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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-07-25
.CATTLEMEN WIN
A HARD FIGHT
FEEDING IN TRANSIT RATES
MUST BE GIVEN THEM
SAYS THE COMMISSION.

Washington, D. c., July 23.- The
interstate commerce commission in an
opinion by Commissioner Prouty yes
terday handed down decision in the
case of the Corn Belt Meat Producers
association VS.. the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy Railway company and
fifteen other railroad companies. This
case is one that has attracted wide
notice in Iowa and elsewhere and yes-
terday's decision is partial victory
for the Corn Belt Meat Producers as
sociation.
1t appeared in this case that to
facilitate the handling of cattle for
feeding purposes the defendants have
permitted them to be brought i'll from
various breeding pastures, stopped off
for time to be fattened and then sent
on to market at the through rate,
plus some additional charge for the
privilege and plus also the local rate
from the feeding point for the addi-
tional weight which the cattle take on
in process of fattening.
This feeding in transit privilege is
granted by the tariffs of the defendant
railroads in the states west of the
Missouri river, but is not granted to
Iowa points. The commission held
that this results in an unlawful dis
elimination against Iowa points and
the complainant shippers. but rates
on live stock from Iowa points to Chi
cago were not found to be unreason-
able The grouping, however, it is
held. should be revised. as at pres
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-07-25

Charlton Miss Ida Nelson,
of San Antonio. Texas, is visiting in
this city, guest of Miss Carrie Gus
ter,
A number Of the members Of the
Entire Nous club went to Abba yes
terday to spend the day with Mrs.
Sanford Rea, formerly of this place.
Those who enjoyed the occasion were
Mesdames Sue Whicher, Lloyd Penick,
nellie Graves, Ruth Trump, Susie Has
selquist and Misses Frances Blanch-
ard, Florence Maple, Matte Penick
and Jessie McIntire.
Mrs. Andrew Barrow of ST. Joe re-
turned home yesterday after visit
in Warren township with her parents,
friends.
D. O. Storie, Sr., is suffering with
sprained ankle, the result of a fall.
Mrs. j. H. Collins and son John are
visiting relatives in Winterset.
Ralph Howard of Rawlins, Wyom-
ing, formerly of this city, visited rel
atives and old friends here Yesterday.
The Charlton and Maryville baseball
teams played at this place yesterday,
and the local team won the game by
a score of to 8. The batteries were
as follows: Charlton, Preston and
Rockefeller; Maryville, Williams and
Vance,
Walter Gookin returned last evening
from Lake Okoboji, where he had
been spending few weeks.
Mrs. e. IN. Curry and granddaugh-
ter Hazel Curry, of Sapulpa, Oklaho-
ma, formerly of this. place, are here
for visit with relatives and old
friends.
Mrs. j. w. Mauk of Whitebreast
township, left yesterday for VISIT in
Tabor with her daughter, Mrs Grant
Mauk.
Miss Frances Elliott Is reported
quite ill with tonsilitis.
Ed Pickerell and family of ANA
rillo, Texas, who have been visiting
here with Mr.. Pickerell's father, G. w.
Pickerell, and other relatives, return
ed home yesterday.
Mrs. James De Garmo, mother of
Mrs. p P. Shelter, left yesterday for
a visit with relatives in Kearney, Mo.
Mrs. r.. e. Douglas, accompanied by
her aunt, Mrs Eliza Bell Of Warren
township, left yesterday for months
visit with relatives in Springfield,
Mo-, and Macksville, Kan.
Mrs. Lewis Curtis and baby, Lucille,
left yesterday for Burlington, where
Mrs. Curtis husband is in the mail
service, and where they expect to re-
side in the future. !.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-07-25
OTTUMWA HAS GAMBLING TRUST
AS effectively AS MONTE CARLO
Combination Trust is Protected by City
Officials Who Wink at Operation of Two
Gaming Dens on East Main Street, Fully
Fitted Out

were quite successful, Judging from
the number that went against the
game.
The operators do not look as pros
porous outwardly as they did before
the grand jury got busy last fall, and
the stomach has no windows. Some
of the trousers legs seemed to need
creasing, while others wore wilted
collars.
1t is said that one of the 'boys,"
seeing friend place what he thought
was d meal ticket in his pocket, slip
ped over to where the coat hung on
the wall and reached in the pocket
and pulled what he thought was
leaf from the meal ticket, but on pres
entation to the lunch counter, what he
had was only a punched street car
transfer.
The BaWdy Houses.
So much for the gambling houses.
But still there is another evil which
the grand jury believed in its work
last fall had cleaned out effectively,
and that was the sale of liquor at the
houses of Ill fame. The sale of liquor
has commenced again in these places
and at the most pretentious bawdy
house in the city beer is disposed Of
at one dollar a throw Others arc
following the same course.
A Miniature Bar.
Not only are the Dawdy houses sell.
ing liquor contrary to law, but a com
plete miniature bar has been fitted
up in the second story floor of build
ing on Main street. This place is said
to have quite a patronage Sundays
and after hours.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-07-25
KITTO REELECTED PRESIDENT OF
OTTUMWA TRADES and LABOR
Semi Annual Address Reviews Work Ac-
complished During Past Six Months
Some Changes Made in Minor Offices
Of Assembly

1, N 4he semfannuaI election Of Off
lssafanet the Trades and Labor assembly
held at. Labor hall last evening, John
'Kittp, was reelected to the office Of
president and will continue directing
the policy Of the labor associations of
the city for six months longer. A rous-
ing meeting was held at which aside
from the election much business of
Importance to the labor fraternity was
dispatched.
To assist the president in moulding
the policies of labor in Ottumwa for
the next six months, the following
officers were elected at last nights
meeting.
The Officers.
Vice Presidents. Carna Turner.
Recording Secretary-M. l.. Toland.
Assistant secretary-L. L. Lukens.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-07-25

ent they apparently discriminate
against Iowa points.
The following order is prescribed by
the commission:
The Order of the Commission.
"That the defendant carriers be, and
they are hereby notified and required
to establish and put in force on or
before the first day of September,
1908, and maintain in force thereafter,
during a period of not less than two
years, and apply to interstate trans
portation of live stock, the same feed
fng-transit privileges at points in the
state of Iowa which they grant at
points in the states of Kansas, Ne
braska and other states west of the
Missouri river. This change may be
made effective upon three days notice
to the public and the Interstate COM
mission, given in the manner required
by law, and the tariff must contain the
notation that it Is issued under the
authority hereby granted and must re-
fer to the title and number of this
case"
Two complaints were made against
the roads. First, 1T was complained
that the roads declined to grant in the
state of Iowa feeding in transit priv
ileges accorded in the territory west Of
the Missouri river, and second, that
rates upon live stock from Iowa points
to Chicago are excessive. 1t is ap-
parent from the order quoted that the
Iowa live stock interests have won a
victory as to the feeding in transit, but
not in the matter Of rates.
AS to Rates.
However, even in the matter Of the
rates the commission makes some con,
cessions to the Iowa live stock in.
terests, since it insists that the group
ing be revised. 1t serves notice, furth-
ermore, that unless they are revised,
the commission will look into the mat
ter further with a view to making an
order. On this subject of groupings,
which is an important phase of the
case, the commission says:
while we are of the opinion that
the general level of these live stock
| rates from Iowa ought not to be re-
duced, we do think that the grouping
should be revised. The 231a cent rate
| which applies at Omaha is carried for
| $50 miles east before the process OF
grading down to the Mississippi river
begins This it too far. There is a
strip along the Missouri river, from
| fifty to seventy-five miles in width, to
which this 231s cent rate may properly
be applied as blanket rate but after
that point is passed we think the rate
should be gradually reduced toward
the east. 1t is this broad group oi
23h cents which brings up the aver
age Iowa rate. Under proper group
ing the discrimination in favor Of Wis
consin and Missouri which these av
erage rates from Iowa now show
would be considerably diminished
''This was suggested to the defen
/ dants upon the argument, who in
,sisted that the commission ought moi
| to deal with this question in the pres
ent proceeding, since it was not fairly
presented by the pleadings and has
not been discussed during the course
of investigation. 1t would seem to be
1 properly used, since the complaint
! states that these live stock rates from
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-07-25

Iowa are excessive, and asks that a
graded distance tariff be applied, but
the general question Of these group
ings was not much disturbed by the in
vestigation. We shall not therefore, at
tempt to express any definite opinion
at this time upon that subject If the
defendants do not suitably revise their
rates in this respect in the near
future we will, upon application of
complainant, proceed to inquire furth-
er into this branch of the case with
a view of making an order"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-07-25
Her Diamonds MISSING.

Mt. Pleasant, July 23. Diamonds
valued at $500, were missing when
Miss Martha Mcclure of this city had
occasion to search for them in her
trunk a few days ago at the Butler
hotel in Seattle, Wash, and SO far the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-07-25
Prohis Plan Big Rally.

Waterloo. July 23 ]. b. Ham
mond of Des Moines, chairman of the
Prohibitionist state central commit.
tee, was here yesterday arranging
meeting for Eugene w. Chain, candi
date for president, who will open the
campaign in Waterloo July 2a-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-07-25

police of that city have been unable
to determine whether the gems were
lost by reason of injury to the trunk
or were stolen. Miss Mcclure, in com
pany with Mrs. S. z, Beckwith and
Miss Emily Beckwiths is now on her
way to juneau and the matter was
not reported to the Seattle police un,
til after their departure.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-07-25
CHARLTON.

Charlton Miss Ida Nelson,
of San Antonio. Texas, is visiting in
this city, guest of Miss Carrie Gus
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-21
Enectua1Iy yauelched.

The clerk in a dry goods store wal
waxing sarcastic at the boarding
house table because the school teacher
said she was tired. " I don't see how
you have the nerve to say that" he
said. you have a snap. Your hours
are short, and, although you say you
have to look over papers in the ven
ing, I reckon you don't have to spend
much time on them. Then look at the
vacations you haye-a week or two at
Christmas, another in the spring, two
or three days at Thanksgiving time
and then the entire summer. Look at
me. I have to work eight hours every
day, with only a half hour at noon,
and snce in a while I have to put in
an evening at the store when they take
inventory Of stock. And my vacation!
1 get the legal holidays, two weeks in
the summer, and during the hot months
a half day off, and heaven knows what
a good half day does! Gee! School
teachers certainly have a cinch.'
During this harangue the school
teacher listened carefully to the noise
he made while he talked. When he
finished she said sweetIy: well, why
don't you become a school teacher?
There's no law to prevent you that I
know off,
And the rest of the table grinned
audibly, while the clerk grabbed a
toothpick and went out.-New York
Press.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-21

have the men, the money, ETC., but
we will not have the time to convert
these men into soldiers able to cope
with the trained soldiers of other ma
stions. 1t can be safely relied upon
that the remoteness of war largely de-
ponds Upon preparation to meet it. I'm
less other great nations are wrong
and wasting time and money, they are
giving us an object lesson which
Americans will some time have to
learn by costly and humiliating expert
ence, and which it is the urgent duty
of professional soldiers to point out !;
namely, that time and training are
both necessary to convert an unframed
volunteer into a soldier, whether for
infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers
or signal corps. The last great war
clearly demonstrated that the side
which is ready and acts promptly gains
a decisive advantage.
1.-THE engineer force as now organ
lied is insufficient for the needs even
of proper peace training Of the army.
During the past two years, on not less
than ten or twelve occasions, actual
necessities for engineer troops have
arisen which could not be met, because
of the relative smallness of this branch
of the service"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-21
NEW YORK.

Trade and financial developments have
been of a rather irregular character, but,
on the whole, in the direction of future
improvement at the larger %centers. Con-
servativism in ordering is noted as a
countrywide condition, but recent price
reductions have unquestionably stimulat-
ed interest. The suspension of four banks
at the metropolis was, after oil, only neg
atiyely unfavorable, these being the after
math of last autumn's financial storm.
Underlying financial conditions are GER
tainly no less favorable, money shows in
creasing ease not only in this country,
but all over the world, and improvement
in collections, which are still slow as a
whole, is in many cases the result of cas-
ing money making it possible to remit on
past-due accounts. The weeks failure
total is the smallest for q month past.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Jan. 80 number 859,
against 4OS last week, 211 in the like
week Of 1907, 22S in 1906, 239 in 1905
and PIG in 1904. There were ~forty-four
failures in Canada this week, against
ifty-one last week and twenty-six in this
week q year ago.-Bradstreet's Report.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-21
The prolongntion Of Life.

The centuries-long search for the means
of securing perpetual, or at least extend
ed youth, is still being prosecuted by the
scientists. DR.. Moutier of Paris, studying
the rigidity of the arteries, which is a
characteristic of advanced life, has by a
specially constructed electrical apparatus
been able to reduce the increased pres
sure of the blood which accompanies the
~arterial changes and thus restore normal
conditions, which continue permanently.
The same treatment has alss been sic
cessfully used in the treatment of patients
affected with neurasthenia..
Ellie Metchinkoff, Pasteur's successor in
the famous Pasteur Institute at Paris, in
a book entitled, "The P~rolengatisn Of
Life published by G. P. Putnam's Sens,
argues that much of the shortening Of life
and the pain of old age is due to a
poisoning of the tissues through putre-
faction of the intestinal tract, which nay
be counteracted by certain acids, chiefly
that existing in sour milk, in confirmation
of which he instances the long life Of
some races which live mainly IN such
1iet.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-21
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Observation-Disclosures

That a railroad company owes no
duty tt one who, in violation of law,
attempts to board a moving train at q
closed vestibule door until his position
of danger is made known to employees
inv charge of the train, is declared in
Graham VS.. Chicago & N. w. r. Co.
(Iowa), I'll. r. A. IN. So COB.
A statutory provision requiring rail-
road companies to sell mileage books
at less than the rates regularly charged
for transportation is held, in Com. ex
rel. Anderson VS.. Atlantic Coast Line
r. Co. (Va.), Z L. r. A. IN. 81 1856,
to be void as depriving the corporation
of it's property without due process of
law, and of the equal protection of the
laws.
A son of consumptive parents is held,
in Grover VS.. Zook (Wash.), Z Il. r..
A. On. 81, $50, not to render himself
liable In damages for refusal to per-
form his promise to marry a woman
afflicted with pulmonary consumption,
although he knew at the time of maxi
ing the promise that she was 20 af-
lCtcu-A tGdSC WueTc Sucu uldTEidSt
would violate the spirit of the statute
against the spread Of such disease.
A homestead settler who, after the
death Of his wife pending the home
stead period, commutes the homestead
entry, and, upon paying cash for the
land at the government price, receives
a patent therefor, is held, in Cunning
ham VS.. Krutz (Wash.), Z L. r. A. IN.
81 967, to acquire the absolute title,
free from any homestead interest UNI
der the laws of the State, which might
pass by the will Of the deceased wife.
To bring a homicide within the stat
ute defining murder in the first degree
as one committed with deliberately pre-
meditated malice aforethought, 1t is
held, in Com. VS.. Tucker (Mass.), z
L. r. A. IN. 81 1856, that all that is
necessary is hat a resolution to kill
must have followed elaboration and
generalization, and that the killing
must have been in pursuance Of the
resolution, regardless OF the rapidly
with which the commission Of the
crime followed it's first suggestion.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-21
~~~~~~~

Reports are to the effect that the Wis
consin Central is securing a through route
between Chicago and Winnipeg by the
way of Duluth.
The management of the Pennsylvania
road has issued instructions that wher-
ever possible business shall be transacted
by train letters instead of telegraph. The
order is in the interest of economy and
has resulted in reducing the daily num-
Der of messages sent from the Broad
street station, Philadelphia, by nearly
1900.
On New Years eve eliminated q
unique movement for Industrial temper
ance when a pledge of total abstinence
signed by $4,000 employees of the North
western railroad went into effect. It
started among the employees after it had
been made known that the management
was selecting the drinking men for dis
missal in reducing the force.
The railroad companies doing business
in Missouri have about decided not to con-
test the State 2-cent fare law, because
they are now confident that the reduction
of traffic shown by their figures since the
law went into effect will satisfy the courts
that it is ~inequitable and confiscatory. A
Missouri Pacific official said the receipts
had declined 80 per cent in the last ninety
days, and a Wabash man said that the
combined loss to all the roads in passenger
traffic alone was $6.O0O,OO0.
1t is estimated by members of the car
service committee that between $760,OOO,-
600 n 81, 0 100000 worth of equip
ment is idle in the country and that it
is therefore costing the railroads nearly
$4,OOO,00O a month in interest charges to
maintain it in idleness. There are 375,-
GOO freight cars standing idle on side
tracks throughout the country. It is stat
ed that for every thirty freight cars which
have become idle an engine has been put
in the shops, which would mean that fully
12,001 locomotives are without loads to
haul.
Attorney General Bonaparte has com
menced action under the Sherman anti
trust law to dissolve the merger of the
Hartman interests in the Southern Pa
cifc and the Union Pacific railroads. This
is in pursuance of an investigation and
report made by Special Attorney Frank
3. Kellogg. on behalf of the interstate
commission. Mr.. Kellogg. with
Mr.. Severance of st. Paul, Mimi, will
nave charge of the prosecution of the suit,
which will probably be begun in Utah.
The proceedings will be similar to those
brought against the Northern Securities
Company by the government SONG years
ago.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-21

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CHICAGO,

While the month just closed was con-
spicuous for drastic measures in restoring
credit and reducing merchandise to safe
proportions, the process of readjustment
has been attende with less trouble than
feared and conditions generally now make
a better basis for future operations in
commerce. The week has seen new de-
mands in manufacturing come forward
slowly, but the exhibit is an improving
one, and there is broader activity in the
d~istributive lines. Low temperature aug
mented the buying in leading retail lines,
particularly of heavyweight apparel and
household furnishings. Interior buyers
appeared in greater numbers. lGe 4
Advices indicate seasonable Roadway in
disposing of country stocks, these being
now brought down comfortably, n road
statesmen report less difficulty in booking
orders for forward delivery.
Improved financial conditions are re-
hected in a wider circulation of currency
throughout the agricultural sections, and
this has made mercantile collections
easier, although more than a normal num-
Der of trading defaults is again In evil
dence and extensions are frequently ask
ed. The banking position shows steady
recovery, there being increase in both de-
posits and discount operations, with
money cheaper, although not yet sufi-
GENTLY inviting to attract new enterprises:
Production in the leading industries is
not expected to disclose notable changes.
but there is moderate increase over a
month ago in iron, steel, wood and leath-
er working, and idle forces are smaller
than in last week. Important considera-
tions as to costs of supplies and labor
and the yet limited flow of fresh orders
prolong the feeling of caution which pre-
walls in many quarters. Some factory
outputs still lag and only slightly renew
ed activity may appear in these branches
before the spring months. Receipts OF
the raw materials continue restricted in
lumber, wool and in minor metals, but
have gained over last year in hides and
live stock.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 81, against 80 last week and
26 a year ago. Those with liabilities over
$1,000 number 10. against is last week
rand 1S in 19O7.-Dun's Review Of
Trade.