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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-23
KILLED WHILE STEALING RIDE.

Two Men Meet Instant Death Under
Train and One Is Badly Hurt.
Meadville, Pa, May 22.-Two out Of
three men who were stealing ride on
an Erie freight Sunday were instantly
killed. The third. John Bailey, aged
55, of Erie, Pa, is badly cut up and
may die.
The men were sitting together be-
tween two oil tank cars and the train
broke i ntwo at that point dropping
them on the track. The dead are I'M
identified.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-23
FOUR STRAIGHT VICTORIES.
The North Stars Defeated the Yves,
End Maccabees Yesterday.

From Mondays DAILY.
The North Stars defeated the West
End Maccabees by the score of to
on the Old Field diamond yesterday.
This victory completed the fourth
straight trouncing the North Stars
this season. The feature Of the game
was the long running catch of Ben
Wilson. The lineup of players and
the score:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-23
4 Nv eekly Courier.
CHANGING ADDRESS,

Subscribers wishing their address chang.
ca VIII please give the name of the rost
once to which the paper has been sent a.
wei as the Post ot1lce where they desire II
to he changed to.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-23
OFFICIALS IN CITY.
g. M. Grubber and G. T. Ross are Here
on Tour of Inspection.

General Manager G. M. Gruber, of
Chicago, and Superintendent G.. T.
Ross. of Burlington, are in the city to-
day on tour of inspection Of the Bur-
lington property here. The officials
arrived this afternoon in Mr.. Gruber's
private car, coming from Burlington.
They departed for the west late this
afternoon.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-23
GREEKS KILL FIFTY TURKS.
Eleven Insurgents Also Die In Battle
in Macedonia.

Athens, Greece, May %. An en-
counter between Greco Macedonian
bands and strong Turkish detach-
ment is reported to have occurred in
the district of Langadina in Mace
donia. Eleven insurgents and fifty
Turks are reported to have been
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-23

waubeck is the one town IN nor
thern Linn that hassthe baseball fever
this season and an exceptionally
strong team is being organized there.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-23

oummaTy-Earned runs, Boone y;
Ottumwa, 4. Stolen bases--Bassy, 2:
Everitt. Sacrifice hits-Haller, Beaver
Everett -wo base hits-Bassy, Q;
Pennington, Beaver, Brown, Corbett.
2; Flake, House, Kennedy. Home
uns-Howard, Q; MCGUIRE, Everett.
Bases on balls-Off Sedgwick, \; Mau.
pin, 4. Struck out-By Sedgwick, 2:
Maupin. ]. Left on bases Boone, II;
Ottumwa, 8. Double plays-Plale to
Kennedy to Brown. Kennedy (unas-
sisted) Kennedy to Brown. Wild
pitch-Sedgwick Umpire Harring-
ton Attendance 423. Time of game
-1:55.
e Get 1t Right Back.
The second game had all the ear
marks Of the first. The deluse came
In the third likewicc, and Ottumwa got
four runs on two hits. as follows:
Corbett hit, and Teel attempted to
bunt sticking his arm in front of the
ball and being awarded base for get.
ting lit; Spencer dropped one to Ben
nett which lie missed, and the rent
signS were all down. House was stop
ped by brilliant catch of his foul
by Howard. Then Snapper came up
with blood in his eye. His three-bin-
gle chased EN- all in, and he came in
himself the next minute on a wild
pitch
Twice afterwards the snappers
had a look-in for scores, but
good head work by the
Boone infield cut them off In the
sixth with two gone, Everett. and Flake
singled. They attempted the double
steal. Montgomery whipped the ball
to Pennington. who shot it to Howard,
driving Everett back. Flake attempt
ed to come UP on the play- and How.
ard shot it to Mcclure. who was play
ing over near first. Then Dc-nie al
lowed Everett to get Just far enough
along to cut him off at the plate and
the side was retired. In the tenth
with one gone and House and Kennedy
on third and second, Beaver dropped
one down the first base line. Rudd
rushed UP and got it tagging Beaver
and shooting House back to third.
Fishers catch of a hard foul ended
tie snappers' last chance to score.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-23

New York, May 22.-The detective
forces of two continents are working
to recover three diamonds cut from
the world famous Excelsior stone, and
valued in the aggregate at 100000,
which were stolen from the shop of
Tiffany & Co. May 4. The news of
the great robbery has just become
public.
In all ten diamonds were cut from
the Excelsior last fall shortly after it's
purchase by Tiffany from an English
syndicate. The stone was found at
Jagersfontein, South Africa, in 1893,
and in the rough weighed 971 carats.
1t was the largest diamond that ever
has been cut up and the total value of
the ten stones taken from it was $780,
600. Five of the diam onds were sold
by Tiffany to we'll known New York
people last Christmas. OF the remain.
ing five the company now has only
two.
Stolen in the Workshop.
The robbery was committed in the
workshop on the fifth. floor of the Tiff
fanny building, in Union square, on the
afternoon of Thursday, May 4.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-23
KILLED BY EXPLOSION.

Six Men Reported to Have Lost Their
Lives In Ohio Catastrophe.
Columbus, Ohio, May %. - An ex-
plosion has just occurred at the Hook
ing Valley round house and six men
are reported killed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-30
The Venezuela Incident.


 It does not speak well for this Gov ernment's handling of It's International relations that diplomatic situation had been created in Venezuela nearly d year ago so complicated In itself, and so befogged by warning commercial political and personal Interests, that our Department of State confessed it's utter inability to understand 1t and even President Roosevelt, who doesn't ordinarily fall down before problems. was forced to send a special envoy to Caracas to investigate. The official re- speak. is now nearly ready for submis- sion to the President
 Briefly, Judge CaIhoun's findings will disclose, the rather humiliating fac. ened Venezuela with an ultimatum Cn matters growing out of the complicaS ted controversy between the latter Gov ernment and an American asphalt com pany operating in that country, it was acting on false or insufficient ipforml- ton. Fortunately, the administration : eyes were opened just in time, however. and 1t saved itself from precipitatinS war for which it alone would lave been responsible. And, later on, Judge Calhoun's preliminary verbal report caused the Roosevelt administration to that for months previous it had been maintaining toward Venezuela. In reality, that Government was justified in it's course toward the asphalt com
 
 in picking up the cudgel for an Ameri- can interest in this particular instance; still, the asphalt company has righ ; that Venezuela must recognize and re- spcct; and, finally. it Is Judge Calhoun's deliberate conclusion that there has been and there Is nothing in this case that should bring the United states and Venezuela to the verge of war, and that the controversy is easily capable of settlement by mutual agreement Nation and people ought all to breathe easier. we suppose The diplo- matte incident from first to last has been a good deal of "a tempest in tea pot"-and it has probably not all been blown away vet. for we may be sure that the asphalt company will now have a fresh defense to offer and possibly some new claim for Government pro- lection. But the affair has been n- structive. It emphasizes the necessity for American diplomats keeping clear of business and personal entangiements so that there may be absolutely no bias in their official information conveyed to the home Government; and 1t has demonstrated, teo, the prepondering influence of Germany with the Caracas Government--a factor that we must regularly reckon with.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-30
UNJUST CRITICISM.

Those newspapers and speakers who are trying to make it appear that all Senators who criticise the President and the canal commission, or object to their course, are either in the em- ploy of the railroads or are trying to delay or defeat the canal work are not showing good Judgment. to say the least of it. Some of those who have been most positive in their criticism of what has been done are among the most earnest friends of the Panama route and most anxious to see the canal work go on to completion. Their op- ponents or critics find it necessary to abuse and misrepresent them in order to sustain the President.
 The truth is that those who have been most unyielding in their opposi- tfon to the Presidents course are the ones who are best friends both of the canal and the country. They want the work done but they want it done with out scandal. without profligate waste of public funds, and without offensive and expensive favoritism. They do not wish to delay work, much less to defeat it. but they do wish to avoid q repetition of the Dc Lesseps history.
 Even the most loyal supporters of the administration must admit that the results so far attained are neither en- couraging nor creditapic. Many mill lions of dollars have been spent and the mildest term we can use is that much of 1t has been squandered. Mis- takes and mismauagement. Quarrels and bickerings, profligacy and reck- lessness, ignorance or viciousness, all have had their turn in connection with scheme which above all others calls for efficiency and honesty. He must be a blind zealot or an ignoramus who can be satisfied with the record in Panama.
 To say that Senators are subsidized or that they are enemies to the canal and the administration because they insist on thorough investigation which will bring out all the facts is puerlIe and absurd. To condemn them for refusing to vote money blindly is unjust and unpatriotic. To the Senate the country must look for protection in this matter. and that body should be commended when it refuses to fol- low the administration without proper information. The Senators who will not allow the government to be held up and robbed deserve commendation instead of censure.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-30
s...tor rprnker's WAY.

Senator Foraker was contradicttng certain statement, according 10 The Washington Post. < Though this is firm contradiction, he said. T want 1t to be pleasant and polite one. It is not necessary, when men tell falsehoods, uo call them liars and club them over the head. Their error can be pointed out in heater and more graceful ways.
 For instance:
 'In a small town in Indiana group of drummers were assembled. They sat in the reading room of the country ho- tel. On the fiimsy hotel paper they had finished writing to their firms with the 1umpy ink and the rusted pens which the hotel management provided. and now, with newspaper reading and desultory talk, they whiled away the tedious evening.
 "A young drummer in a red tie took the cigarette from his mouth and said:
 Well. my days sales here reached $5, 900. Not bad for a small town. eh ?'
 An elderly drummer looked up from his newspaper and said, quietly:
 "rNot bad at all. It is wonderful what one can sometimes do in these little places. On my last trip here my commissions came to just what you say your sales did
 The young man reddened. "This isn't a lying competition he said gruffly.
 "'oh. excuse me- said the other, I thought 1t was.'"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-30
NOT A NICE STORY.

The Hartford Courant quotes with approving zest a story which will strike some people quite differently. Here is the preface:
 4 federal judge was to be appointed in Kansas. Senator Long favored John (. ponock. Senator Burton favored resentatives had favoTites of their own: the Kansas delegation was all split up. The Smith men ran down Pol CT names were pressed upon the Pres dents attention. The matter dragged along for days. Finally MT. Roosevelt got tired He told the Kansas men Capitol, come to an agreement if they could. and notifv him of the result. Any man that suited them would suit him.
 So far the Presidents course was commendable, but the sequel was not. While the Kansas supporters of the various candidates were balloting and trying to come to an agreement, and before they had made any report to the President, he coolly notified them that he had appointed Pollock, and the reasons for his action were hardly less than ridiculous. It seems that lit- tie daughter of Pollock had written him a letter begging him in her child ish confidence to go to the President and talk to him about the charges against him.\ This letter was read to Roosevelt by a friend of Pollock and the former at once declared that he had "a lot of faith in a father who has that kind of little girl" In ten minutes a messenger was oh his way to the Capitol with Pollock's nomi- nation.
 This is an outline of the story as tThe Courant relates it and that paper speaks approvingly of the act as an evidence of Roosevelt ''impuisiveness.
 We'll. some may call 1t by that name but we think right thinking people will call it unblushing and indefensi- ble insincerity. The friends of the other applicants had confidence in Roosevelts plainly implied pledge that he would give them square deal, as he is so fond of expressing 1t, but the result justifies them in thinking that they were deliberately bunkoed. If the President had informed all par ties that he proposed to be governed by his own judgment. founded on such | information as he could obtain, they would have had no real cause of com plaint. They might have felt that he
 was not treating them with courtesy but could not have charged him with deception. A man must have a singu- l lar Idea of fairness and open dealing 1 if he can excuse this incident by call
 ing 1t impulsiveness. -...
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-30
AI.nnR APARTMENT.

One Mrs. Ogilvie. of Iowa, who is advocating fewer and better children. uses one argument which will not stand the light. She compares babies to blooded stock. and affirms that the man with a thoroughbred horse is far better off than a man with a dozen common horses or mules
 The soundness of such an argument depends entirely on what the horse is intended to do. If men want noth- ing but racers. or fast trotters one bIooded animal would doubtless be worth dozen scrubs. but if they are wanted for work then the blooded ani- nal is generally failure She should
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-30
DriftWccd
nv PHI H. ARMSTRONG;.
Hand in Hand.

Hand in hand-we've been together Coin now for forty years. Dear old wife we've braved the wea-
 ther--
 Braved the breakers of our tears. Life has been a rough old Ocean
 But at lastsI see the land And our ship is called Devotion
 So we're sailing hand in hand. Hand in hand--my goodness mother Seems jes like twas yesterday. When you promised that no other
 But myself you'd love for aye. And I sec again the preacher
 While before him we two stand. You a dainty winsome creature
 SO awkward-hand in hand. Hand in hand----God grant we'll ever Be the same until the end. Till the journeys done forever
 Till life's sun we see descend. Holdin' hands the same as spoonin'
 Maxim life one song so grand Like two harps together tunin'-
 Lifes duet sung--hand in hand.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-30
VII, -v"rn rn The Campaign.

Cut man Dem ocrat
 The announcevoent of ex-Covernor wiI'toro C Oates trat he will he a candidate fer l-rit"d States Senator if .le State cor'mittee includes that of flee in the call for primary. was no -rrrrise to his friends It has been known for the past wear that Governor oates corten'n'ated making the race and his announcement Is received with nIca asure hy thousands of true and loval friends.
 TO the people of Alabama who are of an age tn reUcn1her back a few years Governor C'steS's name is a large mart of the States history As a col onal In the Con federat Army Governor Oates lost his good ri~ht arm in a gal Iant charPe at Chinkamauga. after the war he pra"tiood Inv successfully at Ahtrnvii1e, enioviN~ 2 nractioe that ex- tended over all of South Alabama Tn the nractiCe of law Governor Oates ac- o,ln,ulated a cOr'natonrv what -,,ie~bt ha ter-,ed fortune: this has dirin- 1shed with his nvH1'o gar,,Ioa ovri-o to the had faith of thosA he trrstad uo- a nuooher Nf vaars r,ovarro- Natas ,ras the leader of tha A1aharna daIAes- tJo, in Coneress ree'o~+inO o~eSR+ unnn hiz nertv ard hts State Jn Ioo4 he ,vas elected ciovA~0or ar6 <urther dis sseS,,ished hi~7sAlf Q $ one of our ahIest ,tiAf executives. At the outhreaL of ot the war with Snain r3overnor Natea was appointed a general in the United states army. Here he suffered the same
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-30

Washington Post.
 In the course of his very remarkable speech: last Saturday. apropos of Pan- of Texas proposed the rather sensa- tional sentiment that the action of the administration relative to the birth of the Panama republic, was 'indefensi- ble in law and infamous in morals"
 This is strong language. It is even picturesque and startling. Moreover 1t emanates from a man who possesses for just that kind of oratory. MT. Gull person is a big man. with his courage in both hands, and he enjoys, besides, the reputation of speaking only when The judgment he has pronounced may be matter of opinion, and many may agree with him. No one who has fol- lowed his course in Congress, however, will question the perfect sincerity of the statement he has made or suspect him of not having what he believes to be ample authority for it:
 But 1t seems to us that if the Pan anna Canal enterprise is to be seriously ventilated-and. If not, why ventilate it at all?-a beginning should be made chase from the old French company. It would pay, indeed to take up the in vestigation at the point at which the canal commission changed its mind. af- ter reporting several times in favor of Nicaragua, suddenly concluded that Panama furnished the only available route for the proposed interoceanic wa terway. That Is the point where we should inaugurate any inquisition which can lead us on to real enlighten- ment. Many queries are suggested when we go away back there and take a thinking part.
 1. Didn't the Commission of that day know all about the Panama route? If not, why not?
 2. If they did know it's great superb oritv. its many virtues and all the rest of 1t, why hadn't they launched nego- tiations two years before?
 8 Was it only in Paris that our Com missioners could be made to realize the impossibilitv of building. real canal anywhere else than on, the Isthmus of Panama? Did the vol-au-vent Ia financiere at the 'Timbale d'Argent" at last open their eyes to the truth?
 But we need % no further. in this catechism. The fact is that the change from Nicaragua to Panama after a visit by the Comm ission to Paris is the real beginning. and right there is the real startine noint for any investira- tlon that will heln us to a real under standing of the incident.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-30
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1905.
4 LATE PRIMARY.


 At the close of the registration books in November. 1904, there were only 190.- 900 white men registered. There were fully 2so.ooo who were entitled to reg ister, but for causes best known to themselves failed to do so. These men who are unregistered will have no op- portunity of doing so until after July 1, 1905. when the registration will be- gin. Fully seventy thousand more white men ought to register if they wish to discharge their full duty as citizens
 In recent issue of The Selma Jour nal. Mr. H. g. D. Mallory. chairman of the Democratic State Committee. is re- ported as saying; .-.
 Have you any idea of the young of twenty-o one and twenty-three?" ask cd Mir. Mallory, chairman of the State Executive Committees The converse the executive committee and the prob able date of the primary. Mir. Nal lary favors primary not sooner than there are a large number of young men who have become of age since the No vember election of 1904, who win not
 
 that time, owing to not having an op- pprtunity of registering.
 The Journal man hazarded q guess about 5000. well, of course there are no accurate figures said Mir. Mall lory, but an idea may be gained when one takes the figures of the last census. At the time the census was taken there were in Alabama between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one. nineteen thousand young white men. From that time it is reasonable to suppose that there are equally as many If not more In the State now between twenty and twenty-one. all of whom will likely be able to register in July. But place the number at 15,0vu. can the party af- ford to say to those young men we want your vote in November but you selecting the nominee of the party which is equivalent to an election. l believe the State executive committee will take the same view of the matter and that the primary will be called not sooner than August.
 These are startling figures and tell with unmistakable force how great would be the wrong of calling pri- mary election before the registration books are opened next July. It would 2e.000 to 25.O00 young men would be deprived of all chance to express their choice for State officers. We do not see how any man who wishes harmony in the Democratic party in Alabama can favor q date for a primary that would cut off so many thousands from all opportunity of qualifying themselves to vote in a primary which will be equivalent to an election.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-30

remember that where there Is need or demand for one blooded animal there is need for perhaps ten thousand work horses to perform services for which the blooded one would be useless.
 To a. considerable extent the same may be said of children. If her theory is that we need no men except Beau Brummels and Harry Lehrs; If all that is required is sissy-boys and parlor ornaments. perhaps her 'blooded stock argument may apply. but we need more than that breed of male bipcds. The times and the conditions demand strong men and all history teaches us that the strongest and bravest men spring from the lower or middle ranks of the people and not from the pampered and effeminate ranks of the idle rich. Mrs Ogilvie needs to revise her phil osophy, or her anthropology.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-30

Now we are favored with another expert canal opinion. This time it is from Major Gillette. of the Army, who is certainly an experienced and accom- plished engineer. He has been down to Panama studying the situation, and says a canal with locks is the thing and that 1t can be completed in five years at a cost of $111,eOo,ooo. This is A very positive opinion, but while we have much confidence in Major Gill lett's competency and experience as an engineer we should dislike to bet on his judgment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-30
Wh~t State Papers
 Are Saying
Look to the Adyertisements.

Greensboro watchman.
 The editor of The Alabama Christian Advocate In writing of the prospects of The Advocate for the coming year. says among other things that the in- come of the paper must depend large ly upon it's subscribers" If that be the case we feel sorry for the editor, if his salary is dependent upon the in- come from this source. An investiga- tion will disclose to. Bro. Ellis that the amount taken in on subscriptions by the average paper will not more than pay for the white paper and the mechanical work on 1t. If all subscribers paid up, nearlS pSsoy eyery list there are ennngh 5uI o on pie who fail to pay for what they get to conterbalance the profit made on the papers that are paid for promptly. manager to look well to the advertise ing department