Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-11
Rents Are Raised.

unable to move their families here on
account OF inability to find house for
rent. He said: when I first came to
Ottumwa rented a house for $12 and
a few years later the rent was raised
lished in Ottumwa had to pay SIG
month and recently when it was de-
cided that the division was to be
abolished at Chillicothe, the rent was
again raised to SIS.
II have recently bought me home
here but I consider the request of the
men reasonable and l have signed the
petition. When the division point is
fully established at Laredo and the
men have their long lay overs in OF
tumwa the new men will find it impos
sible to get homes here as the houses
are extremely scarce at present. This
will make it necessary for the men to
maintain a home at some other city
where they will have only a few hours
with their families each week.
Believe Company Will Accept.
1--WE believe that the company will
consider the proposition favorably,
ldllISduS oil ONGI tuc SOuully z
lengthening their divisions. Railroad
companies are not governed by senti-
ment and it is thought that they will
be glad OF the opportunity to lengthen
the division while the employees fav-
or the Plan. The expense would not
be great But little work has been
done on tine new division point at La
redo and it would cost but little more
to establish a big division at Seymour.
This would do away with the divisions
at Cttumwa and Laredo and the COM
pany by reason of having one less di-
vision to maintain would save more in
one year than the cost of establishing
a division point at Seymour.
at is hard to see how the company
would lose any business by the change
and il would certainly be more con-
ven;ent Tor the men to have the di-
vision where they could secure homes
at reasonable price and be able to
spend the time when they were not
working with their families. We ex-
pect to have the petition ready for
presentation TO the officials of the
company IL few days"
I1EdvJ btctVCI " SdttIOl
Rt.i]roaL men say that more people
will go to California next August and
Septen Ter than at any time in the laSt
ten years.
The Knights Templar as we'll as the
Odd Fellows, meet in San Francisco in
September and the arrangements that
are now being made for their comfort
en- route as well as for their entertain,
ment during their stay in California
are on most elaborate scale. Indica
lions are that as many as 10000 per
sons will take advantage of the reduc
ed rates in effect August Is to Sep
TENDER TO- These rates are as low as
at any time in the past-s50 for the
round trip from Chicago; s47.5O from
St. Louis; $45 from Missouri Rive
points.
Russians in Texas.
Five hundred Russian families arr
to settle near Amarillo, Texas on thu
line of the Rock Island road. Tht
Russians have contracted for the lant
and are expected to arrive in New
York early this month.
Sow Macaron Wheat.
Sheridan county Kansas farmer!
will SOW large acreage of macaron
wheat this spring. Last year a nun
Der experimental and the result wal
satisfactory that not a bushel Of The
cereal will be shipped but will bt
sown instead.
Many Bales of Cotton.
The number of bales of cotton of thu
1903 crop shipped from Mangum, Gree
county, Oklahoma up to the first o
the year was 14,O91 and the total TO
the season will probably reach 14,50C
1t took $50 cars to haul these bales t,
the compress.
Burlington Gulf Line.
1t is learned that the preliminary al
engagements of the Hill interests flo
extending the Burlington system fror
Kansas City to Galveston have pre-
| gressed to the point of the final locs
| ion and actual construction of tn
| road will soon be commenced. Repre-
,entatives of the Burlington have bee
actively at work in Texas for the pas
several months obtaining bonus col
tsacts and rights of way. 1t is state
hat the road will for considerabl
| distance in Texas occupy the teri
| DRY which was to have been traver
| ID by the Rock Islands proposed e,
1 tension to Galveston. 1t is not know
| what arrangements the Hill interest
| nave made for port and terminal f;
| cilities at Galveston.