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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-11-16
VANDIvER,s ORDER.

The Kan; IS City Journal--In the
opinion of the politicians State
Insurance Commissioner Vandiver
has launched his candidacy for
governor of Missouri. Whether he is
to be Governor Folks political legatee
remains to be seen, but Mr.. Vandiver't
grandstand play in barring the New
York Life Insurance company from
Missouri indicates that he has at least
taken a leaf out of Folks presidential
book in bidding for the nomination.
1t Is difficult to believe that Mr..
Vandiver's action was inspired by any
thing but political motive. 1t is
evident, at least, that the grounds
upon which he bases his arbitrary act,
that the funds Of the company have
been Impaired so that it's further con-
tinuance In business in this state is
hazardous to the public and to those
holding its policies, are not borne out
by the facts. The Investigations into
the affairs of the company have clear
~ established the fact that it is per-
fectly solvent, and Its ability to fulfill
Its contracts is unimpaired. The
graft and extravaganza which have
been disclosed, affected only the COM
pany's surplus, and even that is still
colossal, while the reserve fund which
the law requires to be set aside for
the payment of policies is untouched.
If the investigation had revealed the
slightest evidence that this sacred
fund had been impaired, the fearless
and able attorney, Mr.. Hughes, who
Is conducting the inquiry, would have
been the first man to demand a re-
ceivership for the company The fact
that this has not been done Is con-
elusive evidence against Mr.. Vandi-
ver's unwarranted assumptions.
In fact, the strongest and best guar
antee that could be given Of the value
Of life insurance policy as a safe
asset Is afforded by these life insur-
ance Investigations. Notwithstanding
the enormous salaries, the gratis of
the insurance officers, and the great
extravagances in their mad race for
new business, the three great New
York companies have been shown to
be financially sound to the core. In
view Of this all-important fact Mr.,
Vandiver's action can not but be re-
garded as ill-advised and mischievous.
The step which he has taken can not
add a particle Of protection to the in
terests Of the existing policy holders.
while on the other hand 1t Is calculated
to impair the public confidence in
life insurance as a means Of protec-
ton and as safe investment, and
thus deter many timid and ignorant
persons from performing a sacred duty
to their families.
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of Branch's duty and was not In the
nature of the "peaching" that school
boy ethics make an act of dishonor.
However, Merriweather was disposed
to regard 1t SO and his challenge to
Branch followed.
The fight resulted in fatal injuries to
Branch and he died soon afterward.
Now court martial will try Merri-
weather.
Some time ago 1t was learned that
hazing at Annapolis and West Point
had reached such a point that it was
decidedly brutal Young men were
fearfully mistreated and finally the
matter came to the eye of the authori-
ties. Investigations and courts martial
followed and as result hazing has
been reduced to a very respectable
minimum at both schools. 1t is time
that fist fighting be relegated to the
past. Duelling was out of date a hun
dred years ago and no one wants to
see a revival of the practice.
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BELkNAp.

| Belknap, Nov. ID J. w. John.
son of Des Moines was called here last
week to the bedside Of his sister, Mrs.
M. A. Coke, who is at the point of
death. Mrs. Johnson Is expected to
arrive soon. Mrs. Coke has been suf.
fering for the past year with the
creeping paralysis, but has not been
bedfast until the past month. About
the middle Of October she was taken
to an infrmary but was told
that her case had progressed SO far
that they could do nothing for her
She was then brought back to her
home where she has received the best
of care from her children and rela.
tives and kind neighbors and friends.
Rev. d. M. Lower Of the Congrega-
tional church at Agency and w. H.
Slack of the Methodist Episcopal
church of this place are holding q
union meeting at the Congregational
church. Rev. Lower has already won
warm place in the hearts of the PEG.
rle and Rev. Slack is well liked in the
being more closely drawn together,
community. The Christian people are
and good meetings are being held.
j. W.. Bolivar has sold his farm to
J. M. Mccormick and has purchased
the. hotel at Floris and expects to
take possession before long.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Mum and chill.
dren of Bloomfield and Mr.. and Mrs.
George Hockersmith and children of
Drakeyille visited here Sunday at the
parental J. T. Mum home. Mr.. and
Mrs. w. E. Mum Of Dunville who
spent the day at Moulton with the
family of Mrs. Munn's brother, DR.
Will Ware, were also callers in the
morning and evening Sunday.
George Rudd Of West Grove spent
q few days last week with Mr.. and
Mrs. j. G. Mcconnell Mr.. Rudd is
convalescing from severe attack of
typhoid fever.
Born. to Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Rice on
Sunday night, November IL, a son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ell Harbour, Mr.. and
Mrs. Orla Burns, Mrs. Chloe smock.
Mrs. Amanda Lester and Mrs. Mary
Sharon formed a surprise party on
Mra /. C. Thomnaon Saturday. that
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SOME sTRAIeHT FACTS.

TWO factories are today knocking at
the door of Ottumwa. Opportunities OF
this character come very seldom to any
city. The keen competition on the
part OF western cities 10 secure new in.
dustrlal enterprises, renders this an
unusual opportunity, and it should be
SO considered by every property owner
and business man in Ottunwa.
70 say that Ottumwa cannot secure
these factories is worse than nonsense /;
IT Is libel on this community. Ottum.
wa can secure them, because Ottunlwa
has The money and when once aroused
to the situation, Ottumwa has the
energy AMI the enterprise to take up
propositions of this character and put
them through 20 successful conclu.
sion.
Ottumwa has today 10000 people
She can have in ten years from today
$4,000 people and in twenty years
$4,000. Is cttumwa going to sleep and
going to permit more enterprising
rival pc!ats to distance her in the com
petition for Industrial enterprises? We
do not believe it.
Ottumwa cannot stand still If she
would. Unless this city goes forward,
she VIII inevitably go backward. OF.
tumwa can only go forward by
united, determined and patriotic action
on the part Of her citizenship. OF
tumwa's opportunity is now here. If
Qttumwa loses this opportunity she
will not recover from the loss for five
years, if then. If the property owners,
the bankers and the business men of
Ottumwa will not arouse themselves
to the existing conditions, they can
soon see their property depreciating in
value, their bank deposits decreasing
and their business going to more pro.
gressive and enterprising points,
Two factories are today knocking at
the door of Ottumwa. The mere
statement Of this fact should be suf1i-
cient to arouse an interest that would
secure these factories for Ottumwa be-
fore next Saturday night.
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FAIRBANKS PHILOSOPHY.

That Vice President Charles w,
Fairbanks is the right kind of a.man
In the place he occupies is shown. by
every speech he makes. In an address
before the Y. M. G. A. of Indianapolis
last Sunday afternoon he made plea
for the square deal in personal life,
saying, in part::s
"Our safety lies in an educated citi-
zenship. The best interests of labor
are to be conserved and advanced
through the Instrumental of the
school house. Ignorance is the foe of
us all and to no one is ignorance a
greater enemy than to those who la
Dor.
There is no better code by which to
live than the golden rule. If we will
faithfully live according to this brief
yet all-embracing code of personal con-
duct we shall best advance our COM
mon interests. Whatsoever you would
that men should do unto you do We
even SO unto them is a venerable ut
terance.
1T has been the guide of millions in
ages past and 1t will continue to guide
the conduct of millions yet to be. 1t
is the rule Of high purpose. 1t is the
rule OF Christianity. 1t is the rule of
men and women who are given to right
thinking and noble doing. Hold fast to
| 1t amidst good and evil report.
1T calls you to generous and lofty
duty. 1t lifts YOU out of the mere
grossness of self 1t leads away from
the ungenerous and the uncharitable.
1t paralyzes the tongue Of hate and
closes the lips of SANDER.
If you can do no kindly act to your
brother act not at all If you cannot
make his burdens lighter do not make
them heavier. If you cannot lift him
up do not cast him down.
Il am a firm believer that, as a poo
pie, We are growing in grace and ex-
banding in all the ways which make
for better men and better women, for
more and better homes, for better
city. better state and better coun-
try's
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HIGHLAND CENTER.

Highland Center, Nov. 14-C. II.
Payton and family visited over Sun
da with relatives in Delta
DR.. Lawson and family are visiting
in Cedar today.
G. M. Bowlin and wife visited over
Sunday with A. j. Thompson's near
Fremont.
Mrs. Nancy Davis is visiting at the
D. C. Mccormick home.
p. M. Bowlin went to Packwood last
week on business.
The school will give an entertain-
ment and supper at the hall Friday.
Nov. "a. Everybody invited.
Mrs. Annie Emery, who has been
in the ottumwa hospital, returned to
her home yesterday morning.
Rob Emery and family, Of OttuSowa.
visited over Sunday with relatives
here.
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FIGHTS FOR HONOR.

Secretary. Bonaparte of the navy de
partment has ordered a court martial
to sit In the case of Midshipman Minor
Merriweather, third year student at
the Annapolis naval academy, who is
said to have fatally injured Midship.
man Branch, a fellow student If the
reports from Annapolis are true Mer-
riWeather has been guilty of a serious
crime and breach of all the gentle.
manly code of ethics, but it seems that
ne was following a time honored GUS
tom at Annapolis when he challenged
Branch to a fist fight.
Since Branch's death investigation
has revealed to the world that when a
student at the academy considers him
self wronged it is point of honor with
him to challenge whoever has wronged
him to bare fist fight of twenty
eight rounds, If both can stand up that
long. These fights take place either
on the academy grounds or near by
and the opponents fight stripped to the
waist. For many years this custom
has been in practice and it seems In
credible that the officials in charge of
the school had not known of it.
Time was when "an affair of honor
was quite the thing, but men of the
present Gay had come to think that
time had passed. In the days when
pistols and swords were as much a
part Of "gentleman's" luggage as is
can or set of golf clubs now, It was
no unusual thing for death to occur
as the result Of some insult But the
game was never very popular in Amer
lea since the Hamilton Burr affair. Or
at least, this was the general opinion.
But now 1t seems that it has been pop
ularized anew and kept going with fists
for weapons, among the striplings who
go to the naval training schools.
Had Midshipman Branch been
guilty of some really dishonorable act
there might be, in the eyes of many
men, some excuse for Merriweather's
challenge. But the investigation, so
far as it can be learned outside of Of
fetal circles, has disclosed the fact
that, Branch reported Merriweather to
the school authorities for some de-
linquency. The report came In the line
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SALEM.

Salem, Nov. Ia. - Rev. F. H. Clark
preached ar the Methodist Episcopal
church Sunday evening.
The Epworth league had very in
teresting meeting Sunday evening. The
topic for the evening was "The Evils
Of Indulgence"
Miss Marian Becker is visiting her
aunt, Mrs. Marian Parker at Ottum.
wa.
The Friends Missionary society met
with Mrs. Kellum Wednesday.
At the Friends church Sunday even
ing the Christian Endeavor society
rendered temperance program.
County Superintendent Anna Pack
er visited Salem relatives from Mon.
Gay until Thursday.
Rev. T. 8. Pool has been assisting
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ABINGDON.

Abingdon, Nov. 14.-Mr. and Mrs
Chas. Hood were Ottumwa visitors
last week.
Mrs. T. G. schooley has been quite
Ill the past week.
Isaac Downey, former Jefferson
county school teacher, has been elect
ed superintendent Of public instruction
in Adams county, Nebraska, this fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. T. Gobble and sor
Carl, Of Fairfield, visited at the home
OF T. w. Gobble last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. F,leenor and Mrs
Ida Davis We're shopping in Fairfield
Friday.
Lowney WEIGH and wife, Of Liberty
vile. Were Sunday v isitors at T. G.
Schooleys home.
Mr.. and Mrs Cha5. Buchanan, OF
Packwood, visited Mrs. Buchanan's
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Downey
Sunday.
Mrs. S. D. Cline returned. home last
Saturday afternoon after two weeks
visit at Hedrick.
DR.. Emerson, Of Packwood, was a
professional caller here last week.
Will Kenyon and family were Sun
dav guests at the home Of w. A.
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Rev. G. B. Hankins in his series Of
meetings at Donaldson chapel.
Mrs. Arthur Hunnicutt has returned
to her home in Wisconsin.
The band boys have fine program
for their concert to be held at tho
opera house Thanksgiving evening
Bert Tagon Who spent the summer
| In Minnesota has returned home.
Joseph Stanley Of Baxter Springs,
Kansas Is visiting relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs W. Knight left for
(! Garden City, Kansas Tuesday, where
they will spend several months with
their daughter, Mrs. Farlow Weeks.
Mrs. Rewbens Tones is visiting rel
atives at Lyon, Kans.
| Miss Josie Cook came from Hills.
boro and visited at the home Of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lin Cook, last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. A. Hartley, have
taken little girl to raise from the
orphans home. The child arrived on
| Thursday
| A large audience were highly de-
lighted with the Jubilee entertainment
| by the "Carolinians'' Tuesday even
ing
Wednesday, afternoon at Cedar
church the funeral services OF Albert
aged years, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Com
ley Hallowell, were held.
| J. w. Moon returned from Keokuk
Tuesday. where he had been with his
son Ray who underwent an operation
and had one of his eyes removed
Miss Mary Maris closed very
successful term of school Friday.
| P,,d ay,rv
i ed her sister Mrs. c. Brownfield and
her husband, from Missouri, last week.
| Miss Nina Pidgeon is home from
Mt. Pleasant where she has spent sew 81.
4 eral months. N ,3}5.'. 3.
o. s. Ratliff is visiting his son Hu.
bert in California. Is
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Wilmeth left
tuesday to visit the formers mother
and other relatives in Nebraska.
Mr.. and Mrs. |. Brown, Mr.. and Mrs.
"A. Davidson and Mrs. Elsie Garretson
We're guests of the Rebekah lodge at
Hillsboro, Wednesday evening.
John Long and family are enjoying
visit with the formers sister, Mrs.
Brown, from Oregon.
Mrs. Katie Ross and children Of La
Plata. Mo-, accompanied Mrs. Ross.
4 AA.uSA, iMdoOu MllleT, on MIS- return
home from his Missouri trip. el.j
! Miss Castle from Eft. Madison will
reside with Mrs. Leah Widdifeld.
Henry James was business caller
at the county seat Thursday.
DIR. w. A. Dilts and wife spent We'd
nesday at Mt. Pleasant.
Mrs. j. T. Ingrim was shopping az
Mt. Pleasant Wednesday.
O. H. Cook has purchased Mrs.
Carter's pretty residence property on
| College street.
Byron Dawson shipped carload OF
hogs to Chicago Wednesday,
Miss Ida Long visited friends at MI.
Pleasant last week.
Mr.. and Mrs Berry and two chill.
dren arrived home Saturday after
spending ten weeks In the Pacific
states.
Mrs: J. I. 1ngrim is enjoying visit
| with her cousin, Mrs. Johnson, nnE~
| Kansas,
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RARcock,s PLAlNr.

Congressman Babcock of Wisconsin
who has been among the foremost
tariff revisionists in congress for sew
eral years and who has admittedly
been doing everything in his power
to bring about action along the lines
of revision at the coming session, is
discouraged. According to dispatch
from the Courier's Washington CORES
pondent, which was published Satur-
/, day, tie Wisconsin man blames Gov
ernor Cummins largely for the defeat
which he declares is the portion Of
] the revisionists. Babcock declares
| that the Iowa governor, by reason of
his tireless fight for tariff changes and
| his enmity to Captain j. A. T. Hull's
| interests have, turned practically the
whole Iowa delegation against him
and against his ideas Of changing the
tariff. Evidently Mr.Babcock believes
that the Iowa delegation has a great
deal to say about the actions of con-
gress, for he declares that there can
be absolutely no revision of the tariff
at the coming session.
| 1t is indeed hard lines to find that
after working as hard and increasingly
as Governor Cummins has worked,
OAO CllolJS llOL applC SldCOu, UuI
are described as the very agency that
must bring defeat. to ones own ideas
and fellow workers. And yet, scarcely
anyone who mas watched political
events in Iowa recently could doubt
that Mr.. Babcock is more than half
right in his diagnosis Of the case But
Mr. Cummins does not deserve all the
blame. In fact, the newly elected
senator from Mr. Babcock's own state
is the. one who should shoulder a
great deal of the responsibility. In
his Chautauqua addresses throughout
Iowa, at Ottumwa among other places,
he told his hearers bluntly that Iowa
was misrepreseLted in congress.
Speeches like the one Gov
e-nor La Toilette made in Ottumwa
cannot be calculated to bring him fol-
lowers nor convert men to his belief;
regardless of whether that belief be
right or wrong. And SO Mr. Babcock,
though he may be right with regard to
the Des Moines sage, must also look
toward Madison when he points to
the men who are responsible for the
defeat of his particular pet scheme.
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TuskEeEE,s GREAT WORK

Kansas City Times.-The work of
Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee
institute Is fairly familiar to the
country Yet a glance at his annual
report, which has just been issued,
leaves the impression that the i'm
portance of the Undertaking is not
likely to be overestimated. The schoo,
community contains nearly 200 ne
groes. including instructors and en-
ployes as well as students. The in
stitution's influence Is not confined to
Its graduates. for by its organization
of farmers institutes and by analag-
GUS efforts at sort of university ex-
tension it affects a wide region in its
neighborhood. The demand for Tus-
.kegee graduates is two or three times
greater than the supply, and Mr..
Washington mentions the fact that
within few weeks five students have
been sent to the Soudan by a cotton
raising syndicate in order to super
wise plantations there. A school that
can produce such results as these is
evidently an important factor in the
industrial development of the south
as well as in the upbuilding of a race.
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reform business" says the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil.
President Roosevelt Is always do
ing something, and he makes a sue
cess of everything" observes the
Marion Register
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RUSSIAN PASSION.

y
Minneapolis Journal.-It is difficult
to understand W, ather the Russian
people are simply drunk with freedom
or whether there is a deep seated pur-
pose back of the continued outbreaks
of violence. The most recent out
burst of popular passion carried the
revolution up to the doors Of the
cars palace, From the windows of
Peterhof he can see the flames of
Cronstadt. Whether the soldiers and
sailors have taken up the torch
merely to give vent to an orgy of in
dependence or whether they wanted
something more and took this means
to bring 1t to the cars attention is
involved In the obscurity Of all the
news which comes from Russia.
There has been a deepseated dis
content with the retention of Trepoff
as head Of the troops in the capital
and there is still lingering suspicion
that the proclamations of the car do
not cover everything the nation needs
to put 1t on the road to constitutional
ism.
We need not be surprised If the
people OF Russia are hot against their
late bosses. We were hot against our
bosses last Tuesday. Our way of ex-
pressing our indignation does not go
to the point Of violence because it is
not necessary, but 1t goes to the point
of contempt, hatred and serious con-
temptation Of the penitentiary as their
future abode. Suppose we had had
Murphies and McCarrens and Coxes
for centuries instead Of yeags and
saw finally one man striving to rid us
OF them. Would it not be our part to
come to that mans assistance with all
our might, even though that might
strayed over the lines of law?
The Russian people have borne so
much, have been fooled so often and
nave been SO wickedly treated that
they cannot be expected to treat the
revolution as a friendly lawsuit They
are mad to the core. and terribly in
earnest. Revolution may be averted
i the people. are convinced that their
masters are sincere in their abdication
put 1T may go to any lengths if sus-
plclon of the motives OF the car are
not entirely removed by frank deal
ing.
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BOLTON.

Bolton, Nov. 14.--Mr. and Mrs. Adam
Long spent Saturday evening in OF
| tumwa.
Mrs. J. e. Kent, west of town, Wis
tied at the home Of Mrs. A, Long, on
Wednesday.
Walter Whittle and Thomas Nc
Weigh were business callers in Oska-
losa on Saturday.
Mrs. J. H. Fredrickson ST., returned
to her home in Keb on Tuesday after
a two weeks visit with her sister, Mrs.
Gus Donaldson.
Evan Jones, Of Perry,was business
caller In town on Saturday.
Mrs. Albert Kaskaden is under the
doctors care this week suffering with
neuralgia.
The mines are running full time
at present.
Mrs. Mary A. Nelson, Of Ripley, Wis
tied friends in this locality this week.
Mrs. Nelson was we'll impressed with
the model mining town.
Ira Kent, of Oskaloosa, spent a
week visiting his brother, j. c. Kent,
west Of town.
DR.. J. B. Muir, of Oskaloosa, was in
town on Friday on professional bust
ness.
The mines secured the services of
DR.. Garland, Of Given, as company
doctor. He comes well recommended
Lewis Gibbon was business caller
In Oskaloosa on Friday. Mr.. Gibbon
holds the position of boss timberman
in the mines.
Leslie Bolton, the general manager
Of the mines reports an increasing
trade and looks for a good winters
work in the coal business.
Mrs. Hiram Long spent Sunday in
Evans as the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ben Hughes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Kaskaden spent
Sunday in Evans at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. Woodcock
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In the meantime, it is due Tom
Lawson that it be remembered that he
had much to do with the start of this
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"The more frequent the accounting,
other things being equal. the stricter
the responsibility to which the people
will hold the government" says the
Clinton Herald. discussing the four
year term,