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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
THE PLEA OF POSTAL CLERKS.

.
Since the Postmaster General has is
sued an order prohibiting postal en-
ployes going to Washington to urge
the passage of legislation affecting the
service the cause of the postal clerks
has been taken up by business men in
various parts Of the country who rec
ognize the hardships of the service and
the uncertainty of promotion.
The objects sought by the postal
clerks are a. an actual instead of a
nominal eight-hour day, and (2) that
the entire system Of promotions, in.
Guiding advancement in pay from $500
up to $1,000. $1,000 and 400 a year
shall be under strict provision of the
law. 1880, .ff,
There is no reason why the postal
clerks, than whom there is no harder
worked employees in the government
service, should not enjoy the full ad
vantage Of the eight-hour working day
to which the government is committed
AS a matter Of fact, they are forced to
work Sundays, holidays and nights, OF
so long as there remains any mail tc
be distributed.
The second object sought is to re
move advancement in rank and pay
from the discretion or discrimination
of postmasters, which in practice de
generates into favoritism. and make il
follow merit and experience according
to fixed and undertaking rule.
| There can be no doubt that the ser
vice would gain in efficiency through
the passage of the desired legislation
for men can do better and more worl
when they are not overworked ant
when inspired by the certainty that ad
vancement waits on fidelity and eff
cheney and not on any mans favor
| Chicago RecOrd-H erald
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
INTERVIEWS AT LONG RANGE.

John S. Emery of Des Moines on the
Des Moines river slack water canal
If the Illinois and St Louis people get
what they are after it means four
teen-foot waterway from st. Louis via
Chicago, the lakes and Erie canal to
the Atlantic seaboard in which YES
sells of fourteen-foot draft can be
transported from ST. Louis to New
York without breaking bulk, and if we
of Iowa will take advantage of our OPP
portunities it means untold millions to
the farmers, merchants and manufac-
turers of Iowa in years to come
Hence ask you to prepare letter to
ME stating not what you would ship
but what you could ship on this water
way,of incoming and outgoing freights
giving car loads or gross tons, either
way; also what it might do for you If
you increased your business double
treble or quadruple, provided you
could get pig iron, steel billets, coke
hard coal, southern hard woods, either
from Pittsburg or Ohio valley, from
the Birmingham district, or hard coal
and other materials from Buffalo, New
York or the Atlantic seaboard via the
Chicago drainage canal and Illinois
river Ohio river, Mississippi river an6
the Gulf of Mexico, for with fourteen
foot waterway to Des Moines, with
dams and locks constructed on the lat
est scientific engineering principles oil
movable dams in which dam of 300
to 400 feet long can be taken down il
two hours and put up by five men in
from seven to twelve hours, making g
waterway perfectly feasible to centra
Iowa, even if We did not have one-hal
the water that there Is in the Des
Moines river at the lowest stage o.
water, because the government is i'm
proving branches of the Great Kama
wha, the Monongahela and Alleghen,
rivers that have less water than eth
er the Des Moines or Cedar rivers Al
low stage.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
INTERNATIONAL BANDITTi CONF
DENCE GAME.

1t is announced from Constantinople,
that Miss Ellen M. Stone, the mission
airy, has been released by the brigands
who have held her in captivity since
September 3, last, and the woman has
been handed over in good health to the
dragoman of the American legation.
ut is also announced by the same
authority that Reverend" Tsilka
has been arrested on the charge OF
completely in the abduction of the mis-
sionaries, one of whom is the reverend
brigand's own wife, a Bulgarian WON
an.
There has been something very mys,
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TO RECLAIM THE LAND.

1t may be regarded as the plan of
the administration to reclaim the arid
lands of the west and give them to set
tiers for homes. If there be those
who oppose this policy let them speed
lily align themselves, for the admins
tration will have no greater claim to
the gratitude of the people than in
pushing forward this great project
Heretofore there has been lack of
money; the various river and harbor
schemes of the east and of the middle
west have required all the money that
was in sight. Thousands and millions
of dollars have been swallowed up in
these explorations that may as we'll
have been cast at the bottom of the
sea.
We must realize that the lands OF
the country must produce. They have
produced in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri
and nearly all the states of the Louisi
ana Purchase. In order to facilitate
transportation, millions have been Civ
en- to open natural water ways. We
have passed beyond that period. Rail
roads have taken the place of rivers
and now what is demanded is more
land. More land, more fertile land fol
the people, The land is here but il
requires water to make it fertile. Their
let us have ten millions to open rivers
and few millions to make the lane
fertile. This will be permanent i'm
provement to the country.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
WHY is lT2

(From the Tarkio (Mo) Avalanche.)
Having lived in Iowa for some time
and coming to Missouri in common
with some others, under something of
protest, we have very naturally been
debating the difference: between these
states and contrasting their real mer.
it's and comparing them with each
other. And just lately we have been
wondering why Missourians can't have
shrewd, wise and popular statesmen
like Allison, Henderson, Hepburn and
Shaw to represent her at the capital
of this great nation. These men from
our sister state have a national infiu-
ence and thereby do an immense
amount of good for their state whici
they so ably represent. And the state
also becon : more and more popular
through the. merited greatness.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
FAIR PLAY IN CHINA.

The tenor of the identical note sent
by the American state department to
the Russian and Chinese governme
the necessity for which being the pub
tween Great Britain and Japan dis
closing secret understanding be-
tween Russia and China, is in line
with former declarations of our gov
eminent relating to the open door pol
icy which means so much to the
United States.
In concluding terms with the Chi
nese government in concert with 9TH
er powers, it was understood that Chi
ma should not give any corporation,
company or nation the exclusive right
or patronage Of opening mines, estab-
fishing railroads or in any other way
industrially developing Manchuria or
any other part of the Chinese empire.
Sufficient reasons have been developed
since that understanding was effected,
to show that Russia has already gain
ed great advantages in Manchuria, Sc
cured during the stress of imminent
peril to the Chinese dynasty, and chat
Russian companies have been grant
ed exclusive privileges that were bar
red by the agreement between the
powers. The American secretary of
state has, therefore, wisely entered a
protest and given due notice that such
violations of solemn agreement are
viewed with the gravest concern by
the government of the United States. y
lis language of diplomacy means fa1
more than if given utterance from any
other source than government. A
nation cannot well recede from it's dec
larations, and these are expressed il
cautious language, but with due notice
to those whom it may concern tina
it means all that may be implied.
1t is improbable that any seriou!
trouble may result between this coun
try and Russia, to which we are boun(
by more than the ordinary forms o.
friendship, but at the same time thu
United States cannot afford through
any sentimentality, to surrender it!
rights in China or elsewhere, simply
to accommodate nation that has
been friendly in the past and should BIZ
friendly in the future. The rights O
nations go beyond all such consdera
lions, and it is the plain duty of those
who administer affairs to secure sucl
rights with as much vigor as an as
sailant may choose to imperil them.
The United States government will
therefore, follow out its traditional
policy of avoiding entagling alliance.
but at the same time the administra
ton will be bounu to preserve TIL,
rights of this country that are pres
emily affected and the rights that i
now secured will have decided beal
ing on the future.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
BOARD PROCEEDINGS.

Proceedings of the board of super
visors Friday, February IA, 1902, being
the twenty-second day of the February
session.
Board met, all members present.
Minutes of last days session read
and approved.
The day was devoted to the examin-
alton of smallpox claims returned by
the city council.
Board adjourned to meet Saturday,
February Is, 1902, at $40 a. m.
j. H. r. Spilman, Chairman.
Attest: /. H. Hammond.
County Auditor.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
THE REFORMATION OF GRIM.
INALS.
(By Hon. J. Franklin Fort in the Feb
(ruary Forum,)

(ruary Forum.)
There is probably no subject of
greater Importance to organized So
ciety than the problem of how to deal
with the criminal classes so as to re-
duce their number and thereby pre-
vent crime. Criminals there always
will be. and hence some crime. How
to minimize both deserves the best
thought of the hour
Crime is largely matter of heredity
and environment. Men seldom be-
come criminals unaided A few acts
Of crime are committed under stress
of extreme necessity; but the men by
whom these are committed should not
be ranked with the criminal classes.
1t is often said that crime is on the
increase. 1t would be truer to say that
what constitutes crime is constantly
being increased by legislation. Our
state legislatures at every session
pass one or more statutes, making GER
tain acts misdemeanors which were
not so before. Real crime and actual
criminals are not on the increase. Pro.
fessional criminals are rapidly fading
away before the advancing light of civ.
ilization and education.
Punishment for crime has much to
do with making criminals. This state
ment seems paradoxical, but it is an
indisputable fact. Hundreds may be
saved from a life of crime by the pro
per administration of the crimina
laws. 1t used to be thought that Sc
verify of punishment was the wise
course. indeed the only method, to pre-
vent crime. Fear, no doubt, deters
many; but it is not fear that must be
chiefly relied upon to save men from
crime. Crime existed when men were
drawn and quartered, and when death
was the penalty not only for murder
but for many minor offenses. 1t ex
listed when the death penalty was in
f1icted in public places, and when the
plucking out of an eye. the cutting of
of the hand, and various other kinds
of torture were common punishments
/ No man was ever made better by be
i ing put in the stocks. Severity il
useful only in cases in which reforma
ton is hopeless, and in which absolute
from all removal social intercourse I.
therefore necessary.
We are rapidly coming to believe
that kindness and close supervision
are the best preventives Of crime
There is no more cruel, inhuman, Of
unwise provision than that of the New
York Constitution which requires tn,
i Judge to impose for a second offence
y A~..hlA 4LA~ nAnalty fxed n.y. law fol
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25

1t is stated that the ministry at
large is defending the Lords prayer
against the criticisms of Rev. w. w.
Denham, who recently declared that
the prayer is not logical petition to
the Deity for modern Christians to
use. The Lords Prayer requires NO
defense. Those who attack it's sub
Unity are themselves in need Of a de-
fender.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
Burlington Route Homeseekers Excur
SinnS

u
On the list and 3rd Tuesdays Of each
month the Burlington Route will sell
round trip homeseekers tickets to
points in the west, northwest, south
west and southeast, at rate Of $500
plus the regular one way rate. Good
for return twenty-one days from date
of sale For full information call on
or address w. s. Parker, Ticket Agent
Union depot.
Burlington Route Excursions.
Very cheap one-way settlers tickets
via Burlington Route to points in the
northwest will be on sale daily during
March and April, 1902, to Billings,
Salt Lake, Ogden, Butte and Helena
Spokane, Umatilla, Portland, Tacoma
Seattle and Vancouver. For full and
complete information regarding stop
overs and rates to all points call on or
address w. S. Parker, Ticket Agent,
Union depot 65A
Personally Conducted Excursion
to California leaves Ottumwa every
Thursday and Saturday via the Bur
lington route. Tourist tickets now on
sale via Burlington Route to all winter
resorts. Address undersigned for full
information. w. S. Parker, Ticket
Agt., Union depot
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
STUDENTS GO ON STRIKE.
Refuse to Attend State University
Glasses.

Iowa City, Feb. 22.-One hundred
freshmen medical students of the Uni
versity of Iowa have protested because
of the suspension Of ten of their col
leagues, and have formed strike, at
tending no classes. They say they will
attend Drake university unless their
petition is granted. The ten students
were suspended for completely in
throwing boards in class room that
broke Miss Olga Averkieff's RIB. Nine
OF the students say they are innocent.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25


Tax ferreting is made necessary by
a defective system of taxation. and the
defect in the system in Iowa is the tax
on money and credits. Such is the
contention of the Des Moines Leader.
The Leader does not regard moneys
and credits as any other kinds of prop
erty, but it believes it more easily
lends itself to tax lodging and conse-
quently to perjury and the mulcting of
the honest for the benefit of the dis
honest. Therefore the Leader reasons
that "the real opposition to the tax
ferret laws is not to the tax ferret sys-
TEN, but to the tax on moneys and
credits" and suggests as substitute
for such tax AN income tax on in.
comes derived from sources other than
real estate (already sufficiently taxed)
a tax on franchises and further ex-
tension of the Inheritance tax"
The Keokuk Gate City says every
body now knows, at any rate. that
Congressman Wheeler isn't more
than half baked.
"If all should pay their taxes there
would be no need for ferrets, remarks
the Dubuque Telegraph Herald.
o.
Until other provisions are made,
the ferret system evil as it is in many
of its features, has proven to be the
best method Of enforcing the existing
tax laws" says the Fort Dodge Mes
|senger.
o.
The Davenport Democrat, comment
ing on the Journals remark that Sec
rotary Shaw is not talking" says: mo,
he is feeling his way. But it will not
be long until the restrained passion re
asserts itself, and then Secretary
Shaw will begin booking engage
ments.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette moves
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

Inv local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear There. is
only one way to cure deafness, and that IS
suusea lining Of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube gets infamed you have a
rumbling sounI or imperfect hearing, and
resnIt. and unless the Inflammation can
be- taken out and this tube restored to Its
normal condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases out Of ten are caused
Cd condition Of the mucous surfaces.
we will eiSe One Hundfed Dollars for
any case Of DEAFNESS, Caused by catarrh,
that cannot be s spcsd ~ fr nsTs eataffh
r. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 7bc.
T RAILS Family Pills are the best.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
Board Proceedings.

Proceedings of the board Of super.
visors Saturday February 15, 1902, be.
ing the twenty-third day of the Janua-
ry session.
Board met, all members present.
Minutes of last days session read
and approved.
The day was devoted to the examin-
alton of smallpox claims rendered by
the city council.
The board adjourned to meet Mon
day, March 3D. 1902
J. H. R. Spilman, Chairman.
Attest: l. H Hammond,
County Auditor.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25

Santos Dumont has fallen 600 feet,
landing in the Mediterranean, but this
feat will not entitle him to first place
at the st. Louis exposition until he
has demonstrated that he can do bet
ter. Wireless telegraphy is to be a
success but navigation of the air will
be one of the problems during the
next century.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25

The destruction by fire Of the large
Adventist sanitarium at Battle Creek
is calamity that will reach far and
wide in it's results. The secretary of
the Sanitarium Association is Rev.
Lycurgus Mccoy, formerly of Keokuk
county
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
RAISE RATES OF INSURANCE.
Underwriters in South Make 25 Per
Cent Advance Owing to Losses

SeTre NuvaF'SS -Ow'rrg 80 r-VoSSS'
Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 22.-The South
eastern Tariff association has decided
to make rs per cent increase in in
surance rates on all stocks of mer-
chandise and on frame store buildings,
also on all manufacturing risks and 9TH
er special hazards which have not
been rated under, revised schedules
within a year. This action went into
effect at once. 1t was caused by ex-
traordinary fire losses.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
DIES in CHICAGO.
A ParnelI, Iowa, Man Found Dead In
Bed at the Hotel.

A ParnelI, Iowa, Man Found Dead In
Bed at the Hotel.
Chicago, Feb 21.-James Murphy,
a stockman living at Parnell, Qa.) was
found dead in bed here today. 1t is
believed he blew out the gas by mis-
take.
Friends Are Surprised.
Parnell, Feb. 21.-lSpeciaL 1.-The
theory that James Murphy, who re-
sides near this place and who was
found dead in Chicago hotel this
morning, blew out the gas through ig-
norance is secuted here. MI. Muir
ply was conversant with modern
ways and his friends say that his
death was not due to his own ignor-
ance. The theory of suicide has few
supporters because the dead mans fl
nancial affairs were in good shape so
far as known. Neither had he any
domestic trouble. He was in comfort.
able circumstances and was not in
debt so far as known. OF late years
Mr.. Murphy had not been addicted to
the use of intoxicating liquors and
his friends say that 1t is impossible
that he could have committed the deed
either Intentionally or carelessly while
intoxicated.
Mr. Murphy resided with his wife
and several children on a farm about
two miles southeast of this place. He
has also a married daughter, Mrs. D
c. Toomey. who resides here. The
body will be brought to Parnell for in
Iterment.
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e
that Col. LATE Young be brevetted gen
eral. Col. Young's declaration that he
is not seeking the Des Moines post
mastership and would not take it is
what appeals to the Gazette SO forci-
bly,.
"Populism cannot complain that it
has not had chance to show what it
could and would do" says the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil. speaking of the de-
cay of the populist party "The trou-
BILE with populism is that it has had
this opportunity and has shown itself
unfit. 1t has been given it's test and
has failed to stand it,
The Des Moines Capital regrets the
retirement of Charles A. Bishop from
the district bench of Polk county and
it expresses the hope that the day
will come when the state legislature
will see the wisdom of offering induce.
ments which may result in the public
receiving those distinguished services
to which it is eminently entitled
Have care, legislature, have a
7
abiding to the anti-pass bill. I'VE
know it is nice to ride on pass, but
the farmers up home don't seem to
look it that way
Manchester Press: One hundred
and five dollars an acre for Delaware
county land! Whoopee! The Knip-
ping farm in Bremen township was
sold on Tuesday for the price mention
| ed, and out in Bremen township the
deal is not regarded as anything I'M
usual. We doubt if there is wealth
Ter farming community in Iowa than
! is to be found in Bremen township.
/ While $105 an acre is pretty fair
price for farm land, we don't propose
to let any Of our farms go for any such
sum.
/ Hampton Recorder: Where are the
hoary headed old weather prophets
who told about the thin corn shucks
the soft goose bone and other venera
BILE and time-honored indications of 6
mild winter? They must have gon.
back into their holes with the GROUND
hog on the I'd of February.
Indianola Herald: VIM. A. Hodges
sold his eighty-acre farm east of towr
to Charles Darnell, and had
a sale February II. Two years age
he purchased the land at $43.50 PEI
acre, and sold it at $68.50-an advance
of $25 per acre. Will thinks Warner
county land is too dear and will max,
a trip down into Kansas to try and Sc
cure farm for This wear
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
GIVES HOME FOR HOSPITAL.
Cedar Falls Woman Deeds Her House
to the City.

Cedar Falls, Feb. 22-(SpeciaD-
Phoebe Ann Cole of Usage has decided
her property in that city to the city of
Usage to be used as a hospital. The
building contains twenty-five rooms
and is well adapted for the purposes
designed, Mrs. Cole is an old settler
of Iowa. Five years ago she inherited
la fortune from her brother, William
Woods, and the hospital will be named
lin his honor.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25

Mrs. e. ]. Root secured damages in
the sum of $4,000 against the Des
Moines Street Railway company for
personal injuries.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25

Winter coughs are apt to result in
consumption X neglected. They can
be soon broken up by using Foley's
Honey and Tar. Sold by all druggists.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25
MINE WORKERS ABOLISH FEE.
inexperienced Men Can Now Join the
Union Without Payment,

Peoria, ILL.,, Feb. 22.-The United
Mine Workers convention abolished
the fee of 500 heretofore charged in
experienced men joining the union.
The constitution committee reported
the amendment. which was adopted af-
ter a heated rebate, during which
amendments to make the amount $25
and $50 had been voted down.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25

The most ,a''nNle preparation for
kidney t-e..' IS on the market is Fol
ey's kidney Cure. Sold by all drug
gists.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25

A $4,000 stock company has been
formed at Manchester to provide Della
ware county farmers with telephones.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25

The Ainsworth hotel has changed
hands.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25

that Col. LATE Young be brevetted gen
eral. Col. Youngs declaration that he
is not seeking the Des Moines post
mastership and would not take it is
what appeals to the Gazette SO forci-
bly
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25

"Have care, legislature, have a
care!" advises the Boone Republican,
abiding to the anti-pass bill. I'VE
know it is nice to ride on a pass, but
the farmers up home don't seem to
look it that way"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-25

Read .he Courier for news.
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! IOWA PRESS COMMENT
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Politics, says the Des Moines News
is the real epidemic in Des Moines.