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The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-05-04
NO LIVES ARE LOST IN ALAMEDA.

ALAMEDA Cal, April IS.The earthquake this morning has
caused loss here estimated fully S2ooooo No lives lost
but several persons seriously injured.
William Cunningham the Leo hotel had his skull fractured
by falling brick Mr. and Mrs. Fred Boehmer and child
hemmed in by fallen bricks and shattered
adjoining the bady yamaged Tudor block They
rescued by Fire Chief krauh by using ladder escaping without
injury Hundreds OF chmneys all over the down
Railroads blocked and all wires of commission
Railroad tracks the marsh twisted The tall chimney
the old oil works fell the South Side tracks West Ala
media of the track OF the Oakland Transit
has sunk least three and half feet
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-05-04
SAN JOSE DEATH LIST is FIFTY,

Los ANGELES, April I8At San Jose, the Nendome hotel
anneN badly wrecked and ten fifteen persons killed The
Dohery block completely burned and killed DR.
Mehrow was ked AMI his wife badly injured Every business
building demolished Martial law has declared and the
ua ana 600 deputies are guarding the streets II is estimated
mat my persons have been kitd here The posofce partly
wrecked the Presbyterian church totally demolished the court
mouse NIefked Passengers arriving nom other cities in California
bng s VI death and disaster iTpm santa Monterey GiOy
ana olW The death list AZ Santa Cruz reported large San
"a osa rla wreck and 10000 people hnrless Tbs lns
Wf VIII probably fsfh hppieds Main stress piled plspY feet
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-05-04


In East Oakland there amount OF damage.
the buildings suffer the Franklin school
Tenth and East Sixteenth which
construction The walls split and cracked all around the build
ing Ninth well the other wall
facing Sixteenth will have be rebuilt The damage
estimated $4,000 The Rose Brick company
The huge 95oot high brick smokestack
ground The walls of the and knroom
demolished and the roofs caved in buyng the machinery
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
MARTlNsBuRG.

Martinsburg, Oct, 19.-Meetings at
the Presbyterian church closed Friday
evening.
DR.. M. F. Moore is at Chicago for a
few days stay.
A. N. Redfern and +. Love were at
Chillicothe Tuesday.
G. l. Street has put in new cement
walk
Mr.. and Mrs. j. f. Dare of Hedrick
We're in town Saturday.
G. L. Morain and family of Rich
land spent Sunday at the NandeNenter
home southeast of town.
Mrs. F. Mefford of Farson visited
M. b. Glass and R. Eyestone We're in
Hedrick Tuesday evening.
Mrs. George Strayer, who has been
visiting for some time with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Britain, left
Friday for her home in North Bend,
Neb.
Miss Emma Love is having improve
ments put on her residence property
on Second Main street.
( w. Williams Of Ottumya was instown
wednesday,. ssssts
Mrs. S. Pollock, Mrs. Anna NARROW
and Roscoe Pollock were in Ottumwa
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Hall visited in
Oskaloosa Thursday.
Mrs. j. S. Kupka was at New Lon
don Monday.
Miss Mary Harmon of Hayesville
visited last week at the j. Hankins
home
Mrs. L. Morgan is on the sick list.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
THE MEAT PACKERS.

Several new situations have grown
out of the passage of the meat inspec-
ton bill. One Of them is that hereaft-
er the packers will not be able to work
up into food delicacies any of the dis
RaSed hogs or cattle which have here.
tofere had a market value sufficient to
pay for their transportation to market,
as government inspectors will not only
hereafter condemn such animals, but
the law provides that these earcasses
must be destroyed at once. Not being
able to sell the products from such
animals, 1t comes about very naturally
that the packers will not buy them.
The new situation will render it expe.
dent for farmers to quit feeding such
animals and put them out of the way
as soon as disease of any kind may
appear Indications point to the fact
that the operation of the new law will
result in renewed campaign for the
eradication Of disease among all farm
animals used for food.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
TYRONE.

Tyrone. Oct. 19.-John Brothers,
who is confined to his home in Guilford
township, three miles porth Of George
town, by an attack Of typhoid fever,
is reported as being much Improved.
John OsBryan of Melrose spent a
day or two this week visiting at the
bedside of his brother, e. f. O,Bryan,
in Guilford township.
j. NJ Ennis was an Abba visitor on
business mission Tuesday
j. 4. f.. McGrath was a Melrose Wis
itor Monday looking kafter legal mat
tiers in the interest of a client.
Miss Mary Farrell visited with rela-
1tives south of town over Sunday.
John Dwyer and L. p. Greene of
Hiteman We're guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Michael Greene in the village over Sun
day.
W. r. Edwards spent day or two
this week in Des MONIES, looking after.
business matters, and incidentally Wis
iting his family.
Eight car loads of stock left this
point during the week for the Chi
cago market.
Mrs. Wheland of Davenport is the
guest of Georgetown relatives.
Orland Starbuck and family return-
ed to their home in Woodburn Tues
day, where Mr.. Starbuck resumed his
duties as station agent
Thomas Bever has removed his ia ~
lily to his new home mile south pf
town.
j. L. Doody and p. iCastner, both of
Abba. were looking after matters OF
business in town this week.
AIRS. j. y. r. .McGrath spent "a day
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
INSECT RAyAGEs.

1t is estimated that the annual loss
of crops by insects alone is over $780,
100000. Ii this be true, one cannot do
better than encourage those birds and
animals which destroy the worms and
insects Some of the birds which sub
sist almost wholly upon insect life are
the swallows, martins, vireos, wood
peckers, chickadees, wrens, cucloos
swifts and fycatchers. The robin and
the bluebird will ask for a small share
of grain and fruit In return for their
services; but, then, it must be remem-
bered that they come early and stay
late and are very faithful. ~ is an
interesting fact that the stomach OF
the very young bird Is SO delicate that
1T can only digest animal food, and
this creates demand for the insect
life. Another valuable assistant is the
harmless and inoffensive toad The
children should be taught not only to
recognize this little animal and the
birds as having right to live, but also
to regard them as valuable aids upon
the farm.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
a NEW roLrcY AS TO. PUBLIC LANDS,

a NEW POLICY: AS TO PURLIC LANDS.
The, recent uncoyering of numerous
frauds In connection with the dishonest
entry of public lands, especially those
rich in. timber. reserves, coal. oil and
deposits, has brought govern
ment officials which have these mat
tors in, charge 10 the point OF asking
for legislation which will prevent the
further passage of any such lands into
the hands of private companies or cor
porations. AS it is, practically all the
coal and oil lands owned by the govern
ncnt i'll the eastern states have passed
into the hands Of private parties, es:ab.
fishing them in some of the worst
monopolies which we have today. The
policy of the government mentioned
above. which bids fair to be put
into operation in the near future, takes
the view that inasnuch as the public
lands belong to the whole people they
should not be administered in such a
way as to enrich a favored few, as
has been the result of the slipshod pol
icy Which has prevailed in past years
The change will be looked upon, with
favor by all citizens who are interested
in Justice and. an all around square
deal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
BEE sT1Nas Foa R1HEumAr4sm.

If the news reports Of the experiences
of resident Of Jenkintown, Pa, are
to be believed, beekeepers are likely to
receive fresh accession to their ranks
from confirmed rheumatic patients.
The person in question, a man long
troubled with rheumatism, was one day
visiting friend and accidentally upset
a hive Of bees. Though unacceptable
when they got through with him, he
noticed that his rheumatism was gone
When the disease some time later made
its appearance he tried the experiment
again and found it worked. The other
day he took treatment from a hun
dred bees before beekeepers' conven-
;tion In Philadelphia, which was natr-
rally much interested in the experiment,
The cure was explained by physi.
clan whom he consulted as due to the
poison from the stings acting as an. an
tidote upon the uric acid in the blood,
to which rheumatism is due
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
TREES.

It is seldom that all the good quail
ties of q thing can be found in any one
single individual This is true in the
matter Of trees. Many people in
their eagerness to. see things doing
about the place plant the trees which
make the most rapid growth. This is
a mistake. While these trees If planted
may sooner bring joy and pride to the
heart of the present owner, it is a
waste of time and labor, and in the end
means job for some one else. AS an
example, n couple of rapidly growing
trees which are beautiful to look upon
and very popular with a majority Of
people are the silver maple and IT,,
Carolina poplar. Both of these arc
not only short lived and require much
water, but they are more frequently
devastated by windstorms, attacked
by insects and subject to disease than
the more hardy varieties. You want
trees which stand the storms Of win.
ter as we'll us the wind and drought
of summer,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
NEGLECTEp COWS.

This Is the weather when old bossy
is nearly pestered to death with flies
and heat. IL she has a nice, cool, shady
pasture to roam in she should be fair
" happy. butsstaked out by the road
side, with radius of fifteen feet to
fight flies in, she certainly has grounds
for complaint. We have known Of
cases where the only place the COW
had to Craze was by the roadside.
Sometimes she was well cared for and
even wore blanket to protect her
from the files, but sometimes she mas
stamped around in the same place for
days, and when she wasn't beNowing
for q drink Of water she was having
vicious time with the flies. Who
cou' sme her,sif she did kick the
Z when she vas MIXED?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
EDDYviLLE.

Eddyville. Oct. 19.-Miss Gertie B.
McCombs of near Agency and DR.. R. f.
Shahan of this place were quietly mar
ried at the home Of the brides parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. McCombs, at high
noon, Wednesday, October II, Rev. Hill
OF Agency officiating. Only the mem
bers of the brides family were pres
ent The doctor. who is q son of Mr..
and Mrs. j. w. ShaAlan Of Abba. has
been practfcing medicine here since
completing his medical course in the
State university at Iowa City in 1904.
DR.. and Mrs 'Shahan came to Eddy
Vile Thursday morning, and VIII go
to housekeeping In the groon's prop
erty on North Fourth street.
Mrs. Lizzie Scribner, who resides
north of town, fell down into the cell
lar Thursday and sustained injuries to
her head and elbow. She was also
shaken up considerably
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Comstock have
from Kirkxille to o. H. Seifert' S
tenant property on South Third street.
THE Black Spider was the title OF
a play which was presented, at the
opera house Tuesday night by Jed
Carlton. The patronage was good, and
the play was a good one.
Mrs. G. L. Phillips departed Wednes-
day for an extended visit with a sister
at st. Paul.
W.; "A. MCGEE of Locust Fiji, Mo-,
is heEe, called by an injury sustained
last week by his father, us. MCGEE of
Abba. While picking fruit ON his farm
west of here Mr.. MCGEE fell and frac-
tured his shoulder
Miss Ida Roberts returned Wednes-
day night from an extended visit with
relatives in Pennsylvania
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
asked Foreman Freed of the grand
jury.
81 think it was said Mr., Murphy.
Stories Not First Hand.


Murphy said he had been quoted in
correctly on one thing. He had not
said there had been any attempt to
deal for money with an assembly can
didate,. but he had spoken, of congress
sional and senate candidates. His in
formation, he said, came from what he
considered reliable sources. Then
he gave what information he had.
None of it, it is understood, he con-
fessed to have got at first hand.
AS the crowd made a lane for Mr
Murphy to get to the elevator, Francis
e. Shober, a Hearst lieutenant and
Tammany candidate for congress in
the seventeenth district, went into the
grand jury room. He is quoted as
having said he knew case where a
Tammany man had asked a Hearst OBJ
ponent to withdraw from the field
When he came out of the grand jury
room he said he had told the grand
jury all he knew. He said he had not
made statements credited to him, and
he knew little that world be of value
to him, and he knew little that would
be of value to the grand jury.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
CAPITAL CITY IS
IN TRUSTS HANDS
DIES MONIES PEOPLE ARE COM.
PLANNING OF THE COAL
COMBINATION
Price Of Product Goes Up and Down
With Painful Regularity When
Price Is Fixed Throughout the En-
tire City.

Des Moines, Oct 19-Des Moines is
IN the grasp of a coal trust. The
price OF coal goes up and down in Des
MONIES with as arbitrary exactness as
1t is possible for trust to regulate
such things. In the summer time
when there is small demand the price
OF soft coal goes down to So ton, and
in the winter with painful regularity
the price goes up to $3.50 a ton. The
price OF hard coal in Des Moines is $40
in the summer time when no one uses
1t, and in the winter time goes up 10
$1,000. The price of hard coal in Bur
lington is $7.75, by way of compari-
son, and the price of soft coal there
the year round is SO ton.
When a price is fixed here on any
variety OF coal that price is fixed for
the entire city. There is not coal
company or Office in the city that
makes any pretense at selling coal
at less than the trust figures. The
coal operators are in the combine, and
if any coal office attempts to sell for
less than the price agreed he gets no
more coal. About year ago an ex-
newspaper man of this city got some
local capital interested in coal mine
of the best quality in the Sevastopol
district here. He found that he could
sell coal at a good profit at S2.75 ton,
and has sold lots of 1t, but can get no
more capital interested. and, being
with limited means, his eonl mine can
operate only on a small scale, but he
sells all he can mine.
Every year there is talk of the
grand jury making an investigation.
Just as soon as the price of coal goes
UP to the $3.50 mark in the fall, as it
did the ether day, one or all three
newspapers print a story Of a grand
jury investigation, but there never
has been one and it is understood the
county attorney thinks the present
trust laws are insufficient. The Coun-
ty Attorneys association Of The state
is of the same mind, and wants the leg
islature to amend the law SO as to al
low prosecutions.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
A LARGE NUMBER
TAKE EXAMINATION.
MANY APPLICANTS TRY FOR THE
POSITION AS GOVERNMENT
MEAT INSPECTOR

Nineteen applicants were examined
Wednesday and sixteen Thursday at
the Ottu,nwa postof1ice for positions as
government meat inspectors Edward
'Lowenberg, local secretary for the
commission had charge of the examin-
ations and was kept busy during the
two days with the large number of ap-
plieants.
The majority of applicants reside in
this city and quite number of them
are employees of the John Morrell
fCo. plant.
The examination papers will be
sent to the civil service commission at
Washington, d. c., and will be return
led in the course of the next month or
six weeks, then the success of the yari-
Gus applicants will be known.
From the last examination which
was held here in July, five men who
passed the examination received APP
[Dointments.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23

the first of the week with Melrose rel
attves.
Kansas City hospital, is reported to be
improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Bates left for
their home in Denver, Colorado, after
months visit with relatives in this
part of the county.
Mrs. w. w. O'Bryan of Melrose Wis
TIED with her mother. Mrs. S. Carr,
west of town a day or two this week
Mrs Carr is improving nicely after
her recent illness.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23

That is a very practical and sensible
move which has in view the addition
Of courses in the rudiments Of agri-
tural instruction to our public schools
curricula. The course mentioned,
coupled with a reasonable amount Of
experimental work, would seem to give
promise of being not only practical and
useful, but highly interesting and en-
tertaining as well.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23

One Iowa county reports 149 farmers
living within it's borders using the
King road drag. This was undoubtedly
a locality in which there was great need
of highway repentance and where the
good roads gospel was earnestly
preached and cordially received.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23

The progress which has been made
in the packing plants of the country
merely along the line Of sanitation
and cleanliness would seem to indicate
that the need of radical reform was
necessary. These improvements, cou-
Piled with more rigid inspection Of
animals before and after Strengthening
practically remedy the evil which has
been complained of.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23

Hardly a day passes when some dis
tressing accident is not recorded as the
result of the careless use or misuse of
medicines. Much grief would be pre-
vented If the medicines were properly
labeled, whether harmful or not, and
placed above the reach of children. 1t
is hard to prevent or curb child's in
quisitive nature.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23

The New York university summer
school has this year provided a special
course designed to fit teachers for the
giving of instruction in children's gar
dens, the making Of them and how to-
care for them.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23

Our huIHanitarian impulses should
more often find expression in putting
out Of the way at once and in as pain
less manner as possible crippled,
helpless or incurably sick animals in
our keeping.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
Market is .Panicky.

New York, Oct 2O-The stock mar
ket closed in semi-panicky condition at
severe declines from last nights
prices throughout the dist.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23

szEs.sszszs..ss..s..,
lnbreeding Is just as disastrous IN
the case of: poultry as In the human
species and is the violation of natural
law that brings It's own punishment.
Fellows. who are addicted to the use
of profane Language are asg a, rule
in that they try to, make
good with their mouths, that which they
lack in. intellect and personality.
Instead of turning the fioods gates
loose on wash day Just save the suds
for the garden, as 1t Is a valuable
fertilizer and is much more presentabla
i'll bright geranium blossoms than as
a morass in the back yard.
A friend reports that contrary to tha
generally accepted view In regard IL
the matter he is this year going. to set
better crop Of corn following, sor
ghuin than he has had on any Of his
land for number of years past
One tree of Whitney No. 20 will
usually furnish all The, apples OF this
variety that any family can use. They
are good TO eat out CT land for a few
days and furnish good pickle stock, and
this is about all that can be said in
their favor.
One of the serious drawbacks con-
nected with planting variety Of apple
trees is found in the disadvantage en-
ccuntered when one comes. to market
the fruit, as few varieties have the
same season, or, IL they do, sell well
when mixed.
The total wheat crop for the yenf
1905 was TSS.000, 600 busl us, of which
amount 450000,000 bushels We're winter
wheat. the remainder, spring, while Of
the total mentioned 100000 bushels
We're consumed ut home In the shape
Of bread and seed
One year with another fellow win
do better to stack his grain unless he
is as good as No. 4 or b on the thrash.
Ing list Where the grain Is properly
stacked it goes through the sweat and
is in much better shape to put into the
bin than when it is thrashed from tbs
shock and not properly cured and dried
out.
1t Is an established fact that cleo,
tricity Is coming to be recognized as
an aid to the growth of plant life
Successful experiments have been
tried in Massachusetts,, where the cleo.
trio currents were passed through the
soil by means of wires attached to bat
teries buried in the soil The potatoes
raised in this field were found to be
larger as well as of superior quality.
The farming In the southern states
is left mostly in the hands of the ne
gro. The tendency of the times seems
to he for the white man, woman and
child to prefer employment In the fac
tory rather than work in the broilins
sun in the field, while with the negro
it is just the opposite, the indoor CON
tinement and rigid discipline being de.
cidedly distasteful after the earel9
easy going life on the farm.
-,----:---
If you borrow money Of your father
mother, sister or brother pay back ex.
actly what you borrow, no matter how
small Business methods are lust as
obligatory in the home .as elsewhere
though often more lax. iii feeling and
Inconvenience are often caused because
small matters are neglected. Discharg,
ing an obligation recurring a return
poor business
a good ny trap y made by filing
glass jar about half full OF good
strong soap and water solution, then
covering IT with soft crust Of bread
winch mas been mOistened with AttlG
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23

Instead of turning the floods gates
loose on wash day just save the suds
for the garden, as 1t is a valuable
fertilizer and is much more presentabla
i'll bright geranium blossoms than as
a morass in the back yard.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23

Fellows. who are addicted to the use
of profane Language, are as, a. rule
lishtweights. in that they, try to, make
good with their mouths that which they
lack IN intellect and personality.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23

For many years our chief supply of
turpentine has come from North Caro-
lima, but the drain has been SO ex-
haustive that the pine trees have all
been killed. The present source of
turpentine is from the farms farther
south, where the pine forests extend
for miles. Each farm consists of thou
sands of trees, which, though not large
at the base, grow to great height
The sap taken season after season at
last begins to deteriorate until at the
end of five or six years it becomes too
dark for commercial use; then the tree
dies. These forest farms yield I'M
nense incomes for years. Most of tho
labor of collecting the sap aud prepar-
ing 1t for market is done by negroes.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23

A friend reports that contrary to. tka
generally accepted view In regard to
the matter he is this year going. to set
a better crop Of corn following, sor.
ghum than he has had on any Of his
land for a number of years past.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23

One. tree of Whitney No. 20 will,
usually furnish all The, apples Of this
variety that any family can use. They
are good TO eat out CT Land for q few
days and. furnish good pickle stock, and
this is about all that can be said in
their favor.