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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-19
STRUCK BY STREET CAR.

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dent on West Second Street.
From Saturdays Daily.
Barney Fox, a farmer residing west
of Ottumwa, was seriously injured in
a street car accident at the corner of
West Second street and Washington
streets this afternoon about $3.50
O'Clock. Fox and John Mott were in
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-19

I. Roberts and children left yesterday
to spend the winter in Cali
fornia and to visit relatives.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
. JUST WHERE THEY ALWAYS STOOD.

AMONG THE republican press Of Oklahoma
the separate state idea has again sprung into exs-
istence They are demanding that the next effort
shall be for statehood for Oklahoma alone and be-
ginning to renew their TRADES against Indian Terri
tory.
1t is not at all surprising in fact it was to be ex
pected They are simply going back to the position
they formerly occupied and where they have always
been at heart In spite Of all their preensons to the
contrary the republicans of Oklahoma have always
been separate staters. They whipped into line
for single statehood only by their national leaders, and
agitation fer their own ideas.
tits clear, however, that while the Hamilton bill
was killed. the next statehood bill will embody the
single statehood plan. To resurrect the separate
statehood agitation will be merely to division
in sentiment and dissipation of efforts when the time
comes to renew the battle 1t had appeared that dur
ing the last fight the sentiment Of the two territories
had become thoroughly unified this all important
matter It has remained for the republicans of Okla
homa to start the agitation which discord and
disseDSion IN the camp.
During the last campaign these same people
loudly proclaimed that they were the only original
article in the way of single staters Their latest flop
leaves their sincerity open to question Do they real
" want statehood at all? The unceremonious man
ner in which they turned down the proposition call
ing constitutional convention and the renewal of the
separate state agitation raises grave doubts on this
point.
Statehood will have battle hard enough to fight
in congress. We need all the strength we can conf
mand from united sentiment at home. Division here
means obstruction and delay in Washington. The
effect Of the present agitation only be perncious
Cut il out right now. Let Oklahoma and Indian
Territory present solid front for single statehood
when the fight begins next December.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11

WHEN WE wilfully neglect any means Of grace
offered US, we retard the growth of our souls. Each
Lords Day. each Lent each Advent should so lift us
up to higher plane that we should be able ITO see
in ourselves the fruit Of His redemption And as the
seasons 90 by we shall be more and more weaned
from the love of the world
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11

'WHY MCGUIRE didn't get statehood" would
form an interesting theme for another production from
Birds publicity bureau.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11

BEEF TRUSTED busted-investigation failed to
disclose its existence, but these octopuses sly
critters.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11

WHEN man can willingly forego even the ont
ward services OF religion, and stay away from the
house of God, and let the season Of devotion and
communion pass by without thought of regret his
faith and love must be at low ebb, if indeed thev
have not altogether dried upand blown away. A
living plant SEES water; living soul longs for the
refreshment of the Sanctuary
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
SUNDAY THOUGHTS .....
BY REV. WIN. CROSS. RECTOR
oooooooo ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH oooooooo
THERE IS something sadly VI

THERE IS something sadly wrong with the
Christian who cannot talk religion"
He is but poor Christian, no matter what his
other excellencies may be, who talk business or
shop society parties, literature artor almost
anything else in the wide world but is helpless and
dumb, and amentaby incompetent for the task when
opportunities arise as they constantly do in
day contact Of man with man, opportunities to talk
religon-and what do we mean by talking religion2
Sad commentary it is present day methods of re-
Iligions propagation that we should be compelled to
explain what we mean by the phrase of talking re-
Iligion." There are good many ways of talking
religion, and with most of those in common vogue,
we have but little sympathy. Too many people
there are who seem to think that when they get re-
gion they have further need Of their brains No!
We are not referring to brainless ways Of talking
Iligion We have but little patience with those good
people, matter how earnest they may be, to whom
talking religion means vulgar exploiting of their
own goodness, and patronizing condescension for,
what they call the ''poor sinner Too often, talk
ing religion the part of such unfortunate repre-
sentatives of the Christian profession, means the
lavish employment Of phraseology biblical, extra
VACANT, unmanly, unreal.-It embodies nsistent
demand for agreement wththe talker Interpretation,
often exceedingly narrow one of Gods way OF do
ing things, and Of His way of salvation. No! We
are not referring to such poor ways as these We
mean nothing more,-nor less-than that every man
who calls himself Christian, should be ready and
willing and able to talk especially to his own friends
and companions and ntimates, in rational tactful,
gentle and loving way about his Masters religion
and his Masters church. Quietness, simplicity and
nauraness in religious conversations are not incon-
ssent with reverence, in fact closely akin to it.
And moreover such qualities extremely pleasing
to the who wants to discuss religious questions
but is usually repeIled from such discussion because
they often discussed in some of the unfortu-
nate ways to which we have alluded.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11

Do WHATEVER you can to help every struggling
SOUL To add new strength to every cause.-The poor
sick man that is by you-the poor, wronged man
whom your influence might vindicate-the poor boy
in your employ who may set with new hopes upon
the road of life that is beginning already to look dark
to them. I cannot tell what it is. You know yonr
duty. Noman ever looked for it, and did not find it,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-05
WASHINGTON

Secretary Hay has formally announced
that Whitelaw Reid will succeed Joseph
III. Choate as ambassador to Great Brit
ain.
1t has been decided that Gen. Horace
Porter of New York shall retire as am
bassador to France, and his successor
will be George Won Lenerke Meyer, pres
ent ambassador to Italy.
Through the activity of Mr.. Combs,
the American minister to Honduras, the
claims of the American citizens against
the Honduran government have been set
tied. One is he claim of Charles w.
Renten for $4,000 Mexican. and the
other. the claim of Victor Baiz for 1872
600 Mexican.
There was a fast and fierce fist fight
on the sidewalk in front of the Shore
ham hotel in Washington between JAS
per Wilson, son of the Secretary of Ag-
riCulture, and Rutherford Corbin, son of
Maj. Gen. Henry c. Corbin, command
ing the army in the Philippines. The
fight lasted FIVE or six minutes. and then
ended abruptly, with honors fairly even
Neither of the contestants bore pronounc-
ed marks of the conflict. The cause Of
the quarrel is not known, but there had
been bad feeling between the two.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-05

Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, one of the
most prominent bishops of the Episcopal
church, is the central figure in a sensa-
tional case hat engages the authorities
of his church. He is charged by Rev.
Ingram n. w. Irvine with conspiring
with other bishops and laymen to ruin
him. Two years ago Rev. Mr.. Irvine
had a quarrel with a woman in his con-
.sregation. the upshot OF which was that
Bishop Talbot unfrocked the preacher.
The preacher brought charges against the
BISHOP, which were dismissed by a COM
mlttee of inquiry. Now Rev. Mr.. Irvine
comes Onward with new charges against
not only Bishop Talbot but several other
churchmen of high degree.
The charges upon which Bishop Ethel
bert Talbot of the central Pennsylvania
Episcopal diocese will be placed on trial
have been made public. They are, in
brief, criminal libel, based on the state
ments in the Upjohn letter. immortality,
false statements, the circulation of false
and defamatory reports, classifying,
breach of ordination vows and conduct
unbecoming a bishop. The charge of inn
morality is defined as lying and all the
charges refer to the bishops statements
regarding the life and conduct of the
Rev. /. n. w. Irvine, formerly rector
of st. Paurs church, Huntington, Pa.
Detectives are at work collecting new
evidence against Bishop Talbot, and if
the facts found warrant such action it is
said a new presentment may be made
when the trial is begun.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-05
Of the passenger train were derailed and

of the passenger train were derailed and
burned.
The federal grand jury Investigations
into the land frauds In Oregon are said
to be showing much wider qualifications
than were at first supposed to be posi-
bic Special Deputy District Attorney
f. j. Henry said that the deeper the
matter is investigated the wider becomes
the field.
A gas machine used for lighting the
Columbia Hotel, a two-story brick struc-
ture in Grand Forks. N. D., exploded
and wrecked the building. A porter,
whose name is Carvel, was picked up
fifty feet from the place in an uncon-
scious condition and has received prob
ably fatal injuries. James Ham, a clerk,
and Mary Fian. a waitress, were seri-
ously injured.
Jesse Warner. Thomas Mccoy. Charles
keenan, and Mark Mathews, prisoners,
escaped from the county Jail in Fremont,
Ohio. The delivery vas effected with
outside aid, by saving out a steel bar
from the Jail window. One of the pris-
oners opened a corridor door and the
rest was easy.
Dewey Squires, who came to Butte,
Mont, from Minneapolis two months
ago, was killed in the Belle mine. While
coming up in the cage he tainted, fell
over and his head, protruding, was crush
cd by timbers. Squires, who was %
years old, was a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota.
Tarleton Thompson, for fifteen years
cashier of the Coal Bluff Mining Com
pany, caused more of a sensation when
he killed himself by shooting than has
resulted from the suicide of any other
Terre Haute, Ind, man in a quarter of
a century, because he was widely known
as a man of fine poise and strong char
acter.
Norman King. forme- ly a Minneapolis
city detective under Mayor Ames and
who was convicted and sentenced to a
term in States prison on a charge of
completely in a diamond robbery, was
granted a full pardon by the State par
don board. He secured the pardon on
the representation that he had been of
fered a position in the secret service of
the Erie railroad at Cleveland.
A crowd of thirty men from Selby, S.
d., went to Bangor during the hight and
carried off the records from Bangor, the
county seat of Walworth county, and
took them to Selby. Bangor people knew
nothing of the raid until the next day.
Selby was defeated in the county seat
fight In the November election and has
started a contest. Selby meh declare
they will tear down the court house at
Bangor and move it to Selby.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-05
THE PROSPEROUS FARMER.
His Earnings for This Year Reaches q
Fabulous Figure.


The farmers of the United States are
our greatest benefactors, says a writer
in a Baltimore paper. In 1904, for ex-
ample, this country's farm products were
worth in the aggregate $4,000, 600, 900,
an increase of 31.2 per cent over 1899.
The sum is three times the gross earn
ings Of all our railways and six times
the amount of the capital stock of all
the national banks. The corn crop
would pay the national debt. Next to
corn comes cotton, worth this year $780,
100000, while hay and wheat together
about equal the value of corn. The rice
crop reaches nearly 1000, 600, 600 pounds,
being 200,000,000 pounds more than ever
before. The Secretary of Agriculture
becomes Impressive, however, when he
tells US that the patriotic hens of the
country in one month lay eggs enough
to pay a years interest on the public
debt. The farmer is said to be prosper.
ing this year beyond the record. To
prove this the Secretary shows that IN
the three distinctively agricultural States
of Iowa, Kansas and Mississippi the
deposits in all kinds of banks increased
in the eight years from June 80, 1895,
to Oct 81. 1904, by, respectively, 1874,
219 and 301 per cent. During the same
period the deposits in all banks of the
United States as a whole increased by
81 per cent.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-05
EASTERN.

The st. Croix Shoe Company of Ca
lars. Me-, assigned for the benefit of
creditors. The liabilities are said to
slightly exceed $4,000.
CiseIa Hall, aged p. killed herself in
stantly by jumping from h third-story
window of a house near Broadway III
y est F~crty-sixth street, New York
Three persons lost their lives in a FIRE
which destroyed the farm residence OF
Charles Mcmillan, at the head of Cone
sus lake. Geneseo, n. Y. The cause OF
the FIRE has not been explained.
Two separate collisions between ferry
boats at New York City caused wild
panics among the passengers, but no one
was seriously hurt. The heavy fog that
o%verhung the harbor is blamed Ior the
accidents.
An old house In Sunset park, one or
the landmarks of Brooklyn, has burned.
1t always has been thought the house
was used as a hiding place for Charley
Ross Immediately after he was kidnapped
in Philadelphia.
Miss Edith NJ. Jones, daughter OF the
late Henry L. Jones, a pioneer brick
manufacturer of Chicago, was secretly
married in New York TO FRANK Iuttle,
superintendent of the Standard Watch
Company of Jersey City.
The Pittsburg pa Peace Society was
formed with Andrew Carnegie as hon
orary president and Senators Penrose
and Knox as honorary vice presidents,
and will provide a special arbitration
committee for labor disputes.
Presentment In the case of Bishop Tai
bot of Pennsylvania has been made pub
lie. immortality and criminal libel are
among the specifications on which trial
of the prelate will be sought by promi-
nent Episcopal clergymen and laymen.
There will be no whipping in New
York's elementary public schools, despite
an appeal from some, of the principals
for the restoration of corporal punish
ment in a moderate form. The board of
education voted down the proposition, p
70 ID.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-05

Mrs. Louise G. Smith, whose mother
was q sister of Thomas jefferson, is
dead at Louisville.
jenkins Ferguson, a negro who killed
Willis Hampton over a 25-cent debt,
was hanged at Lake Charles, La.
Mrs. Clarence Mackay, wife of the
young CalifMnia millionaire, devotes
more time TO reading than to society.
Lady Marjorie Bruce, in the face of
protests in England, maintains that
Americans are the most courteous men
in the world.
Mrs. Johanna Wood, the mother of
twelve children, was elected constable
at Hugo, Colo, by the votes of both par
ties. No man would run against her.
Receivers were appointed at Philadel-
phia for the Neane & Levy Ship and
Engine Building Company. 1t is said
that the compass assets largely exceed
the liabilities, but are not at present
available.
Wynne HEREFORD, a young actor of
San Francisco, with two companions,
who shipped on the whaler Baluga last
March, deserted the ship in Bering Sea
seven miles from shore and were rescued
by Indians after spending three days on
m iceberg without food q watsc-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-05

the diet presented them with the resolu-
tons of commentator passed by their
respective branches of parliament.
The quiet, gray-bearded Admiral Togo,
in a blue service uniform, seemed en-
barrassed by the noisy ovation. Rear
Admiral Shimamura, chief of staff,
laughingly elbowed forward Vice Ad-
miral Kamimura. The junior officers
tried to clear the way, but the crowd
closed in on Admiral Togo and they
were frequently forced to push the crowd
back in an endeavor to clear the reach
ing hands. Finally Admiral Togo and
Vice Admiral Kamimura were freed from
their enthusiastic admirers and, sur
rounded by officers, they reached the car
riage sent by the emperor to convey the
distinguished party to the palace.
AS Admiral Togo appeared a great
shout arose, hats were thrown in the air,
arms were raised and "Banzai" followed
"Banzai." Preceded by gendarmes, the
party drove under triumphal arches, wav-
ing flags and discharging firearms
through the cheering crowds to the navy
department, where u brief stop was
made, during which the congratulations
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-05
DOOM TO A JURY.
Minnesota AboIishes System by Heavy
Popular Vote.

Popular Vote.
Minnesota has followed the lead of
Wisconsin and North Dakota and has
abolished the grand jury system. By a
vote of more than 121,000, the Legisla-
ture is directed to adopt a constitutional
amendment eliminating it from the legal
machinery of the State. The last Legis-
lature. after convincing itself of the sue
cess with which the two States named
were working under the plan, decided to
submit the question to the electors. The
vote is the result.
For some years there has been much
discomfort over the workings of the sys-
tenn. Hearing only one side of the case,
the prosecution. the grand jurors often
bring in an indictment on little evidence.
In many Of these cases they are unfair
and work III injustice to the victim.
Then the annoyance and expense Of
bringing indicted persons to trial, only
to have the case 'quashed" by the court,
was an argument that carried much
weight. Just as frequently, when ques-
tionable cases were permitted to go to
a jury trial, the defendant was dis
missed.
These conditions led the Legislature
to take action. Prominent attorneys,
who appeared before it, contended that
the system had outlived its usefulness
in England, where it was created to meet
conditions long since gone, and never
should have been adopted in America.
No change will mark the trial pro-
cedure under toe new conditions except
that the grand jury will be eliminated.
The committing magistrate will hold the
preliminary examination. and if the evil
dence is deemed sufficient the prisoner
will be bound over to the Circuit Court.
The county attorney then will file an
information with that court and the case
will be docketed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-05
IN

By the burning of the house Of Mr..
Lafreniere, near Calendar, Ont, his four
children persisted before assistance could
reach them.
The official trial of the new United
States protected cruiser Chattanooga will
be held on Jan. 80 over the Cape Anp
course instead of Dec. 30.
The weekly trade reviews tell of the
usual after-holiday quiet, but say an in
creasing demand in staple lines Is the
basis 70. the hope of good business.
The International Harvester Company
has decided to fight the effort Of the
Interstate Commerce Commission to COM
pei the railroads to abandon their illegal
arrangements with industrial roads.
Captain f. & Fall of the British
ship Lonsdale, from, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Just arrived at Pot Angeles, Cal, tells
Of picking up twenty-six castaways at
sea who had been drifting about near
Cape Horn for over a week. They had
abandoned the British collier Elvion.
which burned at sea.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-05
FOREIGN.

A moving bog in a county of Ireland
practically destroyed a village, endanger-
ing the lives of tenants and causing
widespread distress.
Cape Hatteras life-savers battled with
a gale for hours and rescued twenty-five
men from the steamer Northeastern,
ashore on Diamond Shoals.
Former President Sam of Hayti has
been condemned to prison for life, having
been found guilty of fraud in the issu-
ance of bonds during his term.
Seven hundred men in Kuropatkin's
army are reported as perishing from the
cold, and the general complains bitterly
because his troops are poorly clothed
and supplies are slow in reaching him.
Another japanese cruiser is believed
to have been sunk off Port Arthur, the
belief being based on the publication by
the navy department in Toxic of a list
of line officers and sixty-five men killed
while on special duty.
The capture of Rihlung Mountain by
the japanese and the occupation of 2O3-
Meter Hill divide the main line of Port
Arthur defenses into three parts, be-
tween which there is no communication,
unless underground passages exist.
Russia's apparent willingness to listen
to talk of mediation is attributed in Ber-
lin to the fresh inquiry by France as to
the terms the Gar would be willing to
accept in case negotiations with Japan
were undertaken with a view of ending
the war.
The Car in an imperial ukase reject
| ed zemstvos appeal for constitution, but
pledged himself 20 grant a number Of
| reforms asked for; equality before law,
independent courts, curtailment Of bu-
reaucratic power, and more liberty for
press and speech promised.
Collisions between the great fleets of
ocean-going steamships ~fog-bound In Brit
,sh ports resulted in damages estimated
ut $1O,OOO,O 600, and Lloyd's has posted
an appalling list of disasters. The loss
to shipping hue to the fog Is said to
amount to 6 1000, 900 for the week.
In the garden of a British subject,
only a mile from Tangier, a bold murder
was committed by Moorish robbers, re-
ports a correspondent at Tangier. The
Moors entered the garden, shot dead a
Spaniard employed on the place and car
ried away four cows belonging to the
British owner. One of the robbers was
severely wounded by the wife of the
Spaniard.