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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-01-19
IN OTHER LANDS.

At Thebes the annual average rist
Of the Nile is 40 feet.
Greece at present holds the Euro
pean record for rapidly In the In
crease Of population.
London's smallpox epidemic of lasi
year cost the metropolitan asylums
board close on half q million sterling
Among the spoils of war taken al
Laoyang was a pet pigeon belonging
to Gen. Kuropatkin. It Is now in
Toxic.
Almost the entire commercial wealth
Of India, with Its population of 30o..
100000. is said to be In the hands oi
less than 10000 persons.
Since 1858 the population of Scot
land has increased by 81 per cent; the
number of lunatics In the same period
has increased by 100 per cent.
English newspaper correspondents
are complaining of the disgustingly
unclean treatment Of bread on its way
from the baker to the consumer.
A bill to prohibit cigarette smoking
by persons under 16 years old. has
passed Its second reading In the South
Australian legislature and probably
will become law.
The Vienna Society for the Proven.
ton Of Cruelty to Animals Is selling
donkeys at remarkably low prices, ia
replace the dogs generally used for
drawing tradesmen's carts.
Japanese progress is shown in the
fact that the receipts from her state
forests for timber, frewood, bamboo
and other produce rose from SIPS, 00e
in 1880 to $1,204,00O In 1903. an in
crease Of $1,075,000.
Along the Adriatic sea swallows and
other migratory birds are caught every
year by the hundreds of thousands and
sten by the Italians, who spread nets.
IL which as many as 300 to 500 of the
birds are caught at once.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-01-19
Killed His Wife Rather Than Leave
Her Alone.

called to the army killed his wife, his
children and himself.
Groans Of Agony.
We see 1t ali at close range. We hear
the means of agony, We see the misery
and oppression Of the people, and We are
told that the war is going to last long,
very long.
How many graves, then, does the
car demand? The cars government
asserts that he has enough wretched
victims to exhaust the accumulation of
japanese bullets and grenades, to strew
the valleys Of Manchuria and fill the
mountain passes; that he must be VIC
torious regardless of cost.
A Polish woman protests against this
iniquitous determination. She calls not
in the name of clique or party, but
: in the name of those peasant women
who threw themselves under the car
wheels; in the name Of those mothers
who with their little children are thrust
helpless into the streets; in the name of
those who suffer, weep and curse.
' To you, free people, direct my ap-
peal. How long will the principles Of
humanity be the laughing-stock of tri-
umphapt militarism? How long are we
to measure culture by the improvement
of deadly weapons?
To American Mothers.
Women of all nations, let your moth
erly hearts be filled with the suffering
of Polish mothers! You have a voice.
Your lips are not sealed by the censor.
Your homes are not surrounded by
gendarmes and spies. You can move
the consciences of your brothers; you
can demand that they put an end to
this horrible massacre, which sets on
the twentieth century in its infancy
brand of shame.
If you will not do this, If our voice
rouses no response, then there are no
longer apy human beings; there is only
a silent, 'unpeopled desert, on which
hyenas dwell. Then the proposed con-
gress of peace is, like the first, per-
fidious comedy, a. proclamation, deri-
sion of the untold misery of wretched
people.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-01-19

the fair woman for whom he was act
ing as messenger. Knowing this, every
possible precaution was taken that he
should escape the vigilance Of the Rus
sian army and police, but the precau-
lions would have all proven fruitless
had 1t not been for his own powers of
endurance, his determination to escape
military service for q hated ruler and
the assistance of devoted wife, who
managed to throw the officers off the
scent until her husband should be well
over the Austrian boundary.
The sealed rubber package carried by
Mazurowski on that night contained a
message to the newspapers of America
which they were asked to give to the
mothers of America 1t tells of present
conditions in stricken Poland; of hus-
bands ordered to the front, who, rather
than leave their families to suffer, kill
them before joining their regiments; Of
lovers, who. rather than leave their
sweethearts to become the prey of
licentious army officers, kill them and
then themselves. 1t tells of conditions
so revolving and so terrible that it Is
almost impossible for the enlightened
people of this free land to believe them,
and yet this noble Polish woman asserts
they are true.
The Appeal.
Her letter to American mothers is as
follows:
When several years ago, at the wish
of Gar Nicholas H., the first peace
conference gathered at The Hague, 1t
was received by the friends of humani-
ty with applause. 1t seemed to herald
the dawn of new era. We Poles alone
knew that the whole project Of Mura-
vieff was a fabrication to mislead the
civilized nations. The car announced
peace, but in his own land there was
no cessation of strife. At the time of
the conference half the provinces were
under martial rule; and now, while q
second conference is about to take place
not this time on the initiative of
despot, but Of an elected leader Of the
American people-Russia, unmasked, Is
conducting in the far east such devas-
tating. unnecessary war as Is unparal-
leled In history.
1t Ii not q war; 1t is q massacre! All
scientific and technical progress intend
ed for the increase q the power OF the
human race Is being used for the work
OF devastation. A hail Of bullets COW
ers whole regiments. Battlehelds are
SO thickly strewn that tbs necessary
TO burn the bodies or to place the dying
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-01-19
POLISH PEASANTS FORCED TO FIGHT
FOR A HATED RULER.
SOLDIERS KILL THEIR FAMILIES
Rather Than Leave Them to a Fate Worse
Than Death. Fathers and Lovers MUrde err
Their Loved Ones Before Leaving for the
Front-Stirrins Appeal of a Polish Woman
to All American Mothers.

New York.-On a dark, stormy
night in October Stanislaus Mazurowski
left his humble home in southern Po-
land and swan the Vistula river near
Sandomiera, on the border between
Russia and Austria. In this manner he
escaped military service in the Russian
army in Manchuria, and started on his
long journey to America.
Concealed in tightly sealed rubber
rase Mazurowski carried with him a
letter to the American people from
Polish woman of noble birth. His cap
ture with that letter in his possession
would have meant death not only to
himself as a deserter, but death also to
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-01-19

and the dead in one grave. New regi-
ments of victims crowd from all portions
of that great country which Russia
claims, to hail, by order Of their su-
periors, the "peace-loving car"
1t is said that the government Of the
car did not wish this war. No, 1t was
not war that was desired, but new pos
sessions! Therefore it preached dis
armament to deceive your alertness,
that it need not fear foreign ornaments.
The Gear, Not Russia.
The Russian government, you must
not forget, governs unchecked by the
people. 1t is untrue that the govern
ment of the car Is Russia. That gov
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-01-19
THE LOWER ANIMALS.

Advance OF civilization Is decreasing
the numbers Of prairie dogs.
Spider mothers remember their on
spring after an absence Of 20 hours, but
forget them when full day has ELAPSED.
Wonderful types of ancient animals
have been discovered In the Fayoum
district of northeastern Africa. It In
believed that the animals Of the ele-
plant and mastodon class were devel-
oped in Africa itself, but this does not
appear to invalidate the theory that
most of the African fauna had more
northern origin. In Europe or Asia.
Two Of the worlds interesting NAM
mails have lately become extinct with
out attracting attention. An English
naturalist points out that the great
straightforward race Of the Indian buff
falo which was occasionally met with
50 or 60 years ago, Is no longer known.
The other vanished form is the wolf
Of the Falkland islands. type of con-
siderable Importance, which seems to
have been exterminated by strychnine
about 30 years ago.
A well-known scientist, after making
experiments, put forth the statement
that the songs of birds do not change in
quality as result of change in emotion.
After robbing nests he had waited and
listened, allowing ample time for tho
male to learn of the spoliation. In each
instance the male, upon returning to
the empty nest at once burst into song.
Though the song possibly expressed sor-
row or complaint. the watcher never
noted any difference between 1t and the
warbling he was accustomed to hear.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-01-19
the vengeance of Heaven upon the car

the vengeance Of Heaven upon the car
The Russian government lies when II
says they do not call to the front
fathers Of families. That is only writ
ten for you Of Europe and America
They take widowers with large families
Of small children. One OF these men.
called to the service, hung his three
small children and reported the fact to
the military authorities. There was no
one with whom to leave them.
Another, called to the ranks on the
day Of the death Of his wife, who left
him two-year-old baby and a new
born infant, took an ak and killed the
children and placed them in the coffin
with their mother Another man when
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-01-19
Real Cruelty.

Beggar-Kind sir. could you help .
victim Of the trusts? I am starving!
Citizen-How are the trusts respon-
sible?
'They shut down the factory where
my wife had q job, sir!"-Puck.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-01-19
A Stnue-Liftar

A Stove-Lifter.
She-Give me the name Of good
stove-lifter?
He-Well, kerosene has been known
to do it.-Yonkers Statesman.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-01-24
CHARLTON COURT ENDS.
Number of Important Cases Have
Been Tried at Session.

'NuHibSF VI iHHooTtdUG Vases nave
Been Tried at Session.
Charlton. Jan. 23.-District court adj
.journed Saturday, the four weeks term
having been contracted into three by
Judge Robert Sloan. Few important
cases were tried. the most interesting
being that of ex-Chief Grant Shelton, of
the fire department, who was charged
with setting fire to a business block,
but whose jury disagreed for the sec
ond time, SO he will probably be dis
missed.
A case of note was decided by Judge
Sloan last week in the matter of the
new additions voted into the town of
Russell during the summer of 1908.
The town voted in a tract of territory
on each side Of the town. but failed to
notify the residents of the two tracts
that they could vote in the election for
the purpose. So Judge Sloan decided
that the additions were not legally
taken in. The case arose from a suit
brought by the town of Russell asking
a mandamus to compel the county aud
itor to set UP town taxes. against the
property included in the two tracts
in question. The town will have the
costs Of the suit.
Mr.. Stanford of this city was in
dicted by the grand Jury for selling
patent medicines without a license. He
peddled the medicines through the
country and on trial pleaded guilty
and was fined $500 and costs.
The two boys who were indicted for
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-01-24
CHICAGO MARKETS.
Saturdays Live Stock Market in Brief

Saturdays Live Stock Market in Brief.
Weeks total: Cattle, Z $4,000; hogs,
227, 500; sheep, $4,000. Cattle trade
closes with fair tone; values for choice
grades hold steady: most common to
good steers Off Is to 25c; demand for
plain light grades rules small; more
moderate supplies are needed next
week; cow trade closes weak-demand
Indifferent; general range 10 to 25c
under week ago; packers poor buyers
in late days; bulls and calves also rule
lower: palmer grade feeders off is to
25c for week; hog market active -
prices averaged higher; early trade
stronger than late in. the day; S.. & S.
company commenced buying again to-
day; days average price $4.60-bulk
s4.55 to S4.65; weeks average price
4.59-previous week SAT-; best sheep
hold steady with a week ago; fancy
wethers make $5.S5-ewes at $5.35;
yearlings show no charge-best bring
$6.S5; best lambs frm-others show 10
to 15c loss; C%oloradoes sell lat $7.75,
with bulk $3.50 to $7.75.
Receipts.
This weeks receipts compared with
the previous week. decreased 5000
cattle, increased 14,400 hogs and de-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-01-24
0 BIT a

Eugene Smith Sheffield was born
August TO-, 1914, In South Bend, Ind
After the death of his father, DR.. E
S. Sheffield, his mother removed to
New York City, where they remained
until 1854, when they came west to St
Charles, Mo-, and then in 1856 to OF
tumwa. He served all through the
the 18th Infantry Iowa Volunteers;
then having received a commission as
adjutant, in the Seventh Cavalry, Iowa
volunteers.
After the close Of the wal he was
employed as bookkeeper in DR.. Tay-
lor's drug store, later under the presi-
dency of Charles F. Blake in the Iowa
National bank. In 1867 he was united
in marriage to Miss Carrie Brock, OF
Davenport, and In 1874 on account OF
her failing health removed to Santa
Barbara, California, where, in Febru-
airy, 1875, she died. In 1877 he was
married to Miss Mary Halsey of Oak
land, California.
This item from the Santa Barbara
Press, dated January Z. gives an ac-
count Of his death which occurred or
the 9Th and of his life since leaving
Ottumwa.
Shortly after noon yesterday Eu-
gene s.. Sheffield, one Of the best
hlloWli III lliooI ,il6lly ISSpSClGu IeSi-
dents of Santa Barbara, died at the
Cottage Hospital after an operation
which was recently performed.
M Sheffield had been ailing for
some time, complications Of the stom-
ach and liver having caused serious
illness for several weeks. Last week
an operation was performed, from
which Mr.. Sheffield rallied with Won
derful rapidity, his condition being
most encouraging until today. 1t was
not until within a few hours of his
death that the seriousness Of his i'll
ness became apparent.
"Mr. Sheffield occupied a prominent
place in business circles of this city
being the president of the Santa Bar.
bara County National bank, and also
president of the board of water COM
m%issioners. UP to within the last few
years Mr.. Sheffield occupied the posi-
ton Of cashier Of the above named
bank, but he resigned that office te
of the late VIM. NJ. Eddy. He was in.
strumental in the organization of this
bank, and has been identified with II
ever since coming to Santa Barbara
nearly thirty years ago.
Mr.. Shefield's work as the presid.
ing members Of the board Of water
commissioners has been ~tireless ano
eminently successful. He has taken 6
very active interest in this branch Of
municipal affairs and. has given much
of his time toward the completion OF
a successful water system for this city
Mr.. Sheffield was so years of age a,
the time Of his death. He came tc
Santa Barbara from Ottumwa, Iowa
In 1875, and has resided continuously ir
this city since that date. He leaves
widow and two sons, Eugene Sheffield
and Alstan Sheffield. The latter holds
a position in the County National bank
and the former, a graduate Of the state
university, is at present In Alaska"
Contributed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-01-24
LEGAL.
oriajnal Notice.

Charles c.. Peterson, Admr. of estate
OF A. p. Peterson, deceased, plaintiff,
vs.. Mrs. L. E. Reesman, defendant.
In he district court OF the state of
Iowa, in and for Wapello county,
March term, A. D.. 1905.
To Mrs. T.. E. Reesman.
You are hereby notified that the
petition OF plaintiff in the above en-
titled cause Is now on file In the office
state Of Iowa. in and for Wapello
county, claiming Of o the sum Of
seventy ($70) dollars, as money Justly
due from you, and interest thereon at
6 per tent from the Both day of De-
cember, A. D., 1904, and asks judgment
against Mrs. L. E. Reesman for $1,000
grocery bill, sold by the estate of A. P.
Peterson to l.. e. Reesman. Alleges
that L. E. Reesman is a nonresident
of state of Iowa. Asks that a writ Of
attachment be issued against the prop
erty of L. e. Reesman anywhere found.
and against the one-third interest said
T.. 3. Reesman has in west half OF
southeast quarter (west II, southeast
NJ and southeast quarter of southeast
quarter (~southeast n, southeast ~.
all In township thirty-six $3.50, town
ship seventy-three (73), range thirteen
G3), Wapello county, Iowa, to satisfy
said debt. (See petition now on f1le.)
And that unless you appear thereto
and defend before noon of the second
day of the next term, being the March
term of the said court, which will COM
mence at Ottumwa on the goth day Of
March, 1905, default will be entered
against you and judgment rendered
thereon.
Dated Dec. 80, 1904.
W. W.. Cory and
A. w. Enoch,
Attorneys fer Plaintiff.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-01-24
Incorporation Notice.

Notice is hereby eiyen that a certi-
fcate of renewal and amendatory and
substituted Articles Of Incorporation
Of the Western Supply Company have
been adopted, renewing said orpora-
ton under said corporate name; that
the name Of the corporation Is WEST
ern Supply Company" that its prin-
cipal place of business is at Ottumwa,
Wapello county, Iowa; that it's BUSH
ness shall be to establish, maintain
n carry on stores, buy and sell gen
eral merchandise, meats, lumber, pow
der and general supplies, and particu-
larly those commonly bought and sold
and consumed at and about coal mines
in the state of Iowa and elsewhere;
also to acquire, hold, sell, or mortgage
grounds and buildings necessary q
convenient for the conducting
Of its said lines OF business I
it shall also have the w to
execute and carry all the contracts
and obligations adapted to the nature
OF it's business and convenient for
carrying it on, including notes. bonds.
mortgages, orders, drafts, script, and
all other writings o. instruments me-
cessary or convenient in the ~transac-
ton Of its business; that the author
lied stock of the corporation is twenty
five thousand dollars, to be divided in-
to shares Of 500 each, and the same
shall be paid for in full. either in cash
or its equivalent, in personal or real
property at a price to be agreed upon
between the stakeholder and the COR
poration at the time Of the issuance
thereof; that the renewal dates from
November l, A. D., 1904, and the cor
porate existence shall continue for
twenty years thereafter; unless
sooner dissolved by the affirmative
vote Of not less than three-fourths of
the issued and outstanding capital
stock; that the affairs of the corpora
ton shall be managed by a board Of
three directors, chosen annually by the
stockholders from their number at the
regular annual meeting on the second
Wednesday in November of each year,
and by a President, Vice President,
Secretary and Treasurer. chosen by
said board of directors immediately
after the adjournment of the annual
stockholders meetings, except that the
said stockholders meeting was held in
the year 1904 on the 10th day of No
vember, 1904. at which a board of d.
rectors was elected, n a meeting of
said board of directors was held i'm
mediately thereafter; at which said
officers We're elected for the following
year; that if said meetings OF said
stockholders, or of said board of d.
r%ectors, are not held at the time spect-
fled, they may be held at some future
time; that the indebtedness shall not
at n one time exceed two-thirds OF
its issued and outstanding stock at the
time; that the private property of the
stockholders and members of the cor
poration is and shall be exempt from
corporate debts of the corporation.
Dated January IL, 1905.
E. F. Duffy,
President of Western Supply Com
pany.
w. B. Reese,
Vice President of the Western Sup
ply Company.
NJ. Duffy,
Secretary Of the Western Supply
Company.
E. F. Duffy,
Treasurer of the Western Supply
Company.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-01-24
Administrators Notice.

Notice is hereby given to all persons
interested, that on the 18th day OF
January. A. D., 1905 the undersigned
was appointed by the cler k of the dis
trict court of Wapello county, Iowa
administrator of the estate Of Hannah
D. Keys, deceased, late of said county
All persons indebted to said estate will
make payment to the undersigned, and
those having claims against the same
will present them, legally authenti-
Gated to said court for allowance.
Dated Jan. IL. 1905.
Frank Mccoy,
Administrator.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-01-24
FARMERS TRAGIC DEATH.
Granger, Mo-, Man Has Skull Crushed
bv Limb of EallIno Tree

Granger, Mo-, Man Has Skull Crushed
by Limb Of Falling Tree.
Cantril, Jan. 23.-Joseph Mattock,
aged sixty years, and a resident Of
Granger, Mo-, met instant death at 8
o'clock Friday morning, while engaged
in telling a large tree on his farm
near Granger. He had chopped the
tree off at the ground and was stand.
ing to one aide watching 1t fall, when
a large limb struck him on the head,
crushing his skull and causing instant
death. The lifeless form of the man
was discovered a short time after the
accident.
Mr.. Mattock was a well known resi-.
dent of Granger, having been engaged
in the grocery business there for a
number of years. A short time ago
he disposed of his business and had
since been living in retirement In the
city. He leaves a wife to mourn his
death.