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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09
ElETY YEARS IN IOWA.

Fifty years ago today the last rail on
the Burlington's line from Chicago to
Burlington was laid and fifty years ago
this morning the first train bound for
Chicago left the town which was the
railroads gateway to great state.
The railway company is not celebrat-
ing the event today, though 1t might
well do So Iowa might well make the
day something of holiday, too, for
in the fifty years that have elapsed
since March 6, 1855, this state has gone
forward with giant strides, and more
progress has been made than during
any other period of similar length.
Railroads and progress go hand in
hand. Without the railroad facilities
a community is bound to remain a
small one or worse-to go to ruin
With railroads there is always an op.
portunity for growth, for expansion, for
progress.
Fifty years ago today Ottumwa was
little more than a clearing in the
primeval forest. Burlington. because
it was farther east, was beginning it's
progress. Des Moines, now the largest
city in the state, was almost nothing
The railroads have made the differ.
ence. Their influence has been greater
for good than any other single in
fiuence that has been brought to bear
upon the Mississippi valley for
progress. They have made it possible
for people from the states farther
east to come to Iowa, to learn her
possibilities to know her vast ex.
panses Of fertile lands. They have
made it possible for those who stayed
to raise crops and market them in the
eastern cities. They have made it
possible for Iowa to stand among the
foremost agricultural states In the
union. They have, in fact, had much
to do with making Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09

his person in fact-and in which he
had no faith, as a preventive against
the scourge of smallpox.
Justice Harlan, speaking for the
court, does not range himself, nor the
supreme court on the side of vaccina-
ton as a preventive of the scourge OF
smallpox. He only decides that as the
state, in the exercise of it's clearly de-
fined powers, had decided that the
measure was one of the highest sani-
tary value and conducting to the gen
eral health of the public, the citizen
and the individual rights of the citizen
must give way to the general good, as
that general good has been defined by
the one competent authority-the state
speaking through it's legislature"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09
For being intoxicated and using OBJ

for being intoxicated and using OBJ
scene language.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church will give reception Thursday
evening to Mr.. and Mrs. Dundas at the
home of Hon. and Mrs. j. F. Young on
South Main street. Mr.. and Mrs.
Dundas are visiting the alters par.
ents in this city before entering the
Presbyterian School for Missionaries
in New York. They will go to India
after finishing their course in the
school.
Mrs. VIM. Porter is improving some
what from her recent serious illness.
Prof, Handy gave an interesting
talk to the Sunday school workers Of
this place at the First Presbyterian
church last Friday evening. The aud
fence was very enthusiastic one and
1t was decided to hold county Sun
day school convention here April 4
and 5.
Patrick Lonquist, the son OF Lee
Longquist, has been quite sick since
Christmas with stomach trouble, at the
home of his father in the fourth ward.
Mrs Minnie Kirtley who has been
In Cairo, Mo-, for the past week visit
ing her parents, returned to Abba last
night.
d. D. Rhineheart, of Centerville, was
| in town yesterday on business.
H.C. Beagley is transacting business
at this place this week.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09
POINTS no CONSIDER.

The American Protective Tariff
league, probably the strongest Organi-
zation fayoring protective tariff that
has ever been formed in the nation, has
prepared document dealing with the
agitation for tariff revision, which con-
tains several points that every voter
will do we'll to consider. The Tariff
leagues address, after first presenting
the fact that the present prosperous
conditions are the direct result of the
restoration of a protective tariff seven
years ago with the election Of McKin-
ley, says:
The democratic tariff revisionist we
always have with us. The free trade
tariff reformer is a familiar figure.
From them we have grown accustomed
to expect never ceasing agitation for
tariff changes; for economic convul-
sions. We look for it and are prepared
for It, We know what to do with it
and about it.
when, however, a disintegrating
force asserts itself inside of the re-
publican party, when men protesting
adherence to the cardinal principle of
protection, align themselves with the
enemies of that policy and undertake
to force upon the party in power the
tearing up of our system of tariff pro-
lection. the situation presents aspects
of unusual gravity and Importance. 1t
calls for earnest consideration and
wise action on the part of those who
have not permitted themselves to be
carried out upon the wave of tariff re-
form into the sea Of business turmoil
and industrial storm. 1t calls for calm
counsel and careful deliberation. It
calls for specific answer to the ques-
tons:
What is the urgency for tariff reyi-
sion?
what are the defects, inequalities
and abuses of the existing tariff law
that clamor so loudly for rectifcation?
what are the unjust conditions
now existing which demand remedial
Legislation that is only another
name for wholesale tariff changes?
"What condition, what state of
things exists now. in the first month
of the year 1905, that did not exist
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09
GATHERING NEWS.

The Courier wishes to call the atten-
ton Of it's readers and patrons to the
splendid news service furnished by the
Associated Press in connection with
the news of the Russo-Japanese war.
The Associated Press Is so we'll known
and it's ability as a news gathering
agency is so well recognized by every
one that it is useless to remark upon
its. service, covering events of general.
interest. But it is when such an event
as the war now in progress in the far
east comes into the field Of news that
the real worth of the Associated Press
is shown In the first place, the cost
of securing this news and of trans
hitting it from the front to America is
simply enormous. To the layman, the
amounts expended to obtain a dispatch
of, say, half column, from the scene
of thes war, is almost beyond belief.
And yet, the Associated Press, with
its, corps of. correspondents its leased
wires and its cable arrangements gives
to4each of it's thousands of members in
the United States the service that
coull be obtained from special cor
respopdence. In fact, 1t is better
than most Of these papers could obtain,
even IL they COulu IuS SAp0uSO
of men in the Orient. for Melville B..
Stone, general manager Of the Asso-
ciated Press. has greater influence
with foreign courts in obtaining privi-
leges for his correspondence than any
other representative of news gather
ing agency in the world. 1t was he,
who made it possible to secure news
from Russia without it's being first "cut
to the limit by censors. 1T is his infiu-
ence. coupled with the ingenuity of
his expert correspondents, that has
made it possible for Associated Press
men to be at the front and in the thick
of the fighting, while less favored writ
ers were restlessly awaiting the pleas
ure of the Japanese government before
they could leave Toxic.
The Courier has the service Of the
Associated Press, the best news serv-
ice which can be obtained anywhere.
Coupled with this is the service from
a special correspondent at Washington;
that of nearly 200 special correspond
ents in4 Iowa and that of the Iowa
Evening Press association, an organi-
cation of papers located in the largest
cities of the state. This gives this
paper the ability to give its readers
the news of every day while 1t is news
the news of Ottumwa. of southeast
ern Iowa, of Iowa at large, of Washing
ton, of the United States and of the
whole world.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09
SEED CORN eosPEL

The seed corn train which the Bur-
lington railway sent out last week over
its Iowa lines has completed it's trip
and during the five days it was out
the lecturers, headed by Professor P.
G. Holden of Ames college, spoke to
more than 21,000 people. Nearly
everyone who heard the lecture is a
farmer Every man who listened to
the addresses can see the practical
bility of the. plan proposed by the pro-
fessors. He cannot help but admit
that the yield of corn will be increased
If the advice of Professor Holden and
his assistants is followed.
Experiments at Ames have shown
that there was stand of sixty-fve
per cent in the corn fields of Iowa last
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09
PAYNE STILL FIGHTING.

Editor Payne of the Nevada Repre-.
sentative, whatever his motive in
fighting the biennial election amend
ment, deserves credit for one quality
which compels admiration in everyone.
This is the quality Of stabiiitysand per-
sistence. Though he was beaten
badly in his fight against the amend
ment before Judge Evans at Nevada
he is still fighting and now he claims
to have found another flaw in the doc
ument which he believes will be
enough to bring about its defeat by the
supreme court of the state. The
point cited by Editor Payne is, indeed,
one which deserves the consideration
of the voters of the state.
The biennial amendment provides
(1) that general election shall be
held in November, 1906, and bien-
nially thereafter; (2) that certain
state, legislative, judicial, county and
township officers shall be elected at
said election; 60 that the terms of
officers which would otherwise expire
January 1, 1906, shall be extended;
(4) that the terms of senator's be ex-
tended. Then comes the following
provision:
The general az sembly shall make
such changes in the law governing the
time of election and term of office of
all other elective officers as shall be
necessary to make the time, of their
election and terms of office conform to
this amendment.
1t is in the words, all other elective
officers" that Editor Payne finds his
new hope for invalidating the amend
ment. His contention is that the above
section includes not only the officers
specifically mentioned as subject to
election, but municipal and school Off
GERS as well. 1t is argued that NUM-
cipal and school officers certainly are
elective officers and must be included
in the broad provision referring to "all
other elective officers Mr.. Payne's
construction is that the legislature is
now obligated to change the time Of
| holding municipal and school elections
| to agree with the general election in
| November and also to provide that the
terms of these officers shall be made
biennial. If the contention be good
| there is little doubt that 1t will invali-
date the amendment. Such a change
would be extremely extraneous to the
change to biennial general elections
and should have been submitted as a
separate amendment.
Here again the question Of the intent
of the trainers of the amendment
comes up and 1t is not hard for a man
using the element called common
sense" to figure out that the men who
wrote the amendment intended that it
should affect only the officials Of the
state and county; in other words, the
officers usually elected at a general
election. School elections have
nothing to do with the general cleo
lions and they are held at different
time in order to assure the non-parti-
sanship of the school elections. 1t is
hardly probable that the supreme
court will view Mr.. Payne's latest dis
covery with any more seriousness than
was given to his others, but in order
that the questions may be settled once
and for all it is hoped that the supreme
court will act soon and announce de-
cision as to the validity of the amend
ment
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09
RUSSELL.

Russell, March 7.--Dr. James Robb
Of Berlin, Wis, came Friday morning
to visit his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
Robb.
William Westlake and wife, Of Mel.
rose, spent Sunday with Mr.. Yves takes
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Westlake
Mrs. Florence Childs and daughter
Winnie returned home Friday evening
from Charlton where they had spent
the winter with Mrs. Childs parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Clowser.
Mrs. Inez Hardy and children, of OF.
tumwa, are visiting with Mrs. Hardy's
sister-in-law, Mrs. Tom Vannice
P. H. Steck went to Creston Satur.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09

day morning on No 3 to visit for a few
days with his nephew, Bert Thompson
Mrs, Nina Goode returned home
Thursday after a weeks visit with
friends in Indianola.
Mrs. Ashba and Mrs. Villa Wright
were Charlton visitors Friday
Miss Emma Jackley, of Chicago.
came Sunday to visit her mother, Mrs.
H. Jackley.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09
ANAEMIA

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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09

For speech making these middle
west governors take the cake" says
the Cedar Rapids Republican. eff the
speeches of three or four middle west
governors should be collected for two
or three years past they would fill at
least twenty volumes, and what q
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09

The Mason City Globe Gazette says
that spring has whispered to Medicine
Hat and the farmers are sowing their
wheat.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09

Evidently Henry wallace hasn't
had enough" says the Burlington
Hawk Eye. But most men would be
satisfied with one such dose"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09

variety Of opinions could be found In
them. on every conceivable sort of a
subject"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09

The FRITZ News says that Senator
Allison lis the grand old man Of not
only iowa. but of the nation"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

For the real and genuine Florida
weather, clear skies, glorious sunshine
and bracing atmosphere, come to
1owa!" exclaims the Orange City
Herald.
The Nevada Representative con-
siders Senator Hale's remarks In dis
paragement Of the navy as disgraceful
and discreditable beyond expression
but it says they are in keeping with
his attitude for a long time past. ut
is obviously high time" the Represen-
tative concludes, that the senate, out
Of respect fer itself and consideration
for the country, were hunting up a new
chairman for. its committee on naval
affairs"
''The Kansas legislature has passed
enough anti-trust laws to keep the
courts busy for ten years." says The
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Tho Odebolt Chronicle declares that
Senator Hale is as great traitor to
his country es was Jefferson Davis.
Lawson, after all, has his uses,''
says the Carroll Herald. "He is not
pointing the way out Of troubles he
shows to exist. but he is stirring others
to action
TN the senate" observes the Denni-
son Review, when any measure is
brought UP each senator talks until he
is tired. 1t is sort Of a relay race
against time"
The people are up against a hard
proposition in the United States SEN
ate" says the Eagle Grove Eagle. 1T,
apparently, just now, stands directly
across the path of all progressive
remedial legislation for the country
and is bringing itself into sad disre-
pnte with the country"
Evidently Henry Wallace hasn't
had enough" says the Burlington
Hawk-Eye. "But most men would be
satisfied with one such Dose"
The Mason City Globe-Gaze says
that spring has WHISPERED to Medicine
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09

"The Kansas legislature has passed
enough antitrust laws to keep the
courts busy for ten years." says The
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09

Tho Odebolt Chronicle declares that
Senator Hale is as great a traitor to
mis- country es was Jefferson Davis.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09

Lawson, after all, has his uses
says the Carroll Herald. HE is not
pointing the way out of troubles he
shows to exist, but he is stirring others
to action
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09

In the senate" observes the Denni-
'on Review, when any measure is
brought UP each senator talks until he
S tired. 1t is sort Of relay race
against time"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09

For the real and genuine Florida
weather, clear skies, glorious sunshine
and bracing atmosphere, come to
Iowa!" exclaims the Orange City
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-09

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-15
REVOLVING BRUTALITY.
Dog Catcher Shoots Pet Animal in
View of Women and Children.

Saturday afternoon Rufus Frazier, the
negro dog officer, shot and dubbed a
small dog owned by Harold Newma n,
brother of County Clerk Albert New
man, in full view of several women and
children in a most inhuman manner.
Frazier had shot and killed another dog
in the alley near Fourth and Van
Buren, streets and then he went from
the alley to the street and shot and
pounded the dog.
The dog was a particularly fine ami
NAL and was a great pet with people
living many blocks from the Newman
home. The dog bore a license tag on
its collar and was a small, inOffensiVe
animal. Frazier's performance was most
brutal and repulsive. He shot the dog
and then while woman and several
children who knew "SnowbalT' pleaded
for his life Frazier shot again. The dog
was not killed but was left by the dog
officer to suffer.
Saturday night Newman called
veterinarian in hopes of saving the dog
but after suffering for "A hours the ami
mai died. Humane Officer King is in
vestigating the affair.
Mr.. A. Newman said this morning:
This brutality on the part of Frazier
has no excuse. The dog was a small
white animal and looked much like an
Eskimo dog. He was a great favorite
and very playful and would not harm
anyone. Besides the license had been
PAID ana the incense tag was on the
dogs collar. Frazier shot him twice
and I understand that then he got a
club and pounded the dogs head and
then did not kill him but went away
and left him lying in the street. Sew
eral women and children we're close
by and besides being forced to witness
such a brutal exhibition they ran the
risk of being injured by the bullets
from the revolver glancing on the
brick pavement shall certainly
have Frazier prosecuted for cruelty
to animals"
Frazier makes the plea that be-
cause he had shot another dog in an
alley that the dog SNOWFALL was about
to attack him and bite him. AS the
dog was a small, playful and inof-
fensive animal those who know the
dog think the statement absurd. To-
peka people have experienced similar
cases of brutality on the part of new
and inexperienced officers Frazier
has been dog officer for a few weeks.
It is his business, according to the
law. to take dogs to the city pound
and he has no right nor excuse for
killing them or shooting in the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-15
DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH ROOM.
Industrial Institute Crowded to Hear
DR.. j. w. E. Bowen.

The negroes of Topeka were out
en- masse at the Topeka Industrial
and Educational Institute yesterday
afternoon to hear the baccalaureate
sermon preached by Rev. J. w. E.
Bowen, D. D., Atlanta, Ga. Two hun
dred people failed to secure admis-
sion.
For over one hour he gave his
large attendance very strong and
helpful talk on the necessity of prac-
teal Christian living. His words to
the graduating class were especially
helpful. He told them of their OPP
portunities in the state of Kansas and
of the great need of their services in
the south. It was beyond doubt the
best and most instructive sermon in
the history of the institution. The
singing by the students was especially
good. The institute is endeavoring to
keep alive the old plantation melodies
and the students sing them with
vim. There was only one thing to be
regretted about the exercises yesterday
and that was the lack of room where
the exercises were held
At the close of the exercises the
work of the various industrial and
academic departments was open for
exhibition.
This afternoon the graduating class
is rendering its class day programme.
Tonight occurs the annual recital of
the departments of music and elocu-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-15

that Iorenz voiced the sentiments Of
particular faction. There are no fac
tons within the church., said one
prominent member. and Mr. Lorenz
simply expressed his own opinions IN
the matter He is very outsDoken ana
says what he thinks. That's the right
way to do. There is no feeling in the
church body about any lack Of ability
on the part of the board OF bishops
Another prominent member said, Mr..
Lorenz simply got off a little on
tangent. He speaks right out and
don't think that he meant to say what
he did say"
A number of members of the con-
ference got off in one corner of the
room and deprecated the statements
which Lorenz had made. They even
discussed the ACCESSIBILITY of not per
hitting any one to enter into the
transactions of the conference who
failed to bride his speech. No action,
however, will likely take place with re-
gard to the incident and it will be al
lowed to pass unnotfced. The record
ing secretary was instructed to leave
the incident unmentioned in his notes
Bishop Kephart Resigns.
Bishop F. B. Kephart who was pre-
siding in the chair this morning turned
over his duties for a brief instant to
Bishop Castle and then announced his
intention of resigning. He stated that
he had come to this decision as the re-
suit of a consideration of the question
Sunday and requested that his name
be not considered in the ballotng