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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

which will permit the division of the
tunnel into two sections of nearly
equal length, and will serve as a base
for the erection of works necessary
during construction and also for a mo-
tive power plant-electric or COM
pressed air-for moving trains and for
the purposes Of ventilation. The total
length, including the approaches, will
be about thirty eight miles. The rail
route through Siberia will be thirty
eight hundred miles in length to
connection with the Trans Siberia
read at Irkutsk, ad on the Alaskan end
the route will pass Council City, Nu-
lato and Fairbanks to point about u
hundred miles south of Dawson, where
it will connect with the Grad Trunk
Pacific, as its route to Dawson has
been projected. The mileage in Alas
ka will be about 1900, making a total
Of 5000 miles between terminal points.
The Russian ministry Of railroads has
approved the project, and the Russian
government has given a concession Of
land, eight miles wide on each side of
the route selected for the railroad.
The enterprise, it Is said, will prob
5000 100000, and the money centers of
France, Russia and the United States
Will be asked to share in the financial
phase of the project.
This project is an old one, brought
back to serious attention now by the
engineering accomplishments in the
construction of subways In the cities
the tunneling Of the Alps, the boring
through beneath the Hudson and East
rivers at New York and perhaps the
Panama canal and other great pro-
jects. What was once deemed by en-
gineers to be an impossibility is now
regarded feasible. But with the en-
cheering problem found to be possible
of solution, the plan still looks chi
merical. The immense first cost cou-
pied with the expense of operation and
light traffic would seem to make the
all-rail route impracticable. Freight
and passengers can be transported
with at least equal safety and at much
less cost across the Atlantic. Why go
away around through the frozen and
barren north at tremedous expense
This is the first question to suggest
itself.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22
,roducts had increased more
than

products had increased more than
81 per cent.
1t Is not surprising therefore, to note
a more than doubling of railroad mile.
age in the same period, an increase of
more than II per cent in the value of
exports from southern ports, the
south, indeed, contributing annually
more than a third of the exports of
the countr, and an increase in the as
sessed value of property by more than
Is per cent. Indeed, the assessed
value of property in 1900 demonstrates
that the true wealth Of the whole
country in 1S60-S16,1 59 900 000-and
the assessed value of the south today
is more than the true value of the
south in 1860.
In explanation Of it all the Courier.
Journal says: "The south has long
since thrown open it's gates and in.
yited the men of the north and all
other sections to enter with their
capital and enterprise, and lend help.
ing hand to the great work of restor.
alton. Reconciled and reunited, the
men of this nation are today working
out the great destiny of the SOUTH"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22
THE GREAT SOUTHWEST.

lue eulIOF OF tne courier mas re-
turned from two weeks trip through
the great Southwest, beginning at St.
Louis and ending at San Antonio,
Texas. He attended the meeting of
the National Editorial association at
Guthrie. Oklahoma, and with the edito-
rial party visited many points in Ok
lahoma, Indian Territory and Texas.
This trip was a revelation. The devel-
opment of Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory is something marvellous and can
only be appreciated by personal
visit. There is no longer a southwest
ern frontier mere fifteen years ago
there was nothing but bare prairie or
woodland along the river banks, there
are today, wonderful cities and towns.
thousands upon thousands of beautiful
and highly cultivated farms and a
prosperous and progressive people Of
the highest grade OF citizenship. The
wild west has entirely disappeared.
The Indian is being absorbed into civil
liked life and as class the
Indians are today the rich
est people IN the United States.
Numbers of them are highly educated
and are leaders in the social, business
dian children are the best cared for
in America, because each one of them
is worth small fortune. During the
entire trip of two weeks through Ok
lahoma and Indian Territory the only
red men in real Indian dress which we
saw were brought together ct Miller
Brothers ranch for special exhibition
purposes. Such cities as Guthrie and
Oklahoma City are simply marvellous
and it would seem as if Aladdin's
Lamp must have be IN utilized to bring
about the wonderful Transformation.
Oklahoma City is the metropolis Of
Oklahoma. Where sixteen years ago
there was nothing but prairie grass,
there is today real western metropo-
lis of fine bui. ings, beautiful homes,
seventeen miles of paved streets, cleo
trio street cars, and all the belong
ings of culture, refinement and civil
Zation. There are schools and colleges,
churches nd hospitals and society
that is on par with that of the Oldest
cities of the country The discovery of
oil. gas and coal is building up cities
in night. The writer has travelled a
great deal over the United States, but
nowhere has he seen so much of sur.
prising interest as he found In Okla.
homa, Indian Territory and northern
Texas That these territories should at
once be admitted to the Union as the
great and sovereign state of Okla.
bona admits of no argument. Justice
in this matter has already been too
long delayed Oklahoma will come
into the Union next year as a bright
and particular star of the first magni
tude and the other states of the nation
will welcome her with open arms. She
is young and beautiful, strong and
capable; she is destined to become the
mother Of a mighty people.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22
AMERICAN HERoIsM.

It has been stated at various times
during the war in the orient that the
Japanese soldiers are the bravest and
most irresistible fighters the civilized
world has ever known. This state.
ment has been made by authorities
well -ersed in warfare as well as by
those who observe the battles in Man
churia from an amateur or lay stand
point. The attacks made by the Jap
anese at Port Arthur, when death was
almost sure for majority of the as
saulting forces, were called fanatical,
but careful investigation of intimate
history of the civil war shows that
there were many such feats performed
then by members of both the armies
engaged in that memorable struggle.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

reputable playing Of late, and says
in a recent issue:
Perhaps the water the Keokuk
players drink at Ottumwa is RESPONSE
BILE for some of the score they have
made there"
There is an asterisk before the word
"drink"and fcotnote interpolates the
word DON'T as throwing further
light on the matter. Again the Gate
City copies remark from the Courier
as follows:
"Keokuk-town of government dams
and error-making ball players and
says: I'm view of the scores made by
those ball players why the limiting ad.
jective government That seems
wholly superfluous from the Keokuk
point of view just now"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22
LADDsDALE.

Laddsdale. June 2o.-Will.am Pol
son. of Pennington, H., was BUSH
ness caller in town Monday. Mr. Pol
son reports the mines in Pennington
running four days each week, and the
miners doing well.
J. w. Casey, of Dawson, was In town
short time last week on business. He
reports the prospects. for a large crop
is exceedingly good so far.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Dowdy COM
menced housekeeping in house No. 8,
on Water street Wednesday, where
they will be at home to their many
friends. Mr. Dowdy spent the great
er part of his life here and is a model
young man. His wife was raised in
Edon and is an excellent young wo-
man. Their many Laddsdale friends
join In congratulations.
Mrs. Robert Atherton, Of Eldon.
spent Wednesday In town the guest of
her son, Ernest Dowdy and wife on
Water street
Mr.. and Mrs Lewis Harding spent
Sunday in the country at the home
of Mrs. Catherine Huffman and Mrs
Rebecca Harding.
Mrs. Gus Donaldson of Keb, Is in
town this week with her husband, who
Is working In the mines here
thomas McCarty, one of Ladds
dale's enterprising miners, says the
recent. rains washed away sixteen
acres of corn for him. Mr.. mccarthy
owns small farm near Eldon, large
crop of small fruit which is meeting
ready demand on the market at
good price.
]. P. Miller of Grinnell was a bus
mess caller in town Thursday.
The farmers on Soap Creek bottoms
that lost their corn crop by the rain
of last week, are busy replanting It.
q tp
crop, having implicit confidence in the
Iowa soil. James Spilman started out
for seed corn before the water had left
| the ground and Is busy replanting this
| week.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. M. Reese, and son
and daughter of Ottumwa, spent last
Saturday and Sunday In town a. the
ZONE Of Mrs. Reese's parents. Mr. and
Mrs. w. B. Hinkle on Washington
street.
Joseph Pool, superintendent Of the
mines, spent Saturday in Ottumwa on
| mining business
Miss Kate Faulds, of Ottumwa,
| friends.
John Young, miner from Ottum-
wa, spent Sunday In town.
| John Winn, Of Cass county, was In
town a short time on Saturday. He
says the corn crop In Cass county is
| 1T. an excellent COIlulClOn, good StanQ
and as far advanced as he ever saw
| it In his farming experience in that
county.
Owing to the shortage Of cars the
mines were closed four days last
week.
i A. G. Miner, the carpenter at The
mines, was a business caller in OF
tumwa Saturday, purchasing some
tools.
i Lafe Nichols. of South ottumwa,
spent Sunday In town.
Il Mrs. Henry Nelson. of Searsboro,
visited in this vicinity this week.
| People take their lives in their
hands for the mere pleasure Of being
A sluggish mind is aided to con-
] clusion by falling over precipice.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

cert last evening and will render an
other on Friday evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Buzzard, of We'll
Ter, spent the day in the city Monday.
For Farm Insurance see Kelley.
Wiley Householder and Nick Lutz
are spending the week in Milwaukee.
Clifford Reeves went to Chicago last
Sunday.
Mrs. Elmer Lott left last evening
for Leando for visit with relatives
before her departure for Denver,
Colorado, where she will join Mr.. Lott
and make their future home.
Smoke Noxal Club cigars, &c.
Mrs. Fannie Britt spent Sunday In
Creston with friends.
Mrs. Lee Tacker is spending the
week in Abba.
Henry Engleheusen and Miss
Franklin Kridelbaugh We're married
Sunday to the surprise of their many
friends, and left on No. 6 for Chicago
where they will spend week.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22
CHARLTON.

Charlton. June 20. Mrs. C. E.
Foulks, died Sunday afternoon at the
home in English township, after a
brief illness with typhoid fever. The
funeral services were held Monday
afternoon and the remains laid away
in the Brownlee cemetery. To the
children that are left the sympathy
Of the community is extended.
Mr. and Mrs. John Netherow, of
Knoxville. are spending a few days
with Mrs. Netherow's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Fox.
Mr. and Mrs. C. e. F1uke returned
home last evening from visit in Des
Moines.
The band gave It's open air con-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22
The many friends and acquaintances

The many friends and acquaintances
in Ottumwa of Prof. H. G. Holdings.
worth of Abba will join in extending
to him the deepest and most heartfelt
sympathy in this, his hour of sorrow.
Mr.. Hollingsworth's lot in the last few
months has been indeed a hard one.
Only last fall his wife was made the
victim Of runaway accident and he
himself barely escaped death. The
tragic death by drowning of his two
sons last week adds to his cup Of sor.
row which already was overlooking.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22
EOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS

is what you want when you suffer from
Poor Appetite, Headache, SIeepIess.
ness, indigestion, Dyspepsia, costive.
ness, Female Complaints, Cramps,
Backache or Malaria, Fever and Aaue.
It always cures. Try 1t and see.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

The kaiser has two more cup races
on hand. With the affairs of state,
yacht races, the marriage of the
crown prince and the new danger of
clash with France Wilhelm has his
hands pretty we'll filled.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

Wapello county's candidate for the
throne of Servia has laid down some
of the rules of the game as he pro-
poses to umpire it if he wins out in
the run for the kingdom This is
rather previous, but every candidate
should have platform and Theodor
Macmillan Streu is nothing if not up
to date.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

Tom Dennison is to be tried again in
connection with the Shercliffe case.
Another chance for Onaha's chief of
police to show his friendliness for the
gambler king"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22
YOU'RE THE LOSER

II you allow yourself to be persuaded
to take something else" in place of
Hostetter's, on the plea that 1t is Gust
as good" For your health's sake we
advise you not to do it. The genuine
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

The Keokuk Gate City is forced to
admit that the baseball team from
that city has been guilty Of some dis
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

at may not be a new idea in naval
warfare" says the Sioux City Tribune,
but it is certainly a telling one, to
disable ships about enough to make it
easy to repair them for use in the VIC
tors navy"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

ut should be interesting at st. Pc
tersburg at this stage of the proceed
ings to know that Oyama is ready for
an advance movement" remarks the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

Perhaps the President will transfer
Mr.. Bonaparte to the Attorney Gener-
alship and if he does the trusts will
think they have been logged" says
the Centerville Citizen.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

"If Rev. Bro Lomack ever tires of
preaching he ought to find himself
fairly well qualified to take up the law
business" declares the Des Moines
Capital.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

BE patient with the Russian" urges
the Sioux City Journal. "It Is bitter
dose he still has to take from DR.. Jap
and he is entitled to few preliminary
o riraceS
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

Judging from the ability with which
he has filled every position in the game
of life, his friends are convinced that
Roosevelt would make an ideal UNI
pire," says the Creston Advertiser-Ga-
zette, "and that is almost the hardest
test a man could be asked to stand
for.''
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

"The expression, good roads, is be-
coming as important a part of Iowa's
daily speech as 'how's the corn?" re-
marks the Burlington Hawk Eye.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

Judge welliver has reached Wash
ington and has resumed his favorite
occupation of trying to take falls out
OF Hon. Leslie M. Shaw" remarks the
Des Moines Capital.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

People take their lives In their
hands for the mere pleasure of being
A sluggish mind is aided to con-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

ne tUtd1 HuHUeT OF people 10 pass
through the turnstiles during the 1874
days of the fair was 19,649,S55. These
figures do not include the population
of the exposition grounds, numbering
several thousands.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

Given a speed Of 127A miles an
hour an open switch or box car on
the line, what is the ar>wer}?'t asks the
Marshalltown Times Republican with
shudder.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

zone thing is certain in connection
with the Tom Dennison show" re-
marks the Council Bluffs Nonpariel,
land that is that on it's second APP
pearance it will not play to so large a
business. The public is tired of the
performance"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

THAT little war game the army and
navy has been playing down on the
coast may have been excit-
ingly interesting" says the Sioux City
Journal, but it is difficult to arouse
any enthusiasm over it after eighteen
months Of the real thing in the east"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

Lafe Nichols. of South ottumwa,
spent Sunday In town.
Mrs. Henry Nelson, of Searsboro,
visited in this vicinity this week.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

"If King Alfonso wants the genuine
article he ought to come to the United
States for a wife," says the Burlington
Our woods and prairies
Ire full of princesses."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

Party harmony is not always the
essential thing" declares the Webster
City Freeman-Tribune. THE thing
for the republican party to do is to do
right. Stand for justice and square
deal to the people and to the corpora
lions. Let harmony take care of it
self, but never sacrifice principle to
promote unity and good fellowship"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

Don't it beat the world how the
life insurance companies have paid
oolicy-holders every cent that their
money earned and still contrived to
pay unreasonable salaries and ex-
oenses" exclaims the Cedar Rapids
Gazette.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-18
Moving Pictures Popular.

"Of all the amusement features that
have been provided for the public in recent
years, | don't suppose any device has
proved more lastingly popular than the
moving picture machines said an exper-
fenced theatrical manager last night.
Moving pictures are always well receiv-
ed, the people invariably applaud a good
series and the small Snowman can pos
sess no more valuable asset than NOV
ing picture machine Since the advent of
the long series one picture is sometimes
enough for a performance, with several
speclalties thrown In, and If we did not
have our pictures | don't know how we
would fill the vacancy. 1t would be hard
to find a method of entertainment so pop
ular and so successful.
Although you may not believe it, you
can nowhere find an entertainment higher
above criticism than the moving picture
shows that are given all over the coun-
try. | mean the larger shows, where there
are no vaudeville specialties On the pro-
gramme and a great variety of pictures
are shown.
Prom an intellectual point of view no
book ever written can give a person Of
ordinary attainments a more vivid idea
of countries and people-the thousand
fold phases of our teeming life"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-18
Horace Naples in The Supreme Court.

The Horace Naples case has been
advanced upon the supreme court
docket, and final decision is expected
at an early day. The case is even
now attracting no little attention in
Virginia and other states.
The broad question raised in it re-
lates to the fourteenth amendment. A
member of the mob that lynched Hor-
ace Naples was indicted by a federal
| grand jury, and he sued out writ of
habeas corpus on the ground that the
offense for which he was indicted is
one against the state of Alabama, not
the United States.
| The contention on the one side is
| that, as Horace Naples was a citizen
of the United States and was in jail
awiting trial, he could not be deprived
| of life without the formality of trial,
and If a mob intervenes the members
of that mob can be punished under
the fourteenth amendment. The Rich
mond Times Dispatch seems to accept
this view of the case, when 1t says:
Under the fourteenth amendment
there is such thing as citizen of
the United States and every such
citizen has guaranteed rights which
the government must protect"
The trouble with this view of the
case is, it has no limits. If the mob
that hung Horace Naples can be pun
ished under the terms of the four
teenth amendment, it is difficult to see
what is left to the state court. Hor-
ace Naples and the man he killed, and
all the members of the mob at Hunts
vile lived in this state, and If the mat
ter from beginning to end is not an
Alabama affair, then we do not know
what would be.
Speculation is, however, idle. The
decision of the supreme court will
doubtless draw the line somewhere.
The fourteenth amendment is not so
boundless as the Richmond Times
Dispatch contends it is, and the court
of last resort will perhaps render a
decision that will determine an intri-
cate problem. The drawing of the
line between state and federal juris-
diction possibly will render the forth
coming decision a histori. piece OF
constitutional Interpretation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-18
IN HOTEL IoBBIEs
A Voice From Missouri.

One gets no idea of the real greatness
of Birmingham by passing through on a
railroad train" remarked Sheriff K. b.
Moore of Nevada. Mo-. at the city hall
yesterday
Il passed through Birmingham some
time ago on my way to Montgomery, and
ON that trip was very much disappointed
in the city.
To-day l was treated TO a trip over
the town by my friend and old fellow
citizen, w f. Gibson and must say
that l am simply astonished at what l
have seen We went on the tourist cars
now being run by your electric railway
company. You have an excellent street
ear system.
Il have heard great deal of the great
ness of Birmingham, and am now con-
vinced that its claims have hot been
exaggerated in the least
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-18
We are gentlemen,
Report Of the State Commission.

In the Alabama railroad commission
all of President Corners propositions
were turned down, but the two asso-
ciate commissioners reported that
some inequalities, inaccuracies and
determinations" exist in rates in this
state, and that railroads were there
fore ordered to submit within forty
days revised tariffs for consideration
by the commission.
This is the railroads opportunity.
They can submit tariffs that will take
away all sense of injustice, thus taking
the wind out of the sails of the anti
ranroad agitators. The railroad man.
ayers are shrewd, business-like men.
and they know the situation to a dot.
and 1t is fair to presume that they will
before forty days have run their course
submit tariffs that will meet all rea-
sonable public opinion. The entire sub
Ject properly goes over until the new
tariffs are submitted.
Upon the scope and nature of the
new intrastate tariffs depends the
course OF Alabama politics, not only
in the coming year, but in many years
to come. Beyond all doubt the intra-
state railroad problem will dominate
the canvass of next year unless the
railroads take the ginger out of it by
reporting tariffs that will satisfy intel
ligent and fair-minded men. Dema-
gogues cannot be satisfied, and need
not be. There are many just and hon
orable men in this state who think the
ranroad tariffs need revision; the state
commission says they do, and the
problem is now up to the railroad man
ayers. Their revision will cut deep in
the politics OF Alabama.