Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-11
BRlNkLEY, WITH THREE THOUS-
AND PEOPLE is DEVASTATED
BY STORM, FOLLOWED BY FIRE
STORM IN IOWA.
LATE REPORTS TO
EXTENT OF STORM
ST. LOUIS PAPER GETS REPORT
THAT THIRTY WEIR KILLED
PROPERTY DESTROYED.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Ottumwa is To-Day experiencing
funny snap Of the elements. In
the city park and in many OF the
| lawns, tender green blades OF
grass are making meek little de-
| but, turning the winters solemn
tint to brilliant emerald hue.
| Overhead the sun managed to
peep out for about five minutes
! about noon, while a steady pre-
cipitation, equally divided between
snow and rain, has been deluging
the city al day.
! Wheatiey, Ark, March Presidents
Of Brinkiey, which was devastated by
a tornado early last night, are arriving
here. Six white people are known 10
! be dead and probably fifteen injured.
Brinkley is town of 5000 inhabi-
tants and refugees say the entire bus
mess section is demolished and pro1
ably so per cert of the residences
RACED to the ground or rendered dn-
habitable
Relief trains have arrived at the
scene but all wire communication is
interrupted Reports from southern
and southeastern Arkansas say Il
heavy wind storm passed over those
sections of the state last night doing
considerable damage to outhouses and
small buildings, but no loss of life is
reported.
ST. Louis Gets Reports of Loss.
St. Louis, March "a special to
the Post-Dspatch from Brnkley,
Ark, says that thirty persons were
killed and fifteen to forty injured anil
more thar million dollars in proper
ty loss caused by the cyclone which
swept that city of three thousand pop
ulation last night. The city is to
tai loss. The business section is in
ruins and nine out of every ten resi-
dences are destroyed.
estry would place that department on
a permanent footing while the nur-
serymen Of the state feel that it is and
always has been in precarious posi-
ton. In fact there has been for sew
eral years talk of consolidating the de-
partment with the department Of Agri-
culture as a measure of economy. The
Gillilland bill would give the horticul-
turists permanent occupancy of the
room now used and also the room
which the capitol custodian has. 1t
would place at the disposal of the
State Horticultural society $4,000 a
year for publication of bulletins re-
garding horticultural and forestry
matters. The officers of the society
shall have control of the new depart
ment. The society as such already re-
port and the publication of the annual
report.
Pure Food Shoes.
1t is understood that Iowa manu-
facturers of shoes will present argu-
ments in support of the Bruce pure
boot bill' which applies the principles
of the pure food, pure seed and pure
paint laws to the making Of boots and
shoes. The bill provides that it shall
be unlawful "for any person to sell any
boot or shoe with counter, heel, in
sole, outsole, middle-sole or slip-sole
made in whole or in part of leather
board, straw-board, leatheroid, fibre
board, horn-fibre pate, or any substi
tute for leather whatsoever, without
clearly. legibly and in the English
| language stamping with metal die in
plain view, upon the outside of the
outsole of the boot or shoe, where and
! by whom such boot or shoe was made
and what substitute for leather, if
any has been used The provision
! does not extend to rubber boots or a
rubber heel nor to steel or wood filters
| in the shank nor to cork soles. The
same bill require stamping as convict
made the shoes and boots made with
prison labor This would effect con-
siderable industry carried on in Iowa.
! Members of the house committee
having in charge the Hansen bill to
prohibit certain advertising in news
papers state that the showing in op-
| position OF this bill as made by the
newspaper men of the state before the
committee was one Of the strongest
ever made against any bill There is
very little likelihood of the bill be-
coming law That some of the mem
bers feel very deeply that the publ
cation of some advertising matter is
all wrong is certain, but they have
been impressed with the declaration
that it would be an absolute impossi-
bility to prevent the most objection
able of the advertising matter with
out at the same time interfering with
perfectly legitimate business.
Persons who have it in mind to visit
the legislature and want to do SO at a
time when there is something doing
would do we'll to come this week. The
calendars of both houses are filled
with interesting matter which they
ought to work out during the week.
The senate, and probably the house,
will hold afternoon as we'll as morning
sessions. The senate has on the cal
endar for action woman suffrage. in
surance matters, primary elections,
board Of education and other matters.
! Ora Williams.