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The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-26

WASHINGTON, Feb, 2G.-M 4 o'clock this morning after a session lasting all night Representative Hum phrey of Washington secured the adoption of an amendment increasing Che appropriation for Che protection of Alaskan game from 5000 to $lo. 0OO. During the debate Representa-.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

Des Moines, Keokuk and other Iowa
cities have begun crusade against
the cocaine seller. Ottumwa has fol
lowed with similar crusade. Every
aid should be given the officers in
their campaign to drive this evil
from the community.
A proclamation issued today by
Mayor Phillips, which is published in
full in another column of this issue,
gives the provisions of the Iowa stat
utes prohibiting the sale or distribu-
ton of cocaine and other pernicious
drugs. Notice is also served on all per-
sons dealing in cocaine that the pro-
visions of these statutes will be en-
forced to the letter in Ottumwa.
Chief of Police Day of Des Moines
has also begun a war on the cocaine
seller. The crusade which has long
been under consideration, was precip-
itated by the confession of John Jun
kin, in which he said he was full of
cocaine when he murdered Clara Ro,
sen. Chief Days remarks on cocaine
are worthy of reproduction. He says:
"The coke fiend is the worst Grim
inal with which we have to deal. A
man or woman while under the influ-
ence Of the drug has no conception OF
moral right or wrong and is likely to
commit any depreciation. 1t is more
pernicious many times over in its in
fluence than any of the other so
called dope Whisky as "a cause OF
crime is not to be compared with it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

When the penitehtiary turns. out
such products as John Junkin- turns
them out one year and several months
before their terms have expired it Is
time to quit wasting sympathy on the
convicts. Fewer social features and up
lift societies in the penitentiaries and
more hard work, with bread and water
and an occasional ball and chain
thrown in is more fitting treatment for
the depraved brutes, whose crimes rob
them of their freedom. Don't pamper
the convicts. Make their punishment
only a degree lighter than the gal
lows and their fear of the penitentiary
will aid them to keep outside its
walls.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04
THE lNTERUEBAN.

Last night the city council took
step in furthering the campaign for in
terurban building In Ottumwa when
the franchise ordinance was intro
duced and successfully passed. This
was one Of the legal steps necessary
before the matter could properly be
brought before the people. 1t gives
another indication that the interurban
movement is gaining ground, and that
no time will be lost in advancing the
project until it has become an assured
reality. The following instance Is
cited from an Indiana town which
shows the benefit the people Of the
country receive from the interurban.
It is from a special article written for
1.-THE Tradesman'::
There are SO many public and pri-
vate benefits due to interurban serv-
ice that space will not permit a full
discussion, but one emergency among
the list is worthy of mention. Some
weeks ago there was a race between
an interurban and death to enable Mr..
and Mrs. Luther Stephens of New
Castle, Ind, to get their two-and-a-half
year old daughter to an Indianapolis
hospital. Delay meant death and to
wait for steam train would have
lost to these parents their only chill.
The child had suffered a fractured
skull An electric car was chartered
and with the family and physician the
car was given the right Of way. The
car raced to the Eastman hospital and
time coupled with modern facilities
saved the life of the child.
Yet there was time when the peo-
pie Of New Castle bitterly opposed the
interurban. Now the second is build
ing and is being received with glad
hands.
The convenience has become so gen
eral that If a farmers wife forgets to
buy spool of thread, she can tele-
phone to town and in few minutes
the conductor will toss it over into
the farm yard.
The farmer that has rural mail, daily
paper, telephone and an interurba1,
If he lacks bath tub and will ad i
that to his list Of Injuries, with the
pure, free county ozone, he will have
the city man TESTED by big odds.
Ottumwa should not be compelled
to work alone on this int?rurban mat
ter. There should be substantial help
from the people of the country sur
rounding, as they will share the bene-
fits of the interurban.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04
Fighting a Plague.

Philadelphia Ledger: War upon
tuberculosis is being waged through
out the land This movement is unique
among reforms in that it has no OPP
position unless that Of mere inertia. A
plague that for many years had been
submitted to as inevitable and inexor-
able has found in science foe deter
mined upon victory. Investigation
has thrown new light upon the dis
ease and the fact has been revealed
that consumption is not of necessity
fatal. There has also been demon
strated the possibility of prevention
The isolation of the tubercuar germ
was momentous step in the battle for
human life and being followed quickly
by knowledge Of the conditions under
which these germs flourish, hope arose
that the scourge might ultimately be
banished. This appears to be no idle
hope. People are being instructed how
to fortify themselves against the in
roads of the malady, how to fight off
it's clutch If it has already fastened
upon them. In the elimination of con-
sumption the genius Of the medical
world perceives the chance of achiev-
ing a GROWING glory and to this end
bends all it's energies.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

Z s7 & E.t u
The citizens who have not as yet sub
scribed to the fund will on these two
days be given last opportunity to
join in the Allison testimonial
Many Ottumwa people have made a
generous response to the call for ALI
son subscriptions, but the sum raised
thus far is nothing like it should be.
Senator Allison endeared himself to
the people of Iowa by his faithful SER
vice of years in their behalf, Ottumwa
has especial reason to be grateful to
him, for one of his last acts was to
push through an appropriation for
the erection of magnificent new fed
eral building here. 1t is hoped that OF
tumwa will do it's part in swelling the
fund that is to provide fitting me-
mortal for this great man in the cap;
ital city of the state.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04
PRIMARY BOB AND WICKED
BOIES.

The New York Sun: The Hon Rob
ert Marion LaFollette must rejoice
greatly in the remarks which the Hon.
Boies Penrose made about him in the
senate on Thursday. What if the Wis
consin Tribune does little or no com
mittee work? What if during his three
years in the senate he has seldom or
never attended session of the COM
mittees of which he is member?
What, if, paying no attention to the
committee assignments which he has,
he roars like a Hyrcan tiger for more?
He will be all the dearer to 1.-The peo-
ple' therefor, and his terms on the
Chautauqua circuit are sure to go up.
MrLaFollette is the purge and cen
sor of the senate. He is the good
deed in that naughty little world, Lot
in Sodom, the leaven In the lump.
Snail he corrupt himself by associating
with representatives Of "the interests,
hired men of the hundred plutocrats
that own the senate and the rest OF
the United States? He owes it ID
himself, his ambitions, his constitu-
ency, his paper, to keep himself un-
spotted from association with the
mammon of unrighteousness in the
committees. What he gets by lectur-
ing and weekly papering is good
money, mammon Of righteousness.
Anyway, committee, work Is dull and
doesn't show in the press Naturally
Primary Bob prefers to talk.
Yet Primary Bob can work hard
and faithfully. The school speakers
Of the future will contain few clearer
arguments, few nobler specimens OF
the eloquence of moral worth, than his
explanation of his absence after the
Christmas recess.
cat that time | was at my home
experimenting the publication Of the
magazine which am issuing, and 1t
seemed absolutely necessary that /
should give few days of attention to
that bushes at that time"
He was working for himself, anu
therefore necessarily for the people.
The more he is absent from the sen.
ate-and even if he holds the record
for misunderstanding more he is pres
ent with the people. The more he is
houted by sneering aristocrats and
plutocrats like Penrose, the more loud
ly will he howl to the downtrodden,
calling them and heaven to witness
how virtue is prosecuted. His con-
scientious abstention from the pub.
lie business to attend to his own i;
one of the most beautiful traits in a
Transparent character
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04
THE. REGATTA.

The regatta that is to be held here
this summer is an event of great
Importance to Ottumwa. 1t will serve
to advertise the city far and wide, and
1t will bring to the city hundreds Of
people from the cities OF the middle
west as competitors and spectators.
1t is not generally known, but 1t is
nevertheless the case, that Ottumwa
has one Of the best water courses
In the country. The Des Moines river
above the boat house is an ideal
stretch Of water for boating. There is
no more current than in the lakes, and
there Is the added advantage Of not
having the strong wind to contend
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04
KEoKUk'S APPROVAL.

Keokuk Gate City. The Ottumwa
Courier gives public notice that the CO.
caine practice in that city is going to
stop and that the best way for those
concerned is to see that they are In
the clear before it is too late. II
would be well for the authorities in
Keokuk to be- equally vigilant and de-
termined. Cocaine is more demoraliz.
ing in it's effects than whisky and more
dangerous to the community. Those
who supply habitues with the drug
should be punished to the full extent
of the law.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04
LET THE LAW TAKE ITS COURSE,

The brutal murder of Clara Rosen
has been cleared up. There now re-
mains the duty of bringing the muir
derer to Justice In this matter OF
tumwa is given the opportunity TO
munity. It's duty, now clearly pointed
out, is to bring Junkin speedily to trial
in Ottumwa and give him a speedy
conviction, allowing the law to take
its course.
Any resort to violence would leave
deeper stain than any Of the crimes
which have gone before. Ottumwa
has been given the widespread repn-
tation for laxity in law enforcement
and harboring criminals. If there Was
any attempt to take the punishment
Of ,Junkin from the hands of the law
it would be proof that this reputation
Is deserved. 1t would be proof that
Ottumwa openly defes the law, as in
this case the facts are such as 20
make it certain that the law will give
Junkin the extreme penalty for his
crime.
Mob violence places <an everlasting
stain on the citizens Of any commun-
Ivy. 1T puDllSneS DTOduCdSl. lndl lnS
people defy the law. 1t lessons the
value Of human life and makes the
citizen feel that law is helpless. Dur
ing the reign of the mob the private
citizen does not know where to turn
for help. The stain on the name OF
Springfield is not due to the crimes
which aroused the mob, but to the
numbering and pillaging Of that mob
Junkin should be tried and convict
ed in Ottumwa at once. Let jury of
citizens pass upon his crime and rem.
der their verdict. By seeing to it
that the law does take its course OF
tumwa vii do much to wipe out the
blot on its fair name.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04
A Grateful Editor.

Kincaid (Kan) Dispatch: We wish
to thank the city authorities for quar-
antining me and my family for two
weeks recently because one of the
children had smallpox. During that
time my wife caught up with h2r sew
ing undisturbed by callers. We had
three square meals day, and no one
came in and my wife was not permit
ted to go out. We enjoyed two weeks
of good long nights sleep, and, best of
all, cousin with four children arrived
to visit with us. saw the sign on the
door and left town so scared that she
will never come back again. l wish
to thank the city authorities and hope
they will think of our comfort some
time again.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

The electric roads Of Indiana, by
which is meant largely the interur-
bans, carried 2S,OS2,4S7 passengers in
1907. The average fare was 1876 cents.
The gross earnings of all the electric
systems in the state was $10,37S,939.-
76 and the freight earnings equalled
s419.295.51. The sum spent in the bet
terment of the systems was $S06,242.-
81. The amount paid the state for
taxes was s451, 1881. Here are some
figures that provide a good argument
in favor of interurbans.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

with that is found on the lake courses.
There are some days when it is i'm
possible to start races on the lakes
because of the wind. The only time
the Ottumwa course is not available
for racing events Is during the periods
Of high water, and they are few and
far between.
There is probability that the re-
gatta may be made an annual event in
Ottumwa. This probability is SO de-
sirable that all aid should be given the
Boat club officials in making their re-
gatta this summer a great success.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

glad, his strains become ours; when
we are beset by fears and enemies;
again we discover that he experienced
our exact case, and has expressed 1t;
when sense of our sin overwhelms
us, we find no words to voice the
souls cry like David's; and when our
souls aspire after the water brooks,
then we instinctively turn to these an
cient meditations to give articulation
to our profoundest emotion. There is
scarcely mood to which the human
spirit is subject that is not perfectly
mirrored in this most wonderful book
of poems in all the world, the Psalms
of Israel.
Over and over again men have said
that if they were to be cast away on
a desert island with only one book,
they would choose for that book the
Bible. Such an exile would read oft,
enest, next in the Gospels, the mex
haustible book of Psalms, with its
comfort and it's inspiration.
Human spirits, like musical instrn
ments, need to be tuned up" NJ
better method or getting the soul into
key has been discovered than the
reading of the Psalms. They bring the
heart into harmony with thoughts 81
God.
The writer's of the Psalms could soal
with the best, but for the most par
they were men In world of men.
They kept their feet on the solo
ground of actualities. Their expert
ences were the common experience;
of mankind But they sanctified then
with an illuminated Judgment; int
all the Incidents Of life they brougn
Jehovah. With them life was war
plus God; work-plus God; trouble
plus God; temptation, sin and repent
ance-plus God. They saw life eve
with respect to the infinite. Ant
that is the only conception of exist
ence worthy of the consideration .
an immoral.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04
"ALLIsoM DAY. TOMORROW.

Tomorrow is "Allson Day" In all
the public schools Of the state sub
scriptions will be received from the
children to aid in making the fund to
erect a monument at Des Moines to
the memory of the lamented states
man. Today and tomorrow the lists
will be kept open at the Courier office
and In all the hanks of the county.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04
- a. - CURES
- - - BLOOD POISON

No poison particle
the blood will later trouble
coloIed spoch falling hair and ulcers No other
blood
o and steadily and surely drives particle the infection
ch and healthy as before the destructive
circulation
and gradually symptoms disappear improved the skin
cleared all spots and bensh coming
the mouth throat heal and when
poison trace of the disease contagious poison
IS the OF all blood purifiers
than treatment
and medical advice free to who write 80
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. GA
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

Opposing bill to make Oct. IL Co.
lumbus day and a holiday in Illinois,
an Illinois legislator says Columbus
was an accident, mercenary sailor
who bumped into an island and found
he had discovered something" The
esteemed Sig. Ferrero, who said Cleo
patra was fat, Rome before it's fall
a rube village and Horace wine
agent, doesn't seem to hold the edge
over the Illinois man when it comes
to knocking the historians.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04
Hail to the Homecomers.

Philadelphia Record: Hail to the
homecomers! Whatever one may think
of the wisdom or unwisdom of the cir
cumnavigatory cruise, one must feel a
thrill at thought of the joy Of those
good fellows because they are getting
back to Gods country and of the
art-throbbing happiness of the
sweethearts and wives and mothers
and sisters crowding down to greet
them. Welcome and all hall!
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

The travelling men of the city never
do anything by half. They started the
movement that brought detective tai
ent to the city and in less than a
week brutal murder was cleared up.
The travelling men are Ottumwa's live
wires and their aid and leadership
should be enlisted in all movements
for the betterment of the city.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

After all, says the Keokuk Gate
City, conditions in Pittsburg are
not as bad as they might be. Only
Lightweight out of possible ninety
six of the coun cilmen there are ac-
cused of graft. Pittsburg is another
open town.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04
AN OLD BOOKS VOGUE.
Terse Comments Upon the Christian
Endeavor Topic for March z, 'Life
Lessons for Me From the Psalms"
IS, As: III.
BY WILLIAM r. ELLIS

'fOs III J..
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
Who can remember the best sell
ing books of year ago? Where are
the volumes that were hailed as epoch
making, and the teachers who were to
revolutionize thought? Forgotten and
neglected, most Of them. But still, in
increasing numbers the world is buy
ing and reading the poems penned by
Hebrew poets three thousand years
ago. Flavored though they are by the
open air of Judean hills, by the court
of an Oriental king, by the trials of
wilderness wanderings and by the
fiery furnace of slavery, exile and
persecution. the Psalms yet sound a
universal note. They are eternally
contemporaneous. The heart of hui
mainly everywhere responds to them.
They voice the deepest sentiments of
mankind's soul
The men who wrote the Psalms
dipped their pens into the blood of
their own hearts: and only literature
SO written is forever read,
David's lot in life. his speech. his
customs. his clothes, his environment,
were all utterly different from our
own; yet he was human spirit,
voicing his experience of life and of
God; and when we APPROACH these soul
levels, all men are kindred.
The greatest truth concerning any
man or people is his or it's thought
of God.
In every valley of the shadow o.
death there is song which may he
learned by the singer, who knows that
Jehovah is my shepherd"
When we would pray, we find the
Psalmist has better words than our
own; when we would be grateful and
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04
Strange.

Tom-Belle is strange girl. She
doesns know the names of some OF
her best friends.
Maud-That's nothing. Why, don't
even know what my own name will be
"a year from now.-Illustrated Bits.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

Rev. Sunday horsewhipped in
Springfield and Springfield is an,
open town.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

Inc WOTIQ we re passing through Is
Gods world as much as any we're
ganging to.-Edmund Garrett
Nature is but name for an effect
whose cause is God.-Cowper.
To work; to help and be helped; to
learn sympathy through suffering; to
learn faith by perplexity; to reach
truth through wonder-behold! this is
what it is to prosper, this is what it
is to live.-Phillips Brooks.
Sweet friends,
Mans love ascends
To finer and diviner ends
Than mans mere thought e'er compre-
hends -Lanier.
Love all men. trust few, do wrong
to none.-Hamlet.
The doctrine of environment had its
death-blow in the garden of Eden.-G.
Campbell Morgan.
There was never a night without q
day,
Nor an evening without morning,
And the darkest hour, the proverb
goes,
Is the hour before the dawning.
&C Mackey
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.

The world we're passing through is
Gods world as much as any we're
ganging to.-Edmund Carrot.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

Nature is but name for an effect
whose cause is God.-Cowper.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

The greatest truth concerning any
man OF people is his or it's thought
of God.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

In every valley of the shadow of
death there is song which may be
learned by the singer, who knows that
Jehovah is my shepherd"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

When we would pray, we find the
Psalmist has better words than our
own; when we would be grateful and
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04

Love all men. trust a few, do wroni
to none-Hamlet.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-04
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON AND
YOUNG PEOPLES MEETINGS
News of Interest to Church Goers BY a
Writer Who is An Authority on Religious
Subjects. The International Lesson for
Next Sunday.

theless, so wonderful is this book that
1t affords palatable and nutritious
mental food for the simplest and most
untutored Christian who takes to it
the same inquiring mind that was
nnSseSsed h,, tho Ethinnian a11nnch
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-08-06
HARVESTING RECORDS
REPORTED FROM DAYTON

Dayton, Wash.-Records for fast
harvesting were broken in at least two
instances last week in the vicinity of
Dayton. Threshing with steamer
outfit from the stack Ray Brothers
run 22S9 sacks Of barley on the first
day the machine commenced work.
Nearly equal to this record was the
second days run of 229S sacks. Both
are considered remarkable runs here
Courtney and Woodward, threshing in
barley just east Of Dayton, have made
the next best days run with 2037
sacks.
w. E. Mckinney operating a COM
bine near Waitsburg holds the record
he claims for fast harvesting with a
combine this season. In one day last
week the Mckinney combine threshed
1850 sacks of barley. The grain yield
ed 80 bushels to the acre. For con-
tinuous work Miller and Manis of
Waitsburg claim the record for south
eastern Washington. With a Holt
hilly machine, cutting II foot swath,
the machine has averaged 500 sacks
a day for 16 days. This record was
made in so bushel barley.