Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31
METHODS ARE NOT HARSH ENOUGH
Des Moines Girl Is stowaway on
Battleship Indiana Enroute to Unit
ed States-Elopment at Creston-
Girl Eleven Years of Age Suicides.

county chairman of the prohibition
party, is one of those who will not
affiliate himself with the league. He
says: I'VE believe the Martin law is
an abomination and that prohibitions
Isl has no business saying to saloon
men that they may go ahead and sell
under 1T. We demand that the damn
able places be closed entirely, and be.
cause of such attitude we can hardly
join the league" In the membership
OF the league there are many prohibit
tlonlsts as ardent as Mr. Griffin, but
they believe in taking half loaf when
the entire loaf is not Forthcoming.
Creston.
Yesterday afternoon Squire Maxwell
mad Just finished tying the knot which
Joined together Roy Tedford and Miss
Matilda Nichols, both residents of
Ringgold county when the boys faith
er telephoned from Shannon City to
stop the marriage, stating that
his son was under. age. The ceremony
had been performed, however, and
when the father was informed of that
fact he withdrew his objections over
the wire and told tile couple to come
home.
Des Moines.
Miss Margaret Fillmore, a we'll
known young lady of this city, is a
stowaway on the battleship Indiana
enroute from Nagaski, Japan and Ma
Mia to the United States. The young
woman left this country to join her
lover with the woman who was to be
her mother-in-law firing of her COM
pany the girl desired to return to the
United States but there seemed no
available way. Finally she hit upon
the plan of slowing herself in the hold
of the big battleship, it is said, and
will arrive in the United States in due
time.
Sioux City.
DR.. ]. NJ. Kilborne, of this city, has
announced his candidacy for the of.
flee of head physician for the M. w. A.
OF Iowa and is making vigorous can
vass for it.
Burlington.
Burlington saloonkeepers are at the
head of a crusade to do away alto
gether with the free lunch counter
in Iowa. The project was fully des.
cussed at meeting of the saloon
keepers, and it was decided to spread
the reform wave over the entire state.
One of the first movements will be to
make general agreement in the state
to stop serving free lunch with each
drink. Saloonkeepers here contend
that their customers are no more en-
titled to free meals than the patrons
of shoe store are entitled to free
pair of shoes, or the purchasers of a
sack of flour to free beefsteak.
Spencer.
Local parties may make an effort
to induce eastern capitalists to build
an electric car line from Rosie, on
the Gowrie and Northwestern rail-
road, in this county, to Spencer and
thence north to Lake Okoboji and
Spirit Lake.
IT. Dodge.
DR.. ]. w. Kline. of this city, has ac-
copied the plans for his new sanitar-
1um which will be built on his four
teen-acre tract north of the city. III
will be built especially for the treat
ment of cases of tuberculosis by means
of the rays of the sun, which will be
directed from a huge reflector patent
ed by the doctor. The patients will
be treated in the open air as much as
possible. Two roof gardens will be
added. The building will cost $12 900.
Davenport.
Candidates for department COM
mander of the Iowa Grand Army af
the Republic are appearing now that
the date for the department encamp-
ment has been set. George H. Metz
ger OF this place, formerly custodian
OF the capitol in Des Moines and
prominent Second district politician,
is a candidate and is being Endorsed
by a number of posts.
Clinton.
Clinton has distinguished guest
in the person of Isaac r. Wells,
known as the king of the gypsies, who
has been here during the larger por-
tion of the winter. He is arranging for
the second annual convention of gyp-
sizes of the United States. The first
convention of the kind ever held in
this country took place last summer
in Newburg, N. Y. The gypsies head
ed by Mr.. Wells, arrived in that city
the first Of June and were in session
for number of days. The second
convention will be held in Minneapolis
next summer and preparations for the
event, Mr.. Wells says, are well under
way. He says the first week in June
will see hundreds of bands of gypsies
from all parts of the country enroute
to Minneapolis to attend the conven-
ton, which is looked forward to as an
important event in the gypsy world.
The convention will be singular one
but doubtless of Importance in its
way.
keota.
Farmers in Lafayette and Liberty
townships, about six miles north of
this place in what is called Scotland
have made extensive
plans for a mutual telephone company
The farmers plan to build telephone
line eight or nine miles long, which
will connect Keota and South English.
1t will be used by about 100 farmers
who will put in phones and will cover
north part of Lafayette township and
the southern part of Liberty township
with perfect network of telephone
wires. 1t is likely that the line will
be built in the spring.
Dubuque.
Some days since it was announced
that Frances Quinn, residing at Elk
ader. had been accidentally shot and |
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