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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
GENERAL cusrER's WIDOW.

Washington Post: Mrs. Elizabeth
Custer, the widow of General George
A. Custer, was in Washington recently
and met a number of her old friends,
some of whom served in the old Sew
enth Cavalry, which Custer, as lieu
tenant colonel, commanded. Mrs. Gus.
ter was here trying to befriend some
men who were friends of her husband,
one an old sergeant who was out of
employment She is still decidedly
young looking woman, and without
knowing her exact age, one must con-
slider that she was old enough to marry
during the civil war AS a matter of
fact, Custer on leave in the winter
of 1868, met his future wife in Michi-
gan In February, 1864, they were
married. She came to Washington
with him. and accompanied him to the
front, when she went through the great
campaign of that year. Custer was
then brigadier general of volunteers,
having received that grade when he
was only % years old. He was brevet-
ted major general, but in the regu-
lar army he was never more than a
lieutenant colonel Had he lived he
would still be on the active list. with a
lieutenant generals commission in
sight as soon as Miles retires.
Among those whom Mrs Custer met
were General Weston, now commits
sary general Weston served under
Custer in the Seventh Cavalry, and has
many pleasing recollections of him.
His generous praise of his old COM
mander and the many touching anec-
dotes told more than once brought
tears to the eyes Of the widow, who
cherishes the gallant soldiers mem
|ory as fondly as if he had died but yes
terday
1--WE were going across the Staked
plains one day." said General Weston.
II was a first lieutenant in command
of Mike Sheridan's troop. Yates was
commanding another troop He died
with Custer in the last battle. Yates
and thought we would branch out a
bit and avoid some of the dust that the
head of the column was making. We
had not gone far, keeping parallel with
the regiment when Clusters adjutant
came over with an order to close up,
which we did. That night, in response
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
CONDITIONS OF LABOR.

The combined report of the secre-
tary and treasurer and reports from all
over the state submitted to the con-
yention of the Iowa Federation OF La
Dor which was held In Davenport last
week show a phenomenal prosperity
OF. labor and a universal contentment
s with wage conditions. Labor i'll Iowa
was reported well employed, and at
good wages, and the convention had
no complaint to make on this score
and no recommendations to make
toward concerted action to force IN
creased pay along the whole line OF
employment.
Had this same convention met at
any time between 1893 and 1897 the
reports would have been different.
There was so much idleness then that
reports on the conditions OF labor at
that time must have been gloomy recit-
ais Of unemployed men and women
who could find little if anything to do
to earn mere livelihood. The late
convention reported that since 1897
an average increase of 10 per cent had
been given wage earners. But this is
not all by any means. All laboring
people If they wish it can find employ
ment.
While these conventions of laborlng
people do not permit politics to enter,
the members know what party econo-
mics brought about the change that
made labor so well paid and content
ed. The community OF interest that
exists in Iowa between capital and
labor is different from what it was
during the four gloomy years mention
ed, and the broad principal is recogniz-
ed mat each is necessary to the pros
aperity OF the other. Idle capital and
idle labor are non-productive. Both
are busy in Iowa, and it is to be hoped
this may continue indefinitely.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
CLEVELAND IN 1894.

In the spring and summer OF 1894
there was a bitter fight in congress
over financial measures. The lower
house at that time had democratic
majority, but that majority and Gro
yer Cleveland were at outs and he
could not get his ideas incorporated
into law. The agitation of the demo.
cratic party and the hard times which
followed the enactment of the Wilson
German tariff law turned the majority
thai year in favor of the republicans.
This was two years before the Chi
caso convention. Bryan at that time
had not advanced very far as stu
dent of silver, but he knew that to par.
amount tariff In 1886 would be hazard.
Gus. and he tried TO trick the Ameri-
can people with his free silver heresy.
1t will be remembered that Cleveland
stood boldly for free trade. and de-
nounced men like German, Murphy.
Mcpherson, Brice and other senators
who insisted that the Wilson bill
involved so great an onslaught on
the protective industries of the coun.
try, and subsequent events have con.
firmed their views.
a Washington writer says that Mr..
Cleyeland's position on the tariff was
beyond all question the cause for the
extraordinary landslide in the cleo
lions in that year, as a result of which
the republicans were given a majority
in the house of representatives larger
than had ever been known before. At
this time the financial question
was not an issue at ALL There
was a panic as the result of
the threatened fEaa- trade and both
the democrats and republicans with
long memories declare that upon the
nomination of Grover Cleveland. aside
from the third term issue, the COM
mercial interests of the country at
once would take alarm and Mr.. Roose-
welt would be elected ON a.straight
protective issue by an enormous ma
jority.
Grover Cleveland has not changed
his views in the least from what they
were on the tariff nine years ago.
Were he elected president and given
the power, he would wipe out our pres
ent protective tariff laws, even though
every industry were driven into bank
ruptcy To what extreme any other
democrat would go is not known, but
we all know what Mr.. Cleveland did.
But to be on the safe side it is the
part of wisdom to let well enough
alone. Keep the present administra-
ton in power.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
MONEY IN CIRCULATION.

In 1896 W. j. Bryan scarcely ever
made a speech withot asking the
question. Whoever sees any gold ?''
This question had it's effect with some
people who did not stop to think that
while there was no small dollar of gold
i'll the country at the time, it was not
In circulation because the average man
prefers handling paper money to gold.
Why does not Mr.. Bryan ask at this
time the same question? The treasury
department reports that over $1,000
100000 in gold and gold certificates is
in circulation in the United States and
yet the coin itself does not SO often
enter into commercial transactions. pa
per currency being handler and pre-.
ferred by the people. Last year $780,
100000 was added to our gold circula-
ton. so that to be exact, according to
the treasury report, the total is now
$1,0O4, 769,9l9. OF this amount S23.132.-
400 is in coin and $31S.631, 459 in gold
certificates.
According to an official report our
total circulation is $2,347 ,353S2O, so
that gold represents practically half of
our circulating medium at the present
time. 1T is also worthy of remarking
that our total circulation in 1896 was
only Sl,540,007 0S2, so that our medium
OF exchange has been increased during
the last seven years by the enormous
sum OF 1884, 346,64S.
But with all this vast amount in cir.
culation there are monetary stringen-
cies at times. The efforts now being
made to remodel our financial laws
may result in something to remedy this
trouble. No doubt something will be
done at the next session of congress
along the line OF expansive currency.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
Deserves Recognition.

Cedar Rapids Republican,: Miss Floy
Gilmore. who went toathe Philippines
as a stenographer, has been made as
slstant attorney general of the islands.
She has had no influences at work for
her except her own industry and skill.
Evidently it is the intention of the
government to give the women a
chance in the new possessions. The
women are entitled to the recognition.
because the work of the women school
teachers has been second only to that
of the troops.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
WHERE SERMONS ARE FUTILE.

New York World: The Rev. Robert
Morris Kemp has been warning the
Daughters of the Revolution against
the marriage of our fair young WON
en- with impecunious and often mis-
called noblemen practice which he
considers ''disloyal to the blood of our
forefathers."
Excellent doctrine, but what does
Mr.. Kemp expect to accomplish by it?
The thing he condemns is a fashion,
and when was a feminine fashion ever
disturbed by preaching against it?
st. Paul was a preacher at least as
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
Busy Cities.

Keokuk Gate City: There were eight
hold-ups in Alton Tuesday night, six
R REgggta aaaa If i've Eiahirs aun "Wednesday
nigkt-conducted on the same general
line and differing only in minor details.
1t is quite possible that all the raids
were made by the same parties and
that similar operations will be re-
ported in the near future from neigh
boring cities and towns.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
Feels Secure.

Burlington Gazette: We upon the
great Mississippi are out of range of
foreign aggression. The Arkansas is
down below ST. Louis and cannot go
either way, but will be able to keep
down a foreign foe from getting up
this high. The Iowa idea is safe from
foreign interference.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
Free Game,

The Bancroft Register, reviewing
the present epidemic of strikes, says:
st is business suicide to decry the
labor unions, but the trusts are free
game for everybody to shoot at; and
yet, on sober thought, which of the
two combine evils presents the most
serious menace to the country's con
tinued prosperity"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
Slug Heads Scarce.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: President
Roosevelt's western visit is not a daily
front page, slug head feature in the
newspapers of the country any more.
Even the strenuous President can't
prevent the advent of monotony in a
sixty day tour.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
Mutual Nerve.

Des Moines Capital: The people of
New Mexico had the nerve to bonn
bard the President with an appeal for
statehood, and the President had the
nerve to tell them that statehood would
come whenever they were qualified to
receive it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
Blessed Are speechmakers.

NO man who cannot make a good
speech of the Cummins type need
ever hereafter aspire to the governor
ship of this state" says the Rockford
Register. Blessed are the speech
makers, for they shall wear purple
and fine linen and ride in the parlor
section of a Pullman car every day.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
The Work Cure.

It is proposed that the work cure
be tried on. the inebriates, and the
burlington Hawk-Eye it's certain effect
would be to cause sudden seuspen--
sion OF drinking among a large class
OF fellows who now indulge too freely
Work to them, declares the Hawk
Eye, lis the worst possible punish.
ment"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
Working for Nothing.

A newspaper fight at Charles City
has resulted in one of the papers
agreeing to do the city printing for
nothing, and the Manchester Press
says the incident is a pat illustration
of how big fool a newspaper man
can make of himself when he sets out
to do the job"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
Unfair Strikers.

Sioux City Journal: The Chicago
laundry workers refuse to arbitrate un-
less the arbitration board may be nam
ed by the workers and the right of the
employers to use non-union labor be
denied in advance. In other words, the
Chicago laundry workers don't want
to arbitrate.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
The siIly Season.

+ The first thing that suggests itself
to the Creston Gazette in connection
with the proposal of a Des Moines
preacher that marriage be regulated
by the commission plan is that the
silly season is opening this spring ear
lier than usual"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
What Cato Thinks.

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil sug-
gests that some one ask Cato Sells
what he thinks of the Cleveland boom,
not that Catos opinion would be i'm
portant, but because it would be inter-
esting.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
Conscience is Needed.

The Carroll Herald is convinced that
if marriage We're entered into with
more conscience and care there would
not be so much to complain about re-
garding divorce
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
Saline Solution.

Sioux City Journal: The missing
Parker boom has been located down
in Tennessee, where John w. Gaines
seems to have been successful in adj
ministering saline solution.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
A MeIlowina influence.

Rockford Register: When country
editor refers to caller as zone of the
salt of the earth" and "a leading citi.
zen" it is pretty safe to guess that a
dollar was paid on subscription.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
Hard to Digest.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: "a dozen
college youths smothered in girls"
says news dispatch from st. Paul.
What awful fits of feminine indigestion
must have followed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
An overdone Business,

The Rock Rapids Review thinks the
strike business is being overdone, and
it fears that the general Sympathy for
unions and unionism engendered dur
ing the coal strike will be turned into
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
Two Extremes.

eve hope there isn't day of reck-
oning coming for the American labor
ing man." says the Vinton Eagle. 1T
seems to be impossible for him to get
hours short enough or wages high
enough"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
Would Be Busy.

The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that il Iowa politicians were ever going
to do one-fourth of the things that are
ascribed to them by newspapers they
would be busy set of men.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
The Limit.

An Omaha judge has enjoined a
woman from talking to her neighbors.
The limit will be reached when wom-
an can be enjoined from talking about
her neighbors.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21
Where There Are No Rights.

1t is the observation of the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil that when strike is
on everybody seems to have rights but
non-union working man.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-21

disgust if strikes for some of the non
sensical reasons lately advanced con-
tinue.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-06-19
Help Arrives.

Cooler heads started the rescue
work at once, pulling bodies from the
wrecked houses and helping others
from the heaps of mud and debris. 1t
was sleepless night in Heppner.
Work with lanterns progressed stead
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-06-19
BRITISH COLUMBIA.

The Rossland-Kootenai company has
placed several men at the Great West
ern mine at Rossland.
Kootenai lake. B. c., was visited re-
Gently by one Of the worst windstorms
ever experienced by the oldest inhab-
liant. Little damage was done but
three small vacant cottages on the
beach were blown to sea and went to
pieces before they could be rescued.
The smelter returns for the last car
OF Providence, near Greenwood, ore
gives net weight of 41,678 pounds,
and the value, after the customary
percentage deductions by the smelter,
$4,907.46, or net value of about 1896
per ton, less freight and treatment
charges. The gold value was sos
ounces per ton and the silver about
$50 ounces.
Luther Wagner, mining engineer
of San Francisco, arrived in Spokane
and has been examining quicksilver
property located in the Kamloops, and
according to the report of Mr.. Wag-
oner, the outlook is very promising.
The owners Of the quicksilver mine
have spent several thousand dollars
in development work and have con.
siderable nice looking ore in sight.
Late last fall the placer claYm Wild
Duck, owned by Peterson Bros, locat-
ed about two miles northwest of Erie,
B. c., on the north fork of the Salmon
river, was sold to Spokane men for
$4,000. They now intend putting in q
hydraulic plant to work the property.
They have already completed a fine
clubhouse, cookhouse and Office on
the property and will have the plant
in operation at the earliest possible
date.
Paul Johnson, e. M, has returned
to Greenwood from Chicago, where he
met B. D. Brown, New York capital
list in the Brown Alaska company,
which will develop mining and smelt-
ing enterprise at Prince of Wales isl
and, Alaska. Mr.. Johnson will next
month proceed to the island to erect
a smelter ready for operation by Janu-
airy l.. 1t will be built on somewhat
similar lines to the one Mr.. johnson
built at Greenwood Tor the British Co.
lumbia Copper company, commencing
with a single furnace with a daily
treatment capacity of between 400 and
500 tons. He will likely plan smaller
smelter, to be built at Standpoint,
Idaho, before starting for Alaska. 90
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-06-19
Thunder Mountain. District.

much capital has become invested
in Thunder Mountain and this, to.
gether with the Immense amount OF
assessment work that will be carried
on, insures most prosperous season
for that district" said G. ]. Murray,
who spent the winter i'll the camp and
recently arrived in Spokane from
there.
'"The principal work has been done
on the Dewey, the Fairview and the
Sunnyside. On the Dewey a lower
tunnel has been driven $50 feet. The
ledge is 76 feet wide and the ore that
has been milled averages $40.
"The Belle of Thunder Mountain
company has been working both the
Sunnyside and the Burr Oak claims
all winter. There is the same vein
on these properties and the AZ feet Of
ore that has been exposed will mill
$37. Three feet Of the ledge assays
$215. The plates and a cyanide plant
will save all Of the values.
"The Fairview has done about as
much development work as either of
the other mines.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-06-19
Report on Railway,

Washington, June 1.-THE inter
state commerce commission has pre-
pared a summary Of its report on the
railroads Of the United States for the
fiscal year which closed June 30, 1902.
It shows that the total single track
mileage on June 80 in the United
States was 202,471 miles, having in
creased during the year 1894 miles.
This increase was greater than for any
year since 1890. The states and terri
tories for which an increase in mile
age in excess Of 100 miles is shown as
follows:
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-06-19
Killed by Blast.

Kalispell, Mont, June 17.-Word has
been received that Resident Engineer
Graft at Whitefish Lake was totally
blown to pieces while examining a
blast in the construction work. In COM
pany with his foreman he stopped to
witness the blast the men had put in
at noon. and after one blast went of
he declared both had gone, while his
foreman said only one had gone off.
and warned him to keep away. He per-
sisted that both had been exploded,
and when he arrived at the spot an ex-
plosion occurred and he was blown
into the air 200 feet.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-06-19
MINING NOTES,

There are from two to three carloads
of ore in the Black Tail mine at Re
public, broken down and ready for
shipment, which will be held until the
returns for me last shipment come to
nand.
The foundations for the new Garrett
son smelter Of the Pittsburg- Montana
Copper Mining company will shortly
be put in place at Butte. A large
force is finishing the excavating. Con-
siderable machinery for the new plant
has already arrived. The works will
employ about 700 men.
The so stamp mill and cyanide plant
located on the Broadway mine at Sill
yer Star, Montana, was totally de-
stroyed by fire recently. The estimat-
ed loss is $4,000 partly covered by in
surance. The mill and mine have been
idle for some time and fire is undoubt-
eddy the work of an incendiary.
An important adjunct to the extern
sive mining machinery of Butte is to
be installed by Senator w. A. Clark in
his Original nine in the shape of
modern air compressor, built ON what
is called the Two unit plan. The con-
tract is said to be one of the largest of
it's kind to be awarded in Butte. for
some time. by means of pipes all of
the mines belonging to Senator Clark
will be furnished with air.
James Downing and Michael Collins,
two miners in the Sinbad mine, at
Butte, Mont, were compelled to wade
knee deep in scalding water, through
the breaking Of the exhaust pipe in q
pump recently. The men were in a
drift at the time Of the accident. Dense
clouds of steam followed the breaking
of the machinery and nearly suffocated
the miners. Both are severely burned
Recent developments in Buffalo
Hump, Idaho, where the gold mines
are coming forward at surprisingly
rapid pace. have centered attention of
mining men on that district, and
bumpers feel that this season will be
the liveliest they have known. The
Jumbo is taking rank as one of the big
gold mines Of Idaho. and the Cracker
jack and the Wise Boy are also show
ing up surprisingly well.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-06-19
Prominent Women Dead.

Chicago, June 16.--Mrs. Lettie Ma
son Quine, president of the Women's
Foreign Missionary society of the
Methodist church, died at her home
here. Mrs. Quine was known in re-
ligious circles throughout the coun-
try and was one Of the most influential
women in that society.