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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-02
Robert j. Rurdette Better.

Burlington Hawk-Eye. OF
the Hawk-Eye will recall to mind the
announcement of the serious illness Of
Rev. Robert J. Burdette, who, as the
result Of injuries to the spine, was
placed in a plaster cast and compell-
ed to keep his bed for several months.
Great sympathy for "Our Bob" was
expressed all over the United States.
How Mr.. Burdette appreciated these
messages of good will is best told by
the publication of letter to friend
in Burlington:
Eventide. Carbohydrates. Re-
dondo Beach, Calf, Oct. 16, 1909-My
Dear Friend: During the weeks of
my recent painful illness, hundreds Of
messages were received. Acknowl-
edgment of them al the time was i'm.
possible either from myself or from
Mrs. Burdette, who was not In a
strong condition owing to her recent
illness.
am now improving and am able to
ride and walk out, and will in time
take up again some of the duties and
pleasures of life.
When the dear Lodr rained conso
latfon and encouragement upon me III
showers of comforting and sympathet
lie letter from all quarters of the
! world, friends and strangers sending
their messages Of hope and cheer t.
my bedside, yours was among them
| timely as sunrise and Strengthening
as honey out of the rock.
! Accept this late acknowledgment
sincere and grateful of your kindness
and friendly thoughtfulness at time
when pleasant voice was like balm
and CHEEKY sympathetic word was
Good Medicine"
Again and again, with heart full
of grateful appreciation, do thank
you, Sincerely and cordially yours.
Robert ]. Burdette.
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FosTER's WEATHER
LLETiN
ecopyrishtea 1909 by W. t.

Washington. D. c., Oct. 30.-Last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance
to cross continent Nov. 4 to s, warm
wave to Z, cool wave to 10. This
was not expected to be a severe dis
tur bance. A cold wave was predicted
to precede it and rains to follow Sew
eral days of warm weather are expect
ed to center on Nov. 7.
Second disturbance OF Nov. is ex-
pected to reach Pacific coast about 10.
great central valleys IL to IA, eastern
states and provinces 15. Warm wave
will cross Pacific slope about 10,
great central valleys IL, eastern
states and provinces IA. Cool wave
will cross Pacific slope about 10,
great central valleys Is, eastern
states and provinces LIZ.
This Is expected to be a more severe
disturbance than the preceding.
Rains accompanied by general fall
in temperatures will come from to
IL, and during the FIVE days center
ing on Ia some ugly stormy and cold
weather may be expected.
expect temperature in the south
ern states to go down rapidly from
Nov. i to s and then rise till about
20, while In northern states tenn.
peratures will go down from Oct 80
to Nov. 8, then up till then down
till IT. 1t will be cold south from 6
to 10 and warm north.
Nov. crop weather will be fair as an
average. From 9 to Is will be stormy
and bad for gathering corn, picking
nd fIoroc u-hn h1,f my oh
better weather will prevail from 10 tc
Dec. 8. A great warm wave will
spread over the continent % to % and
work OH farm and plantation should
be rushed in preparation for winter.
l expect January to be very warm In
| the states with great amount Of
rain This will be very favorable tc
winter pastures, but live stock an6
rough feed will need protection from
wet weather. 1t will probably be
warmer than usual in Canada but MOI
much rain or snow west of merid
ian 90.
February will be a very warn
month east of Rockies. Too mucf
rain in Ohio valleys, New England
states and eastern provinces but very
dry in Mississippi valleys and all the
drainage country of the Manitoba
lakes.
1t is well for all to know these things
in advance and then make prepare
tions for them. Our winter will conn
1 after middle of February. Jan. ant
! Feb look warm and wet for all thu
states and provinces east of NERD
| ian 80.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-02
HILLS PLAN FOR MODEL FARMS.

James J. Hill gets off on the wrong
foot" occasionally as for instance IN
a recent address when he limited that
Iowa was losing Its agricultural SUI
premacy because less wheat is grown
here than in some other states. But
he has advanced ideas on the subject
of farming, nevertheless, that are in
teresting, and that prove him to be
deep student of the subject. His latest
article on the subject is In the Worlds
Work for November, and In this artl-
Gle he points out the need of a read
1ustment of agriculture in the United
States to the food requirements OF q
great and growing population. Small
farms, he says, intensively and scien-
tifically cultivated, are the remedy for
the evils that he foresees if population
continues to increase in greater ratio
than the means Of subsistence. which
seems to him inevitable. Mr.. Hill sees
a solution Of the problem in the. es-
Enlistment of model farms" con-
Quoted by the government He believes
that the substitution of new methods
for old, which this plan would bring
about, would double the annual crop
return of the country and add $4,000
5UUU,uUU annually TO the country
wealth. Mr.. Hill in explaining his plan
says:
EFF could have my way should
build a couple of warships year less.
Perhaps one would do. l would take
that S5,o00.o00 or s6,OoO,OOO a year
and start at least 1000 agricultural
schools in the United States at $4,000
a year each, in the shape Of model
farms This model farm would be sim
ply tract OF land conforming in size
soil treatment, crop selection and TO
tation, and methods of cultivation to
modern agricultural methods. It's pur
pose would be to furnish to all its
neighborhood working model fol
common instruction. Cultiyating, per
haps, from forty to sixty acres, il
could exhibit on that area the adyan
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-02
GOV. CARROLL ON TAFT TRIP

st. Louis Times.-The 90 governors
are gregarious lot when they doff
the official mask and Just turn their
feelings out to play. They are much
like big children, and the river cruise
is proving period of rare relaxa-
ton.
At Cape Girardeau two executives
were mistaken for newspaper men
stead of autos to the Normal School,
where the president spoke.
They take us for highbrows,
laughed one
"Or something really useful re
piled the other executive.
But they rode in autos just the
same.
Haskell, the fiery governor of Okla
homa, is now aboard, although on
stateroom No. % his name is printed
in conspicuous manner.
Stubs of Kansas and Carroll VI
Iowa caught the number.
Twenty was too big q handi
cap for Haskell drawled Carroll
who is lank and ministerial appearing
"He wouldn't risk It." They gave the
room to one of the Washington cor
respondents. Those Washington mer
are trained to fear nothing.
Editor Broke Into Politics.
Carroll Is newspaper man. Hi
broke into politics while running Z
| country weekly at Bloomfield Ia, ant
after that they never headed him off
| Stubs, who guides the destinies .
the Sunfower state, is a typical ia,
hawker Stubbs is tall and sandy
/ haired. He has an alkali color ant
a southern drawl. He dresses like
Mississippi colonel affecting the blacl
frock coat and big, black SLOUGH hat
He reminds one Of the caricatures C
| the southerner abroad.
Stubs was contractor at Law
renee when he made his debut int
Kansas politics. Nowhere do the,
fight the political game harder thar
| in Kansas. Stubs defeated Soy" Lei
and, for years the Republican boss
for the nomination. They said b,
couldn't do it, that Leland's machin.
had cinch, but he did It,
While Stubs is not an abstinenc,
faddist, no Kansas executive has eli
forced the prohibitory law with great
er strictness. He says the law Is OF
the statute books and 1t has to be en-
forced or repealed.
| While in st. Louis he was enter
tained by M. L. Holman. Woe presi
dent of the Laclede Gas company
Holman is native Jayhawker.
Hopes to Convert Taft.
/ Carroll of Iowa has a mission. 1t !
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-02
PINCHOT FEARS
A CROP TRUST
FORESTER SEES PERIL OF SELF
uRE OF LAND WHEN PHos-
PILATES ARE GONE.

Vicksburg, Miss, Oct. 30-A I'll
gantic trust to control not only the
water powers of the country, but ulti-
mately the agricultural interests, was
outlined yesterday by Forester Gift
ford Pinchot in a continuation Of his
address to the governors on the
steamer st. Paul.
THE control Of agricultural prod
ucts will come" said Mr.. Pinchot,
when the natural supply Of phos-
pilates Is exhausted, and the only
| phosphates available are those pro-
duced by the extreme heat made by
the highest water power. Phosphate is
an absolute essential for fertiIizing
and cultivating the soil, and the ma
tural supply is 80 near exhaustion as
scarcely to be worth considering
When the supply is gone the only
means Of supplying the farm lands
with the fertilizers necessary for the
production Of crops is through the
high water power companies"
| To avoid the eventual Capitalization
of the food supplies Of the country in
the control Of one great corporation
Mr.. Pinchot advances the same solu
ton as that given by him when he ad
vised against granting perpetual wat
er power rights to any company, and
the passage Of state and national laws
placing the control of water power
companies in the communities in
which they are located, together with
legislation for suitable compensation
to state and government for the
rights.
Says Trust 10 Forming Now.
| In reply to question as to whether
there was "a water power trust" al
j present, Mr.. Pincrot said:
mo. There are, however, groups o.
centralized control which are AFFILIATED
through the identity of their directors
4 The corporations are centered in thu
l great financial district in Wall street
That they ultimately will be affiliated
into great monopoly unless prevent
ed is certainty.
4 "The transcontinental railroads ar,
preparing to electrify many parts o
their lines and are seeking now to oh
tain water power sites near thei
rights Of way, which may interior
with the forming Of trust or ma,
expedite the completion Of the me
nopoly.
THE visible oil supply at the pref
lent rate of annsnmntinn Is good fo
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suFFRAeisTs IN EARNEST.

Whatever view the people OF iowa
NAV take of the decision reacned ae
the convention Of the Iowa surraslsls s
10 storm the coming session OF lne
legislature in true English mllitahl
style. it must be admitted thal ivy
women who are leading the sutllase
movement In Iowa are in dead!s co, =,
est over their plans for gettlng ~
vote The speakers who addressed .u :.
convention at Des Moines made
nlain that they had wearied OF trying
70 gain their point by gentee'
methods and were willing to try more
strenuous tactics. And they reel ina.
sf +hev do get a little rough IN pressing
+hair noint they will only be folio"lhs
the epnroyed male manner OF pre-,
ceeding in similar cases. he e,t. =, "a.
way Dr.. Anna Howard s .iaa &c.
t,onal president of the sulifase 90
ISOLATION, expresses 1t: $50, &C
eve women have been 1oolea a,,r 81,
long as we are going to pc. we no, :
heen fed on poetry and compain ian
as long as possible. Women nav 4;ono1
told that because they grow ehioeao n ;,
snd throw stones they We're nov lea ~. !,
- be trusted with the ballot How u.s
uo,, men happen to be voting touas
IIow many people did your ahces.oa
LII before they got the right 10 sose
Ssnhody objected to the women loam
Inc the guns while men were shoo.ln ,1,
dawn each other. The men even W.
tbe women's silver plate to make pat
lets and when the war was ovei ~. :,
women were no better Off poilliceiis
than thew were before and their sise, =,
Mate was gone, for 1t was az Az sl 90,
awav to get the right OF the oa,ios 10 :,
The men. The splendid part apouI =
al, was that the women were perlece
" willing to let the men do II. ,...,,
DR.. Shaw goes on to add a ittle
threat Of what might happen if WON
an does not get her vote. she says
"The women Of America are per
1ecfIy willing to go to jail and do al
and more than the suffragettes u
england If they thought 1t would brlne
the ballot. 1t is not that they op1ec
10 the methods but they doubt the out
come of such procedure. II going u
iail would bring the ballot every 1al
in the United States would be packed
but 1t is not necessary. There ars
some women who are Of such emo
tional makeup that perhaps bloodshee
NAV come. hope not, but If 1t doe:
come do not blame the women, TO-
the men have done this much ane
more to gain their civil liberty.
There is every appearance now tina
the next session of the legislature VII
be extremely interesting.
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a three months stay in South Dako-
ia. He also registered In the late land

a three months stay in South Dako-
ia. He also registered in the late land
drawing at Aberdeen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Klofenstein OF
Denmark were recent visitors at the
home Of Mr.. Klefenstein's mother.
The marriage Of Joseph Shuttle and
Miss Mary Grover will take place at
st. Mary's church Tuesday Nov. 9Th.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Leitz have re-
turned from attending the wedding OF
the latter's sister Miss Margaret
Kreiger to Theo j. Kramer.
Mrs. John Beatty who has been Wis
itinR her parents Mr.. and Mrs. Theo
Lampe has returned to her home in
Kahoka, Mo.
Mrs. John Whitlocks and children
are spending the week with Mrs. Whit
locks parents Mr.. and Mrs. Thos
Avis.
Mrs. VIM. Keott and children of OF
tumwa are visitors at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Nacke
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-02


Iowa Insurance men who are organ.
lied into the Iowa State Fire Proven.
ton association have entered into a
campaign to reduce fire losses by urg.
ing the adoption Of building codes and
systems OF regular inspection. They
nave decided to hold quarterly meet.
lngs and employ expert inspectors to
lecture on all subjects pertaining Lc
the prevention of fires. They alsc
plan to employ state lecturer to talk
OF fire prevention before the business
men of the different cities and towns
of Iowa. This organization should he
given support and the suggestions i,
makes should be followed out wher
ever practicable. Fire loss is a great
waste. Everybody is interested in
any movement to prevent this loss
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-02

The action of the Iowa suffragists in
deciding to use militant tactics IN
dealing with the legislature in future
furnishes the material for cartoon
by Ding in the Des Moines Register
and Leader. The cartoon represents
bill board with a picture of an irate
suffragist beiaboring hapless legis-
lator, whom she holds by the ear, with
rolling pin. A bill poster who is
waiting to post the classic features of
Jim Jeffries and Jack" johnson is
waved away. The following illuminat
ing explanatory note is given:
Wait for the Suffragettes VS.. Iowa
Legislature in their go to a finish at
the next legislative session. Will be
pulled off police or no police. The
real thing. Everything goes. Hitting
in clinches a specially"
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National Capital Gossip
Washington Bureau of
The Ottumwa Courier
Washington, Oct. 20.

In a few more days the improve
ments to the White house Offices will
have been completed. Curious folk
who have gone about looking at the
new offices have noticed that at the
extreme west end Of the building, on
a level with the street. there are a
set of large double doors. These
doors, one is informed, lead into the
boiler room. But leading up from the
boiler room is small winding stair
way which has an exit to the main
floor of the office building.
This raises the momentous question
whether in the future secretive and
mysterious statesmen will go in and
out of the White house Offices by way
Of the boiler room. Think Of the schol-
arly Lodge, bent on some dark mis-
sion which he was anxious to keep
from the world, winding his way
through the boiler room. Or of Lead
err Aldrich or Uncle Joe" Cannon or
the ultra-dignified Philander Chase
!, Knox, secretary of State, weaving in
and out among the steam pipes in or
der to elude watchful newspaper men.
Hitherto, during the Office hours Of
tllc UlSSluSllL, Oil Nlollolo l1hNS 56OIlS
to see that ficial through the main
door of the executive Office building.
Now, it is possible that in times Of
stress and crisis, the newspaper men
will have to post a guard over the
boiler room.
At last, Col w. P. Hepburn, for SO
many years member Of the house from
Iowa. is writing his memoirs. Col
Hepburn has long contemplated doing
this and long talked about it. But
| his duties as chairman of the house
committee on interstate commerce
and the constant disposition of his en-
emies in the Eighth Iowa district &c
make trouble for him, have served tc
keep him busy. Now that he is out ol
congress and leading a retired life, he
is giving some attention to the writ
| ing of his recollections. Friends Of
/ Col Hepburn have great confidence
that when they are published they
will cause stir. None of his worst
enemies have ever accused him 81
4 lack of bitter tongue and gall-tip
ped pen or Of lack of nerve to apply
both. He has keen memory stretch
| ing back to civil war days and ever
longer period to that eventful time
when as boy In hickory shirt and
jeans trousers he first walked behint
an OK team over the unbroken prai
ries OF Iowa. And he knows intimate
| ly host of public men, some of whom
| he is likely to give original estimates
| 1t may safely be conjectured thai
Colonel Hepburn's production will BIZ
worth reading.
| Judge Horace H. Lurton of Tennes
see, who is much In the public eye
just now on account of the frequency
with which he has been mentioned fol
the supreme court, is a small, white
haired man, with white mustache
He and President Taft have known
each other for twenty years. Judg.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-02

The members of the legislature may
be pardoned if they display tendency
to get shaky in the knees after read
ing the dispatches from Des Moines
relative to the plans of the suffrage
advocates. Just imagine 500 wrathy
persons of the fair sex swooping down
upon the state house and expressing
q willingness to be martyrs to the
cause OF votes for women. A job of
baseball umpiring will be a pink tea
compared to the lot of the legislator If
the plans go through as announced.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-02

With million of Mr.. BOOKSELLERS
dollars to furnish the sinews of war
there shouldn't be much trouble in
tracking, that hookworm to Its lair and
applying the hook. But all the money
shouldn't be spent In the south. There
are occasional evidences of the pres
ence of the lazy bug around this com
munity.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-02

to convert President Taft to osteop-
athy. AS the fleet was pulling out of
st. Louis, the Iowan was handed tel,
egram from DR.. Collins, an FL Paso
(Texas) osteopathist, who formerly
went to normal school at Kirksville
Mo-, with Carroll. 1t said:
Have president take osteopathy
treatment for that sore throat. Their
his voice will ring like bugle."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-02
confessed. and sentenced for life in
the penitentiary.

Norman E. Mack says William Je1.
nings Bryan will not be the next Dem
ocrattc candidate for president. vii
liam Jennings Bryan has not been
heard from, but 1t is safe bet that
he will not be long in showing Mr.,
Mack where he Is wrong.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-02

Mayor Off of Keokuk attempted to
act as the peacemaker in family dis
pute and warrant was sworn out for
his arrest by one of belligerents. It
is safe to say that Mayor OF will
swear off from further attempts at
peacemaking.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-02
DRY FARMERS
NEEDS Are TOLD.
WYOMING CONGRESSMAN TALKS
OF HOMESTEAD ACT AT
BILLINGS MEETING.

Billings, Mont, Oct. 30.--Congress.
man F. w. Mondell of wyoming, auth
or of the enlarged homestead act and
president elect of the national dry
farming congress, made q summary
speech at the session of that body.
telling OF the start and growth of dry
farming and suggesting improvements
and changes in the present existing
laws governing homestead entries on
arid government lands. Speaking along
these lines he said:
The dry farmer upon the public do
main needs more than the historic
quarter of section for homestead,
hence congress has provided after some
hesitation and against a good deal of
opposition in certain quarters a 32O
acre homestead.
An energetic dry farmer can sue
cessfully farm even larger area than
TINS successfully, but a $40 acre home
stead offers sufficient inducement to
encourage dry farming of many mil
lions Of acres Of still unoccupied nub-
| lie domain.
Approximately 170,000,00o acres
nave been designated by the secretary
OF the interior as being, in his opinion
not susceptible of irrigation from any
known source of water supply, and
therefore IL otherwise within the terms
or the act enterable under the enlarg-
ed homestead law,
All Lands Can't be Used.
BY no means are all lands Included
IN the designations fit for dry farming
purposes. Lands valuable for mineral
or containing merchantable timber,
| though included in the designations.
are not enterable under law. There are.
however, millions of acres OF land suit
able for dry farmip~ In various public
| land states which have not been des-
ignated as yet.
AT present the interior department
Is not, II am rightly informed. MAX
| ing any considerable designations on
its own initiative. The small force OF
men whose duty 1t is to make examin-
atoms with view to designations are
busy with an Investigation of the ter
ritory the designation of which has
been requested by petition ind other
wise.
ANY one acquainted with the publio
lands fit for dry farming and not sus-
| cept1ble Of irrigation at reasonable
cost from any known source of water
| supply may have such areas designat-
ed. after investigation or examination
by addressing a petition on the sub
Ject to the secretary Of the Interior
Tells of Legun1e Culture.
Prof. Thomas Shaw Of the University
of Minnesota gave an address on DRY
Farming Legu les.''
| Prof. Shaw has made many experi-
ments along lines OF legume culture on
i nonirrigated lands. and believes that
the cultivation of such crops Is to
solve problems of farming on lands
above irrigation bitches. Speaking OF
crops that were chiefly beneficial tc
new land Prof. Shaw said:
THE growing Of alfalfa on dry lands
is the greatest problem that confronts
5. the farmer. although he may not have
realized it, and if 1t can be success
fully cultivated, then the whole prob
! lem OF farming in semi-arid regions /.
solved"