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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-10
Rev. Jameson's Letter.

Maybe some people in crowded OF
sstuInwa would like to read few items
from this part of North Dakota where
the houses are half mile apart. We
. took advantage of the home seekers
excursion and started this way the
eighteenth.
We had no trouble in finding the
home We We're seeking, for the owner
of it met us at the station with fast
horse, and we were soon at farm
house breakfast table mile and
half from town. AS to the weather we
found oyercoat and shawl comfort
Ehle for our morning ride.
Although the farm houses are
sbout half mile apart on the aver
agc the land is all occupied and pref
IT. thoroughly cultivated. The crops
8ris nearly all cut except the flax.
) This is the season for stacking or for
threshing from the field There are
no loafers in these parts. At least,
there were none till we came. Work
goes on as long as one can see.
Rise Early and Work Late.
AS we sat at the supper table l no
ticed that the clock struck 8. and the
man of the house still had five cows
to milk and sixty hogs to feed. He
I. was up next morning at S O'Clock.
4 walked to the village, mile and
q half, and the only moving thing l
& saw on the road was reaper and bind
err with the team that drew it and the
driver. 1t is only very rarely that any
\ one passes along the road.
s A Scarcity of Grain.
"Grain for feed was about exhausted
D on this farm, and so we went with
couple of loads of sheaves from the
, field to threshing machine some two
!amiles away and soon came back with
over a hundred bushels of oats. That
$4,000 machine was well worth watch
ing as it did it's work. 1t shot the
grain out of a spout by half bushels
automatically weighed, as fast as three
4 active men could catch it in bags, tie
! 1t UP and set it aside. | was told that
4 ordinarily no hand touches the grain
4 after the sheaves are pitched into the
Z separator The grain is received in
tight wagon boxes that are so made as
to be easily tilted by machinery at the
station and emptied into the elevator.
Artesian Water Used.
( Scarcity of water is one great disad-
vantage here. The wells often go dry,
sand the cisterns are exhausted. Artes-
dan wells are very expensive for indi.
yititial farmers. When / suggested pip
ding from neighboring well two miles
away, / was told that the pipes would
need to be seven or eight feet beneath
sthe surface, for in this country where
no snow falls to speak of Jack Frost
docs very deep work.
May Visit Red River.
Some years the roads are bare and
Smooth from fall to spring and one
can ride over them on wheel as on
q floor all winter.
81 sfEleven miles east is the Red river
,of the north, whose waters reach the
Atlantic through Hudson's bay. If we
get our stocking done and if other
work will permit,we may see the river
some day this week"
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WANTED-MEN DESIRING SITUATIONS
as motormen to address Lewis Brown.
Supt., Sullivan. Indiana. Enclose 25
cents for application blank, examination
and contract No labor trouble No ex-
perience necessary.
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WANTED.

WANTED = BLACKSMITH, GENERAL
all around man. must be a No. sheer
in all its branches, sober, good wages,
steady job ut once. ]. Long, Kirkwood,
Illinois.
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John Clark of Lamont was killed by
thA kick of a horse.
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FOR SALE-HAvE ALL KINDS OF
ranches for sale; large or small; already
stocked up with cattle and horses, or
without. and with plenty of free water
to irrigates with. SCENE of these large
ranches could be settled by Il colony and
divided up to an advantage. Henry Ting
ley 4 Son. Salmon, idaho.
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| HAVE BARGAINS no OFFER YOU IF
you will only come and see me. ! think
l can prove my statement. If I cannot
prove to you that i have bargains, 1t
will cost you nothing while you are with
me. also have some good farms which
p can take some good trade on. o. NJ.
Wyckoff, Real Estate Batavia, Iowa.
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TWO FINE FARMS FOR SALE-ONLY
three miles from city of Faribault Rice
county, Minnesota, easy terms; write for
bault, MINI.
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WANTED-YoUNG MAN IL YEARS OF
age or older. for position in this city.
Must have fair common school education.
Excellent opportunity for boy who wants
to work up. Address H. NJ, care Courier.
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FARM LANDSI

If you are looking for home or an
investment, do not forget that the best
farm lands in the northwest are along
the line of The Minneapolis & st.
Louis r. r. where crop failures are
unknown. Good soil, good climate,
good people there. Farm values are
rising rapidly and the time to buy is
NOW.
Low excursion rates from points on
the Iowa Central and Minneapolis G.
st. Louis Railroads, if you wish to in.
vestigate. For particulars address,
A. B. QUITS.
e. p. A., la. Cent. and M. G. st. L. R. r.
Minneapolis. MINI.
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FOR sALE--12o ACRE FARM IN WAYNE
county, Illinois, 40 acres in meadow and
eight acres in timber, lays well. Would
sell 10 or 80 acres and take part trade.
Address A. Moore. Garrison, Illinois.
tumwa Tuesday at 8 p. m.
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FOR sALE-TEN FINE YORKSHIRE
male pigs. Also some fine young sows
Il. NJ. Phelps, Hedrick, r. r. No /, Iowa.
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FOR SALE-s0 ACRES NEAR SUMNER.
Best soil and no waste land, in cultiva-
ton; moderate improvements; $40 per
hood. Write. Owner, Box B, Kiron, Iowa.
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CORNELL & HULL
Abstracts of Title.
Summers Building. ottunwa, Ia
FOR SALE.

So ~VN- -
so acres of good land in Morgan county,
Missouri, seven miles from county seat.
four room house. well, orchard, barn, ETC.
snap at S25 per acre.
66-acre farm six miles from Ottumwa,
one of the very best farms which we know
of. Splendid improvements. and fine young
orchard. Price so per acre.
Tip top farm of 200 acres near Blakes-
burg, new eight room house. good barn and
other improvements, land all in cultivation.
Price $40 per acre.
332 acres Of fine corn land in Galloway
county, Missouri, now rented for $3 per
acre, two miles from good railroad town,
close to Mexico. Price $50 per acre
We have some splendid farms in Arkan-
sas that will make you $50 per acre. within
three years. and on which you can raise
anything and, you can buy them now at
prices of from SO to so per acre.
NORTON & SMITH.
First National Bank Building.
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALEM SOUTHEASTERN IOWA
200 farms in Jefferson, Keokuk, Wapello
and Mahaska count bis, farms ranging
from so to 800 acres. Send for descrip-
tion list or call on c. L. Dean, Hedrick,
Iowa.
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WANTED AT oNcE-FTRsT CLASS
broom maker Address G. b. Wright,
Charlton, Iowa.
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FOR sALE--FARM OF 200 ACRES; 80
acres valley land in cultivation, balance
In timber; three-rooIn residence, near a
school and railroad station; 95 miles from
st. Louis; fruit and living water; price
$1,000. half cash, balance on time. Adj
dress the owner, Thomas Lockhart, Knob
View, Crawford county, Mo.
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-A GOOD CLEAN STOCK OF
harness and furniture and undertaking
goods in good, live town. Address Box
lo4, McCallsburg, Iowa.
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FOR SALE-64O ACRE FARM AND
ranch, plenty of good water, fair improve
ments, $40 per acre if sold at once, part
time. part cash. Address, o. c. Kippen-
brock, Highmore, South Dakota.
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FOR SALE-MINNESoTA, WISCONSIN
and Dakota farms, wild or improved, Sc
to $40. Easy terms. Write Twin City
business Agency, G65 Temple Court, Min
neapolis, MINI.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

personal.


ALFRED F. Goss of San Francisco has
appealed to the courts to demonstrate
the fact that he is a genuine forty
miner and therefore entitled to member
ship in the Pioneers Association of the
state. The society disputes his right to
place in the ranks of the old settlers
and despite the fact that Goss is a mil
lionaire has refused him admittance.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, who recently
won a fiercely contested parliamentary
election ON his old platform of temper
ance, is known as England's grand old
man of temperance" He is 70 years old
and devoted forty years of his life to
the championship of temperance. Sir
Wilfrid has been prominent in every
parliamentary crisis for a quarter of
century, and it is said that there is
little doubt that had he not identified
himself with the cause of temperance
he would have been many times a min
lister. AS it is he has never been a
member of a cabinet, He has fought
with and against Disrael, PaImerston,
Bright and Gladstone.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

1t is impossible from the accounts of
the Kishineff riot which have been
published to decide what the cause of
it was. One account says that the,
Vice of Kishineff read from
the pulpit in a Christian Church on
Easter Sunday a proclamation to the
effect that the Car had ordered the
Jews in Kishineff to be killed and
robbed. Another account says that
peasants entertained a bitter feel
ing against Jews, because the former
were greatly in debt to the latter. Still
another account states that while the
Gar knew nothing about the purpose
to attack the Jews the Russian govern
ment knew all about it and approved
it, going so far as to order the Governor
of Kishineff not to interfere to prevent
the attack. 1t is said that the govern
ment had political purpose to gain.
the purpose being to check revolution
airy movements. 1t is declared that the
Jews furnish some of the shrewdest
and most persistent of the enemies of
the government.
Doubtless in the course of a few
weeks the matter will be so far I'M
tangled as to enable the sincere inquir-
er to discover the truth. In the mean
time it is worthy of notice that it Is
claimed for the Russian government
that it checked the riot the moment it
heard of it, and that it had no part
whatever in bringing it about. The
IN,
point says: I'm quarters whence in
season and out of season are promul-
gated ISLANDERS of the Russian people
and government come insinuations that
the riot was winked at, If not encour-
aged, in high quarters. Nothing could
be more cruelty venomous and false"
| 1t is certainly to be hoped that it
will turn out that the charge that the
| government winked at the riot is false.
! 1t would have a tendency to lessen
faith in Christian human nature If
there were foundation for the report.
1t will be recalled that in his state
ment to the New Haven chapter of the
B'nai Birth last Sunday, the national
! president of that organization uttered
a warning against accepting the report
that the Russian government was re-
sponsible for or encouraged the riot.
The fact must not be overlooked that
of the estimated 100000 Jews in the
world fully 100000 live in Russia, and
that very large percentage of them
occupy responsible positions in the So
cial fabric. 1t is hardly reasonable to
suppose therefore that the government
would sanction an attack upon the
Jews. 1t is certainly to be hoped that
it didn't for the sake of the Jewish
population of Russia. for the sake Of
humanity and Christian civilization.
But if it didn't it should hasten to let
the world know the truth. 1t should
show that it was not responsible for
the riot and was not in position to
prevent 1t.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21
A Sprintinw Citizen.
From Golfers Weekly.

OATS a drowsy sorter feelin' what s
a-stealin' roun' de place
Wen de daisies in de medder feel de
sunshine in dey face;
En- never makes no answer wen de
Trees say. "Howdy-do, =
I nachully too lazy fer ter tell 'em,
Same ter you!"
Work away fer money,
Shady days. en- sunny,
But I'm a-waitin' on he bees
What STORM up de honey
Mister Mockin'bird. a-singin' in de tin
top er de tree,
'bleege ter lisen ter you, kaze you
singin' right to me!
But / tells you plain en- simple. Whar
de coolin' shadders creep,
You singin' me ter sleep, suh-you sing
in me ter sleep!
Work away fer money,
Shady days en- sunny,
But medders makes de milk fer
me,
En- bees-dey makes de honey!
1 hear de fieP-han's calm 'crost de
hilltops en- de dells,
En- de tnkle, tinkle, unkle er de fur
En- dey pears to be a-sayin' sYou
must SOW. ef you would reap.'-
But all de worr IL singin'--des a-sine-
In me ter sleep!
Work away fer money.
Shady days en- sunny.
but I'm a-waitin' on de bees
What STORM lup, de honey
Frank l.. stanton.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21
WATER SUPPLY AND INSURANCE
RATES.


1t looks as if it were about to be
brought home to the insurance COM
panies doing business in this city that
there is no excuse for their action in
charging the present high insurance
rates on the ground that the water
supply is unsatisfactory This matter
of high insurance rates based upon an
unsatisfactory water supply was
brought to the attention of the Mayor
by the Chamber of Commerce. The
Mayor replied in a letter and showed
that there was no foundation for
complaint of the water supply, that
there was not an insufficiency of wa
ter-that, in fact, there was an ample
water supply at the time of fires. He
asked for the appointment of a COM
mittee to examine into the matter, and
the Chamber of Commerce complied
with his request.
We have no doubt that the facts are
as set forth by the Mayor in his let
ter. We have not heard a complaint
of a lack of water at any fire in re-
cent years. The firemen have had all
they wanted. as far as we are inform
ed If there had been a lack of water
at fire the fact would certainly have
been brought to the attention of the
public.
If there is city in the country out
of which the insurance companies have
been getting big profits during the last
FIVE years that city is Savan-
nah. 1t has been a long time since
there has been fire here that
caused heavy loss to the insurance
companies. There have been a number
of fires of minor Importance, and they
have been as a rule handled with judg-
ment If therefore Savannah is paying
excessive rates of insurance on the
ground that there is an insufficient
supply of water steps ought to be taken
at once to have the rates revised. And
We have no doubt that that course will
be taken. The insurance companies
will be called upon to show that they
have a good reason for the very high
rates of which property owners COM
plain. According to the Mayors letter
they will not be able to do It,
1t may be true that the pressure
is not sufficient at all times of the day
to lift water to the third floor of some
Of the business houses and dwellings,
but that can be accounted for easily
A sufficient pressure is not maintained
to lift 1t that high. That is a matter
entirely apart from the question of
the sufficiency of the supply.
If the water is to be had then it is
simply a question of the cost of rails
ing it few feet higher-of maintain
ing a stronger pressure. The city may
be economizing a little, or it may be
of the opinion that a vast amount of
water is being wasted. The impressions
gained from the Mayors remarks about
water meters is that, in his opinion,
there is a vast amount of waste. We
should not be surprised if that opinion
were correct.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21
RurIeaOn,n Dream.

Just had a dream about you,
Champ" said Congressman Burleson of
Texas, as he ran across Congressman
Clark of Missouri, says the Baltimore
Herald.
WAS it good one?" asked Clark.
Pretty good" admitted the Texan.
''You were dead"
Dead" exclaimed the Missouri edi-
tor, and then added wistfully, WAS
in heaven?"
"Yes-for a time" said the comfort
ing Burleson. You see, it was this
way" he added. You go to heaven
all right, but it was kind of strange
like and lonesome. You ran across a
man who had a round-trip ticket, and
you got it-of course. l don't know
how. Then you went to st. Peter and
asked him If you couldn't take little
run down to hades and see some of
your friends. He replied that as you
had been pretty good-as good as a
Missourian could be-he supposed he'd
have to let you go.
well, when you got down there the
first thing you ran into was a card
game: Have a chair?' asked Robert
son of Louisiana, who seemed to be
dealer.
Nope: sorry, but haven't got any
money you answered.
You went around shaking hands
with everyone. and finally ten or fifteen
minutes later drifted back into the
neighborhood of Robertson.
'''Give me $40 worth of chips you
said, drawing up a chair, John Allen
and Weston Gains making room for
you.
" I thought you said you didn't have
any money!? remarked Robertson.
"'Oh | didn't them you answered,
as you pulled a little pile of red and
blue boys toward you, but l sold my
return check to Henry Gibson of Ten
nesSee.'
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21
-
BRIGHT BITS.

Young Dorothy-"Oh, mamma!
Look at my DOLL Why, it is stuffed
with breakfast food. Life.
There ought to be some good
shooting around here!" Yes, and
there's some darned bad shootin. ]
lost two cows last week!"-Puck.
Have you decided on a name for
the baby yet, Tanksley?" Yes: we've
named her for my new automobile"
"What?" Fact We call her Case
lena."-Chicago Tribune.
Strange" said he to his partner
during the waltz, IT remember when ]
was about sixteen, l solemnly prom
Used my Sunday-school teacher that ]
would never learn to dance" And
yet they say" she replied, that a boy
at that age can never make a promise
and stick to t."-Philadelphia Press.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

If conditions are good, the three
candidates for the honor of defending
the Americas Cup, the Reliance, the
Constitution and the Columbia, will
meet in their first trial race to-day,
Each of the boats is said to be in per-
feet condition, hence an exciting brush
is likely to result. Mr.. Iselin, the
managing owner Of the Reliance, is by
no means certain that the new boat
will be selected as the defender. She
has shown speed. of course, but any
boat can do that when sailing alone;
it is when sailing in competition with
other craft that her real ability OF
lack of it becomes apparent. The race
to-day will enable the experts to rget
a line" on the capabilities of the new
boat.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21
CURRENT COMMENT.

The New York Evening Post Qnd)
says: I'VE do not think it possible for
any party to put the gold standard in
doubt or jeopardy but there are other
phases of the money question upon
which divisions of opinion are possible
in both parties, and as to these it may
be assumed that Mr.. Bryan and Mr.
CleYeland would be at opposite poles"
The Philadelphia Record Oem.)
says: "a revision of tax rates is as
necessary in the regulation of the rev.
enue of the government as a revision
Of market prices in the conduct of bus
mess. There is no administrative pol
icy quite so urgently needed at this
time as a Topping off of the unjust tar
iff advantages which enable banded
Monopolists to plumber the people at
will by adding arbitrarily to the cost
of the necessaries of life"
The Chicago Chronicle Dem.) says:
when we consider that there is $780,
O00, 900 involved in the Panama canal
route concession we may dismiss as abb
surd the talk that Colombian legisla-
tors will reject the American PROPOSE
ton. Unless Colombian statemen are
entirely different from our own their
nostrils are acutely sensitive to the
fragrant odor of frying pork. and il is
obvious that $4,000, 900 will furnish
much sausage, spare ribs and chitter-
lings"
The Albany IN. " Argus CDem.)
says: There was an attempt to con-
vince the country that Gov. Cummins
had converted the President to the
Iowa idea about the tariff. but Secre-
tary shaw an Iowa man without an
Iowa Idea, says oh. Gov Cummins
has slid down the pole II H. safe TO
bet your bottom dollar that there will
be no genuine tarif reform In the
compromise plank which the re-
sourceful senator Allison Is drafting"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

His majesty, the Sultan of Turkey,
it seems, reads the society columns of
the New York newspapers and remem-
bers the names of the members of the
-Four Hundred. Mrs. Ogden Goelet of
New York is cruising in Eastern wa
ters in her private yacht. Desiring to
visit Constantinople, she headed her
craft for that city. But at the OAR
danelles she was stopped by Turkish
war vessel and informed that she could
not proceed further because of the
treaty stipulation that no vessel carry
ing guns could pass through the strait.
The guns on Mrs. Goelet's yacht are
little brass pieces used for saluting and
signaling and are unsuited for any
other purpose but to the Turkish cap
tain they We're guns, and that was
enough. The lady appealed to the
American minister. After sixty
hours the Turkish officer informed Mrs.
Goelet that she was at liberty to pro-
coed. Upon her arrival at the capital
she was met by a personal representa-
tive of the Sultan, who expressed his
masters regrets. The Sultan sent word
that he knew Mrs. Goelet. even if his
commander at the straits did not. AS
a further assurance of his distinguish
ed consideration the Sultan conferred
on her the grand Gordon of the Nichau-
'I-Chefakat, a Turkish decoration for
women
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21
lNDEX ~ NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Lodge No. l, F.
& A. NJ.
Special Notices-Try Our Regular
Meals, Geo. C. Schwarz: Ship Notice,
Williamson & Rauers; Notice to
Water Takers, /. U. Kinsey. Superin-
tendent.
Business Notices-Good Bicycle
Tonic. G. w. Thomas; Vartray Ginger
Ale. A. M. & C. w. West; The Chances
Are We Have 1t, r. Van Keuren &
Co.
Cool and Comfortable-B. H. Levy &
Bro.
The Mathushek Piano-Ludden &
Bates s. NJ. H.
Baseball Goods-At Lattimore's.
Peterman's Roach Food-At Rowlin-
skis.
The Perfected American Watch
The waltham.
ads-Reduction to New York
and Eastern Cities, Seaboard Air Line.
Yes, There Are Many Ways of
Saving-Savannah Investment Co.
Evaporated Cream-The Delmonico
Co.
Silverware-The Gorham Company.
Foods-Force; Grape-Nuts; Postum
Food Coffee.
Beer-Schlitz Brewing Co.
Medical-Pinkham; Duffy's Pure
Malt Whisky; Peruna; Wine of Car
dui; Hyomei.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted, For
Rent, For Sale, Lost, Personal, Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-21

Postmaster General Payne finds him
self on the defensive and is kept busy
trying to explain away ugly charges
against his department. The public
will not be satisfied with that sort of
thing, however. Enough has been
brought to light to show that there has
been crookedness and grating in the
postal service, and to indicate that
some of the "grafters" were persons in
high places and politicians of influence.
At every turn one butts into the name
Of one of these politicians, a leader who
was more or less closely Identified with
the gang that looted the Cuban posts
and who Is said 70 have been PERSONAL
~ responsible for Nicely. The Wash
ington correspondent Of the Philadel-
phia Ledger, by the way. sends his pa
per this interesting statement: From
remarks made by Postmaster General
Payne, II seems that there is dispo-
fition In the Postofiice Department to
place the responsibility for the abuses
Of the payroll Of the Washington city
pohtoiilee On the former postmaster,
M "iiiett. who died three years ago"
- o. 81 course, safe 10 throw II on on
asao man. who cannot defend him
ssiL