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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-12
TO BUILD A CANAL
Company Formed at Keosauqua
and Incorporated.
HAS BEEN CAPITALIZED At $4,000
Purpose of Canal Is to Furnish Power
for Operation of Power Plants-Will
Cut off Big Peninsula North of keo-
sauqua.

Keosauqua, March 10.-Articles OF
Incorporation OF the Electric Power Co.
have been recently filed in the office OF
the county recorder at this place, with
Captain w. A. Duckworth, president,
S. w. Manning, treasurer; E. l.. Nc
Cold secretary.
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All Sorts of Horse Flesh
{ soaks down THROUGH the muscles.
Cures the hurts of anutlsinq that w;


iusifes
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Charlton.

SH8I1lOH, hdTCu ll.-MlSS DAISY
Grail returned home last evening from
a visit with friends in 0ttumwa.
Den Chapel Of Oakley was a bust
ness caller in the city Tuesday.
w j. Burgatt of Oakley visited
il the city yesterday with A. c. Rel
bel.
Samuel Neptune, one of the pro-
gressive farmers of Benton township,
was in the city yesterday.
Dr. Davidson departed yesterday
morning on business trip to Hol--
bridge, Neb.
Mrs Sutton returned home yester--
Russell.
Miss Ella Mart returned yesterday
from two weeks visit with her moth.
er near Melrose.
Attorney Steve Hickman made a
business trip to Corydon Tuesday.
Mrs. S. B. Ralston returned home
last evening from visit with rela--
tives at Abba.
Rev. w. e. Stephenson returned last
evening from Siboney Oklahoma
where he has been residing for the
past year. He is on the way to Cos.
port for visit with his son, who con.
tinues to be quite sick.
MessrsL Levi Willie of Pleasant town
ship and Chas Nelson, left last even
ing for Des Moines, where they We're
in attendance at cattle sale today
Mr.. Willie will go on to Ames before
returning home.
o. H James of Oakley was bust
ness caller in the city yesterday.
Eugene Aumick left last evening on
business trip to Oskaloosa.
q. c. Lewis of Russell was in the
city yesterday on business.
John Reed came up from Ottumwa
yesterday and will have work for
awhile.
Mrs. Bert Wayland arrived the first
of the week from Fremont, Neb, fol
visit with relatives and friends.
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Eddyville. March 11.-Grays Creek
of the West Side closed last Friday
with an exhibition. The following is
the program:
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Two things needed in laneness.


and then the
Three Sizes 25c. = every where
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-12

Mustang Lini1nent because it healed their
hurts and cured the ills of their domestic ami
mails What MEXICAN MUSTANG IMMINENT did
for mankind and brute kind 60 years ago it
does to-day. 1t has always cured and always
will cure any and everything that good,
honest liui1nent can cure.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-23

Foster Sends synopsis of the Alaska Boun-

Foster Sends Synopsis of the Alaska Boun.
dary Award.
Washington, D. C.-Secretary Of
State Hay received a telegram from
former Secretary of State John w.
Foster. the agent of the United States
before the Alaska Boundary Tribunal
in London. containing a synopsis of
the boundary award. The tribunal
grants practically all the contentious
of the United States. and the outcome
must be regarded as a signal victory
for this country.
The valuable P0rcupine River gold
fields are to remain in American terri
tory. Great Britain does not get ac-
cess to the sea by way of any of the
so-called canals or estuaries which arc
nearest to the Klondike and the other
British mineral region in the vicinity
of the Yukon. One Of the most import
mt features of the award is that tho
boundary line of the strip or lisiere Of
Alaskan territory which separates the
British Northwest from the Pacific is
so placed as to include White and Chill
k0ot passes within American iurisdic-
tion. The British Government, under
the modus vivendi for a provisional
boundary arranged in 1899, maintained
custom houses at these passes. which
are north Of Duryea and Skagway
at the head of Lynn Canal. The dis
pute over what was the Stikine River
boundary was settled by adherence to
the present modus vivendi line on the
Stikine.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-23
The Fountain Of Youth.

Like pretty much everything else.
this matter q Dhaving children has two
sides to it. As a great many children
are failures and as children are the
joint product Of heredity and environ
ment, both elements preponderantly
under parental control, it would seem
more sensible to say that there were
too many people undertaking parental
responsibilities instead of too few. And.
further, parentalhood has many cares
and sorrows and e~xasperations. Still,
when all is said, how many persons
who found themselves childless at
forty-fye have been able honestly to
congratulate themselves?
Children have a use as an assurance
against restitution and loneliness in
old age. They are satisfactory to the
vanity for family Immortality. But
more than these and all other advan-
tages is the advantage of ~prolonging
ones life. Growing children will keep
any proper man or woman young in
spirit and in mind, will retard the de.
velopment Of that SOU yet complacent
cynicism which curses old age both for
ones self and for those about one.
The man or the Woman-again, the
right sort of man or woman-who has
children drinks every day a deep
draught at the fountain of eternal
youth.-Saturday Evening Post.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-23
VICTORY OURS
Formal Decree Gives United States
Disputed Territory
fHE CANADIANS ARE REScNTFUL

Lower Alaskan Gold Fields belong to
United states-Canada Gets Ono Water
way -Dyea. skaeway, ChiIkoot and
Whole Juneau Territory Under the
Stars and Stripes.
London--Alaskan boundary tribu-
naps official decision Just made public.
grants main contentious Of the United
States. gives this country two strategic
islands in the entrance of the Portland
Canal. which latter goes partly to Can
ada. The Canadian commissioners re-
to sign the decision, and the pub
Tie meeting was abandoned. The Cam
adams. in a formal statement. charge
that their country's rights have been
sacrificed.
aware gives the United States two ISL
ands. Kannaghrnat and Sitklan, COM
mand1ng the entrance of the Portland
channel and the ocean passage to Port
Simpson. This destroys the strategic
value OF Wales and Pearse islands,
which are given to Canada.
AS u1OuAldlu lille topped as tile
boundary lies 50 far from the coast as
to give the United States substantial
~ all the territory in dispute.
The line completely clears all the
bays and inlets and means Of access
to the sea. giving fhe United States a
complete land barrier between Canada
and the sea-. from the Portland. Canal
to Mount St Elias.
Around the head of the LYNN Canal
the line follows the watershed, some
what III accordance with the provision
al boundary established by the modus
vivendi.
The Canadians feel very sore over
the outcome. They almost openly aos
rinse Lord Alverstone of partisanship.
When the latter presented them to
Yin ward, at buckingham Palace,
iesty vainly endeavored to
indnceS Messrs. .Jette and Ayles-
worth TO say they were satisfied or
that they accented the situation. But
the two Canadians declined to express
in any way acquiescence with this
view. They simply shook hands for
mally and bowed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-23
THE HORSE AND THE AUTO.
acap'n Titus" Makes a Suggestion
That May Be Of Value.

sCap'n Titus" Makes a Suggestion
That May BE Of Value.
Last week, one o. the summe folks
he'd n O. them new-fangled land
steambuts come down. Utermoble,
they call her, and want tn tell ye
she's q slick one Gosh er mighty,
how she can go! But I'm afeard we
shall hev trouble until the bosses IN
tom get used tn it. Bill Ganzy was
,omin' up from the neck the other
day with q load o. milk, and when
thet land steambut went by him his
old boss. thet amt gone Eastern a
walk in ten years, / guess, SHE'D out
o the road and into a fence. Spit
All the milk and raised ruchshuns
round there fer a few minutes. The
owner OF the utermobile was all right,
though; he paid Bill fer all o. the
milk and somethin' handsome be-
Iides tn, I hearn. It was SO much,
anyway, thet Bill said he'd be comm
up the same road next mornin' with
another load O. milk, and he was
kinder hopin' he'd meet the utter
mobile and hev his milk cart upset
agin. Beats all how e~verlastin'
graspin' some people is. They tell
me thet all bosses is 'fraid on EN-
or less at fust and can't seem
tn do nothin' tn prevent 1t. Ezra
Huckins says he b'lieves that IL they
g 2 pictur painted on each side O
the utermobile o. a nice pile o. red
apples, q few ears O. yaller corn, and
q nosebag or few o. oats, thet, instead
o shyin' the bosses would come right
up tn il. It might not work o. course,
but maybe it's wurth tryin'.-"Cap'n
Titus" in Outing.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-23

The adoption by England of a rife
with a barrel twenty-five inches in
length, which will be equally well
adapted to infantry and cavalry, has
given rise to the expected number of
bitter criticisms, all the more bitter as
the mechanism of the rife is still a Sc
cret. 1t has also given rise to a gen.
eral discussion which contains some
curious suggestions. One is that the
main body of troops should be armed
with a short rifle, but that a picked
body of men should be provided with
a weapon embodying all the latest
results of scientific ballistics and capa-
bic of firing with great accuracy up
TO 5000 Or 1000 yards. The weapon
should have a barrel five or six feet
long and a bore of at least forty-five
calibre. It should have wind gauges.
and telescope sights, and a small tri-
pod on which to rest it. There would
be two men to each such rife.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-23
TROOPS LEAVE CUBA
The Last United States Garrison
Eyacuates the Island
Departure of the Americans Made . For
NAL Affair-Rcview by President Pal
ma-His Tribute to Ii Country.

Havana, Cuba.-Tlle two companies
Of American artillery which occupied
Santa Clara and the Ne. 5 batteries
here boarded the United States trans
port Fitzpatrick for the return home.
The program as previously arranged
BY Major Brown, commanding the
troops in Cuba, and the Secretary Of
Government was carried out. A conf
pany OF Cuban artillery, consisting OF
ninety men and 100 mounted rural
guards, headed by the municipal band,
paraded on the Punta at / p. m. Tween.
ty minutes later the Americans APP
peared marching up the avenue of the
Republic from Vedado, Major Brown
at the head of the troops, who marched
in platoOns and ported arms wien
passing the Cubans, the latter present
Ing arms. The Americans continued
around the outer loop Of the small park
Of the Punta, the Cubans taking the
inner loop. The Cuban band and artil-
lery then took the lead, followed by
the American soldiers, with the rural
guards coming last.
President Palma and his wife, the
nAOMOCAo VI tuC OdDlu0t, Oull6u Stdl6S
Minister Squiers and Miss Squiers re-
viewed the troops. AS each company
passed It ported arms, paused and then
marched to the Caballeiria wharf,
where the Americans lined up inside
the wharf railing and presented arms,
he Cubans marching by with port
arms.
The Americans then boarded launches
M were transferred to the Fitzpatrick.
Probably 1000 persons were assembled
at the Punta and 1000 more at the pal
ace. The Americans were not greeted
with much cheering.
1t was expected that President Pal
ma would make a short address to the
troops, but he explained that all he
wished was to see them before they
went. He said he wished them and
their country prosperity wherever they
might go. The departure of the trans
port vas delayed by the work of get
ting stores aboard. Instructions for
the final delivery Of the batteries to the
Cubans were not received prior to the
departure of the American troops.
President Palma granted pardons to
three American soldiers who were UNI
dergoing short terms Of imprisonment
in order that they might accompany
their companions on their homeward
journey.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-23

and the thousands seated about the
hall rose and faced their leader. He
stood before them bareheaded, his
hand uplifted; then his voice doomed
out generously: zs;aA 1..iss
"Peace be to thee"
.Peace to thee be multiplied" came
the response In one. voice.
Dowie mounted to the box over the
orders that the crowd be divided. He
scolded them as II they were q lot Of
school children. and divided them up
into sections so that the roll call could
be read. He ordered the band to play
and went around restoring order
among the throng Of Zionists. aPeace
be unto thee" was the greeting he
gave to all, although the scene at the
Garden was anything but peaceful
for a while, the host talking and maxi
ing a great noise.
"Elijah H." in the flesh is a roly-
poly little man, about five feet i've
inches in height and OF aldermanic
girth. His shrewd black eyes are
arched with black brows. but lis
heavy. square cut beard is white. The
top Of his head is bald, but behindjhis
ears the uncut locks hang over his jcof-
lar. His nose is straight but thipu
sharply pointed. and projecting 9
tip. an inquisitive, prying He,
retains the Scotch burr In his speech.
and occasionally relapses In broad
Scotch.
His followers are the sort Of people
one might expect. For the most part
they are persons who are glad to have
some one in authority to do their
thinking for them. As a body they
are neatly and comfortably clad, clean
~ in their person, and exceedingly
well behaved. They r not weak nor
vicious nor trampish. They are sincere
in their belief in Dowie. His power
over them was shown when he first ar
rived at the Garden and began to
straighten out the tangle. His au-
thority is complete and unquestioned.
An incident of the arrival of the
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-23
HARD TO BEAR.

street, in that city, says:
with my nightly rest broken. owing
to irregularities of the kidneys. suffer.
ing intensely from severe pains in the
small Of my back and through the kid.
neys and annoyed by painful passages
Of abnormal secretions, life was anv.
thing but pleasant for me. No amount
Of d~octoring relieved this condition. and
for the reason that nothing seemed to
give me even temporary relief / be-
came about discouraged. One dav T
noticed in the newspapers the case Of
a man who was afflicted as I was and
was cured by the use of Doan's Kid
ney Pills. His words Of praise for this
remedy were SO sincere that on the
strength of his statement / went to
the Hugh Murrey Drug Co.'s store and
got q box. I found that the medicine
was exactly as powerful a kidney rem.
edy as represented. l experienced
quick and lasting relief. Doan's Kid
ney Pills will prove a blessing to all
sufferers from kidney disorders who
will give them a fair trial."
A FREE TRIAL Of this great kidney
medicine. which cured Mr.. Walls. will
be mailed to any part Of the United
States on application. Address Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale
by all druggists. price so cen per box.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-23
The Blind in India.

It is a strange and startling fact
that, according to the latest available
figures, the proportion of the blind to
the sighted in India is one in every 600,
SO that, allowing for the usual native
reluctance to enter into bodily defects
in the census reports, it shows that
more than a half million people in that
country are deprived of sight.
Diseases of the organs of sight have
for ages been a peculiar feature of
Eastern lands. Among the causes are
the continual glare Of the sun, the
p~reYa3ant d2stinass ofn the air, the lack
Of cleanliness ano~kne care Of the eyes
of the young. 1t is a common sight to
see the eyes of babies one mass Of flies
and dirt. which the ignorant, careless
mother is too Indifferent to drive away.
This peculiar Oriental afliction has
long engaged the attention Of philan-
thropists in India, and several socie-
ties are turning their endeavors to the
mitigation of the evil, as well as to
providing books for the blind, and
make more adequate provision for their
needs In every way.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-23
Heating Water by Sun Power.

Solar heat is being utilized for heat
ing water for various household pur-
poses. The apparatus for this purpose
is absurdly simple, merely a sectional
boiler Of thin blackened copper, ex-
posed on the sunny side Of the roof
under a glass very like a hot
house frame, and suitably piped for
supply and demand.
An hours exposure to full sunlight
raises the water to a temperature from
thirty degrees to sixty degrees Fahren-
heit above that of the air, and as the
heaters actually in S contain from
forty to 120 gallons, according to size,
there is an ample supply of hot water
through the hours Of daylight. Solar
water heaters of this kind have been
installed on the roofs Of many houses
in Southern districts. They work adj
mira6ly, - even hf-less favorable
places have been found useful.-Cas-
sier's Magazine.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-23
A Canary That Talks.

A Blackburn mar has a remarkable
canary which never sings, but can
"talk" as fiuently and distinctly as
any parrot. 1t reels off quite artic-
ulately sentence after sentence. such
a "Pretty Polly dressed in green,
coming home to see the queen" "Pol-
ly's sick; run for the doctor. quick"
"What do you want here?" These are
only a few samples of the linguistic
attachments of this wonderful little
bird, which is certainly the feathered
marvel of the age, and is believed to
be the only authentic instance of a
talking canary known.-Chicago Jour-
mol
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-23

into Madison Square Garden through
out the forenoon. Many of the men
wore the uniform OF the Zion Guards,
and nearly all of tie women wore over
their shoulders a sash Of blue, white
and yellow.
Dowie was driven in one Of his two
private carriages, which were sent on
ahead, to the Plaza Hotel, where he
has two magnificent suites, and later
was driven to Madison Square Garden.
The rank and file rode, in street car
to Madison Square Garden, and re-
ported, and then hustled around the
neighborhood for something to eat
after their long railroad journey. After
eating they started out to find the
cheap theatrical boarding houses and
furnished room places where they will
live during their stay in the city.
Each one of the enthusiastic follow
ers Of the modern prophet will have to
pay at the rate of fourteen cents a
meal. The arrangements provide for
an actual expense Of about twelve and
a half cents for service and breakage,
which is deemed a small estimate. No
attempt will be made'to derive a profit
from the feeding Of the multitude.
When Dowie reached the Garden
about II o'clock 5000 of the host were
awaiting his arrival.
Scattered around the entrance to the
Garden were the Zion Guards, wearing
black uniform, with black peaked cap.
On the cap just above tie peak was a
gilt dove, and under it the word braid
ed in gilt letters, Patience" In the
belt that they wore was a holster
which held a Bible. The Bible is used
by the men and women as a sword,
and at the command, present arms"
the Bibles are withdrawn from the
wearers' belts and thrust forward with
the leaves open.
Conspicuous also was the Zion Band,
numbering thirty-eight members,
dressed in a bright green uniform. On
their hats was printed "Zion City
Band"
There vas a seemingly inextricable
confusion in the Garden. Light bag
gage Of all sorts was piled about the
floor, carpenters were hammering,
babies crying, and there was q endless
babble of conversation. One heard
on every hand the Zion salutation,
"Peace to thee" Into this clamor IN
tered Dowie. His following fell back,
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-23
D0W|E HOST IN new YORK
Elijah Il. Begins His Crusade to
degenerate the Metropolis.
FOLLOWERS NUMBERABOUT 1000

The Crusader Says That He Has Conc to
Now York in His Prophetical Capacity
Merely, and Wishes Only to DO Good
His Plan of Observation-Disclosures
Of h Leader and His People.
New York C%ity.-John Alexander
Dowie, general overseer Of the Church
of Zion, who claims to be Elijah H.,
and the commander of the ReSt0ra-
ton Host, which is to reform wicked
New York in two weeks, and gather
into the Zion fold all the erring of this
city, and incidentally confiscate ten
per cent. of their wages for the sacred
uses of John Alexander Dowie, arrived
at the hour appointed at the Grand
Central Station in the palatial private
palace car Acadine.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Dowie
and attended by a large personal staff
of deacons, officers of the Zion Guard,
press agents, managers, and collectors.
The rank and file Of the invading
army Of reformation and collection ar
rived at about the same time in day
coaches over various roads, and entered
the city at points from the Battery to
West Twenty-third street.
Eight special trains from Zion City,
ILL.,, arrived over the various railroads
with 1000 Of the host. In squads and
sections the men and women streamed
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-23
"Host" was the loss of a $500 dia-
mond and pearl brooch by. Mrs. Elijah
Dowie. It Vas a
leaving the private car in which the
DoWie party travelled.


Dowie has done many wonderful
things. though nothing he has yet at
tempted is SO ~stupendous as his self
set task of converting the greatest city
of the New World in two weeks.
Born in Scotland and graduated
from a divinity school, he failed to
achieve more than mediocre success as
a minister of the Gospel. He went to
Australia and there formulated and
first preached his doctrine Of divine
healing on which his Christian Catho.
lie Church is based. He was ridiculed
and mobbed and imprisoned. With less
than a hundred dollars he then left
for America.
Inspiration or foresight took him to
Chicago just before the Worlds Fair.
In a rude tabernacle Of boards he
launched his faith-cure creed. The
newspapers attacked him and he
fought them, gaining ~notoriety and
much free advertising. He bought
land and built a city, called Zion. He
established industries that attracted
workers to his church and paid big
dividends.
To-day he boasts that he is worth
YSosoVN,OoU, Aol CsClytullS Ia L1Ou OAly
and even the city itself is In his name.
That is the man who has come to
New York. He will live at the Plaza
Hotel and drive behind his own high
stepping horses.
Three or four times a day great pub
lie mass meetings are to be held in the
city's greatest auditorium. Here Dowie
himself will try to convert those who,
from curiosity or other motives, are
drawn to attend. Outside the four
thousand of the faithful Of the RE
storation Host" will try to drive the
people into the meetings. The city
has been divided into districts, and to
each of these certain workers will be
assigned. They will VISIT every house
and urge every person to come ana
hear their leader and master.
The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-23
TWENTlETH VICTIM A MANIAC.
Engineer Was Powerless to Stop Short Of
Determined Suicide.

Engineer Was Powerless to Stop Sbort Of
Determined Suicide.
Auburn. Pa.-Still laughing like a
mailman as the locomotive bore down
upon him, George Hahn, Of Milton. a
middle-aged man, deliberately knelt be-
fore a passenger train on the Reading
Railway here and awaited his death.
He was ground to pieces before the
engineer, who saw the act, could stop
the train.
In the pocket Of Hams clothing were
a ticket from Allentown to Lewisburg
and a slip Of paper, upon which was
written: Goodbye all; forgive every
one. | am crazy" Also q brief note
addressed Mother" which related to
a check. His body was forwarded to
the Morgue of the county.
This was the twentieth fatality in
which Engineer Sharp, Of this train,
had figured.