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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-29
BOY GUILTY OF MATRlciDE.
Harvey Hazel Sentenced to Life i
prisonment for Killing Mother
and Stealing Her JeWelrY.

Toledo O.. Dec. %. Don Harvd
Hazel, age II years, was found guilty
last night Of second degree murder fol
killing his mother and sentenced to
life term in the Ohio penitentiary, bus
he has hope of a pardon or parole.Hd
according to the jurys verdict. The
boy smiled as he heard the jury's YER
dict.
Hazel was accused Of killing his
mother with hammer on the alters
noon of Jan. II, 1908. On that day.
John F. Hazel, his father, returned
from work and found his wife dead ON
the kitchen floor. Money and jewelry
had been stolen from room upstairs.
The police arrested Harvey Hazel
that night at the home Of his sweet.
heart. He confessed and told where
the stolen jewelry was hidden.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-29
WOMAN DIES OF
PARALYSIS-A PIONEER.

Farmington--Mrs. S. r. Beatty died
Thursday night from the effects of a
stroke of paralysis. after a lingering
illness. Tho deceased had been a res
ident of Pennington for number Of
years and will be sincerely missed by
large circle Of friends. Her husband.
S. B. Beatty and one son, Will Beatty,
survive.
Walter Stirling came home from
Fl Madison to spend Christmas
Rev. and Mrs. ]. II. Krenmyer of
Mt. Zion are spending the holidays
with relatives here.
E. c. Therme of Des Moines. arriv-
ed Thursday evening to spend Christ
mas here with his family.
Merritt Barton of Fairfield. came
home Friday to visit over SUNDAY with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. f. Bar
ton.
Albert Wolfe of Corydon, is spend
inr the holidays with his parents Mr.
and Mrs Thos. Wolf and family.
MrsS Eugene Manhart has gone tc
Des Moines to spend Christmas with
her son Edward and family.
Miss Gertrude Rastofer and brother
Clarence left Thursday for Willets tc
visit during the holidays with theil
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. w
Willets.
Miss Minnie Haynes. who has beer
I visiting her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. n. j. Haynes. returned Thursday
to her home in Hannibal, Mo.
]. A. Lawson and family have
moved to Dallas, Ill.
| Mrs. Fl. K. Townsend is visiting rel.
atiVes In Canlril.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-29
MANY SUITS IN
DISTRICT COURT
WHO HAVE DIFF
FERENcEs ARE FILING Ac,
TloNs FOR JANUARY TERM

AS the coming new term of court
approaches, those individuals and
firms bothered by the inconvenience
of differences, little and big, are fling
suits in the Office Of George Philips,
clerk to the district court. The uew
term will open January 4, with Judge
M. A. Roberts presiding. Actions for
damages, divorces and suits on con-
tracts are filed as follows:
Joe Gee VS.. c., B. & O., suit for
damages in the sum of $1,995 for he
loss of team and personal injuries
received through, he asserts, the vio-
lation of city ordinance governing
rate of speed for trains and for failure
to have flagman at crossing. Gee
states that Burlington No. struck
his team at Jefferson street December
%, killing the animals and injurins
himself in the head, arms, back and
legs.
The c.. NJ. & st. P. railway IS de-
PENDANT in an action brought by W.
w. Dyer for the loss Of two steers,
which he AYERS We're killed by Mil
waukee train. He asks for $3.50 and
costs Of suit
M. p. Root & Son in a petition ask
the court TO give judgment in the sum
of 1914 said to be due on a contract
with H. F. Muller in the matter Of
the purchase of monument. The pc.
titioner says that Muller entered into
a contract for the tombstone and
failed to give the inscription desired
The stone was erected in the Ottum
wa cemetery and contract carried Out
as far as possible, says the plaintiff
DR.. w. NJ. Mierley in a petition
prays for judgment in the sum Of
$225.75 from l.. r. and Sadie Allendel
for medical services rendered.
The recovery of $126 with interes
at eight per cent is prayed for on {
promissory note by A. Bergman from
G. J. and Hnlda Hagan.
Claiming that her former husband
! from whom she was divorced in 1906
! is able TO support her and that she l.
without any means whatever, Ell;
| Tsaacson asks the court to modify he
divorce decree from Charles F. Isaac
son and give her s25 monthly alirnony
| Mollie r. Allender VS.. Lou Allende
| is the title of a suit in which thu
court is asked to issue an order au
thorizing the plaintiff to execute
deed relinquishing the interests q
the defendant to lots three and four @
Harl,er's addition. upon the ground
that he is in the state hospital at Mi
Pleasant and insane.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-29
Washington Bureau of
The OttumMa Courier.
Washington, D. c., Dec. &c.

"dSuLlS lOll, ~. u, Dec. 20.
Growing out of the sentencing of
three labor leaders to Jail terms for
violating an injunction against their
boycott of an alleged unfair" manu-
featuring concern, there will be my
RAD of legislative efforts in the mn
mediate future.
Not only congress but the state leg
islatures which will meet this winter
will be fairly obsessed with bills as
Stunning to define the powers Of the
courts and to determine the rights of
labor in cases of strike and boycott.
The whole question of the injunction,
both as relates to labor and in the
wider aspects in which the writ has
been used, will be aired. There is al
ready intimation that the famous dis
cussion of the right of congress to linn
it the exercise of the injunction power
by the congressional courts, will be re.
peated in congress. apropos of efforts
to prohibit the minor federal courts is
suing injunctions in certain cases.
Courts Superior to Legislature.
But beyond all this. there is apparent
sharp drift of interest toward the
general question of whether the courts
should not be restricted in the matter
of interfering with the work of the
Legislature. All this is carried back
by the constitutional lawyers to the
famous old decision by John Marshall
in which he maintained that the SUI
preme court had the power to annul a
law of congress. That decision was
the beginning Of the development If
powers in the courts which have made
r.any people charge that the courts
have become superior to the legisla-
ture. Right Or wrong, Marshall as
sumed that power to the supreme
court; and there it has remained and
| has developed ever since. There was a
| tremendous protest against it at the
time. but Marshall with his towering
intellect and wonderful analytic pow
ers defeated all critics.
/ The question of injunction, th,ls
viewed, is vastly greater than the is
sue which Mr.. Gompers and his asso-
ciates raised in the late campaign
They demanded that injunctions ought
not to issue in labor disputes But
beyond all this. the question Of the in.
| junction being employed by the federal
courts in ways which have repeated
! ly complicated the administration Df
the laws of congress. has for a long
time been allying strong element on
| the side of the critics of the courts
J. c. Welliver.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-29
DUTCH AWAIT HEIR TO THRONE.

The Hague, Dec. 25.-It was Off
cially announced yesterday in the
chamber of deputies that Queen Will
helmina was in an interesting condi-
ton and the statement was greeted
with joyful braves from practically
the entire house.
Only handful Of Socialists amid
the boots and derision of their col
leagues, took exception to the loyal
demonstration.
Her maiesty's physicians conclude
their announcement with these words
I'VE rejoice to be able to state that
all signs are in consonance with an
absolutely perfect state Of health
The event is expected early in the
spring.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-29
Walks Streets for Boy,

Waterloo, Dec. 20 There is in
Waterloo an aged woman, who day
after day, week after week, walks
the down town streets scanning the
faces of all the young men whom she
meets in an effort to locate among
them her boy, stolen from her when
he was but two years of age, supposed.
ly by gypsies. Often the features Of
some young man are so much the
same as her lost boys features as she
remembers them in his infancy that
she is almost constrained to stop the
Young man on the street
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-29
IRELAND RECEIVED BY POPE.
Arshbishop Welcomed in Private Audi
ence-Pontiff Has Recovered
From Slight Illness.

Rome, Dec. 25.--The pope has fully
recovered from his recent illness. He
received Archbishop Ireland of st,
Paul in private audience YESTERDAY,
speaking cordially of the archbishop's
last visit in 1905.
Mgr. Ireland talked with his holt
ness about his diocese building a new
cathedral in st. Paul and a procathed-
raj in Minneapolis. The pontiff was
greatly pleased with this news and
expressed desire to see the ardh.e
bishop again before he leaves.
Mgr ireland presented to the POI
his sister, who is nun.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-29
OFFICIAL STATEMENT ISSUED TO.
DAY SAYS MATTER is STILL BE-
FORE COURTS AND RoosE.
vELT'S HANDS ARE TIED.
MAY ASK CONGRESS
FOR LEGISLATION
OF LABOR LEADERS
IN CONTEMPT CASE WILL BE
MADE BASIS OR SOUGHT FOR
INJUNCTION LAWS.


Washington, D. c., Dec. %
An official statement issued at
the White house today in regard
to presidential interferences in
the cases of Gompers, Mitchell
and Morrison of the American
Federation of Labor now under
sentence for contempt of court,
attention is called to the fact that
the cases are still before the
courts and that no matter what
the presidents opinion may be as
to the business Of the sentences
imposed, he cannot take any ac-
ton looking to pardon or eX.
press any opinion as to the merits
of the case.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-29
TRY Case Without JUDGE.

Davenport, Dec. 25.-Judge Barker.
of the district court being unable to
reach the city yesterday, trial of the
$4,000 damage case Of Oscar Block,
administrator Of the estate of Jens J.
Hanson, was commenced without a
Judge on the bench, both sides agree.
ing to waive the absence of the judge
during the securing Of the jury. Han.
son was thrown from his wagon by un.
evenness> of the road bed and his ad
ministrator alleges negligence of the
city.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-29
STUDENTS ARE
IGNORANT OF BOOK
TEST AMONG SCHOLARS OF MAR
sHALLToWN SHOW MUCH DE-
FlclENCY IN BIBLE
TEN ILLUSIONS GIVEN
Some Queer and Ludicrous Answers
Are Returned-One Individual
Says Esau Was the Elder of
His Twin Brother.

MafSnallCOWn, Dec. G0.-Au iutel GOV
ing test on biblical history made in
the senior class Of the MarshalltoWn
high school will be of general interest
through Iowa III high school sand col
legiate circles. Principal j. c. Mel
son conceived the idea from the cur
rent number of the School Review, in
which Mr.. Dorey told of recent test
on the Bible made among high school
seniors. The suggestion is held out
to all high school principals that the
graduates of Iowa school are generally
deficient in biblical history and that
the fact is regrettable.
From the results Of the test made
here some queer ideas of Bible char
acters and history are shown.
One might ask, upon reading the
students answers, Who, where or
what was Golgotha? Was Esau really
younger than his twin brother? Did
Esau sell his birthright for bean por-
ridge, or was it ordinary bean soup?
Ten AIusions Given.
The average age of the seniors in
Marshalltown's high school is Is years
about the average, perhaps, in other
Iowa schools. Ten biblical illusions
made up the test, but from the an
swers given the illusions might be
more properly termed illusions The
illusions follow:
/. Or memorize another Golgotha,
Macbeth"
2. Here feel we but the penalty OF
Adam-"As You Like 1t.
8. the great king of kings
hath in the tables Of his law COM
manded that thou shalt do not muir
der-"Richard ILL.,
4. And that one talent, which is
death to hide.
Lodged with thee useless.
Sonnet, ION His Blindness
5. Marry, his kisses are Judas own
children.---"As You Like IT.
g. Through this concession my full
cup runs o'er.--"The Ring end the
Book
Z. How bloody Herod slew these
innocents.-"The Ring and the Book
s. Follow light, and do the right
for no man can half control
his doom
Till you see the deathless ange'
seated In the vicant tomb.
-"Locksley Hall. Sixty Years After
9. And from a heart as rough as
Esau's hand.-Godiva.
! 10. Than that earth should stanc
at gaze like Joshua's moon ir
Ajalon-- "Locksley Hall"
| When the papers were marked or
the illusions a percentage of correct
ness of about 4S was found. which
however, comedies very closely will
Mr.. Dorey's results. The seniors, il
I taking the test, were divided into TIVE
classes. One section secured 53.1 pc
cent and the other so. The individual
averages ran all the way from 100 t,
0, one having secured the highes
mark obtainable and one other tn
lowest. Two were between 80 and 10C
three between 80 and go The others
in groups of from three to eight
ranged all the way from 10 down t
| 10 per cent.
| OF the twenty-seven who undertoo
the discussion Of No. 6, fourtee
named the psalm as the thirty-thir6
and one called it the Shepherd psalr
No one however, identified the sixt
commandment in No. 8.
Gems Culled from the Answers.
Some of the gems to be found i
|
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-29

Hattie Ward.
North Union.
Mamie Breon.
Mount Tabor.
Emma Young.
Leila Weeks.
Dora Cobler.
Edna Robertson.
Polk No. 4.
Lola Ross.
Carrie Miilard, years.
Oliver Willard.
Polk No. 5.
Ethelyn Lewis.
Lawrence Glynn.
Alma Potter.
Mamie Seaburg.
Lulu Williams.
Polk No. 6.
Ellen Anderson.
Dottie Johnson.
Pleasant No. ..
Ernest Mcclure, s years.
Mabel Fink.
Harold Fulton.
Pleasant No. 1.
Bertha Stansberry.
Jessie Dunn.
Cleo Williams.
RichIand No. 1.
Hazel Gilyeart.
Garnet Gilyeart.
Carroll McMullin.
RichIand No. 8.
Anna Games.
Catherine Barrett.
RichIand No. 9.
Bertha Harter.
Bertha English.
Farson.
Esther Ramey.
Eva Sward.
Hazel Adams.
Nellie Widner.
Ashland.
Edith Baayen.
Lenna F]igg.
Edmund Black.
Mamie Hilleary.
Lee Black.
Attic Fisher.
Clarence Perdue.
Harold Warren.
Edna Beall.
Jesse Fisher.
Madge Bayne
Oracle Warren.
Freda Warren.
Washington Dist, Washington Tw
Carl Thomas
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-29
WELL IN cENTERvlLLE.
Mains Burst Through Cement and
Plays Havoc-store Cellars
Elooded

Flooded,
Centerville. Dec.25.-During small
FIRE yesterday afternoon in the resi-
dence district, the high pressure of
water bursted main on the public
square which caused an unheaval Of
the paving over surface of fifty by
200 feet. The pressure broke through
the eight inches of concrete under the
pavement and through the cement
slushed brick and forced the water into
the air for several feet, causing peo-
ple who did not know of the fire to
think an artesian well had broke loose
in the center Of the city. One whole
block was flooded and easements Of
business buildings filled with water
faster than the sewer drains could
carry it off.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-29
$50 IN CONTEST
Emma Nye Secured
Test List From National Edu
cational Association-Four
High Grades in Competition

competed came through WIN pettccL
papers. The match was open to the
fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades
If the county schools. There are ap-
$50 pupils enrolled III
hese grades and while possibly all OF
he number did not participate in the
contest, there have been 122 perfect
oapers turned in to Miss Nye from
The various schools.
The list OF words used in the matSh,
2a2 words in all, was sent to Miss
Nve some days ago from Cleveland,
Ohio, where the National Education
was in annual convention.
The list had been selected by the as
ISOLATION for test of the eighth
grades in Cleveland and copy was
to Miss Nye.
Copies of the list We're immediately
sent out to the Wapello county
schools, with request to the teachers
that the pupils study the words. both
as to spelling, pronunciation, mean
inc and division of syllables. After
the pupils of the county had become
familiar with the words, Miss Nye
selected half of the list and requested
that the four grades mentioned be
tested solely on the spelling. All The
schools Of the county were requested
to participate in the contest. The fol-
lowing Is list of the schools which
competed and the names Of the pupils
turning in perfect papers:
Adams No. 8.
Elma Simmons.
VIM. Abegg.
Hettie Peck.
Winfred Hunter.
Adams No. S.
Annie Vincent.
Mary Schoech.
Adams No. 6.
vashti Bells.
Columbia No. /.
Flossie Hargesheimer.
Viola Ross.
Cotton Wood Grove.
Zelma Hawthorne.
John Larmore.
Eddie Evans.
Mabel Hawthorne
Lone Tree.
Everett Ellis.
Florence Pond
Anna Sanchez.
Concord.
Otis Davis.
Ira Davis.
Lowell.
Blanche Sauer.
Harry Sauer
Earl Sauer.
Martha Moore.
Center Township.
Bear Creek
Mayme Genochio.
Elm Grove.
Butler Brinegar.
Rosa Meyer.
Eddie Ruffing.
Charlie Newman
Willie Larkin
Will Larkin.
o'connor.
Fife Howard.
| Maude Skirvin.
Green No. 2.
| Marie Schwartz.
Carl Anderson.
| Ossie Mick.
| Russell Marts.
Pearl Hendricks
Hattie Hendricks.
| Walter Prescott.
Ernest Anderson.
Green No. 4.
Page White.
| Orville White.
7 Ethel Orman
| Victor McReynolds.
susy George,
Gertie McReynolds
Alta Orman.
Nettie George.
keokuk No. I.
Julia Nelson.
| Ruth McElroy
Darrell Sayler.
Floyd Seaburg.
Doris Young.
Anna Seabura
Keokuk No. s.
Prudy Gruwell.
Della Gruwell.
Irma Fleener.
9! Tommy Kerfoot
Marie Fleener
Carolyn Kerfoot.
/ Washington District Highland.
Earl McMaster
John Cunningham.
Genevieve Mincks
Nellie Killing.
Marion Mincks.
Marie Cunningham.
Roy Killing.
} Ben Butler.
Rollo Neral.
Lena Emery.
Mary Sauer
: Florence Sauer
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-20

an average of thirty days to make
this paper money from the time the
paper first goes to the press until it
is ready to hand out for circula-
ton over the counters of the bank
in the Treasury building
The vault in the Bureau building
is steel and has two separate doors
with combination locks, and the
man who opens one door knows no.
thing of the combination of the
other door, and can, therefore, open
but the one door was informed
that this vault contains not less
than $500, 900, 900 valuation in pa
per money and securities all the
time.
1 was greatly in terested in going
through the stamp factory and
watching the process of making
stamps from the time the clear pa
pet entered the press until they came
out gummed CHARTERED and packed
in packages of 100 stamps in a
sheet. When the sheet enters the
press it is large enough to receive
the impression of 400 stamps
When the ink is dry these sheets
ar e passed under cumming ma
chain and carried by an endless
chain through long, hot air cham
Der and dumped out at the far end
prefectly dry, and then taken to an
inspection room and on to the per-
forstIng and quartering room
BY quartering 1 mean that when
this sheet of 400 stamps is being
perforated by machinery it is cut IN
to quarters of 100 stamps to sheet,
in which size they are shipped to
the postoffices. The government
does this work in the Bureau, but
in order to get the work has to sub
NIT bids in competition with pri-
vate bids to the postOfifce depart
mcnt. / was shown the Storeroom
in which a surplus stock of stamps
is kept to the amount of one hun
dred millions, or such a matter.
The average daily shipment of
stamps to the II, 900 postoffices is
100000 900. On the day 1 visited
the Bureau they shipped out 3d.
100000 stamps. These $1,000
postoffices are those to which the
Bureau makes consignments of
stamps, and the subpostoffices get
their supply from these.
There are many matters of inter
csting detail that 1 would like to
mention, but this article is now toe
long.
ARTHUR c. HUI NM Err
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-20
For Sale

One five room house in south
end of town. A large lot, 13e Ia
# frontage by 200 IL fit. deep.
A stable for four horses, one cow
and 100 chickens ant feed shed,
1Ox12 feet. The. are S fruit
trees some of which ought to bear
fruit next season, IA shade trees
and good sized 3tra ~berry and
raspberry patch. Plenty of room
for good garden and large yard.
For terms apply to B. T. Bjornson,
opposite Rohrers' orchard. Sat
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-20

The postmaster general explains
that if the parcels post system were
established on the $4,000 rural
routes throughout the country the
entire postal deficit which, in 1907
amounted to SO, 600, 900, would be
wiped out. He claims that the rur-
al parcels post will benefit the
farmer immensely, and give the
country storekeeper a gre at advaut-
age over the mail-order house.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-20
A Night Alarm.

Worse than an alarm of fire at
night is he metallic cough of CT Cup
bringing dread TO the household.
Careful mothers keep Foley's Honey
and Tar in the house to give it at
the first sign of danger Foley's
Honey and Tar has saved many
little lives and it is the only safe
preparation for children as it con-
tins no harmful drugs. For sale by
r. w Smith.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-20

For ale-Relinquishme of 100
acres with water right: near
Mountain Home, $500; $4,000
cash and balance in two or three
annual payments Or, assignment
OF $40 acres with water right for
240 acres for 10000. Address p
0. Box IS Mountain Home, Idaho
IF
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-20
sign YOUR NAME

To letters written on good
stationery. Nothing marks
the man or woman so much
as the letters they write.
Many firms direct applica-
ton made by letter because
they are thus better able
to judge the applicants
character. We sell high
grade writing papers 25C to
soc per papeterie.
Smiths Pharmacy
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-20

may not benefit you financially. but
boost just the same. BY boosting
your enemy you may benefit your
friend.
If your town needs bostin,' boost
'er
Don't hold back and wait an see
If some other feIler's willin':
Sail right in; this Country's free
No ones got mortgage on it,
It's Just yours as much as his;
If your town shy on boosters
You get IN the boosting biz
If you see some Teller tryin'
For to make some project go,
You can boost it up a little;
That's your cue to let him know
That you're not a going to knock it
Just because it Amt your shout,
But you're going to boost a little
Cause it is the best thing out.
If things don't seem to suit you,
An the world seems kinder wrong
what's the matter with a-boostin'
Just TO help the thing along?
Cause if things should stop a-goin'
We'd be in d sorry plight;
You just keep that horn a-blovvin,
Boost 'er up with all your might.
If you know some feller's failin's
Just forget 'em cause you know =
That same feller's got some good
points,
Them's the ones we want to
show.
Cast your loaves upon the waters.
They'll come backs So a saving
true,
Mebbc they'll come back ''butscred''
When some TELLER boosts for you.
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Boost.

Just boost a little. 1t may not
apparently do you good directly,
but indirectly it will come back two
fold. The other fellows scheme
may not benefit you financially. but
boost just the same. BY boosting.
your enemy you may benefit your
friend.