Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-26

want to be doing that kind of work for
and he made me go in and have a
drink with him and took small
glass of whiskey, using a very small
amount of whiskey and filed it with
water or soda, because, gentlemen.
cannot take whiskey without some
thing in it. l don't recollect the oc-
currence alluded to by DR.. Lowery but
| I may have told two gentlemen near
the Wapello club if they asked me
about being elected that l beat them
and would beat them again"
Bee Hive Incident.
| Afaer telling of the Garrick theater
incident alluded to by Witness Spain
hover, the mayor stated that he was
not intoxicated and had taken one
drink that one of the boys had there
He then went into details ito describe
the Elks' distribution of goods to the
poor and corroborated the testimony
Of ]. w. Lewis and T. F.. Keefe IN this
particular The testimony of r. M
Smith of Hedrick was then attacked
by the mayor and he stated that he did
not know the man Smith, but that
! while he was ON the stand few days
ago he thought that he recognized
him as seeing him in the Bee Hive
hotel last February. In telling OF the
occurrence he said that he was out with
a subscription for the Fifty-Fourth
regiment band and that he had done
that work for the past ten or eleven
years in order that the band could give
concerts through the summer on
Thursday evenings.
| Had Subscription List.
'I had started out in February" said
he "a month earlier than usual be-
cause I knew that there were to be
considerable subscriptions to be taken
ND this year and wanted to get in
early. Ed. Steller had been with me,
and wish he was here now, but he is
in camp. / made two trips to the Bee
Hive hotel and am we'll acquainted
with Mr. and Mrs. Clark who run the
place. The first day stopped In Mrs.
! Clark said her husband was not In and
on account Of his having the rheuma-
tism and feeling sick, she was afraid
he would not be able to give anything,
but call again, which did the next
day. This was the day this man
Smith was there and two other men
|
girls he smoke of were there both times
and the second trip IN one OF them
asked me to show her my list and took
it from my hand asking me how mucn
have you got? She looked over the
paper and turned 1t over looking at
the names and in giving 1t back to me
she slapped me with the paper.
then slapped her on the shoulder with
the paper and said good day and left.
She was standing up and not slttlng
as Smith said. No sooner did near
Smiths testimony than started to
find this girl found that she had
left and that Mr. and Mrs. Clarke are
in Colorado and only wish to Goa
that could get her here now. The
occurrence there was about 4 o'clock
In the afternoon"
Habits Of Life.
Asked about his regular mode OF
living and daily habits, the mayor said
that he was home daily never later
than six O'Clock and on an average at
4.3O. He stated his bedtime unless
he went to the council meeting or to
talk over police matters with the
night captain in the absence of the
chief, was between 8 and $3.50 o'clock.
His lodges he has pratially given
nm and seldom attends their meetings.
He. said that he attended the dedica-
ton Of Lodge No. 16 of the Masons
that It was the first lodge that he at
tended in two years. Three times IN
the last five years he was at the X. OF
p, lodge He also quit attending
lodge at the 'Elks, although he would
70 to the Elks club sometimes OF
morning to read The witness SAID
he spent most of his time away from
home, at the city hall, where he aids
the street and side walk commission
! ers and the city engineer.
Played Pool.
He said he did not know how to
4 play poker or roulette and that ne
never saw pea pool or pay pool played
and really don't know how to play
regular pool, but that he he's played
few games of pool with Frank Huff
man, the real estate dealer. Mr..
Dennis of the McElroy restaurant and
John Kaiser when they bantered him
and said he was coward If he was
afraid to play them and, said he "the
games all have to be paid for by the
old man, Old Tom Phillips, because I
get beat" He said that he had never
known the existence of the back stairs
in the Kaiser place until the place
was raided and then he investigated
it. He said also that he told someone
he thought it might have been Rem
Oatman, when seeing two lads ne
thought under age, to stop them and
not permit young boys to play as that
Is against the law and the proprietor
should protect themselves against the
minors playing in the pool rooms.
The court then adjourned.
Had Eye on Baker House.
Officer G. A. Peterson when on
the stand was asked particularly
about the Baker house. He said
that he had received no instruc-
tions from the mayor, but that the
chief and night captain had told him to
watch the house and see If anything
was wrong. During the past two years,
Mr.. Peterson had not noticed anything
wrong with the place. With reference
to the saloon underneath the Baker
house, the officer said that he had
never made an arrest from that place.