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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-15
Some New Signal coIors.

When railroad has been operating
on certain assumptions for years and
suddenly finds those assumptions 10
be fallacies, what is to be done
That is the question of ]. G. John.
son, division operator of the Pcnnsyl-
vania railroad at Reading, Isl asking
himself.
Johnson was examining Miss R. j.
Hoy, a striking telegraph operator
from Philadelphia. She had made ap-
plication for position. Fifteen per
cent of all applicants are color blind.
what color Is this?" he asked,
picking up ribbon.
"That is cerise,'' said Miss Hoy
Whats that?" demanded the as
tonished Johnson
-"Cerise," replied the applicant Il
just bought hat of that color 1t Is
trimmed with veil of crushed VIC
let.''
Johnson whistled. then picked up
another one.
What's this?"
"That is Alice blue. Alice Roosevelt
Longworth wore it in a good many of
her gowns last year"
johnson recovered slowly this time,
but was game for another effort.
What would you call Ihls?" he
asked
Nile Green"
The victory was hers.
"Cerise, Alice blue and Nile green"
murmured Johnson. land all these
years we have thought they We're red,
blue and green. I'll have To tell the
department about this and have the
orders changed But how in the world
we are goinn to make The brakelnen
learn these new colors 10 more than
l can understand"
Thieoff Gets New Job.
A bulletin posted in Hannibal Sat
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-15
MARKETS BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago Live Stock Market,

- N VTITCdSU E1Ve STOCK WaTKet.
Chicago, Oct 14.-Cattle-Receipt
$500; steady to 1Oc lower. Beeves,
$390@725; stockers and feeders $3.50
OATS; cows, s1.50@5.3O; Texans, $3.50
4.75; westerners. s4.0O@6.O0; calves,
$5.50@8.00
Hogs-Receipts $4,000; weak. Light,
$6.25@6.S5: mixed, s6.2O@6.90: heavy,
$6.05@6.S5; rough, s6:05@6.25; pigs,
$5.30@6.50: bulk sales, $6.4O@6.65.
I .Sheep-Receipts, 100000; steady at
ss3.00@5.50; yearlings, s5.40@6.O0;
lambs, $4.75@725.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-15
Third Annual
Corn CONTEST

The Citizens Savings Bank will give
Five Dollars in gold for the best three
esrs Of corn grown in Wape!lo county
in 1907 left at the bank before Decem-
ber 1. Bring in your three ears of corn
at once and SEQ how they compare with
your neishbors'
We want your banking business
Four per cent paid on time, and savings
deposits. Careful attention given to
checking accounts.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-15

The personal liberty of people in the
limelight is much restricted.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-15

Thieoff Gets New Job.
A bulletin posted in Hannibal Sat
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and passenger agent Of the Wabash,
with headquarters at Des Moines, han
resigned to become MANAGER Of the
Iowa Falls Short Line, has been re-
ceived. Mr.. Mcmillan has been out Of
the city all week. Friends declare
that Mr.. Mcmillan will not leave the
Wabash The Des Moines Register
and Leader.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-05-31

Tuesday, is still held at the city prison
and an extended investigation Of his
career and conduct is in progress
here and in other cities where he
lived. It is expected he will be taken
into court tomorrow and be charged
with carrying concealed weapons.
None of the socialists in Boise ac-
cept Duncan as a member OF their
branch of the party. DR.. Herman III
tus Of Seattle, one of the socialist
writer's attending the trial, had an ex-
tended interview with Duncan this at
ternoon. He declared afterward that
he thought it would not be to the in
terests of socialism to have the young
man released at this time. Duncan
insisted, he declared. that he had not
come to Boise to shoot any one.
Memorial day was universally OBJ
served in Boise. There was parade
of Grand Army veterans and public
speaking and decoration of the graves
of the soldier dead.
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In other words, the total trade with
Cuba has increased from S65, ,000, GOO
to S130,0O0,O0O; with Porto Rico from
S6.00O,O00 TO sS8,00O,0o0, and with the
Philippine islands from $5,000,000 to
$18,000,000, OR total increase in busi-
ness done with these three islands of
$11O,O0O,OO0. While this shows con-
siderable increase, the profit there
from is by no means equal to the great
outlay have set forth. am sure
that if the same liberal policy is con-
tinued and if the Philippine tariff re-
lief asked last session is put into effect
in the course of the next two or three
years, that q decade or certainly rs
years will show an increase in bust
ness that will be more commensurate
with the expenditure.
E But that will continue only If we
continue the same altruistic spirit in
our dealings with these islands and
give them every aid to expand their
cwn business and increase their own
prosperous condition. In the meantime
and down to the present date, the out
go for the benefit of these islands has
been enormous, while the increased
rate by the people of the United States
have comparatively lessened.
q 7E Il a
Secretary Taft will depart for Wash
ineton at o'clock tomorrow morn
ing. A banquet was held at the South
ern hotel tonight by the nlillers, at
which Secretary Taft was the guest of
Eonor. 0
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TITUS WANTS DUNCAN HELD
Thinks Release Now Would lniure Social
list Interests.

Boise, May SO.--After d three-day
adjournment, the trial of William D.
Haywood, secretary and treasurer of
the Western Federation of Miners,
the Western Federation of Miners,
Gov. stuenenberg, will be resumed be-
fore Judge Wood in the district court
tomorrow morning. At the opening of
court, a special venire of 81 talesmen,
the third summoned since jury build
ing began, will present itself and af-
ter excuses presented directly to the
court has been heard, the examina.
tion of talesmen by counsel will be-
gin. The replacement Of the 18th
juror peremptorily challenged, was in
progress when court adjourned Mon
day last 1t will be resumed when
the trial reopens. There are still three
challenges unused, and it is expected
that a fourth vacancy will be created
by the excusing of Juror Tourtellotte,
who insists that he is opposed to cap
ital punishment.
Senator Borah, associate counsel for
the state. spent today at Caldwell,
where stuenenberg lived and met his
death. He interviewed some of the
witnesses and also revisited the scene
of the crime.
Carl H. Duncan, the young man
who came here disguised and armed
and was arrested ON suspicion last
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|RECENT INSTANCES OF NATIONAL. AL LTRUlSDl
Secretary Taft Addresses lers Convention on Subject OF
Nations Attitude Toward Former Spanish Possessions

would not retain Cuba, but would
make her an independent republic as
soon as circumst tances would permit.
We expended in the Cuban war up.
wards of 100000, and we never
have invited Cuba in the return Of a
single cent. We offered up in deaths
and wounds and disease in that war
the lives Of 14S officers and over 4,10O
enlisted men. We paid $20,00O,0O0 to
Spain under the treat of peace. The
exact consideration for this sum, it
may be difficult to state, but the result
of the payment was the treaty and by
that treaty was secured a cession OF
Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philip.
pines freed from the debts which
Spain had incurred in their main.
tenance.
When the Spanish army left Cuba,
the cities were crowded with thou
sands Of refugees and reconcentradoes
1t was necessary to furnish immediate
|
relief for the prevailing distress. Five
million, four hundred and ninety.
three thousand rations, at cost OF
81, 100000 to the United Statss, were
issued to distressed persons through
the agency Of the officers Of the army.
The subject Of the sanitation Of the
island, from one end to the other, was
taken up with thoroughness, and in
the course Of this effort, one of the
greatest and most useful discoveries
known to medical science. to-Wit: The
transmission OF disease BY mosquitoes,
was added to the sum of,human knowl.
edge. For four years this sanitation
went on, and under American occupar
tion the amount expended for this out
Of the Cuban treasury reached 10000.
600.
And now, what has the United
States received In return for all her
efforts, for all her expenditure and all
her responsibilities ss
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deceive ourselves with shallow reflec.
3tions. The real reason lies deeper
than this. The tendency ON the part
.0f the states To surrender the exercise
OF powers and privileges belonging to
them and the willingness OF the fed
eral government to assume such exer-
else and the burdens incident thereto
il not peculiar to any political party
nor to any section Of our country. It
exists in all parties and in every sec.
tion OF our fair land.
The true reason> for this dangerous
tendency, or why the people are will
ing ito let the national government
perform and pay for 50 many things
which properly fall within the obliga.
tions Of the states and private citizens,
lies in the fact that they do not real.
ize that they are themselves paying
for the things which the national gov.
ernment pays for. The legislator is
slow to expose himself needlessly to
the criticism and disapprobation OF
his constituents. Therefore needed
Legislation is postponed because Of
the expense it involves and the fed.
eral government is appealed to wher
ever possible.
/ do not plead for states rights.
plead for the right Of the federal gov
eminent to protect itself and its treas
ury against the encroachments Of the
states and private interests upon hel
powers, her duties and her revenues
Where will this tendency end; to whau
result, think you, does 1t naturally ani
inevitably lead; whittier are we go
ing in this Capitalization OF power and
mutiliation of local self-goyernment.
lay no claim to prophetic powers
but I bring to you the thought of many
OF the ablest men in the public service
today, when I say that we are uncon
sciously drifting toward a highly or
ganized, bureaucratic form of fedora
government such as has become the
bane OF most of the old world govern
ments of Europe.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-05-31

st. Louis, May 30.-Before an au'
.dience of millers from all parts OF
the country attending the mass con.
vention Of the Millers' National FEEDER.
alton and marking the largest gather.
ing of mi1lers ever held in this coun-
try, Secretary Taft this afternoon
made an address at the Odeon ON the
topic, Recent Instances Of Our Ma
tional Altruism."
Secretary Taft's Speech.
Today is Memorial day, and there.
fore instead Of discussing subject in
which you are interested as millers,
prefer to talk to you as citizens and
patriots, and have Ventured to take as
the subject Of my remarks Recent In.
stances Of Our National Altruism.''
II ask your attention to the page
of the nations history covering the
last nine years, with the hope Of show
ing that there never has, on the part
Of any country, been greater exhibi-
tion OF altruism than that exhibited by
the United States from the beginning
OF the Spanish war down to the pres
ent day, toward the people who were
Immediately affected. A study Of the
conduct OF our nation with respect to
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines,
covering now nearly a decade. ought
to fill every American with pride.
That which the American people be
heved to be the oppression Of the
Cuban people, the misgovernment Of
the beautiful island, ana the contin.
ued failure Of Spain to restore any
kind Of order compelled the United
States to interfere to prevent con.
tinuance Of that which seemed to our
people to be an International scan.
da1 at the doors OF this country; and
as we went into It, in order that we
might free ourselves from the charge
OF land-grab bbing or spirit OF conquest,
we made the declaration that we
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-05-31
ON FAMOUS BATTlEFlELD|
CONGRESSMAN TaWney Delivers Memorial
Day Address at Gettysburg.

3 Gettysburg, Pa, May 3O.-The usual
Memorial day exercises at the nation
al cemetery here, where 1900 soldiers
are buried. was held this afternoon.
Congressman Tawney OF Minnesota,
the orator of the day, said:
The battle of Gettysburg, like those
Of Marston Moor and Rumemede and
Bunker Hill, was fought to determine
the proper bounds Of political and
civil liberty. Tt was fought to settle
a purely personal issue. There is but
one great problem in politics today
and that is the adjustment OF the CEN
tral power OF the state or nation to the
local self government of the people.
Has the individual state the right and
should it manage and control its at
fairs without regard to other states in
the union, or are we essentially one
people, bound in all we do as indivi-
dual states to respect the institutions
and conserve the welfare of all? There
has grown up in this country an in
tense national sentiment. We are in
clined to boast of our American citi-
zenship before we even mention our
state citizenship. National laws are
scrupulously observed, while state en-
actments are but little respected.
In the early part of the nineteenth
century there was fear and danger
that the union of the states was as a
rope Of sand and would fail apart, or
rather that the states could not come
together and forever remain together
under one comprehensive system Of 10
cal self and national government. To-
day: there is more reason to fear that
the several states and the local self
government which they represent in
our dual form OF government will, for
all practical purposes. disappear from
our politics as distance entities in our
system of government and be swal
lowed up on one a1l-embracing feder
4 r. s. r i s F /. !
| al power. The states today not only
seem inclined to allow, but in many in
stances are anxious voluntarily to sur
render to the federal government the
discharge Of duties and the exercise
of powers and privileges reserved by
the constitution to them, especially
when the exercise Of these powers and
privileges involves the expenditure d
money. They are also today eithel
soliciting or acquiescing in fedora
supervision over their domestic at
fairs to an extent that less than hal
a century ago would have led to reyo
luton had the federal government at
tempted TO force upon them such su
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perVaSdOne
These undertakings which belong ex-
clusively to the states or private in
terests to do and to pay for, but which
have been authorized by congress and
must be paid for from appropriations
made from the federal treasury, ex-
|ceed the legitimate functions of the
federal government as conceived by
the founders OF our political institu-
tions and as declared by them in the
constitution Of the United States. The
special agent and inspection service
Through which federal supervision and
control over the: domestic affairs Of
the people is exercised, shows an enor-
NOUS increase in the past 10 years.
The number of men employed in the
service in 1907 is $50 times greater
than in 1896: and the cost has in
creased over 700 per cent in 10 years.
This is the tendency OF the times, the
growth of which during the last de-
cade can be comprehended only by a
careful analysis Of federal legislation
and the aggregate annual expenditure
of the federal government. II it is
not checked, and the states continue
to surrender to the federal government
the exercise of their reserved powers
! or fail to exercise them in harmony
with the interests of their sister
states. then the federal government,
as a denier resort, may be compelled
| TO assume practical control over the
states and the domestic affairs Of their
people. In that case, with the vast
and varied local and national inter.
ests of a hundred and fifty millions
OF people, how long would it be be.
fore the task and burden Of govern,
ment would be so complex, SO stu
pendous that OF It's own weight our
splendid system Of government would
fail. This is greatly weakening the
powers Of the states and what Is In
AAAADSAy WO1SS - eslSO a7WcdASHlA5 QAS
respect Of the people for the states
authority. It is also causing the peo
]tple to ignore and forget all those wise
considerations which led the founders
/ OF our government TO provide for Local
sef-goyernment by expressly reserv
ing TO the states all governmental
powers not expressly conferred by the
constitution upon the federal govern
ment. It has been suggested that the
reason for this practical change in ou1
system OF government is to be sought
in the imperialigtic aggressiveness oi
| the party at present In control OF Tho
/ national government; hut let us mo-
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-05-31
ADMITS GROSS FRAUD
Witness in Idaho Land Case Gives
Damaging Testimony Against Him
self and One Of Accused.

ss Portland, Ore, May so.-An Ore
gonian dispatch from Moscow, Ida,
says Joel H. Benton of Lewiston, who
last fall testified in the case which
resulted in the conviction of Clarence
w Robnet, bookkeeper of the Lewis
ton National bank of subornation Of
perjury, was the principal witness in
today's session OF the north Idaho
land conspiracy case. He testified to-
day that he was induced by Robnet, to
take up stone and timber claim with
the ultimate intention OF. deciding it to
the bank officials.
The witness sWore that he never
visited his claim, Robnet telling him
it was not necessary. Benton also
testified that he did not have the
money necessary to take a claim, but
was given blank checkbook ON the
Lewiston National bank by Robnet,
and told to write checks for his Ell.
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by saying that the charges are un-
founded / am unable to imagine. If
any party freebooter or any one else
is guilty of conduct such as yours, 1
will treat him just as I have treated
you. With the gossip your father re-
peats and the inferences that he
draws therefrom, have no concern.
AS to the charges he by inference
makes against others, can only say
that any facts he will give me against
anyone will consider them If have
the power to do so. Charges OF a very
grave character were made to me
against your father himself in con
nection with his land transactions in
the past. Whether they were true or
not cannot say, because a prelimi-
nary investigation showed that action
upon them would be barred by the
statute OF limitations" ssss
Hiagerwan's Reply.
Mr.. Hagerman's reply says in part:
tsI have been previously informed
that the matter of my removal
through the form Of resignation from
the governorship OF New Mexico was
by you considered as a closed Incl
dent Your letter appeared inconsist
ent with this view.5 It is at once a
challenge and an invitation, which ii
would be discourteous and cowardly
to decline, although it offers an I'M
pleasant alternative Of a controversy
with you or submission to the i'm
peachment of my integrity at you1
hands without an effort to defend my
self.
IF you can take the time to give
the matter, as I present as it is
and with careful consideration, you
will be convinced that have been
uhjustly treated and that my action
as to the Pennsylvania Development
company deeds, for which I was re
moved by you, was commendable
and not blameWorthy.
due regard to your exalted station
forbids that should reply to your
letter: in language which would be
justifiable under the provocation 1t Of
fers, If you we're not the president o1
the United States, but I am not per
mitted, by by sense Of propriety, t
forget what is due to your great OF
fee, as well as to myself. hope
however, that my reply will not be
considered the less forceful because
Of the absence of harsh language.
Permit to me to say in conclusion
that but for your gratuitous and irrel
eyant assault upon my father, should
probably have been able to restrain
myself from making any reply t.
your letter, knowing it is easy to re
fute every suggestion of fraudulent OF
improper conduct you make agains
me, but constituting as I do, your ref
erence to my father as a threat K
blast his reputation unless ! remain
1 silent, silence is impossible =
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President Defines His Attitude on
Railway Legislation.
DEMANDS ONLY The RIGHT
Neither Asks Nor Will COuntenance lJn.
Just or Unreasonable Laws.

Indianapolis, Ind, May B0.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt today delivered the
principel address at the unveiling Of
a monument to Gen. Henry w. Lawton.
The speech was devoted to a discus.
sion Of railroad problems, and Incl
dentally the president paid a warm
tribute to Oliver Morton, the war gov
4ernor Of Indiana.
Presidents Address.
For more than one reason ! am
peculiarly glad that this yehr I speak
on Memorial day in the state OF In
diana. There is no other class Of our
citizens to whom we owe sb much as
TO the veterans Of the great war. II
them It was given to perform the one
feat with which no other fat can be
compared, for to them il was given
to preserve the union. Moreover, you
men who wore the blue, blessed be-
yond the victors in any other war OF
3 il liI j 4 !.
recent times. have left to your c'Sun-
trymen more than the material re
suits of the triumph, more even than
the achieving the triumph itself You
nave left a country SO genuinely re
united that all OF us now, i1L whatever
part OF this union we live, have q
right to feel the keenest pride, not
only in the valor and self-devotion OF
you, the gallant men who wore the
blue, but also in the valol' and self
devotion of your gallant opponents
who wore the gray. The Zero whose
monument we today unveil, by his
life bore singular testimony to the
completeness of the reunion. Gen.
Lawton in his youth fought gallantly
in the civil war. Thirty three years
afterward he again marched to war,
this time against foreign foe, and
served with distinguished ability and
success as a general officer, both in
Cuba and in the Philippines. When
he thus served 1t was in an aFGny
whose generals included not only
many of his old comrades i1l arms, but
some Of his old opponents also, as
Gen. Wheeler and Gen. FttEhugh Lee.
Under him. both among the commits
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stoned officers and in the ranks, were
many men whose fathers had worn
the b1ue, serving side by side with
others whose fathers mad worn me
gray; but all Americans now, and
nothing but Americans, all united In
their fealty and devotion TO their com
mon flag and their common country,
and each knowing only the generous
rivalry with his eellows as to who
could best serve the cause for wf1caa
each was ready to lay down life IT.
self. no Gen. Lawton q DeGeal actu-
ally to Jay doRn ais iifes q tsagedy,
hut one OF those noble tragedies where
our pride rises above our sorrow.
For he died In the f,,alneas Of time.
serving his country with entire devo-
tfon-a death that every man may
wen envy, Nj
Indiana Past in the War.
Indiana IN the ctyil war furnished
even more than her share oe Erave
soldiers. Il also fell to indiana to
furnish the greatest of all. war COVER
nors who upheld the hands oG Abra-
ham Lincoln; for when history defin-
itely awards the credit for what was
done in the civil war, she will put the
services OF no other civilian, sayes
alone those of Lincoln ahead OF the
services Of Gov. Morton. No othag
man who rendered such services as he
rendered worked under such terrible
disadvantages, and no man without
mis- iron power could have achieved
what he achieved during the last two
years Of the war, when he managed
the state government Of Indiana sole
" on money obtained by Hedging his
own personal honor and personal for
tune; and yet never for one moment
relaxed in the help he gave to Lin
and Chase and Seward and Stanton
in the cabinet to Grant and Sherman
and Sheridan and Thomas In the
field. 1t was work that only the
strongest man could have done, and
it was work vitality necessary for
the sake of the nation to do.