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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-03-21
Blows OF Top Of Head,

Alexandria, Mimi. March 19.-Peter
Nelson. a farmer OF Lund township,
blew off the top of his head with a
shotgun. He had been very gloomy
for some time
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-03-21
Revolution in Colombia.

Revolution in Colombia.
Willamstad, March ia dispatch
received here from Cucuta, Colombia,
announces that a powerful revolution
has started in the state of Tachira.
Venuezuela, with Gen. Juan Pablo
Penalosa as it's leader.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-03-21
THREE GUILTY OF GRAFT.
County Officers Convicted on Accom-.
plice's Testimony.

Ashland, Wis, March 10. - After
twenty hours consideration the jury
in the case Of The State VS.. Mike Col.
Inns, Vought and Mcdonald. county OF.
ticers of Mellen, brought in verdict
of grating in town orders. They were
indicted a year ago and were convict
ed largely ON the testimony Of an &C
complete.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-03-21
Killed by an Explosion.

Tucson. AriZ. March 81. l.. Wal
den, superintendent of the PARCEL
mines, was killed by all explosion.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-03-21
Shah Stors Drill.

Teheran, Persia. March 10. - The
daily drilling of the Persian militia
has been stopped by the shah, on the
ground that it is alarming the people.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-03-21
Soar Factory Burned.

Mayfield. Ky. March 19.-The 2eau-
mont Soap company's plant was de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is $4,000.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-03-21
sta,N House for San Juan.

San Juan, P. R., March 19.-The leg
islature passed the bill appro2riating
$15O,0O0 for the erection of a capitoi
building at San Juan.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-03-21

The Connecticut supreme court has
decided that BARRIERS in that state can
not be compelled to shave colored
men.
The Ohio coal-carrying roads an
nounce an advance of cents ton in
rates on coal for lake traffic aud for
railroad fuel, to take effect April 1.
The strike at the Pope motor works
at Toledo is ended. The settlement re-
suited from the conference between
Supt. Schaff of the company and the
men.
The Modern club of Logansport,
Ind, denounces as barbaric the Gus
tomary observance of Thanksgiving
and Christmas, terming them feasts Of
gluttony and slaughter.
The reorganization of the Cypress
Selling company Is announced at New
Orleans, with capital of $1,000, 900.
This makes it the largest lumber or.
ganization in the South.
Prof. John Waters has begun suit
against the owners, officers and crew
of the liner La Gascogne for $4,000
damages on account of being bitten by
rat while a passenger on that yes.
sci.
Gov. Folk has signed the bill passed
by the Missouri legislature levying a
tax of 25 cents on each transaction of
grain, stocks, cotton, ETC., for future
delivery, for the benefit of the road
fund.
Word has been received that the
Northwestern university at Waterloo,
Iowa, will receive an endowment OF
$4,000 from the estate of Mrs. Alwine
Theodore Jacket, widow of Rev. Theo'
dOre jacket.
Rudolphus w. Fuller. the inventor OF
the machine to make horseshoes, died
at Hanover, Conn, aged eighty-five
years. Fuller's invention was copied
by manufacturers who made millions
through it. but the inventor died a
poor man.
Brown. being the color of the sea
son. Nine. Gutenberg, at the National
Millinery association convention In
Chicago. has given to the world a new
shade called "coqueroach." It is said
to be the hue Of the adolescent cock.
roach. familiar In the consomme OF
commerce.
The chaplain of the California leg;s
lature created sensation by regret
ting the failure of many moral meas
ures to pass the legislature. He de
plored that SO many of the members
were there evidently ITO draw pay
draw corks and draw poker"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-03-21
Cuban Fire Less Is SIC: 900.

Guantanamo, Cuba. Marcel: !e.-Fire
broke out OH the Confluente sugar
plantation and rio damage is es:imat-
ed at over S40C 500.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-03-21
Personal.


Winsiow A. Greene, one of the old.
est newspaper men In Iowa. is dead at
Onawa, Iowa.
Right. Hon. Sir Daniel Dixon, mem
her of parliament for North Belfast,
Ireland, is dead.
Gustav Buckholtz. former min.
strel of national reputation, died sud
denly at Troy, N. Y.
John Turner, who was intimately &C
quainted with Charles Dickens, the au.
thor, died at Paola, Kan. aged ninety.
seven years.
Isaac Freeman Rason, who for forty
years has been the acknowledged lead.
er Of the Democratic party in Baltt.
more, Is dead.
Col. Henry C.. Shaw. formerly a
newspaper man, and of late years con-
nected with the custom house at San
Francisco, is dead.
James L. Jugh, formerly senator
from Alabama, died in Washington,
aged eighty-seven years. Death was
caused by pneumonia.
Charles Gordon Knox, secretary OF
the st. Louis Commercial club. died at
sea on the steamship Prinz Joachim.
of the South Carolina coast.
Accidental happenings.
Fire completely destroyed the lro
quois hotel at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
one Of the finest in the state. Loss
100000.
An entire business block Of Eas,
Chicago, Ind, was destroyed by fire
entailing a loss of 100000. Several
persons narrowly escaped death.
A passenger train struck landslide
and was wrecked near Hinton, w. vs.
The engineer was killed and the fire
man fatally injured None Of the pas
seugers was injured.
Fifteen persons were crushed or 9th
erwise injured when a Southern Pa
cific freight engine crashed into q
Maple avenue street car at a crossing
at Los Angeles.
J. w. Lyons, farmer of Carroli
Iowa, was trampled and beaten into In
sensibility by q horse In his barn. He
was still alive when rescued by his
son, but died soon after.
Fire which broke out in the roof o.
the tipplc at the Numa coal mine al
Seymour, Iowa, destroyed all the build
ings and equipment at the mine except
the engine house. The loss is estima
ted ut $1,000. ...
Engineer Kellogg and his fireman!
were killed In Il wreck ON the Chicago
Great Western railroad at Waterloo
Iowa. A car on west-bound trail
jumped the track while passing al
east-bound train.
Two men were killed and numbel
Of others hurt and Metuchen, N. ].
was shaken and threatened with man!
fires when the boiler of locomotive
OH the Pennsylvania railroad exploded
while drawing freight train through
town.
Shortly after Clay Owens, at thu
risk of his life had saved Kate DC
haven, a helpless invalid, from burnin:
to death in a fire which destroyed tn
home of Thomas Chairman, nea
Drakeville, Iowa. the woman became
unconscious and later died. the ply
sicians say, from fright.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-03-21
Criminal.

CRIMINAL
G.. B. Green was waylaid at Colum-
bia, S. c., and killed by Ed Marshal,
who was killed by Green.
George McAllister was sentenced to
the penitentiary for one year as re-
suit of his trial on charge of forgery
at Billings, Mont.
In fight over the affections Of Miss
Arva Warren, Alonzo Ross Of Wint-
frede, Ky. was perhaps fatally stabbed
by Benson Nicely at Huntington. w.
Va.
Surrounded in a house at Americas
(Ga.) and fighting like demon, Will
lam Rees, a negro desperate who NOR
tally wounded Police Officer Morris,
was shot and killed.
Crazed by liquor Roy Beck, police
court character at Des Moines, leaped
over the railing Of the Court avenue
bridge, spattering his brains out on an
abutment forty feet below.
Charles Collins was found guilty OF
forging the name of F. E. Collins to
number of railroad passes which had
been stolen from the Office Of the Bill.
ings, Mont, round house.
A sixth attempt to wreck the Clinton
line passenger train on the st. Louis
& San Francisco railroad, was made
at Clinton, Mo. The passengers es'
capped with a slight shaking up.
Albert Nichols, a teamster, was
shot and killed at st. Louis by Edward
Court, who Immediately surrendered
to the police. Court made statement
to the effect that Nichols had slapped
Mrs. Court.
The indictment for subornation OF
perjury against Frederick G. Fair
banks, son Of the vice president. in
connection with his marriage at Steu-
benville, Ohio, was quashed in de-
cision handed down few days ago.
A man disguised as woman in.
vaded the residence of Judge James
Hargis at Jackson, KY, and attempted
to take his life. June Jett, nephew OF
Hargis, saw an intruder in the kitchen
and fred a number Of shots at him,
but he escaped uninjured.
The noted Mexican outlaw and ban
dit, Gerardo Nunez, who recently
robbed the Eutancia Blanca ranch in
Durango of $1,000, and who, with his
band, has long defied the civil and mil.
itary authorities of Mexico, has been
captured and his band extegminated.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
LET THE BREwERlEs NOTICE

Cedar Rapids Republican. 1t Is the
policy of the great breweries to force
the saloon business everywhere Their
policy in this is clearly set forth in an
article In this months issue of Nc
Clure's magazne-which was reviewed
IN these columns last Sunday. The in
dividuaf saloon keeper cuts no figure
any more. In a majority of cases, he
makes little, if any, profit The policy
now being pursued by the brewery in
terests is TO multiply saloons to such
an extent that the profits of the re-
taller reach the vanishing point. The
profit of the brewery, however, is as
sured. In pursuance of this policy,
the saloon business Is being forced
everywhere. 1t is being forced in this
town. The proposition to locate sa-
loon In the Fifth ward in close prox-
unity to the Pawnee mills Is in exact
keeping with the policy outlined In
Mr.. Turner's article in the April Nc.
Cures. Cedar Rapids should give the
brewers to understand once for all
that such a policy will not be tolerated
lere. Cedar Rapids is not 4 prohibi
ton town--at least not now. Saloons
decently conducted and SO placed as
not to offend people Who have no nse
for them, will be tolerated IL Cedar
Rapids, but if any Chicago tacrics are
attempted here-well, the pc pIe viii
not stand for it. that is all. If the
brewery people are wise they will lei
well enough, from their standpoint
alone.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
A HON e MINE.


Burlington Hawk-Eye. The Iowa
legislature has amended the drainage
law so that it is more available for
practical operations in river counties
like Des Moines. There is now oppor-
tunity to redeem the overflow lands
and make them richly productive. 1t
is to be hoped the supervisors of Des
Moines county will take prompt action
for the drainage of the low lands I'M
der the amended law. The law is
equitable in it's system of levying the
taxes, and when carried into effect
will enhance the value of the land and
greatly increase the annual yield of
farm products. In other, words, there
is a large amount of tangible wealth
in the ,indeveloped land of Des MONIES
county. 1t is better than mining stock
and other speculative ventures, and the
beauty of 1t is that it keeps investment
money at home, adds to the total
wealth Of the county and enlarges the
annual production. 1t is an exhaust
BILE mine. one which can be dug perpet.
ually and always with profit. The
sooner this mine is opened and the
gathering Of it's treasures begun. the
better for the community and the
lucky land owners.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
SENATOR ALLISON.

Marion Register.-The "anti' ALI.
son worry club should take a long
vacation. His health continues good
1t will be eight months before con-
gress meets. He is at his home in
Dubuque, looks we'll and is not half
as near to breakdown as some men
who want his toga. True he may
not live a year, a month or day.
The same remark will apply to every
man in the state. His eyes are, rs
bright and his voice rings as clear
as it did twenty years ago. He walks
a mile or more every day without
fatigue, has a good appetite, sleeps
well and with the restful care he is
taking there seems to be no reason
why he may not be strong and vigor-
GUS when congress meets in Decem.
Der. Otherwise he is the youngest
man we ever knew for his age, young
er than many are at 40. May he
long be spared to the state and the
country.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
FAIRBANKS A STRAP HANGER.

New York correspondence of the
Kansas City Star.-A man of 6 feet
2 or three inches got on southbound
Sixth avenue elevated train at the
Thirty-third street. station yesterday
afternoon. He wore fedora hat,
dark suit of clothes and had a light
overcoat thrown over his arm.
The car he got on was damned and
the tall man had to stand. A stout
Italian woman went around the
Blocker street curve, and men hurry
ing downtown back to business poked
him in the ribs with their elbows.
Nobody saw any reason for getting
up and offering him a seat.
i One man, however, kept glancing
at the tall man and then looking away
again, plainly puzzled. He remarked
to a reporter on the train:
There is something familiar about
the face Of that man, but can't spot
him for the life of me"
When the reporter, with number
of other men in his train, passed out
he stepped before the tall man.
How do you do, Mr.. Fairbanks? p
he said. What are you doing in New
York?'-
"Glad to SEQ you," said the vice
president of the United States 50
just ran over on business and sccia
matters"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
YELLOW CRAFTSMANSHIP.

Des Moines Capital.-Few would
have imagined that legislator of the
standing of representative L. D. Teter
of Marion county, would have even per-
United himself to be used by yellow
journalism as pair of tongs with
which to pull It's smouldering chest
nuts out Of the fire.
The trick Of introducing a freak bill
to crafty the frenzied whim of some
one burning with desire for "exclu-
give" story is not new one in the
history of Iowa legislation. Few have
forgotten the melancholy fate of Kill
the-Incurables Buckingham of Buena
Vista county.
Fred H. CASTOR, an enterprising
newspaper correspondent with four.
ply imagination and a typewriting ma.
chine equal to any emergency, prepar.
ed bill during the Thirty-first general
assembly making it lawful to kill peo
pie afflicted with incurable maladies.
CASTOR had his story all written and
in type subject to relapse" as soon as
some legislator could be induced to in.
troduce the BILL Member after mem
Der hesitated- but at last the good M,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11

son have seen longest service and the
years from which they date are: Nor.
gan, 1877; Hale and Frye, 1881; Al
drich and Culiom, 1888; Teller, 1885;
Daniel, 1887. Most of the others are
comparatively new members.
Senator Allison is one of the large
men of the national legislature, and
has welded great influence in both
houses. For years he was presiden.
tial possibility, >but his age takes him
out of that category now His health
is not so robust as in his younger
years, and there have been times dur,
ing the past winter when he was con.
fined by illness' and unable to attend
to business. A man Of more cautious
utterance than Senator Allison 1t
would be difficult to discover The
story goes that once friend and he
stood chatting on street corner when
flock of sheep were driven past by
a butcher. Those are black sheep,
observed Allison's companion. "They
seem to be" replied Alison" on this
side" This cautiousness of the sena
tor has saved him from many pit
fall. He will be greatly missed from
the senate.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
THE MoLLYcoDDLE.

Who is it stays at home at nights,
And never. goes to SHOWS or fights?
The Mollycoddle.
Who wipes the dishes for his ma,
And runs on errands for his pa,
A can of beer or cigar?
The Mollycoddle.
Who always does as he is told,
And who does mother never scold?
The Mollycoddle.
Who always keeps his clothing clean
To girls and cats Is never mean,
And who is Johnny-on-the-sce
The Mollycoddle.
And who In later years of, life,
Picks out large and heavy wife?
The Mollycoddle.
Who always picks lady fair,
With strength to yank him by the
hair,
And who gets henpecked everywhere!
The Mollycoddle.
Detroit Free Press.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
OBITUARY.
D4.s+s..sas..a.+.s...s..s.s..a..,.,s..s
Mrs. Mary Hines.

Last evening the Keokuk Constitu-
ton Democrat contained the following
death notice of Mrs. Mary Hines,
grandmother of Mrs. Arthur Hickey of
Ottumwa:
Mrs. Mary Hines, the widow Of the
late Timothy Hines, a woman well
known in Keokuk and one of the old
settlers here, passed away Sunday aft
lernoon after weeks Illness with pneu-
monia.
MRS. Hines was born in Malbey,
County Claire, Ireland, January 6, 1921,
and came to this country In the early
ffties. She landed in New York and
from there went to Burlington, VT, and
from that place came west in the year
1856, settling here at Keokuk and liv-
ling here ever since. She has lived
during her residence here at her home,
ITO North Fourth street. Mrs. Hines
death occurred Sunday afternoon at
AIS o'clock, and 1t was just two years
and four months ago today that her
husband preceded her to the great be-
You'd.
"Mrs. Hines was always of an ami
able disposition and made many friends
during her long residence in this city
where she was SO well thought of by
everyone who knew her. She was a
deyout member of ST. Francis de Sales
church.
/ Three daughters are left to mourn
the death of a good mother. They are:
Mrs. Molly Cook, with whom Mrs
Hines has made her home; Mrs. A. R
Hemenover, both of keokuk and Mrs
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
cLEws is WITH ROOSEVELT.

No matter how MIR. Hartman feels
toward President Roosevelt and his
policies, Henry Clews still insists that
the President has been misrepresent-
ed. He has said repeatedly in his
weekly market letter that the Presi-
dent is not so radical as has been sup
posed. He feels that Mr.. Roosevelt's
statement regarding his policy towards
railroads and corporations was dis
tinctly reassuring. Defending sthe
President, Mr. Clews says:
"Mr. Roosevelt is opposed to gov
eminent ownership; does not want the
government to fix the rate, and fully
appreciates the impossibility of get.
ting fair valuation Of the railrods to-
day or of squeezing out the water in
stocks that We're once over-capitalize
Mr.. Roosevelt chiefly desires to stop
well known railroad abuses in the fu'
ture, and to prevent continued over.
capitalization Of our railroads. These
reforms will eventually prove as much
to the interest of the railroads as to
: the people, and the time will probably
come when railroad managers and rail.
road stockholders will thank Mr.. Roos-
evelt for the stoppage of such abuses
and thus destroying the greatest in.
centive to government ownership that
exists
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11

Iowa would be so rich no spot on earth
could be mentiond in comparison, and
a, lot of the rest of the country would
be poorer than it is. Iowa is making
that advertise their climate"
Mr.. Johnson, however, returned to
Iowa with the advice to his nei~hbors
TO stay at home. He was unable to
see where Texas offered the opportun-
tiles that are offered for the farmer or
investor right at home. In fact, Mr..
Johnson was inclined to agree with
Phil Sheridan that if he had hell and
Texas, he would rent Texas
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
PArENrEp2

From the Youths Companion. The
agent stepped briskly up to Mr.. How
ards desk and laid a small article
down close to his busy right hand.
II have here new letter-opener,
he'said, "a handsome article, to be put
on the table in your library, and y
II have the best letter opener and
the quickest" interrupted Mr.. Howard
without turning his head.
How long have you had it?" per
sisted the agent. "You know there
are constant Improvements"
There's no need for improving
mine" responded the writer "Tve
had her about two years-anniversary
comes next month"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
THE WAY OF LEGISLATORS.

Paul E. Stillman's Des Moines letter
to the jefferson Bee.-Getting ready
to quit is one of the hardest jobs that
a lawmaking body tackles. Down at
Washington where they are absolute
ly obliged to stop at noon on the 4th
of March in the odd-numbered years,
we are told that they set back the
clocks and work all kinds of schemes
getting through on time. I can see
now exactly how 1t is. 1t is not con-
sidered good form to rush legislation.
The rule. seems to be not to do today
what you can just as we'll do tomor.
row. If anybody wants to wait, usual
ly everybody waits. AS "a result, a
great mass of business accumulates
for disposal at the very end of the
session, and the last few days every
body has to work like galley slaves
doing things that might have been
done in the more leisurely times ef
the session. Speaker Kendall has
been unusually diligent in driving
business and discouraging proscras.
tination this year, but we are UP
against the usual thing just the same
We are trying to get through this
week, but IL we do it will be at the
expense of lot Of bills that have
been allowed to linger too long by
the wayside. Neither branch can quit
till the other is ready, and the last
day or two, after the work is all done
the members have to sit around and
wait till the bills passed have all
been duly enrolled and signed by the
officers of the house and senate in
their presence.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
GET OUT!

Chicago Evening Post.-The most
effective of the present day doctors
prescriptions is one that hasn't a drug
in it. 1t reads: Get into the open
air" The doctors to man nowadays
give this advice to consumptives, and
they save the lives of most of the
patients who have the nerve to follow
it.
The best spring tonic has only ona
ngredient-fresh air-and the state
ment holds true when you substitute
any other season for spring and tack
the word tonic on Fresh air won't
cure all diseases, but it will prevent
most of them, and persons who have
heard the old adage know the COM
parative worth of prevention.
Men talk about spring fever and
complain of lastitude. If 1t isn't sheer
laziness, this spring ailment is moth
ing more nor less than the season
able reawakening of the ancestral de-
sire to get out into the open Spring
fever aflicts only the walled-in. MI.
Roosevelt finds fault with mollycod-
dies. If he hadn't struck for the open
as soon as he had the use of his legs
it is entirely possible that the Presi.
dent might be mollycoddle himself.
There is>no opiate like the open
air. The man who sleeps natural
sleep can't by any courtesy of terms
be called sick though he be the hypo
chondriac Of hypochondriacs Nature
doesn't issue any fresh air cure al
MANAGES with testimonials imprinted
therein in large type. She simply
puts her cure where all men may get
it without money and price, and pro-
badly holds as fools all who don't take
advantage of the opportunity.