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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-08
PAckWooD.

Packwood.-Mr and Mrs. M. Fleen-
er of near Ottumwa were guests Of
their son, Ralph, and family Tuesday.
Mrs. Frank Gobble Is visiting rela-
tives in Oklahoma
Another barber has come to town.
Rev. and Mrs. Asbell are home from
a visit in Illinois.
Mrs. George supernois was very III
the first of the week, but is better
now
]. A. Mormon and wife of Rural
Route No. are shopping in town to-
day
The students of the high school will
give box supper Saturday night, octo-
Der 5.
Miss Nettie Downey purchased the
Marsh property this week, paying
ST. 400
Under the auspices of the Bpworth
League tho Central Projectoscope Co.
will give an entertainment Monday
evening, Oct. Z, at the Methodist Epis-
copal church.
Mr.. and Mrs. It. M. Stephenson at
tended dinner Sunday at the home
CT their son necr Richland. Twenty
persons were present.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-08
FOR BETTER SEED CORN.

me Department of Agricultural
Extension of Iowa State college has
begun campaign for securing better
seed corn in Iowa IN circular sent
broadcast among the farmers the as
sertion is made that If every ear Of
corn that is to be used for seed in
Iowa next year could be harvested
This fall not later than October and
Jung up where it would dry out
thoroughly before the freezing nights
of October, November and December
shave weakened or killed it, it would
Sadd millions of dollars to the wealth
sof Iowa Here Is the plan suggested
aby P. G. Holden, superintendent #
sthis department of the college:
Let us go into the best and earli-
Fest planted fields and select well ma
stured ears from the most vigorous
stalk, strip off their husks, tie them
In strings Of fifteen to twenty ears
each, and hang them in the attic at
once, where the circulation of air is
good, and protection Is had from the
freezing nights of October, Novem-
Der and December. On the 100000
Iowa farms an average of about
fGrty-five ceres is devoted to the
growing of corn, and while seven
sDnsnelS OF GOOD seed is Su1nclenI to
plant this, let us abundantly provide
ourselves and save two or three
Zines this amount so as to have
enty to select from next spring and
that we may furnish some to our
IS fortunate neighbors who may
hon,aliled to save their seed. Re-
her %. it takes only about dozen
Mrs: liant an acre. Can. we afford
Miss Flo. each ear special care?"
months anon practice of depend
home thed on the occasional good
Mrs. Fed during the entire husk-
Is mere IN is held to be bad. The
f e NJ been frozen night after
can was the field during November
~ Rev is husked and while it still
cblts Nor large amount of moisture
.Consea rently much of it is weaken
ia or khSed. giving poor stand and
Seak stalks. which, more than any
thing else, reduces the yield. Mr.
Holden's advice may not be needed
by many of the farmers in this vicin-
.ity, but there will be others who
might follow it to their profit.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-08
AGENCY.

Agency Newell is home
from Belle Fourche, South Dakota.
where he has been for some time.
Mrs. Jane Hartman and daughter,
Mrs. S. P. Sturgis, Of Oregon, are Wis
iting friends here.
DR.. M. L. Davis left Thursday for
Pittsburg, Pa, where he will reside
with a sister.
Mrs. Nettie Mills and daughter, Dot
tie, went to Des Moines Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. r. c. Buchanan have
returned from ten days visit in
Kansas City.
G. E. Martenson, who formerly lived
here. but now lives at Milledgeville,
ILL.,, Is here looking after his property
interests.
Gabriel Williams, who lives west Of
town is remodeling his dwelling.
Mrs. NJ A. Marston and daughter.
Laura, of Rossville, ILL.,, are here Wis
iting at the A. l.. Marston home.
Mrs. INLAND and Mrs. French of
Ames are here visiting their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Reeve.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-08
THE PRICE OF MILK.

Omaha World Herald price "
milk, real and SO called, is going up
all over the country. Various rea
sons are given for the advance in
different localities. such as general
prosperity, high price of feed etc. In
Chicago they say that the rise Is due
to a shortage of the hay crop.
In general 1t Is grievous thing to
the consumer to see the price Of
household necessities going up and
ever upwards, but in the case Of milk
there Is ground for hopeful sus-
picion. It Is probable that the in
crease of price is due to considerable
part to the fact that the dealers are
being compelled to furnish real milk,
without water or embalming fluids
or so many disease germs as for
merly. 1t costs more to keep a clean
dairy and supply the public with
milk that is milk. Not long ago a
government expert said that really
good milk, properly cared for with
due sanitary precautions, could not
be provided for less than IL or Is
cents quart in the very arge cities.
After all,s the thing of real import
ance is not whether we are paying
or Is cents for milk. but whether we
are feeding the babies pure milk or
formaldehyde. We pay Is cents for
quart of beer and never thing of
kicking on the price. Let us only be
assured that we are getting milk that
is milk and we can stand whatever
boost in the price may be necessary,
and the dealers won't need to pacify
US by stories of shortage in the hay
crop and so forth
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-08
MR.. BRYAN,s CHANCES.

Il Occasionally a lengthy article hobs
up at some place or other in which
the William Jennings Bryan chances
Of landing the democratic nomination
and of being elected If he should be
Nominated, are discussed. Such dis
Eussion arose at meeting of the Vir-
ginfa Democratic association the other
plight and a wing of the association
embedded what it considered the Bry-
I'm outlook in this resolution:
Whereas. William Jennings Bryan.
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ADVERTISED LETTERS.

List Of Letters Remaining Unclaimed
at ottumwa, Iowa, for tho, Week
Ending Sept smber 49, 1907.
Women's List.
Burley Belle Cempbcll Mrs D o
Flack Mrs Ira Ort Della
Mems List.
Abbott H Bush w o
Barber frank e Griffin Jas e
Green Henry Griffin H r
Garrison Chas B Hanson NJ
Jenkins Wesly Knight Frederick
K1ncheloe II e Kirrle II All
Lad A r Miller Chtas
Park A r Robertson Frank
Ryner Alfred Packwood r w
Roger Geo Ray S w
Thompson VIM o Yogt John
Wilcox Gale Wilson w B
Walton A w Younkin Ray
Fred w. Wilson,
Postmaster.
assaas,a4.4a..t !, -
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DAVIS COUNTY LINE.

Davis County Line.-Mrs. Ola Las
icy entertained company Saturday.
Miss Ruby Hamm visited Wednes-
day at the Gabe Schlotter home
Herby Lawson was a caller here re-
Gently.
Jackson Lawson intends to move his
family to southern Missouri in the
near future, where they intend making
their future home.
Henry Vaughn made a,business trip
to Selma on Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. Gabe Schlotter and
daughter, Miss Anna, were trading at
White Elm on Wednesday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-08
eeer.RooseveIt Wedding.

New York. Oct. 5.-The wedding of
Miss Dorothy Quincy Roosevelt and
Mr.. Langdon Geer attracted large
throng of society folks to the church
of the Incarnation this afternoon.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. Montague Gear, an uncle of the
bridegroom. The wedding reception
followed at the home of the brides
mother Mrs Hilborne Roosevelt. The
bridal couple will spend their honey.
moon in Europe.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-08

The Hague. Oct. 5.-Baron Mars
chalt Won Bieberstein delivered a
noteworthy speech today before the
arbitration committee of the peace
conference during which he announc-
ed himself to be in favor of obligatory
arbitration, but he is opposed to the
treaty including all the nations of the
world.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-08

The superintendent of Chicago de-
tention hospital favors ga little punch
in the ribs" as the best stimulant for
an alcoholic patient. He has tried 1t,
after experimenting with other meth
DDS, and has found it very effective.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-08
Girls Killed by
Explosion in a
Japanese Factory

. . . . o
Toxic, Oct, 5.-WhiIe a num-
' Der of girls were at work sort
= Ing shells and cartridges which
= had been condemned in a fac
. tory at Osaka an explosion oc-
: Cured today. Slxty-three girls
y were killed and over sixty In
= jured. The factory and num-
= Der of the boats containing the
= explosives are now burning.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-08
c.. M. & ST. P. TRAINS.

No. Going Southwest. Depart
GA-Southwest Limited 2:1sa.m'
8A--Kansas City Local. !. 10: 40 q. m.
sSis- -Local freight ........ 700 q m,
Going East, Via Cut-Of
12h-Chic. Limited 10: OF a m
SA-Dnvenport, Chicago $3.50 8. m.
e2B-Local freight $1,000. s:1oa. m.
Marion Line Going North.
lcs-Cedar Rapids. ST. Paul 1855 q. N.
sSR-Local freight 6:40 a Z,
Marion Line. Coming South.
108B-Arrive from Marion. 10: Is a. m.
eC--Arrive from Marion 1925 n. m.
97B-Local freight, arrive 4:55p. m.
Freight trains arrive ana DEPART
from Ottumwa Junction.
J. p. Whelan. Ticket Agent.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-08

that the father of his country" was
once indicted for swearing to false
list of his taxable property. The Vir-
ginia man might have kept his discov-
cry to himself as its relating has
served no good purpose.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-08
National Convention opened.

New York Oct, 5.-The fourth ma
tional convention of the German ALI
ance opened today, President Hexa-
mer presiding. Two hundred and
thirteen delegates from forty states
were present.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-08
WABASH RAILWAY.

No. Going South. Depart
2A-Moberly, st. L.. K. c.. $500 a. m.
50B-Moberly and East. $3.50 q. ~,
4A-Moberly, st. L.. K. c.. 1855 .. m.
coming North. Arrive
51B-Moberly local .......11: 80 a. m.
3A.--From Kansas City. 300 n n,
]. p. Whelar. Ticket Agent.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-08

Some Virginia man has found by
porting over the court records of
George Washington's home county
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-08
r. r. TIME TABLES.
,A--Daily; B., daily, except Sunday:
Q. daily except Monday.
BURLINGTON ROUTE, c, 3. 8 4

BURLINGTON ROUTE, c., 3. & 4.
No Going East. Depart.
lS1A-Chic., Dubuque. Quincy 1:20a. m.
92--Lo.al freight 8: 20 a, m
st. Louis. Z: So a. m.
6A-Chic. Limited ..... 300 D. N.
BIT. Madison, st. Louis. $3.50 p. m.
4A-Chic., St L., Quincy. 7:15 p. m.
2A-Chic.. Peoria, Rockford IL: 45 pm.
Going West.
eA-Omaha and Nebraska. 40 a. m.
sA-Omaha, Oregon, Calf. 1850 O. m.
-B-Arrive from TT. Mad. II: AZ q. m.
9R-Peor1a to Creston -. 200 D. m.
11B-Arr.ve from Chicago. 10: 90 D. m.
1A-Chic. to Denver .... 4:25 D. m.
W. s. Parker. Ticket Agent.
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C., Z. !. 6 P. TRAINS.

C., K. !. & p. TRAINS. 9
No Going North. Depart.
476--Wes Moines. Omaha. .7:1O a. m.
47S-Des Moines, Omaha. j. IL: 10 D. m.
Aides Moines, Omaha -. 7:10 D. m.
Going South.
47CvKeokuck. Kas city,. 9.17 a. m.
!42-Keokuk, Kas City...... 4:O0p. m.
ftf-HldoH 1O:17 D. m.
w. s. Parisor Ticket Agent,
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DIS. MYERLy 8 kREuL.

BURT LAFoRcE. PH. G., M. 3.
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist.
Glasses scientifically fitted. Office hours
10 to ~ a. M. and to and to o'clock
2. m. Phone. office, $50; residence. 81.
ONCE rooms, 10 and IL Hoffman, Blk
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-12-31

Says Judge Ives, in his Cass Lake
Times: 1905 is Leap year and
it is high time for all eligible girls
to screw up their courage and fortihy
themselves for the greatest event of
their lives. 1t is not generally
known but it is fact nevertheless
that girls during leap year have an
advantage that the other sex does
not possess in other years that if
a girl finds a fellow who suits her
she makes the courageous pro-
posal the fellow must submit or be
called a poltroon by his pals. SO you
should be careful in selecting and
have some good reasons to believe
that the one selected is your affinity.
If you find the fellow backward and
wary treat him with consideration,
but don't let the year of grace run
out before you have him securely
"cinched."
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BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

DR.. William E. Hamilton, aged nine
ty-two, ex-mayor of Peoria, ILL.,, is dead.
DR.. Hinzpeter, Emperor Williams
first teacher, is dead at Bielefeld,
Prussia.
New Orleans experienced the driest
Sunday in several years, due to rigid
enforcement of the Sunday closing
law.
Arthur g. Stanwood, assistant treas
urer of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad system, is dead at
Boston.
The Douglass county (Neb) district
court has upheld the Omaha "blue
laws" as being entirely constitutional
and in future the Sunday closing law
will be enforced strictly.
More than 1000 men were made
happy at Pottsville, Pa, when work
was resumed at the plant of the East
ern Steel company here. The plant
Will run five days week.
The factories of the F. H. Hoyt
company, manufacturers of shoes in
East Manchester, N. H., which have
been closed down for several weeks,
have resumed operations.
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ON CHARGE OF PERJURY.
Principal Witness in bruce Case Held
by New York Officials.

by New YORK OTTiClalS.
New York, Dec. 31.-Robert G. Cald-
well, whose testimony as witness in
the so called bruce case led to the
reopening of the grave of T. G. bruce,
is now at the home of his daughter at
New Brighton, Staten Island He is
under $4,000 bonds to answer to a
charge of perjury preferred by the
British authorities in connection with
the story he told in the London court.
Caldwell was arrested when he arrived
here from Europe Dec. FL.
Caldwell's story Of the alleged dual
personality OF the Duke of Portland
was the real sensation of one of the
most remarkable legal cases which
ever engaged the attention of the
British courts The reopening of the
bruce grave was undertaken as a
final effort Of the government to prove
their charge that Caldwel's testimony
was "willful and corrupt perjury" In
substance Caldwell's story, upon which
the claim of the bruce heirs for the
great fortune and the title of the Duke
Of Portland was based, was to the
effect that the Duke of Portland and
T. G. bruce, London storekeeper,
were one and the same. He had
known the Duke of Portland under
both names, he said, and at the re-
quest of the duke had arranged a
pretended death and mock funeral of
bruce SO that his dual personality
coffin buried in Highgate cemetery
and which was supposed to hold the
body of T. c. bruce in reality con-
tanned only 200 pounds of lead. It was
this coffin which was exhumed.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-12-31
LOCATED IN SAN FRANCISCO
EIoping Rector and Young Heiress
Now Have a Child,

San Francisco, Dec. 31.-The Call
publishes an interview with Rev. Jere
Knode Cooke, formerly pastor of St..
Georges church at Hampstead, L.. H.,
who, it is alleged, left his wife some
eight months ago, clipping with sew.
enteen-year-old heiress named Floretta
Whaley. The couple have been To-
Gated, it is said, at fiat at 1899 Green
street in this city, while a search has
been going on for them all over the
country. A child has been born to
them during the interval The rector
worked as painter and decorator and
also did the hardest kind of manual
labor for the support of himself, his
companion and the child. He had, it
is said. lived quietly in Los Angeles
before coming here after he left the
East
Inquiry at the fiat occupied by Cooke
and Miss Whaley revealed the fact
that the couple had fed with their
child.
The couple seem to have been iden-
tilted beyond all question as Rev.
Cooke and Floretta Whaley, although
they were living under the name of
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Balloon.
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The HCMoRlST IN POLITICS.

The daily prints inform us that
Mark Twain has lost manner of
thirty or forty dollars through failure
of a health food company in which
he had invested. Mr.. Twain is
representive as airily waving his
hand and refusing to discuss the
rumor to any extent, simply saying
in an absent minded way that he
believes he did drop a few bushels
of money in the transaction. Then,
lighting another cigar, he fills up
his fountain pen and resumes work
on some more humor.
That is what we want in the com.
merclal world. More Mark Twains
would help ot.Let the humorists of
this country bring out the fabulous
sums they are boarding and throw
them into the breach, if there be
one. Some eminent financiers say
there is no breach, others assure us
there is hole big enough to drive
COW through.
The trouble is that when the
ordinary nonhumorous man puts
his money in anything and loses it
he emits yelp that can be heard
for ten miles on noisy afternoon.
He has receivers appointed, and
gets referees and juries and courts
and administrators and things and
upsets the equilibrium of affairs. A
humorist simply smiles that there is
plenty more where that came from
and turns out another batch of
stuff.
Would Tom Lawson have acted
as Twain has? Lawson is some.
times called a humoriSt- at least a
joke two days after he had
stung for that much money he would
have had 100000 magazines on the
news stands clamoring for the blood
of the bee that stung him.
Let the humorist of this country
dig up. If Secretary Cortelyon
could realize that brigade of hum
olists in good working order can
make an issue of canal bonds look
like petition to send blind man
home to his friends he would give
them desks on the sunny side of
the treasury building.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-12-31

* 80 ~ FHzkssEsnss
or travel from Europe to the United
States reached total Of 1,699,34O,
which Is 100000 In excess of the COM
bined east and westbound travel dur
ing the year 1905. The eastbound
travel for the year 1907 consisted Of
1,257,328 persons.
or the combined east and west
bound travel for the year 1907, which
is within 100000 Of tho population OF
Greater New York, the steamships OF
the North German Lloyd company
carried the enormous total of $4,000
persons in round numbers. This ex-
ceeds in numbers the population of
the states of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming.
Montana, North Dakota or the District
of Columbia and is equal to the com
bined population of the states of Ne
vada and Wyoming and the territories
of Alaska and Arizona.
The most sensational passenger
movement of the year was in the east
bound steerage. This reached the
enormous figure of 550,045, or 242,565
greater than 1906. This entire move
ment was concentrated during the last
two months of the year.
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"KANsks FOR CHRISTI
Slogan to Be Used in Great Evange-
Ilstlc Campaign.

-
Kansas City, Mo-. Dec. 31.-"Kansas
TOR Chris" is to be the slogan in a
ttate-wide evangelistic campaign that
Is to be pushed simultaneously in
every county of the Suntiower state
next year. Hundreds Of ministers
from various denominations together
with numerous well known evangelists
are to hold revivals. An entire year
will be spent In the movement and an
effort Is to be made to demonstrate to
the whole country what may be ac-
complished in concerted religious
work carried forward on strictly bust
ness lines. The great revival is to be
under the direct leadership of Rev.
William Edward Biederwolf, who
planned 1t.
The undertaking will be subject to
the general supervision of board Of
two ministers and two laymen from
each denomination. This body, which
has already been organized with fl.
teen denominations represented, has
selected Edward E. Taylor of Phiia.
delph1a to act as secretary.
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RELEASED BY COURT
Fifty Defendants in Alleged Coal
Land Frauds in Colorado.
KNOCKS OUT WORK OF JURY

Same Judge Recently Dismissed In
dictments Charging Timber Frauds.
Government Will Take Case to
Court of Appeals.
Denver, Dec. 31.-Judge r. E. Lewis
Of the federal court has quashed all
Indictments and sustained all the de-
murrers In coal land fraud cases there
by releasing about fifty prominent de-
PENDANTS from prosecution. Among
the defendants who escape prosecu-
ton are S. w. Keitel and. fourteen
others of st. Louis, comprising the
Yamra Coal company; Charles E.
Hurr, Durango, Colo; Robert Forces
ter Salt Lake City; Benjamin F. Free
man, Durango, and George Coe Frank
lin, Durango.
Recently Judge Lewis quashed the
indictments for alleged timber frauds
and his latest action brings to naught
the work of the special grand jury
called last May.
The government attorneys gave no.
tice that they will take the cases to
the United States court of appeals.
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WORK on PANAMA CANAL,
Some Idea Of tbs Magnitude Of the
Task to 30 Done.

Washington. Dec. 31.-The engi-
neers on the Panama canal are deal
Ing In vast figures these days and the
Canal Record just received conveys in
a graphic manner an idea of the mag
nitude Of the work to be done upon
the locks of the canal. It is stated,
for Instance, that the amount of con
crete to be used In building these
locks would suffice to construct eight
room city houses of the generous size
of thirty by thirty feet with two
stories and basement and with CON
crete floors and with concrete roofs to
the number of 22,842. Allowing each
OF the houses a 75-foot lot, they would
make continuous street from New
York to Philadelphia, with enough
houses left over to make a row on one
side of the street from Philadelphia to
Washington. The houses would fur
nfsh suburban homes for 12O, 900 peo-
pie or, according to city standards,
would house population equal to that
OF the city of Minneapolis.
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ACCEPT SLIGHT CUTS.
Some New York Striking Tenants Ig.
more Leaders.

New York, Dec. 31.-Leaders of the
East Side tenants who are agitating
for reduction of rents announced that
landlords of two apartment houses
have accepted reductions of 81 to $3.50
per month In one case the rent had
been SIS to $23 month and in the
other SIC to SO. The leaders opposed
settlement on this basis and urged in.
sistence on 20 per cent reduction,
but the tenants ignored them and paid
their rent, for January, securing also
an agreement that rents will not be
advanced for six months
Jacob Frank, one of the leaders Of
the striking tenants, said that an in
vestigatiOn shows that $4,000 workers
are idle below Fourteenth street. OF
this number 10000 are said to be
cloakmakers and the others cap and
shirtmakers, paperhangers, painters,
carpenters and bricklayers