Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-23

of everyone in the neighborhood, the
owner of the noisy brute slumbers ut
terly unconscious that he Is breeding
riot
The Dubuque Telegraph says it is
to the credit of Americans that base
ball is the national sport.
The Des Moines Capital states that
the suit against Lafe Young, just con-
cluded in Mr.. Young's favor. cost the
state of Iowa the sum of $4,000, paid
to so-called expert accountants"
The Boone Republican says that
LATE Young will probably have to let
up on Cummins long enough to kill off
the Harvey Ingham gubernatorial
boom.
There need be no fear that Iowa
will not be thickly enough populated, !"
says the Des Moines Register ana
Leader commenting on the apparent
decrease in population during the last
nVe years. The boys are now liv-
ing VINO VIII see Iowa farmed like a
garden lines of intcrurban railway
running through practically continu-
Gus villages. No such garden spot of
the world was ever intended to be left
to sparse or declining population
The Boone Republican declares that
Mr.: Roosevelt's square deal talk in
Chicago, given without moments
preparation and straight to the man
in front of him, is one of the greatest
speeches he ever made.
The Dubuque Telegraph says that
Mr.. Stickney, president of the Chica-
go Great Western, is ''refreshingly
honest" remarkably able" and
measured by the resources of the
mind, the greatest individual force
In the railroad world"
The Council Bluffs Nonpariel saws
that Gov. Cummins testified" before
the senate committee In Washington
but the Marion Register suggests that
the quite general supposition Is that
he just talked
This is indeed beautiful spring"
says the Dcs Moines Capital, com
menting on the failure Of the suit
against LATE Young, a former state
binder, to recover alleged over
charges. "Mr. Young's enemies have
literally forced vindication upon
him." states the Capital, land Young,
being believer In Providence, be-
lieves these thines have been provi-
dentt~l and is duly grateful and
thankful to his political enemies. They
have handed him a boquet of rarest
flowers. They started out to destroy
the, man, and have made this the glad
dest May time of a considerable life."|
The Cedar Falls Record regards talk
OF establishing beet sugar factories
IN Iowa as hot air" There will
be no beet sugar factories in Iowa"
much available land for the produce
ton of the beet in the sem-arid sec
tons Of the country"
The Cherokee Times says 1t may
be just as well not to be too optimis-
tic or too hopeful of the lion and
the lamb lying down together in
peace because of the Presidents cor
dial reception by the Iroquois club.
IT Roosevelt should be spared to
FIJI out his term, as the people be-
lieve he will, there can be but one
outcome" says the Cedar Rapids Ca
zette. The party must nominate
someone as fearless, as sensible and
as strong, or the party must nominate
him If it would succeed"
The Waterloo Reporter denies that
there is any considerable sentiment
In Waterloo to the effect that the town
Is the victim of railway discrimina-
ton. That there is considerable dis
satisfaction here is more imagination
than reality says the Reporter. THE
most noise has been made by people
whose shipments could as well be
made In truck cart so far as car
rV1ng CaDacitv Is concarrad 10
discussion is dictated more particular
~ by political purposes than by bus
mess reasons
Secretary Wilson may not be go
ing to marry an Iowa girl In June but
that Is not saying that he will not
marry an Iowa girl some time," says
the Des Moines News.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil phi
losopher concludes that the poorest
person in the world is the one with
more time than he knows what to
do with.