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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-26
TWP.LEADS
IN ROAD WORK
ALL JEFFERSON CO., TOWNSHIP
TRUSTEES WILL TAKE PART
IN DRAGGING ROADS.

Fairfield, March 25.-(SpeciaD. I'm
response to request issued by Coun.
ty Attorney Huglin recently to the eff
feet that the township trustees
throughout Jefferson county take an
active part in securing the dragging
Of roads, the trustees Of Penn town.
ship have reported to him that provis-
ion has been made for the dragging of
every foot of road in that division of
the country. Penn township has been
for years one of the banner townships
of the state in the matter Of road
dragging.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-26
ADVANCE PLANS
GIVEN APPROVAL
NEW MODE OF PAYMENT FOR
COURIER is A BENEFIT TO
MAIL SUBSCRIBERS.

For many years the larger city
dailies and magazines have made it a
custom to only send the paper to man
subscribers who pay in advance. The
smaller city dailies have been slow
to adopt this system, but now that
they are doing it, it is meeting: with
general favor from every one. Peo-
pie have gotten tired of notifying pub
fishers to stop sending their paper aft
er the time for which they were paid
expires.
Some time ago the daily papers of
Iowa adopted this system and it will
be in general effect with practically
all the dailies of Iowa by April Is.
This is just as much of a benefit to
the subscriber as it is to the news
paper and prevents the subscriber
from being imposed upon. 1t does
away with the subscriber receiving a
bill for two or three years back sub
scriptiOn for a paper which he only
ordered for only one year or possibly
less.
The Courier will, with the other
pagers, go on this basis April 15. The
Courier wants all of its present sub
scribers to continue with it and wants
as many new ones as it can serve.
Therefore we ask every one to look
at the label on their paper, and If they
are not paid beyond April is to send
remittance to this Office for which
there will be mailed receipt and
their time credited ahead. Do not
wait until the solicitor calls, but
simply mail check or money order
to the Ottumwa Courier and the SUBJ
scription will be extended.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-26
OBITUARY.

Mrs. Sarah r. johnson.

Mrs. Sarah R. Johnson, wife of r. P.
Johnson. passed from time to eternity
March II, 1910 at 6 a. M, in her 10th
year
Mrs Johnson. daughter of Joseph
and Rosana Wilson, was born March
90 1910, near Urbana, Champaign Co.,
Ohio. She was the youngest and the
last of her fathers family Of five chill
dren-two boys and three girls. The
boys gave their lives for the main
tenance of the Union. She was for
thirty three years an instructor in
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-26
New Jersey Honors Iowan.

OF Audubon. and a member of ALI,
son post. Grand Army Of the Republic,
was highly pleased last week to re-
ceive a communication from Trenton,
n. J., stating that he was entitled to
receive a medal on account of service
In the union army. Mr.. Smith served
two years from the state of New York
and one year as veteran from New
Jersey.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-26

tention to the annual death toll from
Fourth of July celebrations and the
unusual racket and din which prevails
on that date 1t is evidently the plan
Of the society to suppress the fire
crackers, toy cannons and other noise
creating devices whoch are the de-
light Of Young America on Independ-
ence Day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-26
s.. oo4.s3 FOR LOAD OF HOGS.

Vinton, March 25.-The highest
amount of money ever paid for a car
load of hogs in .Vinton, was paid to
Thomas Houlihan, Of Jackson town
ship by Westover & Pitts. one day
last week. Mr.. Houlihan. brought IN
seventy-one hogs, for which he receiv-
ed $2,O04.S3 which was at the rate OF
$1O.54 per hundred.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-26
WAS FRIEND OF CHIEF kEokUK,
Mrs. Mary Gillian Who is 81 Years
Old, Has Interesting History


Des Moines, March 25.-Mrs. Mary
Gillian. one Of Iowa's earliest set
tiers, is celebrating her eighty-sev-
enth birthday today at her home, 1928
Fifteenth street. She was born in
Morgantown, Va, and came west in
1888, settling at Burlington, when it
was Wisconsin territory. Her father
was Judge Brand of Lee county, and
through him she became acquainted
with people who were prominent in
the early days of Iowa. She number
ed among her friends the first seven
governors, and also the three Indian
chiefs, Keokuk, Wapello and Black
Hawk. Mrs. Gillian lived in Lee
county for forty-five years, but has
made her home in Des Moines for the
past twenty-seven years.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-26
LlBERTYvlLLE.

, ~
Miss Allie Simons left this week for
Fairfield where she expects to make
her future home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Swartz are the
parents of daughter, born Wednes-
day.
Mrs, George Payne of Eldon is here
visiting at the S. c. Ross home in Lib
ertyville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Morley Of near
FAIRFIELD spent Sunday with friends in
Libertyville.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Emery Car
ter Saturday a baby girl.
John Glotfelty has purchased a new
automobile.
c. T. Cowan Of Spokane, Wash. is
here visiting relatives and friends.
Charlie Grimes and Curtis Vaugnt
were business callers in Fairfield on
Wednesday.
The little McIin child who was in
jured in fall last week is getting
along nicely.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-26
Want "Noiseless" Fourth in Iowa,

Des Moines, March 25.-The Soci'
ETY. for the Prevention of Unnecessary
Noises wants Governor Carroll to
start a movement in Iowa to prevent
the usual Fourth of July racket in this
state next Fourth. A letter from Lou
F. Hammer of New York city, calls at
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-26

bell, cashier of the Commercial bank
of Fort Dodge and G. I. Bell, with the
Harris Trust & Savings bank of Chi
cago.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-26

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Mrs. c. c.. Calbreath and children of
1,ronnisa Citv came Tuesday Gvenin9
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17
ESCAPE GRAND Jury
BUT JUDGE R0UNDLY SCORES
ACCUSED MEN.
Saved From Committal on Highway
Robbery Charge by Their Plea
Of Guilty.

Jesse Fuss and James Boswell ESCAPED
committal in the Police Court this morn
ing for the action of the grand Jury upon
a charge OF robbery. their plea of guilty
and restitution of the stolen property saw
ing them. Instead of the more serious
onense the pair were charged with petit
larceny for holding up a man near the
navy yard last night and robbing him of
VI. Judge Mullowny after scoring them
severely sentenced both to three months
in Jail.
There is nothing i'm the category of
crime, in my opinion. that merits seyerer
punishment than highway robbery You
two men have been guilty of a despica bic
onense of this character. and the only
thing that saves you from the sentence
would otherwise impose is your plea
and the recommendation of the prosecut-
ing attorney" said the court.
Fuss and Boswell. according to the
police OF the fifth precinct. trailed a man
named William Pond OF 4o6 III street
from saloon to dark section of sth
street southeast. where they held him
up and relieved him of ST. The rob-
berry was reported to Policemen Jett and
Wood. who arrested Fuss and Boswell
several hours later on description fur
nished by their victim. An hours
sweating" ended in a confession ana the
return OF the stolen money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17
ROGUE TOURNEY OPENS.
National Champion Harold Bos.
worth to Defend His Title.

NORWICH. Conn, August 1.-THE
rogue tournament Of the National Asso-
citation was begun yesterday on the nine
courts which for many years have been
the place of championship contests The
drawings in the three divisions have beer
made and sixteen of the best players are
in the first division. The increase in the
number of contestants indicates that the
tournament will last for about a week
The national champion is Harold Bos.
worth of New London, a schoolboy. Hi.
chief opponent will be c. L. King of Chi
cago.
The opening games resulted as follows:
First division-H. T. Webb, Philadelphia
beat w. l.. Robinson, Mansfield, Mass.
C. c. King. Chicago, beat Jacobus. Spring
field. Mass; F.. III. Foss. Norwich, bea
Charles Jacobus. Springfield, Mass.
phia, beat ]. L. Dudley, Washington; ]. ID
Miner, Providence. beat b. c. Ever
Evanston, H.; f. w. Robinson, Mansfield
Mass, beat Ever.
Third division-L. StockwelL Norwich
beat +. Symington.
Other matches of the late morning and
early afternoon resulted as follows:
First division.-Eddie Clark of Springfield
beat w. T. Robinson of Mansfield. Mass.
]. c. Kirk, Philadelphia, beat 1. j. Baker
Washington; III. BoswOrth beat c. Jaco-
bus; G. G. Williams, Washington, beat
Kirk; Bosworth beat Foss; Baker beat III
Clark Springfield.
Second divlsion-W. T. Sullivan beat l.
E. Whitaker. Springfield; Ever beat s
Nice. Crosby, New York; j. K. Webb
Philadelphia, beat e. b. Crowell, Brattle-
boro, VT; E. W. Robinson. Mansfield. beat
7. ID. Minor, Providence: J. F. FELTON,
Philadelphia, beat J. L. Dudley; L. c. Will
hanson. Washington, beat +. n. Thomp-
son; Sullivan beat Minor; Robinson beat
Minor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17
HAS FAITH IN RATH.
Connie Declares That Youngster He
Traded Is q Winning Ball Player.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. August Icon
ME Mack is not in the least boisterous
about his chance for the pennant despite
the fact that his club has bigger lead
now than any American League leading
aggregation ever had.
when a team is up there" says Con-
ME, lit is forever worrying for fear the
other fellow may come along and get in
very effectual kick. But We have a
lead on 'em and we are playing con-
sistent ball: have all season. However,
IL is easy to slip cog somewhere"
Some people hold an idea that every
team must experience a slump some time
or other during a playing season. The
Athletics have had theirs. At least the y
had what might be called a slump, ac-
cording to Mr.. Mack, while the team was
at home. So those pulling for Boston
and New York haven't much OF a basis
for hope.
The leader of the Mackmen considers
Morris Rath OF the Maps a good ball
player Il think he will show his worth
some time before long. He's a winning
player. At Reading, Pa, where ! got
him. Rath is considered 10 this day to be
a better ball play than Frank Baker"
Mr.. Mack liked the looks OF George
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17
CITY BUILT OF MUD
"Bokhara, the Noble" Sad
Disappointment to Travellers.
WALLS 1000 YEARS OLD
But They Are Merely Mud Walls,
Ugly and Unadorned.
LIFE HAS UNL0vELY ASPECTS
Few Redeeming Features Appear to
Visitors Within the Ancient
and Storied City.
ny WILLIAM r. CURTIS.

srscal Correspondence Of The star and the
Chicago Record Herald
ROKHARA, Central Asia, July III. 1910.
There is a little branch railway from
Kagan. the Russian settlement and sta
ton on the Central Asia railroad. 10 the
ancient city OF Bokhara, and there are
four trains each way daily. winch make
the trip in about twenty minutes, nut II
is more interesting TO go by carriage,
distance Of nine miles. and two-hour
drive Although the weather Is intensely
hot and the roads very dusty this sea-
son OF the year there is much OF interest
along the way.
There Is no water. however. the irrigatng
ins bitches being all dry, so that the road
cannot he spTinkled as Is done elsewhere.
the grain j. harvested. the fields are yell
low and foliage is scarce except In spots.
The landscape is not nearly so attractive
as that around Samarkand. IL seems
exhausted and IIfeless and the villas are
not 80 comfortable o. prosperous looking.
Perhaps the summer heat may have some
thing TO do with appearances, Tor the
RAYS OF the sun are 80 nerce that ali
nature seems To fear them.
The earth becomes 50 thirsty that wide
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17
Wanted to See Trains.

Just beyond the railway station at
Kagan is a large yellow building with
numerous windows and balconies. cupolas
and pima cles. 1t is covered with wooden
gingerbread work. and looks as IL II
were intended for exposition purposes. II
resembles the pavilions that are often
built on fair grounds. Such fantastic.
oriental designs are considered attractive
by some people. This particular building
stands about 100 yards back from the
highway, in the midst of large grounds,
which are protected by fine iron fence,
I'm much better taste than the building.
Splendid iron gates are mounted In a
stately portal, but they are locked, the
building Is vacant, abandoned and EVIL
IDENTIFY left to decay. The paint has peeled
of in places. several windows are broken,
some OF the cupolas have fallen in and
herds of sheep are grazing in the grounds.
This building was erected for some fan
ciful reason by the Emir OF Bokhara
when the railway first came, so that he
might be near the Russian settlement and
the station, but he did not occupy II long
and il has been deserted for several
years.
The fields on both sides OF the highway
are well cultivated and are open nearly all
the way. You catch glimpses OF several
villas. surrounded by orchards and gar
dens, half hidden behind high walls, ana
two or three villages where the farmers
live who till the ground. We passed an
| extensive cemetery, with curious looking
| tombstones and several ruined habita-
tions. whose mud walls are slowly crum-
bling away, and we met many traVeiers Oh
various conditions in life in odd-iooking
vehicles on their way from the city to
the station or TO their homes. Nearly
every horseman carried a rifle across the
| pommel OF his saddle, which Is an evil
omen. because such things are not used
| for ornament.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17
BY BARRIERS, Is not difilcult or dangerous
but is fatal unless II is complete.
Disease Old and Common.

This disease is very common in Box
hara. Indeed, il has been asserted that
every fifth person is carrying one of these
worms around with him, and they were
described by Sir Anthony Jenkinson OF
London, who visited Bokhara as an envoy
from Queen Elizabeth 300 years ago. II
is believed that the disease could be Grad
icated il the people were furnished with q
pure water supply and were prevented
from drinking from these filthy pools.
There is restaurant and hotel OF rath-
er a primitive sort, called the Aim-Sarai,
on the top of a house. or rather combi-
nation of houses. kept by Mrs. Kibabidge,
n Russian widow VINO does her best TO
reach the unattainable II isn't bad place
II has several good rooms. but you would
NOT choose il il more comfortable accom-
modations could be had. Its patrons are
chiefly Russian, German and French rug
and fur buyers, who come here regularly
as representatives of big houses in Mos
COW, Constantinople, Berlin, London and
PARIS to purchase Persian lambs skins,
carpets and wool, and they do q very
large business.
rule dignified and graceful in their move
ments. They all wear boards, and their
dark compilations. oriental features and
flashing black eyes are intensined by
their white turbanS ana long roDes OF the
most brilliant colors you can imagine
Every citizen is an animated rainbow
and the greater variety of colors he car
get in his coat the more attractive 1t is to
him.
we don't see anything of the women
They never appear. Bokhara is one OF
tho most fanatical Mohammedan towns In
ALI the Islam world, and the seclusion OF
women is the first article in their creed
Hence a stranger never has an opportu.
nity of seeing their wives and daughters
no matter how intimate he may become
with his friends.
The children are especially attractive
they are always neatly dressed and al.
WAYS well cared for. You never see a child
with dirty face or hands. and the parents
take great deal of pride i'm dressins
them. They wear little gowns of Tho
same pattern and material as their faith
ELS and initiate them in demeanor az
well as in dress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17
Walls Twenty Centuries Old.

Finally We came TO the gate OF Bokhara
and saw the high mud wall which mas
separated that city from the outer world
for twenty centuries Samarkand mas
had a checkered existence. Its popula-
uon has been more than 1,Uu.OO. ana
some writers say 100000. at dinerent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17

PETERSBURG, Va. August 1T.-Tom
Spencer, a negro section hand on the
Norfolk and Western railway, yesterday
at his home at Waverly shot and probably
fatally wounded his wife. Spencer SAYS
lac took the gun to kill a hawk, and the
shooting of his wife was accidental
She. however, in sworn statement, de-
ciares he shot her with intent to carry
out a threat he had made to kill her.
of the injury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17

a good deal Of rubbish lying about. The
family live somewhere back in the court
yard. but the women are never visible;
naked children play about in the dust
there are no gardens or Towering plants
or shrubbery or similar decorations which
make other Turkestan cities SO delightful.
and the people have no inducement TO
sing Home. Sweet Home"
Even the ruins are disappointment. 1t
is difficult to work up any enthusiasm
over shapeiess heaps of mud, no matter
what their historic associations may have
been. There is no marble no stonework.
no architecture, except half ruined mos
ques and meddresses OF brick. which were
formerly veneered with tiles Even the
palace of the emir, which has been the
scene of untold misery. cruelty and crime,
Is built Of mud. and SO are the official
edifices which surround it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17

periods CT it's history, and it now has
about 10000. There have been several
cities of the same name upon the same
site, or in that immediate neighborhOod,
and for several miles in every direction
the earth Is covered with ruins. But
Bokhara has had no such experience. Its
population has never been greater than
now and numbers about 100000. The
same walls have encircled il for 1000 or
perhaps 800 years. and the generations
OF men who have lived and labored and
died during those centuries have passed
i'm and out through four gates, which still
exist and serve the same purpose, pro-
tected by funny old towers with mud
walls. seven and eight feet thick
The gates are guarded and the towers
are garrisoned by firce-looking soldiers,
wearing a uniform similar to that of the
Cossacks of the Don, and they are under
by the Russian governor general of
Turkestan. The towers look formidable
but modern artillery would knock them
into smithereens in FIVE minutes. The
gates are monumental, made of enormous
Llanks of oak, covered with wrought iron
ornaments and studded with enormous
nails. There isn't much ceremony when
an ordinary tourist in a carriage wishes
to pass. but tax collector Is always
present to exact a farthing or two from
every farmer who brings in a chicken or
a dozen eggs, or a basket of vegetables.
ano he cannot reach the market with his
produce unless he pays. There are con-
tinuous lamentations because of this OPP
preston, but the emir cannot hear them
He Is too far away, and IL he were in
Rokhara his ears would be stuffed with
roubles by the contractors who are col
Iecting the revenues of the government
for a commission.
City a Disappointment.
"Bokhara the Noble" is a great disap
pointment. Sentimental readers of its TO
mances better stay away. With the ex
ception OF the mosque and meddresses. II
is nearly all mud, without a single at
tractive feature, and very different from
Tashkend. Samarkand, Kokand and Other
cities under Russian Jurisdiction. The
narrow streets are shut In between high
walls and the roadways have been worr
down by the travel of ages until they hav,
become troughs, which are growing deep
er all the time because the hoofs Of ami
mails and the sandals of men continue 4
wear out the soil, which pulverizes ant
blows away Few OF the houses have
windows on the street. They are all pro
tected by thick, dead walls and are
reached through gatevays closed by sole
doors. When the gates are open you Otter
catch a glimpse of the interiors. but they
are uninteresting. merely mud buildings
with nat roofs, matched with straw, anG
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17
Broken Tiles Not Replaced.

The only architectural effects Bokhara
could ever boast of. the blue and white
tiles that are stuck upon the walls to
hide their ugliness, have not been able
to endure, and the owners of the build
ings that were so ornamented have evil
IDENTIFY never attempted to keep them in
repair or 10 preserve them when they
have commenced to decay.
The streets are always crooked; none
is straight, and as every mud wall looks
alike, it's a good deal OF a puzzle for a
stranger TO find his way through the
labyrinth. The widest of them is scarcely
wide enough to let two wagons pass, and
the hubs of the wheels have ground deep
grooves on both sides almost the entire
length of every street throughout the
city.
There are no parks or Fairgrounds,
and nothing attractive or artistic or even
picturesque The only foliage that is to
De seen Is that OF few trees which
overhang filthy. stagnant pools of water
used for drinking. washing clothes and
for promiscuous bathing. You often see
people pathing and washing their feet
or their garments and filling jugs and
jars and buckets for drinking purposes
at the same time.
The water is always covered by a vel
lowish green scum, and is alive with germs
OF loathsome diseases. including one which
science Throughout the world A microbe
called the 'reshta' or guinea-worm,
often lodges somewhere in the veins and
produces worm two or three feet long.
wnich has the appearance of string of
vermicell. IL must be removed entire
with knife. because III a particle is
LETT, blood poisoning is sure to follow.
Inc operation, which Is usually performed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17

l. s. Cornwell, principal of the public
schools of Ruckhannon, w. Va, has been
nominated by the socialists Of the thir-
teenth senatorial district for the state
senate, and has signified his acceptance
of the nomination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17

cracks open in the soil. like chaps on the
lips of a man in the desert. We are
glad that we came so early. but we should
have come earlier. I cannot recommend
any one to visit this country because OF
certain embarrassments and difficulties
imposed by the Russian police. but who
ever insists upon facing them should
come in April and certainly not later than
the middle of May.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17

Ka,er in Saturdays first game. Il be-
Iieye he's a man who can win against
odds. one who will live through lot of
hits and come out with a victory" said
he The shrewd Connie evidently puts
great faith in human nature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-17

Mrs. Mary z. Gardner. widow OF Dor
sew Gardner died OF heart trouble at the
home OF her niece. Mrs. Lee Davis. near
Fountain Mills, Nd