Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-11-05


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reIiava the distress OF the country. He
anno,nced that he would start March
Ok and expected to have 100000 follow
ars r. present his petition with boots
ON to congress.
ON April IL the Courier complalneul
that the city was overrun Win tramps,
many Of them forced to become tramps :
by, loss Of employment. The Courier Oh
that date said: ~ j. !.
The question Of what to do with tne
buns is Just little bit serious. 'Ihe OF
ficers cannot be expected to control an
array Of them scattered broad cast over
the city. II 1t is right that these buns
should be allowed to remain IN the Guy
and they cannot be easily disposed o.
III Is right that they should be led.
This Is the argument Of those who sug-
pest public chop house and 1t Is very
appropriately added that 1t would then
10 right that the tramps should be
made to work and pay for what they
get Tax payers could i'll afford to keep
q regiment of buns without some re-
muneration
B on April 40 the >drier had the un-
welcome news that a detachment OF the
Coxayites was on the way to OttumW w.
It said -. q.
rresent that Ottumwa will have por-
tion OF Coxey's army on her hands. the
j California division has captured 9
Union Pacific freight train and are
coming this way as rapidly as possible.
Thev will be at Council Bluffs on Sun
dav and nothing is easier than for them
to.repeat their performance there, seize
a.. b. & O. train and come east.
The Courier of April 16 said:
Council Bluffs Is In the hands OF
Kelley's detachment Of Coxeys army.
81. more properly speaking, lot OF
pitiable looking, half clad, hungry men
are there. Inquiries made among them
discloses the fact; that more than .lOO
Of them are Iowa men fighting their
way back to this state after suffering
appalling destitution on the coast. Gov
ernor Jackson has sent Ave companies
OF the militia to watch their movements
while in Iowa and prevent trouble.
On April Is the Courier had the fol-
lowing dispatch from Omaha:
The laboring men held a meeting and
denounced the treatment accorded Kel-
ley's army. The police broke up the
meeting as dangerous. One OF the
speakers announced that he would FUR
nish two thousand rounds Of ammunl-
ton to wipe out the Iowa militia.
During the entire month OF April
there were dispatches from various
points about the organization of armies
Of "commonwealers." Another detach-
ment had started from California. One
was being organized in Seattle. Coxey
was on his way to the capital. Fryes
army was moving and then Hogans
was formed. A special from Butte,
Mont, on April "a, said:
Five hundred Coxeyites at Butte,
Mont, broke into the Northern Pacific,
roundhouse last night, seized an engine
and train, manned them with their own
number, and started east at forty miles
an hour.
on April Is the Courier had an ar
ucle stating that President Cleveland
had instructed the war department to
send troops and capture Hogan's de-
tachment of Coxey's army, which had
captured a Northern Pacific train at
Butte. ct cannot be denied the article
adds. chat the Coxeyite movement
throughout the country has aroused
the apprehension of the national au-
thorities."
On April ~, under date of Spring
field, Mass, the following was pub
lished:
Sixty-five carbines and hundred
rifles were shipped by fast freight from
here to Washington for protection
against Coxeyites. The u. s. armory
hero hao a n,Iartor million rifles and q