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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02
DUE DELigERArIoN DESIRED.

The owners of the Panama canal in
Paris, have dispatched an agent to
this country with new proposition
for the sale of their interests and on
terms much more favorable than have
heretofore been offered. This will have
the effect to turn public attention to
the two routes that are open to the
United States directly and in way
that will bring out the facts for the
consideration Of congress. There are
no good reasons for believing there is
anything like lobby powerful enough
at Washington to influence congress
either one way or the other. The
members of both houses are impress
ed with the grave responsibilities
resting upon them and if it can be
made apparent that either of the
routes is impracticable or even has a
possibility of failure, that is sufficient
for congress to abandon it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02
MEDDLlNG WITH THE TEMPERA
TURE

An interesting experiment is to be
introduced at the st. Louis exposition
in 1903, which is to cool the air on
the grounds by drawing down cold
currents of air from an altitude 500 to
1000 feet above the ground, and SO
flooding the grounds with air ten or
fifteen degrees below the surface tenn
perature. 1t is stated by the Con-
hends the erection of an aerial stand
pipe or tower of the aforesaid height
with termination about fifty feet
above the ground, where large fans or
blowers are attached that will draw
downward a current at the rate of
twenty or thirty miles an hour. The
an hour ten feet deep, and in six hours
$50 acres. 1t is expected that the
heating effect of the suns rays will
be overcome during the day time and
after sunset the temperature it is
claimed can be kept below so degrees,
Fahrenheit. The fans are to be start.
ed at 4 a. M, when the air is coolest
By 10 o'clock the buildings and
grounds would be full of fresh air and
so maintained during the day.
1t must be confessed that this seems
improbable but there is no doubt that
the protector is in earnest and that
his theory is based on scientific
grounds. st. Louis, however. is very
warm locality in summer time; the
SUMS rays seem to come down with
tropical fervor in July and August, ant
the experiment is a bold one There
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02
IOWA INFLUENCE AT WASHING.
TON.

The ST. Paul Pioneer-Press, in com
menting or the extraordinary inlu
ence Iowa has at Washington says
that it plainly comes from the habit
of Iowa in returning its representa-
tives term after term. The Press
adds: Neither Hull, Hepburn, Hen
derson, nor even Allison are remark
ably strong men, but they have acquir-
ed by long service practical knowl-
edge of affairs in Washington, wide
circle of friends and a recognized pre-
cedence that no amount of brilliancy
or sound craftsmanship, if handicap
ped by short service, can take the
place Of"
In attempting to teach Minnesota a
lesson in practical politics, by the very
broad hint that Minnesota should heed
the example and give long service to
its congressman, the Pioneer Press
does injustice to the men whom Iowa
has honored, because they deserve it.
Allison is leader Of the senate, not be-
cause uc udS D0Sll OhSl d ludIlSI VI Il
century senator but he is leader by
the force of character and ability
Hull, Henderson and Hepburn won
their spurs in an open field and were
rewarded accordingly. The state they
represent recognized their services
and returned them congress vel
coined their return and they We're Civ
en- place according to the ability they
had displayed in debate, in committee
work and in the various duties that
were incumbent upon them as repre-
sentatives of the people.
1t was not luck, nor was it through
policy expressed or implied on the
part Of Iowa, that these distinguished
congressman were returned; they were
reelected time and again because
their state required strong men tt
represent it, and the assembled body
of republican senators and representa-
tiYes required strong men as leaders
and Iowa being wise in choice was
able to furnish the material.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02

When President Roosevelt holds his
first cabinet meeting in February he
will look around and seeing two Iowa
men will say "The nation will please
come to order. Have the members
from Iowa any business to offer this
Is there any Iowa man out
in the cold who ought to be cozily by
the fireside?"
Then the bright young man who
keeps the door will say: "Mr. Presi-
dent, Senators Allison and Dolliver are
here and would like to speak to you
minute" The President will excuse
himself and after Diminishing number
of ambassadors who have been waiting
several hours, will admit the senators
from Iowa and when all are seated
and have shaken hands with the cab
met there will be another alarm at the
door and the polite young man will
say: "Mr. President, the speaker OF
the house, Colonel Henderson, of Iowa,
would like to see you minute And
when Colonel Henderson enters the
President will say: Il am delighted
to see you, colonel. l always have a
warm handshake for the men who
fought in the great war; Then Col
onel Henderson will take his seat.
There will be another alarm and Cap
tain Hull, another soldier of the great
war, chairman Of the committee on
military affairs, will be admitted. The
President will say: Il am delighted
to see you, captain" With the captain
will be Major Lacey, another veteran
chairman of the committee on public
lands, the friend of the bird and the
national parks, and the President will
say: Il am especially delighted tc
see you, Major Lacey" A leisurels
knock will be heard at the outer door
and great big Bob Cousins will be ad
mitted as the young man eloquent O.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02
FIRE INSURANCE LEGISLATION.

The Fire Insurance Press of New
York, dated December 25, is devoted
to legislative interference with legiti-
mate fire insurance companies, at
tempting to show how all have been
crippled and some of them ruined by
unjust laws of the state legislatures.
The Press refers to and copies an edi-
torial from the Courier of Oct II, a
part of which is as follows:
There are few business transac-
lions which do not involve the protec-
ton afforded by the fire insurance
companies; upon the stability of the
latter depends the credit of many in
dustries, mercantile, and manufactur-
ing.
1t would, therefore. seem to be I'M
wise for those to whom fire insurance
| is such an important and necessary
| factor, to constantly endeavor to ham
per the companies by unjust legisla
ton and excessive taxation.
| The public needs the protection
which they alone can give.
| They are entitled to fair treatment
| Inese opinions stand as Soou toua!
as when first published; indeed the
proofs have multiplied in favor o.
dealing out justice to the companies
of our own state and giving them some
sort of protection instead of oppres
sion. A large number of Iowa com
panies have collapsed since 1881, no
on account of insolvency but because
they were unable to go on with the
business successfully on account O.
the legal restrictions that hamperet
them. The Press, however, believes
4 that the outlook for the repeal of the
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02

Hon. John A. Kasson, the American
diplomat and citizen of Iowa. has a
notable contribution to the last num-
Der of the World Review, on Interna-
tional Arbitration, in which he takes
rather pessimistic view of the proba-
bilities that peace can be preserved
by an international tribunal. In fact
he is inclined to the thought that in
ternational arbitration is but dream
SO long as the powerful nations have
certain aims in view that they deem
essential to their safety. Philan
thropists will read the contribution
with both pleasure and pain; with
pleasure because the ideas are couch
ed in such an elegant setting and with
pain because the great diplomat has
produced statements Of such power
that they seem to carry conviction.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02
THE VICTIM OF SCIENCE.

Miss Emma H. King, who suffered
herself to be inoculated with tubercu-
losis as scientific experiment, has
well developed case of consumption
and will probably die. She had been
inoculated with matter taken from a
COW, which had previously been infect
ed with human consumption. If the
woman should die, the fool physician
should be severely punished for his in
discretion if not crime, in thus taking
human life without sufficient warrant
or authority. 1t seems to be neces-
sary to medical science that animals
shall be sacrificed for the good of hui
manity, but there the line should be
strictly drawn, and there should be a
certain restriction in killing or expos
Ii ing to death animals in d reckless
manner merely to advertise the sup
posed scientific attachments of the eX-
perimenter
If the effects of newly discovered
drugs or NEGOTIATIONS must have actual
demonstration on human subjects, let
the experimenters have a chance at
those condemned to death by the law
The victims would in all cases prefer
/ to yield up the ghost under the hands
of doctor rather than by the rude
contrivance Of hanging, or even the
more scientific device Of electricity.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02
MOSQUITOES AND YELLOW PEST.

Now comes another professor in sci
ence, so,called, who not only accepts
without reservation the theory that
yellow fever is propagaied and dissem-
mated by mosquitoes, but he alleges
that without the use of disinfectants,
or quarantine, but simply by killing
all suspected infected mosqui-
toes in Havana, that city has, for the
first time in one hundred and fifty
years been set free from yellow fever"
and that this fact may be considered
as the final verdict of medical science"
Before swallowing whole this re-
markable statement there will be a
few suspicious souls who will be led to
inquire the peculiar marks Of an infect
ed mosquito in order that he OF she of
the swarm may be regarded with sus-
picion. 1t mas been the experience of
those who have been in mosquito in
tested regions that all these pernicious
insects seem to look alike to the suffer
er. There are, of course, diversities
of sound, as they sing around ones
ear-the soft, wheedling notes of the
Z male are perhaps the same that he en-
ploys in his amatory diversions. 1t is
the female, however, that produces
the fierce, aggressive tones that seem
to lift a man out of his moral plane
and causes remarks that are unfit fol
society There is but little difficulty
in distinguishing the sex of the Great
ure, but it will be hard on the con
science to make an affidavit that viii
be sufficient to place an individual mos
quito or a group of them on the sus
pected list. These are the principa
objections that will. be urged agains
the professors easy way of getting rit
of both plague and pest, for, while w
are about it, why not kill all the mos
quitoes.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02

Scotland, therefore Secretary Shaw
will be placed nearer the presidential
chair than any other Iowan ever has
been, for he will occupy higher rank
in the cabinet than any other citizen
of this state has ever filled.
All this is contingent, of course, up
on Governor Shaws acceptance of the
secretaryship not affecting Secretary
Wilson's position in the cabinet. 1t
has been announced from Washington,
greatly to the honor of Governor Shaw
that he has absolutely placed his &C.
ceptance of the secretaryship on the
ground that it shall not interfere in
any way with Secretary Wilson con-
tinuing to be member of the cabinet
No man can place higher estimate
on the value of Secretary Wilson to
the whole country than is contained
in that provision of Governor Shaw's
acceptance of the second place in the
cabinet of the United States govern
ment. The people of Iowa almost I'M
itedly desire that Secretary Wilson
and Secretary Shaw shall both be
members of the cabinet, for they
know that the nation has no superiors
for their respective places; and with
good Old Allison as one prominent
Iowa leader terms Senator Allison-in
the leadership of the senate, Speaker
Henderson in control of the house
and Secretaries Shaw and Wilson in
the cabinet-all supported by the
strongest state delegation in congress
Iowa will be more highly honoret
than any other state ever has been
and the nation will be at least as vel
served as at any time during its en-
tire history. Iowa more than leads
when such high honors are voluntarily
conferred upon its leading citizens
Meantime, it should be constantly re
membered that Governor Shaws pre-
fers to return to business activities
and only accepts the secretaryship o
the treasury because he believes tina
it is his duty to serve the people wher
ever called.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02
THE NEW YEAR.

From Tuesdays Daily.l
This is the last day of the year of
1901 Tomorrow will be the first day
of the year 1902. These statements
are commonplace and yet they are full
of deep meaning. We all know what
the expiring year has brought to us.
BY merciful Providence, none can
pierce the veil of the future, none can
know what is to come in the year 1902.
And yet this statement while an ac-
tual fact, ia not the whole truth. All
can know now something of what is
to come to them in the, year OF 1902.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02

to PASS salaried officials, clerks, ETC.,
receiving total of $32, 653, 628 in salar-
les. Miscellaneous expenses of these
combinations aggregated $151,S51, 077.
Total cost of material used was ST.
0S5,083,S27.
The gross value of products, less the
value of material purchased in partly
manufactured form, gives the net or
true value of products of these combi-
nations as $1,051 ,9S1,5S6. This repre-
sents the increase in the value of raw
materials resulting from the various
processes of manufacture.
Employees Number 423,777.
The 1873 corporations reported CON
| troll 2.029 plants that We're active du
I ing the census year and liza report
| as idle during that period. The retur
/ show an average of eleven acti'
plants to each corporation. OF a.
| these industrial corporations 68 were
organized prior to 1897, and in thu
years 1897, 1898, 1899, and prior t.
June 80, 1900, there were organized Z,
/ 20. 10, and 13 corporations respective
ly.
Over SO per cent of the total num-
1 Der of such corporations were char
tered during the eighteen months from
Jan. l, 1899, to June 80, 1900. The
statistics of industrial combinations
exclude all corporations manufacture
/ ing and distributing gas and electric
light and power, it being impossible
to trace all of the latter, and they do
not generally possess the same eco
nomic significance.
Iron and Steel Head List.
,ot,rpe eLor, tba iron. ond
steel industry is at the head of the
list, with a gross product of s50S,626,-
4S2, which is more than double the
value of the product of any other
group except food and kindred pro-
{ ducts, and represents nearly one-third
of the total gross value of products Of
all the industrial combinations.
The capital invested and value of
products of the various classes of in
dustrial combinations, respectively,
follow:
Iron and steel and their products,
$341, 779,954 and $50S,626,4S2.
Food and. allied products, $246,623,-
! 6S3 and S$2S2,40S,0s1.
Chemicals and allied products,
r $175,0O2,8S7 and $182,391 ,744.
Metals and metal products other
, than iron and steel, $11S,519,401 and
$1S0,154,703.
, Liquors and beverages $11S,4S9,
| 1853 and 500, 432,274. T.. rs
! Vehicles for land transportation
!, $S5,965, 6S3 and $S5,9S5,533
+ Tobacco, $16,191,S7S and $74 06S,
t 029. iss E
Textiles, s92, 46s,606 and $71.SSS202
: Leather@and it's finished products
t $62, 744011 and $45,0S4,829.
: Papers and printing, $59,271,691 ani
l $4441S,417.
S Clay, glass and stone products, $46,
: S77,2SS and $23,25S,1S2.
e Lumber and it's manufactures, $24,
/ 470,2S1 and $20,37S,S15.
{ Miscellaneous industries, Sac, 40S,
500 and S4S.6Q5 .073.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02

is no question that some such device
should be operated if the summer of
1903 is to be the average one that St.
Louis encounters.
In thus meddling with the weather
at the home of the great prophet, the
projectors of the scheme should first
secure the kind permission of Mi.
Hicks Such unauthorized transfers
of cold currents as are contemplated,
may upset the arrangements he has
made for cyclones.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02
How's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be-
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
f. j. CHENEY & Co.,
Props. Toledo, o. q
We, the undersigned, have known II. VI
Cheney for the last 10 years, and believe,
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAX,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o. Il
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mus
cous surfaces of the system. Price 75c.i
per bottle Sold by all Druggists. Test
monisls free.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02

There wi. be no inauguration ball
lat Des Moines Governor Cummins
has expressed ,..;ngclf as opposed to
any Festivities or ceremonies except
those in which all the people may join,
without expense.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02

Rock Rapids Reporter: In a holi-
day number of the Reporter issued
two years ago, one of the leading real
estate dealers Of Lyon county made
mention of the fact that land in Lyon
county was then selling at $50 to $45
per acre, with probability that it
would go higher. That was only two
years ago, but there is not an acre
of land in this county now for sale
at less than $50, excepting that which
lies along the river bottom, while sew
eral offers of $40 have been refused
for choice farms. Five years ago any
of these farms could be bought at half
the price now asked for them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02
FOUND IN THE TALL GRASS.

Emmetsburg Reporter: The high
price which Palo Alto land is bringing
at present brings to mind to many of
the old settlers what it sold for TWEEN
ty-five years ago. c. s. Wells related
to us an incident of this kind. About
twenty-five or thirty years ago Mr..
Starr drove into Palo Alto county with
team, harness, wagon, robe and
whip. He met A. A. Wells, who took
a fancy to the outfit and traded Mr..
Starr the southwest quarter of section
8, Vernon township, for the outfit. That
particular quarter section of land is
worth today at least $4,000.
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THROUGH OTHER GOGGLES.

Fairfield Ledger: The republican
majority in the next Iowa legislature
will be so great that there is party
danger in it.
Keokuk Gate City: The experience
of Iowa at Washington is another il
lustration of the truth of the observa-
ton that them that has gifts"
Carroll Herald: There ought to be
no tinkering with the liquor laws in
the next session of the legislature. De
mands for changes are nothing new.
BurliT On Hawk-Eye: 1t is only a
brief measure of time since the world
was looking for the dawn of the TWEEN
tieth century. And here nearly one
year of it has already become history.
Des Moines Capital: With new
cabinet officer coming to Iowa, a leg
islature to meet on January IL, a gov
ernor to inaugurate January 16, two
United States senators to elect about
week later, this may be termed
Iowa's busy winter in politics.
Burlington Gazette: The Gazette,
with all its democratic proclivities and
general disbelief that any good can
come out of a republican Nazareth,
congratulates the country upon the
fact that Iowa cuts so important fig-'
ure in the administration of it's affairs.
Council Bluffs Nonpariel: That COM
mittee which has undertaken the big
| job of devising a permanent treaty Of
peace between capital and labor is
composed of both employers and work
ingmen, but before they accomplish
their task they will all be working
men.
Des Moines Register: The Audubon
| Republican says that the old districts
had better be left as they are until the
number of our delegation has been
changed again within few months.
Cedar Rapids Republican,: The ele-
walton of Governor Shaw into a cabi-
net minister, and that the second
place in the cabinet, the place created
by Alexander Hamilton, is rather a
sumner for some of the little men who
have sought to belittle the retiring
II governor at home.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02

Carroll Herald: There ought to be
no tinkering with the liquor laws in
the next session of the legislature. De
mands for changes are nothing new.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02
Founded 9Th August, 1849.

Published senl-weckly OH Tuesdays and
Thursdays.
Office: liz South Market Street.
Telephone editorial or business Office No. "a.
Address tile Courier Printing Co., Ottumwa, Ia
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02

Keokuk Gate City: The experience
of Iowa at Washington is another il
lustration of the truth of the observar
ton that them that has gifts"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02

Burliasyn Hawk-Eye: 1t is only
brief measure of time since the world
was looking for the dawn of the TWEEN
tieth century. And here nearly one
year of it has already become history.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02

Fairfield Ledger: The republican
majority in the next Iowa legislature
will be so great that there is party
danger in it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02

Des Moines Register: The Audubon
Republican says that the old districts
had better be left as they are until the
number of our delegation has been
changed again within few months.
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CIRCULATION.

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other Ottumwa papers combined.
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