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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-29
GrinnelI.

Grinnell, Jan. 26. Especially =
Much Indignation is expressed here
because of the action of the senate
committee on finance, in reducing the
tax on beer and tobacco while retain
ing the very annoying tax on bank
checks.
Serious objection is made not only to
the discrimination made in favor of
the beer and tobacco trusts, but that
telegraph and express taves are re-
pealed while the stamp tax that enters
so generally into the everyday bust
ness of thousands of dealers, and en-
ployers of help, who are generally
paid by checks is left in force.
1t is described as another in
stance of hitting one class of
people and favoring the trusts. A
protest is to be circulated for sigma
lures and will finally be forwarded to
Congressman Lacey and also to one
of the senators of Iowa against the
injustice.
One contractor and builder of this
city who employs large number of
men during the building season re-
ports that the stamp tax on bank
checks costs him thirty dollars a
year.
Topacco and beer, being considered
as Injuries, ought they say, to pay
taxes if any are to be paid.
The order of the Eastern Star has
elected officers who were installed at
the last meeting as follows: w. M,
Mrs. Belle Wheeler; w. p, j. p.
Nicely; A. NJ, Mrs. Carrie M. Smith;
T.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-29
keos auqua.

threw a stone at bird in tree in
front of E. Manning's store. The
stone struck the tree in such a way
that it rebounded and broke the large
plate glass in the front of the store
The damage is estimated at $3.50.
Marshall has agreed to work for Mr.
Manning to pay for the damage done
This was very expensive for him. He
did not intend to break the glass.
A deaconess from the Chicago
Training school for deaconesses
spoke at the Methodist church last
evening. She gave very interest
ing talk on her work
w. R. Wherry, of this place, was a
recent Benton sport business visitor.
DR.. L. F. Summers, of Milton, was
in Keosauqua yesterday on business
There was party at the rooms of
the Wormley-Philo company in honor
of Mr.. and Mrs. e. E. French, who
will soon depart for Washington,
where they will make their future
home. Many friends were present
and wished them well in their future
home.
The much talked Of Bonaparte dam
case has again Deen affirmed by the
supreme court. Yesterday an opin-
ion was handed down affirming the
case. The only thing now left for the
state to do is to buy the dam.
Keosauqua, Jan. 26.-Clark Cole,
travelling salesman for Daven-
port blank book company was IN
town, yesterday shaking hands
with his old friends and making
friends with the newly installed coun-
ty officers.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19
LEGISLATURE AND STATEHOOD.

Representative Emmeluth spoke sens
IDLY when he pointed out to the Home
Rule party that Hawaiis claim upor
the dignity of Statehood will not rest
upon a party name, which may be put
on and off as easily as a coat, but upor
the capacity for self-government shown
by the people who control our legisla-
ton.
! We do not agree, of course, that there
Is a prospect of Statehood until the
population has quadrupled and changed
in it's racial character but If there were
such a prospect 1t is true as Mr.. En-
meluth says, that the present Legisla-
ture would wreck it. 1t will yet APP
pear that the record of the Legisla-
ture, particularly as regards the cues
ton of passing laws for public rev
enue, has been harder blow to the
citizenship of Hawaiians than any in
fluence that has been directly brought
against 1t. livery civilized State looks
after the question of revenue first.
That is the subject which engages the
most thoughtful minds and tests the
intellectual capacity of lawmakers.
But in Hawaii the process is reversed
The only things that have interested
tHt Legislature III IL session now nearly
at an end are vaccination and taxes on
female dogs, cinch bills. corrupt fran
chises and private jobs. Revenue, be-
yond propositions to waste 1t, has not
been touched, principally, 1t Is sa'd, so
that the noble band of legislators may
compel an extra session for the sake of
the salaries and the little steals. Then
the Revenue bills will be reached as an
Reconsideration.
Is any Hawaiian credulous enough to
think that n people that will submit to
be represented in n Legislature by such
band of chattering incapables as Is
the one which Is incorporating in the
Government buildings, can make a
persuasive appeal for Statehood? If
the revelations OF the census We're not
enough to kill the project the history of
the first Hawaiian Legislature would
do so. 1t would only be necessary to
lay before Congress an exact trans
cript of Legislative proceedinEs-the
senseless speeches, the childish bills
the immaterial debates. the dawdling
methods, the puerile politics, the half
digested measures. the evidence of
utter failure to comprehend the duties
of law-making for the common good
only necessary, we say. to acquaint
Congress with these things to turn Ha
wallis claim of Statehood into n farce
or a football.
Yes, Emmeluth Is right. 1t must be
deeds not words. achievements not pre-
tence, honesty not humbug, that will
induce Congress, In case Statehood Is
possible at all, to bestow the great
prize.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19
THE INSURANCE TRUST.

We quite agree with Mr. Macfarlane
that the insurance companies doing
business here, should be brought to the
attention of District Attorney Baird
and made to toe the antitrust mark
after the fashion OF the old plumbing
combine. If there ever was trust
despotic, Indifferent to public welfare
and anxious, through n perfect union of
interests, to make it's business pay
preposterous dividends-it is the insur-
ance trust of Hawaii
Insurance ought to be one of the
cheapest things sold here We rarely
have fire and for very good reasons
The climate does not permit big fires
TO be kept up In houses there are no
fires in stores or offices: we do not use
CRATES or furnaces or steam heat: cleo
trlcity, to a great degree, supplants
Kerosene; gas being a minus quantity
there are no gas explosions: thunder
showers are few and far between: the
water supply IL under heavy pressure
and the Fire Department Is n good one.
Besides, houses In the residential dis
tricts are likely TO be far enough apart
to keep one building. II It burns. from
setting fire to another. why. then.
should the cost OF insurance be so high?
II Is merely because the insurance
combine Wills To have Il so; and a COM
pine or that sort Is contrary TO Federal
law.
That being the case ample means NJ
relief are In the hands NJ United states
District Attorney Baird and OF the
Federal Grand Jury,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19

! tlftWh,fs Allan Norbert calls at.
trnUln tu ttf Tat That uItHn fuu
months % tn tfHf lease ut HU lmmeus.
tract nf bf8b.r iant Hn oahu will tx.
Ir This land rents Or three cents aH
utfr. aud uutitp thp HtIf t.uIufy uf tE,
loaaehHld. u has contributed little Dol.
nothing fU che wpil.briur uf Hawaii
cattle have STAYED upon o.. cntlnr away
GOOD rpft OF tho oiteInbI forest. but
the advantages gained have been chief
ly private aud iH uu sense ppmm.naIr.
.io with the potential value of tho
tract
SIR Herbert estimates the area 100
about 10 600 acres. nearly hair OF which
be- believes should b. rcforoatcd Tho
remainder. something less than 5000
acres. he holds 90 be the most desirable
place FOR homostoads now or soon 90
be available The soil IL deep and rich.
with water not far from the surface.
the railroad passes through u. the sea
bathing II better than that at waikiki.
the scenery L. impressive, the climate
equablc and soothing what better
place for hundreds Of thrifty homes
like those at Wahinwa; a place whore
small farmers can raise poultry, eggs.
fruit and vegetables for this growing
and eager market, a center Of civilI2-
Ing Influences the kind OF place, In
short, which represents the basic quail
tiles Of American life better than any
other.
Very likely the tract viii be wanted
for a sugar plantation. for cane of eX
value grows upon one cor
ner of It, but we submit that this coun-
try Just now needs the small proprietor
far more than 1t does the big corpora
ton. We have corporations enough in
the domain of neutrality-suspicious. q
few corporations too many. But the
especially the American farm
er, Is conspicuously scarce and it Is
time to give him chance and an in
centive.
VIII not the Government open the
tract to which Mr.. Herbert refers to
the actual homesteader who must be
an American citizen. giving him
chance to drive his stake permanently
into the soil? 1t could do nothing, so
far as the disposal of land Is concern
ed, of more advantage to the people of
Hawaii.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19
Shipping at the Railway Wharves

| BY far the busiest end of the harbor
at the present time is the Eva end Here
is where the railway wharves are .situ-
ated; the great sugar wharf and the big
coal wharf.
There are now twenty-four deep-water
vessels In this harbor. OF this number
there are ten vessels Mt the railway
wharves: six being at the coal wharf
and four at the sugar wharf.
The British bark Antiope, Captain
Murray, Mt the coal wharf. lacks only
800 tons of coal of having discharged her
cargo. AS soon as she has completed
discharging she will take on ballast and
sail for Ladysmith, In the Sound, where
she VIII load coal and then go to Kahu-
lui for orders. The Antope made some
thing of record last Friday In dIscharg-
ing coal. She unloaded $50 tons before
noon on that day.
Next to the Antiope, at the coal wharf
lies the British four-masted bark City of
Adelaide. discharging coal Then comes
the American ship S. ID. Carleton, a
wooden ship with iron masts, ready to
unload her cargo of coal as soon as
cars are put alongside. The American
ship Florence Is also at the coal wharf,
discharging.
The big American ship Henry Willard,
at the coal wharf. has finished dlscharg-
ing coal and today will breast over to
the sugar wharf, where she will be load
ed with sugar for San Francisco. She
VIII get away for the Coast the latter
part OF next week.
The American four-masted barkentine
Omega Ii discharglng her cargo of coal
az the coal wharf.
A. the sugar wharf are the American
bark Olympic, receiving sugar for San
Franclsco' the American barkentlne En-
core. discharglng coal the American
bark Hesper, discharging coal and the
American bark Mohlean, taking on SUI
gar,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19
DON'T EXTEND 1T!

We hope that the Governor will not
consent TO lengthen the present session
|of the Legislature. At the end OF It
sixty days will have been practically
llost or thrown away; and there is nc
assurance that the Legislature would
make any better use OF thirty days
s,nore. The further time would doubt
pess be used up In the miscellaneous
foolery which has characterized the
regular session.
4 II Is OF course inevitable that we
must have an extra session for the pas
|age OF revenue and appropriation bills,
rhis will differ from thirty day extern
lion OF the regular session In that no
2eneral legislation can be passed. The
eolons must conhne themselves to the
3uties prescribed In the call. What
Hhey would probably like better Is
hirty days more OF regular 'worle' and
fter that an extra session OF thirty
Jays. making about four months OF
&hlary grabbing, II In for the Governor
n eheekmate this scheme and compel
he Legislature 10 get down 10 the
+ peeific details OF public revenue.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19
A Railroad Party.

At an entertainment for children
soon to be given by the son OF a rail-
road magnate who lives In New York,
most OF the youthful guests will be
members Of families. made wealthy
through their interests In railroads.
The father OF the host has devised an
entertainment which VIII impress upon
all the youthful guests what an Inn
portant institution the railroad II 10
them. The drawing room is TO be be-
reft OF all furniture, and tracks are to
be laid all about II. Toy cars and
engines have been provided. and the
entire paraphernalia Of n railroad will
be reproduced on a small scale for tho
pleasure OF the children. The caterer,
who learned OF the scheme Of the par-
~, has arranged that the table shall
also carry out the idea. Tiny cars ana
engines. railroad tracks and bridges,
are 10 be made In chocolate and cam
dies, while conductors caps and badges
IN paper and tinsel are 10 be the favors
for this Youthful generation or railroad
mIllIonAires.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19

The els exists IN 'hs blood N
M CAUSES HsmmaI5n n the
mucous membrane.
II Is therefore impossible 10 cure
the d.sess. I, .al sis siI5rs.
II positively dang r9us 10 neglect
II, because u svay. affects the s,om-
ach and derans the general health.
and Is likely TO develop into eonsump-
ton
Many have been radically and permanently
cured by Hood sarsaparillA Il cleanses the
blood aud DC. r'culIN Alternative and tonic
effect, 1, long, California junction. Iowa,
writes: d" had catsrrh three years. lost my
appetite and could not sleep. My head panied
me aud ! felt bad all over. I took Hoods
Sarsaparlla aud now have a good appetite.
sleep well. and have no symptoms Of catsrrh."
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19
Total, United States. 11,496 6,749

1t was brought out in the discussion
that the federal authorities have not
the power to treat with the mails and
passengers as the Territory can, and
the Initiative must come from the lat
ter. Mr.. Dat Is thoroughly in accord
with TIE Board of Health in the mat
ter of fumigating the mails and from
henceforth until the danger from an
epidemic CT smallpox dies out, the
mails will be from four to six hours
late in delivery. as it will take about
tour hours to disinfect all the letters.
DR.. Cooper wanted strong measures
taken with relation to Passengers from
san Francisco, and thought that the
strongest measures should be used in
connection with the steerage passen-
gers, as they We're more exposed to
conditions which would bring on the
disease.
TIE question of having passengers
report once day to a physician of the
board was discussed, but no action
taken. About two years ago a regula-
ton was enforced whereby persons so
landing had to report regularly to DR..
Day, who was then the boarding ply
stefan for the Board of Health.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19

Superintendent Howell, OF the Scran-
for instructng the pupils as to the
manner in which a president of the
United States is elected. The demon
stration is to be n practical one. Each
school is to constitute a convention
and each pupil is to write an essay
giving history of presidential cam
paign from the beginning to the inau-
guration. After these are completed
platform committee will be appointed
In each schools to prepare resolutions
or declarations of party principles, ar
ter which the election will be held.
each pupil voting for his candidate for
president. The election is expected TO
take place in March. Many advan-
tages are to be had from practice OF
this kind, and there is no reason why
II should be confined to presidential
elections.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19
AK|YAMA
ONCE MORE

Akiyama has again tried to commit
suicide. He will be remembered here
as the Japanese special commissioner,
who came to Hawaii in 1897 on the
cruiser Nauiwa, to arrange certain
troubles over coolie immigrant ton. He
soon got at swords points with the
Foreign Office of the Republic, and a
long correspondence ensued. At the
time Japan pressed matters very
SHARPLY, but in the END the United
States government signified it's pur-
pose to support Hawaii, and Japan
hauled off. Okyama was SO chagrin-
ed that, on his return home he tried
TO commit suicide. According to the
following article in the Kobe Chronl-
Gle, he continued to brood over the at
.ltude OF Japan in the immigration
matter, and this led him to a second
unsuccessful attempt at self-murder:
ON the 18th ultimo Mr.. Akiyama, a
secretary in the Foreign Office, at
tempted to commit suicide by cutting
ms throat In train between Futa-
kyoto to Tokyo. Mr. Akiyama was
accompanied by his mother and a lady
relative, who took the knife from him
and attended to the wounds. The train
was fast one, and did not stop before
reaching Hamamatsu, where he was
taken from the train and received
medical assistance. The wounds.
though serious, are not fatal, and Mr.
Akiyama is expected to recover in
about three weeks time. This is the
second attempt Mr.. Akiyama has made
on his life, the first occurring In Tok-
20 some years ago, shortly after his re-
turn from Honolulu, whittier he was
sent on mission in connection with
the revolution In the Island. 1t is re-
ported that the failure of Japan to
protest against the United States ac-
ton deeply affected Mr.. Akiyama, who
considered 1t a disgrace to his coun-
try"
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19
THE BEST REMEDY FOR RHEU
MATISM.
QUICK RELIEF FROM PAIN.

QUICh KELIEf FROM PAIN.
All who use Chamberlain's Pain Balm
for rheumatism are delighted with the
quick relief from pain which 1t affords.
When speaking of this Mr.. d. N Sinks,
of Troy, Ohio, says: "Some time ago
/ had a severe attack of rheumatism in
my arm and shoulder. l tried numer-
GUS remedies, but got no relief until I
was recommended by Messrs. George
F. Parsons & Co., druggists of this
place, to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm
They recommended II so highly that /
bought bottle. l was soon relieved
of all pain. have since recommended
this liniment to many of my friends
who agree with me that this is the best
remedy for muscular rheumatism in
the market" For sale by Benson,
Smith & Co., I'd.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19

If war breaks out between Russia
and Japan, the latter power will be
sfound in a state of complete readiness.
No civilized troops ever moved so rapid
ny, upon a declaration of war, as did
the Japanese in 1894. They had big
army on Corean soil within ten days,
and that army did not lack for sim
gle thing it needed, including bundles
of faggots to use for camp fires in a
treeless land. The day hostilities with
Russia begin, an army will embark up
on transports at Ujina, on the inland
sea, and within two days-perhaps
within twenty-four hours-it will start
for Corea conveyed by the most power
full fleet ever seen in Asiatic waters.
All the plans for such coup de main
We're worked out by the late General
Kawakami, and the army and navy are
but waiting the signal to advance
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19

The vaccination statistics and argu-
ments adduced by the doctors made an
impressive array of testimony and
ought to be enough to convince even
this Legislature, that compulsory vac
cination is wise policy for Hawaii.
The argument that personal liberty Is
invaded by the process amounts to very
little. No one has a right to such liber-
ty when II implies danger to the life of
his neighbor. All guarantees restrict
personal initiative; all sanitary laws
must, in some degree do so. state
must proceed along the lines of the
greatest good to the greatest number
and the general protection of society
from harm. In the performance of
that duty individual prejudices, likes
and dislikes, must be, to a great extent
disregarded.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19
SMALL POX
SAFEGUARDS

Fnar that funIipoV may Frn foot.
huIu In iluNuii hy Introduction from
tntuo ~ the states now undergoing IN.
tufngts % tine disease. caused th,
iiulru Uf Health yesterday Coz take Hu.
ton 10 prevent It's introduction
through thu medium ~ the United
states mails IipuCcfurtn an mai
matter coming from the United States
NiIi undoubtedly go through the fumi.
eating proc r. and every precautlou
VIII b, taken to lessen the chances for
an epidemic here.
The cooperation ~ the United states
quarantine service and OF the postal
authorities with the Board Of Health
Is assured. and all that remains now
ls o. adjust the minor details by which
the process can be- accomplished. The
BOARD Of Health believes that the pos
tai authorities will pay for the fumlga-
ton and disinfecting Of mail matter to
certain limit, beyond which the
Board of Health will hold itself In
readiness 10 share the balance OF the
labor In connection with purifying each
piece OF mail matter.
President Raymond and Executive
! officer Pratt, Of the Board of Health,
were appointed a committee at yester-
days Board of Health meeting to con-
fer with Postmaster Oat and DR.. Cot
er. United States quarantine officer,
relative to the mails.
Much of yesterdays discussion at the
board was upon the subject of small
poX and the means by when the dis
ease is communicated from one part
OF the country to another, and the
board Is now thoroughly aroused over
the situation, and evinces a disposition
to take drastic measures If necessary,
to prevent the pestilence getting
foothold in Honolulu.
AT the next meeting of the Board of
Health Attorney General II. L. Dole
viii report upon the power of the
board to cause persons landing here
from vessels which come from San
Francisco to present themselves for
daily inspection at the office of
Board of Health physician. 1t was
stated in the meeting that the period
of incubation for a case or smallpox
to break out in an Individual, is four
teen days. For example, if a person
left Utah, which Is now In the throes
of a smallpox epidemic, and arrived in
Honolulu ten days afterward, the
board believes that that individual
should stand a daily inspection until
the fun fourteen days have passed,
at the end of which time it is believed
that all danger of his having smallpox
will have gone. Mr.. Dole was doubt
full whether the board could so regu-
late quarantine matters when no cpl
demic is officially announced at the
last port of departure.
President Raymond then read the
following statistics of smallpox in the
States:
LIST OF CASES OF SMALLPOX,
HEALTH REPORT, MARCH 22, |
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19

on some accounts we are glad that
the Home Rulers are making such an
exhibition of themselves. There We're
people here and on the Mainland who
honestly believed that hardshlp-an
undeserved hardship--was done the old
Royallst party which these Home Rul-
ers represent, when the forcible change
of government was made In 1898. But
the past six months must have opened
the eyes OF every observer as TO what
Royalist ascendency meant to good
government. With people like those now
In the Legislature and at the head OF
the Home Rule party, invested with fun
administrative responsibility here, the
country would have gone to the dogs
In year. Read the slate OF the Home
Rulers. watch Wilcox, think OF Gov
ernor Kalauokalani, and then see the
justification OF what was done eight
years ago.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19

There seems to be n reasonable pros
pect of early if not permanent peace
in the Philippines. Many rebels are
surrendering and Aguinaldo is SAID TO
have signed peace proclamation
From now on If civil affairs are man
aged with discretion there may be a
steady recession of military and naval
expenses and a corresponding growth
of respect among the islands for Ameri-
can citizenship.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19

The suggestion of this journal that a
lecturer on Hawaii fitted out with Ian
tern slides and civilized exhibit,
should be sent to Buffalo. is likely to
be taken up. There is a prospect that
Daniel Logan may go on such mis-
sion. He has already done similar work
and done it well, hence a very general
hope that he will be given a chance
at Buffalo to counterfeit the Midway
MISREPRESENTATION there.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19

The Dispensary bill is probably lost
for this session, but the way is open
to begin campaign OF education which
will enable the people. before the next
Legislature meets, 10 make up their
minds fairly upon the merits OF the
proposed change In the liquor laws
The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-19

1t was a frghtful thing when Secre-
tary Cooper tried to Invade" the
House and various Home Rulers hur-
ried to point out that the Executive
and Legislative branches must be kept
separate. Now these same critics pro-
pose to invade the Executive Chamber
and usurp the right of the Governor to
make nominations. Watch and see how
they fare,