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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23
DR.. eAMFoRD FOR DELEGATE.

DR.. eAMFoR0 FOR OElEGATE.
Centerville Iowegian: Appanoose
county has in DR.. q. e. BAN
ford delegate to the republi.
can national convention. The eighth
district and the state Of Iowa will
have In DR.. Bamford . man who will
stand loyalty by the party and the id.
ministration. He believes that the
party under the leadership OF Presi-
dent Taft has been making record
which should command the approval
of the people. He believes that this
is time when republicans should
get right down to consideration OF
facts and come to realization Of the
necessity of uniting in support Of the
record of the party is making. He
also believes that the record Of the
future should be and will be one in
keeping with the history Of the party
for meeting every responsibility and
being constructive in legislation -
each new issue demands.
In his practice and in business DR..
Bamford has achieved much success.
Personally he is one Of the most popu-
lar men In the county and is always
found with his shoulder to the wheel
in every forward movement. When
the party has such a man for such a
responsible position as delegate to the
national convention 1t, will make the
right choice In selecting him.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23
An Alarm at Niaht

That strikes terror to the entire house
hold is the loud. hoarse and metallic
cough of Group. No installing 1t, and
fortunate then the lucky parents who
keep Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
on hand. II. w. Casselman. Canton, N.
r. says: TT is worth its weight in
gold. Our little children are troubled
with Group and hoarseness, and all We
give them Is Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound. always have bottle Of It
in the house Clark Drug Store and
Owl Drug Stora
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23

Those persons who are asking Prest-
dent Taft to mix III the italian Turkish
war show very little consideration for
an overworked executive. Hasn't the
president got trouble enough with q
rampant democratic L house on his
hands without going abroad to mix in
another scrap? &E
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23
rnosE OLD cHRlsTMAsEs.

The following editorial Christmas
Dhilosophizing Is done by the MAR.
shalltown Times Republican In con-
trasting the Christmas giving OF today
With that obtaining in earlier years:
NV daughter, If you had been the
daughter Of ordinary people forty
Years ago you wouldn't have fixed
vonr mouth for a hornback alligator
handbag and the like as Christmas
nresent. II you had been bold and am
bilious enough to have dreamed of ex.
nenaiye presents, you'd have awaken.
II with great shock Dec. 20, 1872.
because Won wouldn't have got them.
NV son, il you were back in the
third. quarter Of the nineteenth CEN
fnry when pa was boy, bicycle
would look bigger to you than a pas.
penger train and 20 rifle like 70
inch cannon. One of Horatio Ayers
or Oliver Optics books would size up
IKE Webster's international and SIX
Rollo books loom like the Encyclope-
flia Brittanica. Why IN those days an
orange was bigger than pumpkins are
now. 20 cents worth of candy was con-
fectionery beyond the dreams of child
ian ayarice and a handful of pecans
and niegertoes would fill peck meas
ire Of today; that is, the way you see
than now and the way they would
have looked to you If you had kept
Christmas as child In those halcyon
DAYS older persons tell their children
about Of evenings.
Along ten or fifteen years after the
civil war in America il you had been
: : boy then your Christmas stocking
would have held Barlow knife-an
implement much esteemed among the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23
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BLOOM FELL

Mrs. Jim Games and daughter Mrs,
Row Murphy Of this city spent Tuesday
in Ottumwa with friends. II
Mr.. and Mrs. Cruies and family OF
Tuxford, Canada are visiting relatives
in and near this city. q
Roy Cramer OF Ottumwa was ia
Bloomfield Monday evening on busl-
ness II
Misses Lillian Kennedy and Velma
Shields visited at the James Hill and
N. Hawkins homes In South Ottumwa
Monday.
Seymour Rogers was in Ottumwa on
business Monday. 81 q. 81
Mrs. Perry Smith OF Kansas City is
visiting near this city with relatives.
John Owens was In Ottumwa Tues
day. =
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23

youth of that period-a pair OF Gro
cheted wristlets, some WOODEN socks
knitted by grandma's own hands You
sometimes sat down In her rocking
chair where she had dropped her
knitting and sustained a severe pune
ture from the knitting needles-in-
yariablys an orange oranges cost ten
cents apiece then-some stick candy
and assorted nuts. II it was Christ
mas to be specially marked with q red
cross, you found pair of skates with
straps across the toes and long
screw to be twisted in the heel.
There might have been homemade
handsled painted red with Comet"
stenciled on 1t in black letters, but not
likely The skates and sleds scarcely
ever arrived together. Maybe those old
days and old Christmases were the
best that ever dawned but your old dad
is going to be honest with you and
confess that il he were going to be q
boy over again he'd choose the year Of
our Lord, 1912, to be eleven or twelve
years old In. Not that boys didn't en-
Joy their presents forty years ago as
much as you seem to now or that they
didn't have fun all right. Boys enjoyed
presents and had fun in the year II as
they do 1900 years after. But the hon
est fact is that the boy Of 1912, has
more opportunity, ought to know more
and should be able to have g. better
time than any boy of any previous
year. And that is true of the boys
father. Nineteen hundred twelve beats
1872 to live In as an automobile beats
democrat buggy to ride in. You go
SO much further, See so much more
and do it so much easier
+ The point is you have all the chance
that other boys had and the accum-
ulated opportunity Of fifty years of OPP
portunity making to boot, Schools are
better, business Is better. sure II costs
more ito live but people don't live 40
the money. It's as easy to live In =
pretty fair house now as to live In
poor one then, as easy to have furnace
heat now as to burn cordwood In q
stove was when pa was boy. You
never faced cord OF red oak or maple
single handed with q bucksaw. You
don't know what you have missed.
When an older person starts In to
sing the glories OF his boyhood listen
respectfully, that's yonr duty as q
well behaved boy, but reserve judg-
ment. Take it from your old father
that there never was 80 good time
to live in, 50 many comforts obtain
able at the cost Of less exertion, SO
much true charity, sincere desire to be
helpful, SO much kindness as today.
It's a peach of a world. The thing
the older person misses is his boy
hood
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23
..vaTEMAT,z,Na POLICE FINES

IA 8YSTEMA1JZlNG FOIsS6
a Kansas city municipal judge mas
conceived the idea of having nxeo
"fine list" for the offienses that dally
/ coma m IN municipal courts. He mas
poated 4 list In q conspicuous place u
his court room in which the 1oiioMns
ofienses and the fines he VIII ADMINS an D1'
ter are sst forth: A.
. Carrying a; revolver, 500. =,
writing on buildings or sidewal KS
with chalk, SIS. go
Ioafing in public places, $loo.
Talking sassy" to women IN stores stores
or other public places, $25.
Porters talking in q rude or uhsen'
tlemanly manner, SO. 80 Sd.
e Running races in the streets, $zU.
Letting a goat run in public places
Allowing cows to Craze on PARK
mn chewing gum on the side
wall 81 in street cars, S..
Is Stealing a gate, SO. d
Pulling pickets on q fence, -.
HAVING 4 pig pen on the place szo.
Tha fudge has adopted this nhe
conrsa there will be cases brought ne.
Tore him where 1t will be necessary
to to alter the anes to suit the circum-
stances hut In most cases ne ls oe'
tarmined to 60 by this fixed rule n n
lat" as q warning to Offenders. ~ -
n ,, on misdemeanors, just as
conrts have fixed sentences for parties
Convicted Of more serious crimes:
some. Of these offenses mentioneo
NAV seem trivial, but the idea never.
theless is a good one. For instance
q every .gun toter' brought before TINS
iudee knows that it Is going TO cose
him 800 for indulging in this danger.
o,,s practice there will no doubt pe q
general scardtng Of nt gums nro N nan the
nudge should enforce rigidly. ~.
The trivial fines imposed by ponce
magistrates and Justices are not sum.
cient to prove an effective deterrent 70
crime. In many, cases city ordinances
ara =, 20 blame for this, and where they
ara thew should be, amended. "A me
Of 500 in. IOttunawa for every man man
found carrying a. gun should reduce
Inc number OF our gun: stoters Y " :
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23

: The announcement that the Gaek-
war Of Baroda has been disciplined for
being rather tardy and lukewarm IN
offering his homage to King George
fills us with regret. That q man with
a name like that tackled on to him
should have to go through life with any
added sorrows seems like rubbing
It in.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23

converts the deficit into q surplus. No
that one of the greatest Of govern
ment feats has been accomplished.
The insurgents are still talking about
the Winona speech and the reaction
aries are blaming the president for
hurting business with his trust bust
ing. The president does not need q
publicity expert for q fact. He has
no talent whatever for stage effects
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23

A talesman being examined in .
New York murder trial was asked II
he knew the difference between de
liberation" and "premeditation." I
do" he declared firmly. "Them's the
weapons the man killed the other fell
low with" The talesman was ex-
cused.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23
Cured in His Own Home Town.

NJ Cured IN His Own Home Town.
OTTUMWA, Ia. M. D. Leonard, 40
Carlisle ST., veteran Of the Civil war;
tells the way for, his fellow townsrnen
to- be cured Of kidney and bladder ALL
fionts as he himself was cured. ION
ana on for over a year have suffered
with kidney trouble. had Z severe
pain across my back and the secretions
Of my bladder were dark colored. I
rot some OF Foley Kidney Pills and
after taking them for few days the
PAIN left my back, the action Of my
kidneys became regular and normal
and all my trouble passed away.
gladly recommend Foley Kidney Pills
TO anyone who has kidney trouble
Clark Drug store and Owl Drug Store.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23

President Roosevelt, the Lincoln
Journal says, went out Of Office with
the, postofice department running be-
hind at the rate Of $17,000,000 q year.
President Tafts postmaster general
works like battery Of horses ant
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23

wv. j. B. Refuses to Talk" says q
newspaper headline The item refers
to Detective w. J. Burns, the st. Paul
Pioneer-Press explains, not to the
wv. J.. B." you are thinking about,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23

1 Without opiates or harmful drugs Of,
any kind Foley's Honey and Tar Com.
pound stops coughs and cures colds.
Do not accept any substitute.-Clark
Drug Store and Owl Drug Store.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23

"The Lorimer case rests until after
Christmas" chronicles a headliner It.
has our permission to rest until after
next Christmas. III 7. IL
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23

an hasn't got lean shirt to his name. Not being
contagions disease, however, it doesn't spread very
rapidly unless has stern wife with large
and sarcastic vocabulary. Bathing has kept many
man down town until the fire has gone out In the
kitchen range This malady manifests itself in various
forms, tho most popular OF which are the Turkish
munity bath. The mission of the Turkish bath is to
enable stout get into their clothes without the
aid Of shoe horn. No lean man infests Turk
ish bath unless he is in search of painless death.
The mud bath is resorted to by people afflicted with
large means and ngrowing rheumatism. Its chief adj
vantage is that it draws the rheumatism to the sur
face, where the patient can see 1t and make post
unnecessary The wash basin bath is not quite
thorough the Turkish BATH but 1t Is shorter and
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23
rHE END.
q Bloody AFalr

A Bloody AffaIr
10 lung hemorrhage. Stop 1t. and cure
weak lungs, coughs and colds, with DR..
Kings New Discovery. soc and 81.
Frank B. Clark. 81
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23


leading pillars
whtewash life legal
who insist their
liable
by n proximity the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23
a Eierce AttacIk

A Fierce Attack
of malaria, liver arrangement and Kid
ney trouble, Is easily cured by Electric
Bitters, the guaranteed remedy. Scotia.
Frank B. Clark.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23
Sid Sketches
By Howard Z. Ram N !
HING.

Bathing disease which king rapid the and
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-23

chase, which lay far down the river,
many. many miles distant. The sigh
was ever so little, but Darlington had
heard it.
/ q am to be missed. too, am I.
Betty" he inquired, leaning toward
her
sn"You. Bruce oh, I shall miss you.
oo-dreadfully then, perhaps
in Ave years, when you come back"
Five years." cried Darlington, but
he understood something Of what was
passing in her mind, and laughed
shortly. Five years, Betty? he re-
peated, dwelling on the numeral.
Betty hesitated and looked thought
full. Presently she stole snrrepti-
tious glance at Darlington from under
her long lashes, and went on slowly, as
though she were making careful choice
Of her words. I:
when you come back in three
years, Bruce"
Darlington still regarded her fixed
". There was light,in his black eyes
that seemed to penetrate to the most
secret recesses of her heart and soul.
"Three years, Betty" he repeated
again.
E Betty her eyes cast down. twisted
her rein nervously between her slim,
white fingers, but Carrington's steady
glance never left her sweet face, franz
ed by its halo OF bright hair. She
stole another look at him from beneath
her dark lashes.
Three years, Betty?" he prompted.
Bruce, don't stare ct me that way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
He Staked His Herd.

Many stories Of big poker games
among the western cattlemen in the
early days have been told, but the
story of the game with probably the
greatest stakes is here printed for
the first time Two well-known cat
tlemen Of southwestern Kansas start
ed to move their herds to The pas
lures of Wyoming. Each herd con.
tanned more than a thousand head of
cattle When they came to the
crossing of the Arkansas river near
Coolidge they found flood on
They were unable TO cross for two or
three days. To while away the time
the two men engaged in a poker game
When the flood finally subsidized so that
the cattle could proceed one of the
cattlelnen said to his son. who was
helping to drive: Just turn my herd
over to cur neighbor and we will go
back home" He had bet and lost not
only all the money he had. but all of
the herd of cattle.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
Found Shortly After struck.

That the affair took place some
where betwee Perry Springs and Yer
sailles, two small towns only short
distance apart, is the belief shared by
railroad men. They report that Har-
din was on duty at the former place
where the mail business was properly
attended to. The four young fellows
who had been riding the platform of
the mail car without paying any fare
did not resemble thugs, but were well
dressed and seemed to be going to
Versailles from some of the small
nearby places where they had been
spending Saturday. Their identity was
not learned, but likely will be brought
up in further investigation.
The Wabash train was late in arriv-
ing in Keokuk and shortly after mid
night G. F. w. Werner, Wabash maid
clerk, who has been on vacation,
went down to near the button factory
for the purpose Of conducting an ex-
animation of the car. 1t is certain
that it did not carry much registered
matter Werner secured the injured
mans cap which is marked VIII
blood, showing where the blow was
struck near the top of the left side of
the head
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
americans Globe Trottcrs.

There are many American girls
who pride themselves on being globe
trotters. A trip to Europe is insignii.
cant to them; they have been around
the world so many times they speak of
it as something not unusual. But they
do take pride in knowing the art of
travelling, of getting along without so
many petty annoyances that almost
give inexperienced travellers nervous
prostration. They are sweet tempered
and merry and never seem to be ruff
fed by any unexpected circumstance
One of those experienced girls when
asked why she got along so easily, re-
marked: We'll, / soon learned a few
essential things and ! never have any
trouble. 1t is a mistake TO travel in
ones own hair. 1t always gets cr1m-
pied and struggling in the salt air, and
SO | always wear a few pin curls in the
day and keep my own hair fresh for
the evening. Furthermore, l always
make it point to tip the stewardess
when ] start on a voyage"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
ALWAYS WARNED
BEFORE KILLED
Continued from page l.,

lied all over Russia some time ago
by discovery of the. fact that the most
prominent of their number, Eugene
Azef, who promptly disappeared and is
variously reported to have been killed
by his former companions and to be
still in hiding, was police spy
A similar discovery concerning Bor-
CROFT, who shot Premier Stolypin. is
unlikely to have the same effect, how
ever, as his task in the terrorists in
terest having been successfully car
ried out and the man himself sentenc
ed to death so that he will be in no
further danger to the revolutionary or
ganization.
Officialdom and the aristocracy at
any rate, are in state of panic They
not only fear the terrorists, but are
in state of panic. They not only fear
the terrorists, but, as a result of the
suspicion that highly placed person.
ages engineered the premiers assassi
nation, fear ono another.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
WAS
AGAINST THEM
Get Rich Quick Concern Was Gobbled
Up BY the Police and
Eight Men Were
Arrested.
ONE WAS MINISTER
Former Treasurer of the United
States is Also Bagged in the
Raid of the Postal
Authorities.
yE WAS MINISTER
IGate city Leased Wire Service

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.l
NEW YORK, Sept. pa former
treasurer of the United States, Daniel
M. Morgan; clergyman, and six
others, all prominent men, were ar
rested this afternoon in a federal raid
on brokers' office in West Fortieth
Street.
The office was that of Jared Flagg,
whose operations, according to the al
legations of the U. s. postal authori-
ties. have not been unlike those pur-
sued by thhe notorious 500 per cent
Miller" The men taken denounced
their arrests and protested. their in
nooence.
Those besides Morgan and Flagg
were: The Rev. James Il. Shrock,
pastor of Plainfield, N. j. Dutch Re-
formed church, Joseph Brown, brok.
er; Harold jackson, broker Edwin l..
Schiller, Alvin M. Higgins, lawyer,
and F. T. Nicely, publisher.
There were a score of customers in
the office when the government de-
tectives, accompanied by men from
the central office, burst in. Among
them were six women, three of whom
be anne historical, causing small
panic among the clerks and stem
ographers.
The alleged fraudulent dealings OF
the concern total million dollars
The brokers assured their clients, OF
whom there were fully thousand, OF
50 per cent profit on their invest
ments, none of which could be less
than $1,000 according to the postoffice
The concern did not advertise
Flagg did employ stalking horse, &C
person of Morgan, whose ok on the
firms operations was entirely salts
| factory to prospective clients be
cause of the high post he held under
the late president Cleveland
Flagg, who has had trouble witt
the authorities before was defiant
when the officers swooped down or
! his offices, and made a futile effort
| to prevent them from confiscating his
records. He insisted he had not violat
ed the postal laws and that his s.
per cent investment proposition was
perfectly legitimate.
/ Arrangement before Commissioner
/ Gilchrist, the prisoners were held fol
examination in bail ranging from So5,
600 to $4,000 which was promptly fur
nished. Flagg who is designated as
the ring leader drew the highest bail
The specific charge against all OF
the men arrested was that they used
the United States mail to defraud.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
Brakeman Made Discovery.

Hardin was discovered by Harvey
Harmon, brakeman on the train,
about 1928 o'clock in the evening just
as the train was reaching Versailles.
The door of the mail car was open
and Hardin was lying not far from it.
His battered head was evidences
enough that he had been the victim
of foul play, but what kind of a weap-
on was used 1t was impossible to
determine. His left temple was
badly discolored and just above it
was q deep cash, leading to the be-
lief that he might have been struck
with something blunt having sharp
corner.
No weapon of any kind was found
lying near the unconscious man and
everything about the mail car seemed
to be in order No persons riding on
the train during the trip had attract
ed attention and railroad men find
a solution of the mystery difficult. 1t
is said that he might accidental
" have fallen and struck his head
against something, but this theory is
generally discredited by those who
think the train was boarded by thugs,
who were later scared away or may
have secured some loot in the way of
registered mail.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
Saved BY Its Tick.

The last thing the woman did was
to put four rings in the clock on the
mantel
so thieves won't get theo.," she
said u should think that would be
simply inviting thieves to run away
with them said her friend. That
is handsome clock, and thieves like
clocks"
They do" said the woman, "but
they will never steal this clock. 1t
ticks too loud. No wise thief will
run away with clock that goes like
thrashing machine. 1t isn't the
alarm about his person that he IS
afraid of, for ne can stop the clock.
but the occupants of the flat are like
ly to return before he gets safely
away and if loud-ticl1ing clock is
gone they will miss 1t the minute
they step inside the door. and maybe
given him hot chase for his
plumber"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
LOOKED DOWN
INSTEAD OF UP
CONTINUED from page /.

1890
equipped with more powerful engine
and Fowler said he was confident that
the barrier will be left behind him in
side of twenty-four hours.
Fowler ascribed his failure today to
lack OF motive power. He flew seven
ty-five miles. from Colfax, and when
Is miles from the summit of the noun
tains was caught by boisterous noun
tain winds which tossed his machine
as though it were a cork.
He assembled to an altitude Of 81
800 feet where the air was calmer, but
his engine power was insufficient to
push the plane over the crest. With
sharp crags in front of him and rocky
gorges beneath, Fowler finally decided
that to attempt further flight might
mean disaster and he returned to Col
fax.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
A Color Transition.

An aged colored man was engaged
in burning the grass off the lawn of
young broker when the latter returned
to his home and, thinking to have
some fun with the old man, said:
"Sambo, If you burn that grass, the
entire lawn will be as black as you
are"
Oats all right. sub" responded the
negro. Some O desc days dat grass
grow up an be as green as you'll are"
Judge.