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The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23

North Of Blairstown, Ia, lives G.
H. Kimm, a wealthy farmer and stock
raiser, who is the father OF II chill
dren. Nine of his boys have organized
a baseball team, the youngest member
being Is years old. Recently they
played a game with the regular team
of B%lairstown, winning by a score OF
10 to 4
The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23

The glimmer of the presidential
that many would picture it. All things
considered, there is no reason why a
chief executive of good financial judg-
ment should not save half of $5.75 per
hour allowed him by the government.
There is but n case on record of an
American president dying INDECENT.
James Monroe, in many respects one
Of the strongest of our head magis-
trRtes, wanted for the necessities of
life in his old age, and died amid such
squalor that his relatives had to Dor
row the funds to bury him.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23

The commemoration of the Tooth an
niversary of the death of Barbara
Heck, the founder of Methodism in
America. by Methodists from the
United States and Canada at her grave
in Blue Church cemetery, on the Can
adam side of the ST. Lawrence, three
miles from Ogdensburg, N. T., was a
most memorable occasion.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23

Each president, for many years, has
had always at his command a. private
yacht-a regularly commissioned ves-
sci of the navy. The vessel at present
detailed to carry the chief magistrate,
when it is his wont. is the Mayfiower,
originally purchased by Mrs. Ogden
Goelet for $500, 900, who sold it to the
government for $3.50, 900 during the
war with Spain, when it was needed
as a dispatch boat. Mr.. Roosevelt has
neve awaited himself of its use. Should
he elect to entertain his friends there
ON he would have to pay for refresh
ments out of his private purse.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23

All food eaten at the white house
tables-above and below stairs-I1ust
be paid for by the president, as must
all viands consumed at official func-
lions, such as state dinners, which cost
about 81 1000 apiece in these days, and
which occur four or five times a year.
The music of these entertainments is,
however, furnished by a government
band, and the flowers are supplied by
the public propagating gardens. The
government supplies horses and car
riages for the clerical force, but the
president must purchase and maintain
his own steeds and equipage.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23

Other things being equal the mar
with the toughest hide has the best OF
it in the business world. OF course he
misses some things that his o
sensitive rival enjoys. but while the
sensitive nan is nursing his wounds
the other man arrives. Think OF the
energy he saves in escaping so many
of the sings and rrows Of criticism
that fall blunted and harmless from
his thick cuticle! He is not even an
noyed by them. He is the armored
cruiser on the sea of business affairs.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23

In the Napoleonic era, although the
armies We're larger than those of the
previous century, and far greater than
in the civil war, the numbers were
comparatively small. At Austerlitz,
the most famous of the earlier VIC
tories of Napoleon, the French had
only 10000, while the Russian and
Austrian force did not exceed $4,000,
5000 of whom were killed, wounded
or captured in the struggle. The
French lost less than a quarter of this
number. At Wagram Napoleon had
100, 900, his allied opponents only no.
GOO.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23

An Indiana friend of Thomas Tag
CART gives some details about the per-
sonality of that statesman. 1t appears
that while he is affectionately known
as Smiling Tom" on account of his
heaming countenance, he is also called
Oily Tom because of his easy and
noiseless political methods, and "Soapy
Tom because of his habit of shaking
hands with himself. He does not use
a club on his foes. He lulls them into
a condition of security with his sunny
smile and when they wake up they
don't know what struck them.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23

The total government receipts from
tobacco from all sources were $44, $780,
$685. rs for the fiscal year, against $43,-
514, S10.24 for the fiscal year %1902-1903,
or an increase of 81, LAC, 99S.51. This
increase is participated in by all
branches of the trade, except cigar
manufacture-here we see a decrease
of 236, 1861. AS cigar manufacture
ing shows the worst condition, so to-
bacco manufacture shows the best con-
dition. Receipts for this branch of the
trade exceeded the receipts for the
previous fiscal year by 1917, 790.02.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23

1t is of an Indian fight that | am going
to write now. Not the s~tereotyped dime
novel battle, where lin five minutes
Pawnee Pete had wiped out the whole
tribe but of one incident in one fight
which has stamped itself forever on my
memory.
1t was in the early 70's, and the scene
was the region of the Little Big Harm,
where later Custer and his command
were cut to pieces by Sitting Bull, the
medicine man, and his famous Eleven
Tribes.
The basin of the Little Big Horn was
a favorite haunt of the Sioux. The
country about there had once been fair
ly alive with game. The Indians at first
resented the advent of the white settler,
who came to take a large share of his
food, and later he resented the settlers
trying to force him from his w heredi-
tary country. This resentment took the
form of massacres, the burning of settle
ments and similar outrages which form
the native idea of voicing the sentiment:
81 am displeased."
For years these casual raids had gone
on, and for years the white man, with
true Anglo-SaXon d~oggedness, had re-
built the burned cabin and repopulated
the rayaged country.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23
A WHITE SIOUX CHIEF
HONORARY HEAD OF TRIBE RE-
LATES STORY OF DRAMATIC
INDIAN DUEL.
Plainsmen Go to Rescue Of Threatened
Settlement-An Old Mans Burn
ing Thirst for Revenge-Fatal
Conflict with Brave.
By Col. F. T. Cummins.

INDIAN Fighter, ArW-' Officer, Director
General of Cummins' Indian Congress
and Honorary Chief of Sioux Nation.1
HAVE made the Indian my lifelong
| study, and it is with him that the
present story will deal. For, to my mind,
no experience among old-world peoplei is
SO dramatic, so exciting, SO strenuous
that some similar and perfectly true tale
of redskin life cannot be found that will
cast it into the shade. For your Indian,
being primitive, deals with life directly
and simply. And simple directness.
Thus l say that the most dramatic Incl
dent in my somewhat exciting career is
built around an Indian adventure of
which was part. All this occurred more
years ago than l enjoy remembering.
The Indian, for so prominent a figure
in ancient and modern American his
tory, is singularly little understood in
the states. Everyone has seen Indians.
Everyone has read of their skill at
hunting game or man, their treachery,
their bravery, etc. But everyone knows
that much of the old Athenians, II it
comes to that. How much does the east
erner know Of real Indian life and us
toms? What does he know of the true
significance Of those droll dances OF
theirs, or the different meanings at
tached to each particle of the paint
that is apparently splashed at random
on their faces? What does the world
at large know of the true Indian charac-
ter? Practically nothing.
We would be ashamed did we know so
little of the inside life of Russians,
Frenchmen, Turks or ever Arabs.
Indians have been my study since boy
hood. Ihaye been solemnly and formal
ly elected a war chief of the Sioux ma
ton, an honor which, so far as | am
aware, l share with nc other white man.
l have lived with the tribes. | have,
earlier than that. fought them. Not
through love of killing, but through duty
and necessity. For while the Indian is
not the martyr his admirers claim him
to be- neither is he the %congenial demon
his detractors have depicted him. So
my battles ip early days with Indians
were not fought with the horror of one
who sheds innocent blood nor with the
citation wherewith one rids the world Of
some evil thing.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23

We were camped on the rise of ground
just beyond that where Custer later
made his famous stand. There were
perhaps 20 of us in the party, all scouts
and plainsmen, with the exception OF a
Cherokee or two.
At sunset a man came galloping into
camp. He was dusty and tired out.
His mount, a bay Indian pony. fell dead
at the outskirts of our clearing, and the
rider, as w gathered about, barely gave
himself time to stagger to his feet before
beginning his story.
He had news of a little party of braves
who had broken away from the reser-
walton, eluding a squadron of cavalry
sent to head them off. and who We're now
n their way through the Little Big Horn
country, bound for the settlements.
The settlements" he referred to CON
sisted of a scattered line of some half
score cabins, ranches, etc, strung along
at intervals of several miles.
1t was apparently the war party's in
tention to swoop suddenly down on one
end of this line of dwellings and put the
whole settlement to death before warn
ing could be given, escape planned or
defense prepared.
There were, said the man, but so of
the Indians, and he had been on his way
to warn the settlers when he had fallen
in with us.
No urging was needed to persuade US
to 60 to the help of our threatened broth
ers. There was not a man among US
VIII did not know what such a raid as
that planned by our Sen1Ie red breth-
rem would mean. We had seen devas-
tated settlements before, and We knew
the unspeakable horrors entailed.
In less than half an hour we had
broken camp, and. by a roundabout trail
were fastening through the gathering
night toward the threatened settle
ment.
Our trail, as we planned it, would not
cross that of the war party. Haditdon
SO. their trained eyes would at once have
told them our numbers, the direction in
which we were going and the object OF
our journey. They would have turned
aside, abandoned that particular raid,
and struck at some easier prey.
As we planned 1t, the party o
advance on the settlement, unprepared
Tor resistance; would find 1t not only
prepared for them but heavily rein
forced. and would receive a lesson they
would not soon forget.
We arrivedAt the settlement on time.
spread the warning, and prepared to
defend the point at which we knew,
by the direction from which they were
travelling. the Indians would be sure
70 attack.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-21

she gave her mite to aid in the erec-
ton Of the state Presbyterian hospi-
tai here.
Nearly a year ago the Iowa Pres
byterian synod voted to build hos
pital at Waterloo and began canvass
of the public for funds needed to COM
plete the building.
Little Maud Ballou, an orphan girl,
nine years of age, who lives with an
Her relatives are poor, her foster
mother being compelled to take in
washing while her uncle Is slowly dy-
ing of consumption.
This child canvassed her resources
to discover what she could give. She
had few toys, but she possessed a hen
which she had nourished and raised.
It's sacrifice in behalf of the hospital
was decided upon. Her foster mother
en-. the girl carrying the money i'm
mediately to the headquarters of the
w. G. Il. u. for the hospital fund.
Hearing of the sale a local merchant
rebought the hen, paying $500 for it.
Then it was sold and resold, time and
again. The local lodge of Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen gave $25 for it,
other lodges followed suit and sums of
$40, Sl5 and $25 kept pouring in.
One Sunday the pastor of the Pres
byterian church had the hen placed
on his pulpit during the services and
preached a strong sermon on the good
deed of the little girl. The church
congregation purchased the hen from
Its last owners, paying more than
$50.
The child's mite is still growing. An
eastern commission house has made an
offer for the hen, desiring to exhibit
1T as the highest priced bit of poultry
ever sold.
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H. +. A. RoEDELL DEAD.

was = OIIIeIIy TTUI1HIeHt TT q. a, II,
Circles in Illinois,
Pekin, ILL.,. Jan. 18.-Herman F. A.
Roedell, prominent in Illinois Grand
Army circles. and one time Michigan
state road commissioner, is dead here
aged 67 years.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-21
FATHER WAS IN REVOLUTION.
James Dolson Of Atlantic Son of Vet
eran of 1876,

Des Moines, Jan. 1S.-A hundred
ana twenty years have passed since
the close of the Revolutionary war. Yet
there are a few persons living whose
tatners Fought in the struggle. When
j. w. Logan of Des Moines, died few
weeks ago, 1t was supposed that the
last OF the generation in Iowa had
died. But this was an error for the
SONS OF the American Revolution have
Just discovered in the person of Jas.
Dolson OIL Atlantic. the son of man
who fought in the war of rs and in
dependence.
Mr.. Dolson also is the brother of
Mrs. l.. F. Andrews of Des Moines
Mrs. Andrews is member of the
daughters of the American revolution
ana Is the recipient of golden spoon
because of the fact that her father was
actually a soldier in the war of rs
rms is the demonstration which the
daughters society permits itself when
1t discovers among it's members a real
daughter of the revolution.
MI. Dolson's father was John Dol
son. He was a Pennsylvania soldier,
rising rapidly from private to a
higher rank. He was in the battle of
Trenton. In 1882 he was granted a
pension. He was then a resident of
Elmlra, N. Y, and must have been
quite old. He was born in 1854 and
died in 1888. Mr.. Dolson's son is "a
years of age.
Another real son lives at Sioux City
in the person Of Ira Lepper.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-21
Now FREE to the SICK and
ailing Of Ottumwa : the
Finsen Light and Violet
Ray Treatment.
READ CAREFULLY,

Miss Ella Cross. TO Maple avenue
relieved of pain in back in one treat
ment.
Mr.. j. M. Dixon, 115 S. Ash street
cured of pleurisy and shortness Of
breath in four treatments.
We are making remarkable cures Of
catarrh. catarrhal deafness, asthma
and diseases of the lungs and bronchi-
al tubes, by our Electro-Vapor. When
medicines are taken into the stomach
they are absorbed and carried by the
blood to every part of the body. The
healthy tissues receiving the same
amount as the diseased. In all inflam-
nation. such as catarrh, lung diseases,
rheumatism, ETC., it is impossible to
reach the diseased parts with a suf-
ficient quantity when taken by the
stomach to do any good. The Elec-
tro-Vapor method for treating catarrh
and lung diseases brings, the medicines
in direct contact with the diseased
parts in highly rarified and minute
form enabling the tissues to absorb
the medicine in its full strength.
A special lung inflator is used to
open up collapsed air cells and allow
the medicine to be carried directly to
| the infamed tissues.
| Our method of treating rheumatism,
deep seated infammations Of the
joints, muscles. nerves, periosteum,
liver, kidneys, bladder, ovaries, ETC.,
consists in forcing the medicine into
the diseased tissues (not with syr-
inge) but by magnetic influence pro-
duced by an apparatus made for that
purpose. 1t is harmless. 1t is painless.
1t cures. The medicines are placed on
metallic plates covered with cotton.
You can see it pass through the part
being treated from one plate to anoth-
err.
We guarantee to cure any case of
rheumatism, blood or skin disease as
quickly here as in any health resort.
THE VIOLET RAY TREATMENT
Marvellous cures having been report
ed from almost every part of Europe
during the past year through the use
of the Finsen light and Violet rays,
we decided to place these appliances
in our Offices both here and in Daven-
port. Although nearly like the X-rays
the effect on the. tissues is entirely
different. 1t promises to become the
greatest known agent for relieving
pain, absorbing tumors, malignant
groWths. curing cancer, skin diseases,
pimples, boils, sprains and bruises.
| In order that the merits of this new
and wonderful healing agent may be-
come known, we will treat all who call
at our Office before January 80, who re
quire Violet Ray treatment, absolute
| ly free until cured.
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Real Estate Transfers.

Real estate transfers furnished by
Lowenberg C Co.. real estate agents.
1JV 5outh Court street.
Annie 3. Baker to Charlie G. Baker
north half southwest quarter and part
northwest quarter, section 2s-71-1S,
81.
Grace e. Parminter to Charlie G..
Baker, north northwest quarter, sec
ton 2S-71-13, $4,000.
Charlie c. Baker to Phoenix Trust
Co., northwest quarter and north half
southwest quarter. section 2s-71,1S,
$4,100.
Alois Schafer and wife to H. snod-
grass. lot -, Kramer addition, Ottum-
wa. SITS.
FRED II. Carter ct al to United
States, lots 141-144, block IA, Ottum-
wa, $6,0s5.
j. II. Merrill and wife to United
States, part lot las, block Ia. ottumwa.
$111.12.
F. H. Carter, trustee, to United
States, undivided two-forthy -fifths in
terest in lots .141 and LA, block IA, OF
tumwa, $SS.88.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-21
MAT HUNTER is VICIOUS.
Slayer of Holland is Punished but Re,
fuses to Work For State.

Fort Madison, Jan. 1S.-Matt. Hun
ter is proving to be the most intracta-
BILE prisoner in the history Of the state
prison at this place. Homer Hollands
slayer is terror to the warden and
submits to any form of punishment
prescribed by the rules rather than
go to work. He is sullen, morose and
mean.
He realizes that he could complete
his sentence in thirteen years bv work
ing, while his present course will mean
that he must endure all manner of
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.COlNTO BANKRUPTCY
OFFICIALS OF MT. AYR BANK DE-
eide TO TAKE ADVANTAGE
"a OF LAW.

Mt. Ayr, Jan. 19-Hundreds of far
mers crowded the streets Of Mt.
Ayr yesterday, brought to the city by
the news of the failure of the Citizens
bank, which was announced here on
Saturday evening. Public sentiment is
strong against the Cummings, the own
.ers of the bank, and this morning there
was talk of criminal prosecution, but
later in the day calmer councils pre-
vailed.
Threatened to Shoot.
The sensational incident of the day
was the attempt of one man, whose
little all had been in the Dunning
bank, armed with revolver, to get at
Day Dunning, the president of the de.
funct bank. He had to be driven from
the premises.
The sentiment continues almost
unanimously against bankruptcy pro-
ceedings, but last evening Dunning
and the leading directors, after con-
ference lasting all day, decided to go
into bankruptcy.
There is nothing new regarding the
assets of the bank. but a low figure is
expected.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-21
kardships for full twenty-five years,
but he says he don't care,

Hunters theory is that the state
owes him a living. I'm entitled to the
best you've got down here" said he to
the warden, ''and l propose to have it.
/ certainly shall not work a lick for
the state. Now go ahead and do your
worst
Hunter is regarded as a desperate
man and is carefully watched. To
those who knew his victim, Homer
Holland, and his frank, boyish, gener-
Gus, jolly way, can hardly conceive
that he would select as his chum such
a man as Hunter. But then gambling
makes strange bedfellows.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-21
MATTERN WINS.
Des Moines Primary Election Full Of
Warm Ward Politics.

warm Ward Politics.
Des Moines. Jan. 19.-The result of
the republican primaries last night was
a close victory for George Mattern
over his militant opponent. John Mac
Vicar.
Mattern in the lead, with seventy-si
delegates in the convention as against
sixty for MacVicar. The total vote
was 5000, but was less than year
ago.
Ex-Mayor John MacVicar conceded
the contest last night, but there was
gnashing of teeth in the MacVicar
camp, and fraud in the final result
was freely charged.
There is a disposition on the part
of the MacVicarites to contest the
result,
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Drs. MyerLy s Kreul

Rooms 10, 20 and 81, third floor, Hof-
mann Building, Ottumwa, Iowa.
Hours to II a. m. 2 to 4 p. M, z
to p. m. -
Sundays noon only.
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GIRLS tET HEN BRINGS $500.
Waterloo Child Adds Mite TO Hospita
Fund by Selma Fowl,

Waterloo, Jan. 1S.-An Iowa hen
has sold for $500 and bids fair to bring
twice that sum before it is finally dis
posed of. This remarkable price for
Hawkeye poultry reveals a beautiful
little story of a young girl and how
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-21
GIRLS NEAR DEATH.
at Cincinnati Nearly Causes

Heavy Loss of Life.
# = : . *sw = y i * = - = 81 49, .
= Cincinnati, Jan. 1s.-The plant .
g of MihaIovitch Fletcher & CO., 3
= used as distillery, was destroyed =
. by fire today. Fifty girls employ :
" ed in the building had narrow es- =
= scapes. TWO firemen were seri- .
. ousIy injured by falling. The loss =
. is 100000. y
s = 8 s y i Il Il = u a
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-21

Burlington, Jan. 1s.-That ]. w.
Blythe is republican first and last,
and as such is unqualifiedly in favor
OF Theodore Roosevelt's nomination
and election as President, is shown to
be an indisputable fact by the follow
ing article published in this mornings
Rl1rlirl otnn Harrlr I,,rn.
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BLAIR FUNERAL HELD.
Remains Inferred At st. Louis, Mo.
Today.

st. Louis, Mo-, Jan. 19.-The funeral
of James L. Blair, former general
counsel for the Worlds fair was held
here today. None but relatives and
close friends of the family attended
the ceremonies.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-09-30

whose peculiar tastes delight in the
very poorest grade of coffee. that the
Philippine ana Hawaiin coffee is un-
bearable.
1t can be no worse than the Brazil
ian, drunk by number of millions of
people in the United States, who, poor
souls, know no better.
If we are to speak frankly, we cam
not tru;hfully say that the coffee from
these two colonies, Our sisters in mis-
fortune and misery, is the very finest
and best; the richest and most savory
in the world, as ours is universally
acknowledged to be, but it surely is
not the awful corcoction which the
long suffering Gin this case) citizens of
the North have been obliged to drink
for SO long
Although the letter which our North.
ern colleague publishes may have no
other result, it will always be CRATE
fully remembered by us as an echo of
sympathy from one who feels for our
misfortunes, who reiterates Our argu-
ments, our pleas. even Our very words
in defense of cause which is alike
identical with ours.
Are further proofs lacking that we
have found valuable ally in our bat
tile, and strong reinforcements in
support Of the stand we have taken.
1t cannot be denied that the strong
Jest argument brought against us he's
been shattered.
Puerto Rico is not alone in the pro
duction of coffee.
Here are three countries banded
together by a common cause, ruined
by the same stroke of fate, plunged i'll
darkness by the same misfortunes; bu-
of the three, ours is the one which
bears the brunt Of the storm; it IS, Of
the three. the smallest, the fairest, tlt.
one which was richest and happiest ia
former times, the one now racked bv
the trials Of adversely.
And that which Hawaii and the
Philippines ask as matter of Justice
is for us not merely matter of just
ice, but supreme and vital necessity.
We shall see whether Our united de
mands will meet with any better fate.
Three voices raised in unison should
be heard better than one alone, eve :,
though the lone one has been raised
to the pitch Of infinite despair.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-09-30
Una crisis ministerial
eHs RssgaaGeas"sa
La campana de los rebeldes

Nueva York viernes Los despachos que
Sc reciben de la capital del reino undo, infor-
man 1ue han sido muy acentuadas en- estos utl
mos dias las senales de una crisis ministerial
provocada por los ataques de que esta siendo
obeto ell gobierno, causa de los constantes oes-
calabros que expermentan las tropas inglesas
en- Ell Tibet.