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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
MAN WHO AVENGED
CHILD SENTENCED
Frank Mcmahon Gets Five to Ten
Years for Killing Lover Who He'
x fused to Marry Girl.

Philadelphia, Dec. 1.-Frank w. Nc
Mahon. who was convicted of man.
slaughter last week for the killing Of
George Leary last May, was sentenced
to the penitentiary for not less than
Ave nor more than ten years. The
maximum penalty for the crime Is
twelve years.
Mcmahon shot Leary after q quarrel
on the street after Leary's refusal to
marry McMahon's daughter. The SO.
called unwritten law figured in the
case and attracted considerable satten.
ton. It is understood McMahon's
counsel waived an appeal for new
trial in order to Immediately take the
case to the state board of pardons.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
WISCONSIN WOMAN
SHOT BY-HIGHWAYMAN

Superior. Wis, Dec. Probably
fatally wounded, Mrs. Frank Spalding
is at the hospital in Ashland and the
sheriff of Bayfield, county is looking
for, Arthur Dodge, woodchopper,
charged with shooting her twice.
The shooting occurred near small
station % miles from Iron river, where
1t is claimed Dodge laid in wait for the
sleigh in which Mrs. Spalding was
driving to the camp.
When the sleigh got abreast Of the
highwayman, according to the story
told by man named Green who was
driving, Dodge drew gun and after
compelling him to get down, attempted
to shoot Mrs. Spalding, the cartridge
failing to explode. At thes second at
tempt the bullet went through her arm
and the third entered the body.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
UNDERWOOD TALKS
OF TARIFF PLANS
Democratic Chairman Says Committee
Will Give Taft Time to Submit
Report Of Board.

Washington, Dec 1.-Representa.
tive Underwood, chairman of the
ways and means committee, announC.
.ed today that he would call q meet.
ing OF the committee as soon as con.
gress convened to sound the senti-
ments OF the members as to the tariff
revision program.
wood, will be given reasonable
time in which to submit the reports OF
the tariff board. If these are with
held too long the committee will pro
ceed without them. 1t has not been
decided which schedules to take up
first. We are certain, however, to
submit bills on wool, cotton, and iron
and steel, the sugar schedules may
come later
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
AFT GIVES
OWN VIEWS
Of HIS ACTS
In Authorized Interview
President Discusses Tar
if, Winona Speech and
Some Of His Future Plans

New York, Dec. LIN the current
issue Of The Outlook there appears an
article entitled president Taft's Own
View, An Authorized Interview" in
which the president discusses current
topics with an interviewer, as follows
in part:
Speaking OF the tariff issue, Mr..
President, II you could begin your ad-
ministration again, would you repeat
your Winona speech tomorrow" the
interviewer asked.
"In phraseology, no; in effect, yes.
Had known as much as do now, ]
should have realized that there are
some things one cannot leave to be
taken for granted. dictated that
speech to q stenographer on the cars
between two stations, and glanced
through it only enough to straighten
it's grammar; 1t was sent out by the
press with correspondingly little cere-
mony, SO that papers received 1t IN all
sorts OF shapes. II had prepared 1t
two or three weeks before and revised
1t deliberately, as ought to have done
II should have clarified several pas.
sages. And, particularly, I should have
changed the sentence where I proclaim
the Payne tariff act the best ever pass
ed. The comparative would have
been a better description than the
superlative; for, whatever its short
comings, the act still contains less to
be criticised than its predecessors. and
1t did, as whole, revise the existing
schedules downward.
objects to Business Disturbances.
& have no fault to find with either
democrats or insurgents for trying to
reduce any duties they chose; what
object to is disturbing the business OF
the country today, when there is moth
ltng betterS than gressWork to pToceed
upon, and then disturbing IT afresh six
months later when the best available
Information is before us. | do not
join in the charge Of Inconsistency
against the democrats for compronnis.
ing with LaFollette on the wool sched.
ule instead of standing by their own
figures. II they could not get all the
reduction they asked for, they were
quite justified in taking what they
could get. My chief criticism on their
tariff activities last session was that
they were willing to send to me legis
lation so crude and i'll digested that
they must have known, If they had
paused to think, that could not possi
bly, approve It,"
rs your tariff reduction program
based on this theory that 1t will bring
about corresponding reduction in
the cost Of living?"
II think that that effect is greatly
over estime ID. My chief objection tc
a needlessly high tariff is that II
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
.BOMBARDMENT
IS REPuL SED
ITALIAN ATTACK ON ABRAHAM
PORT FAILS; STORIES OF TURK
AND ARB CRUELTY.

Perrin. Dec. 1.-The bombardment
OF the fortified sea port at Mocha, On
the coast Of Arabia, caused consider
able damage hut only three Turks are
reported to have been killed.
The Turkish gunners in the fort re.
nlied to lne Are from the Italian war
shin with fifteen shells, all OF which,
however, fell short except the last
one, which passed over an itanan
cruiser, causing 1t to WitnarS~ 'lf
promptly.
It is said that the bombardment
probably will be resumed on Decem'
ber by more powerful Italian WAT
ship.
stories Of Arab and Turk Cruelty.
d washington, Dec. Stories Of q
legged barbarities practiced by AraDl
and Turks are contained In dispatcne.
raeeiyed at the Italian Eembassy nere
In ! dispatch received yesterday IRON
Rome the italian minister Of forelgr
AFFAIRS describes alleged atrocitlef
practiced on the Italian wounded
which include ,crucifixion and purla
alive. Women, It is said. take part II
the perpetration Of these cruelies:
The dispatch, which is signed by
Signor San Guiliano. minister OF tor
eign affairs, is in part as follows,
"Near the Mosque of Hani, where
the medical post Of the Twenty-sev
enth battalion of Bersaglieri had beer
located, and in its vicinity, twenty
eight bodies Of our soldiers were
found.
"They were horribly nutilated
crucif1ed, with their throats cut open
impaled, torn to pieces, and dismem
bered. Among them there was tne
body Of a surgeon lieutenant.
"In the Arab cemetery, near tne
place where the fourth company o
Bersaglieri was located, seven bodies
of Bersaglieri were discovered. The!
| had been inferred alive, with tn
heads out of the earth. The body 9
one of these shows that he had beer
terribly tortured.
.The eyes had been pulled out ant
threaded and the eyelids sewn to tn
brows." 80,
The dispatch also confirms the with
drawal OF the Italian troops from
Henni. This, 1t is said, was necessar!
because the Turks had polluted tn
wells.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
CUMMINS PREPARES
BILL FOR PRIMARY
lowan to Introduce Measure Provid
ing Means For Voters to Register
Presidential Choice.

Washington. D. c., Dec. Senator
$Cummins Of Iowa, announced today
that he would introduce a bill provid.
ing for presidential primaries early in
the coming session. The bill would
direct the holding Of primary elections
in each state, at which the electors OF
both parties could announce their
preferences for presidential candi-
dates.
The bill would fix August 4 Of next
year as the time for the first prim-
aries and if it should prevail nothing
would be left to the national conven-
tions except the framing of platforms
and arranging the machinery of the
national committee. It would provide
for direct vote for the presidential
candidates in each party and also for
electors.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
CHANGES MADE IN
WHITE HOUSE STAFF

Washington, D. c., Dec. Rudolph
Forster, who has been connected with
the white house in an executive
capacity for more than ten years, was
today appointed executive clerk to the
president at $4,000 a year, and Sher-
man P. Allen of the Washington
bureau of the New York Herald was
sworn in as his successor as chief
clerk.
Mr.. Allen is from Burlington, Yer
mont. and was at one time private
secretary to Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Newberry. The position he as
sumes at the white house pays $4,000
a year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
CHINESE TOWNS
Are TERR0RIzEO.
BANDS OF HooDLUMs TAKE AD-
VANTAGE OF WAR SITUATION
TO LOOT AND ROB

Hongkong, Dec. although the
reign OF piracy on the West river has
been checked by the vigilance Of the
guards on board the river steamers,
the situation on shore is utterly
chaotic. In the towns and settlements
along the river the most deplorable
outrages are frequently occurring.
Even in Canton, the military regime
has proved itself wholly inefficient.
For several days armed bands of
robbers and hoodlums have gone about
Canton looting shops and houses. To-
day five ruffians, bristling with re-
volvers walked boldly into q bank in
a southern suburb and got away. with
$4,000 In cash. About the same time a
band Of seven armed natives clustered
Into the open market and boldly
plundered two prominent shops before
the eyes OF hundreds OF panic stricken
!!on1ookers. They secured several hun
dred dollars in money and then walked
off. The local police, disarmed,
watched the spectacle helplessly.
Street fighting goes on continuously
in all parts Of Canton and those killed
or injured include many innocent by.
standers.
The Hongkong governmen ent has
adopted the sternest measures to re.
press all outbreaks Of rioting here. One
unusual piro OF legislation adopted at
the request Of the police, permits the
fIogging Of prisoners for minor Of
fenses against the peace.
There have been no developments
Of independence on the river. The
steamers all proceed under guard and
keep constant watch against attack
by pirates.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
BUTTER As CENTS
AT KANSAS CITY
Commission Men Say Price Viii Go
Even Higher; Low Supply Of
Country Product Blamed.

"a Kansas City, Dec. With cream
cry butter here selling at As cents,
8 to 10 cents higher than at this time
last year local commission men to-
day said it would go several cents
higher within the next few days, In
previous years, they said, the market
at this season had been Hooded with
country butter sold BY farm natrons
and maidens laying In their Christ
mas money and the country produce
had kept the price down to earth.
This year there had been little country
butter offered and the reason assigned
is the decreasing popularity OF the
churn butter paddle with the general
farmers wife.
Chicago Don't Blame Women.
81 Chicago, Dec. AT the but
ter and egg board here, good
natured derision greeted the re-
port that the rural femininty at this
season was any less eager than ever to
get their Christmas money Although
it was admitted by Secretary A. w.
Hale that the price OF butter was seven
cents higher here than at the cores
ponding time year ago, the fact was
pointed out that last years figures
were an exception and that quotations
twelve months further back were about
the same as now. t. 81
The drop in prices last year it was
explained was because an actively
aroused public sentiment against high
prices general had resulted in largely
decreased consumption of butter. On
the other hand, natural habits have
since had time to take control and peo-
pie are again eating butter in plenty.
That woman kind in the country was
each year increasingly successful in
taking life more easy was not denied,
but the idea was smiled at that market
conditions this season had been revo.
lutionized by change in the holiday
outlook of the human element at the
churn.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
FAVOR ABROGATION
OF RUSSIAN TREATY

San Francisco, Dec. 1.-San Fran
cisco Jewish-Americans have joined
in the nationwide movement for an
early abrogation of the treaty Of 1892
between the United States and Russia
because of Russia's alleged refusal to
recognize the American passport OF
Jewish citizens. 1t. was announced to.
day that the Legislature, now meeting
in extra session, would be memorial.
lied to have the matter taken up nv
congress.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
TARIFF BOARD
WOOL REPORT
READY DEC. | |
Members Of Commission to
Work Nights and Sundays
in Order to Complete
Their Work by That Date

! Washington, D. c., Dec. 1.-The
much discussed report OF the tarin
board on the wool schedule OF the
Payne-Aldrich tariff and on the wool
industry will be in the hands of Presi'
dent Taft not later than Dec. II.
| This plan was made known at the
white house today following a visit OF
Chairman Emery and A. H. Sanders OF
the board The cotton report will be
sent to the white house few days
later. Il
Mr.. Taft spent nearly an hour with
the two members of the board and
urged them to make all possible haste
in the preparation of both reports and
the board will work nights and Sun
days until its work on these two sched-
ules and industry are completed.
Mr.. Taft's two special tariff mes.
sages, one on wool and the other on
cotton, it became known, will be
merely formal documents Of transmit.
tai. Under the act creating the tariff
board, it Is not expected to make rec
ommendation for tariff legislation to
congress.
It's report will show the comparative
cost of production of wool and cotton
in the various states in the United
States and abroad but it will not con-
tain conclusions as to any rates. 1t is
said that in his tariff messages the
president does not now intend to 60
any farther than the board.
1t was said at the white house to be
the presidents understanding that the
house ways and means committee will
make its own Investigation of the
woolen industry after it receives the
tariff boards report. The president, It
was stated, would hesitate therefore,
to recomend the specific rate when
lcongress planned supplementary in.
|vestigation of. it's own. r-ssef
! Reports that the tariff board had
been split over the repirt on raw wool
and it's need of protection were denied
by Mr.. Emery AMI Mr.. Sanders after
their talk with the president.
Eve are all harmonious" said Mr..
Emery.
In conversation with callers, the
president himself said he had question.
Ted the board members and that they
had reported no disagreement and
plenty of harmony. The report that
Mr.. Taft was dissatisfied with advance
information as to what the tariff board
would say about raw wool and that he
had directed them to make another re.
port also was denied.
Il did not tell them to make another
report at all, | urged them to hurry up
their report, that was ALL the presi
dent is quoted as saying. a
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
SHELLSBURG MAN
is KILLED HUNTING

Cedar Rapids, Dec. George Smith
q prominent young farmer living near
Shellsburg, was instantly killed yester-
day while hunting with friend near
here.
The trigger of shotgun in Smiths
hands caught, exploding the gun. The
charge entered Smiths heart.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
PRISONERS TAKEN
FROM FIT. MADISON

Ft. Madison, Dec. 1.-Twenty-six
prisoners, accompanied by four guards
from Anamosa and by Warden Sanders
and two guards from the prison here,
were taken to the prison at Anamosa
in special coach last night. The
transfer was made to relieve the crowd
ed condition at the local institution.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
Another Confession
Made BY Beattie Is
Made Public Today
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Richmond, Va, Dec. 1.-The
News-Leader here today prints
the outline OF what Is said to
have been a detailed and priv
ate confession left by Henry
Clay Beattie, Jr., for the per-
sual OF his family alone. It Is
stated that one of the detec-
tives who worked on the case
was permitted to see the con-
fession, which is more circum-
stantial than that made public
the day Beattie was executed.
According to this alleged
confession Beattie decided two
weeks before the crime was
committed to kill his wife.
The details of the murder coin
eide almost precisely Z with
the theory of the case set out
by the state at the trial.
Beattie induced his cousin
Paul, to buy the gun and hide
1t behind q stump on the Midlo-
THAN turnpike. He is said to
have stated that he shot his
wife full in the face as she
was stepping from his automo-
bile and that she fell backward
into the road. i9
Beattie denied that he first
knocked his wife down, q story
that gave him much annoy
ance, duplicating cowardice."
Beattie Is also said to have
a denied that he sat on his wife's
+ body during the wild drive into
Richmond. He is said to have
asserted that his marriage vas
comparatively1oveless and was
forced on him by his fathers
earnest wishes.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
Ma Who shot Minister Sentenced.

Vienna Dec. 1.-Njegus, the Dalma-
tian, who fired four shots at Herr
minister of Justice,
during the session of the Austrian
reichsrath on October 5. was sentenc-
ed today to seven years at hard la
bor., The trial lasted two days.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
Sioux City Man, Recently
Married IsStabbed Third
7in1eIn Year; WilLRec0per

Sioux city Dec 1Jas stabbed by an un
Rancphers home shortly peiole
according announcement ny MS
{ physician today.
This take Ranc
piers each time knife having been thrust
right made jan 10 last AS
Of dark street he ~
then
identity while passing along dark street Ranc
behind received knife in the
latest Rancipher pounced
upon BY enemy from his backdoor He
STABBED in the right His assant think
Ing him dead pulled knife from Rancphers side hed
Rancpher family recently married
family that the attacks m3 have been made
today making investigation
and believe they which
& the guilty party. #
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02
Jowan Suicides in Minneapolis,

Minneapolis. Mimi. Dec. 1.-The
dead body of Wellington Fry, aged %
years with bullet wound in the head
was found il a lodging house here to-
day. Fry's home it is said, was at
Dayton, Iowa Marital troubles and
the respondency over losing his posi-
ton are said to have been the cause
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02

CONTINUED on Page 10, Col. 81.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02

Russia has, 1t is believed. four thou
Caspian sea, on November %. They
were dispatched to Persia in conse-.
auence OF the delay OF the Persian
government In complying with the
Russian demand for an apology to the
Russian vice consul at Teheran.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02

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The Mena weekly star., 1911-03-09

Prof. W. A.. Griffin closed his school
here last Friday after very success
full term of six months.
The school was addressed by DR.. X.
I. Connally and the members OF the
school board, E. Rowe. j M. Strawu.
and J. e. Warner After school pa
irons and children went with Mr., Grif-
fin to Mr.. Millers where he was board
ing. The women and young ladies Of
the community had prepared sur
prise supper for him. After supper
the children played ball and the young
people enjoyed themselves in playing
games. also an apron party in which
the young men showed their skill in
sewing The contest was very warm
one, and the cake was awarded
to Mr.. Griffin and Miss Ode Turner.
March / 1911. A Friend d.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-03-09
7. R. JONES FOR MAYOR
The Convention Held Monday Night to
Nominate City Democratic Ticket
Was Very Harmonious.

A large number of citizens of Mena
who affiliate with the Democratic
party met at the court house Monday
night and with remarkable speed and
no friction selected the ticket for the
coming city election.
j. |. Alley, chairman of the city
central committee. presided over the
meeting and M. P. Olney as secretary.
AS soon as nominations were de-
clared in order 7. X. Jones. who at
present holds the Office of alderman
from the Second ward, was nominated
for the Office of Mayor. There was no
opposing candidate placed before the
convention and Mr.. Jones was nomi-
mated by acclamation.
Following a good deal with the same
spirit of harmony, w. j. (Uncle Jack)
Davis was nominated for Police Judge
and John Joplin, who is serving his
first term as City Treasurer, was again
nominated for that office.
Dan Watkins was also re-nominated
for Alderman from the First ward.
|. M. Davis was nominated for Alder
man from the Second ward and Dr.
E. H. Black to fill the unexpired term
of T. r. Jones from this ward. j. /.
Alley was selected for Alderman from
the Third ward. For members of the
Democratic City Central Committee.
DR.. G. P. Dunman was selected from
the First ward. Dr. w. P. Parks from
the Second and A. H. Scogein from
the Third. This completed the work
of the convention and the meeting adj
journed before 8 o'clock.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-03-09
NOTICE 10 CONFIRM TITLE.

Notice is hereby givon that on the
9th day of March. 1911, II. G. Hopkins,
c. M. Hopkins, Hazel B. Jackson, for
merly Hazel B. Hopkins and Minnie NJ.
Hopkins, filed in my office their petition
to the Chancery court of Polk county,
Arkansas, praying that said court at
its April term 1911, by it's decree, con-
firm and quiet their title to the follow
ing described lands situated In Polk
county. Arkansas, to-wit. The south
west quarter OF northeastq quarter, Sec
tion 81 and all OF that part of the
southeast quarter of northeast quarter
of said section 81, and that part of the
southwest quarter ofnorthwest quarter
OF section 81, bounded and described
as follows: Beginning on the east
line of said southwest quarter of
northwest quarter of said section 81,
30 feet north of the southeast corner
and running thence west 1873 feet
thence north 134 feet; thence west 3l5
feet: thence south l34 feet; thence west
270 feet to the west line of said south
west quarter of northwest quarter OF
section 32; thence west 327 feet; thence
south 210 feet to the south line of said
southeast quarter of northeast quarter
of section 81; thence west on said nine
to the southwest corner of said tract:
then north on the west line of said tract
to the northwest corner of the same:
thence east on the north line of said
tract to the northeast corner of said
southeast quarter of northeast quarter
of said section 81; thence east on the
north line of said southwest quarter
of northwest quarter OF section 81 to
to the northeast corner of the same:
thence south on the east line OF said
tract to the place of beginning; also
the northwest quarter OF northwest
quarter OF section 81, all of said lands
being in Township ? south, of Range
30 west.
Now, therefore all persons who claim
any interest in said lands or any part
thereof are hereby warned and called
upon to appear in said court within six
weeks from this date and show cause,
If any there be, why the prayer of said
petition should not be granted and
why the title of the said petitioners in
and to said lands and every part there
of should not be, in them, confirmed
and quieted.
Given under my hand on this 9Th day
of March, 1911.
II. J. Green, Clerk.
March GIFT