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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05
DIGGING GOLD.

1t makes all the difference in the
world where the gold comes from. If
washed out Of the sand of some creek
bed, there is great excitement. and peo-
pie go almost crazy over it. while if
dug out of the ground in the shape Of
good crops, dairy products and fat
stock it provokes no comment at all.
Cape Nome, with all the wild furore.
only furnishes as much gold as two
good western stock counties.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

II. Grafton: Iowa" Prize $40,
given by friend of the Eistedfod.
20. Best impromptu speech. One
in Welsh and one in English. Prize ST..
20. Best Englyn to the Eisteddfod.
Prize SIS, given by VIM. L. Evans, Des
Moines.
Conditions.
1. The names and addresses of the
competitors properly sealed must be
received by the general secretary, on
or before December Is, 1902.
2. All competitors on musical con-
tests and reeitations must forward
their names to the general secretary,
on or before December 10, 1902.
8. Choice of accompanist is op-
tional.
4. The committee reserves the right
to hold preliminary contests if deemed
necessary.
5. The presence of all successful
competitors or representatives is i'm.
perative when prizes are awarded
Otherwise the prize will be withheld.
6. Merit only will be considered in
awarding prizes, and adjudicators are
authorized to divide or withhold the
same
Z. Decisions of adjudicators in all
cases shall be final.
8. No person will be allowed to
compete on more than one of the solos.
8. Successful compositions will be
the property of the committee.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05
NO KICK COMING.

During a period of fifty years resi-
dence in the west we do not recall a
time when throughout all the great
cereal producing section Of the west
and northwest soaking rain was more
sorely needed than on the last of April
this year or a time when the need was
SO splendidly met. The rains came one
after the other, five or six inches of
water banishing in two days all the
drought bogies and making the country
look like the garden Of Eden.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05
Is Crushed to Death by Cars at oska.
iooSa

oskaloosa, May 31.-While intoxi.
Gated Thomas Meek, grader in the
employ of the Milwaukee railroad
company on the cutoff between Rut-
ledge and Davenport. was run over by
train in the Iowa Central railroad
yards in this city last night at II
o'clock His right leg was cut off
close to his body and his left foot bad.
ly mangled. He died at 8 O'Clock. this
morning. He leaves a wife and three
children in Marshalltown, Missouri. y
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

Creameries are now being rated by
insurance companies as extra hazard
Gus risks, and yet it seems strange
why this should be so. True. there is
the pile Of slack coal adjoining the en-
CINE room. which is always fruitful
cause of spontaneous combustion, and
then there is the carelessly adjusted
smokestack, and then there is a three
thousand dollar policy of a creamery
where there are only 20 cows to feed
1t. this last causing much of the Aitra
hazardous risk.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05
BIG pAItas uNpI,orlrAsLn.

BIG DARIs uNPItorifAELM.
Unless adequate insurance is to DO
rarried against fire, lightning and wins
we would not build the big barn, but
two or three smaller ones, separating
them some distance from each other.
1t is very difficult to save the animals
In case of fire when SO many are mass
ed in one big building and equally hard
TO save other prooerty: So p.sny of
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

A lately enacted law imposes fine
of $1,000 or three years in the peniten-
tiary for maliciously setting forest
fire in the state of New Jersey.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

Veal under two months old should
not be used. as food Still lots of it
pass as canned chicken at less than
thirty days.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

Alfalfa is the only forage plant which
will give the grower three full crops
in one year. This is one reason why
alfalfa should be grown on your farm
il it is possible to do SO.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

One moral to be drawn from present
agricultural conditions is to keep more
hens. Get Il better breed and give them
more attention. for they will pay the
largest per cent of dividend of any live
thing on the farm.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

1t is said that the horse chestnut is
richer in albumen than any other known
planl CT tree
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

A successful cotton picking machine
rs said to be at last in practical opera
ton in the south.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05
Lew Summer Excursion Rates to ST,
Paul and Minneapolis.

The Iowa Central railway has placed
tickets on sale at very low rates to st.
Paul and Minneapolis and Minnesota
resorts, good returning to Oct. 81. The
summer resorts of Minnesota are SUI
perior to any in the country and with
the unusual opportunities offered in
the way of low rates, all should take
a trip for health, pleasure or recreation.
Fine fishing. Consult Iowa Central
agents for further particulars.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

The bull needs watching even if he
has been dehorned. He is no sweeter
tempered or more trustworthy when
dchorned than when he is not; it will
.cinlply take a longer time for him to
kill body.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

As a feed equal parts Of corn and
wheat give better results than either
grain fed alone.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05
TO IMpnovE noes BANNERS.

TO IMPROVE HOGS MANNERS.
The asricult:iral department is going
try some experiments il hog breed
ns to sse whether better behaved
'ort of anipal cannot be evolved. We
question the wisdom of the effort. The
hog Is all tight when he is properly
AIRED for. He is not a scuyenger save
as he is forced to it. and when well
fed on proper food and cared for in a
cleanly manner he is about as decent q
domestic animal as there is on the
farm.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

Good cl'oilSf always come as a COM
pcnsation RI the having to work gum
DO highways.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

Ar.lor day in North Dakota has been
set over 10 May 3 of each year to meet
tie climatic conditions of the northern
latitude of that state.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

Get rid of the foolish notion that dogs
go mad in dog days, for they don't.
More dogs so mad during the winter
and spring than at any other season
of the year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

Hen manure is an exceedingly con-
centrated fertilizer and should not be
used in crude form for the flower
beds, but should be mixed with de-
cayed vegetation, leaves and COW ma
nure, one part to five, when it makes
a very valuable fertilizer for the gar
den.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

The steer and tie COW have fought
the butter business ont to a fnish.s and
cid bossy is ahead.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

1t has about come to this-that there
could be nc great war in any country
if it We're not for the big packing
houses OF this country. Men who fight
must eat, and to eat they must draw on
our American supplies of meat.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

Anyhow, olcsmargarine will always
bring at least 10 cents pound after
this.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

The only way we know of to get rid
Of dandelions from the lawn is to pa.
tiently dig them out.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05
LABEL ALL ApuIrERArzp Rooms.

LABEL ALL ADULTERATED FOODS.
Now that the oleomargarine bill has
at last become a law. including all
bogus butter products, as it rightly
should. let the effort be made to In
clude othG vicious adulterated food
products utder the operation of a sim
liar law. There are vinegar, maple sug-
II and strip, spices and all the long list
If glucose frauds. Let's have oil mean
things selling for just what they are
MD not masking under the name of
some pure food product.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

We notice that if the lawn is not too
heavily fortified the lawn mower dors
not have SO much work to do.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

While it is all right to break in the
two-year-old draft colt. it is still a bad
blander to make it do regular work
alongside of matured horse, and the
eame rule should apply to your four
teen-year-old boy as well.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

Cold storage has proved a great sue
cess With Baldwin apples in the east,
the fruit going in at $1.20 per barrel,
keeping perfectly and bringing So in
the spring at an expense Of rs cents
storage charges.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

All the road taxes Of the state of
Iowa will hereafter have to be paid in
cash, and the township is to be the
unit of highway administration. This
knocks out the ancient and time hon
ored picnic associated with working on
the roads and will prevent a very large
number of good men from ever holding
the office Of road supervisor. Every
other state should go and do likewise.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

A steer bought last October at
cents pound fed seventy five bushels
of sixty cent corn and sold in May at
$G.25 per hundred only just paid his
way and left no profit-this from one Of
the most extensive feeders of cattle in
this country.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

Alfalfa butter is not as fine as blue
grass butter and will never take the
place of clover. Blue grass and corn as
q dairy ration. but fed with these it is
of great benefit, as it is great milk
producer.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

We know of two or three town bred
girls who have lately married farmers,
and so far they are really charmed
with farm life. 1t is coming to this
pretty fast-that farm home under
modern conditions is about as good a
home as there is to be found any
where.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

Dogs have their uses as watch and
herd dogs on the farm. as hunters, as
rat killers. but dogs so kept do not
form 10 per cent of the great crowd
of mongrel. worthless brutes which
infest every modern community.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

( TIC passage of the o!eo bill will ne
cessitate the placing of 100000 more
COWS on the firms of the country to
supply the demand for butter
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

But few of the younger people of the
country have ever seen an OK, q ten
year-old, long horned, eighteen hun
dred pau.d beast of burden. for his
sort is lir:as almost wholly supplanted
by the use. the oxen finding their
way to the slaughter house before they
are three years old
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

We were in a section of the west
not long since where the soil on the
hills, which rose at an angle of 80 to
30 degrees on all the farms, was just
as fertile on the tops of the hills as it
was on the lower levels. This condi-
ton is not often to be found.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

If you have set out strawberry bed
this spring. do not let the plants bloom
and bear fruit this year, for it weak
ems them. and they will not set so good
crop of runners for the next years
crop.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

II all the small. understood and in
ferior kernels of seed grain of any
Kind could be eliminated from the
seed sowl, it would do much to inn
prove the quality of all crops raised.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

Whenever there Is an investment
made in good blood in any sort Of do
nestle animal. there should be cor
responding investment made in good
food and good care for it. because no
critter on earth can do business on
pedigree alone.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

The howl against tile meat trust
i g not come from the farms. Out
We. not peep is heard. and as the
old granger notes twenty-five cent
atlvance iii hogs and steers in his daily
paper lie turns to tis. wife and remarks
that the Lord has not forgotten his
DcoDIe q fter all
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

We are asked what causes cyclones
and thunderstorms. A very long, alb
struse reply might be given to this
query. but it is best answered by say
ing that all atmospheric disturbances
are primarily caused by things being
out of place, and the storm is the eff
fort of nature to restore an equilibri-
UNI. and the cause of things getting
out OF place is the heat of the sun.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

A crop of sorghum was cut and fed
with much satisfaction the past win
ter in this manner: About 100 pounds
of seed We're sown to the acre. 1t was
then cut with a harvester and bound in
small bundles-as small as possible.
These We're shocked up and fed in the
bundle during the winter.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

We have been using some maple sug-
ar this spring which seems to be the
real thing. 1t was made in an Ohio
sugar bush. The maker was Presby-
terrain elder, one of the elect. 1t did
not stop in transit west five minutes in
Chicago and reached the consignee
with its virtue unimpaired. We regard
1t altogether as quite remarkable fact.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

had in the Chicago market last Jan
uary.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

The corn acreage of the corn belt
will be very large his season, the pre-,
yailing high prices for this cereal act
ing as stinlulant to every man to
raise every bushe of corn possible.
The country cannot raise So large
crop of corn this season that the prices
will be forced to an improbable point.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

The recent orders for the cattlemen
to remove the fences which they have
erected, inclosing vast areas of the
public domain. is very much in the
interest of the homesteader and man
who wants to raise cattle on small
scale. The order is making a lot Of
trouble among the cattle barons, how
ever
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

The possession of large supplies of
soil fertilizers has had much to do with
the financial prosperity Of some coun-
tries. The guano deposits of Peru re-
stored the waning credit of that coun-
try and paid for many expensive gov
eminent Improvements, while the nj
trate deposits of Chile have been YER
liable gold mine for that country. ~
spring lamp was frozen IN New Zea-
land and shipped 10000 miles and sold
in the city of New York in April last
at "a cents a pound. Peaches and
plums from South Afrlga ,gsre TO be
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

Cold storage has become a most i'm
portant factor in relieving gluts of the
market for all perishable products and
equalizing the prices for the same. Not
long ago eggs always used to drop to
s or 8 cents dozen along in the
month of May. Cold storage facilities
now keep them up TO 10 or IA cents to
the producer.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

Parties calling
please state that
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-01-16

Mr.. Lincoln had failed At the corners
of the streets groups OF men stood to-
gether, talking over the matter, and as
cribing it, some to his careiessness, some
to his extreme good nature in indorsing
for anyone who asked. and others. the
knowing ones, winked slyIy as they said.
they guessed he knew what he was
about-they'd known before Of such
things as failing rich" but the mouths
OF those last were stopped when they
heard that the household furniture every
thing was given up for the benefit of his
creditors, and was to be sold at auction
during the coming week.
When the day of the auction arrived.
It required the persuasion of both Mrs.
Campbell and Mary to keep Jenny from
going, she knew not whittier herself. but
anywhere to be near and take one more
look at the dear old furniture as it pass
ed into the hands of strangers. At last
Mrs. Campbell promised that black Ezra,
who had accompanied her from Chieopee,
should 30 and report faithfully all the
proceedings, and then Jenny consented to
remain at home; though all the day she
seemed restless and impatient, wondering
how long before Uncle Ezra would re-
turn, and then weeping as in fancy she
saw article after article disposed of to
those who would know little how to
prize il.
About FIVE o'clock Uncle Ezra came
home, bringing a note from Ida, saying
that the carriage would soon be round
for Mary and Jenny. both of whom must
surely come, as there was a pleasant sur
prise awaiting them. While Mary was
reading this Jenny was eagerly question:
ing Uncle Ezra with regard TO the sale,
which he said went off uncommon well, +"
going chiefly, he reekoned. TO a tall and
mighty good-lookin' chap. who kept bid
ding up and up. till he got EN- about
where they should be. Then he'd stop
for someone else to bid"
WHO was hei" asked Mary, coming
forward and joining Jenny.
Dun know miss; never seen him
nfore," said Uncle Ezra, but he's got
heaps Of money, for when he paid for the
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-01-16

ually increased" says the cable. until
now elghty-fve miles are comfortably
covered in the hour. The ears run
smoothly, and the engineers express
confidence that they will attain speed
Of 125 miles per hour" The speed mem
toned in the earlier dispatches as prob
ably attalnable was 120 miles at least
and possibly 145 miles an hour. The
mechanical difficulties to be overcome
in attaining great speed by steam pow
er are In a great measure obviated by
the use Of electric power Thus far they
have been only imperfeetly overcome
by devices such as the turbine engine
for avoiding the reciprocal action and
the dead points of the ordinary steam
engine. In the use of electrical power
there are difficulties also. but these
seem to have been met successfully by
German electrical engineers, II the ex'
perimentsin Germany demonstrate that
speed of l25 miles an hour can be
maintained with safety and at an ex.
pense not very greately in excess Of
that incurred for such service as we
now have, we may expect the introduc-
tion of this power in America for spc-
cial service between the larger cities,
at no very distant day. The limited
train of the not remote future may be
a very different affair from that of the
present time. With specially construct
ed trains reducing atmospheric resist
ance to minimum, trip from Chi
cago to New York between 10 o'clock at
night and o'clock next morning, or to
San Francisco within twenty-four
hours may be the experiences of men
already well advanced in life. A CORE
spending acceleration in the movement
of perishable freight is possible so that
sea food and tropical fruits may be
practically as fresh in Chicago as in
New York or Key West.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-01-16

boon subdued by Russia. One of the
relics of the good old times 10 which
the Caucasians especially cling is the
custom of kidnapping the women whom
they desire to make their wives.
Recently case of this kind resulted
in a tragic end \ prominent inhabit-
ant of the little Caucasian town of Kat
uhagan. named Ismail Ogll oki, tried
to kidnap the sister of his best friends
wife while his friend WAS absent from
home. The girl resisted his attempt TO
carry her off, aided by her married sis
ter. The bafiied lover drew his sword
and inflicted dangerous wounds on both
the ladies'. At this moment his friend
returned, and, enraged at finding what
had occurred, killed Ismail on the spot.
Then he cut off lsmalfs head and car
rled II round to show the nelghbors
what fearful revenge he had taken.
In the same district a young noble
man desired to marry the daughter Of
a neighboring land owner, and Invited
the girl. with her parents, to a grand
ball given at his castle. During the
evening he found an opportunity of
decoylng the girl in a secluded part of
the house. where she was seized by his
men and placed in a carriage. The
prince Joined her, and in spite of the
girls entreaties started out to drive
to place where they could be married
without much delay.
The girls father. ON finding that his
host had disappeared with his daugh-
ter, gave chase, and being on horse
back. overlook the carriage. He shot
the nobleman without ado and took
his daughter home. The nobleman.
however. had won her heart during the
drive and the girl was now reluctant
to marry the man whom her father APP
proved, but the stern parent insisted
on the wedding taking place at once.
The bride appeared in the Church, pale
but cool and collected. During the
ceremony she drew n dagger and stab
bed the bridegroom to the heart. Al
terward she committed suieide.-Phila-
delphia Record.