
gangrened.
'The kidneys work easily during
youth-up, say, to thirty-five years of
age. But after fifty they become
slightly atrophied, they shrink lit
tie. This is not disease but simple
effect of age. Consequently, as man
advances in years he should ask his
kidneys to perform a little less work,
instead of little more.
but, suppose man of business not
only uses his brain during business
hours, but also puts strain on his
muscles afterward. There is waste
then to be carried off, mental waste
and physical waste, the broken-down
brain cells and those of the muscles
likewise. Thus the kidneys are fore
ed to do double duty, to eliminate
poisons resulting from two sorts of
action.
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Will Dodson, of Des Moines, Thinks
His Beer Was Doped.
HE SPENT LAST NIGHT IN AGONY.
Drank Beer In Several ottumwa Sa-
looms Yesterday Afternoon, and He
Was Found Last Night, Apparently
Dying in Laclede Hotel Basement.
From Tuesdays Daily.


The life of Will Dodson, of Des
Moines, came very near twinklink out
with the old century last night. The
young man was picked up in the base
ment of the Laclede hotel late at
night, by the police, and taken to the
station in the patrol wagon. For five
or six hours he writhed in the most
intense pain, on the floor of the lock-
up, and to make things worse he was
unconscious during the preater por-
ton of the time.
His actions led the officers and 9TH
ers who happened to be about, to be-
lieve that he was dying from lockjaw or
poisoning and after an hours effort
physician was located. There were
two responses to the urgent call made
at the instance of Night Sergeant Mike
lMorrissey, Drs. Baker and Williams
arriving at nearly the same time.
-neir examination of the man con-
WINGED them that he had had an over
dose of beer, which might possibly
have been doped.
The popularity of the mans suffer
| ings was that he would lie on his
stomach, stiffen his limbs and slide
about with his weight resting upon his
chin and toes. This was continued for
an hour or more with the result that
his face was badly scratched and
bruised.
| Without attention he gradually re-
covered and when a reporter called on
him this morning he was able to talk.
! He said he had been working in saw
mill at Chequest, and that he struck
town yesterday afternoon with SIS in
his pocket, the sum saved after sever
al months of work. He says he drank
beer in several saloons and that he
finally remembers getting dizzy and
going into the basement of the hotel
referred to. He got terribly sick and
remembered nothing until after mid
might.
| He firmly believes that he was poi
soned, and he says it was all on ac-
count of the money he had with him,
and which he probably exhibited in
the presence of some person who
wanted 1t. His money, he said, was
all gone this morning. Whether he
spent it, or whether he had it stolen,
he does not presume to know, but it
| is his belief that it was stolen from
him while he was in his Knocked OUT
condition. 9aB
The man was released from custody
this morning. Another man who was
! kept in the station over night, and
whose mind is affected, was turned
over to the county authorities. There
were no applicants for lodging.
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TO MAKE HOME THERE.
MRS. Geo. Wilson's Brother to Live in
the Philippines.

the Philippines.
Mrs. Wilson, wife of Superintendent
George Wilson, of the county farm, is
In receipt of letter from her brother,
#. G. Parker, who is well known in
this city.
Mr.. Parker is private in the hos
pital corps, United States Volunteers,
and while he expects to be mustered
out of service in that country soon,
he evidently has no intention of COM
ing back to the states, as that country
appears to satisfy him.
Vile also thinks the result of the
elecSian was about right, and that the
United States should have possession
4 Of everything in the Philippines. The
letter is very interesting and is as
Bautista, Province of Pangansai,
Philippine Islands,
s, III. November 15, 1900.
Dear Sister Lizzie: while do not
owe you letter, have little spare
time this morning and I will spend
some of it in writing to you. l was
transferred here the 25th of last
month; this place is 100 miles north
of Manila, on the railroad, and it is
what is called post hospital where
patients are kept until such time as
they can get transportation to some
general or base hospital. Consequent
" the duty is very light, the worst
fight we have on hand being that with
time; there is no place to go and moth
ing to look at but natives. There is
q good deal of fighting in progress
from four to eight miles
out, in this province, and so
far we have escaped being at
tackled; trust, in fact, that we may
not be attacked at all, but we do not
anticipate being "done up"
81 suppose you feel gratified at the
way the election went. 1t suits me,
as there was no other way for it to go
that am able to see. 1t seemed from
the very start taking the newspaper
reports into consideration, that there
\ was no show for Bryan, and the cleo
tion proved, it. 4
Iexpect to be discharged January l.,
and will then take situation on the
railroad, for the American government
fs' going to take charge of the road
! here. An English company owns the
road and 1t seems that it is helping
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ago was pastor of the church at Fair
Held Both bride and groom have
hosts of friends in this city, who wish
them all the happiness possible dur
ing their future life.
Mrs. D. P. Stubbs, of Fairfield, and
Miss Catherine Davis, of Osceola,
were in attendance at the wedding.
-:O:-
The marriage of Edward Brewster
and Miss Blanche Lee, was solemnized
at s o'clock last evening at the home
OF Rev. DR.. F. 2. Brush, pastor of the
First M. e. church. The bridegroom is
employed in the Graham barber shop,
corner of Main and Market streets,
and he is young man who has nu-
merous friends who will join in wish
ing him happiness. The bride is a
wei, known young lady whose charm.
ing manners have won for her prom
inent place in her large circle of ac-
quaintances. The couple will reside
on East Main street.
-:o:--
At 8 o'clock last evening in the Free
Methodist church parsonage, at 933
West Main street, the marriage of
Jacob DeBolt, of Creston, to Miss
Stella Belknap, of this city, was sol
emnized. A few of the immediate
friends and relatives of the bride were
present. The ceremony was perform
ey by Rev. e. ]. Fish, pastor of the
Free Methodist church. Mr.. DeBolt
and bride left at 9:45 for Creston,
where they will reside. The many
friends of the bride in this city, will
join in extending the couple the
warmest good wishes
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FORGERY CASE CALLED.
Hedrick Young Man is Being Tried On
That Charge.

Hedrick, Jan. Charles Eckhart,
charged with passing forged check
on the First National bank and Harris,
Cuddy & Co., of this place, was called
for trial in the district court in Sig
Quincy this morning. The young man
is charged with forging the name of
L. Dudgeon, a Wapello county farmer,
to one check for $500. He escaped
with the money but was later caught
in Missouri and surrendered the
amount.
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He Located Sioux CITY.

Sioux City, Jan. 2.-Gustave Pecaut,
one of the French voyagers who left
st Louis in 1889 for a trip up the
Missouri river, and who in 1848 To-
Gated at the present site Of Sioux City
is dead, at the age of "a years. Pc
caut, as one of the first settlers, profit
ed by the enhancement in value of his
lands and died wealth man..