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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06

Washington, March l. Especial Cor
respondence.) -Since Monday the cap
ital has been redolent of royalty. Due
honor has been given the distinguished
visitor, and he has passed beyond the
gates of Washington to extend his trip
through other American cities.
The mistress Of the White House
md Miss Roosevelt returned from Gro
ton in time to welcome Prince Henry
upon his arrival on Monday He was
escorted to the White House to greet
the President before being taken to
the German embassy. President
Roosevelt returned the visit within
two hours.
The streets of the city were throng-
ed with people all day, especially along
Pennsylvania avenue, with the hope OF
catching glimpse Of the royal visitor
on his way to see the capitol in the af
1ernoon.
During the day all the ambassadors
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06

Olaughlin, Daniel Akeson, Guernsey
Smith, John Thatcher. w. Searles,
John White, w. R. Wilson, Washing
ton Wilkins, Reuben Wi4etstone.
Company c, Captain j. G. Johnson,
First Lieutenant j. N. Maxwell, Sec
ond Lieutenant F. R. Mason, Sergeant
Harris Hoover. Corporal A. N. Hath
away. Privates Thomas Anderson,
James Brainard, T. B. Bonebright,
Sherman Cassidy. w. l.. Church,
Patrick Conlan H. f. Daley, John
Erie, John Gates. e. w. Gates, Josiah
Griffith, James Hickey, H. G. Hillock,
w. w. Rowland, E. D. Kellogg, w. X.
Laughlin, A. S Leonard, w V. Lucas,
f. R. Moody, John Rowland, j. c..
Pemberton, Alonzo Richardson, Mich
ael Sweeney, Patrick Stafford, A. X.
Tulis, G. R. Russell, surgeon; G. B.
Sherman, comp.
The three companies started out
across the prairie. distance of about
seventy miles, and it was most peril
GUS undertaking. The weather was
terribly cold and the snow was frozen
three to five feet deep on the level and
twelve to fifteen in the ravines. A
good many had frozen feet and hands.
but they pressed onward till within
some miles of the scene of the massa-
ere. They were met by white settlers
who were coming south from Spring
field, Mimi, as fast as they could and
form them they learned that there was
nothing at Spirit Lake. or rather at
Lake Okoboji to save. So detach-
ment consisting of ten or twenty men
was sent on to bury the dead and
the rest returned home. So, as mat
ter of fact, the men whose names APP
pear on the monument as members OF
the relief expedition never all got to
| the massacre ground, but their inten-
lions were at patriotic as those who
went. 1t was fitting that the great
state of Iowa should honor all alike.
The dead We're buried in the best
manner possible. They were buried
where they were found. Most of them
were buried near their cabins. There
was no funeral ceremony, and there
were no mourners except the soldiers,
for they had all been killed except the
three women who had been carried off
by the Indians. There was no funeral
dirge played and no one placed
wreaths on their coffins. There were
llO llOWSIS duu lHtlc WclS uo SoHlAS
but the angels dropped tear of pity
and the archangles sang a requiem ov-
err the tragic scene. Their memory will
be forever cherished by the children of
the Hawkeye state, for they enjoy the
fruits of the labors of those early pio-
neers who gave their lives that We
might have a fair state and happy
homes.
Thus were the massacred settlers
buried, and there they slept till a
grateful state saw fit to erect the mon
ument already referred to. A com
mission was sent to take up the bodies
and rebury them on the state ground.
The bodies were raised and all but the
Gardner family were buried on the
site occupied by the monument. The
Gardner family is buried in a private
lot just across the road from the big
monument. Mrs Abigail Gardner
Sharp, the survivor of that horrible
expedition, had them re-interred and
erected monument out of the granite
powders found along the lake. 1t is
an unique and pretty monument. 1t
marks the resting place of nine of the
Gardner family, including her son and
| his wife.
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will join the speaker in Washington

will join the speaker in Washington
soon.
During the past two weeks Wash
ington has been almost overcrowded
with visiting women who have come
to the capital for the two large conven-
tions held during the past week. The
National congress of Mothers, the
Council of Women and the congress Of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton together have brought forth a
representation of the women of all
America. The three bodies represent.
a striking contrast-but comparisons
are always odious. Nevertheless the,
business women of the Council, the,
mothers, while not possessing the
same degree of elegance and wealth
as a body, demonstrate most COM
mendable ability to conduct their con-
vention in decorus an nslnnss-like
I,manner, and the unto ,,-.te bouts
which are daily reported at the Con-
gress of the D. A. R. are entirely left
out in their meetings.
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WASHINGTON SOCIETY," Dissertations of Arabela Gushngton

Last week the Austrian minister and
Baroness Henglemuller were among
the diplomats at the capitol, having
been entertained at luncheon by the
speaker of the house.
The French embassy is much in evil
dence nowadays also. since the
French are quite interested in the
question of the canal, which is occupy
ing much time at the capitol
The speaker of the house receives a
salary of eight thousand year, three
thousand in excess of the regular
members, it is generally understood
that this additional sum is to be ap
piled toward the extensive entertain
ing usually expected of that dignitary
In the case of the present speaker
however, it is believed that much
smaller stipend would cover his eX
penses in this direction during the
present session, since he has done
very little entertaining on large
scale; none, in fact. Mrs. Henderson
has spent the winterni California, but
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06

1t Is stated that there are more IN
dians in the United Staets today than
there were at the time Columbus dis
covered America. The legend is that
Columbus sailed to land, and he was
about to step ashore when Lo stepped
out from behind a tree and ejacu-
lated with as much emotion as an In
dian is capable of: Its no use, we
are discovered" He gave it up, and
from that day to this there has been
a constant hostility between the pale
faces and his dusky brothers.
1t is shocking to read in the life of
Columbus by Irving what atrocities
were committed upon the Indians. 1t
reads like a chapter out of the Span
ish Inquisition. If Irving was straight
on his facts, and he very likely was,
the Indians of the West India Islands
had made considerable progress in CIV
ilization. What mean:is, the natives
who were called by Columbus Indians.
l.
at what is supposed to be a portion of
Asia or East India he called the land
West India and the people he called
Indians. They had some sort of gov
eminent. The chief ruler or chief
was called Cacique. They also had
some sort of religion and were happy.
True to the Spanish nature, the In
dams were at once enslayed and com
PEELED to work in the mines, for there
was some little gold to be found. Be
sides that, these children of the forest
who had never known what work was
beyond the chase and fishing were
obliged by their cruel Spanish masters
to work on the farms in the hot sun
and in unhealthy localities till the
most of them persisted. 1t is not much
wonder then that there are Indian mas
sacres to record.
1t is not much wonder, either, if it
is true, which l doubt, that there are
more Indians today than in the early
times. In those days whom the Span
iards did not kill. were killed off in
the indeterminate and unceasing In
and dirt and filth and Indian wars and
being killed off by the invaders, the
Indian had a hard time of it.
1t is long ways from Hispanolia,
or the West Indies, to Spirit Lake,
Iowa, in point of miles and in years,
but in spite OF. a nation and its
hopes and ambitions and aspirations
and sufferings and gladness it is but
a short Journey. An Indian can hate
we'll and long. So when the Sioux In
dams went on the war path with all
their savage fierceness and cruelty it
was not for anything that the settlers
of Dickinson county had done, but it
went back several hundred years and
it covered all the time intervening.
The Indian could not distinguish be
tween one white man and another. Al
looked alike to him. He wanted re-
venge. Not for any wrong that he had
suffered, perhaps, but all his education
for hundreds of years had been to hate
the whites. Out of this teaching and
parental influence on the Indian char.
acter grew one of the bloodiest massa.
ores of the west, and the only one il
Iowa.
1t is called the Spirit Lake Massa
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The corn crop of 1850 for the whole
United States, is returned over 5O0.-
100000 of bushels, a gain of about 40
per cent on that of 1870"
Removal of the Capital.
Fifty years ago there was consider
able stir over the question of the re,
moval of the capitol from Iowa City.
At that time there seemed to be SEN
timent in favor of Oskaloosa for the To-
cation. With regard to this question
the following article appears in the
Courier files of February 26, 1852:
"Last week an interesting commun-
ication on this subject appeared in
your columns, and for one of your
readers. have been anXiously looking
for you to follow up the subject edi,
toriaily. l know your senior opposed
the scheme when it was last agitated
but let us hope by this time he has be-
come convinced of his error
1.-The immediate removal of the
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06

figure in the grain yield of the United
States. The unlimited agricultural re-
sources of this commonwealth had not
at that time been developed as they
have during the years since that time.
Concerning the yield of wheat and
corn in the United States according to
the census of 1850 the Courier bearing
the date of February 26, 1852. contains
the following article with regard to
the amount of wheat and corn produc-
ed by the leading states in which the
state of Iowa does not appear.
by the census returns of 1850, it APP
pears that the states which produce
the largest number of bushels of wheat
in 1S49, were the following:
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06

1T will be recollected that the year
1S49 was disastrous to this crop in
some of the states, that of Ohio being
but little more than half of the crop of
1850, and probably not half of the crop
OF 1851"
THE states which produced the
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-06

largest number of bushels Of corn in
the same year, were the following:
Bushels.
Ohio so. 7SS,750
Kentucky ........ ...5S,OOO, 900
Illinois -. ....... ST, 100000
Indiana ..... ..... % ,UUo,uUu
Tennessee -. -. ...... SO, 900, 900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
ARMORED CRUISERS
TWO REPORTS SUBMITTED BY
THE NAVAL BOARD.
Differences Over the Question Whether
Speed or Power Should Predomi-
nate-Views in Detail.

The differences between the majority and
the minority of the naval board on con-
struction over the question as to whether
speed or power was to predominant in the
big armored cruisers authorized at the re-
cent session of Congress took official form
yesterday in the shape of two reports sub
mitted to Acting Secretary Darling The
majority report is signed by four members
--Admirals O'Neil, Bradford and Bowles
and Capt. Sigsbee-while Engineer-in-chief
Melville signs the minority report. The
majority submit as part of it's report a vol
luminous circular intended for the use of
shipbuilders who care to bid and embody-
ing every detail of the proposed vessels.
The majority report says:
I'm considering the question of speed for
the proposed cruisers the board decided
upon twenty two knots, believing this to be
the maximum speed that could be attained
in conjunction with a powerful battery and
good armored protection. Experiments with
models of the proposed vessels in the model
tank at the Washington navy yard ind cate
that a speed of twenty-five knots can be
obtained with 23,O00 I.H.P. and therefore
the board has allotted 2,060 tons for ma
chinery weights, which is the amount spec
flied by the engineer-in-chief as that neces-
sary to develop % 900 LII Pr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Thomas K. Noble ct ux to William
H. Boyd, lot 142, So. 1872; $40 William H.
Boyd ct Tx. to Jay c. Howell, lot 143, 50.
152; $40
Sixteenth and o streets northwest-Harry
c. Shields ct al. to William Scully original
lot 10 and lot 50, So 1875; SO.
Ingleside-Harry K. Van Alstyne to James
A. Twohey, lot 20, blk. ! $40.
Sheriff Estate-M. Elizabeth Browning ct
viz, John W, to Armstead Randall part
lot 3; $40
MARYLAND avenue northeast between 18th
and 18th streets-George e. Lauxman ct ux.
to Flora NJ. Schmidt, lot 10, So. 0S4; $40.
Isherwood-Ezra j. Peck. trustee, to John
Scrivener, lots i to 26 blk. 3; lots 3 and +,
blk. IA lots to 6, blk. -; lots l to "a. blk.
s. lots II to 20, blk. 2; lots l to s. 10 to IS,
blk. I; so.
Nineteenth street northwest between L
and NJ streets-Louis Eiseman ct AL trus-
tees. to Eugene L. Eiseman, lot 43, So. III;
$500.
Nineteenth and streets northwest-John
C. Head, trustee, to Eleana A. s. Bush,
part of lot 2, square 147; $500.
Pleasant Plains-George Winsmore ct ux.
3D. % s $40. "'''pS'A' east hail u i0'
Metropolis View-Northwest lexington
Improvement Company to w. Parker
Smith, part of lot 50; $40
i street northwest between 18th and 10th
streets-Susannah Burns to Mary Slattery,
part of square 40.
Sixth and C streets northwest-James P.
Tolman ct al to the Tolman Laundry, part
of original lots and 10, square 400; $40.
E street southeast between LIST and I'd
streets-James w. Bevans to James and
Mary v Bevans, lot 121, square 1856; $40.
Moore & Barbour's Addition-Annie E.
Irwin ct vir, William M. to Agner c.
Brandes, lots IS to 10, block 4; $40. Agnes
c. Brandes to Alfred Reichman, lots 70 and
10, block 4; $40.
Alley between 18th and 14th, C and d
streets southeast-Leo P. Harlow to Joseph
p. Smith, lots 30 and 81, SO. 1911; $40.
Metropolis Wiew-Joseph Speidel ct ux. to
Joseph c. Brady, part lot 81; $40.
Bloomingdale-MarkR Riley ct ux. to Ruth
j. Murray, lot 50, blk. 81 SO.
p street northwest between 10th and 18th
streets-Waldemar Jansen ct Tx. to Michael
J. Griffith, lot 10, so. 1870; 500.
Holmead Manor-Andrew A. Lipscomb ct
al, trustees, to Edward r. Wiseman, part
lot 80, blk. 40; $70177.
New York avenue northwest between 4th
and 9Th streets-Andreas Loeffier ct ux. to
Anna L. FARRELL, part original lot s, So.
514; SO.
Observation-Disclosures J. Stellwagen. trus-
tee. to Ella c. Middleton, lots "a to aS. blk.
3, and part lot 70, blk. 3; $40.
P street northwest between 21st and 22d
streets-Same to same, part original lot 4,
SO. 81; $40.
woodley-Ella c. Middleton ct vir, Frank
SO SO - A'''' " 'A'S' '''' anu o.
Same to same part of Woodley; $40.
Thirteenth street northeast between and
K streets-M. Louisa Strobel to Frederick
w. Strobel. lot %, square 1902: IS.
observation-disclosures E L. Thompson ct TX
to Almeda HaZen and Annie E. Mitchell,
part lot 5, block II; $40.
Stony Hill, Conclusion and BayIey's Pur-
chase-Samuel X. Behrend ct ux. 10
Thomas II, Pickford; $40.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
SMALLPOX CASE DEVELOPS.
James A. johnson, a Barber, Sent to
Hospital.

James A. johnson. a colored barber, for
ty-six years of age, residing at 122 F street
southwest, applied for treatment at the
Freedmen's Hospital last night and was
found to be suffering from smallpox. His
case was Immediately reported to the health
department and the patient was transferred
to the smallpox hospital
The health department announces that
Johnson was employed at Bailey's barber
shop at 607 7th street northwest, and work
ed there right up to yesterday afternoon,
shaving customers. The eruption had been
apparent on Johnson since Thursday of
last week and the department says there
is no telling how many people have come
in contact with the man, and they are,
therefore, unable to predict the outcome of
the case. They advise that those who have
visited the shop should take as many pre-
cautions as possible against the disease.
The shop was closed yesterday afternoon
and thoroughly disinfected and was allowed
to open again today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses have been issued to the
following:
Whte-John l. OBrien and Della l..
ODay; Lyle Rush and Myrtle Lynn, both
of Alexandria, Va; Philip N. Dsher and
Ella Bruschie; John w. Payne and Clara
A. Noble, both of Baltimore, Md; John G.
Myers and Eva T. Walters; John Pearson
and Bessie Dean. both of Tenleytown, D..
c.; Gideon N Sheubrook and Martha G..
Harrison, both of oxford, Md; Clarence n.
Grim of Summit Point, w. Va, and Lizzie
NJ. Myers of Van Cevesville, w. Va;
Alfred p. Talbert of East Washington
Heights, d. c., and Lena Vangruder of
Riverdale, Md. Eldridge E. Henderson CT
Baltimore, Md, and Bessie V. Chenoweth
of Hanover, Pa.
Colored-William Boose and Annie Wa
ters Frank Jones and Florence Walker
James Jemieson and Josephine E Moore
both of Anacostia, d. c.; Robert Garter
anG Louise NJ. Bushrod
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
Deaths in the District.

The following deaths were reported at
the health office during the twenty-four
hours ending at noon today:
Martha A. Briscoe. 10 years; George z.
Ames, - years; Mary Harrison, 63 years !;
Mrs Carrie Stevens, 63 years; Melissa C..
Thatcher, 81 years; Emma V Montgomery,
IS years; William H. Bell, IS years; John
F. Reilly, 80 years; James c. Merrill, ~
years; James W. Allen, As years; Joseph G..
Nash, As years; Frederick SchegeI 40
years; Thomas E. Austin, 30 years; jose
phine Gardner. 81 years; Marie Pauline A.
de Silhour 81 years; Lee j. Cox. q years.
Hattie Lee, 10 months; Lillian V. Werdig.
/ month Oscar B. Reese, 20 days; Mary
Burns, l day. infant of VIM. B. and Annie
Slater, l day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
Admiral Melville'S View.
eer-in-chief Melville says:

EnSlnSer-ln-CnleI melville says.
Il regret that I cannot agree with the
majority of the board construction in
recommending that the LIP. of armored
cruisers 10 and II, Tennessee and Wash
ington, be made $4,000 instead of 25,GOO as
designed, with consequent reduction of
CRATE and heating surface in boilers and re-
duction of machinery weights, for the rea-
son that | do not believe that the result
ing vessels will comply with the act of Con-
gress authorizing them. which requires that
they shall be of not more than IA 800 tons
trial displacement. carrying the heaviest
armor and most powerful armament for
vessels of their class and to have the high
est practicable speed and great radius of
action and to cost &c.
Il cannot believe that Congress did not
intend that these vessels should be equal
to or superior to any of their class, that
class being armored cruisers and not battle
ships where very high speed may not be
SO essential; and l am not at all certain
that an extra knot and the additional power
for it should not have been insisted in
the first place.
Admiral Melville argues at length in favor
of increased horsepower and greater speed.
He expresses doubt as to the accuracy Of
calculations based on model tank expert
mentS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
Board of Trade Committee Discusses
Items for Annual Report.

At meeting of the public health COM
mittee of the Board of Trade yesterday,
October p, 1902, several important topics
to be embodied in the annual report were
under discussion. among them the matter
of public comfort stations. the prevention
of the spread of contagious and infectious
diseases and a public quarantine station.
Among those present We're DR.. Hicklng,
chairman; Smith Thompson, secretary;
General George M. Sternberg, Mr.. Henry
P. Merrill Mr. Thomas w. Smith, Mr. Will
liam M. Shuster DR.. William C. Woodward,
DR.. Philip S. Roy DR.. ]. B. G. Custis and
DR.. Richard Kingsman.
An interesting and instructive paper was
read by DR.. Kingsman on the cause and
prevention Of pulmonary tuberculosis
The annual meeting of the board will
occur November 10, 1902.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
FUNERAL OF JOSEPH c. NASH.
Services Held at st. Paul's Protestant
Episcopal Church.

Funeral services were held this after
noon at st. Paurs Protestant Episcopal
Church. on 23d street over the remains of
Mr.. Joseph c. Nash. The rector, Rev. AL
fred Harding, officiated, and the interment
was in Rock Creek cemetery. General H
G. Gibson, Colonel Green Clay Goodloe, Mr.
Willard F. Warner, General Marcus ].
Wright, Mr. Edwin L. Beach, Mr.. George
Barry. Commander William H briggs and
Mr. Thomas w Prescott served as pail
bearers.
Inc deceased had been a resident of this
city since 1874. He was born in Nashville
rem, August 1, 1854 and was appoint ed
10 clerksh1p In the revenue marine service
when a young man. Later he was trans
1erred TO the light house board, where he
served over twenty years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
In Memory of DR.. Robert Nourse.

A memorial service was held in the First
Congregational Church at Falls Church
sunday afternoon In respect to the memory
OF the late Rev. Robert Nourse, whose
death occurred at his home in that village
September 26. The service was a very i'm
pressiVe one and was conducted by the
ministers Of Falls Church, assisted by sew
eral from Washington, all of whom paid
tribute to the deceased minister.
The music, which was rendered by his
friends, was very impressive and solemn
ana consisted of favorite hymns of the de-
ceased. The flowers which deeked the chan
Gel We're numerous and beautiful.
pr. Nourse will not only be missed by the
cltlzens of Falls Church and Washington
put by many in almost fevery large city in
the united States where he was well known
as lecturer. Among those who paid honor
70 ms memory Were Rev DR.. Newman of
the FIRST Congrega tional Church, Wash
lnston; Prof. Ever, Washington; Revs
Davldson, Summerville, wGraves and Noble,
and Mr.. Church and Prof. Styer of Falls
Church. ~.
Aususte Jadin has been appointed in
spector IN the sewer division. at 81 per day,
10 take effect when he reports for duty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
INTERMENT AT ARLINGTON.
Funeral Services Held Over Remains
of Capt. w. B. Brown.

Funeral services over the remains of Cap
tain William B. Brown were held yesterday
afternoon in the Church Of the Covenant
The pastor, Rev. Teunis s.. Hamlin, Of
ficiated, assisted by Rev. J. E. Rankin,
president of Howard University.
The casket was draped in flag, and was
surrounded by floral pieces given by st.
Johns Lodge of Masons, Kit Carson Post,
G. A. R., and personal friends of the de-
ceased.
Interment was at Arlington, where the
services were conducted by Kit Carson
Post Of the G. A. r.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
Funeral of ames 3. Bayly.

The funeral of Mr.. James F. Bayly, VINO
died at the Franklin Square Hospital, Balti-
more, Md. Friday last, was held Sunday
afternoon from an undertaking establish
ment Of that city. Mr.. Bayly Is survived by
a son, Mr.. McKendree Bayly of this city
and a daughter. Mrs William E. Woy of
Pennsylvania.