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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-21
RUIN THE FARMERS.
Secretary Wilson Tells Rural PopuIa.
ton the Advantages They Enjoy.

ton the Advantages They Enjoy.
Dubuque, Sept. 20. Secretary Of
Agriculture Wilson, who is making a
brief visit in the Hawkeye state, is en-
thusiastic over the fine soil in Iowa,
but he regrets that Iowa farmers in
vest their surplus funds elsewhere in
stead of improving their holdings at
home. In an interview he gives Iowa
farmers some good advice.
When asked regarding the land
question as affecting the value Of Iowa
farms and the decrease in population
in Iowa's best farming districts, the
secretary said: "Just at present there
is a great rush from the high-priced
Iowa lands to cheap farms elsewhere,
but in a few years the present good
crops in that country will fail just as
they have before and the men who
have enough left to get out Of that
country will come back to Iowa.
No Change in Climate.
Zone year can not be compared with
another, as far as climate affecting
crops goes. and good or bad crops de-
pend almost wholly upon the weather
But If years vary one with another,
CllIuHC6 uO6S uOI CudHBc duu Ol0 tGIl-
year period will compare very closely
with another.
1.-THE semi-arid country Is simply
having a few years Of excessive rain
fall, just as Kansas had when first
settled; that is all. The dry hot years
will come again, just as they have in
the past. Then good many Iowa
farmers who have invested money
made on Iowa farmg in cheap land, in
stead Of improving the farm land that
made the money, will be sorry that
the greed for cheap land made them
neglect their real sources of wealth
and revenue, their fertile acres in
Iowa
Except in the valley Of the Nile,
there is no place on earth where he
who plows and sows Is more sure of
reaping than in Iowa. That is what
makes Iowa lands worth $100 an
acre. would rather buy Iowa land
at that price than any of the cheap
land at it's present price"
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LEGAL.
Administrators Notice.

Notice is hereby given to all per.
sons interested, that on the 18th day
of September,s A. D. 1905, the under
signed was appointed by the Clerk OF
the District Court Of Wapello County
Iowa, Administrator of the Estate OF
John n. Winner, deceased late of said
County. All persons indebted to said
Estate will make payment to the un-
dersigned, and those having claims
against the same will present them
legally authenticated to said Court fol
allowance.
Dated Sept. II, 1905.
J. T. Brook. Administrators.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-21
HORSE TRADE SLOW.
Heavy Receipts Yesterday Oversup-
piled Demand and Market Easier.

1edVy neCeipIS yesterday OVerSuP-
piled Demand and Market Easier.
Chicago, Sept 20-With 1,211 horses
received yesterday, against T52 the
previous Monday and GOT the corre-
spending date last year, the market is
easier. With nominally $50 horses
more than a week ago and 500 head
increase over a year ago, the receipts
have oyersupplied the urgent demand
and values are weaker under less ur-
gent competition. The offerings today
included several lots of small broken
branded westerners weighing around
800 to $50 pounds that found broad
outlet in southern orders at $40@S0
Big drafters are fairly steady at $40
@220 for good to choice offerings, but
medium and in-between classes We're
less active and unevenly lower at S120
@150. While the general range of
values is unchanged, the intermedi-
ate grades are slow at a decline Of
$3.50. Harness offerings We're fairly
active in liberal orders from all quar-
tiers at s155@370 for good to choice
with common kinds slow at S75@125.
many of the latter offerings being
taken on southern orders at S75@115.
A few eastern orders We're filled yes
terday and the general tone of the
market is easier at the following
scale of prices:
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Attention Stockmen!

We Shall be pleased to buy your
stockers and feeders when you come
here. We have been here for 81 years.
Correspondence solicited. Free mar
ket reports. Hopkins, Kelly & c.,
Kansas City stock yards, Kansas City,
Mo.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-21
John F. Weber.
Attorney At Law
FARM LOANS
Notary Public Office
Over Ottutnwa National Bank.
For SALE.

FOX SALE.
We still have the 65-acre snap
about miles from Ottumwa. Land
rolling, but can be farmed. Over $4,000
worth of thrifty growing fruit, and It
can be had for s2,250.00. Don't fall to
see this.
We want hotel In town Of not less
than 5000 inhabitants. Want It now.
A good 100 acres, first class land,
sets improvements Will sell right.
23O acres best bargain In the coun-
ty.
buggy and implement stock, IL well
located.
Want 2 or vacant lots on South
Side. Must lay we'll and be priced
right.
LoWENRERe G. co.
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Commissioner John P. Reese of AL
bia passed through the city this morn
ing on the Rock Island en- route to
Laddsdale called there by slight dis
pute between the miners and the oner-
ators there.
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congress, the important gathering on
Wednesday, October IS.
Ample preparations have been made
to serve dinner and supper at 25 cents
below the convention hall on that day
by the women of st. Johns.
All accommodations within the build
ing: Offices, dining room, refreshments
won ems parlors, smoking room, play
rooms, children's room, toilets, ushers,
guides and messenger boys will admin
lister to all wants.
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TO MEET
THREE LARGE CELEBRATIONS T,
BE HELD NEXT MONTH IN
BURLINGTON.
ottumwans VIII Attend Golden Jubilee
of st. Johns Parish, Biennial Con-
vention of St. Boniface Bund and
Sixth German Catholic Congress.

Three days which the Catholics Of
the state can do homage to their faith
and assist in three great celebrations
will occur next month The festivities
are to be held in Burlington, in which
city the golden jubilee Of st. Johns
parish is to be celebrated October 10,
while the biennial convention of st.
Bonniface Bund is to be commemo-
rated upon October II and the sixth
German Catholic Congress of Iowa is
to follow on October IS. Catholics
from the three parishes in this city
will attend.
The official program, which contains
j many features is as follows:
October is to 10, 1905.
ST. Johns hall and rooms, corner
Division and Eighth streets.
Speeches-By Mayor j. S. Caster of
the city of Burlington; Hon. Nicholas
YGonnor, Dubuque; Peter Boesen, Fair
field; Celetine ]. Sullivan, st. Joseph,
Mo-; Rev. A. H. Schoeningh, West Bur
lington; Very Rev. A. J.. Zielenbach,
Philadelphia, Pa; Rt. Rev. Archbishop
Sch. Mesmer, Milwaukee, Wis.
Sunday, October is.
10 a. PROCESSION and solemn pom
tifical high mass, celebrant Rt Rev.
Bishop Henry Cosgrove, D. D.; sermon
by Rev. P. Benno, o. S. B.
3 D. m.-Thanksgiving services and
benediction.
Monday, October 16.
8 a. m.-High mass for the children.
Sermon by Rev. P. Lawrence, o. S. B.
8 D. Mold Settlers social.
8 p. m.-Drama by the ST. Augustus
society.
Tuesday, October IL.
8 a. m-Gathering Of delegates at
the Delano hotel, the society headquar-
tiers, corner Main and Valley streets,
to be conducted to the convention hall,
st. Johns school, corner Eighth and
Division streets.
$3.50 a. n.-Welcome address by Rev.
P. Benno, o. S. B., roll call and distri-
| button of badges.
8 u. m.-High mass, celebrant, Rt.
Rev. Inoncent Wolf Abbott of Atchison,
3 Kas. sermon by Rev. P. Thomas, o. S.
3B.
] 10 a. m.-Meeting OF officers.
2 p. m.-Principal meeting of dele
gates in the school hail.
s p. m.-Reception concert by the
ST. Johns Caecillan Men Choir and the
ST. Johns orchestra.
Welcome address by Mayor ]. S.
Caster. Speakers, Hon. Nick Conner
and Rev. Thomas Burk, o. S. B.
Wednesday, October is.
8 a. Injecting of delegates.
10 a. m-Procession and solemn pom
tifical high mass; celebrant, Rt Rev
Sch. Mesmer, D. D.; sermon by Very
Rev. A. j. Zielenbach, G. S. L.
12 Jn-Dinner in the school hall.
2 .. m.-General Catholic convention
in school hall; speakers: Peter Boesen
Fairfield, Rev. Schoeningh, West Bur
lington; Celest ]. Sullivan, st. Joseph
Mo-; Rt. Rev. Sch. Mesmer. Music
st. Johns orchestra.
III 6 p. m.-Supper in the lower school
2 thalls.
D. m.-social smoker; postmaster
Lorenzo Conner. Papal benediction and
TIE Deum.
Thursday, October 10.
a. m.-Requiem high mass, cele
brant, P. Alphonse, o. S. B.
9 n. m.-Trolley party to Grape park
parish cemetery and West Burlington
cordial invitation to all Catholic
citizens and families for the Catholic
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-21
WANrEp-FARMERs

VINO are Iook1nG Tor cheap HOMES OF
good investments on easy terms, $50
per acre and up, in northwest Missou-
ri, to send for our state map and land
list. We grow corn, cover wheat,
blue grass, cattle and hogs. Write to-
day. G.. T. KINSEY LAND CO, Chill
licothe. No. 60 miles east of Kansas
City.
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FOR SALE.

GOOD HOME FOR sALE-HoUsE
of 8 rooms; good well; good rock
cave, arched with brick; good poul-
try house and pig pens; small barn
and buggy shed and other outbuild-
ings; 8 acres OF land; more than n
acres bearing fruits of all kinds; big
vineyard and strawberry bed; suit
able for gardener; good market
for all produce and fruit. Price
$1,150. Apply to A. w. Cooper.
Pleasant Hill, IL miles west of
Mystic, Iowa.
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-IOWA FARM BARGAIN
grain and stock farm, $50 acres; 1870
good farm land 80 timber; 2 sets
buildings; near three towns. Snap
If sold In thirty days. Write for de-
scription. Sam Berry, Bloomfield.
Iowa.
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John F. Judy

Judyvile, prosperous
The kind of labor that employs thought
ed
There is food lot thought few
bargains in these those
who
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-21

FOR SALE-2O0 HEAD OF GOOD
stock cattle; 100 good short horn
calves; so head of HEREFORD and
black pole, 2 year old feeders.
weighing about 900; will give time
to responsible parties. G. B. Morri-
son, Batavia Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-21

FOR SALE-wE HAVE SOME GOOD
farms. that can b, bought right,
ranging in size from 40 to 400 acres.
For further information address
Omohundro g. Dunbar, Bowling
Green Pike county, Mo.
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FOR sALE-BARGAIN, so ACRES:
stock, fruit must sell: no incum-
brance; between Union Pacific, SAM
ia Fe railway, six miles either way.
Henry c. Roberts. Bennington, Kan
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FOR SALE-A. J. BUCKNER FARM.
$50 acres. Z miles north of Ottumwa
Plenty of good water; good house,
barn and outbuildings. For infor,na-
ton inquire Benne tt Bros. on farm.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-21

Ban, per cwt... :. 100000. 80
Ear corn, per bushel -. ...... IS
Shelled corn, per bushel 80. 10
oats D. aai per ri bushel 'l 49,: s5@sSS
Chicken feed tground) 20 lb sk. 80
oilmeal; per cwt: 1.so
Oyster 9.n Isl shell Ill. per cwt e e
Straw, per cwt. 40
Butter and Eggs.
Country butter, per Id. 49,. so@25
Eggs, per dozen ). -. $50. ..17h
Poultry.
Live springs -. -. ........ 12h
s1 sss sssssss ssr sss
Vegetables and F.atts.
Onions, per peck =. =. .. .. Is
Lemo IS, per dozen :. ..... 40
Cucumbers, per doz........ 10
Radishes, auncf for :. ..- 8
Gleen onions. punches ...... s
E LIT 5st,5 Bss asaa so, II
Oranges, per dozen .......... 40@59
Ean:nas, per dozen ............s 2Sa5 C
New cabbage. per head -. 500
Carrots, per pick ......... rs
Turnips, per peck .......... 20
Potatoes, per bu. .... 50
Wax beans -. b
Green bs2ns 500. -. o
Sweet corn. per dozen >. 500. 10
Reets. per peck :. =. ...... 25
Pineapples 800. -. ....... 1o@s5
New apples. per peck :. -. ~
Cantaloupe 500. ...... o
watermelons 500. ........ 5000
Peaches, per basket ;. 80. s0@40
Fancy peaches, per bushel 200
Celery, per stalk >. 8
Tomatoes ........ ........ 10
Plums, home grown, per peck. ......25
Pears, per dozen :. ......... IS
Sweet potatoes, per peck ...., 40
Sweet potatoes per Id. 80. -. 4
Lima beans, per box..... 20. Is
Cauliflower, per head -. 20
Egg plant 80. -. ....... 10@15
Squash ..... ......... -. 5-10@15
Pears ..... -. -. =. .....A 80
Sickle Pears, per peck >. so
Grapes ........ .......... 5000
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FOR SALE - SPAN YEARLING
mules, weighing ten hundred pounds
each; also span two-year old
mules, well broke. l.. E. Millre, r.
f. d. No. 1.
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FOR SALE-FARM so ACRES: ALL
In good cultivation; is in meadow.
pasture and corn: new house, good
barn; water, orchard, ETC.; on pub
lie road. three fourths mile from de-
pot, creamery and thrivine town;
will sell for S35 per acre; a choice
farm. Address M. A. Barber, Dix,
III.
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Fine Farm for Sale !!

40 acres; we'll improved; well
watered; plenty Of timber; located 4
miles from Holton, Kan. For further
particulars, inquire of
HOPKINS, KELLY G. CO.,
Stock Yards, Kansas City.
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FOR SALE+12 ACRE RESIDENCE
property at Ash Grove, Iowa; good
house, smoke house,; brick cave;
stable and crib. ]. T. Day, Blakes.
burg, Iowa.
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RETAll. PRICES.
Hour and Eee.,.

Flour, per sae.1. .115@1.so
Corn meal. 10 pound sack ...... :cI10
Graham hoar. 10 pot sack ..... 90
Corn cllops per cwt. ...S..., 1.25
Shorts, I r cwt. ........ 100
Corn and oat chop, per cwt. ., LIS
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FOR SALE-240 ACRE FARM. wRITH
G. p. Whitsitt, Jerico Springs, Cedar
County, Mo-. for description.
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FOR DEERING CORN BIND
er, almost as good as new. Address
Fred j. Fink Drakesville. Ia
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FARMS FOR SALEIwE HAVE A
choice lot Of Iowa farms for sale at
from $3.50 per acre up. Send for our
printed list. Long Sc Raymond,
Blskesburg, Iowa.
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FOR SALE--220 acre farm; a bar
gain; $500; improved; write Geo.
S. Barger, Coyle, Okla. I also have
farm froms from 1900 up. Write
for list or come at once. Write me
before starting.
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WANTED.

BIDS wANTED-ON 100 ACRES or
land. Northwest quarter section 25,
TIP. II, Range Is West. Estate OF
William Arnold. G.. w. Shields and
j. W. Reinhard, Referees.
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FOR SALE-FORTY ACRES OF
fine timbered land; ten acres clear
ed; fine location, within one mile of
town. Price, $500: a bargain. Ad-
dress Mrs. Ida Reed. Franks, Mo.
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FOR SALE A THREE ROOM
house and one-half acre ground in
Ash Grove, Iowa; also blacksmith
shop equipped with gasoline power.
o. X. Day, Ash Grove, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-21

FOR SALE-NEw PHAETON. PAT
ent thousand mile axle; first class
job in every respect. Address John
Alderman, Hedrick, Ia.
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Thursday, October 10.

s a. m.-Requiem high mass, cele
brant, P. Alphonse, o. S. B.
9 n. m.-Trolley party to Grape park
parish cemetery and West Burlington
A cordial invitation to all Catholic
citizens and families for the Catholic
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-21

WILL SELL AT PUBLIC SALE ON
Sept. %, 1906 at my residence IN
miles northeast of Agency, all my
household goods; live stock, consist
ing of 6S hogs, 8 head of horses, 10
head of cattle, 80 acres of corn in
field, 20 tons of hay and farming i'm
plements. H. Burris.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-29

was to decide who could smoke cigar for the longest possible period without letting ist go out. The winnersucceeded in smoking his cigar for "A 1-2 minutes. Not one of his competitors had record of over one hour. Coaling contests often take place be- tween British warships. The worlds coaling record belongs to the battles!1ip Mars, however. She took aboard some where about 1,570 tons at an average rate of fraction above 241 an hour This is great advance upon the record of PIP tons an hour established by his majestys ship Majestic a short time ago.
 Quite the biggest competition is a; battleship building competition which has been entered into in the United States of America. The government naval yard at Brooklyn is competing with the Newport News Shipbuilding Company as to which can biuld bat tleship the best and most cheaply. The time limit is forty-five months, and President Roosevelt will be the judge. In this case the stake amounts to the gigantic sum of 6100,0 ,000-Pearsons s Weekly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-29

various competitions. At each sing abotu fifteen birds are entered.
 These contests, together with lark breeding, from a very attractive hobby t1 many people in Huddersfield and the surrounding villages.
 The manner in which such com petitions are managed is very inter esting. As @ rule, the birds are kept for a considerable time in the dark, and when the competitors turn comes he is brought in his darkened cage before a mirror Light is thrown upon the mirror, and when he sees his own reflection he takes it to be a rival.
 After about half minute in which to scan the enemy his cage in front of the window. As soon as this takes place he burts into song, spreading his wings and singing for a considerable time. Still, he is remarkably while singing; the least, such as taking out a pocket handkerchief may put an end to his lay. &s
 The tirds also abhore noise, so ab- solute quiet must be maintained in or der to give him fair play. Last year three birds sang for about ten minutes without cessation, thus gaining: the championship.
 Frog catching contests are just about the newest in these competitions. The greatest struggle in the fancy oc- cured a short time ago, and resulted in 8 victory for James Ahern, who re- gently won the fishing championship.
 The frog catching challenge was is- sued by John Leger, who last summer caught 30 contralto, 15 soprano, 1( tenor and 27 bass frogs in three hours.
 The conditions of the contest stated that any frogs whose legs were under two inches should not be counted. AL together about two hundred men went down to the ponds chosen at o'clock in the afternoon, and the contest lasted for two hours.
 The contestants had red flannel for bait, and were armed with small shot, gunsguns and clubs. The first frog captured was a large one of the bass
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-29

variety, and he was feIled with a club. When time" was called the winner of the competition had nineteen frogs.
 In some variations of frog catching contests the expedient of spearing frogs in their holes in sometimes re- sorted to, but this is not a very success full method. After the competition mentioned a prize medal was given to the winer at a dinner held in his honor.
 Ploughing contests are quite common in the country. The man who was best known as the champion ploughman Jim Baker, of Ipswich. Being a thrifty man, he ,amassed comfortable com- potency as result of his success in started by a Newfoundland fleet dur ing fishing This was competition to see who could eat the largest quantity of salted cod. The winner in this case was seized with a terrible thirst; he drained off a decanter and fell un- conscious to the ground. The contest proved fatal, inflammation of the stomach being produced.
 The members of the Hoxton Con- stitutional Club have taken part in a novel prolonged smoking competition. Seventy of the members were each sup piled with an eigth of an ounce of shag tobacco. The object of the competition was to decide which could keep his pipe going the longest, no second fighting being allowed.q
 The winner, a gentleman named MT. Sanderson, succeeded in keeping his pipe going for one hour and ten minutes, and so was proclaimed the victor and loud cheers.
 In similar competition held at the Shoreditch Constitutional Club this per formance was eclipsed. The winner of the first prize succeeded in keeping his pipe alight for one hour and twenty nine minutes, during the whole of which time he was smoking continuously.
 A cigar smoking competition has taken place at club in Thailfingen. In this case the object of the competition
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-29
MAN SPRUNG A FREAK APE


 Aftsr giving the scientific proofs that animals and plants existed on earth before man appeared. and that in the carboniferous period birds and mammals did not yet exist, while large numbers of articulated animals, in cluding scorpions and many insects like those of the present day, did ex- ist M Metchnikoff says:
 Tt is incOntestable that forms high CT in the scale of life have developed only after the appearance of lower forms. But it does not follow that de- yelopment always takes a progressive march In other words a. species often develops at a bound into new species. As proof of this the botanist, Hugo de Vries, after cultiyating the evening primrose for 15 years, obtained suddenly a eet of flowers quite dis tinct from those of the original plant. The seeds from these produced a new .snd permanent species. M. Metehnikoff says: It is probable that man owes his origin to a similar phenomenon. Some anthropoid ape having certain period become varied in specific characters. produced offspring en- dowed with new properties. The brain, of abnormal size placed in a spacious cranium, allowed a rapid de- velopment of intellectual faculties, much more advanced than those of the parent and those of the original par ent. This peculiarity would be trans mitted to the descendants, and as it was of considerable advantage in the struggle for existence, the new race would hold its own, propagate and prevail
 From the fact that prodigies are born from time to time with some tal- ent far greatsr than the gifts of either parent, M. Metchnikoff argues that a higher race may yet spring at a bound from the Joins Of man after ages of sporadic effort.-Kansas City Journal