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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-02
QUICK SALE BARGAINS.

QUICK SALE BARGAINS.
Here are some properties listed and
priced for quick sales. Every one is bar
gain.
Two vacant lots on Ward street, SIZE
each.
Vacant lot In Dain addition $275
Vacant lot East Court street, $3.50.
Seven room house, Ransom street, $1,000
Eight room house West Fourt St., 81, $50
Six room house in Eddyville, $1,000.
Six room house in Des Moines, good To-
cation, modern, worth $4,000, will sell fol
$1,000 or trade on small Wapello county
farm and pay cash difference
Five room house In Highland Center, s425
Three room house on Hayne street, $TOO
instruments.
Business lot on West Main, close in, s5C
per front foot.
Best location in city for modern fats, on
West Second street, only $40 front foot
LOWENBERG e. CO,
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INDIAN TERRITORY.

Having just returned from eastern Kan
sas and Indian Territory wish to inform
our friends they can now buy small tracts
of lands in the Creek Nation, I. T., from
the freedman with perfect titles, 40, so
and 100 acres, at from $40 to $50 per acre,
just as good land as Iowa, and far better
climate.
1 would advise all our friends to buy a
small piece at once as they will double
within year for farm purposes, and If oil
is found on your land an Independent for
tune awaits you.
You cannot go amiss. Call and we will
show you maps and where you can get the
best lands.
DON A. POOL,
With American Land Co., Cor. Court
and Second Sts., ottumwa, Iowa.
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FOR SALE-To DIVIDE AN ESTATE, A
model home Of 29s acres is offered for
sale at $40 per acre If sold at once; 900
acres of this farm is in cultivation, eight
acres in timber, 200 acres in timothy,
meadow and bluegrass pasture; house has
nine rooms; four wells, three cisterns,
one spring. 200 apple trees and variety
of other fruits; two barns, sixty feet
long each; poultry house, besides other
outbuHdings; all are in good repair; ev-
erything about the premises has an at
tractfve appearance and is a delightful
home for any one; 24O acres will be sold
separate at the same price If purchaser
desires; this farm is located near south
ern Illinois railroad town, soil dark
loan. nice level land; will loan $4,000 on
this farm at 5 per cent; would consider
$1,000 in city property in some live town.
Address Nelson Smith, Mount Vernon, Ill.
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FOR SALE.
FOR SALE EARLY AND LATE CAB
bage plants, tomato plants, celery. ]. H.
Myers, Ill North Davis.

FOR sALE-7,S4o ACRES OF CLAY, HILL
and valley land in Wayne county, Mis-
souri,, two miles from Piedmont, good
business town on the st. Louis and Iron
Mountain railroad, 1877 miles south Of ct.
Louis; heavy timber cut OH the mast
twenty-five years at different times leaves
q vigorous growth of oak, for railroad
timbers and ties, more and more valuable
from year to year; used as pasture by
town people and neighboring farmers:
good strong red and yellow clay land for
raising grain and grass; two good springs
afford water all year, ponds scooped out
of clay act as reservoirs for fall and win
ter rains used to good advantage, and
cistern at house; good fruit country about
10 per cent rocky and stony, affords rraz-
Ing for sheep; part is bushy and grubby,
by use of Angora goats can be cleared
and put in grass, and profit on goats will
more than pay expenses OIL improvements,
SO that at the end Of five years IL proper.
~ managed land will be good pasture re
for stock raising, and will sell for $40 per
acre Including the timber; mild winters
will raise young cattle one-third cheaper
than in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois or In.
diana; will sell all, or in two parts, being
divided nearly equal by county wagon
road; age and falling health cause me to
sell at a bargain. Write for further In.
formation to 81. Early, Owner, Laporte,
Indiana.
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Homeseekers' Rates.

On the first and third Tuesdays Of
each month the Iowa Central railway
sells special homeseekers' round trip
excursion tickets to points in the
northwest, west, southwest, south and
southeast, at one fare plus two dollars.
Return limit twenty-one days from
date of sales and stop overs permitted.
Call on agents for full particulars
or address A. B. Cults, G. P, & T. A.,
Minneapolis, MINI.
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FOR sALE-375 ACRES OF THE HEAvI-
est timbered land on or near Gasconade
river; has not been cut over; excellent
location for sawmlll; $50 acres If cleared !;
fine orchard land; fine building and trim
ming stone, also minerals IL taken in
thirty days will sell for SO per acre; a
great bargain. Adjoining this, 275 acres
improved Ridge valley farm; 100 acres
valley land cleared; no stunnps; can all
be worked with machinery; 100 acres
more if cleared. just as desirable; new
barbed-wire fences, good dwelling, stone
cellar, cistern, springs, good stable, barn,
etc; if taken in thirty days, will sell
for $40 per acre; Improvements alone cost
more; title perfect; find such farm in
southwest Missouri for double; ITO miles
west of st. Louis, five miles north Of
Frisco railroad; not cropped this spring;
possession in ten days if desired. Call on
or address c. 3. Webster, 3707 Olive
street, st. Louis.
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1t may be difficult in sharp contest
to stick to good morals, but men who
do that find themselves in good com
pany after the battle.
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FOR sALE-NoT TRADE, ONE GENER-
al merchandise stock and buildings, locat-
ed at Washburn, Iowa, reason for sell
Ing, poor health. Apply to NJ. Delagar-
dell, Washburn, Iowa.
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FOR SALE OR RENT-THE FINEST
stock and grain farm in the northwest.
Sold at half value. Easy terms. Write
for description. Geo. e. Gray, Appleton,
MINI.
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FOR sALE-55s ACRES IN MEcKL1NG
township. Clay county South Dakota, IS
miles from Sioux City. Smooth land rich,
black soil, good improvements, $50 per
acre. Jno. w. Grow, real estate, Minden,
Iowa
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LIST YOUR FARMS.

There is every prospect for good crop
this season which will make farms sell in
fall.
We want you to come and list them with
us.
Have first class farm Of 300 acres for
sale which we think is very cheap, would
take small farm or good city property as
part pay. Look this up.
We have farms Of all sizes In all parts
of county from $50 to 500 per acre.
City property Of all kinds from $500 to
$1,000, improved, and vacant lots in any
part of town.
oTTUMWA REAL ESTATE co.
Taylor Bldg, Cor. Main and Court SITS.
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FOR sALE-M'CoRMIcK BINDER, GOOD
as new, used but little; reason for selling,
have rented my farm. j.. B. Mowrey, OF
tumwa National Bank.
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FOR sALE-oNE MCCORMICK MOWER,
one corn shelter, one sulky pillow, one
drag saw, one cultivator and some full
blooded Short Horn bulls. serviceable age.
One mile north Of Dahlonega. T. H.
Smith.
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FARMS FOR SALE CHEAP-BAR-
ton, county, Missouri mice prairie
land; no rocks; no stumps; fine wa
ter; cheap fuel; good soil. Address,
Charles linn, Iantha, Missouri
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FOR sALE-FARM OF 1872 ACRES, AID
joining city Of Harrison; outside and
crossed fenced; 4O-acre orchard; ten room
house, barn, 40x62, and other buildings;
100 acres in clover. Apply box POT, Har-
rison, Ark.
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FOR sALE-312 ACRE FARM; WITHIN
three miles of South Omaha stock yards;
$4,000 worth of buildings, good stock
farm. - acres timber, balance meadow
pasture and cultivated. Will consider
so. or 100 acres In trade. Price 500 per
acre. Jno. w. Grow, Real Estate, Minden,
Iowa
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FOR sALE-s2O ACRES BEST SPRING
wheat, fax and grazing land North Da-
Northern Pacific railroad S13 per acre;
easy terms. Box 49, Indiana, Pa.
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-FARMS IN BEAUTIFUL
Cooper county Missouri. Write us.
Gregory & Adkins, Kansas City, Mo-,
1910 Union avenue.
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FRED sANBoRN, Secretary.
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WANTED.

WANTED-A GOOD FARM HAND. b. D.
Randall, i've miles north Of city, r. r. 5.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-02-25

the powerful Russian torpedo fotilla az
Port Arthur and hitherto unused. On
the japanese side. except possible az
lions against the Russian Yiadivostok
squadron, the Japanese minister does,
not look for developments at preseng
believing that Admiral Togo will be sat
isfied to keep the disabled Russian
squadron prisoners at Port Arthur. The
minister credits the Russians with hay
ing barely 100000 troops in Manchuria
Progress Checked by Billiards.
st. Petersburg, Feb 23.-Heavy
SHOWS and billiards over the Siberian
railroad, especially east of Baikal, are
largely increasing the difficulties of
transporting troops, besides better en-
abling Chinese brigands to operate.
Japanese agents are reported north Of
Vladiyostoek, melting the brigands to
action.
Fred w. Job, secretary Of the Chi
cago Employers association, addressed
the convention on the inefdciency of the
Labor Vote"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-02-25
HUSBAND AND WIFE AGAIN.
Remarkable Termination of Divorc'
Case in Supreme Court.

Des Moines, Feb. ga remark
able termination of long drawn out
divorce case came in the district
court last week, when Judge Burn
ham refused to grant decree of d.
vorce to Mrs. Lovina Bedding in her
suit against j. w. Bedding. He was
granted a divorce seven years ago
and they were remarked the next
year. In 1899 Bedding got a second
decree of divorce, but two years ago
the supreme court reversed the case
and ordered new trial. On the third
trial. which was brought by the wife,
decree was refused, and thus for
the third time the couple find them
selves man and wife. When their
marital troubles commenced they had
a good farm and other property. and
it is now almost gone.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-02-25
HONOR 70 WASHINGTON.
Birthday of Father Of Our Country
Generally Observed in Wash
ington-In Chicago.

Washington, Feb. Washington
birthday was generally observed in this
city Monday The farewell address of
the first president was read in the sen
ate, the federal and municipal offices
were closed and only a few Of the busi-
ness houses were open. There were sew
eral patriotic celebrations by the assoc
citation of oldest inhabitants, the Sons
of the Revolution and other organiza-
tons. Historic Alexandria, six miles
south Of here on the Virginia side Of the
Potomac river, where George Washing
ton was a familiar figure during most Of
his career. celebrated the Gay with an
elaborate military and civic parade.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt celebrat-
ed Washington's birthday by planting
each a tree in the white house grounds.
The trees are fern leaf beeches. They
were removed from Garfield park, it be-
ing necessary either to transplant or
to destroy them on account of eXcaFa-
tionS in the park incident TO the con-
struction of the railroad terminal sta
ton. The trees were planted in the area
within the semi-circular driveway Lead
ing from Executive avenue to the east
terrace of the white house, one on each
side of the main walk. In big earthen
pot the President, Mrs. Roosevelt ana
the children also planted seeds Of 1he
XanthOcerus sorbifOlia, Chinese f5w-
ering shrub, the only specimen Of which
is in the propagating gardens in this city,
1t is the intention of Col. Symons and the
government landscape gardener, George
H. Brown, to raise some of the shrubs to-
be planted in the parks in Washington
Chicago, Feb. % Washington's
birthday was more generally observed
in Chicago Monday than for years past.
The hum of industry in sthe courts,
banks, business houses, Offices and fac
tories gave way to the flow of oratory
and the display of patriotism. All work
|, in the-citx and GnIlntx offices. was -slls=
pended The churches, clubs and So
| cieties took the leading part in the
| demonstration.
| Thousands of school children gath
| cred at the Auditorium in the morni0g
where the first demonstration arranged
by the political action committee of the
Union League club took place. +.ss
| Elihu Root, former secretary of war
is now in, Chicago as the guest of the
Union League club. In the afternosRaae
spoke at the second Auditorium meeting
on "rhe Ethics of the Panama Ques-
ton" Judge Emory Speer, of Georgia
also delivered a patriotic address. Pres
ident Wallace Hickman, of the Unier
League club. presided. The UnisE
League club also held a banquet in the
evening and Secretary Root responded
to toast.
Baltimore, Feb. 23.-Though it wa:
Washington's birthday and legal hsl
iday the dynamiting or pulling dowr
of dangerous walls still left standing
in the burned district was continued
Monday. Here and there in the ruin:
from the tops of roofs that were spared
by the flames the American flag was
seen floating in honor of the day. Tht
bank holiday proclaimed by Gov. War
field ended with Monday and to-day al
the banks will resume their regular
business operations.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-02-25
SUES IOWA CENTRAL.
Brakeman Asks $4,000 for the Loss
of Hand.

Eldora, Feb. 23-Frank H. Shsf-
ner has filed, suit in the district
court here against the Iowa Central
Railway Company, asking damages in
the sum of $4,000 for injuries alleged
to have been sustained while in the
employ Of the company. The acct
dent is alleged to have occurred in
1902, Snoffner was head brakeman
at the time and claims in his petition
that the engineer had filled the. coaS-
buckets so full that when ne attempt
ed to step on them he was unable to.
find sufficient footing and could not
grasp the flange to support himself.
AS a consequence he fell between the
cars and his left hand was severed at
the wrist.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-02-25
THE FLAG FLoArED.
City Schools Generally Observed
Washington's Birthday.

Washington's birthday was cele-
brated in Osl1aloosa schools as flag
day and appropriate programs were
carried cut In the Third ward school
a detachment Of the local post of the
G. A. r. headed by Comrade ]. R.Gen-
try, figured prominently in the pro-
grams. and both teachers and pupils
enjoyed the presence Of the old sol
diers. Talks were made by Comrades
Parker. Gentry, White and G. C.John-
son told Of "Old Abe" the famous
war eagle.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-02-25
LEAGUE COMPLETED.
Boone Fills Last Gap in Iowa Base
Ball Organization.

The Iowa State League, with an
eight-town circuit. is now completed
Boone being the last town to be grant.
ed franchise by President Frank G.
Norton, Of the league The choice
la between Muscatine and Boone and
the latter town was selected. Oska-
loosa posted her forfeit several days
ago, and was the seventh town in. AS
the league stands now, complete, II
comprises the towns of Burlington
Keokuk, Ottumwa, Oskaloosa, Water
loo, Fort Dodge, Marshalltown and
Boone.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-02-25
IOWA MINERS TO
ASK NO INCREASE

anu NeTeDy luCtGdSt pIOlltS anu VII
mately the subjugation of the toilers,
by conquest, to point where they
would be entirely subseryient to the
mercy of the avaricous, greedy and
grasping corporations, whose motto
has always been, The public be
damned
'aThe time has arrived when the
honest business man must join hands
with organized labor to maintain that
equipose Of forces that will insure the
largest degree of prosperity to the
nation
1.-THE perpetuity and success of this
nation rests upon intelligent action
Of all its people. Well paid and con
tented, that proyerbial maxim that
declares that nations only become
great in proportion to the intelligence
Of the masses of its people, should
serve as an inspiration to the aver
age business man to study this great
and intricate labor question before
passing judgment.
There is a crisis approaching the
business world and labor is now go
ing through crucial test that will
ultimately insure an era Of unprece-
dcnted peace and tranquility. The
issue, however, must be met and this
question Of supremacy between cant
tai and labor must be subordinated
and become foreign to all.
Before concluding, to bring this
matter nearer home, I desire to ask
an indulgent public the following
questions:
"First--Would, a general reduction
in wages increase consumption?
"SecoEd--Wouldn not such suicidal
policy have a tendency to make COM
petition more acute and SIGHTED
And eventually demoralize the coal
industry and all other dependent in
dustries?
'"Third-Has the price of coal de-
creased in Oskaloosa, or any other
large city of our state?
"Then if the answer is in the neg
atiye, which undoubtedly it will by
all fair minded and impartial citizens,
then what good would result from a
reduction in wages? The fact of the
matter is, the miners of Iowa would
have mere valid reasons to ask an
advance, than to suffer a reduction.
But not unmindful OF the public that
are now groaniing under high prices,
all along the line, we are going to
content ourselves with present prices
and conditions. And we desire to say
that in the most emphatic terms, our
miners will not accept anything less
than the present scale, without a bit
ter and relentless struggle.
I'VE emphasize our determination
by saying that we will fight it out all
summer if necessary. In our judg-
ment, however, there is no cause for
alarm, When the fellows that are now
advocating reduction recover thei1
reason and equilibrium, they will see
the Importance of receding from their
untenable position and thus avoid the
consequences of a conflict with or
ganized labor.
Labor must and will maintain its
rights at all hazards, and also its
present standard of citizenship ant
ideals.
Respectfully,
Edwin Perry,
John P. White,
District No. 49,"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-02-25
DIES MONIES scoRcHED.
Three Stores Are Badly Damaged by
Fire This Morning.

Des asoines. Feb. z3.--Fire at 4:3O
o'clock this morning wrecked por-
tion OF the big store OF the Carver
Hardware company building. at GIT
619 West Walnut street. and smoke
damaged the stocks Of Phil & Smiths
10-cent store and of George 4. Kelley
e Co. shoe dealers, adjoining. entail
ing a loss of $4,000.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-02-25
RUSSIANS SUFFER
ANOTHER BLOW
JAPANESE ATTACK PORT Ar
THUR AGAIN.
NO DETAILS or THE AFFAIR
Russia, However, Is Said to Have Lost
Four Torpedo Boats Captured
by the Enemy--Alexieff
Reaches Hardin.

Toxic, Feb. 23.--It is reported here
that Vice Admiral Togo has again at
tackled Port Arthur 1t is impossible
to confirm the staten ent, but the navy
department says it has had no news
from Togo. 1t is considered very prob
able thas the vice admiral has made
another attack on the Russians. as he
is engaged in blockading Port Arthur.
Russia Loses Fo2r Boats.
London, Feb 23-The NagaSaki cor
respondent of the Daily Telegraph, cab
ling under date Of February %, reports
that the japanese squadron has cap
tured four Russian torpedo boats at Port
Arthur by using Russian signals. This
dispatch appears to confirm reports from
various quarters Of a fresh attack on
Port Arthur by the Japanese.
AIexieff at Hardin.
Yin Kow, Feb. 23.-z-Viceroy AlexieT
and his full staff have just arrived at
Hardin, where headquarters has been
established.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 23.--Viceroy
Alexieff left Port, Arthur last Sat.
urday, February 20, for Mukden. Be
fore leaving he handed over the COM
mand of the navy to Vice Admiral
Stark.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-02-25
MAY strenghten Elect.

Washington, Feb. 23.-Nayal officials
are considering earnestly the strength
ening of the American Asiatic fleet in
view of the vast interests of this country
in the Philippines and in China and in
Corea, and the probability that disturb
anceS may necessitate their protection
at any time. At the same time that the
fleet is regarded as too small there is a
desire to avoid exciting the suspicion OF
the old world powers, lest this govern
ment may be put in the false light of in
terfering in the eastern struggle, not
withstanding our declaration Of abso-
lutte neutrality.
Rear Admiral Evans has cabled the
navy department expressing wish to
remain in the far east for the present,
in the event that the Kentucky is not
to be brought home when repaired He
feels that the situation is extremely i'm
portanL out there and for this reason Of
fers to remain. although his time of sea
duty is up next month and the plan is
for him to return to New York in his
flagship. The department has cabled
him leaving the matter entirely to his
own judgment and the announcement is
made by high official that the depart
ment had every confidence in the wis
dom of Admiral Evans decision.
Breach of Neutrality.
London, Feb. ga correspondent
at Toxic of Reuters Telegram COM
pany says he learns from a reliable
source that the Russian minister to
China, Paul Lessar, has successfully
bribed Chinese officials, with the result
that the instructions given the Russian
gunboat Mandjur to leave Shanghai
were cancelled The Japanese govern
ment considers this to be breach OF
Chinese neutrality, and is taking steps
in the matter.
Lake Bailkal Railway Laid
ST. Petersburg, Feb. %. Prince Kill
koff. minister of railroad communica-
ton, has proceeded for Manchuria
from Irkutsk, after having seen that the
railroad on. the ice across Lake Baikal
was laid. He was personally entrusted
with $250,000 to effect the expeditions
termination of this work. Prince Kill
koff reports that the Siberian railroad is
able to move 10000 men day to their
destination, but that the transit from
western points to the far east win re-
quire six weeks. s4i
May Postpone Aggressive Operations.
London. Feb 3d. The latest advices
of Baron Hayashi, the Japanese minis
ter to Great Britain, lead him to believe
that the Japanese troops may now wait
possibly two or three months before I'M
dertaRing aggressive operations in Man
churia
Baron Hayashi does not credit the re-
port that $500 Russian soldiers have
been killed in an outpost engagement
at the Yalu river He says there is no
Japanese force in that vicinity large
enough to infiict such loss.
The only naval development Baron
Hayashi expects in the near future is a
possible attack on the Japanese feet by
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-02-25
Heavy Russian Loses.

st. Petersburg, Feb. 23.-In the pre-
liminary fighting along the Yalu river
$500 Russians have been killed.
The engagements have been between
the Russian and Japanese outposts
near Win. No reports Of the Japan
csc losses are obtainable.
The Russian advance guard has been
driven back.
New Chwang, Feb. 23.--In engage
ments between outposts on the Yalu
the Russians have suffered consider
able loss. No details are given.
kentucky Ordered to Hong-Kong.
Washington, Feb. 23.-The battleship
Kentucky, flagship Of the American
Asiatic fleet, has been ordered to Hong
Kong where she will be locked for the
purpose of making minor repairs. 1t is
regarded as probable that Admiral
Evans will have the remainder of the
battleship squadron accompany him to
Hong-Kong, although he has not advised
the department to this effect It is not
intended at present that the battleships
shall go further north