Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-23

for burial as his mother, Mrs. Jacob
Myers, resides at that place.
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| AT meeting of the Ottumwa Gun
club held last evening at the Office of
Lee Wheeler, it was decided to build
club house on the land recently leas-
ed by the club from A. C. Leighton,
where the baseball park formerly was
located. This house will be ready for
use in time for the state shoot in May.
| The deal for the grounds was formally.
closer today.
A letter received in this city today
| from Walter Gephart, formerly in the
grocery business in this city, conveys
the information that he is in Lawtop,
Okla, where he is just now in charge
of the lumber yard owned by Phillip
Duffy, also a former Cttumwan, but;
who is now in California on account of.
ill health. Mr.. Gephart is much pleas
ed with Oklahoma, but does not intend
to make his home there He expects
to go west probably next spring.
Carl Wilson has been indicted by
the grand jury on charge of assault
with intent to inflict great bodily in
jury. Wilson is now in Jail and has
| been ever since the alleged crime was
committed. He IS accused of having
shot at man named Fal Black in the
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morning of January g. The men are
colored and were both employed as.
porters in that hostelry 1t is alleged
that they had a few words on the
! morning the shooting is said to have
of the trouble Wilson's bonds were
fixed at $500 which he has as yet been
unable to give.
The second annual convention of the
Iowa Spiritualists' association, which
will be held during January, 1908, will
convene in Ottumwa, as was decided
at the convention held in Oskaloosa
Sunday. The Ottumwans who were
present at that convention have re-
turned home and report that a most
successful meeting was held one that
| showed that the strength of the organ
ization is growing every day. w. j.
Hicks of this city, who is one of the
officers of the state association having
been elected at the Oskaloosa meeting,
was instrumental in securing the con-
vention for Ottumwa, and he will use
every effort to make it a grand sue
cess.
Constable E. NJ Campbell is lying at
his home on West Second street today
suffering from severe injuries, the
result of fall from the Wabash rail-
road bridge into the Des Moines river
at 1880 o'clock last evening, while he
was attempting to cross the bridge in
order to take medicine to the detention
hospital on the south bank of the river.
Although the accident was a most I'M
fortunate one the victim may still
count himself fortunate in that he es-
capped with his life after taking the
awful plunge. Today the attending
physicians report that although Mr..
Campbell is painfully injured there
are no bones broken and that unless
complications arise he will be about
in a short time. tssy
Colonel o. =. Garriott, of this city,
assistant adjutant general for the To-
wa brigade, Uniform Rank, Knights
Of Pythias, has issued general order
No. 2, providing for the annual inspec-
ton of the Iowa brigade. The four
regiments Of the department are in
cluded in the order, and they will all
be inspected during February and
March. Ottumwa company No. 8,
which is attached to the Second regi-
ment, will be inspected, February 25,
in its hall on West Main street Col
onel G.. G. Cone, the newly elected
head of the regiment, will make the
inspection, and will be accompanied
by his full staff, and General Manches-
ter and Col. Garriott will also be in
attendance General Manchester has
arranged to give banquet after the
inspection at the Ballingall hotel, and
the affair promises to be the most
successful ever held in Ottumwa.
monster petition was presented to
the city council last night protesting
against the service rendered by the
City Water Supply Co. and asking that
body to revoke the franchise of the
, company at once. The petition also
protested against paying the water
and hydrant rentals. The cause of
. lhio Woo uiouShI dDOuI ny JuC DlS
, fire in the East End early Sunday
morning, when it is alleged that
through the failure of the water COM
) pany to furnish proper pressure a
. much larger loss was suffered than
if the fire department had been able
to fight the flames properly. Mayor
Picker also took cognizance of the
: alleged deficiency of the water sup
ply at the fire, and recommended that
the council take some action toward
rectifying the matter and at once
Mayor Picker stated that he was pres.
ent at the fire and that at no time was
the pressure strong enough to throw
water thirty feet high. The matter
was referred to the fire committee for
immediate action.
[From Wednesdays Daily.l
Sam Kussart of Eddyville, was in
the city yesterday visiting with rela,
tives.