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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17
FARsoN.

Farson-Rev. w. A. Smith returned
home Friday from Williamsburg.
where he has been visiting with his
parents for a few DAYS.
DIR. Huff returned home Tuesday
from Des Moines where he has been
visiting for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Clark of Compe-
tine were ottumwa callers Tuesday.
Carl Huff left the latter part of the
week for Des Moines, where he ex-
poets to commence work in his new
profession.
Ted Vannoy returned home from
Keosauqua where he has been visiting
few days with his uncle Fred Riley.
Manning HARDWOOD was q business
caller in Ottumwa Thursday.
Mrs. Jennie Turner and daughter
Eva were transacting business at the
county seat Friday.
Clyde and Joseph Dickey We're in
Ottumwa Friday on business.
DR.. c.. A. Henry and wife returned
home from Keokuk Friday evening
after attending a convention held in
that city.
Mrs. John Deuser was an Ottumwa
visitor Friday.
J. It. Peterson and wife, who have
Burke for a few days, returned tC
their home in Moline Sunday evening
G. w. Dickins and wife We're pas
sengers to Ottumwa Friday.
Mrs. Lee Steele left for Agency on
Monday, being called there by tele-
gram telling of the serious illness Of
some of her relatives.
o. Overturf and wife We're passen-
gers to OttuI.wa Monday
Frank Swart returned to Ottumws
Monday after spending Sunday a
home.
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his grandmother Mrs. L. Spencer, (
HoPEWELL.

Hopewell-Rev. Luscomb filled hit
regular appointment at the Baptis
church last Sabbath forenoon and
evening.
Chas. Worrell was shopping in OF
tumwa last Saturday.
j. w. Johnston was a caller at the
]. NJ. Walker home Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Ernest Walker and children
spent the fore part of the week at the
parental Walker home.
G. F. Worrell and family were Mon
day guests Of Mrs. Worrells parents.
l. Sample, L R. Garrison and ID.
Hunter Jr., made BUSINESS trip to
the county seat recently.
Emmett Walker and family took
supper at the Willard Upp home north
of Blakesburg last Sunday evening
with Mrs. Ethel Walker of California
A. M. Oyerturf of Ottumwa who has
been confined to his bed at the L. r.
Garrison home, suffering an attack OF
mumps, is recovering.
Jesse Helmic.S and family spent last
Saturday near Ormanville.
Several in this vicinity are exposed
! to the mumps-
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TWO NEGROES Are
BAD CHARACTERS
WILL DAVIS AND JIM JONES
BOTH HAVE CRIMINAL REC
oRDs-EMcoNvlcTs.

Will Davis and Jim Jones, the two
negroes arrested here after a chase
punctured with numerous revolver
Agent R. H. Short of the Burlington,
have turned out to be thoroughly bad
men. Detective Short has been inves-
tigating their past and has succeeded
in getting some valuable information
from st. Louis regarding them.
A letter from the police department
of St. Louis shows that they are both
dangerous men. Jim Jones is really
John Reed of St Louis, owning coal
yard in that city. He is an ex-convict,
having served term for murder. Da-
Wis also has a pretty bad record.
The letter to Short follows:
Dear SIMPLIFYING to your letter
of July IL, 1909, relative to two ne
groes at present under arrest in Keo-
kuk, Ia, will state that these two ne
groes left this city on June Is, 1909,
for the purpose Of going to Hillsboro,
Mo-, to testify in the case of negro
named VIM. Robinson, who is their
pal, and who is held on the charge of
burglary, he having robbed residence
at Hillsboro some time ago. He was
arrested in this city with negro
named Jack Mills. The negro Mills
was arrested while trying to dispose OF
gold watch which was obtained in
the above robbery, and through him
Robinson was apprehended and re-
turned to Hillsboro, where he is at
present awaiting trial.
In regard to the photograph of one
Jim Jones, alias Jim Wilson, will
state that he is one John Reed and
resides in this city at No. Ills North
Thirteenth street and runs coal yard
at No. 1924 North High street. He is
an ex-convict, having served a term
of ten years in the penitentiary for
murder in the state of Kentucky and
was released from there about five
years ago.
In regard to the photograph OF one
VIM. Davis, will state that he is one
Charles Bush, who has been in this
city about two or three months. He is
supposed to belong in Kansas City
Mo. He endeavored to bride Jack
Mills, the main witness against Rob
inson, by offering him $40 if he would
leave this city and not go to Hills
boro and testify against Robinson.
The negro Reed, alias Jones, alias
Wilson, has always had a mob o.
thieving negroes around his coal yart
in this city.
Trusting this information will be
satisfactory, remain, very respectful
ly, James H. Smith,
Chief Of Detectives.
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commenced to fire revolvers over the
heads of the crowd. One man was
struck by bullet and slightly wouni-
ed and another arrested. He was
rescued by friends, and the Waterman
was compelled to fee for his life. Riot
ing continued during the day, more
than a hundred being injured.
Recently. the company changed the
plan of paying its men from regular
time work to a system known as
pooling" This involves the compile
ton of each piece of work before
wages are paid. When large force
of men is at work and q number OF
cars are started it may be more than
month before payments are made.
More Tin Workers to Quit.
Pittsburg, July Is. AT the expira-
ton of their wage scale at midnight
tonight, 5000 worlzmen, members OF
the Tin Plate Workers Protective as
ISOLATION will walk out at the tin
plants at New Castle, Pa, and Join the
strikers of the amalgamated associa-
ton of Iron and Steel Workers. The
trouble results from the "open shop"
policy.
$4,000 Men on Strike.
Pittsburg, July is. Over $4,000
miners employed in the mines of the
Pittsburg Coal company went on
strike today. The strike order which
was issued several days ago by the To-
cal union officials, does not have the
sanction of the national officials OF
the United Mine Workers.
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ployees of the big packing plant from
Ottumwa to Oskaloosa.

A son Of ]. H. Dial is i'll this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Johnson Of
South Second street departed Tuesday
afternoon to spend about three weeks
attending the Alaska Yukon Pacific
Exposition at Seattle and visiting two
brothers of Mrs. John.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Dixie entertain
ed at cards Monday evening. Those
present were: Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Epperson, Mr.. and Mrs. D. P. Guy, and
their visitors. Major and Mrs. Jones
from the Philippines.
Misses Maggie, Kate and Nellie Fen
ton, formerly Of this place, but for
several years past Of Ames, came
down Tuesday afternoon to spend a
few days visiting their relatives Mrs.
B. Sullivan and family and with
friends.
Mrs. j. E. Bland went to ottumwa
Tuesday afternoon to spend few
days visiting her daughters and other
relatives.
W. A. Jones of Abba. visited rela-
tives in town Tuesday.
Chas. Odem and o. J, Lind each
took a party of people to Ottumwa in
their launches Tuesday to attend the
boat races.
Master Virgil Linderman returned
this week from two weeks visit with
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Is an Inflammation of the lining mem.
brane of Nose, Throat. Bronchial
Tubes, Stomach, Bowels, Bladder.
THREE STAGES.
/ list. Cases That Get Well Them
selves. This class includes the thou
sands of people who suffer from slight
Bubside In few days.
End. Cases that can be cured in
Few weeks or months by careful treat
ment.-They include the cases of foul
breath, running of nose, dropping Of
mucous in throat, hawkins and spit
ting, catarrhal deafness, ringing noises
In ears, snoring, talking through the
hose, stopping up of nose on one or
both sides, especially when patient
lies down.
3rd. The lncurabIe Cases. - This
class of cases can be benefited by
good Treatment, the progress of the
disease checked but never cured. 1t
includes those cases in which extel-
Bive alterations Of the soft parts have
taken place, with atrophy of the
glands and absorption of the bony
structures of the nose. In this stage
the nose often sinks in at the base,
the breath becomes so offensive that
the presence of the patient can hardly
be endured in closed room. The gen
eral health becomes broken down and
the sufferer often succumbs to some
other disease as result of the lower
ed vitality Of he Llood.
Much can be done to alleviate the
suffering and the disease may &c
checked in this stage, but cure IS
impossible on account Of the tissue
changes that have taken place.
,DRS. MYERLY & KREUL have had
wide experience in the treatment of
all catarrhal diseases and their meth
DDS have resulted in hundreds Of cures
right here in Ottumwa.
They have always beer fair and
honest in their dealings. They have
been here six years and have record
of more cures than any other special
lists in this part Of the state.
Consultation and examinations free
all this month.
OFFICES, third floor Holman Blk
Rooms 10, 20 and Fl. Both phones al
residence. Not open Sundays.
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GOAL MINERS, TIN AND SHEET
PLATE WORKERS AND OTHER
STEEL CRAFT LNGAGED III WAR
WITH EMPLOYERS.

Pittsburg, July 15.-Between $4,000
and $4,000 workmen, coal miners, tin
and sheet plate workers and various
steel crafts, are on strike today
throughout western Pennsylvania,
eastern Ohio, and West Virginia. The
majority Of the idle men are in the
Pittsburg district Excepting the strike
at the Pressed Steel Car company
plant at McKee's Rocks, the strikes
are orderly.
The situation between capital and
labor in the Pittsburg district today Is
unique, treading as it does on the
heels OF an apparent wave of pros
perity. Assumptions have been the
order in all trades, and men who have
been without work for many months
are being afforded employment. On
the other hand is the present unrest
of the workmen. The solutions of the
causes leading up to the strikes are
varied.
In severel instances the men claim
their employers are taking advantage
of their recent prolonged idleness and
are offering them low wages for their
work. The officials assert the condi-
lions do not warrant higher renunera-
ton at this time. Other grievances
are alleged violation of the eight hour
work day, the recognition of organized
labor and controversy over social
ssafety" powder for coal mine blasting.
State Police at Mckee's Rocks.
The situation at the plant of the
Pressed Steel Car company at
McKee's Rocks, near here, where
$500 men are on strike, was
puiet this morning. Following night
of terror and wild disorder, in which
thirty persons were shot or beaten,
D detachment Of Pennsylvania state
ronstabulary arrived early today and
boon afterwards the rioting stopped.
The men We're frightened and awed by
the presence of the state police
The state police and several thous-
and strikers again clashed at noon
and one trooper was seriously injured
and several other persons hurt. The
strikers threw bricks at the police
and fed when the constabulary fired
yolley close to their heads.
Rioting at the Plant.
Following the strike at McKee,
Rocks, near here, yesterday, the en-
tire plant was closed down and riot
Ing commenced between 1000 strikers
and those at work.
When the first Of the workers reach.
ed the outer gates of the plant they
were attacked by strikers armed with
pieces of Stag, iron and other missiles
and special watchmen stationed there
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WEST VAN BUREN,.

West Van Buren-Mr and Mrs. G.
Claflin spent Sunday at Charley
Brodeen's.
Clarence Van Fleet and family OF
Lebanon visited Saturday night and
Sunday at the Otto Mccullough home
at Leando.
Jas. Barnett of Riverside and Wade
Harryman went to Riverside on bust
ness the first of the week.
F. e. Hanshaw and wife entertained
company Sunday George Klodt and
sister Miss Lizzie We're callers here
Sunday.
w. E. Cowan and son Sydney went
to Lebanon Sunday.
Mrs. Dora Hanshaw spent few
days last week with her mother Mrs
Kate Gilbert of Kilbourne.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wade Harrynan went
TO Milton Saturday on business
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OAK RIDGE SERVICES SUNDAY
Rev. Sappenfield Will Preach in the
Evennq-Other Oak Ridge


Oak Ridge-There will be preaching
services again at the North Oak Ridge
school Sunday evening by Rev. A. M.
Sappenf1eld. All are invited to attend.
Other News.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. John Stevens
Saturday July 10, baby girl.
Mrs. Edna Horn and two little
daughters of Austin, Minnesota, are
visiting at the Kleinert home.
Mrs. Enoch Dorothy and Mrs. Fay
Kirkpatrick spent Thursday with
Mrs. Agnes Kirkpatrick.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Welsh and little
daughter Helen of Osllaloosa are
visiting relatives here.
Miss Goldie Stops visited over Sun
day with her. mother Mrs. Geo. Her
man.
Mrs. Jake skinner Mrs. Leek, Mrs
Tharp Miss Grace Newell and Miss
Olive Rollison, all of Ottumwa spent
Tuesday with Mrs. Pearl Baker.
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rr-fs

Is an Inflammation of the lining mem
brane of Nose. Throat, Bronchial
Tubes, Stomach, Bowels. Bladder.
THREE STAGES,
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EDDYViLLE.

Eddyville-Will Criswell attended
the big Morrell picnic which was held
Tuesday at Oskaloosa, two special
trains passing through here on the
Rock Island that day. bearing the EN-
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All members of the Ottumwa lodge
of Elks and the friends Of the Fifty
fourth band are in q state Of great
iubilation today because of the news
wired home from Los Angeles to the
effect that the Fffty-fourth band car
ried off enough honors to make them
humpbacked. A loving cup and high
est honors at the Long Beach compe-
tition, assistance In boosting the
Iowans who landed the grand exalted
rulership and secretaryship are some
of the hits made by the Ottumwa
band on the coast.
The efforts of the local lodge Of
Elks in raising the necessary money
to take the band to the coast seems to
have been rewarded The success at
DUBUQUE was but forerunner to the
hit the band is making In the land of
the setting sun. The big hit scored
yesterday was in a contest held at
Long Beach in which ten bands COM
peted for the prize. The result IS
told In telegram from Claude Myers,
Tom Stodghill and Larry Garner to
the local Elks club as follows:
''The Iowa delegation and the OF
tumwa band did the business. Just
won the loving cup in the contest ut
Long Beach today and are still after
other prizes. Grandest convention
ever"
Another wire to Gus Applegren told
Of ten bands competing in the contest
and the Fifty-fourth carrying off the
honors, a loving cup, also as having
been prominent factor in aiding the
election of Sammis as grand exalted
ruler and was considered the best
concert and marching band in the
group of bands at the convention. OF
tumwa as well as Iowa generally
seems to have leaped into the lime
light and none more prominently than
Claude Myers. A dispatch to Gus
Applegren says:
"Claude Myers is the busiest man
in Los Angeles"
The telegram was signed Joe l
Germ, who is the secretary of the Des
Moines lodge and an intimate friend
OF Mr.. Myers. The local lodge is look
ing for great things to happen in tbs
musical program of today and expect
the Fifty-fourth to show well in tho
winning.
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Special I errns
For All Who Begin Treatment This
Month.
Hundreds OfCures

Made right here in Ottumwa. Most
patients suffering from chronic dis
eases get relief or benefit from first
treatment. This is the best season
of the year to treat CONSUMPTION,
BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA and CA
TARRH.
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FIfTY-FOURTH
APRIzE winner
LOCAL BAND CARRIES OFF Low
ING CUP AT ELKs' coNVEN-
TIoN YESTERDAY.
AFTER M o RE HONORS
Prizes viii Be Given at Los Angeles
Following Great Parade Today
-Ottumwa After the
Prizes.

Los Angeles, July 16.-A long
bewilderng line Of brilliant col
ors formed by the gorgeous dec
orations, the many floats and the
flashing uniforms Of the scores
of marching EIks-cIubs and drill
corps. all moving to the strains
of the innumerabIe brass bands,
wended it's way today through the
principal streets of Los Angeles.
The parade was viewed by the
largest and most enthusiastic
crowd that ever gathered here.
The marchers passed beneath
bowers Of flags and bunting and
fraternal decorations that 'front.'
ed all the business houses swung
across the thoroughfares. The
grand pageant was over two miles
in length.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-14
FORMOSA IN 1909
By FRANK G. CARPENTER.

, to build the road but 1t has been done in much less than that,
 What did the road cost7"
 'In the neighborhood of fourteen or if teen million dollars We shall build branch roads here and there and shall open up the whole of the settled part of the Island through railways"
 Big Changes In Formosa.
 What other improvements have you made?
 A great many. We are practically making a new Island of Taiwan," said Dr. Goto. And what is more we are now making the island pay its own ex- penses and it will In time pay for all it's Improvements. We are putting roads everywhere. We have introduced post offices into all the towns. In 1896 there were only 45 places where postage stamps could be bought There are now 500 or 700. About 100000 letters and post cards and about 100000 other postal packages go through the malls every year. We have money order offices and postal saw ings banks with tens of thousands of de- positors We have something like 2OOO miles of telegraph wire and about 6Oo- 900 messages are sent over them every year Our telegraph receipts are more than 100000 yen per annum and they yield a profit to the government. We have a good telephone system estab- lished There are several hundred miles of lines and the telephone calls run up Into the millions a year. We are us- ing wireless telegraphy in some districts into which the ordinary lines have not been extended"
 How about your connections With Japan and China?'
 ''They are very good. The Osaka Sho- sen Kaisha has three or four steamers a month via Moji The passage takes about four days. There is a regular service of steamers around the coast of the island and regular connections with Fuchan Annoy, Swatow and Hongkong. As a result of the good steamship com munication and our improvements in the island the commerce with Japan Is steadily increasing and a large propor- ton of the foreign goods comes from here The imports of the island now amount to in the neighborhood of SO,00O,- GOO yen and the exports are consider ably more than that. More than one-half of the imports come from Japan and more than half of the exports go there.'
 Sugar, Rice and Tea.
 'Is Formosa a rich island?"
 Yes" replied Baron Goto. Tt has much excellent soil and 1t produces large crops of tea, rice, sugar and hemp. Almost anything that will grow in the Philippine islands will grow there. Sugar is prov ing especially valuable. Some time ago the government imported seven Ameri- can mills to crush the cane and a num- Der of new manufacturing firms have been established Sugar has been raised there for 100 years and 1t is still the chief crop. The yield is now from 20,- GOO to 40,00O pounds per acre.
 "As to rice, we are trying to improve the product in quantity and quality. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-14

smokers is gradually decreasing by deaths, and in time We hope to entirely abolish the evil"
 Do you think that China can abolish its opium evil by it's recent prohibitory laws?"
 "No It is an impossiblity. You can have no idea of the extent to which opium is used in some parts of China. When we took possession of Formosa there were S9 native and foreign firms engaged in importing the drug. There were 60 or 10 different medicines containing opium which the people bought when the drug ran short and opium was used by all classes At first the officials favored the policy of prohibition, but objected to that on the grounds that it-would be injurious to the people to suddenly stop the smoking and that such a prohibition could not be enforced. The result was our present policy
 The Chinese of Formosa.
 "Give me some idea of the Chinese of Formosa What kind of people are they; and how big a proportion of the popula- tion?"
 They form the most of the inhabitants. There are something like 100000 of them and only a few thousand savages. The Chinese own all the cultivated lands They populate both town and country and they are the real working part of the island They are mostly farmers. over 100000 of them being engaged in ag- riculture. There are about 100000 mer- chants and 9OO00 fishermen The laborers number something like 300,000, and those engaged in manufacture about 90,OOO.'
 Have you many Japanese?' We have 5O,OOO or so.' The New Schools.
 What are you doing to educate the people?"
 We are establishing schools and trying to make the use of the Japanese language prevalent throughout the island. We have a central language school at Taipeh in order to teach Japanese to the natives and the native languages to the Japa- nese. This school has normal branch which is training Japanese teachers for the native primary schools. It has Ian guage branch. where students are trained for the civil service. We have railway and telegraph sections. We have also some schools for Japanese chldreJ and some for native girls. We have estab- lished primary schools for native children
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-14

Copyright. 1909. by Frank G Carpenter)
 Tokio, 1909. ' WANT to tell you what the
 Japanese are doing in Formosa. \ Uncle Sam is much interested in that island. and Secretary Taft recent ly sent a commission of the war depart ment to go through 1t and report to him with a view to improvements in our pol icy in managing the Philippines. Japan got Formosa at the close of its war with China. just about five years before the Philippines came to us. The island was then in the throes of rebellion, and it was looked upon as about the poorest piece of property in the far east. It had practically been offered to France and Great Britain and refused. Its inhabi- tants were thought to be only pirates and savage head hunters. mixed with the lowest grade opium-smoking Chinese, and 1t was turbulent to an extreme. It was, if anything. in a worse condition than the Philippines when we took hold of them. After the island was ceded to the Japanese they had to fight their way from one end of 1t to the other to conquer it, and they kept a military establish ment there for five or six years.
 Formosa In 1909.
 At the same time they began to make improvements and to reorganize the coun- try. The island was put under civil ad- ministration within less than two years after its requirement. and now at the end OF ie Of To anese empire, paying its own financial expenses and rapidly improving along the lines of modern civilization. In these letters of mine on the awakening of Asia it is thus fitting that at least one should be written on the awakening of For mosa.
 In order to tell you how this nation of savagees and semi-barbarians has been quickened into modern life called this morning on Baron Shimpei Goto at his official residence near the Shinbashi railroad station here In To- lio Baron Goto Is now one of the cab inet of the Emperor. He Is the minis ter of communications; and as such has charge of the railways. telegraphs, shipping and other transportation prob lems of Japan. It Is now over ten years since he was made the civil gov ernor of Formosa, and 1t was largely due to him that that island has been so rapidly and efficiently reorganized and rejuvenated. He was for almost ten years in charge of its development, and no one can speak better as to Its pres ent situation and it's future.
 The Province of Taiwan.
 During our conversation Baron Goto brought out a relief map of the island