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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
TX TEND THE LINE
u > Ll.iooiis Central Will Build to
Washington.
CORPS Of SURVEYORS In THE FIELD
!rocecdinss Begun at keokuk Looking
TO the Disbarment of Two Attorneys
on the Charge of Filing False Re-
norts-Other State News

Cedar Rapids, May 10.-The Illinois
Central railroad has surveyors in the
fields running lines for an extension OF
the system from this place to Wash
ington, distance of sixty miles, and
is link in through line to st. Louis.
1t is the consensus of opinion among
those who have figured on the plans
that the nov line will run almost di-
rectly south from Western to Crippen,
where it will cross the Rock Island,
and that it will run in a very direct
way to Washington, crossing the B.,
G. R. & N. near Kalona, and heading
thence direct to Coppock, where it will
connect with the Iowa Central, which
is now controlled by Illinois Central
interests.
This is entirely problenatical, how
ever, for the officials of the company
have taken no one into their conf
dence further than to say that it
IS their plan ultimately to build south
from this city.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
RoTTEN-EGeED PREACHER.
Exciting Time at Marcus Over Zeal
Gus Evangelist.

Marcus, May 1O.-Considerable ex-
element has been aroused over the
Zion meetings held in the opera house
here. The meetings were under the
direction of Elder Adams. of Water
loo. Mr.. Adams attacked the doctors,
pharmacists and secret societies. He
compared the doctors and druggists
with murderers; the secret societies
to the devil; the user of tobacco to a
stinkpot, and himself and creed to Je,
hovah. People went to hear him
from mere curiosity and as his Ian,
guage was unbearable they kept con
4 tinually leaving the room and as he
| left the opera house for 7. D. Bowers
residence he was met by a crowd
who proceeded to shower him with
eggs hitting the reverend gentleman
and his escorts number of times.
4 He was to have had baptism the next
day but left Oh the first train. His
followers here say he will return in
about six weeks. No arrests have YET
been made of persons who threw the
eggs.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
CARRIE NATION IN SOLITARY. !
Efforts to, Have Her Declared Insane
Are Being Made.

Wichita, Kas., May 9.--In an at
tempt to secure her freedom, Carrie
Nation had an encounter with the
turnkey of the Sedgwick county jail,
and as a result she has been placed in
solitary confinement and is under con-
slant guard. About dusk last night
she persisted in beating tattoo on
the floor of her cell. When the turn
key opened her cell to make her de-
sist she bounced upon him and began
to bite and beat him numerically, all
the time making an effort to get to
the doors leading to the residence por-
ton of the jail. With the help of
two prisoners she was forced back in
to her cell. 1t has been learned upon
good authority that the local w. G. T.
U. people are quietly making efforts
to have Mrs. Nation declared insane
The other women who had been in
carcerated with her got tired of their
stay in Jail and yesterday readily &C
cepted bail when the same was ten
dered.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
WILL BE A BIG AFFAIR.
State High School Field Meet at Grin
nell Nav IL.

HSil WAY ".
The state high school field meet
which is to be held at Grinnell May II
is to be a big affair, and will doubt
less bring out some new records. OF
tumwa is to send a team Of high
school athletes to do their part in pull
ing records to as low mark as pos
sible, and there is much assurance
that the members of the local team
will acquit themselves very creditably
There are now sixteen schools in the
state which have the right to send
teams, and it is nearly assured that ev-
cry one will send representatives The
list as it now stands consists of schools
from the following cities:
Competing Schools.
Humboldt, Eldora, vinton, East Des
Moines, West Des Moines, Davenport,
Muscatine, ottumwa, oskaloosa, Grin
nell. Correctionvile, Carroll, Council
Bluffs, Keokuk, Harlan and Sioux City.
Preparations for the Meet.
Elaborate preparations are being made
to take care of the meet and that it will
be carried out successfully is foregonG
conclusion. The plan of holding the meet
under college auspices is a new feature
which the success of similar methods In
other states has brought about in Iowa
The meet will be held on Ward field which
will be dedicated by the high school ath
letes and is one of the best tracks in the
state. The local management will secure
officials and will furnish medals. Hereto
fore only first place medals have been Civ
en-, but this year, first, second and third
place medals will be given. The first place
| medal will be gold and the second silver
and will be artistcally designed. Accord
| ing to present arrangements the prelimn
aries will be held at $3.50 in the. morning
and the finals at o'clock in the after
noon. The officials for the meet will be
| chosen in few days.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
LODGE FUNDS MISSING.
Woodmen Find Absconding Clerk En-
bezZled $74O.

Marshalltown, May 10-While the
Marshalltown camp of the Modern
Woodmen of America gave their miss
ing clerk, Clyde w. Morse, the bene,
fit of every doubt, the lodge trustees
find that the organization has been
deliberately robbed by him and that
he has made away with $74010 of the
camps funds. Not only this, but
Morse's crookedness jeopardized for a
time the insurance of every one of the
more than 600 members,as it was dis
covered that the entire camp had been
suspended by the head camp for non
payment of the March assessment
Morse cannot be found.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
MISS HEARNE MARRIED.
Was Once Stopped by News Of Intend
ed Husbands Fatal Illness.

Milton, May 9-Miss Anna Hearne,
of this place, who recently started to
Chill where she intended to be joined
in wedlock to Howard Holland, then
a missionary in that country, but who
was stopped at New York by the in
formation that her lover was on the
verge of death suffering from con-
sumption, has seen the elimination of
her hopes. She was married to Mr..
Holland in New York City Thursday
and has arrived at her home here.
Mr.. Holland has entirely recovered.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
will be made within a few days as to

will be made within a few days as to
what will be done. 1t is practically
assured, however, that Ottumwa will
have another telephone connection
with the county seat of Davis county
and that within short time. If the
Ottumwa company decides to build to
Batavia it has bound itself by the
contract which it has entered into
with Mr.. Steckel to have the line COM
pleted by August Is. If Mr.. Steckel
builds from Bloomfield here, work will
be commenced at once and the line
will be completed within a few
months.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
BRONCHITIS

may mean a mere cold or a
chronic incurable inaamma-
lion Of wind-pipes.
The quickest relief, for a
cold, is also the most effectual
balm for the worst condition
Of wind-pipes and lungs.
1t takes the edge off a cold
in a night, and relieves it pro-
gressively-one forgets it after
a little.
An old bronchitis, however,
is obstinate. Nothing re-
stores the tissues, when once
destroyed and an old bronch-
it's has gradually impaired and
partly destroyed the lining Of
those small pipes between
throat and lungs.
SCOTS emulsion of cod-liver
oil is the balm; it sooths if il
cannot restore.
Ws'llssnd you littleto try, fyou like II
s Scott & BOVINE, 4os Pearl street, New York
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
Tot Causes Night Alarm.

Zone night my brothers baby was
taken witt Group" writes Mrs. j. G.
Snider, of Crittenden, KY, it seemed
it would strange before we could get
a doctor, SO we gave it DIR. Kings New
Discovery, which gave quick relief and
permanently cured it. We always keep
it in the house to protect our children
from Group and whooping cough. 1t
cured me of a chronic bronchial trou'
BILE that no other remedy could re-
lieve." Infallible for coughs, colds,
throat and lung troubles, SOC and ST..
Trial bottles free at Clark & Molli.
sons.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
SMALLPOX AT MYSTIC.
Progress of the Disease in Afflicted
Town


Mystic, May 1O.-The smallpox stu
alton in Mystic is still very encourag-
ing Two or three cases have been
reported in families already quaran-
tined and one family has been quaran-
tined. A number have been released
from quarantine during the past week
and the exact number of houses now
quarantined is fourteen. Within the
coming week, unless more cases de-
velop, more than half the quarantined
families will be released. There are
only few who actually have the dis
ease now; nearly all the inmates of
the quarantined houses have recover
ed and are only waiting for the expi.
ration of the quarantine limit. There
are fewer cases here now than at any
time since the outbreak and there can
be no doubt but that the disease has
run its course.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
HULL FORCES DIVIDED.
Unable to Agree on Chairman Of Cen.
trial Committee.

Des Moines, May 10.-Congressman
John A. T. Hull will find state of in.
surrection among his forces in Polk
county unless he returns Immediately
from the Philippines. The fight over
chairman of the county central com
mittee has been the mems of dividing
his forces here and while it has been
announced that M. M. Robertson is re
ceiving the entire support it has de
veloped that both AL. Layman and An
drew Groves have received pledges
from large number of the Hull com
mitteemen throughout the county.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
coNGER INVITES MR.. WI.
Carried Chancellor craig's Letter to
Washington.

Des Moines, May 10-Minister Ed
win H. Conger has conveyed to Minis
ter WI Ting Fang formal invitation
and a personal one as well, to visit
Des Moines in July and speak at a
session of the Midland Chautauqua as
sociation. The invitation was signed
by Chancellor w. Bayard Craig and
was delivered to Minister WI in per,
son by Minister Conger The advices
received in Des Moines today are ia
vorable to the appearance of Mr.. WI
here early in July; and it is believed
that the Chinese scholar and diplomat
will be secured as the chief feature
of the coming Chautauqua associa
ton.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
ON ANXIOUS SEAT.
New Law Regarding Musical Examin-
alton Cousinu Uneasiness.

There is much expectancy and not
little uneasiness on the part OF the
teachers of Wapello county, relative
to the county examinations, which VIII
take place after July l. A new law
providing for the teaching of music IN
the public and county schools OF the
state goes into effect on that date.
This great strain to those who dread
the musical examination was brought
through by Attorney General Mullan.
of Des Moines, who recently rendered
an opinion on question pertaining to
the qualifications of teachers in re-
spect to vocal music that is OF great
interest locally.
The Law.
Section 1, chapter 109 of the acts OF
the Twenty-eighth general Assembly
provides that where instruction IS not
given in vocal music by special teach
err, all teachers shall be required to
satisfy the county superintendent of
their ability to teach music. 1t ap-
pears in Ottumwa that the special
teachers of music have not
been able to get to some Of the
classes more than once in two or three
weeks This occurs in almost every
city in the state, and by this the at
| torney general rules that where spec
ial teacher is provided to instruct in
| the elements of music this clearly ex-
empts those teachers in general charge
| of such schools from satisfying the
county superintendent Of their ability
to teach the elements of vocal music.
| The question of the number of times
per week the special instructor may
instruct, in the attorney generals opin-
| ion is a matter for the school board to
settle.
Melody in Woods.
There is little doubt that if one would
visit the groves and streams in Wa
pello county, there might be found on
| Saturdays and even probably Sunday,
companies of young men and women
who teach the country schools, testing
| their voices, and attempting to run
| the scale" Some ancient humorisi
has said that music has
the charm to sooth the savage, split a
rock or bust cabbage" A good many
teachers in Wapello county look upon
this as truism, especially that par
which relates to the rending of a vege
table. Somehow boys and men do mo-
take to music as naturally as ducks dc
to water, and the thought of having
to teach the subject strikes the hear
with terror. With the ladies it is diff
, ferent They are more artistic in thei
temperament than their brothers ant
approach the subject of music "lik'
one who wraps the draperies of he
couch about her. At one countr.
school near the suburbs of Ottumwa
teacher is really said to hum tn
: tunes of 1.-THE Burgomaster," go
Goo Eyes, and other familiar tunes
{, and that now the small boys and girl
who attend this school, really surpris
! their own parents, when they com
+ home, by springing the melodies O
o them. 80
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
IoWAN BUYS NIGHTINGALE"
Sale of Fancy Thoroughbred Cattle
Takes Place at Omaha.

Omaha, May 10.-What was prob
ably the most successful sale of thor
oughbred cattle ever held here, took
place in South Omaha, yesterday on
the new stock pavilion. Nightingale
Roxie" was purchased by James Will
liam, of Marius, Iowa, for $1,125.
Twenty-six cows sold for $6,830, an
average of $27320.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
JAKE GEIER CRAZY.
Is Transferred From Fl. Madison to
Anamosa.

Sigourney, May 10.-Jacob Geier is
crazy. That's the word that has been
received here. Ex-Deputy Sheriff
Earnest Pfaff writes 60 Sheriff Charley
LATER that Jacob Geier, the man who
cruelty murdered Matthias Moran, of
Talleyrand two years ago last fall, is
crazy and has been transferred from
FIT. Madison to the hospital for insane
prisoners at Anamosa.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
GOV. SHAW WILL ATTEND.
Iowa Executive to Speak at Mckinley
1. Banquet in Chicago.

Iowa EXECUTIVE TO speak at mckinley
d, Banquet in Chicago.
Des Moines, May 10.-Gov. Shaw
has been invited to be one of the
speakers at the great Mckinley BAN
quet in Chicago on the 18th of June,
and he has accepted the invitation.
Congressman Littlefeld, of Maine,
will speak for the east; ]. c. Hemp
hill, the head of the Charleston expo
sitinn, with speak for the south, and
the governor of Iowa will represent
the middle west. Other distinguished
speakers will be heard. The governor
of Iowa is in the best class of speak
ers and thinkers in the United States,
as is shown by the numerous invita-
tions he has to speak upon notable oc'
casions in different parts of the coun
try.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
IT WILL TAKE $50, 900.
Secretary Of the Executive Council on
u EXPENSES.

Expenses.
Dies Moines, May lot is estimat-
ed that between $4,000 and 100000
will be necessary to run the state
house for the next two years. The
secretary of the executive council, who
under the present arrangement, is al
SO in charge of the supply department,
In making estimates this week and
next week will advertise for bids for
supplies of all sorts that will be need
ed at the state house for the next two
years. An attempt will be made this
year to buy everything at once and
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
STEAMER BURNS.
Four Lives Lost on Lake Superior
Craft,

Houghton, Mich, May 1.-THE pas
senger steamer Bon Voyage burned to
the waters edge in Lake Superior last
night. Four passengers, all women,
are known to be drowned, and fifth,
name unknown, is believed to be lost.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
have on hand all the varied assert
inent OF things in demand by state Of
flCers.
cUMM!Ns GETS WOODBURY..
Captures Delegates Fom That County
to State Convention.

Sioux City, May 1O.-Woodbury
county emphatically declared yester-
day afternoon for A. 3. Cummins of
Des Moines, for governor, and thus
sounded the slogan which the other
counties in the Eleventh district may
take UP. Cummins captured 1875 dele
gates and the anti-Cummins forces IS
delegates.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
A BRAND NEW IDEA.
w. J. Sickle to Conduct His Farms
From His Office.


Sitting at his desk in the city and
giving instructionsato the foremen on
his farms in all,paTts Of the county is
what one of the progressive business
men of Bloomfield proposes to do. w.
]. Steckel, of Bloomfield, banker and
financier, was in the city yesterday on
business. Incidentally Mr.. Steckel is
the owner of the Davis County Tele-
phone company In his business deal
ings for the past few years Mr..
Steckel has become the possessor of
several thousand acres of land in that
county, which is divided into perhaps
forty or fifty farms, How to keep in
close touch with all these farms has
caused Mr.. Steckel an endless amount
of worry. He thinks now, however,
he has solved the question. AS fast
as practicable he will construct sys-
tenn of telephone lines all over Davis
county, with a central station at
Bloomfield and line running to each
farm. In this manner he can have a
fence moved, and q field of corn plant
ed in exactly opposite parts of the
county without having to leave his
chair
To Build New Line.
AS was announced few days ago
Mr. Steckel had closed contract with
the Ottumwa Telephone company
whereby the latter company and the
Davis County Telephone comapny will
enter into a contract for the purpose
Of connecting a toll line with Bloom
field In this connection two
schemes are under consideration. One
plan is to build a line direct from
| Bloomfield to Ottumwa. Another is
for Mr.. Steckel to build from Bloom
field to Eldon, the Ottumwa Telephone
4 company to build from here to Ba
tavia and from Batavia to Eldon where
the two lines would be connected will
the present line now running between
the two latter cities. The Ottumws
Telephone companysis to elect which
line it will use, by May Is. 1t wa:
for the purpose of consulting with thu
!, local company in regard to their in
!, tentions that Mr.. Steckel was in tn,
city yesterday
Has Nothing to Say.
AS a result of his, visit Mr.. Stecke
had nothing to say, but an indication
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
STATE HAS s1,s12,2ss.54.
Large Amount 81 Money in Vaults at
Dec Moines

Des Moines. May 10.-There is at
present balance of $1,312,2SS.54 in
the general nsyenue fund of the state
Treasury. This is larger amount
than there has been ON hand for some
time; it is accounted for by the fact
that the March collections, the larg-
est of the year, have just been re.
ceived.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
TO DlsBAR ATTORNEYS.
keokuk Lawyers Charged With Filing
a False Report.

Keokuk, May 1O.-Yesterday Judge
Bank, after hearing the report of the
committee appointed to investigate the
practices of Attorneys James Harring-
ton and James Dolan, ordered that pro-
ceedings be commenced against them
looking to their disbarment. Both
men are charged with filing false re-
port in an assignment matter.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
CLAIM ALL BUT WARREN.

OufIlHIIHS WET WdKe But OHt EXCep.
ton in Seventh.
Des Moines, May 10.-Friends of A.
B. Cummins claim all of the seventh
district with the possibility that War
rem county may be divided with Con-
ger. This was given out from the
Cummins headquarters directly after
Woodbury's results were made known
but in the face of the fact that Dallas
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-08

GEN. CHARLES H. GROSVENOR.
Presidents life long friend, COM
rade in war and colleague in Con-
gress. Was near his side with other
great men when his eyes closed in
death. Followed the bier to the Ma
tional Capitol and to Canton. The
General requires share of the pro-
ceeds of his book to be devoted to a
Mckinley Monument Fund. Thus
every subscriber becomes contrib
utor to this fund. Millions of cop
les will be sold. Everybody will
buy it. Orders for the asking. No.
body will refuse. Elegant photo
gravure portrait of President Nc
Kinley's last picture taken at the
White House. You can easily and
quickly clear $1,000 taking orders.
Order outfit quick. Chance to prove
success, secure yearly contract and
become manager Send IL 2-cent
stamps for elegant prospectus.
Taking 10 to 80 orders daily. $1,000
copies will be sold in this vicinity
Address,
THE CONTINENTAL ASSEMBLY,
Corcoran Bldg, Opp. U. S. Treasury.
Washington, D. c.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-08

EXTRACTS from President Roose-
velt's address delivered at the open
ing of the Minnesota State Fair:
The wilfully idle man, like the
wilfully barren woman, has no place
in a sane, healthy and vigorous
community.
1t is not possible ever to issue
prosperity merely by law.
The man who works, the man who
does great deeds in the end, dies as
sure as the veriest idler who cum
bers the earth's surface; but he
leaves behind him the great fact
that he done his work we'll. So it is
with nations.
No prosperity and no glory can
save a nation that is rotten at heart.
The first essential of civilization
is law.
Anarchy is simply the hand maid
and forerunner of tyranny and des-
potisn1.
1t is our duty toward the people
living in barbarism to see that they
are freed from their chains, and we
can only free them by destroying
barbarism itself.
| We have made many blunders
and been guilty of many shortcon
ings, and yet we have always in the
end come out victorious because We
have refused to be daunted by blum
ders and defeat.
We must raise others while bene
fitting ourselves.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-08

LORD KITCHENER continues send
ing his regrets to his government,
and the Beers continue the more
effective plan of sending shot and
shell into the British ranks.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-08

WHEN England is swept clean of
troops by sending them all to the
Boer war, 1t looks as though she
had no enemies to fear nearer home.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-08

SENATOR JONES, OF Nevada, has
returned to the Republican fold.
lis well. To be in Nevada and in
the Democratic party at the same
time would be enough to make any
man feel desolate.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-08

THE Besseniei Free Press, by Has
brook & Silverman, is among our
latest exchanges, Vol. l No. bear
ing date of November 2. The new
sheet is a hobby pamphlet form,
we'll filled with newsy localisms,
and starts with evident prospects of
a successful career.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-08
Entered at the Post Office at Virginia Mimi.
as second class mail matter.
Terms, 50 Per Year, in Advance.
Official Paper, City Of Virginia.
Special Notice.

Persons wishing news item, change of
''ad." or anything in the line of locals. in
serted, Will please have same in our Office nv
Thursday noon Of each week, if convenient
as it saves time and trouble for both parties.
We reserve the right tc positively refuse
any notice Of whatever nature after eo'clock
p. m. on Thursday.