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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-08
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EDDYVILlE,

Eddyville-Mr. and Mrs. James L
Sipes went to Ottun1wa Monday after
| noon. and there TOOK the train Tues
iuy morning for their trip to points in
the west. They intend visiting re!a-
tives in Oregon AMI Montana, and will
EXPECT to be gone some time, but the
date of their return is indefinite.
Lloyd Waters and family drove to
Kirkville Sunday and attended Mem
orial exercises there.
Attorney and Mrs. Geo. l.. Gillies %
Ottumwa spent Sunday with Mrs.
Gillies' mother, Mrs Dashiell, east of
town.
Mrs. B. B. Beamer of West Des
Moines township returned last Friday
from Greeley, Colo, where she had
been making three weeks visit with
her SON law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. J. RENTS.
Miss Grace Grant spent Sunday in
Ottumwa with relatives.
Henry Kitterman spent Sunday in
Ottumwa with relatives.
Mrs. T. j. Clark and son started Sat
urday night to Macon City, Mo, to Wis
1t the formers sister Mrs. Rohrer. Mrs.
Clark expects to be gone until August.
Peter Francis went to Abba Mon
day to visit the family of his son, Ed
ward Francis. Dr. E. L. Bay was also
an Abba passenger Monday.
One thing quite noticeable in the trip
flight of steps, near the j. E. Nc
Glothen home, leading up over the
bank half way up the hill. The Gem
etery can now be reached by route
much shorter than the wagon road
without the necessity of climbing
through barber wire fences and open
ing gates through private property
Rev. Clyde Clark of Rochester, New
York, will fill the pulpit of the Baptist
church in the absence of Rev. Pruett
who will soon take trip to the west
Rev. Clark makes his first appoint
ment here June 18th.
The B. Y. P. U. will give social at
their church next Saturday night and
will serve ice cream and cake.
s. E. Reisman was home from Mar
shalltown over Sunday.
Miss Nellie Van Klaveren, now stay
ing at Pella was home to spend Sun
day.
Miss Bertha Waugaman went to os-
kaloosa Monday to take part in q
musical recital at the Christian college
that night and to remain for the
graduating exercises at the same in
stitution tonight.
Miss Emma Nye. Mrs. Dir. Vance
Mrs Emma Funk and daughter Miss
PeSsie were also oSRaloOsa passengers
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Mayme Of Colfax
were here over Sunday visiting the
Elder family.
Benjamin Marsh, William Hewitt
and Miss May Woodcock and Miss
Sarah Woodcock of Abba were in towr
Memorial day decorating the graves
of near ones in the past. Accompany
ing them were Miss Ocie Chooley. and
Miss Bertha Freaseman of Oskaloosa
They visited at the home of Mrs. Eph-
RAM Watkins over Sunday, and de.
parted for Ottumwa Monday
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FAIRFIELD.

Fairfeld.-The graduating exercises
of the Fairfield high school were held
Thursday night in the Chautauqua
auditorium. About 800 attended Di-
plomas were presented to twenty nine
who have completed the course.
The Parsons junior ANIMALS, which
were to have been put on sale June
1 have been lost in transit from the
binders and have not arrived in Fair
field. They are expected to come in
time to be put out some time Sat
urday.
The Parsons Alumni game next
Tuesday will be one of the most iu-
teresting between local teams that
has been seen in Fairfield for some
time. Harris of Ames will probably
pitch for the alumni
The senior class of Parsons college
will present The Crisis as the class
play in Trustee gymnasium next Tues
day evening.
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Finish Course at College Academy.

Fairfield, June 5.-(SpeciaD I'm the
presence of an audience that filled
the First Presbyterian church was
held the graduation exercises of the
Parsons college academy. Nine young
people have completed tt, preparatory
course, Misses Edna Lenore Bates OF
Fairfield, Gertrude Farnum of Bona
parte, Myra Viola Hehner of Liberty
vile, Helen Frances Mcclure of Petch-
amurre, Siam, Barbara Marie Nessen
of Derby, Francis Adelaide Plopper of
Derby and Edna Helen Pollock Of
Libertyville and Messrs Paul Mcclure
Hinkhouse of Fairfield and Jesse Gear
Hinshaw of Richland The presenta-
ton of diplomas was made by Prof w.
A. Writ, principal of the academy
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BONAPARTE.

naparte.-Ellsworth Cresap and
two sons of FIT Madison visited at the
home Of J. H. Cresap Wednesday,.
On Wednesday, June 8, ut Ottumwa,
Miss Josephine Easing of this
place and Joseph Loofboro of Fair
field were married at the Baptist
wedding ceremony was performed in
the presence of Mrs. ]. G. Whitley,
aunt of the bride, Misses Patti and
Margaret Easlins, brides sisters, Ben
Loofboro, brother of the groom and
Mrs. Nellie Blackford of Ottumwa
The newly married couple will spend
their honeymoon on trip to the
Seattle exposition, after which they
will make their future home in Fair
field.
Mrs. Alma Hustin was business
visitor in Keosauqua Wednesday.
Mrs. J. A. Johnson and daughter,
Margaret, were shopping in Ottumwa
Thursday
Dr.. and Mrs c, S. Percival and
Cecil, will leave next Monday for Ore.
gon where the summer will be spent
in visiting.
Miss Ruth Campbell was the honor
graduate Of Bonaparte high school
class of 1909, having highest grades
for four years work. This entities
her to years free tuition at Drake
university.
W. o. Phillips of Keokuk was a
business visitor here Thursday.
w. B. Mccormick of Pennington
was in town Wednesday.
Rev. A Trennery will graduate this
week from the Central Baptist college
at Pella in the theological course. Mr.
Trennery has been preaching at Bona
parte and Harrisburg alternate Sun
days and has gone to Pella each Mon
day, returning Friday.
Charles Keasling, Sr., of this place
has been appointed deputy county
auditor and has accepted the position
| Mrs Mary Iiornbaker and grand
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her chin and sang Die Zauberflote.
And Hillard dared not touch her till
the last note was gone. She felt his
nearness, however, as surely as If he
had touched her She tried to sing
again, but this time no sound Issued
from her throat. There was something
intangibly hypnotic in his gaze, for
presently, without will, she turned and
tried to look coldly into his eyes.
'I did not come here because of
friendship" he said. "Only one thing
brought me-love and the hope of
love-
She stared at him, her hand at her
throat.
Love and the hope of love- he re-
peated. Then he took her in his arms
suddenly, hungrily. even roughly.
"You are mine, mine; and nothing in
the world shall take you from my
arms again. Sonia?"
DON'T" she cried breathlessly. "He
Is looking"
ut is only a waiter; he doesn't
count. friendship" He laughed.
"Please!" still struggling,
mot till you tell me why you sent
that telegram
She pressed her palms against him
and stood away She looked bravely
into his eyes now.
81 sent it because l wanted you,
because am tired of lying to my
heart, because have a right to be
happy, because-because. I love you!
Take me, and oh! be good and kind
to me, for have been very lonely and
unhappy. Kiss mel" with
touch of the old imperiousness.
The rim of the old moon shouldered
above the frowning death mask of Ma
poleon, the huge salmon-tinted noun
tain on the far side of the Lecco In
the villages the day sounds had given
way to the more peaceful voices of the
night. They could hear the occasional
light laughter of the gardeners on the
second terrace; the bark of dog in
the hills: from the house of the silk
weaver came the tinkle of a guitar
In the houses on the hill opposite and
in the villages below the first lights
of evening began to glimmer, now
here, now there, like firef1ies become
stationary.
"Se Naples and die" sh whisper
ed. "but the spirit will come to Belag-
gio."
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daughter are visiting relatives In
Keosauqua this week.
Mrs Frank Shinbloom and children
of Bentonsport are visiting Mrs Shin.
blooms parents, H. v. Humphrey and
wife.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-13

THE location in this city of statues
of John Paul Jones and Commo-
dore John Barry, both heralded as the
father of the American navy" by their
respective admirers, will prove a diff
ficult task for the special commission
charged with that duty. This commits
sion consists of the secretary of war,
the secretary of the navy and the
chairmen of the senate and house COM
mittees on the library.
For each statue congress appropri-
ated $4,000, but no action has been
taken to decide the controverted ques-
ton relating to the navy's pedigree.
1t is for this reason that the location
of the effigies is regarded as impor-
tant, as the prominence given each of
the heroes in the question of location
is expected to give some indication as
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ROUND THE CAPITAL
information and Gossip Picked Up Hers
and There n Washington.
Military Pomp to Attend Inauguration

Sheridan's marching hosts in the
spring of 1865.
The United States troops are to be-
gin the homeward sailing from Cuba
soon. The soldiers will return reg
iment by regiment, and it is be-
iieved that several of the organtza-
tons will reach this country so close
to the time of the inaugural ceremon-
les that they probably may be ordered
to the capital.
Some of the picturesqueness OF the
Roosevelt inaugural will be missing.
It is understood that there will be no
rough riders present. Four years ago
they not only added much to the
parade as a parade, but they added
great deal of joy to the inhabitants.
Some of them were new to the ways
of the capital city civilization and
broke the conventionalities in whole
hearted and perfectly inoffensive way.
The Flying Ninth" the black troop
ers of Col. Guy Henry's old command,
the men who followed him ON
the trail of the Sioux and rocked
nothing of hard riding, semi-starva-
ton and wounds and death, are not
to lend color and their personally
proper pride to the pageant. There
will be gallant cavalry regiments
present, however, regiments that have
fought in Cuba, in the Philippines and
on the western plains.
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Next Social Secretary of White House

One OF her prominent pupils was
Mrs. John r. Mclean, and it is under
stood that Mrs. Mclean was instru-
mental in obtaining for Mrs. Relyea
the position at the White House for
which a hundred social secretaries in
Washington have yearned. Mrs. Rel
yea was appointed to the war depart
ment from Connecticut on July 8, 1907.
She is a woman of culture and has
a wide acquaintance among the social
colony, not only in Washington, but
in New York and Newport. She is the
widow of Albert Relyca, formerly a
chief of division in the treasury de-
partment, who committed suicide sew
eral years ago.
Never before in the social history
had the position of social secretary at
the White House been so important.
The privileges of the office increased
and the only one which has not been
accorded Miss Hagner up to date, for
the reason that it has been against
all social and official precedent, is that
of assisting Mrs. Roosevelt in the blue
room in receiving her guests on for
nal occasions.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-13

WASHINGTON. - William Howard
w Taft is to have greater military
pomp and circumstance attending his
Inauguration than had Theodore Roose-
welt.
The governor of every state in the
union has been asked by the inaug-
ural committee to send a brigade of
troops to take part in the great pro-
cession up the avenue, and it is inti-
mated that what Washington wants
in the way of state troops is quality
rather than quantity. Crack organ
izations only need apply.
An enthusiastic member of the in
augural promotion body says that
there will be present in Wash
ington on March next, 10000 more
regular troops than appeared when
Mr.. Roosevelt rode to the capitol four
years ago. He insists that Wash
ington will be great camp of regu.
lars and guardsmen in the early
spring, greater camp than it has
been since the residents entertained
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thought Pa had been killed and that
the gorillas were eating him, so yell
ed: "Pa, are you all right?" and he
answered back: "You bet your sweet
life am all right" and then we pre-
pared to go to the cage, when Pa said
for us to climb trees, and just then the
gorillas started for us with their teeth
cleaning and we all Skinned up the
trees around the cage, and we had
front seats at the biggest show on
earth. Pa told us that the gorillas
that freed us were afraid we were 60
ing to harm him, and they proposed
to protect him.
He said he had been feeding the
animals for two days, and had got
their confidence so he could make
them understand what he wanted them
to do.
"Now watch 'em dance when turn
on the music" Pa said, and then he
gave them the merry Widow" waltz,
and by gosh if big gorilla didn't put
his arm around his wife, or some other
gorilla's wife, and dance bare-footed
right there in front of the cage, and
all the rest joined in, and the baby
gOrillas rolled over on the ground and
laughed like hyenas. Pa stopped the
music and called one big gorilla Ras-
tus, and told him to sit down in the
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-13
CHASE

G ENATOR PHILANDER CHASE
- KNOX, slated for secretary Of
state, is one of the most delightful
men socially to be found anywhere.
Golf, automobiling and driving are his
outdoor recreations. Billiards and
reading furnish indoor amusement.
When Mr.. Knox came to Washing
ton as attorney general his reputation
as a corporation lawyer caused it to
be assumed that he was one of the
gruff, brusque kind. Instead of a
grumpy curmudgeon, he was revealed
as polite, dapper little man who Of
fered his callers fine cigars and start
ed conversation as if he intended tell
ing his Utmost thoughts and furnish
ing diagrams of all he contemplated
doing and how he would do each
thing.
"Of course" he said, when the con-
versation got around to the point
where real interesting things were
coming out, II am talking to you gem
tlemen personally, not in your jour
nalistic capacity
The standard Washington story
about Knox concerns the pair Of road
sters he brought here after he be-
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Who Is Father of the American Navy ?

to their respective merits in the COM
petition for the honor of being the
father of the navy"
Some time ago it was proposed to
place these statues face to face on a
single site, but that was opposed by
the adherents of the heroes. Many
sites have been suggested, but up to
the present time there has been no
action looking to settlement of the
question. The statue of John Paul
Jones is now under way and compe
tition will soon be entered upon to de-
eide who will be the favored sculptor
for the making of the statue of Barry.
Work is now in progress for stat
ue of Gen. Grant to be erected west
of the capitol grounds, but this will
not be completed before two years.
Next spring statues of John With
erspoon, signer of the declaration Of
independence, and of Longfellow, the
poet, will be presented to the govern
ment by memorial associations, and
they will be erected in this city.
Other statues which have been pro-
vided for by congress and will be
erected here in the near future are
those Of Won Steuben, Pulaski and
KOSciuSkO.
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HIS PA ElNULATES DARWIN

do not know whether Pa is an ex.
pert in hypnotism or what it Is, but
he certainly delivers the goods when
he goes after wild animal in the jun.
giles of Africa, and he shows bravery
at times that astonishes everybody.
but he admits that he is coward at
heart, and would run if anybody pulled
gun on him, and guess he would,
but you turn him loose in wild ami.
NAL congress and he will be speaker
and make the whole bunch get on
their knees.
was scared when Pa wanted to
have cage with iron bars hauled into
the jungle where the gorillas live, and
insisted that he be left there alone
for two days, with rations to last a
week, as he said he expected to have
some gorilla boarders to feed, but Mr..
Hagenbach let Pa have his way and
the cage was hauled about eight miles
into the black wilderness, with great
trees and vines and snakes and gOr,
alas all around him, but Pa insisted
on having a phonograph full of jie.
tunes, and when we got the cage To-
Gated, and Pa in 1t, and were ready
to leave, cried, and the whole crowd
felt as though we would never see Pa
alive again, and it was sad parting.
It was a long two days before we
could go back and find Pas remains,
but the second day we hiked out
through the jungle and into the woods.
Pa mad told US that when we came
after him to come quiet, and not dis
turb the menagerie, so when we got
near the place where we left Pa we
slowed down and crept up silently,
and peeped through the bushes, and
several little ones around the cage
a sight met our eyes that scared me.
There were four big goril1as and
and some we're gnawing ham bones,
and others were eating dog biscuits,
but it was so silent in the cage that
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cactus, and the others did the same,
and Pa repeated an old Democratic
speech of his, and they clapped their
hands just like caucus. well, what
do you know about that already?"
said Mr.. Hagenbach.
Pa said he had them in the cage
several times and let them out, and
when we got ready to go to camp
all he had to do was to let the phono-
graph play, Supper Is Now Ready in
the Dining Car" and they would come
in and he would slip out and lock the
door, and we could haul the cage to
camp.
Pa always makes some mistakes be.
fore he has a proposition we'll in hand,
and he did this time of course. AS
we were about to start, the gorilla
Rastus, who had become Pas chum.
looked at Pa so pitiful that Pa said
he guessed he would let Rastus out,
and he and Rastus would walk along
ahead and get the brush out of the
road, so he opened the door of the
cage and beckoned to Rastus and the
big gorilla came out with his oldest
boy, and Pa and the two of them took
hold of hands and started on ahead.
and we started to haul the wagon by
drag ropes, when che worst possible
thing happened, Rastus reached in
Pas pistol pocket where Pa had just
put large plug of tobacco, after he
had bit off piece, and Rastus thought
because Pa ate the tobacco he could,
so he bit off about half of the plug
and ate it, and gave his half-grown
boy the rest of it, and that was eaten
by the boy. Pa tried tt take it away
from them, but it was too late, and
they were both mad ut Pa for trying
to beat them out Of their dessert.
It was not long before Rastus
turned pale around the mouth, but his
face was so covered with hair that
you couldn't tell exactly how sick he
was, though when he put both hands
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-13
THRILLING TIME
IN A DARK CAVE
MEMBERS OF EXPLORING PARTY
ENCOUNTER STRANGE BEAST
WHICH ATTACKS THEM.
LIKE PREHISTORIC MONSTER
Enits Howl Like Enraged BuI!-Eye-
less Fish and Rivers with Opposite
Currents Among Wonders at
Mammoth Spring, Ark.

Little Rock, Ark-A thrilling expert.
ence in a dark cave of unknown d.
mansions and origin, which is a
natural curiosity in the vicinity OF
Mammoth Spring, Ark, is being told
by a party of pleasure seekers to
friends at their homes in Mendon and
Ursa, III.
Finding of eyeless fish and an en-
counter with a strange animal which
roared like an enraged bull and which,
according to the description of the
men who saw it, resembled one of the
prehistoric monsters, were among the
incidents of the subterranean visit.
In the party which ventured to ex-
plore the mysteries of the cave were
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Eshom Of Medon,
ILL.,; H. e. Corey and wife of Ursa,
ILL.,; Mrs. c. w. Curtis of North Ver-
non, Ind, and John Ryan, liveryman
of Mammoth Spring.
"On entering the tunnel we walked
through it for about six hundred feet
and found that it continued of the
same size as at the entrance and that
it had several turnings, SO that after
the first 100 feet daylight was entirely
shut out" said Mr.. Eshom in telling
of his experience. Suddenly we
came to an abrupt cul-de-sac of solid
rock. The bottom was covered with
soft mud two inches in depth. BY the
use of bicycle lamp we discovered
an opening in the rocky wall of the
tunnel at the side and low down, about
ten feet high and as much in depth.
This orifice was filled with water as
clear as crystal, coming to within four
feet of the top of the hole.
with Mr.. Corey l decided to enter
the second cavern. A raft was con-
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-13
1t Charges Toward Us.

structed from some two-inch planks
which had been left near the entrance
to the first tunnel by some former Wis
itors, and on this raft we two with
camera, gun and the lamp, crouched
and were pushed through the opening
in the rocky wall, leaving the re-
mainder Of the party with a fire Of
sticks at the edge of the pool of water.
This second cavern was about the
same size as the first one and, to our
surprise, we found the water, which
was about six feet deep, had a consid-
cradle current leading away from the
opening through which we had en-
tered the cavern. We concluded to
follow the left wall and after drifting
with the current about 500 feet dis
covered the cavern had come to an
end, the same as the other had done.
In the end at the floor was another
orfice about six feet square, into
which the water poured.
"Mr. Corey set up his camera to
make a third flashlight picture, after
which we intended to return to the
outer cavern. He had scarcely fired
the flash, when there was a tremen
dous splashing in the water ahead,
followed by a roaring howl something
like that of an enraged bull. In that
confined space it was deafening From
the water there arose an arimal
which, by the light of the lamp in our
hands, seemed to be of immense size.
1t was larger than bull and lad a
long neck and the head of a horse
without ears. 1t charged toward us.
| The jaws were armed with long teeth.
Il fired one barrel of my gun into
| the creatures face and as it hestated
| gave it the contents Of the other
| barrel. The animal continued its bel
lowing, but thrashed around and
| headed for the opening in the wall. 1t
had sort of tlipper on each side like
:, those of seal or the wings of bat.
while we We're having our expert.
| ence with the strange animals our
wives had heard the shots and roars
of the injured animal. One of them
was prevented with difficulty from
plunging into the water, while the
other tainted.
whether the animal seen by us
| was one of the prehistoric monsters.
some Of which, it is asserted, were
seen in the far noysh last summer, 10 =
quzzlo to U.S.