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Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-06
Anv Old Dav.
Life.

81 want to be married in springtime,"
She said. In her youthful days;
"Or else in he golden summers
For winter have no praise.
Or, perhaps, a little later,
In the mellow days of fall!'
But now she'd be glad to get married.
Well, any old time at ALL"
philadelphia Bulletin.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-06
Heroes.

Here's to the man behind the gun
His toll is nobly spent,
But the man who has to hustle, son,
Is the mar behind his rent.
-Washington Star.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-06
Quick Action.

Huggins-I understand it was a case OF
love at sight with Ardupp.
Muggins-Yes. He loved her the min
ute he got a glimpse of her fathers check
book.-Chicago Daily News.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-06
cLEANLY WOMAN.
Enormously Thinks by Securing heE
scoIp THAT she Cures Dnndruff.

Clearly woman has an erroneous ldea
that nv securing the scalp, which re-
moves the dandruff scales, she is curing
the dandruffI She may wash her scalp
every day, and yet have dandrun her
life long, accompanied by falling halr,
too. The only way in the world to cure
dandriIff is to kill the dandrun germ,
and there is no hair preparation that VIII
do that but Newbro's Herpicide. Herpl'
eide by killing the germ,
leaves the hair free tt grow as healthy
Nature intended. Destroy the
yo,, remove the effect. Kill the dan
druff germ with Herpicide. Sold by
leading druggists. Send Zoe. in stamps
for sample to The Herpicide Co., De-
troit. Mich.
% A.. SEXTON, Special Agent.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-06
The Passing of tha Rore

The Bore-Hod de do? he, he, he! I
passed your house yesterday.
Acquaintance-That was really too
awfully kind of you.-Ally Sloper.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-06
Too Much Ealn

Il wonder why she failed to keep her
engagement a secret?"
Guess she had to ask assistance."-
St Louis Republic.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-06

The men who have made the largest
fortunes in busindss are those WHO
have been the moA extensive advert
kiseraa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
IS not FOR HEARST
CONGRESSMAN M. J. WADE RE
FUSES TO DECLARE HIS Pc.
sITIoN.
Lonely Iowa Democratic Representa-
tive Says This State Should Be
Modest About Expressing a Prefer
ence.

Davenport, Jan. T. Congressman
Martin J. Wade of Iowa City, who en-
joys the distinction of being the only
democratic congressman from Iowa,
in an interview in this city denies the
report that he is pledged to w. R.
Heartst as a presidential candidate.
Il have not expressed myself in fav-
or of any particular candidate" said
Congressman Wade: II have said that
the sentiment here in Iowa had not
crystalized and that the names men
toned were those of German, Parker,
Hearst as a presidential candidate.
Iowa Should be Modest.
"The truth is that it seems to me
that we democrats here in Iowa ought
to be little modest in trying to ere.
ate sentiment for presidential candi
dates. With a republican plurality
of 10000 to $4,000 to overcome, it is
almost too much to expect that Iowa
will give any electoral votes to the
next democratic candidate for presi
dent and it seems to me that We
ought to allow the states from which
the electoral votes will come, first give
expression to their preference for q
candidate.
'The general sentiment among the
democrats in congress is that SO far as
the republican states in the west are
concerned they ought to send a goot
representative body of men to the con
vention, and that they should go un
instructed. I had a talk with Sena
tor Jones on the train coming from
Washington and he expressed himself
as believing that this would be a sen
sible thing to do"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

cordance with the ordinance of the city
| had you not? A. Yes, sir.
O. believe the Fuller Construction
company had the contract for the cree
| ton of the building, had they? A. Yes
| sir.
@. Had you, or have you yet, rath-
er, accepted the building from that
company as being completed? A. Well
| / can't say that any, final arrangement
has been made with them.
U. Did they also have the contract
for the skylights over the stage? A. /
could not say.
@. Did they have the contract for
the ventilators which were over the
stage and also the one over the audi
torium? A. could not say to that.
@. Have you a personal knowledge
as to the location of the appliances
for opening and closing those venti-
lators? A. No sir.
@. Did you ever personally give any
instructions to the ushers employed
there as to what they should do in
case of fire? A. My instructions were
all given to the superintendent of the
auditorium, who had charge of the
ushers.
@. Mr.. Dusenberry? A. Mr.. Dusen-
berry.
@. Did you ever give any such in
structions to any of the stage car
penters or employees on the stage. A.
never talked with anybody but the
master carpenter.
@. The theatre was opened on the
23d day of November 1903. believe. Is
that correct? A. Yes, sir.
@. What was the total amount of
insurance you had on that building,
Mr., Davis? A. | think 100000. l
would not be positive.
@, That included the building and
furnishings, l suppose. A. Yes, sir.
Mr.. Rothmann-Q. Do you remem-
Der what rate you got from the insur-
ance company? A. do not, but it is
an easy matter to determine.
Mr.. Fulkerson-Q. Was that build
ing what is commonly known in the
building profession. in the building
trades, as a fire-proof building? A.That
was our instructions, that it should be
a fire-proof building.
@. Instructions to whom, your ar
chitect? A. The architect and builder.
@. And the builders? Had you a fin,
al certificate Of inspection from the
building department of the city at the
time the theatre was opened? A. /. do
not know.
@. Were the two skyiights over the
stage opened or closed at the time the
fire occurred? A. I have no personal
knowledge.
@. Did you give any orders subse
quent to the fire totopen up those sky.
lights? A. No, sir.
Q. Have you any personal knowl
edge as to the position or condition OF
the ventilators in the building at the
time of the fire? A. No, sir.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

According to the finding, the origin
of the fire is definitely fixed in the air
shaft in committee room No. S. H.
Frazee, the electrical worker, yester-
day admitted that he had entered the
shaft with lighted candle.
There was no evidence to show that
he had been seen to leave the candle
in the shaft, and Frazee, who admitted
taking the candle, said he removed it,
but explained he put the candle on
the ledge while he was getting out.
This was regarded by the council as
impossible. Frazee is a medium sized
man and the opening is small. 1t must
have been tight squeeze for him to
get in and out of the window. The
members of the council, Governor Cum.
minis, Secretary of State Martin, Audi
tor Carroll and State Treasurer Gil
bertson failed to see how this was
possible.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

on the capitol will have on other APP
propriations, but it will probably result
in all OF them being cut down.
Soldiers Monument.
1t is probable that bill will be in
troduced this session to provide for the
erection OF monument to the Iowa
soldiers who were confined in the An
dersonvllle prison. Iowa has been
slow in providing monuments to its
soldiers on southern battle fields, and
now that all these are provided for,
there is a movement on foot to rec
ognize the hardships of those who
We're confined in the southern prisons.
1t is not known how extensive an ap-
preparation will be asked for, but it
probably will not be in excess of $10,-
600 or $4,000. Leon Brown.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
RESPONSIBILITY FOR
FIRE AT CAPITOL

"We have made careful investiga-
ton respecting the origin of the fire
which occurred in the capitol building
Monday, January 4, 1904, and have ex-
amined under oath all the persons who
know anything about the subject, so
far as we can discover.
eve believe that the fire originated
in the air shaft in Room No. 5 at or
near the opening into the room; and
that it eame from candle left in the
shaft BY n. Frazee, an electrical work
er.
at is DE to Mr.. Frazee to say that
he claimstshat he removed the candle
from the Shaft before leaving it,"
Des Monies, Jan. Tin the forego-
ing decision, rendered last evening,
the executive, council formulated its
finding in tha investigation into the
origin and responsibility OF the fire in
the state capitoh
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
Real Estate Transfers.

Real estate transfers furnished by
Lowenberg & Co.. real estate agents.
107 South Court street.
Jas. L. Mccormick and wife to D. c..
Huff, part west half southwest quar-
ter, section 18; also northeast quarter
northwest quarter, section 19-7-14,
$1,975 and exchange.
Annie E. Baker to Fred l.. Eaton,
part lot 81, H. I. Baker addition, OF
tumwa, $40.
Annie f. Baker to Ed Delapp, lot 102
and parcel of ground adjoining it in
A. E. Hammond second addition, OF
tumwa, 500.
Mary A. Ostdiek and husband, H. j.,
to Geo. f. CRUDE, lot 81, Hinsey e. He'd
rick second addition; lot AZ ,Hinsey &
Hedrick addition; part lot IS, Harrow
sub, Ottumwa, $1,000.
J. j. Mccoy to Herr Construction
Co. %. C. d. part lot 236, block, 81
Ottumwa. $4,000.
Hester NJ Kirkpatrick to Maud E.
Post and Stella NJ. Porter, undivided
one third lots 1-6-17, block 3 and lot
2 block 4, Highland Center. 5000 (sub
to life estate by paying per cent in
terest on 5000.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
BLAME FOR THE FIRE
IOWA TAXPAYERS MAY NOT HAVE
TO PAY FOR CAPITOL
REPAIRS.
lTshtai)fg of Executive Council May Re-
suit in Suit Against Contractor Who
Had Work Of RemodeIins Building
in Charge.

Des Moines, Jan. Iowa taxpayers
may not after all suffer any loss by
reason of the fire that wrought such
great havoc in the north wing of the
state house Monday. If the state ex-
ecutive council succeeds in establish
ing that the fire was caused by some
employe of contractor, the latter may
be made defendant in civil action for
damages, the amount of which will
depend upon the sum required for the
repair of the capitol.
If, for example, the charge that FL
mer Frazee, an electrical worker, drop
ped candle in the air shaft, thereby
causing the fire, is substantiated to
the satisfaction of the executive coun-
Gil, l.. H. Kurtz, of this city, general
contractor, or the Arthur Franz-Electri-
cal company, of Chicago. the sub-con-
tractor, might be made financially liza
BILE for the loss.
How the Governor Views 1t
What is the purpose of this investi-
cations" This was the inquiry directed
to Governor Cummins. "After you have
completed the investigation as to the
responsibility for the fire and have
| fixed the blame upon some one, per
haps, can any one be arrested?"
There can be no criminal charge
even if we fix the blame upon some
one, was the reply. "But it is posi-
BILE there could be civil action for
damages against the employer of the
man who was found guilty of the care
lessness that resulted in. the fire
Should that man be an employee of Mr.
Kurtz, the general contractor, he might
be held. But it all depends on the ma.
ture of the contract the capitol com.
mission has with Mr.Kurtz. The state
has contracted to pay him 10 per cent
| of the cost of the Improvements in
stead of any specified sum for the
| work. 1t may be that there is no clause
| in his contract holding him RESPONSE
| bic for any loss. / can readily see
1 how such contract as his could be
drawn without such provision. Then
there is the sub-contractor Mr.. Kurtz
has sub-let various departments of the
| Improvement. The electrical work foI
example, was let to some Chicago firm
/ / do not know what kind of contract
Mr. Kurtz has with that firm, but if il
| should be shown that any of it's EN-
ployes are responsible for the fire the
possibility exists that it could be held
to indemnify the state to the extent OF
the loss. 1t all depends on the con
tracts"
Mr.. kurtz Discusses It,
L. G. Kurtz of the firm of l.. H. Kurt.
& Co., was seen last evening and asked
as to his understanding of his contrac
with the state capitol commission ant
the possibility that he could be hell
for damages in case the claim agains
Frazee is proven.
81 do not know what provision m.
contract makes covering my liabilit,
for damages" he said. st has beef
long time since I read it and | nev
er devoted any thought to that partic
ular point. | am likewise uncertain a
to the provisions of my contract witt
4 the Arthur Franz company in that re
| spect."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
SMALL BLAZE AT WORLDS FAIR.
Crossed Electric Wires in the Educa-
tionaI Building Subway.

ST. Louis, Jan. 7.-Crossed electric
wires in the main electric power sub
way under the educational building at
the Worlds fair caused $4,000 fire
yesterday. Chief Christie of, the fair
fire department was thrown from his
buggy in going to the fire and severe
ly hurt For a long time it seemed
likely that the building would burn,
but extra city engines were rushed to
the scene and within half an hour
the fire was extinguished.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
AFRAID OF FAcTIoNALlsM.
Boies jackson Club at Waterloo Gives
Up Its Annual BANQUET.

Up IT'S ANNUAL bahduet.
Waterloo. Jan. THE third annu4
al banquent of the Boies-Jackson club
which was to have been held in this
city on Jackson day, January s. has
been called off.
The committee decided to hold no
banquet for the reason that many of
the prominent democrats of the state
thought it best not to keep factional
party lines in sight by holding a ban
quet which, when established several
years ago. was essentially of party
faction nature. The functions in the
party are tending to disappear and it
was thought best MOTTO bring them
back again.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
ROB SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
Slot Machines at Webster City Get
Money Instead of Church.

Webster City, Jan. 1.-THE innocent
looking penny in the slot machines
not the one where the reward is a
chance. but the kind that emits gum,
small cakes of candy, sailed peanuts
and the like-are said to be doing dam
age to the Sunday school collections.
Instead of saving their pennies to send
to the heather lands and the cannibal
islands to buy Bibles and hire mis-
sionaries for the Hottentots, the
youngsters prefer to drop the copper
in the slot and get dainty mouthful
for themselves. They seem to think
that better than carrying it to Sum
day school, whence their imaginations
conjure that it goes to buy meat va
fiety for the cannibals.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
!. SAYS STATE GAINS
JOHN coWNIE SAYS INSURANCE
WOULD COST MORE THAN
THE FIRES.
President Of Board Of Control Main
tains That the Losses to the State
on Account Of Fires Do Not Argue
in Favor of Insurance.

Year. I
1866 lenwood, main building
of School for Feeble Minded$12s
1S96-Anamosa, old building Of
state prison ................ II
1S97-Iowa City, state univer-
sity library ............ 81
1900-Ames, main building
state college ........ ;. 10(
1901-Mt. Pleasant, Industrial
Du1ldlnS .s............... .. IL
1901-Ames, barn ............ i:
1901-Iowa City, medical build
ing, School for Deaf ........ 81
1902-Mt. Pleasant, laundry Of
state hospital .......... IL
1902-Ames remainder of main
building state college 1880. 81
Minor losses various institu-
tlons :. -. IL
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

The foolish man will show his mon
ey and the foolish woman her clothes
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

Thirty-three violent deaths occurred
in Scott county last year. Nine of the
victims suicided.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

Itch on human cured in thirty min
utes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion.
This never fails. Sold by w. w. Ennis,
Druggist, Ottumwa. Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

Thos. Gates, of Lime Springs, an
aged stock buyer, is dead of injuries
received in a runaway accident.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

Fire destroyed the fine farm resi-
dence of Charles Noll, near Ida Grove.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

He who takes good care of the days
need give himself no worry over the
year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
STAGE HANDS AND WoRkMEM
EMPLOYED BY BUILDING
BLAMED FOR FIRE.
DEATH LIST rs NOW 565
LIST Which TotaIed sci is Said Today
to Have Been Wrong-coroner's In
quest Erings Out Startling Evidence
Regarding Conditions at the lroquoIs

Chicago, Jan. THE coroner
and chief of police this afternoon
issued orders to take into custody
the representative of Trainor &
Co., of Boston, who made the al
legged asbestos curtain for the Iro-
quois.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

Improvements, public and private, in
Iowa City the past year, will aggregate
NEARLY S5()O OO0 d
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

Total $3.50, 900
In addition to the foregoing there has
been severe damage to state insti-
buttons by tornadoes, the worst be-
ing that inflicted upon, the School for
the Deaf at Council Bluffs last year.
This institution also suffered a fire
loss of $66,000 in 1877 and the pris-
on at Fort Madison, $4,000 by four
fires, occurring in the years 1858,
1859, 1868, 1870.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09

Chicago, Jan. 1.-THE coroner's in
lest over the remains of the victims
I the Iroquois theatre began today.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
cuban Lottery Bill Vetoed.

Havana, Jan. President Palma
vetoed the lottery bill yesterday. He
holds that lottery is lowering and
corrupting, and that the government
would be culpable in taking money OBJ
tanned through such scheme.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
Deaths Number 565.

The coroner's official list of the dead
jor use at the inquest contains just 565
names. Previous police reports indi-
eating sol dead are declared now to be
inaccurate, due to the shifting of bod
les from one morgue to another.
Preparations are complete for the
most searching inquiry into the caus-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26

So great in recent years has been the
growing demand for timber of all
kinds, for lumber, for railroad ties, for
telegraph poles, for piling, for pulp
wood (out of which paper is manufac-
tured), for fence posts, for ship-knees
(made from butts of tamarack trees
and used for ship keeIs), and for pur-
poses of fuel, that today every stick of
timber on lands has a marketable
value, and when the owner of land on
which it is situated will himself cut
and market it, enough money can be
realized therefrom to pay for the land,
and in many cases much more.
Much of the forest is hardwood. com
prising such varieties as maple, Birch,
hemlock, oak, elm and Eastwood, while
the soft varieties of wood comprise
pine, tamarack, cedar, spruce and bal
sam.
Fourth-The owner of a tract of land
In this country does not have to lie
IDLE during the winter months, as is so
often the case in a prairie country.
From the 1st of December until the
1st of April he will find all the work
for himself and teams that he can do
in marketing the timber from his own
lands or from that of his neighbor, or
in the many lumber camps in the more
northerly portion of this territory.
For the reasons above given it would
seem entirely proper to suggest to the
person seeking home that this coun-
try should at least be carefully looked
over before settling elsewhere, and
while the land is still cheap. This es-
peciaIly should appeal to the man of
small means who is DESTROYS of secur-
ing his own home, in that the price is
SO low, the terms so easy, and his or
portunity of making money in so MANY
ways and at all times of the year so
good that he is here given that oppor-
tunity to buy home and pay for it;
an opportunity forbidden in older set
tied countries where the price is so
high and where there is no chance to
realize except from the produce raised
in cultivation of the farm he may en-
gage to buy.
Cheap water transportation east
railway transportation north, west and
south, serve to give a field for the
products of lands even far greater
than the splendid markets locally af-
forded- All products find ready sale to
the north, to the east and to the west
Of Duluth The demand from the north
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-26

SO numerous; and to a land that will
forever provide its own fuel, fencing
and protection, if the inhabitants plan
things thus, on the principle that what
has been grown in a country can be
grown again. The numerous streams
with moving current and the occa-
sional lakes, spoke of ample moisture,
and the character Of the growth that
covered the soil gave ample assurance
that this land had high adaptation to
farming and stock keeping, and that
one day it would be covered with hap
Ply and prosperous homes
Contains All the Essentials of Stock
and Dairy Country.
This is owing, first, to the wonderful
stability which the soil has shown in
the production of pastures, to its mar
velous adaptation in the production of
legumes, to the excellence and variety
of the crops of small grains produced,
to the fact that it can grow immense
quantities of fodder corn and soiling
foods; because it will produce field
roots abundantly; because it has am
pie shade and water; and for the fur
Their reason that it is happily situated
with reference to~markets. Shade in
dairy country is always a factor of
much Importance. Animals which have
it not, when torrid suns are shining
down from a heated sky, cannot pos
sibly produce as well as those which
have a shade to adequately protect
them. Because of this the wise dairy
man always tries to furnish pastures
well supplied with shade trees. The
shade trees may be had to any extent
desired in the region under considera-
ton, unless the settlers are so su-
premely foolish as to cut away all
trees in the field in which they intend
to have abiding pastures. Groves or
thickets may be retained in certain
portions, in which the shade will be
dense, or trees may be left in c1umps
or individually, as may be desired.
And if the settlers are only discerning
and wise enough to leave uncIeared a
rim of natural forest around their
dwellings, on the windward side, they
will have perpetual protection around
those dwellings which even the north
wind cannot blow through. Generally,
however, the first thought of the set
tier is to cut away everything that
obscures his view in the immediate
vicinity Of his home, and then. long