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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-13
HOG WEIGHS $50.
Liberty County Farmer Markets Giant
Porker-Record Cor
County

Marion, July 1o-Charles Way of
Liberty township has just marketed
specimen of obesity in hog flesh that
weighed exactly $50 pounds This
giant hog was comparatively short of
body, but had the girth Of fattened
4year-old steer. 1t was of the Poland
China breed, and so far as memory
can be relied upon, was the largest
hog ever reared in the county.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-13

Mrs. Evans Succumbs; Funeral Today
Abba, July 10.-Mrs. William Evans,
who has been an invalid for the past
two years, died at her home in this
city the fore part Of the week, and flu
neral services were held today.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-13
The WORK or
IOWA COLLEGES
REuoRT JUST OUT SHOWS 22 IN.
sTITuTIoNs WITH ENROLL
MENT OF OVER 5000.

Des Moines, July 1o-Prof. Albert
Loughridge of Cedar Falls in his re-
port to the state board of educational
examiners, states that there are %
Independent colleges and universities
in Iowa, with a total enrolment Of
more than 5000, and combined assets
of nearly s1O0o0,Oo0 Prof Lough-
ridge was appointed by the board to
inspect the Independent educational
institutions of the state, and his re-
port is the first reliable one that has
ever been compiled.
Following are the results of his in
spection:
Independent colleges in
spected ............... ~
Buildings devoted exclu-
sively to college work. 80
Other buildings ............ So
Value of the 11s buildings. .s3,1 1879
Value of laboratory equip
ment ................... 22o125
In endowment fund ........ 4,S94,06S
Total assets .......... 9,SS0,5S2
Volumes in libraries, exclu-
sive of reports 100000
Total income from all sources SS4,S42
Students in college classes. 3,474
Students in preparatory
classes ................. 1924
College graduates this year. 551
Students in normal depart
mentg .................. 1,747
years 81, $50, 500
Campaigns now in progress
to raise 1,425,O0O
These figures were obtained by
Prof. Loughridge from an inspection
of the following colleges: Drake, Des
Moines, Highland Park, Simpson,
Penn, Central university, Parsons,
Iowa Wesleyan, Coe, Grinnell, Cornell,
st. Joseph's, Luther, Lenox, Leander
Clark, Tabor, Amity, Buena Vista, Ellis
worth, Charles City, Morningside and
Upper Iowa university.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-13

Abba Council Condemns Wells.
Abba, July 1G.--The city council,
through It's health officer, DR.. Ernest
Clutch, has condemned the wells on
the public square and ordered the
pumps pulled from them.
Douglas Island news., 1909-11-24
Alaska's Gold Output

"The season of mining in Alaska has been prosperous oue," said Alfred IL. Brooks, geologist in charge of the Alas ka work of the U. s. geological survey who has just returned to Washington from bis annual swing around ths circle" in the far Northwest. "WhilG dry weather and other unfayorable con. ditious have curtailed the placer gold production at Nome, most of the other camps have either maintained or in- creased their output. Figures of gold output are not yet available, but it seems pro 6able that the production for 1909 will be between nineteeen and twenty million dollars. The low price of copper has pot encouraged the min ing of that metal, but about half a dozen properties shipped ore during 1909. It appears probable that the Alaska copper outpu: for the year will exceed four million pounds"
 In accordance with the practice of making detailed surveys of the imPoT- tant mining districts, the geologic map ping and study of the ore deposits of the Berue.s Bay district Was completed this summer. This district, though dormant at present, possesses some valuable lode quartz deposits. These surveys were also carried sOuthward to the Eagle River district.
Douglas Island news., 1909-11-24
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2t, 1909.

From present appearances the. dele gate election next falt will be at least a three cornered fight if net still Nore complicated, The republicans are booming McGinn, the democrats, Strong, and Wiohersh&m refuses to be forced out of the Sight. Even should the republican forces which have been badly scattered in former contests, be. brought iuto, Iua, there is 8 serious question whether the party could win out. There would be more hope if Wickershau would withdsaw, ,Orras has been suggested, Q fusion could be eff fected with the democrats, Then again, there is the question of home rule to consider. The candidate who opposes it, no matter what his politics may be, will have an uphill fight
Douglas Island news., 1909-11-24
Thanksgiving Proclamation

In accordance with proclamation of the President of the United States, and in recognition of custom observed by our reople since earliest times, 1, Walter E. Clark, governor of She District of Alaska, do hereby appoint Thursday, the twenty fifth day of November, nine teen hundred and niue, day of Thanksgiving, and | recommend that, upon that day, all the people of Alaska refraining froa their usual employ ments, give thanks to Almighty God for the manifold blessings of the year. As a people we have reaped.tEe seasons reward Of Heaven assisted enterprise and industry and now enjoy the abounding fruits of prosperity and peace. While we giye thanks for these blessings, which. have come to- our peo- pie as a whole, let Us not forget those individuals less fortunate who may be in neod of that cheering succor aud heIpfulness which srue charity affords.
 Given under my hand and the seal of the District of Alaska, in Juneau, the capital, this sixteenth day of No Eember, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth.
 rSeaD WALTER k. CLARK By the Governor:
 WM. l.. DISTN,,
 Ex-oficio Secretary of Alaska
Douglas Island news., 1909-11-24

Some weeks ago Oscar Isaacson, 8 resident of Douglas, borrowed a rife and started up to the hills back of town hunting. When he failed to. return his friends were alarmed. and the report was that be had committed suicide. A vigorous search was made, for him at She time, but no trace was found. Last Monday an Indian working on the Treadwell ditch discovered the skele- ton of a man, by the side of which lay the borrowed rife. There seems to be no doubt that the bleaching bones are those of Isaacson, who died by his own hand. Lsaacson was member of the Western Federation of Miners, and when he found that the promises of the walking delegate were false he lost learSa
Douglas Island news., 1909-11-24
The Big Wind

The hardest and most destructive wind that has visited Douglas Island within the memory of the writer was that of last Wednesday afternoon and night. It came from the northwest and was what the natives call "Chil- kats wind. At times it twisted and whirleG and seemed 10 strike on all sides of the house at once. Hardly a house in town escaped without damage either in the form of broken windows or chimney eops blown off. Probably the most serious loss was at the Heub- ner drag store, where the plate glass fYont was blown in, and the window display of cut glass, hand painted china, fancy post cards, etc, was seat. tered and destroyed. ?. Il. Fox also lost large plate glass. Mayor OCon, nor, M. c. Rogers, John Feusi aud John L.ockbart moprned tbe loss of brick chimneys, and tin cues were scattered all over town. The Douglas Opera House also lost some large glass. At the sawmill one of the stacks went down and the other was bent, aud lum- Der was scattered and broken, part of of it going through She windows of the Natatorium. Fortunately no one in Douglas was injured, and there were no fires.
 At Treadwell, Cashier James Christoe had & narrow escape from being killed by fying boards from the roof of the Club building. As it was he was knocked down, but managed to reach the store in a. half conscious condition, with blood running from several nasty cuts in his scalp. Kind friends, SO licitous of his welfare, bathed his wounded head with liberal quantities of peroxide of hydrogen, and now Jim is a near chemical blonde, his hair be. ing red on one side.
 The wiu& not ouly tore the roof from the Club building, but blew down the smokestacks at the Mexican and Ready Bullion, took the roof off an oil tank, and did damage in hundred other places
 The only man that we know of who was actually benefited by the wind is a resident of Douglas who had his back yard filed with kindling wood from an old shack that went to pieces half a block away. He is in hopes that the next blow will bring him ton of coal
 The Douglas school house lost a number of windows, and school was de clared off for the balance of the week
 We can all join in Thanksgiving to- plorrow that it was no worse.
Douglas Island news., 1909-11-24

Valuable presents given away at Feuei's. See bis ad.
Douglas Island news., 1909-11-24
Temperature and Barometer
 For week ending November 24, 1909:
Date Barometer Temperature

Readings at 8 a. m. by Beltzhoover, the ieweler.
Douglas Island news., 1909-11-24
JUNEAU FERRY AND NAVIGATION co
FERRY TIME CARD

FERRY TIME CARD LEAVE JUNEAU For Douglas and Tpeadwell:
 8:OO am. S:00 D. m. goo a. no. 4:S0 p. m. 11:OO q. .m. 6:SO D. m. h:00 D. m. S:OO D. m.
 Sundays, only 800 D. m.
 LEAVE DOUGLAS For Ereadwell: For Juneau; S:15 a. m. o;SO a. m. 9:15 am f0:45 a. m. 1l:15 a. ms R:O5 a. m. L:15p.m. LAS p. m. s-15 p.m. S:SO D. m. 4:45p.m. SOS p. m. 6:45 D. ns. F:OS p. Tn. S:1S p.m $50 D. m. s:15 p,m. Sundays 9:SO p- n.
 LEAVE TREADWELL For Douglas and Juneau:
 S:25 a. m. s:25 p. In. lO:SS a. n. t:55 D. m. 12:OO a. m. 6.55 p. m. 1:4O D. m. S:25 D. m.
 9:25 D. m. Sundays Trip made to Nevada Creek-Mondays an Thursdays, leaving Juneau at 9:OO a. m. Sundays S:OO Ca m. trips omitted
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28

REMARKABLE SCENE TOOK ,
 PLACE IN THE FRENCH ! CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES IN 3 WHICH THE PREMIER FIG- < URED
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28
TENNESSEE HERO
4 True Story of an Old-fashioned Boy
By H. M. HAMILL, 70.

Sam Davis was his name. was born on a farm near the little town of Smyrna Tennessee. His parents were old-fashioned people. God-fear- ing. simple-mannered, neither rich nor poor; and Sam grew up In the quiet ways of the Southern country boy. Just as he had passed out of his teens. and was yet a big boy in face and spirit, he died on the gall lows at Pulaski, Tennessee. before the eyes of the soldiers of General 0. M. Dodge's Sixteenth Corps of the Federal Army
 Sam spent his boyhood days in the fields and under the great trees of his fathers farm. companion with mock 1ng-bird and bee and butterfly, and with the patient brutes that serve the farmers need. There was no hint of the hero to come in the peaceful. hum- drum life of the farm. True, the war clouds were gathering above, and the air was becoming electric with ex- citing speech and prophecy; and in every village was springing up holiday soldiery. parading in glitter ing uniform to the sound of fife and drum.
 When the war finally came. and oli- day drum and fife and soldier in twinkling were transformed into the machinery of real battle, Sam put Aside his schoolb ooks at Nashville and bade goodby to the two teachers who, as Generals Bushrod Johnson and Edmund Kirby Smith. became dis Hnguished soldiers of the Confederacy. He enlisted as a private in the 1st. Tennessee Infantry, and soon found place of drudgery and danger in the army of General Bragg.
 General Bragg was an insistent fighter and men were used to being in the thick of battle. It was so with our boy Sam. The peace and beauty of the Smyrna farm gave place to the wearisome tramp. the bangs of hun ger. the cries of the wounded. and the pale faces of the dead. Those who knew the boy speak much of his courage and faithfulness. His record was such." writes one. that when Bragg ordered the organization of a company of scouts by General B. F. Cheatham. Sam Davis was chosen as one of the number because of his coolness and daring and power of en- durance" Captain H. B. Shaw was given command of these scouts. and the field of their earlier endeavor was Middle Tennessee. which in 1863 was practically in the hands of the Fed. erals.
 Captain Shaw assumed disguise
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28

save his life. I discovered that he was most admirable young fellow, with the highest character and strictest in- integrity. He replied: I know. Gen sral. that l will have to die. but I will not tell where I got the information, and there Is no power on earth that can make me tell. You are doing your duty as . soldier. and I am doing mine. If l have to die. l shall be doing my duty to God and my country"
 There was nothing more that Dodge could do. A military commission was convened within three days. which tried Davis and sentenced him as a spy to death on the gallows. Friday, November 27. between the hours of 10 a. m. and p. m.,--one week from the day of his capture. You may be sure 1t was along lonely week to the brave boy. especially those last three days that intervened between his sentence and the day of doom. Some- how. though strangely, there sprang up in all hearts an ever increasing in- | terest in one who by single word could open the door of his prison, yet chose to die in place of another flor duty's sake" With Coleman" prob ably in touch of his hand and sound of his vioce, he gave no sign or hint of bis identity. He Is worth more to the Confederacy than me-" he said. I doubt it. The more I think of 1t after so many years have passed, the great CT is the wonder that Shaw. alias Cole man, did not unmask and save the life of one who was sacrificing life for him. Hard by the light that will ever shine upon Sam's pale face is this shadow that lies heavy on the face of his Captain.
 Again and again Federal soldiers sought Sam in his cell, pleading with him to disclose the informer's name and save his own life. Chaplain James Young. of the Eighty-firs Ohio Infan- try. was his constant visitor and com forter. to whom the last messages and
 token were committed for delivery to his home.e On the last morning Sam gave him the Federal overcoat. which his mother had dyed, flor remem- brance' sake" which Young lovingly kept until. in his seventy-third year, not long before his death. he sent it to the Confederate Veteran, saying: My promised memb rance is fulfilled I am seventy-three years old, and could not reasonably expect to care for 1t much longer I have cut off small button from the cape which will keep. The night before he died we sang together "On Jordon's stormy banks I stand, and, as he desired, I was with i'm constantly. andat the end I prayed with and for him." Dear old Chaplain! He and Sam are to- gether now under brighter skies with the Master whom they served.
 Provost Marshal Armstrong. who bad charge of prison and gallows, be- Came Sans ardent friend, and, rough soldier though he was. could scarcely perform his painful duty. Captain Chickasaw, chief of Dodge's Scouts, also took a strong liking for the boy scout, and. made a last effort to save him.
 do not like to draw the last living picture of my hero, but Friday morn ing came all too swiftly, and sharp at ten o'clock the drums were beating, Armstrong was marching to the jail whilo the soldiers of the Sixteenth
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28

Captain Shaw assumed disguise
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28

Test N0. 5 Ofa series of Ten tests which Gn advertiser should abbH to every advertisement before he publishes t.
 The complete sef mailed apon addressing John Lee Mahin
 I25 Monroe St.
 Chicago
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28

Corps by the thousands. with muskets in hand. were being marshalsd in line about Seminary Ridge, where the gallows was upreared in waiting. A wagon. with rough pine conn. on which Sam Davis sat. headed the march. In sight of his fellow prison CTS Sam waved his good-by with a smiling face. and at the gallows dis mounted and sat under tree. un- falteringly looking above ct the swinging moose and around at the sympathetic faces of the soldiers.
 "Eow long have I to live, Captain Armstrong;" he inquired.
 About fifteen minutes Sam."
 What Is the news from the front7" and Armstrong told him of Bragg's battle and defeat.
 Thank you, Captain. but I'm sorry to hear it," and then with one last quaver in his voice of loving remem- brance of his comrades in gray, 'The boys will have to nght their battles with out me"
 Captain Armstrong broke down. sam. I would rather die myself than execute sentence upon you"
 Never mind. Captain" was the gentle reply; you are doing your duty. Thank you for all your kind ness"
 It was then that Captain Chickasaw came swiftly on horse, and, leaping to the ground, sat himself by Sam and pleaded in that last fierce moment of youth for the word of information that would sent him to his home in freedom Sam rose to his feet. and with flashing eye and up1ifted face made his last answer:
 'No, I cannot. I would rather die a thousand deaths than betray friend or be false to duty
 federal officer who was looking in to Sam's face, wrote of him long after in The Ohaha Bee: The boy looked about him: life was young and promis- ing. Overh cad hung the moose; around him were soldiers in line; at his feet was a box prepared for his body. now pulsing with young and vigorous life; in front were the steps that would lead him to dissracefui death, and that death 1t was in his power to SO. easily avoid. For just an instant he hesitated. and then put aside forever the tempting offer.'
 The steps to tn he gallows were firmly mounted, and Sam's last word, T am ready, Captain" followed the Chap lain's prayer when in a moment he had passed through the gates of death to take his place forever among the heroes of the Southland.
 In few weeks a costly and beauti- full monument surmounted by a bronze figure Of the boy. will be unveiled In Capitol Park. in the heart of Nashville From every State in the Union, from Blue and Gray, from rich and poor. the money to build the monument has been coming. upon the plea of Editor S. A. Cunningham. of the Veteran, whose conception it was; and very many thousands will bow their heads on dedication day in loving memory of the hero of Tennessee Some time. when you are passing through Nashville, take a moment to look upon the noble bronze face of the boy, and then visit the old Smyrna home and in the garden see the grave of Sam as he sleeps by the side of his mother and father.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28

i within the Federal lines, posing as an iuherant doctor. and bearing the name of "Dr. k. Coleman" among the Fed erals, and of Captain F. Coleman. Commander of Scouts among the Confederates, even in his official com- munications to General Bragts this double deception being deemed neces- sary to the prosecution of his danger ous duty as a spy. There is no maw- kish sentiment in war. and small mercy Is sho one who seeks to dis cover the secrets of the enemy.
 But. as with Major Andre of the Revolution and with many others, the occupation of scout and spy is a neces- sity of warfare to which any soldier IS naoie. and upon which no just odium can be cast. No soldier of the Revolution, from Washington down condemned the gallant young officer who. under military law. died bravely as spy. On the contrary, one who. under the hard usage of the camp, is commissioned as a military spy, is usually chosen because of superior in- teliigence. courage. and devotion to his army and colors. His vocation is night. If caught. he usually dies by the most ignominiuos death. under conditions that inspire contempt in the spectators. to the ned that swift judgement and odious death may de- ter men from seeking the office of the spy. Over his supreme self-sacrifice the epitaph is commonly written, Died on the gallows as a spy" with out those added words which justice demands. under military appointment, and for his country's cause" -~t
 It fell to the lot of my Tennessee hero to be assigned to Captain Cole mans Scouts," and given place of peculiar difficulty and danger, soon to terminate in death. The appoint ing officer said 1t was the "boy's re- cord" that gave prominence and pro- learned as country boy two hard lessons that few men learn in a life- time--to fear nothing and nobody but God, and to obey orders. He had a peculiarly bright and winning way about him, an utterly fearless eye, a frank and gentle speech, and the self poise of a great soul. Next to his God. above even his tender love for his mother and home, Sam cherished that oid-time sense of "honor" so sacred among the traditions of the old South, when ones word of honor" meant more than wealth or fame or life itself. The honor which gives my hero place among the immortals was of the kind that sought not the life of another in revenge. but gave ones live in devotion to duty.
 In November. 1863, the Sixteenth Army Corps. under General G. M. Dodge, was centered at Pulaski, Ten uessee, not far from the Tennessee River and the Alabama line. Dodge had started from Corinth, Mississippi. to Chattanooga to reinforce General Grant. On all roads his cavalry kept sharp lookout. especially to break to pieces the Coleman band of scouts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28
The Typewriter Revolutien.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 .. Among the men who distinguisheo month of workers whose invention has been supremely important, not the least important was Christopher Latham Sholes. who invented the type writer. out of which he reaped little ary 14. 1S19. in Columbia County, February F. isso. MT ME. i shoies was . journalist by profession, for a long time editor of The Milwaukee Sentinel. In 1887 he produced the first crude instrument and in 1873 the manufac- ture began at Ilion. N. Y. pisment m s' of 'ns recori 1sn sVerythins as From love note to an act of Congr4ss being set down by the serivener'sf art. In 1909 the pen Is used for Social cor respondence only, and even for that other purposes the typewriter is prac- tically the only implement employed.
 The typewriter Is woman's weapon. With that as an entering wedge she Is forcing herself into the Industrial world and becoming . worker in all gainful occupations.
 According to the census of 1900 there typewriters In the United States. and the whole sotry Stenography and typewriting make the open door through which women pass on their way to more important places In the industrial army Excluding agricul- ture and domestic service, which have always been. open to woman, the num- Der of workers in 1900 was 13.111, e95. Of this total women numbered g. s00.41o. or 17.5 per cent. The impor- tance of the writing machine to women is not measured by 8s,11S type writers actually employed in the last census year. But 1t Is noteworthy that tion of male workers increased in occupations, the propor-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28

sitting next to the young lady, who had the small dog in her nun. T would give half my fortune," he said. to be in yodr dogs place.r
 Tt would be the right place for you," said the lady. for am taking him to have his ears cropped"
 Her reply led to high words. and the passengers joined in . free fight ensued and the entire party went to the police station where al the names including that of the dog, were duly noted
 The omnibus had to walt for its conductor. and arrived ct its destina- ton two hours late