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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-27
SPRACuE'S VIEW
OF TULSA, OKLA.
FORMER PHYsiclAN,oF THIS CITY
TELLS HIS oTTUMWA FRIENDS
OF THE SOUTH.
LIKES HIS NEW HOME;
Gives a Vivid Description Of the Okla
! homa City and Says it is a Good
Place for Farmer; Raps
n Commission Plan.

Tulsa. Okla, where DR.. M. II. Sprague
formerly Of South Ottumwa, is now To-
Gated for his health, is treated in let
ter sent to the Courier by the former
Ottumwa physician. He likes the south
but finds 1t offers nothing to any one
but an agriculturist. His letter is com
plete as follows:
Tulsa, Okla, Oct. %, 1910.
Dear Editor.-As promised to
write q thousand and one people, l
thought 1t better to insert letter in
the Courier. Tulsa is, beautiful city
or 25, 900 souls. 1t is all clean and mod
ern and has thirty miles of street paw
ing, all charged up to adjoining prop
erty. 1t also has commission form OF
government which has put the city into
debt to the limit. Property and rent is
beyond reason and as the public work
is all done, labor Is in no demand now.
Everything is overdone. There is no
room for any enterprise. Property will
decline in value Land is productive
and ranges from $27.50 to $500 an acre.
The water is good and cold and abund-
ant Timber is low, from SIS to $40 per
thousand Corn is As cents and oats are
80 cents bushel. Hay is So a ton and
stock is the same as in Iowa. The corn
yield here is thirty to sixty bushels per
acre. oats sixty and cotton one bale
to the acre saw cotton, corn and win
ter wheat all on one farm yesterday.
Everything grows fine here and the
chance for farmer is good Fruit
trees grow very rapidly, but liberia
peaches brought $3.50 a bushel. The
market is good for all farm products.
A farmer can go out seven to ten miles
and get land at $50 an acre, build a
small house for 500 and fence it at
about 20 cents a rod and plow all win
ter. All land Is underlaid with coal, gas
and oil. Coal at the shaft is six cents
. bushel It is the most wonderful place
for grass ever saw All stock is fat
and wild prairie has only to be fenced
to be q meadow or good pasture. You
only have to feed three months in the
year, December, January and Febru-
ary, and corn is planted in March The
soil Is chocolate color, but Is strong
and productive.
There may be cheaper land further
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-27
EVERYONE, Is INVITED

all coal should be weighed before be-
ing screened. 1t read: There is
nothing to be construed sc. the miner
shall receive pay for sulphur, black
jack, rock or slack So the Courier
readers will see the word slack is in
Guided with impurities and the miner
received no pay for it.
Kendall's first bill in the legislature
was to erase the word slack" in the
impurities and put it where it belong
ed, with purities. He introduced the
bill and advocated its passage and the
word slack was erased. 1t became a
law. While making his first CAM
paign. the writer was then living in
Foster, Monroe county. Mr.. Kendall
spoke to large audience in the Meth
odist church. The writer asked him
he favor a bill to create board of cx-
aminers to examine all applicants for
mine foremen and employees. He
said he would, and would also favor
a bill to get the miners pay for slack
mined in the coal. He was elected
and we have both bills enacted into
laws and there Is not a miner in Iowa
but who knows the results therefrom
Under the old system the miners were
paid once month, usually about the
20th: hence II he started to work on
September 4, he would receive the
money he earned for the month of
September on, October 90 Kendall
saw the fardships this worked on the
miners. and he drafted two weeks
pay bill which read the miner should
receive his pay on the first Saturday
after the 5th of,each month. and the
first Saturday after the goth of each
month"; This bill became Jaw.
Under the old system the mir.er
when wanting powder had to line up
before the powder house about $50
in the morning with the mercury
down to zero, wait for the powder
boss to come. sign check. put his
powder on his shoulder or in a sack
and carry it into the mine to his
working place. The writer has car
ried it under the ground for mile.
Under the Kendall law all he hes tn
do is to- give his order for a key OF
powder to the proper authorities be-
fore he goes down into the mine in
the morning. and some time during
the day the powder is delivered by
the driver right in his working place.
Just as a merchant delivers .1ck
of flour to customer on top of the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-27
PLEASANT GROVE.

Mrs Chas. Fiddler Of Floris visited
Sunday at the Wesley Hancock home
Mrs. Cecil Brooks is on the sick
list.
David Smith of Bunch visited We'd
nesday with his son Martin Smith.
Fred Parrot spent Sunday with Al.
fred Kendrick.
.aller at the Marion Hancock home
Miss Ethel Brooks called on Opal
Smith Sunday
Harvev Turner was in Ottumwa on
Wednesday.
@. NJ. Cundiff of Ottumwa called at
Martin Smiths Saturday on business.
NJ ard Mrs. w. F. Turner were
.Fioris callers Saturday.
John Parrett delivered hay to OF
,tun.wa Monday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-27

E. e i * = . rs 80
ground. Under the old system tho
miners had to remain under the
ground until stopping time, to fire his
own shots. Under the Kendall law
he can prepare his shots when lie has
Sometimes he is not away from home
over five or six hours. The shot ex-
aminers come around and pass on his
shots as to the safety Of them. charge
them and go home on quitting time.
The shot f1rers come around, touch
them off, thus giving the miner in
many. cases two or three more hours
on top of the ground than he would
have otherwise had, had he remain
ed. until quitting time. In as much as
all labor is measured by time, the
writer has always claimed this law il
a pronounced benefit to the miners as
we'll as personal safety by not being
in the mine when the blast goes OFF.
r. Williams.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-27
PEOPLES PULPIT
Tho Courier will publish in
this column articles contributed
by its readers, The .comr:unioa-
tions ,.hould bo typswrittens or
in plain haI On one s;5e ST the
pane-, and signed.

Editor Courier:
It has always been our aim to keep
in close touch with all the mining
laws passed in Iowa for the better
ment of the mines since 1885; also, to
keep in close touch with our friends
that advocated them in all these
years. We have no recollection OF
q, mining law being passed without
being counselled on it by some one
as to the merits, also the demerits,
and have always helped in securing
best to our interest and helped to de-
feat laws detrimental to our best in
terest.
During this time we have kept IN
close touch with the members of both
houses and are not reluctant in say
ing that we believe Mr.. Kendall has
secured the passage of more laws
during his term in the legislature
than any other member, as an exam
nation of the records will show.
X endall favored the miner getting pay
for all merchantable coal. 1t mat
tiers not what form it is put on the
market. under the old Cassat law,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-27

committee Of the American Federation
of Labor. Washington, D. e.; Joseph
,Rorke and William Fl. Johnston, of the
Legislative committee of the Interna-
tional Association Of Machinists; n.
w. Vance, legislative representative
for the order of Railway Trainmen of
oklahoma: j. Luther Langston, seer
tary of Oklahoma State Federation of
Labor and last but not least by Sam
uel Gompers, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. And any man
receiving such endorsements from
such distinguished gentlemen who rep
resent Americas labor is certainly
worthy Of the support Of every work
ing man in his district"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-27
Fioht Game Law Violations.

Iowa City, Oct. 25.--(Special)- a
fight against the violations of the Iowa
FISH and game laws has been started
here b. State Game Warden Lincoln
|of Cedar Rapids. Arrests of alleged
unlicensed hunters have been made
and ether arrests will follow Men
who dynamite the Iowa river for fish
will also Ee hunted down.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-27
Freiaht Strikes in Libson.

Lisbon, Oct. 25.-Eight thousand
freight and express wagon drivers
struck today. Soldiers and firemen are
taking their places.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-27
Sugar Ia Reduced.

New York, Oct. 25.-All grades of re-
fined sugar were reduced five cents a
hundred pounds today.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-20

E ARLY SEED OATS
Ferguson's Special No: White Early. New
Market Seed Oats. Has sprangley, heavy
bushels per acre. Northern grown. Weighs
SO pounds per bushel. Send for sample and
prices. THE P. l. A. FERGUSON CO., Seedsmen
sig Ntcollet Ave. Minneapolis, MINI.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-20
GETTING HIS IDloMs MIXED
German-American May Have Meant
Well, But His Directions Were
Somewhat Complex.

Passengers on a New York street
car were treated to some choice exam
pies of German-American English
when stout gentleman with a robust
voice started to relate to a friend
his adventures Of the previous night.
"Twelf O'CLOCK it wass when he
come alretty," said the stout man,
"und on de toor rap"
But" said his companion, 1T was
only about ten o'clock when he started
over there"
"Vell, twelf O'CLOCK it wass when
he comes alretty und on de toor rap.
Und l tell him de DOCTOR he want he
shouldn't go de frondt way oudt, de
side way roundt und de pack way oop,
und chust as blain as dot. Und den de
plane fool he rap yet und wake efery-
pody de house in. Den l put myself
my pants on und maybe l don't pail
him oudt l call him chumbp und
lopster-"
mo-" laughed his friend, you sure
ly didn't call him that
Call him dot?" snorted the fat man.
"Say, call him eferything l can lay
my hands on
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-20
UGLY BULL SAFELY GUARDED
Animals Are Gentle as Rule, But
Psychological Moment Must Be
Looked After.

Almost every day some one gets
killed with a gentle bull. Bulls are all
gentle, but sometimes the bulls don't
know it. There comes a time in the
history of most bulls when they are
not safe. The psychological moment
may happen when an old man, a de-
fenseless woman or possibly prom
Using child is in the Enclosure, and it
sometimes happens that active farm
ers are caught unawares and killed
or famed for life. A little precau-
ton is worth a great deal of regret.
There is corner in your barnyard
where you can build just such bull
pen as the one here outlined. The
fence is made with two heavy rails
bored through for pickets made of
two-inch gas pipe on the front or barn.
yard side. Select good posts and set
them six feet apart, use IL foot boards
for the north and east, we'll nailed to
the posts outside. Use the same kind
of boarding inside, but make it solid
up to three feet in height so the bull
can't get his horns in between the
boards. To prevent the boards from
warping set two by tours, upright,
half way between the posts and nail
through from the boards into the two
by tours to make them all solid to-
gether.
The gates are all boarded solid and
fastened with sliding bolts on the out
side in such way that the bull can't
possibly work bolt loose with his
horns or with his tongue, as some
learn to do. There are two bolts on
each gate. When the bolts are in place
they drop behind notches and are held
down by springs. The outer gate
fastens both ways to either post so
that it is shut when it is open.
The small V-shaped yard is built
for service yard. The COW may be
let in the outer gate swung to the out
err post and the bull turned through.
Then he may be put back in the inner
pen, both gates shut against the inner
post and the COW released. The out
side gate of the serving pen must be
kept shut to keep animals out, other
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-20
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LIVE STOCKS NOTES.

Cold weather never affects a sheep
but dampness is fatal in time.
Red clover in bloom is not good for
hogs but when young it makes fine
pasture.
If you are feeding your hogs for
fat you can give them more corn than
If feeding for bacon.
A we'll bred mule colt will bring on
an average of 5000 when broken at
three years of age.
Peanuts form an important item in
the diet of the hogs that give us the
famous Smithfield hams and bacon.
Never feed rye straw to pregnant
ewes. 1t generally contains more or
less ergot which produces abortion.
Neither rape MOI clover alone will
do for growing, fattening hogs. They
must have some grain twice a day for
best results.
1t is estimated that ten sheep can be
kept where one COW can, and the risk
Is much less. It may be said that the
sheep always carries her pocketbook
with her.
Northern farmers who own large,
rangy but smooth mares can breed
them to advantage to a good sized
Jack and find ready market for the
young mules all over the south.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-20

Friday, and my wife has some guests
she Is anxious to take about the city.
Do you know where I could get one
for tomorrow"
I'VE are not very busy just now.
We can spare you man. Wynne,
you may take the car to Mr.. Bost-
wick's house tomorrow and run 1t for
him."
There was malice aforethought in
this selection by the sales manager,
who sought to humiliate the young
workman, but Wynne was delighted
at the prospect of viewing the city
once more by daylight.
On the next morning, Wynne did not
don his working clothes. He dressed
as any gentleman would dress for the
occasion, and then slipped on a long
dust-colored coat. cap and goggles.
He drove the big car up in front Of
the Bostwick mansion and presently
Mr.. Bostwick came out with three
women. one of whom Wynne recog.
hized as Mrs. Bostwick, and from the
conversation he learned that her two
companions we're her guests. While
they were all inspecting and praissns
the car, the door opened again, and a
picture-book girl In a fetching auto.
mobile costume, came down the steps
Lets be off," she said gayly in a
voice that was music In Wynne's ears.
Mr.. Bostwick helped them in, seat
ing the girl whom he called Lenore I'D
beside Wynne.
Are you familiar with the city?" he
asked of his temporary chauffeur.
Perfectly" he replied.
Then drive through the parks and
to all the points Of interest"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-20
Feeding Corn Fodder.

When corn stalks are given to hogs,
care should be used to prevent cattle
from having access to the woody fiber
which the swine will leave after chew
ing the stalks. Pigs relish chewing
the stalk for the sweetness in it, but
leave enough saccharine matter In the
fiber to make 1t attractive to cattle,
especially the younger stock. This
fiber is indigestible. and the cattle, if
allowed to pick 1t up, will frequently
eat sufficient quantity to cause i'm
FACTION and harmful if not fatal re.
suits. It is not safe to let cattle into
yards where swine are given corn
stalks.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-20

He came home from college not
over-burdened with knowledge but
with vigor and power of muscle that
delighted his father.
'Wynne," he said, seriously. Il am
going to set you up in business, that
is, provided you learn the business
first. You may select any kind of
manufacturing you wish and go to
work at laborers wages. When you
know your trade thoroughly. I'll do
the rest
Il think automobiles appeal to me
more than anything else," said
Wynne.
So he went to work in factory
and carried his monday meal. the fac
tory being far from his home and the
eating places In the vicinity unat-
tractive. His luncheon was not as
sumptuous as that in the full dinner
with pity on his beef sandwiches and
apples. No one with whom he came
in contact at the factory knew his sta
ton in life except the sales manager,
and it was seldom that Wynne saw
him.
After he had faithfully served time
in the repair shops and learned the
mechanism of the big cars, he was put
on the track as tester, and he
learned to run the machines speedily,
yet carefully, and to keep cool head
and quick wit in emergencies.
Once in while the factory did a
retail business to individuals, and on
one of these occasions Wynne was or
dered to run the big car selected by
the purchaser out on the track and
put it through all its PAGES. After he
had gone around the track few
times the sales manager motioned him
to stop. The sale was accomplished.
1--WE will have the car delivered to-
morrow morning, Mr.. Bostwick." said
the sales manager. 1T will have to be
polished and equipped"
"You have the address. No. $50 Thir-
teenth avenue?"
Wynne had heard of the Bostwicks
as some .newly-rich people who had
recently moved to the city.
II have engaged chauffeur" said
Bostwick, but he can't come until
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-20
WASTED A FORTUNE ON SKIN
TROUBLE

II began to have an itching over my
whole body about seven years ago and
this settled in my limb, from the knee
to the toes. went to see great many
physicians, a matter which cost me a
fortune, and after l noticed that l did
not get any relief that way, I went for
three years to the hospital. But they
were unable to help me there. | used
all the medicines that I could see but
became worse and worse. l had an
Inflammation which made me almost
crazy with pain. When I showed my
foot to my friends they would get
really frightened. I did not know
what to do. I was so sick and had be-
come so nervous that positively lost
all hope.
II had seen the advertisement of
the Cuticura Remedies a great many
times, but could not make up my mind
to buy them, for had already used so
many medicines. Finally I did decide
to use the Cuticura Remedies and l
tell you that was never so pleased as
when noticed that, after having used
two sets of Cuticura Soap, Cuticura
Ointment and Cuticura Pills, the en-
tire Inflammation had gone. was
completely cured. I should be only
too glad if people with similar disease
would come to me and find out the
truth. would only recommend them
to use Cuticura. Mrs. Bertha Sachs,
1921 Second Ave-, New York, N. Y,
Aug. 20, 1902"
MRS. Bertha Sachs is my sister-in-
law and know well how she suffered
and was cured by Cuticura Rene.
dies after many other treatments
failed. Morris Sachs, 321 E. seth St.,
New York, N. Y, Secretary OF
Deutsch-O strowoer Unt.-Verein. Kemp.
ner Hebrew Benevolent Society, ETC."
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-20
A Bull Pen.

wise you would have a bad corner
where weakling might get hooked to
death.
The pen is also connected with the
winter stall in the COW stable. There
is a sliding door outside and a swing
ing door inside that may be shut tight
in cold weather. It will be noticed
that all doors open in such way that
they may be operated without going
into the bull pen.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-20

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teethng softens the gums, reduces
Illumination, allays pan cures wind collie Csc bottle
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-20

A long face doesn't win any friends
nor yet any favOrs from the gods.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-20
Shady Character.

Shady Character.
who is the man that every one
seems to knoW?"
"Oh, every one knows him. He's
our secret police" -Fleigende Batter.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-20

A good many things are important,
II true.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-21
BE- FREE FROM
RHEUMATISM
81 Building Up the Blood So That
Il Will Cast Out the Poisons
and Keep Them Out.

Every sufferer from rheumatism wants
- - cured and 20 stay cured.
The prospect Of the return OF the same
oId rheumatism every year Is not at
.Irnolive 10 anybody who has gone
|thronah one seige. Most treatments
elm simply TO keep down" the rheu-
matte poisons In the blood. The tonic
Treatment with DIR. Williams Pink Piils
hnn provod by hundreds OF cures that II
builds ND tho blood to point that en-
nhIns Il 10 cast out these poisons through
Gle regulAr channels OF excretlon, the
'hAwSls. Kidneys and skin. When this
rs done the rheumatism is permanently
.cnrod and a. long rs the blood Is kept
Duro and rich the patient VIII De nm
ninus from attacks of rheumatism
NV. l. L. Church, whose address Is
Hnx 100, Howard City. Mich. says
Il Suffered from rheumatism for about
five years and think il was brought on
Nv hard work and exposure. IL began
with . sharp pain in my right elbow
and extended down into my hand. Ny
! hand and arm would get so numb that
/. could not pick up pin nor dress myself.
I The main was so severe that could not
treat nights and would have TO walk the
Illoor. / had chills up and down my spine
and no amount OF clothing would drive
'khem sway. had great deal Of head
ache. grew nervous and debilitated and
my right hand and arm were practically
helpless.
sNeither the doctor s medicine nor any
others that took helped me IN the least.
So decided 20 try DR.. Williams Pink
pills. soon began TO feel better, could
deep all night, was able 10 dress myself
alone and wss permanently cured after
! taking few boxes"
4 With the fact in mind that the rheu-
(, matism Is in the blood. il will readily be
seen how useless il is to try to cure it by
Ifnbbing liniments on the skin. Exter-
NAL applications may give temporary
|knlIef from pain but to cure rheumatism
Won must treat II through the blood.
| A valuable booklet. Diseases Of the
Blood" containing fuller information
will be sent free upon request.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists, or will be sent, postpaid
on receipt OF price. 90 cents per box; si1
boxes o.. so, by the DR.. Williams Med
lcine Company, schenectady. n. 7.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-21
WHY THEY SMILE.

IL is reported from the national CAPT
tai that Morgan and the railroad presi'
dents are satisfied with severai fea-
lures OF Taft's proposed legislation for
government regulation of the great
trhfic concerns. There's at least one
Feature that should please them might
ily We refer 10 the proposition TO
amend the Sherman law so as TO le-
galize purchases already made by rail-
roads of competing lines.
This proposition is, in effect that
Il shall be lawful for thieves who al
ready have stolen property on their
sperson to keep It, There shall be no
more pocket-picking. but the rascal
who already has succeeded in filching
your purse is entitled TO Il. This Is
TIE principle of the thing. and il is
Something 10 arouse the shame and
disgust of all honest men and the
ncOrn and delight of thieves.
Why shouldn't Morgan and Standard
OIL and ravenous robber trusts rule
the commonwealth. when we have a
government which opens the prison
doors TO criminals ard tells them TO
60 forth with their swag. unwhipped
I, By Justice simply because they have
the swag?
Well may the Morgans. the Wander
bits and their ilk be satisfied. The
Norman law. upheld by an honest,
Kcarless president. meant Jail. Tafs
proposes not only 10 give them a clean
hill OF health. not only TO ensure to
them the swag they have collected in
violation of law, but also 10 give them
nh exclusive advantage In monopoly
, ~ the merger business. There shall
~ no railroad trusts save those that
a,ready are 1t is a cinch, II is one
nfeat. big, fat cinch. 10 be established
~ national law,
Tor that we might have Hartman
views on sGch u proposition!