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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-05
SEEKS DAMAGES.
Bessie Brady Asks 500 for Loss OF
Fingers-TriaI Today Before
Justice Berry.

The trial of civil case, entitled
Bessie Brady VS.. The Johnston &
Sharpe Manufacturing Co., is in pro-
gress this afternoon in the court of
Justice of the Peace w. J. Berry, with
the conclusion in sight this evening.
The plaintiffs asks damages in the sum
of 500 for the loss CT two fingers,
while in the defendant company's EN-
rloy In the petition she states that
her injury was received through the
negligence of a machinist in the en-
ploy of the firm, who was repairing
the machine upon which she was
working.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-05
OIL D P|0NE ER
PASSES AWAY
JOHN SMITH, FIRST PRINCIPAL
OF orTUMWA SCHOOLS, DIED
LAST NIGHT.

John Bascom Smith, aged 30. a resi-
dent Of Ottumwa for the past 48 years,
passed away last night at, II o'clock
at the family residence, 212 Albany
street. He had been in feeble health
for some time past due to his ad-
vanced age. Mr.. Smith was we'll known
in Ottumwa and the news Of his death
will be received with the greatest sor-
row by his many friends. He had the
distinction Of being the first prtnci.
pal In the Ottumwa schools and served
in that capacity for several years,
having accepted the position IN 1868.
He Is survived by two sons and a
daughter, s. o. Smith, H. G.. Smith,
Chicago, and Mrs. H. P. Keyhoe OF OF
tumwa. He is also survived by one
sister, Miss Rachel Smith, Of Alblan,
Ohio.
The deceased was born in Lycoming
county, Penn, August 20, 1880. When
three years OF age his parents moved
by wagons over the mountains to Q
farm near Albion, Ohio. There he
grew to manhood and attended Berea
college near Cleveland. Graduating
from this institution he entered Ohio
Wesleyan university, spending some
time, there. Upon leaving school he
taught in bis home county several
years. 1nS1856 he removed to Middle
town, Iowa where he taught school,
until 1863 when he came to OttumWa.
He was faithful to the church which
he entered at a very early age.
The funeral services will be held TO-
morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at
the residence. conducted by Rev. T.
w. jeffrey, pastor Of the First M. E.
church. Interment will be made in
thu OffrnWa Cemetery
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-05
WEST GROVE.

F.. M. Howard was in Bloomfield on
business Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. ]. Southern spent
Saturday evening at Bloomfield at the
home of w. G.. Joh.lson.
E. G. Dickson made business trip
to Bloomfield Saturday.
TAYLOR Harris and VIM. Balm spent
Saturday evening in Bloomfield.
Charles Smith of Wesley Chapel
was in town Monday. -
w. S. Scott of Kansas is visiting
his sister Mrs. Colliver.
Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Colliver and
Mr. and Mrs Craig Carson left Satur-
". F. Stober of Monterey was a
business visitor here Friday.
George /Rudd was business caller
here Saturday.
Carl Trout and brother Boyell Wee
in Ottumwa Saturday.
John Henderson and family went r.
Centerville Sunday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-05
BIRMINGHAM.

Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Shott went to
Burlington Tuesday to attend the big
show Of Buffalo Bill.
Mrs, Ida Baker and children of Oma.
ha, Neb, are visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrsf1 Cy. Anderson.
Miss Myre Crum Of Abingdon is Wis
iting Will Gallup. west Of town.
Several people from this place went
to Fairfield Wednesday to attend the
big Robinson show.
Miss Fannie Hughes went to FIT
Madison last week where she has en-
Payment in the Santa Fe hospital in
that city.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-05
Loss of Time Means Loss of Pay.

Kidney trouble and the ills it breeds
means lost time and lost pay to many
a working man. NJ. Balent, 1914 Little
Penna street, Streator, ILL.,, was SO bad
from kidney and bladder trouble that
he could not work, but says: II took
Foley Kidney Pills Cor only short
time and got entirel7 well and was
soon able to go back to work. and am
feeling well and healthier than before.
Foley Kidney Pills are tonic in action,
quick in results-a good friend to~the
working man or woman who suffers
from kidney ills. Clark drug store,
Owl drug store.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-05
Noted Speakers at Loyal Legion.

Woted SptaRerS at CuydTEeg10.
Council Bluffs, Aug. bishop Fal'
lows of Chicago, Mrs. John A. Logan
of Washington, D. c.. wife OF General
Logan. and her daughter, Mrs. Tucker,
will be amcng the speakers at the up.
preaching joint meeting OF the Loyal
Legion, commandery Of Iowa, and the
Society Of the Army OF the Tennessee,
to be held in Council Bluffs on October
II and IL. Capt. E. D. Hadley Of Des
Moines is a member of the committee
which has the arrangements for the
meeting in charge. Gen. Granville M.
Dodge Of Council Bluffs Is head Of the
Tennessee society.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-05
Many a Suffering Woman

Drags herself painfully through her
daily tasks, suffering from backachc,
headache. nervousness. loss Of ap-
petite and poor sleep, not Know
ing her ills are due to kidney
and bidder troubles. Foley Kid
ney Pills give quick relief from
pain and misery and prompt return
to health and strength No woman
who SO suffers can afford to overlook
Foley Kidney Pills. Clark drug store
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-05
Miners Earned $500, COO in 1910.

Des Moines, Aug. 1.-The miners
Of the Des Mcines mining district OF
Iowa worked a total Of 1,242,641 days
during the year 1910, according to
statistics furnished by the state mine
inspectors office at the national bu.
reau of mines and mining.
The average wage is approximately
SO for that year in the third district;
figured on the basis of the amount or
coal minded. This would make the
earnings of the miners for the district
during the period mentioned approxi-
mately S3,727,923
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sToRk VISITS MURDER CONVICT
DAUGHTER Born to Mrs, Neapolitan
in Ontario Hospital
Yesterday.

sault Ste Marie. Mich, Aug g. A
daughter was born yesterday at the
general hospital in sault Ste Marie,
Ontario. to Mrs. Angelina Neapolitano,
the convicted slayer of her husband,
who was sentenced to be hanged on
Wednesday next, but whose sentence
was committed to life Imprisonment
in the Kingston penitentiary. The in
FAINT, which is said to be robust. will
be placed under the care of the Chill,
dren's Aid society. which is looking
after the other four children of Mrs.
|Neapolitan0.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-05
BOARD ELECTS OFFICERS.

J. r. 1reWIn OF Cedar Rapids VIII
Be Head For Two Years-D. n.
Emery Secretary.
Iowa City, Aug. 3.-The state board
of education held it's biennial election
here this Afternoon. The officers
chosen are: President, J. H. Trewin of
Cedar Rapids; vice president, A. B.
Funk of Spirit Lake; secretary, D. H.
Emery of Des Moines; president Of the
finance committee. W. R. Boyd of
Cedar Rapids. Nothing was done as to
the next president at Ames.
MIR. Boyd reported taking over the
college for the blind by himself and
Senator Lambert on behalf Of the
board.
Minor appointments were made but
nothing else of. Importance was done.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-05
HOPEW ELL.

Misses La Rue Guernsey and Effie
and Matte yorhis and Clarence Vorhis
of Bloomfield we're Sunday guests at
the Emmett Walker home.
B. r. Black and family from near
Point Isabel spent Sunday at the
parental Walker home. Jim Graham
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Too Much Lead Kills Cattle.

Des Moines, Aug. IA cav and
calf belonging to Frank FOUNTAIN,
1880 Logan street. are dead as result
of eating quantity Of white lead.
/. Fountain had his house painted last
Thursday. The painter threw keg
containing some white lead over the
fence. Fountains COW and her call
came along and ate some. Friday the
calf died. Saturday, the COW developed
sort of fits and had to be shot. a
veterinarian said both had been AZ.
fected by their meal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-05

Do not allow your kidney and blad-
DER trouble to develop beyond the reach
of medicine Take r'tley Kidney Pills.
They give quick results and stop ir-
regulari.ies with surprising prompt
ness. Clark drug store, Owl drug store.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-05
WILL APPEAL CASE.
Yerkey- Bluhm VIII to Supreme Court
Two Suits Filed With Clerk

Two Suits Filed With Clerk
of Court.
Two cases have been filed and a
notice of appeal in the celebrated
Yerkey-Bluhm will case is noted in the
office of the clerk Of district court
today. One of the cases is an appeal
from the justice court of H, c. Nos
Ter and a transcript of the action has
been filed in which George D. Brown
sues Ed. o. Barton. for s55 on account
which grew out of transaction oyer
horse. J. H. and w. T. Swanson VS..
Alfred G.. Lozier ct al is the other &C
ton which is suit on a promissory
note for $500.
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FILE NAMES FOR FARMS.

Adams and Polk Township Farmers
Register Titles For Country
Places.
F. r. Miller of Adams township
selected the name of Maple Leaf
Stock Farm for his acres in the
neighborhood Of Blakesburg Curtis
Chisnlan of Polk township has select
ed the title of "Hill-Dale' for his
place, saying that he has hills and
dales and the name is most fitting to
the Site
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. Iowa Press Comment.

Ames Times: About the most SEN
sible thing this writer has noted polti-
cally is the suggestion of John T.
Adams Of Dubuque for governor, to
succeed Governor Carroll. John T.
Adams Is 8 business man-not poll
tician-hence he will hardly be consid-
cred in the race. II the business peo-
ple of Iowa, however, want business
man for governor and want business
administration they certainly could do
no better than indorse the candidacy
Of big, broad John Adams, or some
other man OF like caliber. But, will
they do It? We fear not-simply be-
cause John Adams has never come out
and howled for Cummins,s Carroll,
Shaw or some other political aspirant.
Davenport Times: E. D. Chassell
has announced that he will be can
didate for the nomination for secre-
tary of state. Mr.. Chassell's home is
in LeMars, but he is state binder at
the present time He is we'll known
among the newspaper men throughout
Iowa and no doubt, on account OF his
popularity, will receive liberal support
among republicans. When Mr.. Hay
formed The Times that he does not in
tend to be candidate for renomina-
ton for secretary Of state and conse-
quently the assertion that Mr.. Chassell
lis candidate against Mr.. Hayward
for the nomination, q statement which
was recently made in this district in
one of the democratic newspapers, Is
without any foundation. In fact, NE.
Chassell did not make his announce
ment until assured personally by Mr..
Hayward that he would not run again
for the nomination. Mr.. Hayward, 1t
may be added, considers three terms
in one state office enough for one
man. AZ
Ocheydan Press: In this year of our
Lord, 1911, when almost every part OF
the country has suffered from drouth
it might be we'll to stop and ponder a
bit--to try and figure out what section
withstood the long siege any better
than Osceola and adjoining counties.
People who left Iowa years ago for
other localities are now homeward
bound, and they are glad to get back.
They have found by good hard expert
failure of consequence; that year in
and year out Iowa soil continues to
produce bountiful crops Of corn and
small grain despite the distressing
frown of the elements as the seasons
come and go.
It only too often requires a shaking
up at the hands Of adversely to bring
some people to realize when they
should have been content. Thus good
people have left the state of Iowa at
the call of the CRATER and speculator
only to be sorry just too late. They
have bought cheap lands that produc-
ed for them practically nothing, and
again they have purchased at ridicu-
lousy high prices land that has
brought them within easy reach OF
bankruptcy. The lesson has been a
severe one to these folks who are now
returning. They are more to be pitied
than ridiculed. They have need of
aid and encouragement. This is q
prosperous state and there is still
plenty Of room for them and Others
who are capable and willing to fight
an honest battle with the soil.
Here in Osceola county the dry sea
son was as much In evidence as any
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-01
GEN ERAL-.

The alleged powder trust dominated
by E. |. Du Pont Company has been
ordered dissolved by the U. S. Circuit
Court of Delaware.
While bathing in the bayou near
Pensacola, Fla, ten small negroes
were caught by the tide, carried be-
yond their depth and drowned.
The New York Senate passed the
Grady bill, which requires that every
editorial published in a newspaper
shall bear tie name of the writer.
D. H. Woolf of Kansas City and his
wife have arrived in Washington, hav-
ing covered more than 5000 miles of
a proposed 7,000-mile walk from
Kansas City to New York and return.
The consolidation of the conti-
mental Commercial and Hibernia
Banking Association will give Chicago
the largest bank in the United States.
Its total assets will aggregate $780,
100000.
Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad,
the two young women who have been
IN Jail in New York, on charge of
shooting w. E. D. Stokes with intent
to kill him, have been given their lib
erty on bail.
Owing to the extreme heat vege
table prices are soaring. Prices of
potatoes have reached the highest
point in Chicago ever known. Vir
ginia new potatoes are selling for
S6.40 a barrel.
The governments petition to enjoin
the Union Pacific railroad from con-
tinuing to control. the Southern Pa
cific Railroad Company has been dis
missed by the United States Circuit
Court of the Eighth district in ST.
Louis.
Two hundred and twenty-five mil
lion dollars increase in the value of
personal property in Cook county, H.,
in the last year, was announced by the
board of assessors. The increase in
assessed valuation is $4,000, ,000-one
third of the actual value.
What is termed a poor mans "anti-
jag" law will go into effect in Illinois
July 1st and on and after that date all
persons who drink intoxicating liquor
on any railroad train except in din
ing, buffet or sleeping car will be sub
iect to both fine and imprisonment
Declaring it appeared to be impossi-
BILE to procure convictions in cases
pertaining to bribery and corruption
in Sangamon county States Attorney
Edmund Burke, in the central court at
Springfield nolled the case pending
against Lee O'Neil Browne.
The southbound Shasta limited was
held up and the mail car robbed by
two highwaymen between Drain and
Yoncalla, Oregon. The robbers en-
tered the mail car, held up the clerks
and looted the car They stopped the
train at Yoncalla and ESCAPED.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-01
WASHINGTON.

President Taft declared his determi-
nation to veto the reciprocity bill if
the same is amended.
Republican opposition to the Cana
dian reciprocity bill in the Senate has
reached the stage of open revolt
President Taft has nominated
Charles B. t. Moore, commandant of
the San Francisco naval training sta
ton, as rear admiral
President Taft, in a message trans
mitted to Congress, arraigned the
manufacturers CT what he denounced
dangerous drug frauds" and urged
Congress to amend at this session the
pure food and drug law to strengthen
that act in vital points of weakness,
recently pointed out by decisions OF
the United States Supreme Court.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-01
FOREIGN.

The United States has officially
recognized the republic of Portugal.
A constituent assembly organized at
Lisbon with 1872 deputies ratified the
governments edict formally proclaim
ing the republic of Portugal.
The first human parts to be re-
covered from the wreck of the battle
covered when workmen removing the
debric from the spar decks discov-
cred the blackened and coral-en-
crusted bones of left forearm and
right foot
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-01
SPORT
LEAGUE STANDING.

The Cheyenne Indians defeated the
Ration Grays by score of II to at
Ration, N. M.
Freddie Welsh won the decision
over Matte Baldwin in hard fought
20-round battle in San Francisco.
Knockout" Brown of New York
knocked out Bant Dorsey of Albany
in the fourth round Of scheduled TO-
round go in Albany.
"Cycloe Johnny" Thompson of Cyc-
amore, ILL.,, and George Knockout"
Brown of Chicago, are matched to box
ten rounds in Gary, Ind, July 4th.
X ''Packey'' Mcfarland of Chicago and
Harlem, and Tommy Murphy of New
York, are matched to box 10 rounds
before the Badger A. C. of Milwaukee,
June Goth.
A race between an aeroplane and a
hydroplane, the first ever held in
Chicago, will be held July 18th. The
race will probably be run over a tri-
angular course. The air craft will be
fitted with pontoons.
Anxious to stage big fight in San
Francisco in the middle of August,
James Coffroth has sent cablegram
to Billy Papke offering him a twenty
round go with Frank Klaus for the
middle-weight championship.
Yale lost a commencement game of
baseball to Harvard for the first time
since 1903. Heavy hitting of Harvard
featured the contest.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-01
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

At Groton, S. D., fire caused loss
of $4,000
Heavy damage is threatened by
forest fire raging near Hoqulam,
Wash, for forty-eight hours.
Denver was chosen as the meeting
place in 1912 by the International AS
sociation of Auctioneers.
Fire in Seattle, Wash, partly de-
stroyed the four-story brick building
of the Seattle Cracker e Candy Com
pany. Loss $4,000
Jockeys Robert Small and J. Denny
were seriously hurt in an accident in
the first race at the fair grounds at
Oklahoma City.
The worlds first bale of new crop
cotton for the season of 1911 has
reached Houston, Tex, and was sold
at public auction on the floor OF the
Houston cotton exchange for $1,015.
Literally buried under nine mil
liens of dollars in gold, Wadsworth 5.
Williams, an employe of the San
Francisco mint, was so badly injured
that his recovery is doubtful.
Dick Miller, a balloonist, giving
street carnival in Weiser, Ida, was
drowned in the Snake river. AS he
dropped with his parachute, the wind
carried him to the middle of the river.
While the sheriff at Bellefourche
was waiting for him with warrant
charging embezzlement, Odin G.
Hameister, aged 27, cashier of the
Northwest State Bank at Newell,
killed himself in his room in hotel.
Fire destroyed the electric light and
ice plants and large mill, all in one
of the largest buildings in western
Kansas City. Loss, 100000. ]. G..
Hopper was the principal owner of
the property.
The big frame building housing The
Santa Fe roundhouse, storehouse and
foremans office burned at Barstow,
Cal. Sixteen locomotives were re
duced to lunk and the loss is esti-
mated at 100000,
Capt. David H. Jarvis. formerly of
the revenue cutter service, who won
fame and a gold medal from Congress
for a heroic rescue of Arctic whalers,
and who was for many years the ac-
tive head of the Morgan-Guggenhei
enterprises in Alaska, shot and killed
himself in Seattle.
E. T. Earle, millionaire editor of the
Evening Express of Los Angeles, has
announced that the Morning Tribune,
a one-cent daily, published every day
in the year and never more than one
cent copy daily or Sunday will
begin about July 1st.
Rev. T. H. Gardner, formerly of Bal
timore, Md, awaiting trial in the jail
at Seattle, charged with beating his
wife to death because the spirits ad-
vised him to do so,'' tried three times
to kill himself, once by hanging,
once by poison and once by fire.
Harvest of wheat and oats has be-
gun in Nebraska along the southern
tier of counties and by another week
will be in full swing through the
South Platte country. Women are
displacing men as harvest hands.
They are more reliable, quicker and
do the heavy work as we'll as men.
Over Kansas, Missouri and Okla
homa a scorching wind from the south
has blown, greatly damaging growing
crops and sending temperatures to
new high records Reports from but
one county in Missouri tell of rain
This was at Hartville, in Wright
county. At Salina, Kans., the tenn
perature reached 116 degrees.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-01
TERNATIONAL DRY FARMING
CONGRESS.

Sixth Annual Session Colorado
Springs, October II, 18 and 19.
The Sixth International Dry Farm
ing Congress will be conference of
farmers, scientists, state and federal
experts, land owners and others in
terested in agricultural development,
representing every nation within
whose borders the precipitation drops
below the net annual average of twen'
ty inches.
All nations, all states where dry
farming is practiced, all agricultural
colleges, the Federal Department of
Agriculture and all farmers of every
nation, operating under dry-farming
conditions are invited to participate in
the Colorado Springs exposition.
Dry-farming is the most interesting
and important movement in the world.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-01
One Killed; Damaqe Heavy.

Port Arthur.-An explosion on the
oil barge Gumble in the harbor here
caused the death of the captain and
loss by fire of 100000.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-12
st. Bernard Dog
Carries Masters Son
Away from Danger
Lifts Lad by His Collar When He Was
About to Be Crushed by an
Electric Car.

GENEVA, Feb. 11.-(Speclal to The Bee0
Crowds OF people in the main street OF
Neuchatel saw day or two ago, little
boy snatched from death by st. Bernard
dog The dog was the property Of farmer
who had driven into town with his 3-year-
old son to make his weekly purchases.
Leaving the vehicle and the boy in charge
OF the dog the farmer went marketing.
The boy managed TO get out of the vehicle,
and was toddling onto the car lines. The
dog followed, and seeing an electric car
approaching at full speed tried to push the
child from the zone of danger but without
success.
The driver, not seeing the child, who
was hidden by the large dog. did not
slacken speed until-as II appeared too
late-he caught a glimpse of the boy. Peo-
Pile turned away their heads, expecting to
see both boy and dog crushed, but the st.
Bernard, picking up the child in its mouth
by the back Of his collar, carried him
across the street and deposited him quietly
on the pavement
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-12
Crime is Rampant
in johannesburg
and Rand District
Unwritten Law is Invoked to Defend
Several Killings in Cold
Blood.

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 11.-Cspeoia1 70
The Bee.)-Within the last three months
an extraordinary waveof crimes Of violence
appears to have swept over Johannesburg
and the forty miles Of reef. A particularly
striking phase OF this remarkable outburst
is the frequency OF offenses which come
under the 'unwritten law category
Crimes OF this character account for tho
deaths OF two men shot in cold blood IN
public places and for several cases ~
wounding. Only a few nights ago man
shot dead his wife and then committed
suicide and during a bar quarrel one miner
shot fellow miner through the heart A
European policeman has been battered 70
death by natives and suicides are Of almost
daily occurrence.
II is admitted that for its European non,,-
lation' put at 10000, thre is more serious
crime on the Rand than In any other Mart
OF the world. The public betrav evident
nervousness as to what may happen when
presently a number Of welI-known des-
peradoes are released from serving long
terms OF imprisonment, and the local detec-
tive staff make no secret OF the fact that
they anticipate the use OF the revolvar nv
them VIII be more than usually freouent