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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-11-22
MAeNATEs DO NOT AGREE.

Apparently the railway magnateS 90
not agree on just what is needed IN
developing their great industry. One
says what is wanted is more miles OF
track, another says there is demand
not SO much for tracks as for cars,
and now e. H. Hartman ventures the
assertion that I'VE have enough rail-
roads now. What is needed is the
Development of the territory through
which the railroads run and improV-
ing the lines to the highest standard
of efficiency"
All of these observations, probably,
are indicative of the different methods
of Operation of these magnates. Jim
Hill of the Great Northern is the one
who has suggested mat more lines OF
railroads ere needed. He runs en-
gines that are constructed for hauling
heavy loads, but not at great rate OF
speed. Four track, or even double
track, lines have not been worrying
him very much. He simple wants to
cover more territory.
The man who suggests more cars Is
evidently concerned with the idea of
meeting all demands, fulfilling them
and being ready for the next, He is
probably man with whom speed
counts as well as the number of loads
on a train.
Mr.. Harriman's suggestion indicates
that he believes that the lines already
constructed can be made to pay better
He has been getting control Of as
many as he could, having now about
$4,000 miles. Much of this mileage is
through the deserts Of the west, and
much of it is in the center of popula
ton. He is looking at the possibili
ties of what systems are already con
structed.
1t is to be expected, however, that
1t will take all kinds of railroad men
with all kinds of methods to satisfy
the needs of the widely different terri
tories.
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ALBA.

Abba, Nov. 19.-District court OPEN
ed here today with Judge M. A. Rob-
erts on the bench. There will be Ave
weeks session. The docket is long
and composed mostlv of criminal cases.
DR.. and Mrs. r. o. Early Of Gales
bug. ILL.,, We're over Sunday guests
at the parental Early home at this
place. The doctor has located In
Galesburg instead Of st. Louis and
finds the location much more satisfac-
tory.
George G. Farrar of Denver is at AL
bia and will probably spend the winter
here with his mother.
Smoke Havana Blossom 10c Cigar, SC.
j. M. Glass left Sunday evening for
a business trip to Chicago.
A new brick structure is being built
at the corner Of Benton and Harrison
streets and when completed will be
used by Simon Lewis of Rock Island
for q saloon.
w. A. Gray and Eugene Gray have
formed partnership and will engage
in the ice business next season.
Ralph Hollingsworth of Ottumwa
spent Sunday at Abba
A daughter was born Saturday to
Mr.. and Mrs. T. j. Stoll
Miss Grace Stall has been quite Ill
the past few days with quinsy, but is
somewhat better now.
Wesley Fleming returned Saturday
from weeks visit with his parents
at Drakeville.
w. H. Brokaw, former resident OF
Abba, but now of Centerville, spent
| Sunday at Abba.
Rev. William Potter will leave this
week for Kansas, where he will fill
the pulpits of several Associate Pres
byterian churches during the remain
der Of this month and December.
The women of the Ladies' Aid So
ciety Of the First Presbyterian church
are expecting a large audience at the
moving picture exhibition to be giver
under treir auspices tonight in the
church auditorium.
The tank for the water tower has
arrived, after lang delay and workmer
are busily engaged in putting it II
place.
Miss Nellie Rhodes of Hiteman wa:
at Abba Saturday.
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WHERE ARE THEY ALL TODAY

(Read at the Iowa Monument Dedica-
ton at Vicksburg, by Major S. H. M.
Byers.)
Who calls 1T forty years ago?
To me twas yesterday
We ran the batteries of the foe
And anchored in the bay.
A thousand cheers our bosoms stirred;
My comrades wept, they say,
When Grant but spoke a kindly word;
Where are they all today?
Red shone the dawn and there In line
The glorious army stood,
And ere the midnight stars shall shine
Is ferried Ger the flood.
Where yesternight the foeman kept
Their bivouacs by the way
Now thirty thousand bluecoats slept;
Where arc they all today?
BY different roads our columns led
Where e'er we tracked a foe,
And listening to our midnight tread
They waited for the blow,
By day, by night, we marched and
fought
In many bloody fray,
And many a grave was left forgot
Where are they all today?
Port Gibson, Raymond, jackson fell,
Great was the southern ire
At Champion Hills taste of hell
They gave us with their fire
Two hours, 1 saw my comrades fall
Begrimmed in death they lay,
The sulphurous smoke their funeral
Where are they all today?
Two hours of fire and tempest, then
The foemen yield the place
Mcpherson and Netherlands men
Are dangerous foes to face,
They yield, for Logan's on their flank
Who never lost the fray.
Whose sword the foeman never sank
Where's Logan's sword today?
And Hovey's pounding on their left.
And Crocker's hurrying by,
Fierce the assault their line is cleft,
What can they do but fly?
Beneath the soft magnolia trees
There the five thousand lay,
Hands touching hands, knees touching
knees,
Where are they all today?
Yet wait, we struggle for the bridge
Behind the flying foe.
There from the low and wooded ridge
I The flags of Lawler go.
A shout, cheer, men may not dream
OF such a charge again;
But where are they who held the
stream,
And where are LAWYERS men?
That very day with flags unfurled
We circled Vicksburg town.
And forty days and nights we hurled
Deaths missiles up and down.
BY heaven, it was a sight, at last,
The host of blue and gray,
The cannons roar, the muskets' blast
Where are they all today?
Filled with the pride Of victories by
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In the church here will be conducted
by Prof. F. l.. Rainey,
Joseph Hibbs formerly Of this city,
but now in charge of the refreshment
concession of Ringlings circus, is in
the city for a few weeks visit with old
friends. Accompanied by his wife, he
will go to Arkansas. where they will
spend the winter.
DR.. T. L lanes has returned from,
Indianapolis Ind, where he has been
In attendance at the meeting of the
Brotherhood Of the Presbyterian
Church.
The November term of the district
court opens Monday with Judge Rob
ert Sloan on the bench. One hun
dred and twenty-si six cases have beer
filed, as follows: AZ probate, GRIM
inal, 43 law, and 40 chancery cases.
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MELRosE.

Melrose, Nov. 19.-Frank Dunning
of Ottumwa is visiting friends and
relatives here.
Dan Murphy was in Abba Satur-
day.
DR.. Riordan and wife were passen-
gers for Abba Wednesday.
Patrick O'Connor went to Chicago
Wednesday with a couple of loads Of
cattle.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Hartman were
shopping in Abba Friday.
Thomas Dinneen was visiting his
sister, Mrs. John Curtis, in Confidence
Wednesday,
Mrs Michael O'Connor was visit
ing friends in Abba Saturday.
Miss Winnie Grogan is on the sick
list this week.
Margaret Roney of Abba attended
the ball here Friday evening.
Matt Walsh of Abba is visiting with
friends here
Mary Roney and Rena Roney spent
Saturday and Sunday in Abba with
Margaret Roney.
Mrs. John Walsh and daughter of
Abba are visiting in the country near
here with Mrs Walsh's daughter, Mrs
Joseph Mcdonald.
May Conway spent Friday in town
with her sister. Mrs. Matt Carmody
Helen Miller Of Cleveland arrived
Wednesday for a VISIT with her sister
Mrs. Richard Malloy.
Carrie Mcdonald of Abba spent Sat
urday and Sunday here with her par
ents.
Mhe. Edward McDontld Of Hagerty
visited at the Jas. MORRISON home
| Sunday
Liza stone was shopping in Abba
Thursday.
MIRO T,1ka Logan was shopniner n
Abba Saturday.
Tess, Curran Of Ottumwa Il
visiting with her parents, Mr.. ant
| Mrs. James Curran.
Roso Ward of south of town started
to school here Monday.
Mr.. William Malloy Of Weller spen
Sunday here with friends.
Mrs. Matt Carmdy ond baby visited
over Sunday at the parental home.
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INscRlBE SOLDIERS, NAMES.

In his letter from Vicksburg Hon S.
H. Harper tells of the Illinois memoir
ial having tablets bearing the names
of all her soldiers who took part in
the siege. Iowa has not made that
provision, and the Cedar Rapids Re
publican puts forth the suggestion that
the state should act upon the matter
and see to it that the name of every
Iowa man be enrolled on that memoir
ial
Illinois had far the most men in the
engagements in the vicinity Of Vicks-
burg, and Iowa comes second Iowa
should not be second to Illinois in
who were there. 1t was not for her
to say how many of the Iowa soldiers
should be put to the front at Vicks-
burg, but it is for her to say now
whether they shall be less honored or
more nonored than those of the other
states.
The west is comparatively young
and it is just beginning to appreciate
what it means to preserve the records
and to honor the past People are be-
coming more and more interested in
and devoted to these things, and this is
Indicated in the movement to make a
national military park at Vicksburg.
While this is in the making 1t should
be made we'll. The works are being
builded for all time, and every consid-
Grafton possible should be given to the
soldiers whose memory is sacred and
. is to be preserved by the monument
at Vicksburg.
If there is anything that has been
overlooked it should be attended to
now, and it does appear that while the
Iowa legislature and the Iowa commits
sion have done well, something can be
learned from Illinois in the building of
these memorials The placing of the
names of the soldiers on the tablets
due.
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IRISH BEND.

Irish Bend, Nov. 17.-Mr. Hammer
Of Milton is shredding fodder for Pat
rick Sexton.
Elias Heckart was a business visitor
at Douds Tuesday.
Charley Riggs is making prepare
lions to move onto a farm near Yer
non.
Corn husking is about over here.
James Sexton and family now oc-
cupy the farm known as the William
H. Lining homestead.
F. Koontz was visitor at the JEFF
Written home recently.
Sen. Elerick has had substantial
horse barn built on his farm.
Justice Jones transacted business
near Douds Tuesday.
Messrs. Maxwell and Bryant were
in this locality recently in the inter-
est of the Commonwealth Insurance
company Of Ottumwa
Plowman & Mcclure were through
here Tuesday on business.
The first snow of the season fel
Wednesday morning.
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slDEl.IeHTs.

"Thirty.'

". b.. 4
..Dick" Jackson of Detroit, Mich,
thrust the pencil he had borrowed
from the druggist into his own pocket
and threw the dollar bill, which ne
had just marked with these mys-
terious numerals, out upon the coun-
ter
The druggist returned from the be-
hind the prescription desk carrying in
his hand small phial of chloroform.
He picked up the bill and walked
again to the rear of the store where
the cash register was. When he re-
turned with the change, his customer
was gone.
That's funny" unused the druggist,
81 wonder what he wants with that
chloroform? Said he wanted it to
put sick cat they had up at his house
out of the way. At his house, Heav-
ems, never saw him before. He don't
live in this town, I'll bet hat on that
wonder who he is anyhow | guess
had better tell the police to be on
the lookout for him. 1t might be some
fellow who is trying to take a short
cut into eternity
Robinson, the druggist, of course
that is not his name, but you might
know him if you knew the real one,
stepped to the phone.
"Five-twenty-three, please"
Hello, is this the police station?''
This is Robinson, the druggist"
Eyes"
Just sold suspicious looking fel.
low some chloroform. He left with
out his change. Think he may be a
suicide"
AS Robinson hung up the receiver,
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sTRINGToWN.

Stringtown, Nov. 16-Walter anal
Johnnie Larmore were callers in ABB
ingdon Wednesday,.
L. Eller Of near Farson was callers
here Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. L. Copeland made al
business trip to Farson Tuesday.
Walter Wiley Of Competine was a
visitor at the home of Mrs. H. M. Par-l
cell Sunday evening.
G. e. Wilson and F. r. Jones wereI
Abingdon callers Saturday.
William Riley made business tripl
to Ottumwa Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Davis were calls
ers in Farson Tuesday
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To storm the works we willed,
Two times the awful thing we try,
Our dead their bitches filled.
Two times they hurled us back. our
men
Writing and wounded lay;
Brave souls who charged on Vicks-
burg then,
Where arc they all today?
Where are the Hawkeye boys who fell
In that dread holocaust,
When cannon burst like blasts of hell
And all the day was lost?
One flag little moment shone
Above the men in gray
Twas theirs, twas theirs-though all
alone,
Where is that flag today?
That very hour our circling lines
The wondrous siege began,
And burrowed pits and saps and mines
Around the city ran.
Like tigers fighting for their young
The maddened men at bay
Across our road their bravest flung
Where are they oil today?
To caves and hollows of the hills
Their wives and children flew,
Enduring all wars hideous ills,
They were heroic. too.
Courageous souls, wars thunder tone
And lightning round them play,
And bursting shells like meteors
Where are they all today?
The roses on the garden walls
A thousand odors fling,
The blackbird to the throstle calls,
And still our bullets sing.
The little children, scared at first,
Along the commons play,
While Porter's shells round them
Where are they all today?
The laurel and magnolias bloom
In colors white and gray,
Yet Grants and Sherman's cannon
TITS Grants and Sherman's way.
BY saps and mines we near the town
Defend it as they may,
Their flags will soon be falling down
| Where are their flags today?
| One morning thirty thousand men
| Laid down their arms and 1wept,
Because they ne'er would see again
The hills their valor kept.
Our scanty bread with them was
shared,
| AS bravest soldiers may,
They cheered us, who but now hat
| dared,
Where arc they all today?
The forts are ours. the might,
stream
Unvexed flows to the main,
A thousand miles our banners CLEAN
We've cut the south in twain.
/ Where are the victors, where the foe
| Where are the blue and gray,
The hero souls of years ago
Where are they all today?
4 Build to our own the marble bust
i Where the great river laves
1 Yon hill that holds their honoret
/ dust
Their thirty thousand graves.
The years go on, the living still
If blue coat, or if gray.
May ask the mounds on yonder hill,
Where are they all today?
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FAIRFIELD.

Fairfield, Nov. 2o.-The Empyrean
society Of Parsons college last night
held their annual banquet at the Leg
gett hotel. A delicious menu was
served, after which a reception was
held.
Rev. Robert Jones, who for some
time past hes been rector of the Epis-
copal churches of Washington and
Fairfield, has resigned his charges to
become pastor OF an Episcopal church
in Burlington, His loss will be much
regretted by the local church. Until
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(Read at the Iowa Monument Dedica-
ton at Vicksburg, by Major S. H. M.
Byers.)
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-04-26

earthquake two Of the most prominent
corners IN the city We're occupied by
gambling dens One CT them, known
as the Cafe Royal, has been a veritable
gold mine for It's proprietors.
The California supreme court has
rendered a decision to the effect that
the game OF draw poker is not a game
Of chance but involves judgment and
other elements as well as chance or
luck, and because Of this decision these
places are permitted to be maintained.
They are frequented by hard look
ing crowd Of men, and many scandals
are told associated with these places.
A visitors life is probably safe in these
resorts, but his money is not. 1t is said
that the son Of the premier Of British
Columbia was deeced of $500 in the
Cafe Royal a few years age. lie lost
$1,000 in cash, but ssoppe1 payment on
81, coo In checks.
San Francisco has forty seven square
miles Of territory, or about 10000
acres, within the municipal limits The
finest residences are on Mob hill and
Pacific heights, both of which districts
command magnificent views Of the
bay and the Golden Gate 1ne city
has six large parks and twenty-five
small ones, and Golden Gate park oc-
cupies over 1000 acres
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northern. Beyond Mason street rsK
the trail to the Presidio, past scattered
cottages, cabins and sheds, amid dsS
ries and gardens, with a branch path
to the Marine hospital, on Hilbert
street. and another to the North Beach
anchorage, where spectators were
planning wharf to attract settlement
After the vigilance committee dis
banded the criminal element became
holder, and In 1856 the crime and cor
ruption in the city had become intoI-
cradle to those who wished to live q
decent and orderly life. When Editor
King of the Bulletin, who had de-
nounced the thugs, was murdered by
James ?. Casey, new vigilance Or
ganization was created, and in a few
days Casey and another murderer
named Cora were executed in front of
the committees headquarters. Many
laWbreakers were later put to death.
and the regime of the California .'bad
man" came to an end.
1t has been asserted that San Fran.
cisco Is the most cosmopolitan city in
the world, and by cosmopolitan is
meant population from all parts Of
the world Not long ago the records
indicated that 43 per. cent of the peo-
pie Of the city were born in foreign
lands, not in two or three different
countries, but IN practically every land
under the sun. According to the ma
tional census reports Tor 1890, San
Francisco had total population of
298,997. OF these 1916 were native
born and 1881 were born outside Of
the United States. Fully half the
grown persons in the community re-
moved to California from alien lands,
while large percentage Of the other
half and Of the general body Of chill
dren were of foreign parentage. In
1900 San Francisco had a population
of 342.782, Of which 34.1 per cent was
foreign born.
San Francisco has long been famed
as one Of the wide open" cities of the
United States. AS IN the days of
1S49, the gambler devotes himself to
his vocation with little interference
from the authorities Prior to the
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happened: 'Its houses were left unoc-
cupied and unprotected, its former
trade ceased, its lots fell to small
part Of their value, it's two weekly
newspapers were suspended, and the
town, deserted by the bulk Of it's in
habitants, was at one time without q
single officer clothed with civil author
ity.'
After the first rush to the gold dig
gings the town began to regain It's lost
ground, and ere long the influx of gold
seekers gave quite an impetus to it's
growth The town was incorporated
IN April, 1850, and the first common
council elected proceeded with diligence
to plumber the city treasury. The
same year the state was admitted to
the Union, and when the steamer Ore
gon brought the news-there was 30
telegraphic communication in those
ays-business was entirely suspended
and the entire population rushed to the
WharfS to welcome the harbinger. The
town had about 10000 inhabitants at
that time, and when the people were
Informed that the signal flags Of the
Oregon indicated that California was a
sovereign state Of the United States of
America "a universal shout arose from
10000 voices on the wharfs, In the
streets, upon the hills, lbousetops and
the world Of shipping III the bay"
In its early history the city suffered
from several disastrous fires Between
December, 1849. and Juna, 1861. SIX
CONGREGATIONS played havoc with the
growing young town. Better buildings
were planned and several fire compa-
MES were organized. These were steps
In the right direction. 1t was also dis
covered that the fires were started by
criminals who profited by the confu-
sion.
This fact and the inefffciency and
corruption Of the city government led
a large number Of citizens to organ
ize the famous vigilance committee
which ruled the place In 1851. Quite
number OF crooks were lynched by
the committee, others were driven out
like John Oakhurst, the leading figure
In Bret Harte's ''Outcasts of Poker
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Flat" and tie city went through a pu-
rification process that was of great
benefit 10 It,
The aspect OF San Francisco at this
time was not inspiring to iRf1owing
gold seekers. 1t was a struggling med
ley Of low, dingy adobes, frail wooden
shanties, born in an afternoon, with
sprinklfng Of more respectable frame
houses and mass OF canvas and rub
Der habitations. 1t was mainly a city
Of tents, rising In a crescent upon the
shores Of the cove. From Clark point
it skirted the land to Telegraph hill,
along the Clay street slopes, tapering
away to the California street ridge.
The larger number passed to the south
west shores Of the cove, beyond the
Market street ridge, a region sheltered
from clustering winds and provided
with good spring water and named the
Happy Valley
Stockton street stretching from Sac
ramento to Green streets, presented
the neatest cluster Of dwellings,, and
Powell streetwas the abode of churches,
for OF the six churches In existence in
the miGGle of 1850 three graced it's
sides and two stood upon cross streets,
within half block. Mason street,
above 1t, was really the western limit
Of the city, as Green street was the
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Other imposing edifices, many of
which have been more or less severely
injured, are the Hotel st. Francis, the
Palace hotel, the Hall of Justice, the
Mutual Bank building, the Pacific Mu-
tual Life building and the Callaghan
building. The greatest property dam
age resulted in the manufacturing dis
trict and the greatest loss of life in
the tenement house district
The chief street Of the city is Mar
ket, running diagonally for many miles.
The destruction Of many Of the depart
ment stores and other business blocks
on Market and Mission streets was al
most complete. Fire added to the hor-
rors Of the situation, and, as the water
mains had been burst by the shock,
the fire department was helpless. The
flames ate their way along Market
street, and oeler fires started in differ
ent parts Of the city
AS the earthquake occurred but a
little after o'clock in the morning,
practically the entire population was In
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independence, the Spanish settlers be-
gan the work, and when Vancouver,
the explorer, visited the place IN 1892
the preside represented the military
authority, while the pueblo and mis-
sion stood for the civil and religious
factors respectively. The mission was
secularized III 1884 and a town laid
out the year following.
In 1916 an American man-of- war. un-
del. command Of Commodore John B.
Montgomery, entered the harbor and
hoisted the stars and stripes over the
town. Mexico, which succeeded Spain
as the owner OF California, was then
at war with the United States, and the
act of Commodore Montgomery ended
her dominion over San Francisco
Montgomery appointed Lieutenant
Washington A. Bartlett to be Frisco's
first alcalde, or mayor, under the new
regime. Under Spanish and Mexican
rule the town was sleepy, unprogress-
i've place, but with the coming of Amer
leans and the discovery Of gold In 1848
there came an era of growth and hus-
tie. This did not eventuate at once
for the first news of the discovery Of
gold practically depopulated San Fran
cisco.
The town was smitten as by plague,
end one historian thus describes what