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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-09
AFRlcANDER BEATS sAvABLE.
Fast Colt Wins Lawrence Realization
and Barrel of Money.

f asst Colt Wins EaWTence Realization
and Barrel of Money.
New York, July 9.-Africander, this
years suburban winner at Sheepshead
Bay, won the Lawrence realization
stakes worth $1S,435. He also broke
the worlds record by covering the dis
lance mile and five furlongs in 2:45
Is, which is 2 rs seconds faster than
the previous record.
Golden Maxim was second and Saw
able third.
Haviland Breaks Record.
Chicago. July Sin the race at
Washington park Haviland reduced the
worlds record for mile and fifty
yards to al Ia. The previous record
was 1:421@.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-09
a BIG CROP.
Sweet Corn Near Waterloo This Year
Will Break Records.

Waterloo, July S.-(Special.) = The
heaviest crop of sweet corn harvested
in this county in many years will be
gathered this season. The local can
ming company has 2,400 acres devoted
to the crop which promises to be first
class in quality. The season will be
two weeks later than usual.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-09
COTTON KING DEAD.
A. F. GauIt Prominent in Trade Circles
Passes Away.

Montreal, July ga: F. Gault, the
so-called cotton king OF Canada, is
dead.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-09
POKER GAME: THEN MURDER.
E. Burreil Accused of Killing Fellow
Player at Davis City.

Davis City, July because, as was
claimed, Frank Thorn pson owed Enoch
Burrell thirty cents as a result of a
game of poker they had just finished,
Burrell is alleged to have killed
Thompson.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-09

Z, Paris, July "A Rome dispatch
says the weakness Of the pope
is increasing hour by hour. He
is only internationally conscious.
His death is imminent.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-09
STRIKE AvERTEp.
Employees of illinois Central at Water
loo Confer With Officials

Waterloo, July S.-(Special) - BY
the visit Of committee of men. from
the Illinois Central shops to the off
Gals at Chicago, a strike has been
ayerted among the unskilled mechan
les at the shops here. A raise Of Ii
cepts was granted,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-09
GIBBONS STARTS FOR ROME.
American Cardinal Leaves Baltimore
This Afternoon.

Baltimore, July S.-Cardinal Gibbons
left for New York this afternoon on his
way to Rome. ~
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-09
BANKER TO JAIL.
j. M. Mcknight Loses Long Fight FOL
liberty

Louisville, KY. July S.-Tke long
fight made by ]. M. Mcknight, the for
mer banker, to keep out of prison. end
ed in defeat yesterday afternoon. when
in the United States court Julsa Ev.
ans ordered the prisoner to be taken to
Atlanta on the o'clock train to serve
his sentence of six years.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-09
MILITARY DISPLAY TO CEASE.
Bulgaria Will Make No Further Prep.
arations AGAINST Turkey.

Vienna, July 9.-As the result of ur-
gent representations from Austria and
Russia. Prince Ferdinand has given the
strongest assurances that Bulgaria will
make no further military preparations
against Turkey.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-11-13

At Franklin. Pa. Clarence Doolittle
has been arrested, charged with the
murder of Willis M. Kingsley, local
athlete and football player. Doolittle
and Kingsley engaged in a fight and
Kingsley was declared the winner
after three rounds had been fought.
Before he left the ring, however. it
was discovered that he had ruptured
blood vessel, and physicians were
with him all night. but could not save
his If.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-11-13
He Printed Lottery Ticke+.

Lynn, Mass, Nov. 8.-Wm. 8 Walls
10 years OF age, is under arrest
charged with printing lottery tickets
and larceny. The police assert that
counterfeit tickets of several lotteries
nave been sent from here to all parts
OF the country. Wells made a partial
concession in which he duplicates a
man IN Dayton, Ohio, as being the head
Oh tne plan and New York man was
named as being the active manager
me police refused to give the names
of these two men.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-11-13
Coal Miners Out

Denver' COL, Nov. 11.-More than
10000 coal miners in Colorado are ~
strike Tor an eight hour day, increased
wages and other concessions. The
strlke was ordered by the national
executive officers of the United Mina.
workers OF America, after the cos,
companies refused to confer with union
representatives concerning the de.
mands Of the men,
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-11-13

In the United States the distance
OF the average railway journey is 20
miles, in England it is scarcely 10
miles, while in German it is Is miles,
in France 81 miles and in Russia IS
miles.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-11-13
Arthur Jenkins Is Dead.

Syracuse, N. Y, Nov. 10.-Arthur
jenkins, publisher Of the Syracuse
Herald. died at West Baden, Ind,
aged 81 years.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-11-13

some old men act like they imagine
tney are regular '1ady killers" Don't
do that.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-01
Auluurous department.
Wilder, the Humorist.

During his long career as lecturer,
professional humorist and vaudeville
entertainer says the Chicago Chroni-
Gle, Marshall P. Wilder probably has
amused as many people as any man
now living. During all these. years he
has met with many odd experiences
in out f-the-way places. For several
years he was engaged regularly as
visitor at various asylums and hospi-
tails, where he spread good cheer
throughout the wards. He never can
forget, he declares, visit he once
made to a Keeley institute. He made
a tour of inspection Of this institute
taking note Of various interesting
things. He observed that some OF the
patients were still highly delirous and
shouting in a manner to strike terror
to the ordinary mortals heart. One
of the victims roared suddenly that
his room was full of reptiles. He was
wild in his fear of reptiles. Suddenly
he changed his mood and declared that
there was a woman in his room, then
relaxed into silence.
"She must have been a snake
charmer," murmured Mr.. Wilder as he
moved on to the next room.
After his performance at New
York vaudeville theatre Wilder was ap-
preached by one of those blundering
old fellows who mean we'll but invaria-
bly, make bad breaks. Attempting to
compliment the humorist, the blunder-
ing old party said: "Oh, Mr.. Wilder
there was one very good thing about
those stories you told tonight
Him." replied Wilder. well, 1sup-
pose that was better than missing the
point Of all of them"
Here is a story Wilder tells about
an ancient Hebrew who had retired
from Wall street with competency.
II am afraid am not going to live
long" said the Jew to Wilder.
"Pshaw," replied the humorist, you
are only sixty now, and I'll bet you live
to be one hundred"
No, no." retorted the old broker
sadly, "The Lord will never take me
at par when he can get me for sixty
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-01

known, after wild Bill" had staked
him. Shooting from ambush was the
worst crime known in Deadwood in
those days, and when Calamity Jane
heard of 1t she started at once to find
McCaull. wild Bill' was her friend,
and the fact that she had once saved
McCaull's life did not deter her from
taking 1t.
Il gave it to him once" she declared,
"I'll take 1t back now."'
She came across him unexpectedly In
a meat shop seized a cleaver and,
threatening to brain him If he moved,
waited till her friends bound him.
She was one of those who tugged
hardest to pull him over a cottonwood
limb, and with grim satisfaction she
watched him kick his life away.
There were two womanly traits
which Calamity Jane always manifes-
ted. While she might be drunk one
day and chasing Indians over the
prairie another, she never missed an
opportunity to put on skirts and dia-
monds at dance. The next morning
she would be ready for trip with the
government mail, or perhaps would be
cracking the bottles in a saloon with
we'll aimed bullets.
But she would stop abruptly even
the Incompatible pleasure of Shoot
ing-up' a saloonful of miners bristling
with guns. If some one should report
case of sickness. She never refused
to 60 even great distances to nurse the
sick back to health. Here was to be
seen her other woman's trait. An old
scout said Of her:
"The first time met Calamity was
down in Kansas the year the cholera
was SO bad. l was riding along carry
ing dispatches from Harker to Wallace
when 1 met a woman riding toward
Red Cloud.
"'No: Indians be damned!' she yells;
Pm going down to the front to take
care Of the boys
II knew her best in Deadwood. I
first saw her there at the time they
strung UP Flyspeck Bill; who'd been
stealing horses.
"'Well. Billy she said, you're goin'
to sure die now. and you're goin' to
die with your boots on
mo I amt. Jane he said; 'vou
take 'em off, And Jane pulls off his
boots and puts 'em on herself and
wears EN- till they're worn out"
The only time Calamity Jane tried
the more civilized life was when an
enterprising woman. who was anxious
to sell a publication she controlled,
induced her to go to Buffalo to attend
the exposition. Jane liked the start,
because she was initiated by driving
an eight horse team through Buffalo.
She was to sit in a den and sell the
books for q commission and her liv-
ing. She grew suspicious Of her share
in the profits and accepted a better
offer from a man on the midway. One
night she got on a spree Of the Mon
tana variety, tried to shoot up the
whole midway and landed in Jail.
She soon met Buffalo Bill in Buffalo
and asked him to stake her to her rail-
road fare. He readily did so, and she
returned to Cheyenne, Wyo. Since
then she had lived in the most respec-
table fashion ever attempted by her.
Occasionally she resorted to her old
fashioned celebrations, but she was
sickened Of them because she always
ended them in Jail. She was prospect
ing for q congenial locality when she
was taken sick here and died.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-01
Getting Even.

She was a sharp eyed, independent
little woman, and if the conductor had
been a reader of character he would
have known better than to try to
match his wits against hers.
She had ridden two blocks before
the conductor got around to ask for
her fare.
This is as far as want to CO." she
said. "I'll get off here"
But you can't get off without pay
ing fare" said the conductor stupidity
Il can't eh," she answered. We'll,
let me see you collect it."
She made for the door, but the con-
ductor barred her way and refused to
pull the bell cord.
You stop this car or you'll be sor-
ry for it," she exclaimed angrily.
"You must pay your fare before you
can get off," the conductor kept re-
peating.
That was all he could think to say.
Very well,' said the woman, plump
ing herself down in seat again. 81
guess 1 can ride free as far as you can
afford to carry me-"
After a couple Of blocks more the
conductor pulled the rope and said
somewhat sheepishly:
"You might as we'll get off here
then, if you won't pay your fare"
The woman stepped haughtily to the
street, and then, turning with a smile
said sweetly:,
This is really the corner that
wanted. I knew you'd carry me g
block or two after told you I wouldn't
pay, so began the quarrel early"
And as the conductor gave the rope
two especially vicious jerks she called
after him:
"I wouldn't have done it if you had
not carried me block past my street
sterday"-Buffalo Express.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-01

TO Fool THE MosoUTTo-This is the
latest story Of Kirke La Shelle going
the general rounds, says the New York
Times:
There are very few mosquitoes at
Mr. La Shelle's summer home on Long
Island, Bellport, but many Of his
friends are sufferers from the pesti-
ferrous insect. He visited friend at a
village some miles from Bellport and
found that the mosquitoes were numer-
Gus and active in what would other
wise be a veritable Arcadia.
What would you do if you lived
here Kirke?" asked his friend, as the
two sat on the porch smoking hard to
keep the enemy at bay. 81 know you
have an idea which is we'll spoken of"
La Shelle smoked for a minute be-
fore he replied: Have you tried coal
oil?"
Yes; gallons Of it,"
"Citronella?"
Yes"
"Pennyroyal?"
Yes"
Ammonia"
Yes
"ScreenS?"
"They get inside
A smile frightened the managers
countenance as he said: "Then there
is only one thing I can recommend.
You say all the mosquitoes get inside
your screens?"
Yes. Confound them"
Then" said La Shelle, "why don't
you keep outside the screens and fool
them"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-01

FOLLOWED INsTRUCTIONs.-"P!aa ease,
sir" said the new office boy, II took
this letter where you told me to. but
the lady wasn't in, so I've brought it
back"
Brought it back, have you?" fumed
the irate merchant, relates the Boston
Journal. What dyer mean by doing
that? You don't seem to have any
more sense than hard-boiled egg.
Take it again, and if she isn't in leave
it in the letter box. or push it under
the door: leave it somewhere-go; go,
before l bite you,"
Presently the youth returned and Il
satisfied expression was in his eye.
You left it this time, eh. Solomon,
Jr?" queried the merchant.
Yes, sir" said the sparkling lad.
II couldn't reach the letter box. and it
wouldn't go under the door so | tore
il in pieces and bunged it through the
keyhole. sir Was that right, sir?"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-01

them, and divided them into twelve
messes for as many families. They all
have fish to fry and fish to spare to-
day. But the party had a great fish
dinner at Mr.. Davis's house. When
the word came for dinner all hands
dropped their nets and went. It's
been a long time" says Mr.. Long,
"since I sat down to such great din
ner as we had on this trip. The
Southern railways detective, Mr.. T.
N. Haney, has been in the city this
week for the purpose Of obtaining ev-
idence relating to the wreck Of No. 35
at the Ozark Cotton mill. He is work.
ing on some clues, but nothing very
tangible has yet been secured; at least
no arrests have been made so far.
Mrs. Samuel Scott and Mrs. Samuel
Gilfllen of Yorkville, spent Wednes-
day and Thursday at Mr.. w. S. Lough-
eridge's. They returned home last
night. The Negro, Pink Whitesides,
who stole a mule from Mr.. J. Grier
Jenkins Saturday, was captured at
Grover Tuesday by Chief of Police
Kendrick Of Kings Mountain. He was
given a preliminary trial before Es-
quire Garrett and bound over to court
He was taken to Dallas Wednesday
and placed in Jail. The mule was
found in a corn field near Grover In
good condition. Whitesides confessed
to the theft. go. e. In place Of the barn
destroyed by fire few weeks ago, Mr.
Jim Adams is now completing a new
and much larger one. Mr.. J. F. Jack
son was down there Wednesday to
help him cover it. The sides Of the
roof measure 27X53 feet each, and
those who were covering the west
slope about three o'clock Wednesday
afternoon didn't have any icicles hang
ing from their hats. There Is con-
siderable stir in Mecklenburg over the
report that Mr.. Henry Little, superin-
tendent Of the convict camp, had
whipped one of the convicts to death
on the road near Davidson College. A
representative of the Charlotte Observ-
er went to see Superintendent Little
and learned from him that the Negro,
oliver Clark, was whipped about nine
o'clock Tuesday morning and sent back
to his shovel. About eleven, he was
put to work with his squad on the
rock yard at the crusher. A little af-
ter one o'clock he started up an en-
bankment, but fell before reaching the
top. He was carried to the shade and
expired in a few minutes. He had not
mentioned being sick. The superin-
tendent thinks he died from being
overheated. The Observer says the
grand jury will probably make an in
vestigation.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-01
AS TO VAGRANCY.
There Is Plenty of Law if It Were
Only Enforced.


Quite a number of delegates at the
recent convention of colored men to
consider the lynching question, advo-
Gated the enforcement Of the vagran-
cy laws, and held the idle Negroes
around the towns and cities largely re-
sponsible for the conditions about
which so much complaint is made.
In Georgia a law was passed at the
recent session of the general assembly
to reach this very class.
There is ample law on the statute
books to get rid of the vagrant class
in every community, and to make it so
hot for the idle men and boys that they
will want to work Or move to some
other haven of rest.
When Attorney General Gunter was
a magistrate at Spartanburg he con-
victed and sent to the chain gang no
less than 900 Negroes and 12O white
men as vagrants. He made it a point
to keep the chain gang supplied with
the young fellows, who rather work
for the county than get at some legiti-
mate task, and in his crusade against
the idle class he sentenced women to
pick peas at the county poor house
farm. The campaign had it's good ef-
feet.
There are a great many towns where
the present statutes can be used to
supply much of the labor for the i'm
provement of the roads. There could
be more sweeping law than that now
on the statute books. and the dele
gates to the recent convention would
do more to show their good faith in
their campaign if they would take it
upon themselves to begin the crusade
against the worthless and idle Negroes
about many of the towns.
Under the present law magistrates
have jurisdiction in cases against va
grants and the statute allows fine of
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-01
COST OF THE COTTON CORNER.
Large Proportion of 100000 SpindIes
In New EnuIand Stopped.

Large Proportion of 100000 spindIes
In New England Stopped.
Shutting down on the part Of cotton
manufacturers both here and abroad
goes on apace until Of the 100000
spindles installed in New England but
100000 are said to be in operation,
while the mills of England and the
continent have, to a large extent, given
up the attempt to make goods which
would have to be marketed at loss.
The present high price Of the raw ma
terial could not but work disaStrously
to legitimate industry, and when the
end is reached the enrichment Of the
few fortunate spectators who have so
will be found to have been at the ex-
pense of the million wage learners and
stockholders.
The loss to the manufacturer COM
PEELED to call halt on production, an
item that does not always appeal to
the average outsider because less sus-
ceptible Of reduction to actual dollars
and cents by the non-expert must be
added. Taking the case Of print cloth,
it costs from one-half a cent to cent
and a quarter on each pound Of pro-
duction to stop manufacturing for a
short season. This means for 10000
spindle mill consuming, say, $4,000
bales Of cotton a year. an expense In
shutting down from $500 to $1,50O a
week, loss for which there can be no
adequate compensation, and when
Jumped with the loss in wages of from
$4,000 to $4,000 a week, makes a for
midable figure to be charged against
the adroit and able manipulators who
have succeeded in making the restrict
ed output imperative.
Multiplying the case of this single
mill by the hundreds Of larger and
smaller ones where work has been sus-
pended, one can get some idea Of what
the cotton speculation means to this
most important industry and the inter-
ests that are intimately and remotely
dependent upon it.-Boston Transcript.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-01

croak out his story Of love. Just as
he reached the point where he was 60
ing to ask the moon to marry him she
hid behind cloud.
When she reappeared he began his
courtship all over again; but, Just as he
got to the point of proposing, away she
went behind another cloud.N Then he
tried q third time and fourth time,
but whenever he was ready to pop the
question" the moon disappeared.
He was a very persistent fellow, how
ever. and at last he was successful in
asking her the very important ques-
ton. He smiled his sweetest and spoke
in his tenderest, most loving tones.
Twill you. oh, will you, dear moon,
will you be-
And before he could say mine" the
moon had disappeared behind hill,
and the poor, foolish frog shed few
frog tears and went home. He is a
bachelor yet If he has waited to marry
the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-01
STATE oFsoUTH oARoLMA,

County OF York.
By w. H. McCorkle, Esquire, Probate
Judge Of York County.
w HEREAS Mrs. EMMA H. BEARD
w has applied to me for letters OF
Administration on all and singular, The
goods and chattels, rights and credits
Of E. B. BEARD, late Of the county
aforesaid deceased:
These are, therefore, to cite and nd
monish all and singular the kindred
and creditors Of the. said deceased. to
be and appear before me at our next
Probate Court for the said county, to
be holden at York Court House on he
STH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1903. at
10 o'clock, m, to shew cause, II any,
why the said Administration should not
be granted.
Given under my hand and seal this
oath day Of August in the year Of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred end
three and in the 12sth year Of Am er-
lean Independence.
w. II. McCORKLE.
Probate Judge Of York COUNTY.
August 25 t 2t
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-01
PHOTOGR APHY Y
rs AN Art

A ND It takes an art st to be pho
1tographer. One who Is not an art
ist doesn't stand much Of chance OF
making a success at photography. ]
have given years Of study to this es-
pecial line and can say with pride
that my work will compare favorably
with that Of any photographer In this
section.
The best and most perfect photo
graphs are the result Of experience
and not experiments. I do all Of my
developing, retouching and finishing,
thereby obtaining the best possible re-
suits.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-01
As Far. AS Prices

Are concerned, you need not worry
yourself along that score. know that
my prices are reasonable and you will
agree with me when I tell you what
they are. am also prepared to devel-
op and print pictures taken with pock-
ct cameras. If you have a Kodak or
Vive or any other camera, and for any
reason you can't develop and print
your pictures, bring them to me at my
gallery on West Liberty street.
J. r. SCHORB.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-01

500 or sentence to thirty days to be
imposed.
The only trouble about the thing is
that what is everybodys business is
nobody's business-August Kohn in
News and Courier.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-01
An ADinal Story For
Little Folks
the
FrOgMakesLove Is. ,s Moon

The frog fell in love with the moon
and made up his mind that he would
ask her to marry him. He put on his
best clothes. and when night came and
the moon rose high in the sky he sat
down beneath a tree and began to