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$50 ACRES FOR SALE

LEVEL TRACT containing $50 acres,
just across the river, one mile
from the bridge. Lies just above
the High Line ditch and can be
easily watered by pumping. A
good proposition to cut up into 5
or 10 acre tracts. Has good house
and outbuildings. Fine spring fur
nishes water for house and barn.
One hundred acres may be pur-
chased If desired. Small cash
payment and balance on terms to
suit the purchaser This is a bar
gain for somebody. Write H. j..
Betty, Route No. 8.
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L. NJ. Lane, of Seattle, owner OF
the business building in which the D.
u.s. Johnston company and Mrs. Webb's
millinery parlors are located, is in
the city today on business matters.
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RESIDENCE BUY AND A BAR
GAIN-New thoroughly modern
house of six rooms, three fine bed
rooms and bath on second floor,
four closets; plumbing complete;
basement with stone foundation;
house tastefully papered. East
front lot 50x110, graded, seeded
and planted with young trees. If
you are looking for a good house
and have been disappointed in
others you have seen, we feel sure
that this will meet with your ex-
pectations. Price for immediate
sale $4,000. Will take city lots
in part payment. r. H. Nowlan &
Co., 5 N. Wenatchee ave. Phone
225. 4-12
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DON'T BUY HAY AT A BIG PRICE

DON'T BUY HAY AT A BIG PRICE
when you can raise it yourself on
the following plan: 1 have 80
acres of wheat land 6 miles from
Wenatchee, which l will sell for
$4,000. 1t will average $1,000
net per year in hay alone. If sew
eral Of you fruit men can get to-
gether on this it will save you
money on feed. Land close to
school. 8 room house; barn; good
cellar and cistern. Write me. L.
F. Ward, r. F. D. No. 3. 4-24
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FURNITURE FOR
SALE, CHEAP-For only $125
you can buy all the furniture ne
cessary to go in and begin house
keeping, including beds, stoves,
cupboards, dishes, carpets and kit
chen utensils. The house is for
rent to buyer of the furniture at
$12 per month, with water fur
nished. See Wenatchee Valley
Land Co. Phone 1893. Ala
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BUSINESS CHANCES

HOTEL PROPOSITION
in growing town, center of devel-
oped irrigated district; IS rooms,
large Office, dining room, kitchen.
two baths, city water. electric lights,
gas plant, steam heat, restaurant
complete. Entire lower floor can
be partitioned and sublet for three
or four store rooms. (Rent s125
per month";. Best business loca-
ton in town. For further particu-
lars address Claussen Brewing AS
ISOLATION, Seattle, Wash. 40
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FOR SALE-10 acres in East We
natchee. In trees two years old.
Good slope for irrigation. Slightly
location. Free of rock and sand.
Fifteen minutes walk from ferry.
Small house. Any one with ST.
500 cash can swing this deal.
Price $4,000. Set to best varie-
ties of commercial fruit. Inquire
of Dave Shattuck, real estate
agent, at the ferry. On sale for
10 days only. Alb
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EGGS FOR HATCHING-Pure Black
Minorcas, LIST pen So; End pen,
$3.50. Also Pekin ducks. Mrs.
L. J. Compton, phone sc. 40
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John Brandt, of Cashmere, who
was operated upon for appendicitis
by DR.. Mccoy, the first of the week.
is improving. Notwithstanding the
seriousness Of his case. much hope
is now entertained for his recovery.
He is at the Emergency hospital.
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Advertised Letters.
Letters remaining at the Wenat-
chez postoffice unclaimed for the
week ending April 6, 1909.
Bullock, VIM. (4
Dillingham;, Percy CD
Barnett, Otis M.
Davis, c. M.
Edwards, ]. w.
Gardner, Karl
Habersety, Conrad
Hull, G. w.
Jackey, c. F.
Koken, BENZ. H.
Merlin, Helen Louise
Moore, Harry c.
More, Colby
Mott, n. A.
Martinson, P.
Nichols, Geo. w.
Stewart, 0. j.
Sturgeon, VIM.
Tyler, H. F.
Woodland, L. L.
White, E. 0.
Watkins, Carry
Persons calling for the above will
please say advertised.
l.. M. HULL, p. M.
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THOSE IN NEED of awnings, porch
curtains or anything in the can
vas line will do we'll to see me be-
fore buying. All awnings and cur
tains erected. Work guaranteed
A. Greenfield, Wenatchee Machine
Shop. 40
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THE MALAGA REAL ESTATE co.
has a few bargains in orchard
tracts. These were listed just be-
fore the advance in prices in the
Malaga fruit lands. The present
list prices only hold good for a few
days. If you want a genuine bar
gain see us at once Malaga Real
Estate Co. IF
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SIX YEARS TINE AND NO INTER-
EST-12 acres of rich, deep soil,
level as floor, all set to modern
filler" orchard going into its
third year. The total price is too
cheap to quote. Terms $4,000
cash and six years on the balance,
without interest. Phone Cashmere
1919. If
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L. M. Wilcox, for number OF
years a resident of Cashmere, leaves
this week to take up his permanent
residence on the Sound. He still re-
tains considerable property in Cash
mere, which he has rented.
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TEN ACRES of choice orchard land,
seven acres set to best varieties
Of apples, six acres of which is
bearing; lays level; good water
right. No better soil in valley.
Will take Wenatchee residence
property in exchange on first pay
ment. Malaga Real Estate Com
pany, Office opposite postof1ce. tt
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A CHANCE TO GET AN ORCHARD
ON YOUR TERMS acres, less
than a mile from the station, all
set to modern orchard; $500 per
acre, $35 or $40 per acre cash,
balance long time. Phone Cash
mere 1919. tt
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FOR SALE-Eggs for setting. Full
blood White Rock. $1.00 for Is
or $500 hundred. Good layers.
Got eggs all winter. Call on ]. R.
Phipps, or phone 386, or leave
orders at P. P. Holcomb's store.
Ais
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TEN ACRES for sale or trade; set
to apples; will take city property
in exchange. 8 years on balance.
Apply P. o. Box 305. 40
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FINE LITTLE DRIVING HORSE. :.
Good locker and a traveller; well
broke, single or double and broke
to saddle. Phone 1864. H. S.
Wetherald. Ala
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in orchard lands and
town property. Call on or ad-
dress Smart Bros. Malaga, Wash.
Alb
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PIANO FOR SALE-Dirt cheap at
the price and to go for only $3.50.
Worth at least twice the money.
Phone 1893. 4-21
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FOR SALE-A good 10-acre fruit
ranch, 3 year old trees, near En-
tiat. Terms. A bargain. Call on
or address M. o. Pressnall, Entiat,
Wash. 4-1S
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SPRAYING

PUBLIC SPRAYING.-I am prepared
to do spraying for the public in
Wenatchee. Phone 1912, or call
w. ]. Crow, 403 Fourth street.
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AN OKANOGAN RANCH for sale.
100 acres under the Loup Loup
irrigation project. Water guaran-
teed next year; 21s acres bearing
orchard; II acres young orchard;
100 acres in cultivation; fine soil:
perennial springs: all farm machin-
cry. 500 per acre. No agents.
Address H. o. Hinde, r. F. D. No.
/, Okanogan, Wash. tt
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THE LOCATION AND TERMS WILL
SELL THIS-10 acres, " mile
from station, all in fine apples and
pears, with alfalfa strips between
the rows on 6 acres. Splendid rich
soil; high line" water. 1t goes
at $500 on your terms. Phone
the owner, Cashmere 1919. If
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EGG MACHINE-A TEN MONTHS
LAYER-THE ANCONAS. Eggs
for sale. Is for $500. H. r. Cox,
Wenatchee, Wash. 4-31
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sewing by day or
week. Children's speciality. In
quire for Mrs. MCGUIRE, at Mrs.
Scanlan's $40
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100 ACRES FOR SALE miles
from Wenatchee AMI four miles
from station; 5 acres bearing Or
chard; So acres alfalfa; good four
room house; large barn; good well
Of water; fine water right. In
quire of or address N. E. Harris,
535 Wenatchee Ave. So. tt
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FOR SALE-Good second hand wa
gon. Price $40. Phone 1913. A.
J. Mccullough. 4-8
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1000 CUSTOMERS WANTED to
use our Denatured Alcohol. F. T.
Blunck, Phone 573. Wenatchee,
Wash As
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BOARD

PLAIN BOARD AND ROOM-Call
corner Fifth ana E streets north,
or phone 1914. 4-10
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CLASSIFIED classified
l25 CENTS PER INSERTION; $500
A WEEK FOR NOT MORE THAN
FOUR LINES.
FARM PROPERTY FOR SALE

FOR SALE-A tract In East Wenat-
chez. This is a snap. From $125
to $500 per acre. Only miles
from the ferry and under the High
Line ditch. This land may be SUBJ
divided into 5 ana 10 acre tracts.
See Knowles & Lucavish, real es-
tate, Orondo avenue. Phone 1855.
4-19
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CLASSIC
IL CENTS PER INSERTION; $1.O0
A WEEK FOR NOT MORE THAN
FOUR LINES.


THE WENATCHEE UNDERTAKE
ING COMPANY. C. G. Hall, presi-
dent; H. N. May, sec., treas. and
mgr. Funeral Directors and Ii
censed Embalmers. Mrs. c. G.
Hall, lady assistant. Parlor No.
10 Mission street north. Second
door north of Great Northern ho-
tel. Phone 1865. Open day and
night. Wenatchee, Wash.
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MISCELLANEOUS

ROOM AND BOARD wanted by gen.
tleman and young girl. Private
family preferred or housekeeper,
elderly lady. Permanent position.
References. Phone 1865 or call
Walker & Widney's office. As
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FOR SALE-Delivery wagon; would
be handy for fruit men. Price
$25. Phone 1913. A. J. McCul-
Tough. AS
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CLASSIC

IS CENTS PER INSERTION; 500
A WEEK FOR NOT MORE THAN
FOUR LINES.
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SECOND HAND fireproof safe for
sale, cheap. Address A. G. NJ,
care Daily World, Wenatchee. ALP
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C[ASS|F|E
25 CENTS PER INSERTION: 81 90
A WEEK FOR NOT MORE THAN
FOUR LINES.


FOR SALE-Seven room modern
house, with three 50-foot lots set
In bearing fruit. Will sell house
or lots separate. Sec w. q. Thorn
hill, 23S North Chelan ave.
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FOR SALE-A model home, COM
prising $40 acres, near Wenatchee.
Springs for irrigation, water piped
to house and stable. Plant In
cludes plows, harrows, drill, wa
gon, hack, header, threshing ma
chine and tools, 3 head work
horses and harness, bob sled and
small sled, chickens, fresh COW,
and other things. Price $4,000:
$4,000 down and three years on
balance. For further particulars,
address P. o. Box 26S. Wenatchee,
Wash. Ais
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THE ROYAL HIGHLANDERS meet
the frst ana third Wednesday of
the month in Eagle hall. Visit
ing members cordially invited to
attend. J. c. Campbell. Illustri-
Gus Protector; Miss Anna Kyle,
Secretary.
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FRED BERRY, Civil Engineer. Land
surveying, subdivision work, esti-
mates. and irrigation projects.
Phone 1864. County Engineer S
Office. Wenatchee, Wash.
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WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS-Daniel
McCook Corps No. Is meets at
Sprasue Hall second and fourth
Fridays of each month at 2 p. m.
Mrs. L. WenHer. president; Anna
w. May, Secretary.
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WANTED-A driver for delivery
wagon. State wages wanted and
experience. Address Lock Box
1902. Alp
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EMPLOYMENT AGENCY

EMPLOYMENT AGENCY k. J..
Cummings has moved his employ
ment agency to the building di-
rectly across the street from the
Wenatchee Department Store. 4-30
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CIVIL ENGINEERS

). c. WARD, Civil Engineer ano
Surveyor. Irrigation work . spe
ealty. Once, Columbia Valley
RAnk Building. Wenatehee. Wash
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SGGS FOR HATCHING-Fron our
pure bred s. c. White Leghorns,
Barred Plymouth Rocks, S. C.
Rhede Island Reds, Houdans. The
establishment OF heavy laying
strains our specially. Call for free
catAsog eaataiaiag description of
breeding pens, prices Of eggs and
records Of our phenoMeaai layers.
70 birds exhibited at eur last show
won 81 regular prizes and silver
cups. Stock for sale. WEST END
POULTRY RANCH, Phone SIS,
WeaatsAee, Washington.
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FOR SALE

FIRST CLASS SPRAYER for sale.
Inquire Phone gu. If
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BROTHERHOOD OF AMERICAN
YOEMEN, Columbia Homestead,
No. $50, meets first and third Tues
days of each month at Sprague
Hall. For Information. see U. F.
Lake. Deputy. w. A. Grant, Fore
man; C. w. Jorgenson, Correspon-
dent.
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FOR SALE-Cabbage, celery, to-
mato, pepper, lettuce, egg, cauli-
flower and other garden plants in
quantities. Good varieties. Send
in large orders early. W. s. Mil
ner. Phone 1874. Washington and
E streets. tt
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HELP WANTED

GIRL WANTED-At the Park no.
tel. Good wages. Phone 1915.
40
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Plants, Shrubs
and Flowers
Leave orders for same at Wenatchee
& Rock Island Warehouse Co..
corner Wenatchee Avenue and Pa
louise. Phone 1895.
POSITIONS WANTED

GOOD JAPANESE COOK wants stu
alton. Has references. Address,
Okabe, 1876 Mission street, Wenat-
chez. Ala
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WANTED-Competent girl for gen.
eral homework. Phone 355. 48
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WANTED-A competent woman to
do general homework; two in fam
lily; salary $50. Phone 1861. As
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SEEDS

STANDARD VARIETIES OF Garden,
flower and hotbed seeds. We take
orders for plants. Wenatchee &
Rock Island Warehouse company.
Corner Palouse and Wenatchee
avenue. Phone 1875.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-31

DEATH OCCURRED THIS AFTER
NOON AT EXCELSIOR sPRiNGs,
MO-, WHERE HE HAD GONE IN
HOPE OF FINDING RELIEF.
GREATLY LOVED BY
ALL WHO KNEW HIM

A pail of gloom overhangs the city
and keen is the sorrow OF the hun
dreds Of friends Of the Rev, Frank f.
stoltz, d. D., who answered the finai
summons at 1855 noon today in
hospital at Excelsior Springs, Mo. The
sad intelligence was conveyed by a
message shortly after the dissolution
had taken place and Ottumwa has lost
very good citizen, mankind a real
brother. With him at the time of his
death was his ever faithful and now
grief-stricken wife. Together they
went to the hospital at Excelsior
Springs just week ago today in the
hope that the beloved churchmnn
might secure at least a longer lease of
life. Medical science and all that care
and attention could do were unavail-
Ing; he who had been the follower
of the Good Shepherd in all kinds Of
weather. In sickness and in health
had become the victim of his dread
malady. For some time he had felt
that the end could not be far off, and
DR.. Stoltz was prepared to meet his
reward and was reconciled to return
to his Master when the end came.
Son Leaves for Springs.
Surviving the loss of an ever loving
and kind husband and father, is his
wife, two daughters, Mrs. j. K Mahon
and Miss Frances Stoltz; four sons.
Samuel, Paul, John and Oscar. Paul
has left for Excelsior Springs to ac-
company his mother and the remains
to Ottumwa The funeral arrange
ments will be announced later.
Resigned Passionate October 7.
DR. Stoltz had been in failing health
for long time and was forced for
that cause to give UP his work as pas
tor. of the First PreshEt ertan church,
where he for seven years had served
with the universal satisfaction Of the
congregation. His flock was reluctant
to see him leave the ranks of active
ate at the First Presbyterian church
took place at the meeting of the Iowa
Presbytery held Oct, Z, 1908, and
marked the close of service as pas
tor of more than seven years in OF
tumwa. His farewell sermon was
preached to an immense throng in
the church September 27. 1908. and
many wet eyes were witnesses Of the
last official act of the retiring pastor.
Twenty-six Years Minister.
Born in Ohio. near the city of Day
ton. in 1854, most of his life was spent
in Illinois, where the conservation Of
his life to the ministry of the Presby-
terian church took place. He was ed
ucated in the Westfield, ILL.,, college
and at the Union Theological semi
nary of New York City. His pastor
ates covered period of 26 years and
were as follows: Carbondale, H..
eight years; Streator, eleven years,
and in Ottumwa, where he came July
L, 1901, a little more than seven
wears
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CHILDREN ON STRIKE
only Eight Out Of Two Hundred in
Plttsbure District Return
- CcLoat

Pittsburg, Aug. 3O.--When the public
school at Pittston, located In tho
Pressed Steel Car company strike
district, resumed today after the sum
mer vacation, only three children out
of the entire enrolment of 200 were
present. The children had posted this
notice, we are al Ion strike" Con-
ditions are quiet In the strike district.
kidnapers to Stand Trial.
Kansas City, Aug. 30.--Mrs. James
Barclay and ]. N. Gentry, the detective,
charged with kidnapping Marion Bleak
ley, the incubator baby" left for
Topeka today In the custody of Kansas
officers to stand trial
Letter Carriers Meet.
ST. Paul, Aug. 30.-The convention
of the National Association Of Letter
Carriers opened here today. The feat
ure of the afternoon was parade.
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EARTHQUAKE IN PANAMA.
Fears Entertained That Damage Was
Done to Canal, But This Can't
Be Learned.

Panama, Aug. 3b.-An earthquake
was experienced here shortly after 8
o'clock this morning. The people
We're greatly alarmed. No serious
damage was reported and no one was
injured.
The quake was felt also at Aqua
dulce, Cocle province. and Pacora,
province OF Panama, points more than
IA hundred miles apart.
There is nothing as yet to indicate
that the canal was damaged by the
quake. Special inquiries are being
made in this direction.
Col Goethals received an official re-
port OF the quake felt at various
points in the canal zone, but no men
ton was made of any damage to the
works.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-31
WOMAN HORSEWH!PPED
Mo-, People do Not Take
Kindly to keokuk's
Derni-Monde.

Keokuk, Aug. 3o.-Mrs. Lizzie
Grown and her daughter. Maggie
Brown, driven out of Keokuk in a re-
cent crusade against the red light dis
trict, were tarred and feathered ut
Alexandria, Mo-, five miles south Of
here, the community having grown
tired of their presence.
They again returned to Alexandria
and at II O'Clock at night another
mob Of forty men gathered at their
nome and gave them a horsewhipping,
after which they We're escorted to the
bank of the Mississippi and, having
been placed in skifi without oars,
We're turned adrift on the bosom of
the river, with threat not to return
under penalty Of death They landed
below Alexandria
A strange man was treated likewise.
Two men escaped from the mob.
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WOMAN KILLED BY CAR
Mrs. A. jeffrey Of Cedar Rapids
Ground to Death at Des
MoInes,

Des Moines, Aug. 3o.--Mrs. Ambrose
Jeffrey, 1724 Second avenue. Cedar
Rapids was run over by a street car
at East Thirteenth street and Grand
avenue at 7:45 o'clock last night. The
car crushed both of her legs above
the knees and she died at o'clock
shortly after reaching Mercy hospital
where she was taken by the police
Mrs. Jeffrey was the guest of her
nephew, Willard B. Jeffrey, 1914 Cap
itol avenue. In company with her
cousin, Mrs. o. S. -,rown, 1921 West
Twenty-ninth street, and Mrs. Mar
garet Thomas of Waterloo, she spent
the afternoon at the state fair. The
party left the fair grounds a little aft
er 7 o'clock in the evening, and the
accident occurred when Mrs. Jeffrey
alighted from the car at East Thir-
teenth street and Grand avenue
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-31
FIVE KILLED
IN AUTO CRASH
ENTIRE FAMILY WIPED OUT NEAR
ST. LOUIS WHEN STRUCK
BY TRAIN.

ST. Louis, Aug. 30.-Five persons,
four of them closely related, were
killed Sunday when an automobile in
which they were riding was struck by
a fast passenger train of the Chicago.
Rock Island & Pacific railway two and
a half miles west of Vigus station, on
the Creye Coeur Lake road, st. Louis
county.
List of the Dead.
All victims of the accident we're resi-
dents of st. Louis.
The dead:
WITTE, THEODORE F., 1924 Whit
temore place.
WITTE, THEODORE F., JR., aged
3 years.
KLINGE. MRS. CARL, 1714 Missouri
avenue.
CAMPBELL. MISS HALCYON, r231
Whittemore place.
WITTE, FREDERICK O., $685. Yer
non avenue.
The two men We're brothers and
officials of the Witte Hardware COM
pany. one OF the Oldest mercantile
establishments of the city. Mrs. Klinge
was their sister-in-law.
The party had been at Creve Occur
lake, a resort Twelve miles west of the
city, earlier IN the day and We're speed
ing honeward when killed. Theodore
Witte was driving the machine with
his brother beside him and the Two
women and children in the tonneau.
The railroad track at its crossing
with the Creve Occur lake road runs
along an enbankment about ten
feet high and view along it in
either direction from the road is
obscured by thick grove and dense
underbrush. Unable to see the train
or to hear its approach because of the
noise made by the motor in driving
the automobile up the embankment,
Mr.. Witte steered directly in the path
of the oncoming train. which was max.
ing about forty miles an hour
Strikes Auto squarely
The locomotive struck the automo-
bile squarely. Mr.. Witte and his
brother were tossed forty feet away.
The boys body dropped from the front
of the train an eighth of mile down
the track, and the women, caught in
the tonneau, were crushed almost be-
yond recognition in the wreckage,
which was carried quarter OF a mile
beyond The scene of the accident, and
was still On the cowcatcher when the
train was stopped.
Theodore Witte was the only mem
her of the party who was not instantly
killed He survived long enough to
be brought to a hospital in ST. Louis,
bl7t died there without repa ming con.