Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-05-13
Total cost delivered at Chicago $3.50
Sale 1925 pounds at $685.. ..... 90.77

est, labor, etc. Inc prOnt SHOWN and
the hog feed will cover that and leave
small profit in addition possibly, but
not any more, certainly, than the lie.
climate amount to which the cattle
feeder is entitled. Corn is figured at
I60 cents. That is fair enough. Last
year was the shortest crop since 1881.
We are hettar located than the large
majority of feeders. our corn crop for
last year being almost half crop. In
less favored localities than this, the
cost of feeding has been higher.
Speaking of 1881, says Mr.. Rankin.
want to tell you that we got some
high prices following that short crop,
and do not think there was any COM
bination in sight either. l sold some
mighty common stuff that year for
$3.50. Choice cattle sold as high as
$3.50. What do you think of that? !
haven't heard of the packers contract
| ing any fat cattle in our part ~ the
country, and I don't think they are
holding back many fat cattle on the
range. The man who furnished that
information knows about as much
about the cattle business as | know
about the pig iron industry. They
don't commence to round up the range
cattle until the middle of May, and
you don't see many of them coming to
market for about two months after
that. Summing it all up, want to say
that In my opinion and from my expe.
renee of fifty years feeding, during
which time have marketed something
IKE 10000 cattle, the present high
price for both steer and hog products
are due to natural causes only and
there has been no combination to
bring 1T about, so far as the packers
are concerned. They are simply pay.
ing good price for the produce.
They are paying what the demand, due
to general prosperity, justifies, and
what the cost of the products as the
results of high priced feed merits.
Prosperity and the short corn crop of
last year is the combination.
Judge Richard S. Tuthill-Why has
not woman who is wife the same
right to self-protection as any one
else: If it is necessary to kill the one
who is assaulting her, she is fully JUS
titled. in my opinion, in doing So
Self-defense is universal prerogative.
II more women would turn on their
husbands when they are being beaten
and teach them that their lives are in
danger if they persist in their brutal
practices, there would be far less wife
beating than is the case at present. If,
when woman is assaulted by a
drunken brute of husband and cuff
ed and kicked about like a dog, she
took gun and shot him, she would be
within her rights under the law and
all right-minded men would commend
her for the deed. Because woman is
married to man, she does not forfeit
her right to protect herself from him
| if he proves himself brute.
Robert Fitzsimmons, pugilist!-I am
going straight through to California.
Just as sure as | ever come back to
my home and to my family will come
as champion Of the world. don't care
rap for the impression 1 make in say.
ing this. l know that no beaten man
| is ever supposed to make an excuse
but know that l was doped when
fought Jeffries before. do not accuse
him. He may not have known about
| it all-and / believe he did not-but
what know know.
| Why Jeffries could not whip Shark.
ey What did I do to Sharkey? He
could not put Rubin out. What did |
do 20 Rubin?
l am as sure of beating Jeffries this
time as l am that I raked this wall,
over this morning. | will put up bet
ter fight than l ever put up before in
my life. l am stronger, heavier and as
full of endurance. / am near 40 years
old. What is that for man who has
lived the life l have? I'll be good ten
years from now; better than lots Of
fighters at half the age.
Besides that, am wiser. I have
studied and learned every day. Nc
fighter on earth can say that he knows
how Bob Fitzsimmons will put up his
hands. Jeffries has three blows. One
is right to the body, the other two
are lefts, not straight, but swung in
easy to block or avoid-for man who
isn't doped. l will have way of meet
ing him that none ever dreamed Of
or will until I am in the ring. One
thing I'd like to have down in black
and white, I've fought 1927 battles. I've
lost one.
The date of the fight will be early il
June. I intend to train there fol
| ABOUT IuTS6 WEEKS, WHICH Will put me
4 in fine form. My work with Ruhlir
for the last month has left me jus'
right to jump in and do all the hare
work for finishing touch.
One thing you can make sure of, they
call me ''the old man." Well, I've liv
ed temperate life and can get in as
good condition today as Jeffries or any
other fighter.
| Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the
treasury: AS after the civil war the
nation entered upon an extensive pol
icy of internal improvements, subsidiz
| ing SO long as necessary transconti
mental lines of railway and permanent
ly continuing the substituting of rivers
and harbors, SO after this later war We
appear to be entering upon an equally
progressive policy of external improve
ments.
Not as the crow flies, but as ships
sail it is nearer from Liverpool to Sar
Francisco via Cape Horn than from
New York to the same port via thu
4 same southern extremity Start two
Iships of equal speed from Liverpool
going to our Pacific coast, one through