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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-14
BIG RUN OF HORSES.
Receipts First Two Days This Week
| 200 More Than Week AGO.

Chicago, Dec. 13.-Commission deal
ers are making special effort to in
crease receipts, as the current weeks
sales practically herald the opening of
the International Live Stock EXPOSE
ton. Arrivals the first two days total
1,279 horses. against 1,072 head report
ed last week, S39 the same dates last
year and S23 the corresponding period
in 1903. The big run includes many
Choice southerners, which are moving
slowly at unevenly lower prices for
intermediate grades. While there is
fair. attendance of southern dealers,
the offerings meet slow demand owing
to the nearness of the holiday season
and prospect that trade in the south
will be at a standstill until the first
of the new year. Principal buying on
southern account is on speculative
basis and bargains are demanded to
move the offerings. Extremes of
prices are stationary at S4O@100 and
upward, with the in-between classes
moving s2.5o@5.Oo unevenly lower
than average prices last week.
wagon horses and expressers are nom
inally steady at the following prices:
Poor Good
to fair. to best
Drafters >. ....$115@14O $160@215
Loggers and feeders 70@125 130@180
Expressers :. ;. :. 100@120 130@165
Chunks ;. :. ..... esq 80 1O0@130
Farm mares and
small chunks -. 400 SIS roo 100
Light drivers ;. 70@12O 150@370
Actors and coachers 115@145 160@380
Carriage pairs -. 225@275 290@650
Western (branded) $50 As 60@100
Mules 30. -. $50. 60@125 100000
Shipments of Horses.
| Carloads Of horses shipped from
Chicago yesterday:
Fletcher Bros. ...... -. ..........
| Connolly & S. ......... -. ..... 1
Smith Bros. ...... ........ l
S. v. Broher ........ ............ l
FRANK Foltz ............ l
| w. Leber $3.50. .......... l
DOQSOH ............
Other shippers ...... -. -. -. 2
| Iotal $500. -. ........ III
Horse Gossip.
The following dealers and shippers
arrived with consignments of horses:
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i LOCAL MARKETS. 1
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WHOLESALE PRICES.

Eggs drop 2 cents in local markets
today. Other prices remain the same.
FURNISHED by John Morrell & Co.. at
II a. m, Dec. 49,
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CHICAGO MlkETs.

Tuesdays Live stocIMarket in Brief.
/. Tasday's eatte a-1Ie has satisfac-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-14
Boys Novelties.

7 Don't forget the boys
just because they are boys.
We have what you want.
Just a few of the things to
make him happy: Large
Automobiles built for two,
Coaster Wagons, S.eds,
Magic Lanterns, Black
Boards, the ever popular
Rocking Horse, Drums,
Balls, Express Wagons of
all sizes and other articles
too numerous to mention.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-14

Mrs. Clara Ekwell, corner of M,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-14
Suggestions for Men.

The following list may
suggest what you want.
An elegant Fur or .Muff,
fancy Silk Shawls, either
black or white, Toilet Sets.
fancy Glove Boxes. new
novelties in Stationery,
Silk Waist or Dress Pat.
terms, Gloves, fancy Side
Combs and Sets. fancy
Slippers, Dressing Sacques
and other popular novel
ties suitable for ladies'
gifts,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-14
TOYLAND
Little Folks Goods.

A large assortment of
sthe popular things for the
hittle ones. Dolls from Csc
Ito $1,000. Mechanical toys
tof all descriptions. Doll
furniture, such as Tiny
Stove Ranges, Enameled
s5ed steads, Doll Buggies,
INhairs andevery concelva-
u He article to gladden. the
IFEeart of the little folks.
The statesman., 1905-03-31
LA JUNTA

Mrs. NJ. Scott is on the sick list
Little Charley Worthy is very sick.
Theodore Radford returned We'd
nesday from Topeka.
Mrs. Maud Macon of Colorado
Springs is the gue1t of Mrs. j. W.
Marshall.
Mrs. Collins was in from Rocky
Ford Sunday.
Mrs. Bush of Dodge City, Kans., is
the guest Of Mrs. Ben Bland.
The Dramatic Club under the di-
rection of Mrs. Berry is progressing.
In few weeks it will present "a
Disappointed Bride"
Miss Alice johnson, who was en-
route to Colorado Springs from Los
Angeles, was the guest Of Mrs. l.. V.
Green for few hours last Sunday.
Rev. johnson OF Kansas preached
at Hubbard Chapel Sunday. Rev.
johnson is well known in Colorado.
The Willing Workers club met at
the parsonage Thursday and elected
officers. The next meeting will be
with Mrs. NJ. Green.
The Pomethian Whist and Finch
Club met with Mrs. Robt. Worthy
Mondey evening.of last week. The
successful players were Mrs. r. S.
Sims and Charles Knox attable |, and
Mrs. w. E. Davis and Harry Badgett
at table 2. After 70 | call refresh
ments were served. The next meet
ing will be at the home of Mrs. Sims.
The statesman., 1905-03-31
STRIKES HIDDEN ROCKS.

When your ship Of health strikes
the hidden rocks of Consumption,
Pneumonia, etc, you are lost if you
don't get help from DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption. j W.
McKinnon of Taladega Springs, Ala,
writes; 81 had been very i'll with Pneu
monia, under the care of two doctors,
but was getting no better when | be-
gan to take DR., Kings New Discoy-
cry. The first dose gave relief, and
one bottle cured me-" Sure cure for
sore throat, bronchitis, coughs and
The statesman., 1905-03-31
MANIToU, COLORADO.

Oscar Washington, who spent the
winter in Salt Lake has returned
home.
The beautiful weather of the past
week has permitted a number of Col
orado Springs ladies to visit friends.
Mrs. George Jackson Of Battle
Creek, Mich, who is here for her
health, has been indisposed,
Messrs. Wilson, Holmes and Mel
son arrived last week from Denver
and are employed at the Cliff House.
Mrs. Ed Weston was hostess for the
Semper Fidelis club Friday after
noon. The meetings are becoming
more interesting each week.
Miss Henrietta Patterson gave the
first ball of the season Monday even
ing in honor of number of visitors
whv have been sojrurning here.
The statesman., 1905-03-31
PUEBLO COLORADO.

Mrs. Moore and Miss Millie Quill
Ian of Bessemer are sick.
Mrs. Betters of Sail Ia, is attending
tIe bedside of her sick mother.
DR.. S. A. Huff, who has recently
come to Pueblo, has located in Besse-
mer.
The weather has cleared up and the
people are glad of the opportunity of
getting out again.
D. A. Tolliver is able to be out
again after nearly three weeks confne-
ment with beumatism.
Rev. Hardy baptized eight candi-
dates Sunday, the result Of the revi
val held at the Be5semer Baptist
Church.
Mrs. Chandler, who died of cancer
was buried from Eighth Street Bap-
tist Church Tuesday, uhder the au
spices of Josephine Court, Il. Of j
The deceased leaves a husband and
daughter.
The Ladies Art Club Of the Mesa
met with Mrs. Grigsby last week.
The club is composed of lifteen ladies
all of whom were present but two,
The guests were Mesdames Berry and
Young of the West Side.
East Lynne that was present by To-
cal talent at the A. NJ. E. Church last
week was well received. The mask
festival last Monday night was also a
success.
Persons wishing TUE STATESMAN or
having news for the same, will oblige
the writer by making their wants
known at ll54 18th street.
Mrs. Patrick and Mr., Hicks were
quietly married last week. Mr.. Hicks
was the husband of the evangelist,
Mrs. Hicks, who died here the week
week before Christmas.
Spring has opened up and visitors
coming from the mountains feel that
they have dropped into another more
beautiful world.
The statesman., 1905-03-31
New Breakfast Food.

A little girl who was eating Goldfish
for breakfast the other morning for
the first time was seen to stop and
examine her plate with deep interest.
Mamma" she said, what kind of
fish is this? l have just found a hair
In It,"
1T is Goldfish, dear" was the answer
"oh,' commented her daughter in a
disappointed tone. Il thought prob.
ably 1t was mermaid. d."-Harpers'
Weekly.
The statesman., 1905-03-31
Chicken Has Four Leos.

W. H. Tarbox Of East Greenwich.
R. l., is the possessor OF a curiosity
in the shape Of a live four-legged
chicken four months old. 1t hops
around with two of its legs as any
chicken does, but drags the other
two, which are elongoted, useless ap
pendages.
The statesman., 1905-03-31
News from all parts Of the State.

colds. Guaranteed at James Hulliu
ger * Co., drug store, price SOC and
81 co. Trial bottle free.
The statesman., 1905-03-31
Free Schools In Haiti.

Haiti deyotes almost one-sixth of
ltE revenues 10 free schools.
The statesman., 1905-03-31
ADVANTAGES

Competent Christian tsaahers splendid mhusnSsi Assith
leoatoaI practical ,ourusa Of study iov a,sA
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-12
Compulsory Fencing.

While many States, especially in the
South, are passing laws compelling
every one to take care of his own
stock, and relieving others from any
necessity of fencing where they do not
need it, it seems that Ohio has of late
passed a fence law that compels land
owners to keep up equally the line
fences. Where one man has a field
he wishes to pasture and his adjoin-
ing neighbor is devoting his land to
something else that does not need a
fence, there is no justice in compelling
him to help fence his neighbours cattle
out State statutes about fencing are
all needless If we realize that the COM
mon law doctrine that makes a man
responsible for his own stock is the
correct and fair thing. One man may
be using his land for fruits or truck
and does not need any fence, as he
does no pasturing. Then if his neigh
Dor is a stock man he should be re-
sponsible for his stock. Farmers own
land to the middle of the public road,
and have only relinquished the use
of it to the public as a means for
transportation, and for no other pur-
pose. Hence no one has a right to
pasture the public highway, not even
the owner of the land, for he like
others. has simply the right to pass
over it, and he can cut from it what
grows on his side of it, which no one
else has right to do. In thickly set
tied sections it is coming more and
more to be recognized that pasturing
belongs to wide areas and cheap lands
and that what the average Eastern
farmer needs is simply a standing pas
ture enclosed, while his cultivated
fields are never trodden except by
the work teams, and, of course, no
fences are NEEDED. Fencing is one of
the heaviest taxes on the farm, and
one should have the right to make as
little as he needs, and should not be
compelled to fence out other peoples
cattle. In sections where for years the
law has simply Obliged men to fence
in their own cattle, but does not COM
pei them to fence out other mems, it
would be hard to get the people to
go back to the antiquated practice of
partnership in line fences. With the
growing scarcity of fencing timber
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-12
Feeds and Feeding.

We would like to add a few words
to what Mr. Terry so we'll said on
page sc in reply to Mr.. Nelson, of
Vermont The idea of a balanced ra-
ton for animals of all sorts seems to
be slowly appreciated by farmers, as
q rule. 1t is true that animals can
live on a ration of carbonaceous foods
like timothy hay, but they have to cat
great deal more of it than is neceS-
sary in order to get the protein or
muscle and flesh forming food that
they need. Especially is this true of
the dry COW that is carrying a calf
for If the food is not properly bal
anced the COW cannot consume enough
for her own support and the making
of a fine calf, and the result is a poor
COW and a poor calf and a waste of
hay that could have been saved had
the ration been balanced with bone
and understanding food. And yet
farmers who guess at everything call
the Station investigators theorists,
when the Station men are the most
practical of men, for they weigh
everything fed and weigh the animals
and know exactly what is the result
of their feeding, while the farmer
guesses at what the animals eat, and
1t seems to him perfectly satisfac-
tory 1t the animal lives through the
winter, when they have tasted food
enough to have bought or protein that
they need to have bought or provided
in different kind of food. Mr.. Dietrich,
the famous dairyman, who keeps 80
cows on Is acres of land, has well
said that the time to improve a COW
is when she is dry, while the common
practice is to be perfectly content if
the dry COW survives the winter and
does not die of hollow horn" (hollow
stomach) in the spring. When the cow
is dry IS the very time that she needs
the most careful feeding If the well
fare of the calf and the future milk
ing of the COW are of any value. There
is great need for careful study of
feeding and rations among farmers in 4
all parts OF the country, especially in
sections where the dairy is as import
ant as it is in most parts of Vermont.
Bermuda Grass.
w. r. Hubbard Moravian Falls.
n. CT would thank you if you can
give any advice that would help me to
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-12

get rid of Bermuda grass and keep it
from spreading / have quit blowing
the land where it is, and am pasturing
it, yet it spreads" In your mountain
country Bermuda grass will always be
more of a pest than anything else,
and you can grow grasses better suited
to your conditions. There is but one
thing that will kill Bermuda. That is
shade. 1t a sun-loVing grass. delight
ing in heat and sunshine and avoid
ing shade of any sort. Pasturing will
only serve to spread it. for the tramp
ing of the stock enables the running
stems to take root further along. To
get rid of it. pillow it shallowly so as to
Just get under the running stem and
avoiding burying it. Then harrow it
thoroughly and rake out all that you
can get and haul off and burn 1t. Then
break the land well and seed heavily
to ats. AS soon as the oats are cut
pillow again and sed to cow peas, using
at least two bushels of seed per acre,
so as to make a dense shade over the
land. Cut the peas for hay and then
prepare the stubble well with a cut
away harrow making the surface very
fine, and seed to wheat. When the
wheat is off pillow grain and seed again
to peas. Cut the peas and SOW Grim
son clover seed at rate of Is pounds
per acre early in September. and by
that time there will be little. if any
of the Bermuda left, and you can turn
the clover in spring and make a fine
crop of corn.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-12
Favors Private Ownership.

To the Editor:-.Your issue of
March 10th again insists upon munich
pal ownership of public utilities The
legislature which Just adjourned au-
thorized majority of the towns in
this State that owned the public utili-
ties to issue bonds to add to. and to
pay the debts incurred in the operation
of the same.
The towns that do not own their
water and light plants have 4 lower
tax rate than those that do own them,
with hardly an exception.
This statement has been so frequent
ly made in your columns. and in other
papers that l think the above facts
should also be published. In most
cases a more satisfactory service is
rendered by private ownership and a
cheaper service under municipal own
ership. while the taxpayers make up
the deficiency in taxes, or bond issues.
Respectfully.
j. III. BRIDGERS.
Henderson, n. c.. March 10, 1905.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-12

Swamp Root is not recommended
for everything but 1t promptly cures
kidney, liver and bladder troubles. the
symptoms of which are-obliged to
pass your water frequently night and
day, smarting or irritation in passing,
brickdust or sediment in the urine,
headache, backache, lame back, dizzi-
ness, poor digestion, sleeplessness,
nervousness, heart disturbance due to
bad kidney trouble. skin eruptions
from bad blood, neuralgia, rheu-
matism, diabetes, bloating, irritability,
wornout feeling, lack of ambition, loss
of flesh, sallow complexion, or Bright's
disease.
If your water, when allowed to re-
main undisturbed N glass or bottle
for twenty-four hours, forms a sedi-
ment or settling or has a cloudy ap-
pearance, it is evid ence that your kid
neys and bladder need immedlate at
tention.
Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and
is for sale at drug stores the world
over in bottles of two sizes and two
prioes--fifty cents and one dollar. Re
member the name. Swamp-Root, DIR,
Kilmer's Swamp-Root and the adj
dress, Binghamton, N. Y, on every
bottle.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-12

The mild and immediate effect of
Swamp Root the great kidney and
bladder remedy is soon realized. 1t
stands the highest for it's wonderful
cures of the most distressing cases.
Swamp-Root will set your whole sys-
tenn right, and the best proof of this
is a trial.
SO Cottage Street, Melrose, Mass.
Jan. 18th, 1904.
Dear Sir-"Ever since / was in the
army, had more or less kidney trou-
BILE, ard within the past year it became
so severe and complicated that j suf-
fered everything and was much
alarmed-my strength and power was
fast leaving me. l saw an advertise
ment of Swamp-Root, and wrote ask
ing for advice. 1 began the use of
the medicine and noted a decided inn
provement after taking Swamp-Ro
only short time.
/ continued it's use and am thankful
to say that l am entirely cured and
strong. In order to be very sure about
this. l had a doctor examine some of
my water today and he pronounced II
all right and in splendid condition.
/ know that your Swamp Root is
purely vegetable and does not contain
any harmful drugs. Thanking you for
my complete recovery and recon-
mending Swamp-Root to all sufferers
/ am" Very truly yours,
X A 4
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-12
Railroad Rates.

The great mass of the people want
to have some control placed on the
railroads to prevent extortion and dis
elimination. The President, who rep
resentS the people more than any
President ever did, if majority means
anything, wants to have a regulation
of the rates of freight, but the ma
jority of the Senate, whose members
do not represent the people, but seem
rather to represent the railroads,
blocks the measure. The American
people are long suffering, but they
finally right any wrong, and they will
right this one. They . are becoming
more and more convinced of the me-
cessity for the people electing a Senate
directly, and the time is not far dis
tant when it will be done. 1t has been
said that the tariff is the breeder of
trusts. If this is so the railroads are
certainly the fostering influence that
enables the trusts to control the BUSH
ness of the country and to choke off
competition. That monster monopoly,
the Standard Oil Trust, owes it's
growth and power to the discrimina-
ton of the railroads, and we hope that
the fight started in Kansas will extend
to other State, and that not only this
trust, but all others will be controlled
or broken up. This is the fight of the
whole people without regard to party,
and what the whole people demand i'm
this country they will finally get
There is a storm gathering, and when
IL breaks woe be to the banded bril-
gands in the trusts and railroads.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-12
THE VALUE or CHARCOAL.
Few People Know How Useful it is In
Preserving Health and Beauty.

Nearly everybody knows that char
coal is the safest and most efficient
disinfectant and purifier in nature
but few realize it's value when taken
into the human system for the same
cleansing purpose.
Charcoal is a remedy that the more
you take of it the better; it is not a
drug at all, but simply absorbs the
gases and impurities always present
in the stomach and intestines and car
ries them out of the system
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
smoking, drinking or after eating
onions and other odorous vegetables.
Charcoal effectually clears and Inn
proves the complexion, it whitens the
teeth and further acts as a natural
eminently safe cathartfc.
1t absorbs the injurius gases
which collect in the stomach and
bowels; it disinfects the mouth and
throat from the poison of catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoal in one
form or another, but probably the
best charcoal and the most for the
money is in Stuart's Charcoal Lo-
zenges; they are composed of the
finest powdered Willow charcoal, and
other harmless anti-septics in tablet
form or rather in the form of large,
pleasant tasting lozenges, the charcoal
being mixed with honey.
The daily use of these lozenges will
soon tell in much improved condition
of the general health, better COM
pleion, sweeter breath and purer
blood, and the beauty of it is, that
no possible harm can result from their
continued use, but on the contrary.
great benefit.
A Buffalo physician in speaking of
the benefits of charcoal, says: II adj
wise Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges to all
patients suffering from gas In stomach
and bowels, and to clear the complex
ion and purify the breath. mouth and
throat; also believe the liver is great
~ benefited by the daily use of them:
they cost but twenty-five cents 4 box
at drug stores, and although in some
sense patent preparation, yet I be-
iieve | get more and better charcoal
in Stuart's Charcoal Lorenzes than in
any of the ordinary charcoal tablets"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-12
Talks With Farmers.
(By Prof. w. F. Massey in Practical
Farmer.)
Tar.

We notice that the food purveyors
have gotten on the Taro, and one firm
advertises it in cans as coming from
the Hawaiian Islands. Now, it is true
that Taro is largely the food of the
Sandwich Islanders, but it is grown in
large quantities in this country as an
ornamental plant. Taro is the root of
Caladium Esculentum, the elephant
ear plant of the flower beds. 1t is
eaten to some extent by colored peo-
pie in the South, and grown by the
bulb growers in the South Atlantic
States in large fields for the supply
of the Northern dealers in bulbs and
tubers. Like all the Arum family, it
has a fiery, burning taste when taken
raw. owing to the large quantity of
microscopic needle-like crystals of
oxalate of lime it contains. Cooking
emulsifies these and makes the root
edible, just as the root of the Gala
would be treated in the same way.
Whether the Taro can be made a
popular dish remains to be seen, but
IT people get to eating them they can
be supplied in any quantity without
going to Hawaii after them.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-12
PuIverized Phosphate Rock.

The editor of the Rural New Yorker
tells a correspondent that the ground
rock is of little more use for plant food
than SO much dust" That is what
the chemists have been telling us all
along. But is it not fact that what
ever phosphoric acid exists naturally
IN the soil is in this same insoluble
state, and yet plants get it. What we
nave not yet found out about the lab
oratory of the soil is far more than
what has been discovered The labor
atory shows that the pulyerized phos-
phat1c rock Is in an insoluble state.
but we know that plants do use it
and thrive on it, and the slowness of
us availability may be a positive ad-
vantage. Some years ago at the
Maryland Station experiments were
made to compare the results from the
use of soluble, reverted and insoluble
phosphoric acid. 1t was found that
the very availability of the dissolved
phosphate was a disadvantage with
corn, since it started a growth that
was not kept up. In summing up the
results the bulletin of the Maryland
Station says: 1.-THE average results
show that insoluble phosphoric
acid, that is, Dhosphates which have
not been reaed or dissolved insulphuric
acid in he soluble and revered forms;
that is in phosphates which have been
dissolved in sulphuric acid. Not only
has the yield produced by the insolu-
bic phosphoric acid been greater than
that produced by the soluble phos-
phoric acid, but the cost has been only
about half as much. The re-
suits show that crops are able to use