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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
KEEP IN rnIcu

A man who was raised in the state
of Pennsylvania left the old home
when Of age and went west He neg
lected TO keep in touch with the old
home and his kith and Kin and heard
nothing from there for Is years. He
then. having made some money,
thought he would go back to the old
place and see how the folks We're get
ting along. When he got there, he
found the old house and barn looking
just as he left them. but father, moth
er, brother and sister were all sleeping
up in the little cemetery on the hill.
There are all too many people who,
like this man, neglect to keep in touch
with those nearest and dearest to them
and who, like him. may realize the fol-
~ of SO doing when it is all too late.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
VACANCY is FILLED.
Colonel Caughlan Makes Recommends.
ton for Battalion Adjutant.

Colonel Caughlan Makes Recommends.
ton for Battalion Adjutant.
Colonel H II. Caughlan has recon-
mended the appointment of Lieuten-
ant Harry Kern, of Muscatine, to be a
battalion adjutant in the Fiftieth regi-
ment, |. N. G. In case Lieutenant
Kerns appointment is confirmed he
willreport to Major Frank W.Bishop, of
Muscatine, and act as adjutant of the
third battalion. Lieutenant Kern is a
very popular young man in his home
city, and it is largely thru his efforts
that Company c is kept in such excel
lent condition. His appointment will
give general satisfaction thruout the
regiment, and while there was large
number of applicants for the place
and many of them were probably as
competent as Lieutenant Kern, his fit
ness for the place is recognized, and it
is seen the position has been well fill
ed. lnE
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
NO PROOF IN THE CHARGE.
Lawyers Refuse to Aid John McGrea
or in Grave Accusation,

Des Moines, March Public men
who have been appealed to by John
McGregor to press the charges of for
gerry and perjury against Governor
Shaw find nothing on which to base
any action. None of the lawyers in
teryiewed are willing to take an inter-
est in the case.
A. b.. Cummins of this city was
among the number and upon being
asked concerning the matter Mr..
Cummins said he had been SO an
preached, but after hearing Nc
Gregor's story was satisfied there was
absolutely nothing in it.
Judge Elwood of the Crawford
county court on Wednesday granted a
temporary injunction restraining Nc
Gregor from circulating literature con-
tanning the charges. McGregor has
for some time been charging that
Governor Shaw while acting as attor-
ney in land case, committed forgery
and perjury. Governor Shaw, upon
learning from what he believed to be
reliable source that McGregor was
about to print and circulate 5000 cir
culars containing the charges refer
red to, asked the court for restrain
ing order and one was granted.
From McGregor's statement it ap-
pears that in making up the papers
for the supreme court Governor Shaw
had trusted to his memory regarding
the name Of the officer who served
the original notic$ and entered the
wrong name.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

The net cost of preparing the fodder
from an acre of corn shredded and put
in barn or stack is about $3.50. Expert
ence shows that % per cent of this fod-
der SO prepared will not be eaten by
the stock to which it is fed. Assuming
that / Y tons of such fodder will be OBJ
tanned from an acre of such corn, we
have $3.50 pounds of fodder equal in
value to good timothy hay at a cost of
$3.50. These figures represent the av-
erage cost of producing this sort of cat
tie food. If a man can buy clover hay
we'll cured at 81 per ton, there is no
economy in cutting and shredding corn
fodder, the ton of good-now, mind, we
say good-clover hay being of equal
feeding value.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
Litigation Begun % Years Ago.

Litigation over the dam was begun
twenty-three years ago and was only
recently terminated in the supreme
court. The last litigation dates from
$685. at which time an information
was filed before J. G. Tf,omason, a JUS
tice of the peace, charging the defend
ants with the violation of chapter 1888,
acts of the Seventeenth general as
sembly, providing for the maintenance
of fishways in dams. A trial was had,
resulting in verdict of mot guilty"
Later on an action was brought
against the Meeks in the district
court under provisions of the last code
to abate as nuisance the dam SO
maintained without fishway The
defenses interposed were that the stat
ute was void and therefore unconsti-
tutional because in violation of the ar
ticle in the United States constitution
in that it is taking private property
for pubic use without making compen-
sation, and impares the obligations of
a contract existing between the state
of Iowa and the ancestors of the de-
PENDANTS; and also that the question
involved in the proceedings was adj
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
INTERESTING NEWSPAPERS.
w. L. Sargent in Receipt of Many For
eign Publications.

w. L. Sargent is in receipt of num-
Der of foreign newspapers which
arouse great deal of curiosity. They
are all printed in different foreign
styles, and the American newspaper
of today is shown to be far ahead of
anything that is shown in that line.
Among the copies Mr.. Sargent receiv-
ed are the following: The Gawler
Times and Standard, of Gawler, India;
Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle,
of Straits settlement; Rangoon Ga
zette, Rangoon. Burmah; Ell Murcurio,
OF Panama; Rangoon Herald, Ran
COON, Burmah; Civil and Military Ga
zette, Lahore. India; The Hawaiian
Star, of Honolulu; The Alaska Dis
patch, of Juneau, Alaska; The Sentry,
of Kingston, ST. Vincents, WI Bonn,
bay Herald, Bombay, India; Hong
Kong Journal, of Hong Kong; The
Singapore Times, of Singapore, China;
The Lucknow Gazette; of Lucknow.
India.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
Cost of Eishwax.

The estimated cost of a fishway in
the Bonaparte dam is $780, This was
shown conclusively in the evidence
taken in the lower court The dam is
now used only as means of power for
the grist mill, water power having
proven too expensive for the other in.
dustries carried on by the Meeks.
An attempt was made at the last
legislature to secure state appropri-
alton of $4,000 for the purchase of the
Bonaparte dam that the Des Moines
river might be opened up for the pas
sage of fish, but there were numerous
hints of Doodle connected with the
measure and it failed to get out of the
committee room.
1t is likely that the coming legisla.
ture or some time in the near future
the Meeks will again signify their will
llngness to dispose of their property
to the state for good figure. There
being no law to compel them to con-
struct fishway it is claimed that they
refuse to put in fishway because if
they should do so their chances for the
sale of the property to the state would
be diminished and rendered practically
worthless.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
Victory for Meeks.

Both motions for rehearings were
overruled and the case appears to be
at last settled with the victory for the
Meek Bros!
The action was entitled THE state
of Iowa, ex rel, Milton Remley, attor-
ney general, VS.. Byron Meek, ct al
The prosecution was originally inspir-
ed by the State Sportsmen's associa,
ton, and especially those members liv-
ing along the Des Moines river this
side of Bonaparte because of the fact
that the passage of fish UP the river
is obstructed by the dam.
At some seasons of the year below
the dam in Bonaparte the fish are so
thick that they can be scraped up with
board. One of the Meek brothers
is authority for the statement that he
has seen 1000 pounds of fish taken
up from the river at this place in a
single afternoon.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
HUNG TO A TREE.
Negro Murderer Lynched in Missouri
Friday Night.

Camden, Mo-, March 2.-Dewey
Smith, a negro miner, who yesterday
shot and killed Chester Stanley, a
white miner, near Richmond, Mo-, was
captured late last night and taken
back to the scene of the crime The
body is now hanging to a tree close to
the railroad tracks.
Stanley and Smith quarreled over a
trivial matter which resulted in the
shooting OF Stanley. The negro es-
capped but was captured by two men
who turned him over to the sheriff.
A large crowd made a rush on the
hotel where the negro was confined,
took him away from the sheriff and
proceeded to the scene of yesterdays
shooting, where they hung the negro,
after he confessed to the killing. The
negro claimed he shot in self defense.
Bad feeling has existed for some time
between the negroes and whites and
more trouble is feared.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
Notice of Final Settlement.

In the matter of the estate Of Charles
Lawrence, and to whom it may concern
report of the undersigned executor Of said
estate will be filed in the Office of the Clerk
OF the District Court of Wapello county,
Iowa, on or before the 10Th day of Feb
rIiary, 1901, and unless you appear and
show cause to the contrary IL any there
be, on or before the second day of the next
In said county on the 25th day of March.
1901, said report will be approved and the
undersigned and Ella f. Whitton, discharg.
ed from further duty and responsibility
therein. L. ~ Hack worth
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

A Kansas agricultural college buile-
tin gives the average annual milk and
butter product Of Kansas cows at
S9.65. To test the matter, whether this
small return was the fault of the cows
Or of the manner of caring for and
feeding them, the experiment station
bought lot of common scrub cows and
by feeding them properly made them
average return of $37.75 each, one of
these scrubs producing a product worth
S60sS. While dairy form and dairy
blood are Indispensable to large butter
production, it is still proved by the
above that the feeding of properly
balanced rations to even scrub cows
will increase their milk product four
fold. There is a thought right here for
every man who keeps cows anywhere.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
Height, Lenqth and Width.

The dam is 666 feet between the
|abutments, 2S% feet wide and IL feet
high. 1t is built in cribs of 12x14 inch
hard wood timber filled with stone and
covered with seven or eight inches of
2y3 oak lumber solidly spiked.
In speaking of the dam Meek Bros
in a letter state: "We have re-
Gently made some extensive and
expensive improvements OH the struc-
ture and it is now in better shape than
it has been in the last twenty vars ;"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
SMART DOGS.

Dogs living in Chicago get to be as
tricky as men. A st. Bernard dog was
moving along the sidewalk ON Michi-
gan avenue carrying a basket in his
mouth filled with parcels Of meat. Two
bunko dogs saw him, and one ran up
behind him and bit the big dogs tail.
This was too much of an insult, SO
Bernard set his basket down and, turn
Ing on the dog in his rear, proceeded to
chew the stutfing out of him. This was
the other dogs opportunity, who grab
bed the package Of meat and quickly
disappeared round corner. AS soon
as the rear dog could get away he join
ed his companion, and few moments
later they were seen enjoying big
square meal together, while Bernard,
unconscious of his loss, marched home
in a dignified manner, thinking, no
doubt, he had taught one dog lesson
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
LEGAL.
Estray Notice.

10 all whom it may concern:
Notice Is hereby given that did on the 18th
DAY OF February, 1901 take up on my premises
y miles northeast of Eldon, Iowa, the follow
ing IN described animal, to-wit: One light color
loyears old. rather thin in flesh. No brands
or marks TO distinguish her are perceptible. 8
Y. T. KNIGHT
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
FIND SKULLS IN THE BowERY.
Men Excavating Building Site Come
Upon Ancient Graveyard,

New York, March 2.-While exca-
waiting for foundation for new
building at 231 Bowery laborers dis
covered ten human skulls and several
other human bones. Many of the old
inhabitants of the Bowery say that
fifty years ago there were several
small graveyards in that vicinity and
that one had occupied the site on
which the skulls and bones were
found.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

An improvement in the manner of
branding stock is noted, process
which effectually and permanently re-
moves the hair on the surface branded
without pain to the animal or injury to
the hide.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
Dam Sold for 5000.

Under the provisions of chapter 25,
laws of the eighth general assembly,
provision was made for the selling of
the dam by commissioners, and final
fly for the sum of 5000 a deed was
made to the ancestors of Byron F.
Meek, Kirk L. Meek, and Hugh H.
Meek for ''all the inter est the state
had in and to the locks and dam at
Bonaparte, and the land opposite
thereto, and the water power thereto
belonging" Last year the Meeks Of
fered to sell the dam for $4,000, SO
valuable has the property become
After the completion of the dam and
locks it was used for the purposes of
navigation and continued to be so
used until some time as late as 1865
or 1866. About this time the river
ceased to be navigable as far up as
Des Moines, and this with the railroad
then in operation thru the Des Moines
valley, led to the abandonment of the
navigation scheme
Soon after the conveyance to the
Meeks the gates and locks were closed
by wall built across the lower end
of the lock. About the year 1870 the
owners of the dam built across the
river just below the old structure a
series of cribs making continuous
structure with space varying from a
few inches to four feet between the
new and the old part which was filed
with gravel and rocks and the whole
covered with planks, making struct-
IRE twenty-eight feet wide, the new
structure being slightly higher than
the old
In that condition the dam has since
been maintained without fishway.
The face of the dam is perpendicular
and constitutes an absolute ebstruc-
ton to the passage of fish.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

The white ash is generally supposed
to be tree of slow growth, but we
have specimens of last years wood Of,
this tree showing a growth of 80 inches.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
Railroad Finished.

But the river idea fell more and
more into disrepute as the building of
the railroad progressed and when the
first trains were running over the
road between Keokuk and Des Moines
little need was paid to the improve
ment Of navigation. In vain did the
state threaten and attempt to enforce
the terms of the contract entered into
by the grant of land.
At last compromise was hit upon
and the state became again the owner
of the dam. NJ
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
DEATH OF MAJOR H. G. CURTIS.
Well Known Atlantic Man Passes Sud.
denly AWAY.

Atlantic, March 4.-Major n. G..
Curtis died here Saturday evening.
Major Curtis was prominently identi-
fed with the establishment of a new
government in Porto Rico, serving as
a member of the Porto Rican COM
mission appointed by President Nc
kinley in February, 1899. The serv-
ice OF Major Curtis was more particu-
larly directed to the legal phase Of the
question in which he made exhaustive
researches.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
WILL HELP THE COUNTRY SCHOOL


In very many sections of the country
the problem of maintaining the local
district school has become a serious
problem, this for want Of children to
educate. Following up the suggestion
made some time ago in these notes to
the effect that the most practical solu-
ton of the hired man trouble on the
farm was to employ married men, CIV
ing them home in which to live,
garden, chickens and pasture for a
cow, we want to further claim that
such plan will-do much to also solve
the school problem, such men presuma-
bly, being generally young men and al
most sure sooner or later to have chill
dren to send to the country schools.
Surely this plan has much to commend
it-reliable help, the married hired man
not wanting to run off every night or
two to see his girl, but staying right at
| home to look after his family, at home
Sunday evening and not running off to
leave the old man all the cows to milk:
the farmers wife, rid of the work of
caring for and feeding the help in the
house, the wife of the hired man at
hand to help in the home If needed oc.
| casionally, a crop of nice little folks be-
ing raised to patronize the district
school The more this scheme is looked
Into the better thing it is found to be-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

A matter seldom referred to as con-
stituting one of the advantages of liv-
Ing on farm is the fact of being able
to enjoy a degree of exclusiveness
which city residents are denied.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

Now is the time to get paper of
ipansy seed and sow in a box of earth
in the kitchen if you want nice lot of
strong plants in June to set out.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

A friend of ours notes that the butch.
er bird likes the sparrow for a break
fast during the cold mornings of the
winter.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
RURAL MAIL HoxEs.

Some country boys returning home
from town with too many schooners Of
beer aboard thought it would be a
smart thing to fill a rural mail box
which was placed by the side of the
highway full of bullet holes, SO out
came their revolvers. They either did
not know or were too drunk to realize
that the little uncouth receptacle for
the mail was as fully protected by the
postal laws of the government as the
elaborate and ornamented mail box Of
the great city. If a fellow really wants
to get into trouble, there is no way in
which he can do It easier than to
monkey with Uncle Sans mail boxes,
no matter whether they are located on
city boulevard or a country lane.
Don't forget this, boys.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

I. We came across one of those tree
peddlers few days ago who are sell
ing fruit trees to farmers at more than
twice the cost at which they could be
obtained from any home nurseryman.
DON'T pay such prices
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
COST OF RAISING TWO ACRES OF
BEETS

A man in central Iowa who last year
raised two acres of sugar beets by
hand work and used no special machin-
cry for the care of the crop gives us the
fol1o1yin p rnnort oP cost.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

If you think that you cannot win
your case at the end of a lawsuit, il is
always best to arbitrate, for the basis
of all arbitration is compromise, and
so arbitrating you will be sure to get
something and save costs.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

The apple orchards Of the Ozark
mountain region in southern Missouri
and northern Arkansas are threatened
with destruction by insect pests, and
what seemed to be a most promising
fruit section is in much danger.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

Russian thistles. which are near
relative of the common tumbleweed,
were blown and drifted in such guam
titles on the Dakota prairies last fall as
TO entirely fill the railway cuts and
block the passage of the trains.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07
COST OF SHREDDED FODDER

Tons Of beets sold-SO at S. per ton, $3.50, Civ.
ing him net profit per acre OF s25.4i.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

Barnyard manure is the best correct
i've for soils carrying an excess of lime,
such as the calcareous deposits to be
found around the edges of tiled
swamps where the soil is largely made
up of the minute shells. Such soils are
deficient in humus, which the barnyard
fertilizer furnishes.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

A reader wants to know what to do
with the red ants which ruin his straw
berry bed. We would move the bed,
for we know of no way to get rid of the
ants An old hen turkey with lot of
little turks will, if cooped near an ant
hill, clean them out the quickest of
anything we know of.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

Ten beet sugar factories were in on
Grafton in Michigan last year, which
used 100000 tons of beets and paid the
farmers over S1,o00OO0 for them. For
ty-eight million pounds of refined gran
ulated sugar We're made. The crop is
becoming favorite one with Michigan
farmers.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

The western farmer talks differently
about his possessions to the local as
SCISSOR from what he does to his broth
er-in-law from Vermont who is making
his first visit west. He illustrates the
difference between contraction and ex-
pansion.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-07

In certain parts of Mexico and Cen
Z tral America are caves Of large dimen-
sions which for ages have been the
roosting and breeding places of mil
lions OF bats, whose excrements have
accumulated to such an extent that a
most valuable fertilizer is available.
One man owning such caves has sold
Sl,100 tons of this fertilizer at $4S per
ton.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-03-31

Congress must be influenced by the action
IN MarSlaud 10 take action reducing the
representation of Maryland aud an other
states where the negro Is eliminated as a
voter, MIR Buhcock further delivered HIM
SER of plaintiNe lament over the prospec.
tive advantages TO result To the Democratic
party from negro dlsfranchiscment
This is the whole story. Not a RepuhIi.
can newspaper and not a Republican poll
uclan anywhere would give uttCrauce to
one sentiment of protest or remonstrance
put for the apprehension of hcpent to the
democratic party, Now why was the cleo
groY simply and solely because IL would
benefit the Republican party No man can
he SO Ignorant as not To know this The
futecnth amendment TO the sCoustitution
would not and could not have received a
uo2en votes altogether In both houses OF
Congress but for the argument that IL
would be such powerful aid to the party
hof mere shamefacedncss Mir. Babcock ana
ms friends ought 70 get up some other rrn.
son against the Maryland ana the South,
ern election laws.
The Maryland Republican leaders nlso
seem 70 nave poor memories In their wall.
mg over neBru Acknowledgement senator
McNomas and many others 81 them are
the Hover OF the white manhood Of Mary,
lhiiu was denied access TO the polls ana "a
uenieu eynstitutionaliy mlawfully ana mn
justly. Their lips were closed then MI
NnoiSh itss than one third the legal vof,,,.
OF The state controlled and less thnn 1Onts
leghl voters In the oity OF Rnttfnoy,
usulbru lhe management OF It's affairs. Ar
~ All right Tor these thugs Ia be dona
"Aen tue hspnbllcan party Is to benefit,