Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-15
INTERSTATE COMMERCE CON-
MISSIONER WILL PROBABLY
NOT RETURN TO IOWA.
Has a Splendid Farm In Virginia and
VIII Make His Home There-DoIi-
yer Ready to Return Home-shaws
viii Spend Summer In Maine.
[By r. H. PATCHINl.
Washington Bureau of the Courier.

washington Bureau of the Courier.
Washington, D. c., June IA.
James D. Yeomans, formerly of
Sioux City, who recently retired from
the interstate commerce commission,
will probably not return to Iowa to live
although he was appointed from that
state. He is finding existence comfort
able and almost idyllic on Virginia
farm, about thirty miles from Wash
ington. Mr.. Yeomans, in fact, has two
farms, one being 1900 acres in extent,
which he purchased from Former Sena-
tor Stewart of Nevada. Senator Stew
art bought the property several years
ago, spent many thousand dollars in
improving it and built up model dairy
farm which failed to yield the antici-
pated revenue. Then the venerable
solon from Nevada became interested
IN the gold fever at Goldfield, and lured
by the same spirit which caused him,
when young man to seek his fortune
in the west, gathered together all his
ready cash and put it into mining ven
lures. The senator's pressing need for
money gave Mr.. Thomas an opportun-
ity to buy the property which he now
owns at sacrifice.
Mr.. Yeomans is hard man to fool
when 1t comes to land. Before he went
to Iowa he made not few dollars buy
Ing and selling New York farm lands
and he was equally keen in land deals
after he went to Iowa. He declares
that there is money to be made in Vir-
ginia and he apparently has started.
out to prove 1t. His farm is located
on the Bluemont division of the South
ern railway, which traverses the most
beautiful part of tho old dominion.
Bluemont Is about sixty miles from
Washington and is 1000 feet higher
above the sea than the national CAPT
tai. an advantage which makes it de-
lightfully cool in the summer time
Mr.. Woman sfarm is in the midst of
a region peopled by some of the oldest
| and most aristocratic families of Vir-
ginia, who have cordially received the
distinguished Iowan According to last
reports Mr.. Yeomans had not yet be-
gun to say "you all and 1--WE ALL" but
these are colloquialisms which, like
mint juleps, are acquired. The hos
pitality of that section is far famed.
DoIIiver is Improving.
| Senator Dolliver is recovering from
a slight surgical operation on the nasal
organs. He and Mrs Dolliver plan
to leave Washington soon for their
home at Ft. Dodge. The senator thinks
that he has been too widely advertised
as a victim of the strike riots In Chi
cago. 1t was recently reported that
while passing through Chicago on his
way to Washington he was struck with
q brick, thrown by 4 riotous striker
The senator says that this report was
a mistake, but that his denials of 1t
have never been able to catch up with
the original story.
The contingent of Iowa newspaper.
men has this week had an addition in
the person of J. G. WelIiver, better
known as "Jud" Welliver formerly OF
the Sioux City Tribune, who has be
come the principle political writer on
the Washington Times. Mr.. Welliver
whose exploits in Iowa journalism
have more than once set the Iowa poll
tical world by the ears, will also be
the Washington correspondent of the
Sioux City Tribune. The Washington
Times, under the ownership of Franz,
Munsey of magazine fame, has made
great strides in the field Of Washing
ton journalism. 1t is an aggressive
well written, attractively printed aft
ternoon newspaper. 1t was formerly
owned and edited as both an afternoon
and morning newspaper by Stilsor
Hutchins, who by the way, before the
civil war published newspaper al
Des Moines. Just before the wal
broke out Mr.. Hutchins published g