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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-26
Another Ticket at MouIton.

Moulton, March 25.-A new ticket
has been filed with the city clerk F.
c. Moore, known as the Union. The
Citizens ticket, headed by A C.
Shultz for mayor was compelled to
withdraw because several Of the
names on the tickets appeared on an
other.
The Union ticket is:
Mayor-Henry Jackson.
Councilmen-Elmer Dhority and E.
A. Powers.
-wardie Montgomery.
Assesscr-D. D. Brady.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-26
Stewart is Vermont senator.

Proctor, VT, March 25.-John w.
Stewart of Middlebury, former Cover.
nor Of Vermont, was appointed to the
United States Senate by Governor
Fletcher D. Proctor today to fill the
vacancy caused by the recent death
OF Senator Redfleld Proctor Mr..
Stewart has accepted. His term will
expire next fall.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-26
Bill providing for permanent
waterways commission.
y - . 4 . 4 4 .

Washington, D. c., March rs. = The
looked for message from President
Roosevelt was received by congress
today and was read to that body with
large number of the members In
their seats. The message, though
briefer than any previous message
from the present incumbent Of the
White House, contained number OF
recomm mendations.
The matter gone into most exten.
sively was the antitrust law. This
was due to the recent supreme court
rulings which went to show that the
law could be applied to labor as well
as capital. Action on the law introduce
ed by Congressman Hepburn and re.
ferred to his committee was recom-
mended. The presidents message In
full is as follows:
The Presidents Message. y
To the Senate and House of Represena
tatives:
I call your attention to certain
measures as to which think therd
should be action by the congress bed
fore the close of the present session.
There is ample time for their consider,
alton. AS regards most II not all of
the matters, bills have been introduceH
into one or the other OF the twoi
Houses, and 1t is not too much toi
hope that action will be taken oneI
way or the other on these bills at thea
present session. In my message att
the opening Of the present session.
and, indeed, in various messages to4
previous congresses, have repeatedly
suggested action on most of thesea
measures.
Child labor should be prohibited
throughout the nation. At least al
model child-labor bill should be pass-i
ed for the District of Columbia. 1t isl
unfortunate that in the one place solely
dependent upon congress for its legis-s
lation there should be no law whatevers
to protect children by forbidding orr
regulating their labor.
Immediate Reenachment of Employers
Liability Law.
I renew my recommendation for tf1es
immediate reenactment of an en-
ployers liability law, drawn to con-
form to the recent decision Of the SUI
preme court. Within the limits In
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-26
MESSAGE TODAY THOUGH BRIEF
POINTS OUT MANY ROOSEVELT
REFORMS WHICH ARE NOT.
ENACTED INTO LAW.
SEEKS AMENDMENT
OF ANTITRUST LAW
PRESIDENT POINTS OUT WHERE
LAW IN PRESENT CONDITION
MAY WORK HARDSHIP ON lNNo.
CENT PARTIES.

- - = . q
The measures in brief whose =
enactment the president insists =
upon In special message to con- =
gress: .
Law prohibiting child labor. -
Re-enactment of employers =
liability law. =
Law giving compensation by y
government OF employees killed =
In the service. y
Amendment Of laws governing =
inJunctlons in labor disputes. =
Amendment Of Interstate COM =
merce law. 4
Amendment Of antitrust law =
to prevent injury being done to =
honestly conducted corpora y
tIons, the labor unions and the =
y farmers. y
A good currency law. y
y A postal savings bank Law =
y Revision of tariff at once to y
put wood pulp on free list. ~
Appointment of commission or y
committee to investigate tariff y
conditions with view to sener- u
al revision later. =
. Bill providing for permanent =
waterways commission. n
. = Il q . 4 4 q - = = 4 :
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-26
No chanoe in ouiId,s Condition

Boston, March 25.-Gov Guilds con-
dition shows no marked change this
morning.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-26
SON OF HIGH JUDGE MISSING.

iowa SUPREME Behch, Sought
by Relatives.
Iowa Falls, March 25. - Walter L.
Weaver, an attorney and son of
Judge s. M. Weaver of the Iowa su-
preme court, is missing He left here
a month ago, saying he would be gone
two weeks. His relatives state that
they have been trying to locate him,
but without avail.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-26
canpbe!I-Rannerman worse

London March 25.-Premier Sir
Henry CampbellBannerman is stead
lily growing worse
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-26

Continued on page 81
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Liability Law.

I renew my recommendation for thes
immediate reenactment Of an em-'
ployers' liability law, drawn to con-
form to the recent decision Of the SUI
preme court Within the limits in-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
CROOKS ATTACK BANKS.
Attention Of Police Called to Tele-
phone Rumor Industry.

NEW YORK, February 3.-The atten-
ton of the police has been called TO a
discovery made by several bankers that
telephones were extensively used yester-
day in calling up -depositors and limiting
that something was wrong with the banks.
In several instances when the depositors
asked for the name of the informant the
informant simply hung up his telephone.
Numbers of depositors called Up the bank
officers yesterday and told them what
was afoot.
This business was taken to be con-
tinuation over Sunday of a similar cam
align against the prices of stocks which
was under way in Wall street Saturday.
rhe rumors circulated Saturday were d.
racted at the banks, although the clear
ing house banks are loaded UP with $40.-
cos 600 o. surplus reserve and do not pro-
pose to let any sound bank suffer from
nc lacks. One of thu banks assault
ed by the telephone crooks yesterday has
ar aDove the -quired % per cent reserve
in it's own vaults.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

paw income taxes hereafter unless they
r ceive more than $1,000 in any one year.
The law requires that all prisons who re-
caive as much as $1,000 shall be free, but
n excess of that sum tax of l per cent
is to be paid to the state. The old law
fixed the exemption at 5000. and 1t is and
has been for years regarded by SO rev
people that it has grown to be joke "
late however. since the old county court
system was abol shed. the circuit judg S
have been compelling thu grand juries to
examine into the matter. with the result
that the state is now receiving more
money than at any previous time since
the law was enacted.
The Income Tax Law Unknown.
There are some counties in the state
which do not pay a cent of income tax,
and when the matter was being discussed
in the senate one m ,mber from southwest
Virg MIA innocently inquired what the tax
was and what it means.
He said he had never before heard of
it, and yet there are men in his county
who own coal and mineral lands which
are being sold at from $50 to $500 an
acre The county has several wealthy
men, yet the county is conspicuous by
the few men who know of the existence
of the law.
The bill to elect members of the state
corporation commission by the people
will become a law. 1t was passed by the
senate and defeated in the house by
narrow margin of two votes. The Dill is
again before: the Legislature and is being
fought over. Friends of the measure say
that.,at the time the. vote WAS. taken
there were dozen members out of the
hall who were. in favor OF the PROPOSE
ton The house is wrangling over the
bill. and the belief is that it will certainly
b. passed within the next week. There
was no opposition to the bill in the
senate. save on the part of two demo-
cratic members. The republicans are a
unit for the proposition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

last three months of the year, however,
nearly all of the buying was done by
small investors. Whilo the gamblers
were broken in purse and spirit, they
took advantage of the low prices to
pick up gilt-edged shares and put them
away for dividends. The largest number
OF transactions between November l and
Dece mber 81 were for less than a hun
dred shares. and the transfer clerks had
t:ficates for five. ten, twenty and fifty
shares for people whose names were
Eever before upon their books.
There is a very strong sentiment in
Congress, particularly in the House OF
representatives, in favor of adopting thu
Pre- sdents recommendation and passing
law prohibiting the use of the mails
and telegraph and telephone wires for
been introduced, and Col. Hepburn OF
Iowa. who is chairman of the committee
having juris diction over that subject. Is
giving 1t very careful study. Several OF
the states have pass d laws to the same
effect. There has been a general and
successful crusade against the bucket
shops. which indicates public senti-
ment on this subj jet. and it would seem
to be popular topic of legislation.
A great moral wave is sweeping over
the country. Several of the states. par
ticularly in the south, have passed laws
prohibiting even card playing. A fri nc
of mine was telling me the other day
that down at Birmingham. Ala. las
week the authorities prohibited Il card
party at the Country Club. to which a
large number of the most aristocratic
and estimable ladi of that city had
been invited. WILLIAM +. CURTIS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
Dog Alone on a Raft Rescued.

GALVESTON, Tex, February 3.-The
Norwegian steamship Livingstone. bound
from Frontera, Mexico. to this port,
picked up a raft in mid-gulf upon winch
was large dog held fast by a rope and
almost starved The raft was a crudely
constructed affair, with spar spiked
in the center to which was dashed bar
rel that had contained water. Flying
from the spar was the blouse of a sailor.
A bundle of clothes tied to the barrel
had been whipped almost into shreds. 1t
is believed the raft had held one or two
men when sert adrift. The theory of the
crew of the Livingstone is that the man
or men succumbed to exposure and hum
ger and We're washed from the raft. The
dog had evidently been several days with
out food. On his collar is brass tag
with the initials u. b. l..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
Wreck of the Schooner Lawson.

NEW YORK, February Capt. G. w.
Dow, who was in command of the Thoma S
w. Lawson when the seven-masted
schooner was wrecked during a storm off
the Scilly Islands, arrived here yesterday
on the steamer Philadelphia from South
ampton. The captain carried his left arm
in a sling but otherwise appeared pretty
well recovered from the injuries received
in the wreck.
Il have been through terrible expe-
rience," he said, but / do not wish to
discuss it."
Seventeen men of the crew were lost
with the Thomas w. Lawson. the captain
and Chief Engineer Edward l.. Rowe be-
ing the only survivors. Rowe has since
returned to his home in Wiscasset, Me.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
Child Born With Two Heads.

ROANOKE, Va, February IA report
from the Hiawasse district of Pulaski
county tells of the birth of child with
two heads to Mr.. and Mrs. John Mere
dith. The coming Of the monstrosity has
caused considerable excitement in the
neighborhood. and it it said the mother OF
the little one is almost frantic with grief
She is constantly in tears and is unable
to sleep. Some relief. Ii is said. has been
afforded her by dream in which she
saw the baby's extra head removed with
no hurt to the natural head. This has
led her to believe that surgery can ac-
compish. the result, and, 1t is asserted,
the family doctor shares the mother S
belief.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
bonds upon the New York Stock Elk
change for the last twenty years:
Enormous Transactions.

During the year 1906 there were IL.
days on which a million or more shares
of stocks were bought and sold, while
in 1903 that maximum was passed or
132 different days In 1907 there were
only forty-three days upon which the
transactions reached that amount.
There were three days in 1906 and three
DAYS in 1907 on which more than 2,OOO.OOt
shares were bought and sold.
During the month of March. 1907, 81,
,96 26o shares changed hands, the largest
dealings for any month since January
1905 The lightest trading since June
1904. occurred in June, 1907, when the
total was 9.734,3J0 shares. This was the
irst month in two years that did not
contain at least one day in which a NIL
ion shares or more were transferred.
During the week ending March .. the
\ ggest of the year, 9,742,2i3 shares
hanged hands. and during the Hghtsst
week of the year, ending June =, the
total was 1.22s 800. representing value
of $122 $4,000.
ON a single day. March IA. 1907. total
of o565.01O shares, representing value
Of 1876. J07 900. changed hands. This was
the busiest day of the year. but the
veliest hours occurred on Saturday, jan
,arv 49, when 1.060,362 shares changed
lands between 10 and II O'Clock in the
morning.
These figures will give you some idea
If the amount of gambling that is going
on. 1t is also interesting to study the
Individual stocks. For example. the en-
tire CAPITAL of the Amalgamated Copper
comnany was bought and sold ten times
over during the year. The total amount
If the capital of that company Is $lo3.
,s7 600. while the transactions in that
stock amounted to lS,9'o,o61 sh ia,r rep
resent;ng a par value of Sl,s91 1861 100
The stock varied in price from l2lA jan
uary ) to Ala October "a
Take Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
stock. for example. The entire number
If shares was sold over and over again
200 But the largest trading was In
Reading. The outstanding stock of that
Dad amounts to $4,000. 900. but the total
value of the trading in 1t during the year
reached the enormous sum OF $o'o-i'%a''-
1C0. ~,
of that company amounts to $3.50. 4S9.:D0
while the trading during the year i9Oi
amounted to S3.221 .013, 800, and the price
varied from 1SS January to 100 OCTOBER
"a
The common stock of the Northern Pa
.ific railroad outstanding amounts To
1912 500. yet the exchanges last year
amounted to $I02. j64, 800 line stock OF
he Southern Pacific outstanding amounts
Si91 S47 900 yet the transaction in those
curities on the New York Stock EX-
change last year amounted TO s7l3.633. $50
Even so conse rvative a company as the
oenrsylvania is the sport of the gamblers.
During the year 1907 the quotations
varied from 1411 January 8 to 1882 No
,.mb 4. and the transactions repre-
serted a value of sos. 92S, 300.
The American Smelling and Refining
Company has capital of $o0OOO,0 900. and
tn, transactions in its shares last year
amounted to $3.50 800. 900 the price vary
ng from 1885, January Z, to 5Si4 Novem-
Der 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
Aged Woman Missing at Baltimore

BALTIMORE, February 3.-Mrs. Helen
L. Lemke aged eightytwo years, who
lived with her son, Rudolph Lemke of So2
South Clinton street, mysteriously dis
appeared from her home yesterday one
week, and since that time no trace of
the woman has been found. Several men,
bers of her family believe she wandered
out to Mount Carmel cemetery. where her
husband was buried last March. and that
she has probably died from exposure. TIL
Canton police were notified of Mrs. Lem
ke's disappearance, and for several days
endeavored to locate her. but their eff
forts were of no avail. Mrs. Lemke since
the death Of her husband has been a suf-
ferer from attacks of temporary mental
alteration. and 1t is believed she wander
ed away while unaccountable for her
actions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
Pennsylvania Bryan League.

PHILADELPHIA, February 3.-Demo-
crs,t brought together by the Bryan
Perry dinner at the Hotel Walton Sat-
urday night launched the Bryan Demo-
cratic League as an organization through
which the campaign for Bryan delegates
will be made j. N. Guffey. the part
boss and national committeeman, MAJ,
shown no signs of warming up to Bryan.
his evident desire being to control an
unir structed delegation.
A formal declaration of purpose was
made. and signed by all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
Thousands of Gamblers.

There are several thousand professional
gamblers in and about the stock exchang5
of New York. and hundreds of thousand
scattered about the country who are
dealing more or less in futures, in agri-
cultural products. in mining stocks, raj
way shares and other securities purer
for the profit they can shave off the trade
The shares OF several large corporations
are sold over and over again many time
on the stock exchanges every year The
amount of the transactions on the floor
is almost incredible.
During the year 1907 the records of tn
New York Stock Exchange show that
1875 Az 80 shares of stock were bought
and sold. And this was a decrease O
IS d. .i3i shares. as compared with the
previous year. and of 81 .595, 612 shares as
compared with 1905.
The dealings in bonds amounted to a
par value OF s32I ,l66350, a decrease o.
Sl43. 126 1jo. as compared with 1906. and
of $3.50 .F2i go compared with 1906
The year 1904 shows an even greater
amount of trading in bonds the total
being nearly double that of 1907 Indeed
the year just closed shows the smallest
total for ten years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
Comparison of Sales.

The following table will show a COM
parison of annual sales of stocks and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
ALI Gambling Alike,

Nobody obje, to the suppression OF
bucket shops except the men engaged in
the business: nobody objects to depriving
them of the use of the wires and the
mails: nobody objects to prohibiting the
sale OF lottery tickets and bookmakins
on races. Even the big gamblers on the
boards OF trade and the stock exchanges
have demanded the suppression of such
small nuisances But the same argument,
that are used against them. and the same
rec sons why they should be suppressed
apply with greater force to larger trans
actions. 1t is no more wrong for a man
to buy ter bushels of grain than 100 600
bushels. it is no more right to speculate
on a $1,000 margin than on $40 mar
gin. and it would seem only fair tn I
the same laws should apply to similar
transactions, regardless of the amount,
involved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
Legitimate Investments Few.

1t is not necessary to cite any further
Examples and it is safe to say that not
more, than 5 per cent of these transac-
ions represented legitimate investments
IN which the certificates actually passed
froil the seller to the buyer. During the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

coo year for that purpose, in addition to
using all revenues coming to the state
from her railroad interests for the same
object, making about $50 600 a year for
this purpose. There is a proposition to
expend $250OO0 a year on the public
highways on the part of the state, the
counties to expend as much more in that
work. The appropriation for old soldiers
will also receive attention and they will
get an increase in their pensions. The
state will also build another female nor
NAL school for the training of school
teachers and she will also provide for a
school for the negro deaf and dumb and
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-10-08
Fears She Will Be Murdered
bV pdrOIed Convict Husband

ner toward her and that she is afraii
of him. Wherefor she asks that he
be restrained from coming near l1es
She is so afraid. she says, tnat she
,iares not so to the Walla Walla Stsa.n
lcundry, where she is employed as
h h,okkeeper and she lives in fear that
he n.ay kin her.
The two were married in Chicago on
March II. 1905. On June 13 Murdoch
was convicted of forgery in Seattle
and was sent to the rrIs Il here They
ilavc no children AMI 10 community
property.
Murdock this afternoon filed in the
superior court his answer to the COM
plaint, in which he denies that the
time of his Imprisonment had not ex-
pired at the time of the commencement
of the suit. and denies that he had
not been discharged from the peniten-
tiary when the suit was started.
The answer further says that Muir
dock was discharged from the prison
October :, and that he received full
pardon from Governor Mead. He asks
that the case be dismissed.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-10-08

Fearing she will be killed or in
jured by her convict husband, who has
just been released from the peniten-
tiary, Mrs Emma Murdock this morn
ing secured restraining order from
the superior court, to prevent Theo-
dore Murdock from dong her, any
bodily injury, visiting her or in any
way interfering with her.
She has filed an action asking for
divorce, on account of the fact that
her husband is convict, sent up from
King county, for forgery. The COM
plaint in the divorce action states he is
still a convict, his sentence not having
expired.
But this morning the woman learned
that the man is at large, evidently
having been pardoned lately, or paroi-
ed. When she found that he is in town
she at once sent for Attorney ii. >.
Blandford and he secured from Judge
Rrents a restraining order.
Mrs Murdock states that he has
written her threatening letters, has
acted strangely in an unnatural man.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-10-08
Saws Conditions
AT Pen Are Bad

SEATTLE, Oct. S.-The commission
appointed by Governor -dead to inves-
tigate the condition Of the criminal in
sane confined in the state penitentiary
sent their report to the governor last
night 1t states that conditions are
entirely inadequate and actually cruel.
Many of the patients are confined they
say, in cells % hours daily, with but
two hours exercise in the open air.
The commission recommends separate
buildings for their care.
The commission reported tnat the
conditions demanded a separate build
ing for these patients where under
protective walls for the public safety
they could have light employment, ex-
ercise and some freedom. The con-
ditions as they now exist are pointed
out to be a great disgrace to the state
though no individual blame can be
made.
A resolution to the effect chat a new
building apart from all other state
buildings was needed and requested
that such action be taken. The reso-
luton and report to the governor was
signed by the members of the COM
mission who are G. S. Reed, John NJ.
Semple, A p. Calhoun, Elmer E. Heg.
Andreas Bard, S. B. L. Penrose and
Richard T. Buchanan.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-10-08

NEW YORK, Oct. S.-Early inIica-
tons are that millions of fans will en-
deavor to crowd themselves into the
polo grounds, in space capable of hold
ing $4,000, this afternoon to witness
the greatest struggle in the history of
organized baseball for the cham
plonShip of the national league. The
crisis has arrived after two weeks of
suspense. The Chicago Cubs are, re-
freshed after three days rest. This
game decides which team meets De-
trolt, the champions of the American
league, for thel worlds championship.
The weather is ideal with a warm
sun. A slight breeze is cooling the
bleachers which filed rapidly. The jam
at the gate was terrific. An extra detail
of $50 police, including mounted
squads, was ordered to the grounds to
aid in restraining the crowds from
scaling the fence. The gates were
closed long before the game started
on account of the crowds. Matthew
son will probably pitch for New York,
and Pfeister for Chicago.
Matthewson pitched for New York
and Pfeister for Chicago. Pitcher NC
Ginnity, of New York. and Captain