Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-10

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burn regards this opposition grimly
as he usually regards such things. At
heart he knew .nat much OF the oppo-
sition and many of the bad things said
OF MIN were undeserved and yet the
unreasonableness OF the charges SO
disguised him that he would not deign
| TO deny them. Not long ago man
from Mr.. Hepburn's district was in
| Washington and remarked to the col
onel that certain man who had start
| ed up a prohibition organ during the
last campaign to fight Mr. Hepburn
| had LETT town rather suddenly. Hem"
said the colonel, with a grim smile,
did he take somebody else's money
or wife, with him!" Mr.. Hepburn de-
clares that he paid the expenses of
the prohibition candidate for congress
III his district one year. The mans
supporters went back on him in fur
nlshlng campaign money and he came
frankly to Mr.. Hepburn. The last
| thing that the colonel wanted him to
do was TO get out of the race. He
said that he knew no prohibitionist
would ever vote for him, but would
rather vote for democrat, and so to
keep votes from his democratic can
dldate he kept the prohibitionist in
the field by paying his expenses for
| the remainder of the campaign.
| Senator Dolliver has received a ra-
Their greWsome photograph from
constituent in Sioux City who is seek
ing a pension. The man sends in an
Array picture of his l>aad, which plain
ly shows a Mauser bullet buried in
the flesh just under lie Drain. How
the man lives is a mystery. He sent
Tile photograph to accompany his
claim for a pension, thinking rightly
that it would be pretty good testi-
mony to put before the pension COM
mlttee.
In Washington beer garden stands
! a magnificent sideboard, which the
young ladies of Cincinnati presented
to Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes when she
was mistress of the White House, as
token OF their approval of her ac-
ton in barring wine from the menu of
board, which remained wineless dur
ing the Hayes administration, is now
| fllled with syphons, bitters, decanters
and liquor bottles. On the top shelf
is arranged row of fine old German
beer stems. The sideboard was put
up at an auction of discarded White
House furniture last week and knock
ed down to the proprietor of the beer
sa1, -.
than the material alone cost. The
young ladies of Cincinnati, who did
the inlay work on the article with their
own hands, were Mrs. Bellamy Storer,
wife of the present ambassador to
Austria and Mrs. Taft, wife of the
present civil governor of the Philip
pines. During several administrations
the sideboard was used in the White
House, but was always kept free from
wines. Soon after it was auctioned
OFF John r. Mclean learned of it's rest
ing place in the beer garden He Of
tered $3.50 for it, but was refused. Col
Webb Hayes, son of President Hayes,
also came to Washington and tried to
buy it, but was Informed by the saloon
keeper that it would take $4,000 for
him to preserve it to the traditions yf
his family.
Washington, D. c., Feb. eff it
had not been for Major Lacey and the
Lacey act the stock of wild game in
Yellowstone Park would have been
practically nil and one of the most in
teresting features of this great nation
al park would have been lost" These
were the opening words of an inter
view with Major John Pitcher, acting
superintendent of Yellowstone Park,
who is spending week in Washing
ton. One of the first persons Major
PITCHER called upon was Major Lacey.
They have had much correspondence
and are great friends though they had
never met before. Major Pitcher is in
Washington at this time to report pro-
gress on the most important piece of
work the park has undertaken yet
the raising of herd of American buff
falo to preserve the species. Last
year $4,000 was appropriated by con-
gress for this purpose and the amount
has now been spent with every pros
pect OF final success. Many other at
tempts have been made to raise buf-
falo and cause them to multiply and
flourish but without success. The
iSlioWololtS PARK attempt is succeed
ing because they have plenty of roam
and the very best experts engaged in
the work.
The Lacey act provides for no hunt. |
ing within the preserves of animals of
the harmless sort. Mountain lions and
coyotes of the park are excepted. AS
result the animals such as deer, elk, |
antelope, mountain sheep, etc, are
multiplying greatly" A recent state
ment that the park was almost with
out animals is grossly false. Not long
ago ! took ride with a gentleman
and for example put down some fig
ures. In four mile drive to Fort
Yellowstone we saw and counted 900
elk, 400 antelope, 80 mountain sheep
and were never out of sight of black
tailed deer. On another drive of
about seven miles we saw and count
ed 1920 elk, and q deer. In fact we
went upon a hill where we could get
a, 1vint of fbn