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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-11

factors gold is now on the way here
from Australia, and in the present con-
dition of the European money markets
any emergency here would quickly
start gold imports to this center. The
local money market, therefore, is in
much improved condition Very soon
crop demands will assert themselves;
but the banks are well prepared for
these, and the present outlook is that
no special Inconvenience will be caus-
ed thereby. 1t is quite certain that le-
Ultimate trade will not suffer for want
of proper financial accommodation this
summer or fall, and speculative de-
mands are not likely to be excessive
for some time to come.
Now that liquidation has about run
it's course, interest centers in the flu
ture influences such as crops, general
business, railroad earnings, currency
legislation and political campaigns.
Present conditions indicate that the
crop outcome will be about normal
with continued good prices for the pro-
duce. Livestock raisers are anticipat-
ing a good season. General business
has not as yet been disturbed by the
Wall street furry. Railroad earnings
continue large. In some circles there
seems to be a belief that some rene
dial legislation will be enacted at the
next session of congress. 1t is not
probable that the stock market will be
disturbed by political agitation for
some time to come.
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ion of his supporters that being on
the reform ticket he would repudiate
his former actions by entering hear
by the Independents He was elected
but the wild hopes of some of the
voters who supported him have not
been realized Furthermore in the
time when the city administration
needed strong directing hand in it's
executive office this champion" of the
reformers failed entirely and per-
mitted a crime that will ever remain
a blot on the name of the city Of
Danville.
According to the theory of the in
dependents who elected Beard, he
ought to have been the foremost cham
pion in the fight for law, order and
the preservation of life. According to
the same class of reasoning. when
the angry mob was storming about
the county Jail demanding the life
of man held prisoner under the
law, Whitlock ought to have counted
how many votes he would lose by
adopting the course of action that
would enable him to fulfill the duties
of his office. Partisans were not seen
by the sheriff. Rioters one and all
he saw about the jail and rising to
the necessity of the occasion he put
them down without any hesitation.
The mayor, on the other hand, be-
held prominent and respectable citi-
zens in the throng and went into
another room and sat down." allow
ing the rabble to do their worst.
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PROBLEM OF THE INERRIATEs.

Dubuque Times. = The next gener-
al assembly will have to decide be-
tween proper hospitals for the inebri-
ates or none at all. 1t is agreed that
the insane hopsital is no place for
them. They are not voluntary patients
and if the state takes them it must
treat them as prisoners. 1t has been
proposed that they fit them out with
balls and chains and put to work on
the roads. There are three objections
to this plan. One is. that no man with
friends would be given into the states
care if this were the discipline A Sec
ond is, that few inebriates are fit for
manual labor. A third is that the OBJ
ject of the law is not to punish the in
ebriate but to effect his cure. The
testimony of DR.. Apologize of Mount
Pleasant is that considerable proper
ton of the inebriates sent to the hos
pital can be cured with scientific treat
ment. Prospects favor the erection of
independent hospitals especially de-
signed for the treatment of inebriates.
The state will have the funds on hand
and the pressure will all. be on the
side of continuing its efforts to reclaim
the victims OF dipsomania.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-11
THE IOWA IDEA.

Boston Herald: Governor Cum
minis of Iowa, has written to his
friends in New England expressing
surprise, and possibly little indigna-
ton, that any statement should be
made that he had qualified his views
respecting reciprocity and tariff re-
vision. He asserts that the platform
which was adopted on the first day
of July by the Iowa republicans was
one which he drew up himself, and
that If anyone discovers modifi-
cations in it from previous utterances
such changes are only intended to
make it not too difficult for the re-
publican minority in Iowa to give its
support to progressive action in tar
if matters. In the speech that he
made at the convention, Governor
Cummins frankly admitted that there
were differences of opinion among the
republicans Of Iowa and elsewhere re-
specting the tariff and reciprocity;
but he went on to add that his views
on these subjects had not been has.
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STUDY BOTH KINDS.

Chicago Tribune: When people talk
trade unions they too often think of the
noisy, pestilent unions and not of the
quiet, useful ones.
There is a strike. at the plant of the
Kellogg Switchboard and Supply COM
pany. The strike was unreasonable
in it's inception. 1t has been violent in
it's methods. 1t is now preposterous in
its prolorgation. And we know all
about it. 1t has stared at us from the
front page every morning.
Last month there was strike at the
plants of the manufacturing woodwork.
ers of Chicago. How many Chicagoans
knew any of the details of that strike
at the time? How many of them retain
the tiniest trace of recollection of
those details now? Yet the woodwork,
ers' strike was an important strike.
1t involved four times as many work,
men as the Kellogg strike. And it re-
suited in wage advance. Listen to
the even tenor of it's way.
1t began on July 1. 1t stopped the
wheels of twenty-one factories. It tied
the hands of $500 workmen. The work.
men simply went home. They were in
structed by their business agent to do
no deed of violence. Peaceful picket
ing was proved to be possibility.
Ingress and egress were free to all at
the Woodworking plants. There were
no threats. There were no assaults. 1t
was simply case of which side could
hold its breath the longer.
On July the firms offered the strik-
ers 66 2-3 per cent of their demands.
This offer was refused. The strike
continued. Also the absence of violence
continued.
On July 10 the firms capitulated.
The strikers demands were granted
in full. Another nailwas pounded into
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LET US HAVE LIVE EXHIBITS.

ST. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1t has
been frequently and prominently set
forth as the acknowledged policy of
the st. Louis worlds fair that it's ex-
hibits are used to illustrate the world
of today at work. 1t is to be hoped
that this policy will be carried out in
the exhibits from all countries and all
states. The Missouri worlds fair com.
mission will be in session today and
should do it's part in contributing
toward these live operating exhibits.
1t may not prove possible to carry out
this idea in all industries but it
should be. adopted wherever possible.
The papers have had much to say
of late about the operating exhibits in
mining and metallurgy at the worlds
fair, and this is one industry in which
Missouri can certainly take the lead.
The mining engineers of ST. Louis tell
us that the operations of the lead in
dustry can be shown by series of ex-
hibits Illustrating the processes from
the mine to the finished products in
the form of lead sheets, pipe, shot, etc.
Much also can be done to show the
zinc mining and metallurgy We un.
derstand that a coal seam from 1 to
2 feet thick has been opened up on the
exposition grounds and that in connec-
ton with this, the processes OF min
ing, transporting, washing and coking
OF coal can be shown At another point
on the exposition grounds a splendid
bed of fire clay has been exposed and
in connection with this the great clay
industry of the state of Missouri may
be illustrated by means of operating
exhibits. Everybody in the exposition
grounds will go to see live exhibits
of this kind, whereas the ordinary dead
exhibits of Missouri's ores and miner
ais will interest much smaller num-
Der of people.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-11
ALABAMA AND THE REPUBLI-
CANS.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat - "The
intimation," remarks the Montgomery
Advertiser, "that Senator Beyeridge or
any other speAbinder could carry Ala
bama for President Roosevelt is SO abb
surd as to be almost funny" Our dem
ocratic contemporary Is correct. This
intimation that anybody or anything
could carry Alabama for Roosevelt or
any other republican in this age is ri
diculous enough to be hilariously fun
ny.
But which side is hit harder by this
condition of things, Alabama or the re-
publican party? The democratic ma
jority for governor in Alabama in 1902
was nearly twice as great as the total
vote for the republican candidate. The
majority for Bryan in that state in
1900 was three times as large as the
entire vote which the state gave to
Mckinley. Yet, republicans elect most
of the governors of the forty-five
states. They gave Mckinley an inn
mense majority in the country at large
in 1900. They will give fully as large
a majority to Roosevelt in 1904 and
possibly larger one.
Alabama'S elections count for very
AaebiS CNSh III fhldUduld. Sllt udS liz
weight in the electoral college, in the
senate or in the house of represent
atives. No human being anywhere
in the United States inquiries or cares
what side Alabama is going to take or
has taken on anything. There is no
republican party of any consequence
in Alabama. None has existed there
at any time in the past score of years.
Possibly none may be there in the next
score. There is no need for any re-
publican party there. The republican
party of the country keeps on legis-
lating in favor of Alabama as well as
the other forty-four states and terri
tories. The republican party develops
Alabama's iron and coal resources,
and makes the wheels whirr in it's mills
and factories in spite of the lunacy and
peryersity of its congressman, news
papers and people Our Montgomery
friend, the Advertiser is right. The
thought of carrying Alabama for the
republicans would be uproariously
funny. But what republican in the
United States cares what Alabama
does or fails to do in 1904, or thinks
about Alabama?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-11
HENRY cLEWS ON WALL STREET
SITUATION.

Henry Clews of New York, who is
noted for his conservative views in con-
nection with the developments of Wall
street, does not see any cause for
alarm in the slight furry that has re-
Gently occurred in the New York stock
market. In reviewing the situation for
the past week he says
The crisis in Wall street appears to
have reached its climax, and from now
on Improvement may reasonably be
expected, accompanied, of course, by
the usual set-backs incidental to con
valescence. Experts seem to agree in
diagnosing the ailment which has at
tackled the stock market with such Sc
verify as financial gastritis-the ineyi.
table result of trying to swallow an
immense quantity of indigestible secur-
tiles. Singularly, the attack has been
most severe upon those who took part
in the sumptuous NEAL but fortunate
ly, owing to vigorous constitutions and
heroic applications Of the hydropathic
or liquidation treatment, the disease
did not become sufficiently acute to
develop symptoms of hysteria or panic.
The unhappy patients have suffered Sc
verely by their underwriting commit
ments; nevertheless a valuable lesson
has been learned, and the experience
should have it's value to observers and
all interested
Mr.. Clews sees in the easier rates
for time money Of the last few days
most satisfactory condition. This he
holds demonstrates reviving confidence
on the part of the bankers who are
obliged to anticipate the future. Mel
Their does he see any cause for alarm
in the high figures at which loans con-
tinue. Three factors are given by Mr..
Clews as accounting for the high lev
ell of loans, that are sometimes over
looked:
The large increase of banking capital
in New York, the large amount of rail
road paper outstanding and the in
creased extent to which the big indus
trial establishments under the trust
system now borrow in New York in
stead of near the mills as formerly
A good bank statement is anticipated
this week, partly on account of pay
ment of the Pennsylvania loans and
partly because treasury disbursements
have been exceeding receipts for some
time past. Stock market liquidation
must ALSO have strengthened the banks
much more than has yet appeared in
the weekly statements. Before these
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-11
THE TAX ASSESSMENT.

Notwithstanding the reduction OF
half a mill in the tax assessment fix
ed by the state executive council it is
probable that the amount of taxes
gathered by the 3 mill rate will amount
to as much as was realized in 1901.
This condition Is due to the increase
of valuation this year which reaches
approximately $65,000,000
Throughout their work the members
OF the executive council took as the
basis for their estimates the reports
of the county assessors. Real prop
erty was valued at $1,S64,364, 561. No
change was made in the value OF per-
sonal property, it being given value
of $44S,S65,647, according to the re-
port Of the assessors. Property ex-
empt from taxation amounts to $5TS,-
1924. The actual value of the rail
way properties within the state was
fixed at SPECIALISTS, and the taxable
value at $56,537,297 In considering
the telegraph, telephone, express,
sleeping car equipment and inter-urban
railway properties were valued at S611,-
226,122 and the assessed value fixed
at $2,S06,530. 1t is estimated that the
$637 ,9S5,369 worth of taxable property
will yield approximately S1,911,00 in
revenue.
No attempt was made by the council
to equalize the value of town lots, but
this class of property was assessed at
Is per cent increased value over
1901. On farm lands the rate was in
creased 17.2 per cent than in 1901. An
advance of 10 per cent over last year
was made in the assessment of the
railroads properties.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-11
A WARM BUNCH.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: If there
isn't a serious outbreak of hostilities
at the reunion of tue Southern Iowa
Veterans, and Old Settlers association
at Lovilia this month it will be strange
The following is a partial list of the
speakers who have been secured for
the occasion: "Jere" Sullivan, Judge
Smith MCPHERSON, c. A. Windell, edi-
tor OF the Calling Gun; Col. Lafayette
Young, o. F. Rinehart, the original
Hearst man; Major j. F. Lacey, Col.
Lu T. Genung, Father Hays of Imo--
gene; Sid Foster of Des Monies, and
various others. There's tremendous
lot of potential trouble in that lot and
Lovilia needs to put a safety valve on.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-11

LOOK IN THE GLASS AND SEE.
In view OF the universal interest
shown in the anthracite coal strike
last year the information issued by
the Pennsylvania bureau of Industrial
statistics concerning employment and
wages in that field are of Importance.
that the total amount of wages paid
to the anthracite mine workers, ex-
elusive of Office help, management
and salaried men in the nine coun-
ties, was s53.577,6SS. 1t is also shown
that in the twenty-siX counties COM
prising the bituminous region the to-
tai amount of wages was $50, 190,179.
The report, which relates all kinds
of industries in the common
wealth. compares the condition of
business in 1896 with the present
time. Then there were I'll establish
ments employing 1920 people, while
in 1902 there were 29S,527 persons
employed showing gain of 57.S per
cent. In wages the same general ten
dency to increase has been manifest
ed. From $4S,430,S0S paid in 1896
the wages have been advanced until
in 1902 $9S, 432,570 were paid to work
ing people. a gain of 99.1 per cent.
There was a gain of twenty-three
working days in 1902, so that having
worked more days the laboring man
would receive more wages without an
increased wage. The earnings given
for 1896 amount to s3S2,247, while in
1902 they were $4S2.6S., an advance of
1852 per cent
This is but very small sample
of the article OF prosperity given to
the laboring man through the adop-
ton of republican policies. 1t is these
things that will cause the working
man to stop and think before sup
porting those. policies that mean a
return to the conditions prior to
1896.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-11
POPE Plus X.

Raised TO the highest position in the
gift of the church Giuseppe Sarto was
yesterday nam ed as the successor to
the late Pope Leo XIII, after almost
four days continuous session of the
conclave of cardinals. He will be
known as Pope Plus X. Thus ends one
of the most important conclayes ever
held by the Catholic cardinals and one
in which the public interest was, if
possible, more general than ever be-
fore held.
The conclave was important, pri-
marily because it became the duty of
the cardinals to elect successor of
one of the greatest pontiffs who ever
occupied the papal chair. 1t was of
greater Importance than any preceding
conclaye because of the fact that the
Catholic church is greater today than
ever before in it's history, touching as
it does, by its influence, the people in
every part of the globe.
AS TO the wisdom of the selection the
developments of the years to come
alone will tell. Judging, however, by
the present indications, it appears that
the selection should be entirely salts
factory, especially TO those who desire
a continuation of the policies of the
late Pope Leo XIII.
Sarto was created cardinal at the
consistory held by Pope Leo in 1893
Shortly thereafter he was made patri-
arch Of Venice, one Of the highest hon
ors that can be given to any one of the
cardinals.
Never taking a very active part in
the political and public life of the
church, he has devoted a greater part
of his time to study and good works,
and might rightly be called an exem-
plary churchman He is exceedingly
popular in his diocese and is highly
honored for his purity and strict up
rightness in life He is modest and
highly cultivated man, still strong and
robust, and well qualified to fill the ex-
acting duties of his high office.
Sarto was always held in high es-.
TEEN by the late Pope Leo and it is
probable that he became imbued with
ssc ideas of the great pontiff and was
as conversant with his plans as any
of the congregation of cardinals AS
Z it mourned the death of his illustrious
predecessor, the Christian world
greets Plus x, and joins in wishing
him success in directing the affairs of
the church and in accomplishing its ad.
yancement.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-11
LET RESULTS DETERMINE.

In an article on Alaska as an In.
vestment," the Chicago Inter Ocean,
after showing the fallacy of the pre-.
dictions made by anti-expansionists at
the time of the purchase by the re.
ports of the prosperity of that coun.
try makes the following significant
comment:
Alaska has paid for itself many
times over. 1t is doing so now al.
most every year. 1t has more than
justified the expectations of Mr.
Seward. How sagacious today ap.
pears his policy in comparison with
the puny wisdom of the anti-expansion
congressman"
At the time the bill was introduced
in congress by General B. F. Butler
to pay Russia consideration of ST.,
100000 for Alaska, there were many
criticisms offered to the measure by
men of prominence. Congressman
Ferriss of New York declared "Alas
ka with the Aleutian islands is an
inhospitable, wretched and God-for.
saken place, worth nothing, but pos
,itive injury and incumbrance as a
colony in the United States"
Hiram Price, member of the
house of representatives from Iowa
said: alaska is dead loss to us
anyway and the more expense we
incur the worse it is for the coun.
try"
This was in 1857. That year the
United States paid Russia $1,000, 900
for Alaska, at the rate of 2 cents per
acre. In 1902 the Alaskan salmon
catch reached that amount. Since
the discovery of gold in the Klondike
and the establishment of a govern
ment assay Office at Seattle, a period
of five years, the total receipts of
gold dust and bullion from that re-
gion has averaged $14,000,000 annual.
ly. Last year S1S,S70,075 worth of
gold was brought from the northern
possessions and in 1901 the ship.
ments Of the precious metal to the
United States reached the sum of
$14,675. 675-making for the two
years $33 ,545,7 $50, sum more than
four times as great as the purchase
price of the territory. In addition to
this the receipts from the fisheries.
from 1868 to 1897 amounted to $685.
0,800, while the fur trade for the
twenty years after 1870 reached a
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-11
UNIQUE CHARACTER IN PIONEER
HISTORY.

Mrs. Jane Burke, better known in
the western country as Calamity
jane who passed away Sunday in
Deadwood, South Dakota, occupied a
unique position in the history of the
early days of the west. Starting for
the west when a young girl
she soon became enamored
with the exciting life of the prairies
and later during the days Of the In
dian campaigns took an active part as
an aid to General Custer and General
Miles. AS a government mail carrier
she also had many thrilling adventures
and her exploits and experiences have
been recalled by the announcement OF
her death.
She was born in Princeton, Mo-, in
1852, her maiden name being Canary
With her father when she was Is years
old she started for the Montana gold
fields, and at the end of five months
overland trip the little girl had become
good shot and good rider. When
her parents died she was adopted by
some plainsmen and grew UP in Wy
oming.
1t was in 1870 that her first work for
the government was done. General
Custer was at Fort Russell, Wyo., on
his way to fight the Apaches in Ari-
IONA. She went to the fort, donned
cowboys clothes and offered her SER
vices as a scout. General Custer ac-
cepted her believing her to be a man
and she was uniformed and enlisted as
a soldier.
The deception was soon found out
but not before Jane had convinced
Custer of the value of her knowledge
of the plains. She went through many
hard fights and shared all the hard
ships of the soldiers. In the cam
paign made by Custer and Miles in
1872 she got the name of Calamity
james from an officer who had been,
wounded on an Indian amDuscade and
whom she bore back to camp ON her
horse in front Of her.
In 1876 when Custer started on his
march to the Big Horn, she was en-
ployed to carry dispatches. On one oc-
casion she swan the Platte river with
dispatches but afterward took pneu-
monia and was furloughed. She was
still on furlough when Custer set ont
for the scene of his last battle.
For several years she was govern.
ment mail carrier between Deadwood
and Custer, Mont, one OF the worst
routes in the west She was SO expert
a shot that few men ever dared mo-
lest her She was member of the
posse which captured Jack Mccall, a
famous desperate in Deadwood, the
woman, so the story goes. cornering
Mccall in a butcher store
In 1878 after short service with the
Seventh cavalry she bought ranch
and retired. She afterward married
and had one daughter
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A PICTURE OF IOWA.

Boston Herald: Here is a picture
painted by one of Iowa's prominent
agriculturists: 81 believe that the ag-
gregate value of the farm products of
Iowa this year will be greater than
ever before. The hay crop is immense,
and the timothy fairly hides the horses
as they drag the mowers through the
fields. The pastures have been rich
and abundant, and the live stock is
rolling in fat" This is but another
way OF describing it as "a land flowing
with milk and honey