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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21

Garfield Taylor, and James Taylor, OF
Bloomfield; A. R. Vandegraph, Of
White Elm; Misses Mary and Ruth
Clark and James Clark, of Cantril;
Chas. Willis, of Gait, Mo-; L. j. Ora,
of Waddell; Leon Leyda, of Burling
ton; w. E. Thompson and P. HefroI
of Birmingham; P. H. Redsmith Of
Unionville; and Misses Nellie, Dora
and Jessie Clemmens and Joe Glenn.
mems, of the city.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21

twenty men eacl. All these gangs
are ballasting the new track between
Thayer and Summit Cut.
Linemen at Work.
A gang of sixteen linemen is work.
ing westward from Thayer, putting up
poles for the telegraph line. This gang
is under Foreman w. S. Hempfeld, OF
Chicago.
Changes at Thayer.
At Thayer the old line is consider
ably below the level of the main
street in the town. The new line goes
into Thayer from both sides over a
long fill which averages about twenty.
five feet in depth, and is quarter of
mile in length. Laborers are now
at work moving the Thayer depot up
the hill at the north of the old line
and it is to be located on the north
side of the new track.
| A new pump house is being built at
| Thayer, about $50 feet west from the
depot. This is to be used in pump.
ing water from the reservoir, located
a short distance west of town. Cranes
are paced east and west of the depot
SO that water may be taken by pass,
ing engines.
A Great Improvement.
| Standing at Thayer one can look to
east and west for miles without see.
4 ing a curve in the new track. This
| is so different from the old track that
it is worthy of much notice. For a
stretch Of almost six miles through
Thayer, over three to the east and
over two to the west, the new track
Will not have single curve, except
VERTICALLY, and the grades are so much
smaller than on the old line that there
! ir almost no comparison. The maYi
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21
Or. William F. Norris Dead.

Philadelphia, Pa, Nov. 19.-Dr. Will
liam Fisher Norris the oculist, is dead
at his home here nf an attack of pneu-
monia.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21
DIES FOR HER CHILD.
Woman Fatally Burned While Suceor
ina Infant,

Centralia, Ill, Nov. 19.-Mrs. Mary
Manering and her four-year-old daugh-
ter Edith we're burned to death at
Xenia. The child's clothing caught
fire from a stove and the mother in
irving to save her was fatally burned.
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FOREIGNERS OBJECT.
Do Not Want Railway Property sold
to the standard OH Company.

KANSAS cry. April sS,-Foreisn stock.
holders OF the Port Arthur Land Company
have interposed an objection Co the sale OF
%. coo acres 81 LAND az Port Arthur, Tex ,
negotiated last week. according to local Of
hcialH OF that company, Negotiations for
the sale of the land which lies around Port
Arthur and between that city and heau-
mont were practically contaminated In
Kansas city last week. for a sum said 90
have been SO nm mere, The prospective
buyer was W. !. Mokie. OF corsioana. Tex.
said To be the lcgal representative In Texas
of the Standard OH Company, The property
Al In the hands OF H.. /, Martin. Arthur H..
StiliNell and j, Mcb, Trlmblc OF this city,
former owners OF the Kansas CITY, Pitts
burg a. Gulf Railroad, a. trhsteou. These
officials assert that they have fun power
90 tiFpOne OF the property,
Port Arthur was built by Mr., Ntilwell to
further the Kansas city. fittshurg a. Gulf
Railroad, OF which he was the promoter
and prenidont, but before the road was
placed in the receivers hands he promised
great things for Port Arthur. The receiver.
ahip did not touch the land company, and
Mr. Rtiiwell. Ia speaking OF the proceeding,
HAid, 9TH deal II going Go bring about
the realization OF my dream and make a
city out OF Port Arthur, 10 viii make Il the
center OF the great oil districts OF the
world, From Port Arthur oil Will he ship.
ped Co Mexico. Central America and leu
repc,' t
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M-YSTERTOUSLY MISSING.
Kansas Case That May he Either MUIR
der or Attempt tn Defraud.

SALIVA. Kan, April 2s.-Frederick Kin
ney. a young farmer of Jewell county. has
been missing since last August. and II is
feared he has been murdered. Henry Free
man, aged twenty years, now In jail az
Wichita. was with Kinney when he was
last seen alive. near Beloit. Kan. the two
travelling in a wagon. Freeman is known
To have sold Kinney's outfit. Four weeks
ago the elder Kinney received "a letter
dated Wichita. telling him hat his sen
was i'm trouble and requesting him To send
SEQ Immediately To &C. NJ. Jones'" Kinney
placed the letter in the hands of a de-
tective and a decoy letter was sent. 1t
was taken from the postoffice by a man.
who. when traced by a detective To Abilene.
arrested ON a charge of using the mails
To defraud. and returned 10 Wichita.
proved TO be Freeman. He asserted that
he and young Kinney had parted company
at Belo.t. where Kinney turned his out
tit over TO him. Freeman said they had
been 'boot-legging." and Kinney, fearing
arrest. gave up his belongings and disap-
peared. Freeman asserts that he and his
father Travelled about the country I'm the
wagon. finally selling the outfit. after a
fruitless search for Kinney. The elder
Freeman asserts that when the proper time
comes he can produce Kinney.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-29

''The Women of the Salons" a clever pa
per on Fiction and Politics from tho Ed
inburah Review, and a variety uf sketches,
shnayH and reading from new books, Tho
iivins AGE Company, publishers,
The May humble OF the Worlds Work
covers important topics In Russia. Austria.
England, Mexico. Cuba, besides many
American matters. of national interest IL
''1he Solution OF the cuban Problem by
the man who has been most prominently
connected with tho matter. senator rlntt,
OF Connecticut John Kimberly Mumfofd.
IA an Illustrated article, dvHcflhvs the ltuHs
sian political advance on Asia, Theodore
Waters writes or the great possibilities M
transmission OF electricity for power, anu
an article about the personality and work
CT Mr.. Francis H. Clergue shows one great
example OF these possibilities, Other intefs
erting features are sidney llrooke'H third
European article. this time connldofing
Auatria-ttungary. a story OF the work OF
President piaE, OF Mexico, with prophecies
"a Co HIS probable euccerhor, the recount
Ina OF experiments made IA prontaahnfing
showing successes ana failures with roh-
sons. "a description ct the process of breed
fng new whcata with some nne pictures, a
defense OF our consular service, aud an &C,
count OF some of the best new p~reNcntiVea
of loss or life at sea, Then there are vivid
character sketches OF James ]. I'M m I
hscretaiy Gage, and editorial tributes to
ex-lresident Harrison ana 20 1on.rhl
Public Library and the Public School,
''The Author and the Publisher ~ Peace"
md THE Author as the Printer Sees Him. -
will have interest fog hook lovers,
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BERNHARDT FURIOUS.
She scores Prof. sumichrast and
scorns a banquet In Her Honor.

BOSTON. April 2S.-Prof. De Sumich-
rast's outspoken critlcim OF Rostand and
his plays has brought him into disfavor
with Nine. Bernhardt. Last Thursday both
she and NJ. coquelin absented themselves
from a reception which had been got
up In their honor. on Friday when a re-
porter called on Nine. Bernhardt she ut
tered these explosive words: prof. De
sumichrast may go TO the devil. He is an
ass. lie stands about so high" Her out
stretched hand indicated about three feet.)
"It Is true that | was invited 10 be the
guest of L'Alliance Franchise" said Nine
Bernhard. speaking through her score
tary. II refused because this man. De
Sumichrast, is the president OF IA. That
man has tried TO beiittle the literary pro-
auctions of NJ. Rostand, for whose works
j have a great admiration. and who IL my
personal friend. l know that he does not
speak for the great American people,
though. ! have Travelled through the United
States and have become aware. for "A fact.
that the vast majority OF educated people
In this country regard NJ. Rostand as a
writer of the first rank.
The play, 'L'Aigion.' which NJ. De
Sumichrast ranks as an inferior produc-
ton. Is called by everybody else one OF the
finest plays ever produced on the stage. 1
do not care for what Prof. DE Sumichrast
says myself, for / do not think that he is
worthy OF notice. IL does seem too bad.
however. that such n man should be a pro-
fessor I'm such a great Institution as Har-
ward College. and be permitted TO lecture
TO intelligent young men. They can have
no confidence I'm what he says
The professor. when seen. said: II have
the highest regard for Nine. Bernhard. /
know OF no greater pleasure than 10 see
her act. and | am going again SATURDAY.. /
have regarded NJ. Rostand's work from a
literary point OF view, while Nine. Bern
hardt is undoubtedly interested I'm the inan-
ciaI success as we'll as the many ODDOr-
tunities IL affords for her triumphs as an
actress and artist
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-29

H. their natural colors. reproducing Mr..
Ernest feton-Thompson'S drawings. Prof.
John Henry coinatock's Insect Life" with
itf fine pictures OF butterflies and other
insects, and Mr., T.. Schuyler Matthew's
workn on Familiar Trees aud Familiar
Flowers"
Law IL a profeseion that leads to lltera-
tirc. " We may Judge from the array OF
inwyers or ~eN-iawyers who are ON the Cen
fury company's publication list. john
Luther Long, whose prince of Illusion"
n just published, n a Philadelphia lawyer,
Edwin Asa Dix. author OF Deacon Brad
bury and a new novel, "Old nowcn'H
Legacy" IL a lawyer by training, though
not by practice, Aud among others may
be found Vice President Roosevelt, author
81 THE strenuous lifo,' the Hon. John
Hay, secretary OF state. ttncoln'R roCrO-
teff nnd. authorized biosrnphcr, the Right
Ion. John Morley, author OF oliver
CROMWELL the tkight Hon. James Bryce.
hiographer cot Mr. Gladntonei the Hon,
tnVar Strnus, eNaminiHtor To Turkey, and
hioRrnpher OF Roger Williams, Joel chand.
ltr Harris and Harry Stlllweli Edwards.
the. Georgia story tcllcrs, David Gray,
author of "Gailops," Tudor jerks. author
og "imaRinatlona," Prof. nrander Mat
t,hewH, Irwin kueaoll the poet. Maurice
Thompson, author OF winter Garden
group Of essays aud sketches; Prof The.
Foreign Policy" and Gcn. Schoneld, author
ct "FortysHlN Years IA the Army" who
made u special study Of the law after leav.
ihE West Point u will he noticed that
the list these writer's are lawyers hy couri
ttnN. rather than by profession, their work
hhNinH been mainly IN other lines, aH PROF
Matthews, Maurice Thompson, Joel chhnds
leHhi practitioner u usually not adapted -
fiction, whatever his habit OF mind may lac,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-29
Lest You Forget
We Say II Yet
Uneeda Biscuit

eonfronts those who are working for
municipal reforms, The theme OF this
years meeting Will be uniformity In
Municipal Accounting IL Will be intro
duced al the Friday afternoon session In .
report by Dr. Ed r.. Hartwell. who 10
chairman OF the committee hppointod 10
compile "A date. A subject 60 which the
LEAGUE A. giving nuch attention II In
struction ga Municipal Government In
American Educational Institutions" The
report OF "A committee appointed 20 ia
miiiarize itself with these matters viii he
presented Thursday by Prof. Thomas NJ.
Brown, OF Lehigh University, who II chair
man OF the committee.
some of the more prominent OF those who
Will participate IN the deliberations OF the
meeting are Hon. Daniel l.. ID. Granger.
mayor of Providence. Wheeler IA. Peck
ham, president OF the city Cluh. OF New
York Mrs. Isabella Beecher Harker, Of
Hartford. Conn. James j. Carter. OF New
York: col. r.. 4. Hitchcock. OF the Scranton
Municipal League; Charles w. Haskins.
public accountant OF New York: Mrs. j.. ID.
Wood. of the Denver city Improvement
Association; Hon. George +. Sewarr, for
mer minister 10 China. President Drown,
of Lehigh University: Chancellor Day. OF
syracuse University; Edwin n. Smith.
president OF the Civic Club, OF Pittsburg:
William l.. Bancroft. OF Wilmington. City
Statistican Hartwell, OF Boston.
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established throughout tn.

AhtiOdbutg tsldbilSntQ lHioubtooN eWt
country.
Mr.. Sayler says: Even in the incipiency
of the Industry these factories have shown
good profits. They have maintained them
selves without any apparent real contest
with the sugar trust. The sections OF the
country that seems most adapted 10 the IN
dustry are where conditions call for new
resources. as In Michigan. where there has
been a phenomenal increase In the last
three years. largely due TO the waning or
the numbering industry Of that region.
There Will be four factories there next sea-
son. California Is the leading State In pro-
duction with eight factories. including the
largest In the world. The immediate
amount OF pulp and refuse left after the
extraction of the sugar appeals especially
to farmers and industries that grow out OF
farm products. Mr.. Sayler says no other
feed for stock Is So valuable and SO cheap
as beet pulp. The beet sugar factories turn
out from 40 to 80 per cent. OF the original
weight OF the beets worked In the form OF
refuse or bi-product. Sugar beet seems TO
respond especially TO cultivation In the
arid region. there they nave given better
results than any other crop. The arid sec
ton has been enabled to cope with other
sections of the country. where the crops
have been produced by natural rainfall.
not I'm the amount of tonnage per acre. but
IN the higher sugar contents and the purity
OF beet. The results I'm Utah have demon
started the feasibility OF the central plant
idea, with branches scattered at numerous
points for performing some detailed parts
OF the work"
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WONDERFUL WEAPON.
New Army Pistol IL simple and Dis.
charges IIs Bullets N Minute

NEW YORK. April 2~s.-Capable OF dis
charging ll6 bullets a minute at a high
initial velocity. the new Luger automatic
pistol adopted by the board OF ordnance
and fertilization for the United States
army is In many respects a remarkable
weapon. The inventor Is George Luger.
a former officer in the Austrian army. n.
Jauser. who came 20 this country 20 SUBJ
nit the Luger pistol TO the government.
said Saturday that the new pistol was the
result OF ten years experiment. 'In a re-
cent test at Washington" he continued.
'the pistol received the unanimous ap-
prevail OF the members OF the board. Its
chief points are it's fine shape. its balance.
It's precision OF aim. its rapidity OF fire and
its great simplicity. IL operates on the
link system. has "A magazine containing
eight cartridges. which Is thrown out when
empty. and may be replaced ny a single
movement. IL uses n 32-caliber bullet. The
initial velocity OF leo feet a second gives
this bullet "A greater striking effect than
"A f4-caliber bullet from the pistol now in
use In this country"
The accuracy OF aim was shown by q
score OF twenty-four bulls-eyes out OF thir-
" shots by one man. who could make only
nine out OF twenty-eight will other styles
OF pistols I'm the competition.
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More OH

BEAUMONT. Tex, April sS,-rwo more
oil eunhera were brought In here to-day. The
first Ia on what IN known as the Gladys
city property, which In owned by the J. NJ.
Guny Company. IL IN close Go the other
guHhers, II was permitted 10 spout only a
few minutea. when after proving itself the
equal OF any of the others the valve. which
had been previously arranged, WAS closed
which reached the oil vein. II OF importance
chiefly because IL widena the oil circuit,
being farthest from the original Lucas
guahcr,
The rumor hat parties acting for the
Standard OH Company havc purchased the
property of the Port Arthur Land Company
h fully believed here, There are 10000
acres In the tract and the price according
Co reports was So an acre. making the
transaction one OF x75O,OOO
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Az IndInnn Trio.
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
There are two or three OF the younger
singers who bid fair TO add to the fame
of Hoosierdom In those quarters where
Mr.. Riley Is regarded as "A ragtime per-
former. We may be pardoned for refer
ring TO this opinion expressed In the effete
East a year or SO ago In order To get tho
fact before the public that IL we were
making predictions regarding the writer's
Of serious verse they would revolve around
Alice Williams Brotherton. Evaleen Stein
and Alonzo Rice. Here II n trio of youns
vcrsificrs whom IL would bc well TO keep
A. mind MIR. Rice Il one OF the new poets
who have cOmc to grace this cold gray
world OF ours with beautiful thoughts. q
poet who seems 10 have both the talent
and genius Co express himself. Mr.. Rlce's
genius has been recognized abroad, since
many other good things which We were Ia
clined to overlook have been called Ca our
attention by Engiiah literary journals.
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covered that the verse was pretty poor
stun. That IN Mr.. Hardy.
seemed 20 me an excessive devotion 10
critical duty" Thus there is something
t. be said. even from the standpoint of
the reviewed. FOR the critical habit which
Dr. Johnson unblushingly avowed when
he said OF a certain author: Il would
rather praise him than read him. Mr..
Howells has gone still further. and con-
fessed in regard TO the scourge OF his
torical novels. such as OF late Ger pale
britannia passed" that he could more
easily imagine himself writing them than
reading them. In connection with the
prevalent and acknowledged practice OF
reading popular books so as 10 be able 10
say you have read them. a witticism OF
Sheridan's Is In point. His son Tom adj
nitted that he had gone down a mine only
I'm order TO say he had done so. but
Why asked Sheridan. didn't you say
so without takIng the trouble TO 20 down?'
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BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.
Thirteen New Factories tn BE Started
This FaII-Indiann to Have One.

WASHINGTON. April sc. F. Sayler.
of Iowa. the special agent in charge of the
beet sugar investigation of the Department
OF Agriculture. is in Washington and has
submitted his report TO Secretary Wilson.
He says this year shows a very active ten
dency towards the institution of new beet
sugar enterprises. Next autumn. he says.
Michigan will have three new factories. and
Ohio. Indiana. New York. Colorado. Utah,
South and North Dakota and Illinois will
install new factory enterprises. making
thirteen throughout the United states now
in contemplation. A conservative estimate.
he says, Is tina there will be forty-two beet
sugar factories In operation throughout the
United States by the end of next autumn.
Everything indicates that the Industry is
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MUNICIPAL LEAGUE.
Ninth National Conference tn he Held
Next week-Topics and Speakers.

PHILADELPHIA. April 2S.-The seventh
annual meeting OF the National Municipal
League and the ninth conference for good
city government. which will be held in
Rochester, N. Y, May S. 3 and 10. will be OF
more general interest than any of the meet
ings which have preceded It, The array OF
speakers includes those OF national and in
ternational prominence. The subjects 10 be
considered and discussed IN the papers that
will be read are also of exceptional impor-
lance to the community at large. but par
ticularly to students Of the problem which
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-29

New York Evening Post.

New York Evening Post.
Mr.. Thongs Hardy has lately shown that
there Is another side to that old complaint
OF au~thors-indolence and lack of con-
science on the part Of reviewers of their
books. He knew at least one critic who
carried onscientiousness TO IAN incon-
venient pitch" This was a gentleman
whose lot II was 10 review Mr.. Hardy's
''Wessex Poems" and who thought. on a
Grst reading of the volume. that II was
rather good" But. with a fell determine
ton not 10 be taken in. and 10 be con-
scientlous at all hazards. ne made a point
OF rereading the poems on a wet morning.
and before breakfast. whereupon he dis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-29

WASHINGTON. April 2S.-The Depart
ment of Agriculture has received no infor-
nation bearing on the reports that have
been circulated In England charging Boor
emissari.s with inoculeting horses shipped
TO South Africa with CHAMBERS and other
nialadics. Secretary Wilson places no crc-
dencc Ia the story. lie says. however. that
II II possible IT might have been done,
probably by hoatlers or other attendants
aboard ship, II at all. There has been no
inspection OF the horse shipments by the
department representative aa the British
agents never have requested such inspec-
fluu,
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WARRINGTON. April 9S.-ilarry Flnkel-
t,cin. a weli-drcsaed man. abou, thlrty-four
years old, who says his homo In IN clov,-
land, O., 10 locked up at the police station
here on suspicion OF being insane. Finkel.
stein went To- the vicinity of the White
House this morning and said he wanted Go
see The President on urgent business OF "A
private nature. lie became rather excited
when refused admission. Finkelatoin was
then urrpated.
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Distance

Lends enchantnent' il is avered. and with respect to certain Knit Goods
offerings for Fall, Just now greatly in evidence, it is further relied upon to
lend weight aud Quality" a we'll The ostensible Value of the
Fabrics shown increases and the price diuinishes in a recognized riow with
the remoteness of the Buyer o the responsibility of the Seller. Ex-
peience has shown. however. that there vas just N difficulty connected
with feeding the green-goggled horse shayings for grass-the horse died
about the time he became accustomed to the provender. And there are
other things this particular season of which it may be said: You'd
better not know o much, than know so many things that ain't So"
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When handled In an Qnpurined state the linen
of persona troubled with contagious mai4l.cs
usually communicates the disease Prevent the
contagion and cure the sufferer A. well ~lth
Glenn's sulphur soap.
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