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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-21
SPECIAL REAL ESTATE BARGAINS

Good building lots on Willard and Ward
streets, South Ottumwa, also on East
Court street, ottumwa, at $50 to $500
each, one-half cash, balance easy. Why
pay rent when you can buy lots like this?
Exchange, good small stock of general
merchandise for house and lot.
Fine lot in Janney addition, sidewalk in,
at $500.
Fine fruit farms south Missouri, east
ern Kansas and Indian Territory, $40 to
$25 per acre. Oil leases for sale.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-21
PANAMA's MONEY SYSTEM.

Commission Establishes Coin Equiv.
aIent to United States Standard.
Washington, D. c., June 20. = The
commission charged with the prepar-
alton of currency system for Panama,
has reached an agreement which estab-
fishes a coin equivalent in fineness
and weight TO the United States dollar,
as the standard, and which also makes
the United States dollar legal tender
in Panama
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-21
AGED FARMER DEAD.

John Braden Passes Away at Family
Residence East Of Martinsburg.
John Braden, farmer residing east
of Martinsburg, passed away Fri
day afternoon at the family residence,
at the advanced age of SO years. The
funeral will take place tomorrow
afternoon from the residence at 200
o'clock The interment will be in the
Rock Creek cemetery.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-21
POTTER is CAUGHT.
! I
Clerk of Mills County Arrested at ST
Louis After Long Chase.

st. Louis, June 20.--After pursuit of
more than 1000 miles, Sheriff Lorgan, of
Mills county, Iowa, left here Saturday. hay
ing arrested Clayton C. Potter, clerk of
the county, on a charge of embezzlement
to the amount of $4,000 of the county
funds. Potter disappeared three weeks
ago and before his arrest here led his pur-
suers chase from Denver on the west to
Arkansas on the south.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-21
NEBRASKA SWEPT BY STORMS
Wind, Rain and Hail Visit Southeast
ern Portion of the State,

Lincoln, Neb.. June 20. = A dam
aging wind, hail and rain storm swept
over sections of southeastern Nebraska
Saturday night. At Lincoln there was
a short but terrific downpour of rain
accompanied by wind, but the damage
was slight. East of here it was more
severe.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-21

and other friends in the two counties are
seeking a parole. The county attorney of
Hamilton county is understood to have de-
cared he would not consent to clemency
until Isenhart has served at least one year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-21
DON n, PUOEy
Court and Second SITS.
For SALE.

Do you want city or farm property. If
so. call on me and l will show you
around have city property, vacant or
improved, in all parts and every de-
scription.
Have an sOacre tract of land fine as
silk A bargain. See me about 1t.
272 acres close to railroad town; good &
grain and stock farm and only miles
from Ottumwa; a money maker
Four-room house, good lot, new walk;
price, $500.
A large 2-story house, fine lot, large
barn, at s1,100 A snap.
A groom cottage in West End; one of
the best locations; good lot, at low price.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-21
PLEADS GUILTY.
Ed. Donovan Pays Fine of $40 for
Assault and Battery.

Assault and Battery.
In Justice J. A. Billiards. court this
morning Ed Donovan, pleaded guilty
to the charge of assault and battery
and was fined $40 which he paid. John
Horn, arrested for being drunk was
sent to jail to work out fine of $40.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-21
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-GooD FARM TWO MILE
from city limits, about 100 acres, fine ten
room house, good barn and sheds. tH
fine wells Mt house and barn, good M,
chard, never failing spring in pnstuk
$50 per acre buys it. Crops go w
place. A. c. Leighton, Ottumwa, low
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-21

A fine barn belonging to Jorgen
Rasmussen, at Garfield, burned
Loss, nearly $1,000.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-24

Enchanted web, 4 picture In the air.
Driftcd TO ia from out the distant blue.
From the shadowy ancestors through
whose brave care
We i've in magic OF a dream come
with c~ovcnanter's blue. as II were glass.
In dswy n~owcr-hcart, the stars tina,
o blood yclned blossom that can never
The Declaration, like a sacred rite.
Is In each star and stripe declamatory,
The Constitution thou shalt long r%ccite,
Our hallowed, eloquent. beloved odd
Glory"
o symphony in rcd. white. blue!-fan-
or trumpet. roll Of drum. forever new
Revcrbcrations OF the Bcll. that beat
It's tones OF liberty tho wide world
In battle dreaded like a cyclone blast,
symbol of land and people unsurpassed
my brilliant day shall never have IA
on foreign shore no romp so grand a
No face so friendly. naught consolatory
Like glimpse of lofty spar with thee
Our haiiowted. eloquent, beloved "old
Glory"
Thou art the one flag, an embodied pray
One highest and most perfect To review:
Without one. nothing; It Is lineai. square.
Has properties of all the numbers. too
cube; solid. square root. root OF root,
best ciasscd
II for Hts essence the Creator cast.
For purity are the six stripes of white.
rms number circular and endless
r., quite
SIX times, well knows the scholar wan
and hoary.
Ills compass. spanning circle. can
alight-
Our hallowed, eloquent. beloved old
Glory"
-.
Boldly thy seven lines OF scarlet flare:
A.. when DER old centurian It blew.
(Red ts the trumpets tone. II means to
dareO
God favored seven when creation grew:
The seven planets, seven hues contrast;
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-24

The British soldiers were near them
and an attack might be expected at
almost any moment. On the morning
of Sept. 16. 1916, word was brought to
Washington at headquarters that the
enemy was advancing in three large
columns. There had been SO many
false reports of an attack before this
that Adjt. Gen. Reed gained permits.
siou from Washington to ride forth
and ascertain for a certainty what
the trouble was.
The firing continued brisk. and
Washington mounted his horse and
rode toward the outposts. He was
met by Reed returning. who told
Washington the advanced post, which
had been situated on the hill skirted
by the wood. had been attacked by a
strong detachment of the enemy. Our
own troops-a company Of continental
rangers-were commanded by Lieut..
Col. Knowlton, who had distinguished
himself at Bunker Hill. Gen. Leslie.
the British commander, had under
him three companies of Hessian rife
@ one of Royal H~ighlanders, and
his forces 50 outnumbered the CONT
mental boys that he had succeeded in
capturing the outposts.
Reed was earnest in his appeal to
Washington that reinforcements be
fought SO nobly. While he was still
sent to the continental boys who
speaking, the British soldiers came
in sight and sounded their bugles.
after the manner of those calling In
to witness the death at n fox chase.
Both Washington and Reed were stung
to the quick by this haunting, derisive
bugle call. and three companies were
ordered out from Col. Weedon's Vir.
ginia regiment, commanded by Major
Leitch. A sharp contest took place,
in which the Virginia boys WED with
one another in bravery. Major Leitch
received three bullets in his side and
was carried off the field. He died of
these wounds about two weeks later,
but not without the happiness of
knowing that he had assisted at about
the first victory of the Americans and
with the praises of his beloved Wash.
| ington to soothc his last moments.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-24

ious fervor. At no time in all the
dark days of the revolution was his
spirit more overcast than when the
Morris house. on Harlem Heights. was
his military headquarters.
Every school boy knows that Wash.
ington served his country without
compensation, that he kept an account
of his actual expenses, which the gov.
eminent was to pay; but few know
that the Father Of his Country was
one OF the richest, If not the richest,
president we have ever had. Wash.
ington was a millionaire in his own
time. which is equivalent to being a
multimillionaire at the present day.
IL is only necessary to think of this
and the comforts his wealth would
have given him in England, or even
in France, to realize the sacrifice he
made. Add to this that all his tastes
led him to the life of the aristocrat,
and you will get a still koener percep.
ton. IL Washington made no com.
ment upon the fact that one of the
captains of his company, acting in the
capacity of a barber. shaved the sol.
diers in front of the house in which
he had his headquarters. it was be.
cause his mind was occupied by more
weighty and important matters ~athcr
than that he approved of such a
breach of military caste and dicci-
pine.
When he walked on the lawn he
had in his mind a picture Of the half.
starved, half-naked soldiers all over
the country. For them he thought and
worked and prayed-the democratic
captain, strapping his razor, was a
trifle. Washington rode about the
place giving directions that the ap.
%proaches to his camp should be forti.
fed by redoubts, abatis and deep in.
trenchments.
During these rides he saw some
work that instantly attracted his at
tcntion. Upon inquiry. he was told
that they were constructed by Capt
Alexander Hamilton. This young
mans talents in the military line hat
been previously spoken of to Washing
ton by Gen. Greene. Hamilton was
scarcely in his twenties at that time
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-24
Fourth OF July.

Maine. from her farthest border. gives
the first cxulting shout,
from New ilGmpshifc's granite
heights tho cchuins peal rings out;
The mountain farms OF auuCh Vermont
prolong the laundering call.
Ana Massachusetts Bunker
IIill!"-a watchword for us all.
Rhode Island shakes her sca-wct locks,
a%cclaimiug with the free.
And staid Connecticut breaks forth in
Joyous harmony.
The giant joy of proud New York. loud
as an earthquakes rOur.
Is heard from ILLUSIONS crowded banks
To Eric's crowded shore.
SIN ON the booming volley rolls DER
plains and ilowrrN gludcs
To where the Mississippis Hood the tur-
bid gulf inNades:
There. borne from many "A mighty stream
upon her mighttcr tide,
Come down the swelling. long huzzns
from all that valley vide.
AND ood-crowrcd ~Allcghnny's call. from
all her SUBMITS high,
RCvCrbcratcs among the rocks that pierce
the sunset sky;
while on the shores aud through the
swalcs round the vast INLAND seas,
The stars and stripes. midst frccmans
songs. are flashing Ia the brcczc.
The woodsman from the mother, takes
his boy upon his knee,
Aud tells him how their fathers fought
and hlcd FOR liberty:
The lonely hunter ats him down tho
forest spring beside,
To think upon his CountrN's worth, n
feel his Country's pride;
While many n foreign accent, which our
God can understand.
Is blessing Him FOR home and bread In
his free, fertile land.
Yes. when upon the eastern coast we sink
10 happy rest,
The Day of Independence rolls Still on
ward to the west.
TIN dies on tho Pacific shore the shout
of Jubilee,
That woke the morning with It's voice
along the Atlantic Sea.
. God. look down upon the land which
Thou hast loved so well,
And grant that In unhrokcn truth her
children still may dwell:
Nor, while the grass grows on the hill
and streams flow through the vale.
Many they forget their fathers faith, or
In their covenant fail;
Keep, God, the faircst. nOhlcst land that
lies beneath the sun
"Our country. our whole country. and
our country every one
George w. Bethunc.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-24
The JUMEL MANSION
Colonial House Whose Story is nterwoven with the
Countrys History

Great interest is manifested by all
patriotic societies In the surrender by
the city Of New York to the Daughters
of the American Revolution of the
Jumel mansion.
Desultory attempts have been made
Tor many years to- preserve to posteri-
~ this historic place. and at last the
deed is done. The beautiful home of
the late Gen. Ferdinand Phinney Earle,
which was recently purchased by the
city, Is soon to pass into the care of
the general committee of the Daugh.
tiers OF the American Revolution. to
whom belongs the credit of having
brought about its acquisition. AS
soon as these ladies become incorpo.
rated, and thus enabled to hold prop.
erty. the transfer will be made to
them. The mansion will be conducted
as a free historical museum.
This house, historically known as
the Morris house, was the military
headquarters of Washington ard his
STAFF on Harlem Heights. Here he
first met General, then Captain, Alex.
ander Hamilton, whom he loved as a
son. Here Washington received the
unannounced visits of Indian chiefs.
not knowing whether their intent was
friendly or warlike. From the oppo.
site shore he wept like a child when
he saw the Hessians slaughter his
troops. From this house he was
driven by Lord Howe, and he never
returned to it until after he was presi.
den of the United States.
There is much of historical nation.
al romance connected with the Norris
house, later known as the Jumel man.
sion.
Col. Roger Morris, the anciert mill.
tary companion of Washington in that
Hateful and awful Braddock campaign,
built this mansion, which he intended
to be the home of his bride, Miss Mary
Philipse, whom Washington had also
loved and wished to wed, but was re.
fused.
Col. Morris remained true to the
royalist cause, and after the breaking
out Of the war he took his family to
England. His property was confis,
Gated by the colonial government, but
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-24
4 Mnionaire's Celebration.


The spirit of the Fourth Is no re-
specter Of persons. 1t seizes hold Of
the millionaire as well as the raga.
muffin whose only OF celebra.
ton lies in snatching up defective ex.
plOsives discarded by his more fortu.
nate brothers and e%ndeavoring to
make them "go off,"
His is intense a~nticipatory excite.
ment and pleasure. but It is no keener
than the zest with which Charles M.
Schwab, man Of millions, prepares for
and celebrates the nations natal day.
Mr.. Schwab always endeavors to
spend the day In the town OF his boy.
hood, Loretto, Pa, where his father
and mother live. No matter where
he Is, or what the business, he usually
manages to turn up at his magnificent
country home on tho hill overlooking
the town a day or two before the
Fourth; and with him come box after
box of all manne of fireworks.
Some OF the pyrotechnics he uses
to make glad the hearts OF his little
friends--the children OF former play.
mates. The fireworks which Mr..
Schwab reserves for himself are set
on on the night of the Fourth, when
no gathers at his house his friends
and relatives for miles around. The
display lasts until well into the night.
1t Is dazzling and gorgeous in the ex.
treme, and 1t causes many an honest
former friend to calculate from the
depth OF his wonderment and awe:
well, ! swan. but Charles a hum.
mer!"
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-24

but Washington made him a member
of his military family, learned to love
him as a son., and this love and conf.
dence lasted through life.
One of the rooms on the west side
of the Jumel mansion is to this day
covered with an antique wall paper,
which, it is claimed, General Wash.
ington and his stan hung. Washington
himself mixing the paste. On the
wall OF this same room, when Gen.
Earle's family occupied the house,
hung thirteen large ears of ordinary
field corn, no doubt from some near
by farm. Tradition says that Wash
ingtOn hung up this corn to typify
the thirteen original states. Whether
or not Washington placed them there,
it is certain that they have been on
that same wall for more than a hun
dred years, and are to this day nearly
perfect, only a few Of the grains hay
ing fallen off.
Gen. Earle once gathered up those
fallen grains of corn and planted them,
but not one grain %sprouted into life.
The general said that he did not know
whether this fact indicated that the
life germs of the corn were dead or
that his knowledge of farming was de
fective.
Councils of var were held in this
house by Washington and his staff.
In it's rooms he gave a welcome to
Gen. Lee-upon whom at the time
the hopes OF the nation were placed
Oh account OF his successes in the
south.
Washington loved the place and he
hoped that If the enemy attacked him
there an American victory would re-
suit.
A surprise not altogether welcome
was given to Washington one day
when his orderly announced that some
Indian chiefs waited without, having
sent In a request for a talk with the
great father" The experience of
Washington's early life had taught
him that the Indian Is an exceedingly
unreliable commodity. As these
braves were self-invited guests, there
was a more than strong suspicion that
they might mean treachery. However,
the red men had their talk In peace,
took their departure, and no harm
came OF 1t.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-24
Victories
That Wen
Liberty

This encounter, though unimpOrtant
in itself, was the mean of cheering
the disheartened troops. But Fort
Washington was a veritable Naboth's
vineyard TO Lord Howe. He closed
in on 1t as much as possible. Wash
ington was of the opinion that the
Americans could not hold the fort
against such numbers of well fed, well
clothed, disciplined soldiers; but as
Greene differed with him in opinion,
and Greene vas In actual command
Washington having gone over to the
Jersey shore-he deferred to Greene.
Lord Howe's forces were encamped
on Fordham Heights, from which place
he sent to Gen. Greene a summons TO
surrender. The demand was accom-
panied with n threat Of the extreme
measures to which the British officer
would resort II he were obliged to
take the fort by assault.
An American Is. and always was,
the poorest man on earth to swallow
a threat, and Gen. Magnaw, who had
received the summons. returned the
reply: assure His Excellency that,
actuated by the most glorious cause
that mankind ever fought in, l am de.
termined to defend this fort to the
very last extremity"
Lord Howe had planned four stimuli
taneous attacks. The fort fell into
his hands, with a loss to our cause of
upward Of two thousand men killed
and wounded. From that time until
evacuation day Fort Washington was
held by the British.
1t was fourteen years later that Gen.
Washington next passed the portals
Of the Morris house. He was then
president of the United States, and he
made a note of this visit In his diary,
under the date of July 10, 1890. In
the party that accompanied Washing
ton were the vice.president. John Ad.
ans, and his wife; Miss Smith, the
secretaries of state, treasury and war,
and the wives Of the two latter; also
all the gentlemen OF WashinRton's
family, Mrs. Lear and the two chill.
dren.
This party visited the places Of the
surrounding country where Washing.
ton had walked and ridden on his
horse when he was so weighted down
with the responsibilities of a
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-24

after peace was declared the crown
made good all Col. Morris losses as a
reward for his loyalty. BY an ante
nuptial agreement this property mad
been settled upon Mrs. Morris. After
her death the claim of ner heirs was
bought by John Jacob Astor. The
profit of this transaction in real es-
tate is said to have netted the old man
the snug sum of $500, 600.
Subsequently the mansion was
bought by Stephen Jumel, a wealthy
French wine merchant, whose widow.
ut the age OF sixty, married Aaron
Burr, who was at that time a marked
and ruined old man Of s~eventy-eight.
Ultimately the property reverted to a
lineal descendant of Col. Morris. the
late Gen. Ferdinand Phinney Earle,
who's widow lived in the Jumel
sion until it was acquired by the city.
The ancients represented Time as a
monster devouring his children. The
march of time and the wonderful in
crease of property values are devour-
ing every landmark of the struggle
that made us a nation. Parcel after
parcel Of this old property that once
belonged to Col. Morris ras been sold.
cut up into city lots and built upon.
But the Jumel mansion, IN the midst
of nearly thirty lots, and the sycamore
trees that NJ. Jumel brought from
France and planted there-thc only
trees of the kind in the country-have
not been disturbed.
II caution and modest Difference TO
the opinions of others are faults In
the character of a military man Wash
ington possessed these faults to a
marked degree, and it is perhaps due
to those same faults more than to
any other cause that our struggle in
the war for independence ended in
giving us national birth. A bold dash
for freedom would have ended in
prison or worse for all the leaders, but
the patient policy OF worrying the
enemy to death
There was little of the frivolous in
3ashington's nature. From early boy
hood he was orderly, m~ethodical. He
appreciated the praise of people per-
haps as much as any man that ever
lived, but the weakness that marks
the poser" was kept In careful rein
by his scrupulous honesty and relig.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-24
The Flag.

A fag swung high on n rampant bold,
And the soldiers saw IL blow;
And the sun went down ana the sthrs
came out,
And over tho field died the battle shout,
While the s%cntrics paced to aud FRO.
A hell tolled loud In the midday air,
And u nag nuttercd over the trees,
Aud the people sazed with proud demean
ON the dag that Haunted the starry thif-
teen.
Iiigh In the midsummer breeze.
The stars have grown since that far-on
day.
And the stripes are true and bright
And over the country they sweep afar-
Gallant each stripe aud gallant each
star
shining by day and by night.
\ single bell tollcd in the long ago
TO rally the brave little band,
Where chimes now peel In the stinening
breeze,
And shouts ring Joyously over the seas,
And flags wnye over the land.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-06-24
Oriuin of Our Banner,

II has often been asked what sug.
gested the design for our st~ar.spangled
banner. There are many traditions
afioat concerning the origin of the de.
sign, but the one in which there is
undoubtedly the most truth is that
which credits the design to Washing.
ton.
The general found In the coat-of.
arms OF his family a hint from
which he drew the design for the flag.
The coat-of-arms of the Washington
family has two red bars on a white
ground, and three gilt stars above the
top bar. The American flag, once de-
cided upon. was rushed through in a
hurry, for the army was badly In need
Of a standard.