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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-27
SOCIETY CIRCLE.
Burton-Stevens.

Burton-Stevens.
The marriage of Miss Anna Stevens
daughter of Mrs. J.. G. Stevens, t,
Lloyd Burton Of 3lakesburg, occurred
at the Stevens residence or East Parl
avenu at 1880 Wednesday evenin;
DIR. Henry W. Hargett, pastor of thu
First Methodist Episcopal church, per.
formed the marriage ceremony.
Emmett Cohagen sang, 20 Promise
Me-" after which the Lohengrin wed.
eng march played by Miss Margaret
Reeves, announced the coming of the
save for Miss Lucille Kirkhart,, VIII
acted as flower girl.
After the ceremony a two cou1
dinner was served to the sixty guf
present.
The bide was gowned in white !
sian lawn trimmed with silk, embroit
cred chiffon, carrying an arm bacue
of white carnations. MNs Kirkfnart
was also gowned in white. The rooms
were beautifully decoraed in palms,
ferns and autumn leaves. The briee
is a member Of the M. G. r. club aid
a very estimable young woman, belle
a favorite with a large circle O
friends. The groom is a prosperous
farmer, who resides neal Blakesburg
The out Of town guests were: MI
and Mrs. j. r. Ryan, Leo Sansher an6
Mrs. Efie Anderson of Oskaloos
Mrs. Harry Kirkhart, Miss Luc
Kirkhart, Harlan; Mr.. and Mrs. 10
Hall, Mr.. and Mrs. Ennis Burton, I
and Mrs. Emmett Cohagen, Lester ]
and Miss Erma Day Of Buakesburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burton left that mig
for a two weeks trip in the east aft
which they will be at home TO the
friends on a farm nesr Blakesburg.
Akers-Carman Wedding.
On Wednesday evening, Oct. "a
pretty quiet wedding took place at
home of Mrs. T. G. Carman, DuI
Iowa, when her eldest daughter
Adella j. Carman was united in n
riage to Joseph M. Akers, of Chi
cothe, Iowa. Promptly at 8 o'clo
/ the bridal party entered the room a
took their place beneath an arch
~evergreens, and were united in m
riage by Rev. Geo. E. Monkman,
/, Pella, Ia. The bride was becomin
attired in a beautiful white Pers
lawn dress. After the ceremony t
company retired to the dining roc
where a delicious supper was serve
The bride is one of the most popul
and successful school teachers, and
j highly esteemed young woman
! groom is an excellent young man I
is a merchant in Chillicothe. Mr.. q
Mrs. Akers will be at home in Oh
cothe to their friends.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-27
w. B.. THRooP HERE.
Burlington Superintendent of the row.
Lines Arrives in the City.

w. B. Throop. general superinten-
dent of the Iowa lines of the Burling-
ton, passed through the city this
morning in his private car, No. 81, at
tached to the second section of Bur-
lington passenger train No. g.. Mr..
Trhoop's visit to this city. was of no
special import other than the usual
tour over the lines.
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-08-22

ID. T. Woodward. father of Mrs.
J. W. Warner Of this city. died a,
his home in Clinton. Kan, one day
last week. One of the newspapers
II that place published a sketch OF
his life which reads as follows:
The death Of ID. T. Woodward in
Clinton this morning, removes one
of the Oldest and most prominent
citizens in Douglas county. He
came here in ls55. and was q
preacher during all of that time.
Yin the early struggles Mr.. Wood
ward was prominent and had many
narrow escapes from death. He was
a man Of great courage and this wa!
what saved him in many tight
places. There were times wher
nothing but his nerves saved him.
Mr.. Woodward had the satisfac
ton of living 10 see all of his chill
dren grown and turned out well. II
the later years Of his life he wa.
blind. but he never lost his Interest
in life. and never failed to tax.
keen satisfaction IN the successes
that came TO his children.
In the death of this man at the
ripe age Of eighty-nine years. thers
has been gathered to his long home
a man whose sterling worth. who's
character and uprightness made
him known far and near"
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-08-22
ws.,se, Record 70, IN. sumn.,.

According to Dad Stephenson,
chief Of our local weather bureau,
August /. 1906. was the warmes,
day for three years. the thermome-
ter registering 100 in the shade.
August of the present year has also
had more hot days than any previ-
Gus year for three years. the ther-
mometer registering over 80 during
the present month for thirteen DAYS.
Our local weather chief gives the
following comparative statement Of
weather conditions during july and
August for the past three years. In
July. 1904. there were fourteen DAYS
when the Thermometer registered
over 90. July. 1895. nine days. July.
1896. thirteen days. August. 1894.
nine days: August, 1905. twenty
days; August. 1896. thirteen days.
The warmest day in August. 1904.
was on the 2sth. when the thermom-
eter reached 81 degrees. on Angus.
q. 1905. Is degrees. and on Angus,
1. 1906. 100 degrees.
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-08-22

Notice is hereby given. as provid.
ed by law. that on the Both day Of
August. and succeeding days. to and
including Monday. September 2,
1906. the county assessor will sit in
his office in the Court House in La
Junta. Otero County. Colorado. to
hear any and all objections to the
assessment roll Of 0tero County for
the year 1906.
c. W. FENLAsoN.
County Assessor.
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-08-22

Before IN audience of l5.ssl
people game Of bAl "a SAs play
Cd between Las AniulAs and La Jun
4 al the Pastirne Bal PARK, that
vas about the worst that ~e ever
xent Up against in our career a. a
deTotee of the national game Las
AninAs simply played too fast for
La JuntA in every ~sy that farmer
ever come TO town" and the nine
innings that the people sat IN the hot
sun and gave '-two-bits" 10 witness.
were heart-rending and excruciating
in the extreme II the people who
are opposed TO Sunday baseball just
wait awhile they viii no longer
Dc compelled 10 tn and sup
press il. the game in La Junta will
die a natural death. If the long suf-
ferIng public are steered UP against
the same kind Of an exhibition that
they witnessed last Sunday The
fifteen scores made By Las Anim2s
10 La Junta's one. was just Ike
taking candy away from a baby.
The Official score which follows tells
xhy Smith left home" and also
why the La Juuta ball team il look
ing for another manager:
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-08-22

Our clearance sale is accomplishing'the desired
resut-rapidly closing out this seasons stock ana
giving our customers bargains which will bring them
back. As an investment it will pay you to buy
these goods at our prices even If you have to lay
them away until another season We quote only
few prices but the prices made on all lines Tor TINS
sale will be the same until further notice.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-08-10
WITNESSES IMPRISONED.
Court Order Holds Men Wanted to
TESTIFY in Lumber Company
PeOnage Case.

Because of the fact that one Of
the most important witnesses has sud
denly disappeared from Pensacola, and
that overtures by unknown parties
to others to leave for New York and
not apear in the now famous Jackson
Lumber company cases, every witness
who is not a resident of Florida and
we'll known to the United States COM
missioner has been placed in the local
Jail in default of bond, where all will
be held until the case comes up foi
trial at the next term OF the United
States court.
Harry Lambert, who testified a rev
days ago that he had twice been
horsewhipped, after being caught with
bloodhounds, and who exhibited welts
and scars, which, he claimed, had
been inflicted by the bosses, has dis
appeared. When wanted to again tes-
tify he could not se found and a
search revealed the fact that he was
stated that they had oeen approached
by unknown parties speaking foreign
tongues with propositions not to stop
at Pensacola and testify, but to go
on to New York, and if they would
do SO money for their fare would be
given them.
A Birmingham dispatch says Emil
Lesser, president of the German I'M
migration Society of Alabama, has re-
turned from Lockhart, where he has
been for several days investigating
the charges of peonage in the camp
OF the Jackson Lumber company at
that place.
Mr.. Lesser has prepared report,
which will be submitted to Governor
Jelks, in which he says that there is
no trace Of peonage at the camp.
His report says in part: 81 have
interviewed nearly a hundred laborers
and have not found > single person
who could or would make any com
plant about peonage or cruel treat
ment. All the men I spoke to stated
they could leave if they wished. II
peonage has existed at Lockhart, then
all traces Of it had been removed be
fore my coming. The German vice
cousul at Pensacola authorizes me- to
say officially and positively that the
statements as to complaints being
made TO him by Germans escaping
from these camps are absolutely
false"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-08-10

great fight but, Lord, that bass never
even tried to get away. Why, he just
come running right up to the side Of
the boat and sat there, on his launches
as quiet as you please, waiting for
Murph' to get busy with the landing
net. We lifted him and he fell off the
hook right beside his dead mate, and
lay there without making a single flop.
l shall always feel"
Just then the listener rudely inter
rupted.
Il wonder, judge" he said, looking
out of the window, IF it's going to rain
all day."
81 don't know, sir" snapped the
judge, sharply. What did you call to
see me about, anyway?-H NJ H., in
Chicago Tribune.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-08-10
Diseases Of the Clothes.

A writer has contributed to St.
Of a proposed work on the pathology
of proposed work on the pathology
and treatment of diseases and acct
dents of the toilet. The prospectus is
fortified by alleged extracts from the
forthcoming volume. Among the le-
sions described are "perforating ulcer
of the SOCK" false passages of the
vest" hairy mole Of the shirt-cuff,"
"idiopathic atrophy of the pajamas,"
"sloughing of the posterior foramen Of
the collar-band" and 'prolapsus trous-
eri," while a further chapter is said to
be devoted to affections peculiar 10
evening dress, such as "Addisons dis
ease of the shirt-front," 'madura
pump" and 'inoperable volvulus Of
the necktie." With regard to "pe~foFat-
ing ulcer Of the solck," treatment by
simple suture or the purse-string liga-
ture is not to be recommended Each
perforation must be carefully grated
by an expert
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-08-10
GROWTH OF TELEPHONE.
Census Bureau Gives Remarkable
figures of Increased Use.

Figures or increased use.
The Census bureau has now com
pleted its special report on the tele-
phone and telegraph, the electric fire
alarm and police patrol systems of
the country for 1902 From that
date the imagination has free play
as to the development and employ
ment of these forces, and the rate of
installation and distribution we know
has been larger since that time than
it was before Especially have rural
telephone systems been greatly null
tiplied, and certain results have fol
lowed that show them to be not only
matters of convenience, but carry
ing with them social, educational,
moral and even political influences.
The statistics of the telegraph and
telephone industries of this country
were first taken in 1880 The for
mer had been in operation for near
ly forty years; the latter was in it's
infancy Yet twenty-five years lat
er, or at the time with which this re-
port deals, the telephones operated
more than three-fourths of the wire
mileage reported for both telephones
and telegraphs and gave employ
ment to seven-tenths of the wages
there were paid in that year over
$36,000,0G0. The number of messages
or talks reported in that year was
over 5,070,000,000 of which 120,704,-
844 were long distances or toll calls.
It is, perhaps, somewhat singular
that Ohio should lead the procession
OF states in the number of messages
Naturally that distinction would be
credited to New York. Nevertheless
the former headed the list with $685.
7G7 SOL cases, while Illinois came sec
ond with 5411G1, 1892 In long dis
lance and toll traffic Pennsylvania
was first with 20,409,G21 messages,
New York being a close second with
20,3G7,024. At that time San Fran
cisco was the best telephoned city in
the United States, there being one
instrument to every nine persons,
and this has a present interest as in
dicating the measure OF disturbance
in the industry experienced at that
point. After San Francisco came
Cleveland, with one telephone TO
every sixteen persons, while Boston
stood third with one to every nine
teen.
The telegraph even yet has it's
special uses and business needs 1t as
much as ever, perhaps even more;
but it can never enter into the init
mate relations of life to the extent
of its newer. rival For a message
that may serve as a record, for econ
omy in long distance transmission Of
brief intelligence, it still maintains
its value, but the public employs it
at the rate of only a little more than
once a year per capita, while it uses
the telephone sixty-iVe times per
capita and this difference is bound TO
increase. Boston Transcript.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-08-10
THREE HUNDRED I'M
MIGRANTS DROWNED.
STEAMSHIP WRECKED
Vessel Ran Upon Rocks
and Soon Went to Bot
tOm--AWfuI Scenes
Witnessed.

A special from Cartagena, Spain,
says: A terrible marine disaster oc-
Cured Saturday evening off Cane
Palos. The italian steamship sirio.
from Genoa for Barcelona, Cadiz, Mon
tevideo, and Buenos Ayres, with about
eight hundred persons on board, was
wrecked off Hormigas Island.
Three hundred immigrants, most
Of them italian and spaniards, were
drowned.
The captain Of the steamer commit
ted suicide.
The remainder of the passengers
and the officers and crew got away
in the ships boats or were rescued
by means of boats sent to them from
The shore.
A number of fishermen, who made
attempts at rescue, were drowned.
Those rescued from the vessel are
now at Cape Palos in a pitiable CON
dition, being without food or cloth
ing.
The Sirio struck rocky reef known
as Bajor Hormigas and sank soon af-
ter stern first Hormigas Island lies
about 2 IL miles to the eastward Of
Cape Palos.
Before he committed suicide the
captain declared the steamer had GAS
passengers on board and that her
crew numbered 127 men. The Sirio
had $40 passengers when leaving Ge-
noa, but additional Spanish passen-
gers were taken on beard at BARGE
Iona, where the vessel touched few
hours before.
The disaster occurred at o'clock
Saturday afternoon. The steamer was
threading a difficult passage through
the Hormigas group, where the Ba-
Jos Hormigas reef is a continual men
ace to navigation.
The vessel began to settle rapidly
Immediately she had struck and a
terrible scene Of confusion and panic
ensued on board. The fishermen along
the coast sought to render every as
sistance in their power and set out in
boats, which brought many survivors
ashore. Most Of the officers and crew
Of the Sirio are among the saved.
The condition of the survivors is
most deplorable They have lost ev-
erything and are without money, food
or clothing The maritime authorities
Of Cartagena have dispatched a tug
ia the scene carrying relief supplies.
The buildings of o circus and the
poorhouse are being used as tempo
rary quarters for the survivors.
From the broken narratives of the
terror-stricken survivors it would APP
pear that it was the intention Of the
captain of the Sirio, leaving BARGE
Iona, to call at Cadiz before proceed
ing to Brazil The captain, in order
TO shorten the route and gain time,
purposed to pass as close as possible
to the dangerous rocky lodges sur
rounding the Hormigas Islands.
without any warn.Gg and while run
ming at full speed the Sirio crashed
upon the rocks with terrific force.
few minutes later the stern Of
the vessel sank beneath the waves.
The passengers were in a state Of
horror and panic. Crowds rushed for
ward, pushing each other and fight
ing for places in the bow of the boat.
Many fell and were trampled 70
death. Dozens of men and women
threw themselves into the sea-
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-08-10
WRONG MAN WAS ARRESTED.
Genuine lord Douglas Demands Apology by
Sheriff and Police.

Instead Of having in custody an
American bigamist known as Lord
Douglass" wanted by the authorities
OF many states, as was at first sup
posed, the police at Portland, Maine,
nave detained Lord Sholto Douglass,
third son d the late Marquis Of
Queensberry.
Lord Douglass says he wants to
avoid further notoriety and will be
satisfied with verbal apologies from
the sheriff and police. The consular
authorities await the apologies and
the matter may become a subject Of
international inquiry.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-08-10
NfGRots PROJECTED BY TROOPS.
Two Companies Of Kentucky Guards Called
Out BY Governor Beckham.

Jul W UOTUI lsVI 0VV1allU77l'
The Frankfort and Barbourville
(Kentucky) companies Of the state
guard we're ordered by Governor Beck
ham to go on duty at Barbouryille to
pro+ect during their trial the negro
man and woman charged with the
murder of Mrs. Broughton.
The negroes are now in jail at Stan
ford, and troops will proceed to that
place and accompany them. to the
scene Ct the crime and trial. This
is owing to fears that an attempt to
lynch the negroes who committed the
crime to secure $40 will be made.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-08-10

'It was a hot August day" said the
Judge, leaning back in his desk chair
and looking out the window. Uncle
Jimmy and and Murphy, the guide
were out casting for bass along the east
shore of Virgin Lake. You remember
the place? There where the bank runs
up forty feet high, with lot OF jack
pines on the top and old 'Wappy's' CAB
in in the middle Of them? Close TO the
shore there are a lot of tall green Dul-
rushes, with some big windfall hanging
down among EN-. It's lovely water Tor
bass
"When we started out that morning
it looked like rain, and 'Murph and
took our slickers along with US.
Murph' said it was sure to rain before
night, but Uncle Jimmy knew better.
He wasn't going to be troubled Juggling
a lot of slickers across the portages,
he said.
until after noon it was broiling hot
and we got nary a strike from bass.
Uncle Jimmy got few little Snakes
and 1 nabbed a couple Of pike, but the
black bass were not biting at all About
2 o'clock it commenced to sprinkle,
and about the same time the black
bass began to go after our frogs. The
rain got heavier and so did the bass.
Murph and put on our slickers and
Uncle Jimmy sat there and soaked, but
he was pretty game. Inside of an hour
we had got twenty bass among us
and the rain was just oozing out OF
Uncle Jimmy.
Say he said, finally, when are
you fellows going in? I'm getting
tired
Going in? said I, with a snort.
Going in? With the bass biting like
this! Why, we amt going in till it cts
too dark to cast
"The FISH that were rising to our
frogs were all small mouths, and not
one of them weighed less than two
pounds. l had one four FOUNDER and
a couple more about as big. 1t was one
of the DAYS a fisherman dreams Of Uncle
Jimmy was having his share Of the
luck, but he did look mighty moist and
uncomfortable,
'There was nice little breeze COM
ing out of the west with the rain. The
wind from the west, it it the best, you
know. It was just enough to blow US
along at the proper rate for casting,
keeping us out at the proper distance
from the lily pads and rushes. Then,
when we got to the end Of the cast
ing ground, Murph, would row out
and back again to the beginning of the
weed beds.
"By 5 O'Clock, for once in my life
had got almost enough Of bass fishing.
MY arm ached from casting and my
reel hand had half a dozen good bis
ters on it. We were all getting pref
ty careless, fooling with our fish after
we had hooked them and letting them
take all kinds of liberties with US.
FINALLY l hooked a good three
FOUNDER and, after hot fight, finally
pulled him up to within ten feet Of the
boat. was dragging the fish along
on the top of the water when 'Murph,
the guide, called out, in an excited
whisper, Say, look at that other bass
a-follerin along.
1--WE. looked and there, right beside
the fish that was hooked, was another
bass a little larger, swimming along
with its nose almost touching the head
of the cuss on the spoon. tell you it
looked mighty peculiar.
What's that mean?' asked Uncle
Jimmy.
I amt sure says 'Murph, 'wheth-
er you've hooked lady bass and that's
her husband coming along to try and
help the old lady out of her scrape, or
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-08-10
THE ANSWER.

why did those old Egyptian kings
Build pyramids and other things?
Why did they proudly carve or paint
An o5elisk with figures quaint?
Why did some Roman monarch raise
A circus in those good old days,
Or keep poet under hire
TO sound a cOmplimenting Tyre?
Why did old Caesar late at night
Sit up describing every fight.
Or Alexander make that bluff
And say "the worlds not big enough|'
To US who view the modern game
And see how wealth is wrung from lame
The answer need not cause surprise.
It always pays to advertise.
Washington Star.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-08-10
BIG COMMERCIAL CONGRESS-
Called TO Meet in Seventeenth Annual
Session at Kansas City.

The official call for the seventeenth
annual session of the trans-Mississippi
Commercial congress, to meet in Kan
sas City, Mo, November 20, Il, y and
% next, has been issued
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-19
IT'S YOUR KIDNEYS.

Does your back ache? Do you get up lame in the morning? Do you feel dull and tired? Does it hurt you to bend over. to lift anything, to get up from a chair? Do you have sud- den catches" or stitches of pain in the back? Does a dull. throbbing ache settle in the small of your back and bother you day and night? Do you sometimes feel that you simply cannot straighten up?
 If you do have backache. be care ful not to make the very common mistake of treating it as a muscular trouble. Do not rub the sore place with liniment. nor put on plasters. for the seat of the trouble Is inside in the kidneys. which lie just be- meath the small of the back, on either side of the spine.
 A cold. a chill. a fever. overwork. over-eating or over-drinking may start a slight congestion or inflam- nation in the kidneys that will at once interrupt the kidneys work of Altering the blood. It Is this condi- ton that sets up the aching. and makes your back so bad
 You cannot make any mistake by treating the kidneys at once. for it is these small troubles that lead to dropsy, diabetes and Bright's dis ease. 1 there is any doubt in your