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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-14
|POSTOFFICE SAFE
IN MISSOURI BLOWN

st. Louis, May 13.-Burglars blew
open a small safe in the postoffice at
Clayton, ST. Louis county, early today,
robbed it of $4,000 in stamps and SILT
in cash and escaped, overlooking $3.50
in cash and stamps. Pieces of the shat
tered safe door tore through the ceiling
into the apartment occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Schmid. Because Of the
amount Of explosive used 1t is thought
the burglars were novices.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-14
DES MONIES RIVER
WENT UP FOUR FEET

The heavy rains of Saturday morn
ing and afternoon sent the Des
Moines river at Ottumwa on whoop.
ing rise for period of fourteen
hours Saturday. From O'Clock Sat
urday evening until o'clock Sunday
morning, the water came from the six
and one-half foot mark to the ten foot
register. l.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-14
FREIGHT HANDLERS
READY TO ARBITRATE

Chicago, May 13.-President P. J..
Flannery of the freight handlers union
today sent letter to the General Man
ayers association agreeing to submit to
arbitration the demands of the strik-
ers The men ask an increase in pay, q
nine hour day and Saturday half holi-
day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-14
KANSAS BRIDE SLAIN;
FATHER-IN-LAW HELD

Linconville, Kans.. Nav 13.-The
body of Rosy Kapaun, bride Of three
months with bruises indicating she
had been choked to death, was found
covered with an old carpet on the floor
of her home here last night.
The police say the woman met her
death resisting an attack. Her husband
had gone to the village leaving her
alone in the house. Isaac Kapaun, aged
so. Mrs. Kapaun's father-1n-law, was
arrested and Is now in Jail at Marion.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-14
MISSISSIPPI is
HIGH AT LA CROSSE

La Crosse, Wis, May 13.-The Miss
issippi river here rose today to 81 feet
above low water mark. the highest
point reached In ten years The rise
was IL feet since Saturday and two
feet since Friday. The danger point
here is IL feet.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-14
CONCERT THIS EVENING.
FIfty-fourth Regiment Band Will Play
PROGRAM of Nine Numbers In
CITY Park.

The program for the Fifty-fourth
regiment band concert in the City park
tonight is as follows:
March, 'St. Johns Cadets" Snyder
Overture, 'Poet and Peasant" .Suppe
Intermezzo "Alexander's Band.
........ Schulz
Fantasia, Sunny South" Lampe
March, "Carrolton'' ......... King
Selection, ri Trovatore'' ..... Verdi
March, That Mysterious Rag" Irving
Waltz, .sDesdemonan ....... Holmes
March. "HesSNiner ...... Troutman
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-14
e.,..burs Men Walk Out.

Galesburg, H., May 13.-With the ex-
ception Of three out of the 110 freight
handlers employed by the Burlington
road here all turned in their time
checks today and went on stril1A
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-14
Clarion Railroadsr Dead.

Clarion, May Especial )-J. G..
Price, superintendent of the Clarion
division of the Great Western. is dead
following an operation.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-14
REID WITNESS
IN j. S. SUIT TO
DISSOLVE STEEL
Railroad Financier and Di-
rector in Corporation is
Questioned About Organ
ization Of Companies.

New York, May 13.-Daniel G. Reid,
the railroad financier, director in the
United States Steel corporation and
member Of its finance committee, was
called as witness at the resumption
today Of the hearing in the govern
ment suit to dissolve the corporation
before Commissioner Brown. Mr..
Reid is the first defendant to appear
on the witness stand.
Mr.. Reid was asked to testify con-
cerning the organization OF the Ma
tional Steel, the American Tin Plate'
the American Steel Hoop, and the
American Sheet Steel companies, IN
which Mr.. Read, together with. William
H. Moore and.J. Moore, were the doml'
nant factors before the concerns were
taken into the so-colled trust. Reid
and William H. Moore both became
directors of the corporation on the
absorption of their companies ana
have been so ever since. The gov
ernment contends that all four com
panies were themselves illegal comol'
nations.
Mr. Reid gave his business as chair.
man of the Rock Island and 'Paclflc
railroad.'' He said he was STOCK
holder of the United States steer
corporation, but declined to say now
much stock he held. He said he had
exchanged his holdings in the Amer
ican Tin Plate Co. for steel corpora
ton.
Mr.. Reid was asked to describe COM
petitiye conditions among the con-
stitutent companies Of the American
Tin Plate Co. before it's organization
in 1893.
"Did you take part in the organiza,
tion OF the tin plate company" asked
Judge Dickinson, Of the government
Ssss Z.
..With whom did you consult g
sJudge Moore He had reputa-
ton as an organizer"
"Were your tin plate companies en-
gagged in any pools?"
"Not to my knowledge.
The witnessed volunteered an ex-
planation that the tin plate makers
had met every effort to fix the wage
schedule of employees, but these meet
ings had nothing to do with fixing
prices. .Thirty-nine plants, operating
200 mills, were taken into the in plate
company, he said, which represented
about 80 per cent Of the tin plate in
dustry.
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at noon.
Considered joint resolution provid-
ing for direct election OF United
States senators.
Judiciary committee continued it's
investigation into charges against
Judge Archibald.
ference Of the ways and means COM
mittee for Tuesday to consider
whether a cotton tariff revision bill
will be introduced at this session.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-14

TODAY IN CONGRESS

SENATE-Met at noon.
Considered agricultural appropria-
tion bill ~
Judiciary committee decided to re-
port favorably the resolution re-
stricting presidential tenure of OF.
fee to single term of six years.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-10-25
ORDINANCE NO. 100

An Ordinance Providing Tor Polling Places and Voting Pre- cincts for the General Election of Senators and Representatives to the Legislature of the Terri tory of Alaska, to be held No vember 9th, 1912.
 The Common Council of the town of Ketchikan does ordain: Sec. 1;-That the Town or Ketchikan shall constitute one voting precinct for the general election for members of the Legislature of Alaska, to be held November oth, 1912, the bound -arles wherof shall be co-eXten- sive with and identical with the corporate boundaries of said town of ketchikan. ~ Sec. 2:-That the polling place for said voting precinct shall be at the Council Cham Der in the library building on Main Street in said town, on | Lot Ii, of Block I5 of the Town site of Ketchikan, as surveyed and plated by J. c. Barber. Sec. 3:-This ordinance shall take effect and be in force and effect from and after it's pas sage and approval. Passed and approved thi: 2nt day of October 1912.
 THOMAS TORRI, President of Common
 Council and eX-offl-
 cio Mayor.
 Attest.
 Chas. II. C0sgrove,
 Clerk.
 -S-
 Hot Beef Tea, Clam Nectar, Tomato Bouillon at Casper sons.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-10-25
Kg8RT THE BALKAN
 }NA7 GS ABOUT

Macedonia, a region in South eastern Europe about as big as Missouri, has long been grossly mlsgoverned by Turkey. Re peated promises or reforms have proved vain. The oppres- sed people Of Macedonia-in- cluding Bulgaians, Servians and Greeks-haye been appeal ing to their kinsmen i'll the kingdoms of Bulgaria, Servia, and Greece, for help. Public sentiment in these border nat ions and in the nelghborig king dom of Montenegro, has finally been aroused to such a pitch that these four states are will ing to fight. Their object is to compel Turkey to put the government of Macedonia un- der the supervision of the Chris tian Balkan states and the Eur opean powers. Turkey is re- sisling because it knows that such all arrangement would mean the eventual loss of its European possessions.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-10-25
CONTRIBUTED

fhe editor u Modern Meth ads seems to think il was a new law under which l was ac- quilted for hitting an anarchist
 On the contrary 1t was a very old law as he will find by re- fering to "The Lady of I he Lake" by Scott ill which Rod erie Dhu lays down the law to Fritz James thus:
 And though the noble beast of game
 T he privielege of chase may
 claim,
 Though time and law the stag We lend,
 Ere leash we slip, OF bow we bend
 However reached, where, how,
 or when,
 The prowling wolf was trap
 ped or slain.n
 Il was the mouthings of such mad dogs of society that has caused the murder of three presidents and the cowardly at tempt on Roosevelt.
 It is the talk of such men who construe liberty as license and whose idea of a goddess of Liberty is a Petrolose of the 1 Commune, that murdered Gov ernor Steunenberg, and blew t up the Los Angeles Times.
 Il was the money of such as he that hobbled the law in the Idaho case, and they cheerfully gave their dollars to aid the !. McNamaras, and their only re- gret it that those assassins weakened under the very shad- ow of the "chair that jolts,''
 he right of free speech is guaranteed under the constitu- ton and a man may say what he pleases ill Alaska, but he had better crawl under the house and whisper to himself if he wants to say some things at some times.
 The trouble with friend Heath and his kind is that they have read such papers as "rhe Ap- peal to T-reasonn till they have gone rabid and regard even the best of cur public man as ene- mics of society.
 The jury only voiced the opin- lion Of the people of Alaska, "lbat assassination is not leg Ultimate politics?n
 GILBERT MANN
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-10-25
Saint Johns Church

Rev. Robert Ewell Roe, priest In charge.
 Sunday a. m. Holy Communion. 9:45, Native Sunday School. u:o0, Maths (1st. Sunday, Holy Communion) and sermon.
 12:15 White Sunday school. D. m. Native service. D. m. Evensong and sermon Wednesday 7:30 p. m., Native ser vice.
 Saturday 200 p. m. J. 4. 8. 7;So D. m. choir practice.
 Meeting of Vestry first Monday night in month; Womeh's Guild, al ternate Thursdays, 2:30.
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Christian Science services are held opposite the cable office.
 Services at II: A. NJ. Sunday. Reading and song service Wednesday evening heginniug at 7:3o. All are welcome
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-10-25
AMONG THE CHURCHES
First M. E. Church

First M. E. Church Sunday Church service II a. m. ard 7:S0 p. m.
 Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7:3o. Friday choir meets 8 o'clock. First and third Wednesday after moons at l:30 Ladies Aid Society.
 H. W. MICHENER, Pastor.
 Catholic Church Sunday Mass at 10 a. m. Sunday Mass first Sunday ill month, 1t g a. m.
 Sunday school after mass. Week day Mass at 8 a. m.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-28
MISS M'CARROLl
BAKED BESTCAKE.
YOUNG OTTUMWA GIRL GIVEN
RECOGNITION FOR HER
QUALITY OF BAKING

Miss Catharine McCarroll, the sew
enteen year old daughter of Mrs.
Carita McCarroll, 800 West Fourth
street. received recognition as the best
cake baker at the successful cooking
school just closed by the Courier In
the UT building. Miss McCarroll was
presented with an elevated oven gas
range for her accomplishment. The
cakes baked by Mrs. Carrie Jones, 423
West Fourth street, and other one
known as No. /, we're declared to be
next to that exhibited by Miss McCar-
roll. A sack or Wingold flour will be
presented to these ladies'. The seven
teen cakes on exhibition came under
the scrutinizing eyes. of Mrs. J. F..
Dieterich, S21 West Second street,
Miss Laura, Cooper, 625 North Court
street, and Mrs. F. E. Orvis, lis North
Clarysstreet.
The cakes were auctioned off and
the sum of $905 which they Melted.
will be turned over to the Ottumwa
hospital.
The Courier cooking school which
was in progress Thursday. Friday and
Saturday, afternoon and evening, was
a great success. The demonstrations
in paper bag cookery by Mrs. Marsh
ment were very interesting and af-
forded the great crowds present at
each session explicit instruction
OF this form of cooking.
Tho several demonstrations by local
concerns were a source of much inter-
est to the many women In attendance.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-28
SALEM CHAPEL

Married, Tuesday, May IA, 1912, by
Rev. T. w. jeffrey at the M. E. lar
sonage in Ottumwa, Miss Marie Bluhm
and Ira Eldredge. Their many friends
extend congratulations.
Mrs. E. e. Gilyeart and daughter
Crystal spent Tuesday with Mrs G..
w. Crawford at 1905 West street,
Ottumwa III
Miss Maud Baker and Albert Bluhm
were married Thursday evening at 8
o'clock at the home Of the brides par.
ents, Rev. Hornn Of Kirkville, offici-
ating.
Glenn Gilyeart visited Saturday
with his little friend, Truman Mast.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cam Scott and daugh-
tiers Agnes and Gretna, spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Shuttlef1eld
Mr.. and Mrs Harry MILFORD of Of
.rmwa, Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Milford
and Mrs. Pearl Rocker visited Sunday
at the John Mccoy home.
Ny. and Mrs. +. Z Gilyeart spent
Sunday with Ntr and Ma i:crt
I nst lin, neai l'ndr',S
Mrs. J. A. Phillips and children Of
Ottumwa and Crystal Gilyeart, were
visitors at the E. E. Moore home on
Sunday.
Dora, the second daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Chas Cobbler, was operated
on last Tuesday for appendicitis.
Mrs. E. e. Gilyeart and daughter
Crystal attended the 6 o'clock ami
versary dinner Of Woodbine camp
1914 r. N. A., at the Woodman hall
in Ottumwa last Tuesday evening.
H. H. Davis and Mrs. Lyman and
daughter Louetta were callers Sunday
at the Mccoy home.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-28

ing free-lovers, rowdies, negroes, Nor.
mons and other of the despised classes,
all giving their characteristic reasons
for following him. Isn't that the way
the socialists are mis-represented to-
day? Yet chattel slavery went down
in a few years before those abolition.
lists, and exists today only as men,
ory and the names Of Lincoln, Garri-
on, Lovejoy and Wendell Phillips are
revered all over the country.
Socialism today stands in about the
same relative position as the abolition
movement Of sixty years ago. Who
can tell that it will not sweep the
country in few years? II it Is
wrong, let us find out where its phillo-
sophy falls down. II it is right, let us
not stand in the way of progress.
Jas. McGahey.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-28
COLORED WOMAN'S
NECK is BROKEN

Des Moines. May &c. w. Winter
and Peter Tooney are being held by
local authorities today pending an in
vestfgation into the death of Mrs.
Laura Ratliff, colored, whose body
was found near the outskirts of the
city early yesterday. Her neck was
broken. The men, both white, told me
police that they were out riding with
the negress when the horse became
frightened and ran away, throwing
them from the buggy at different
points along the road.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-28
CIRCUS ARRIVES
Big Show Opens Weeks Engagement
in the East End This
Evening.

The circus opens tonight at 1880
o'clock, for one week at the city view
side show grounds on North Ash
street. Snyder's united shows arrived
this morning over the Rock Island from
St. Joe, Mo-, with fourteen good shows.
There are plenty Of free acts including
leaping the gap, high dive, and free
band concerts each evening at o'clock
by sixteen piece band aided by a
$4,000 steam calope.. Every body is
invited to attend. All news boys will
be admitted free to all shows Tuesday
evening.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-28
THE C. {. union
IN CONVENTION
THE eleventh DISTRICT HOLD
ING ITS TWENTIETH MEET
ING At ALBA

Abba, May 27-The eleventh district
c.. e. union will open it's twentieth an
nual convention in the Christian
church at Abba this evening at 1870
O'Clock. T. S. Craig, Abba, will lead
the devotions and give greetings.
Mayor Berry will welcome the guests
and Rev. Burton of Seymour will
respond President H. E. Van Horn of
Des Moines addresses the convention,
after which reception for the dele
gates will be held in the First Pres
byterian church. Special music by the
orchestra and quartette will be a
feature Of the whole convention.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-28
JOHN VAN BECK DIES.
Former Packing House Man Dies
From Burns In Sioux Falls
SUNDAY Morntno

Many old packing house employees
will learn with great sorrow Of the
death of John Van Beck at Sioux
Falls. s. D. Mr. Van Beck was work
inc in the S. & s. Packing Co.. In
Sioux Falls and while eating his
breakfast last Sunday morning his
gasoline stove exploded and burned
him so badly that he died within
few hours. Mr.. Van Beck lived by
himself at the time of the tragedy.
He had worked at the local plant for
many years and had scores of friends.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-28

ence, Iowa. has just been declared
winner of the diamond medal given
annually to the student in agricultural
Journalism by Clarence A. Shamel,
editor of the Orange Judd Farmer, for
the best written agricultural article.
TO Chinese student, C. C. I'm of Can
ton, China, goes the honor of third
place, and to NJ. M. Allender Of Fair
field, Iowa, second place.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-28
Turkish Towels Free.

We are giving pair of large Turk
ish bath towels free with a can OF
Grand Union baking powder. This is
the best bargain we've had for some
time. Get a pair while they last
Grand Union Tea Co.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-28

Ares Student Gets Medal.
Ames, May 27-Earl Elijah, an
animal husbandry student from Clar-,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-28
PEOPLES PULPIT

The Courier wilt pubIls:, IN this
column article, contributed BY
its reat 'ers. The commune tions
should DO typewriter or In
!. prsin hand, on one side at the
naper, ard signed.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-07-11

educational and the industrial progress
of the people; they make better homes
and happier fresides; they are the
avenues Of trade, the highways Of
commerce, the mail routes of informa-
ton and the agencies OF speedy com
munication; they mean the economical
transportation of marketable products
the maximum burden at the mini
mum cost; they are the ligaments that
bind the country together in thrift and
industry and intelligence and patriot
ism; they promote social intercourse,
prevent Intellectual stagnation and in
crease the happiness and prosperity of
our producing masses; they contribute
to the glory of the city ana the coun-
try, give employment to our idle work
men, distribute the neeessarles of life
the products of the fieids and the for
ests and the factories.
'The plain people of the land are
familiar with the truths of history
They know the past. They realize that
often the difference between good
roads and bad roads is the difference
have a money value far beyond our or
binary conception Bad roads consti-
tute our greatest drawback to inter
nal Development and material prog
ress. Good roads mean prosperous
farmers. Bad roads mean abandoned
farms, sparsely settled country dis
triets and congested populated cities,
xr-fs Il "A
poorer. Good roads mean more eul-
tivated farms and cheaper food prod
ucts for the toiler in the cities Bad
roads mean poor transportation, lack
of communication. high prices for the
necessaries Of life. the loss of untold
millions of wealth and Idle worEmen
seeking employment. Good roads viii
help those who cultivate the soil and
feed the multitudes, and whatever aids
the producer and the farmers of our
country will increase our wealth and
our greatness and benefit all the peo-
pie.
Zone Of the crying needs in this coun-
try, especially In the south and west,
is good roads The establishment Of
good roads would In measure solve
the question of the high price Of food
and the increasing cost Of living. BY
reducing the cost Of transportation 1t
would enable the farmer to market ITS
produce at lower price and at lar
ger profit at the same time. II would
bring communities closer together ana
In touch with the centers Of flopula-
ton, thereby facilitating the coLilneree
OF ideas as well as of material prod
ucts."
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-07-11
WHAT IS DUTY?

Philosophers have seemed to
assume that we knew what duty
was. They have discussed the
question whence came the idea
of duty, and so on. which is very
interesting in its way, but they
have overlooked the main point,
which is, What is duty? Now,
that is just what we don't under
stand today, We don't know
what our duty is, If we did
more of US would try to do it,
believe-not all of us and not
always, but In general we would
try to do right if we knew what
right was. 1t was Guizot,
think, who said, at is harder for
a man to know what his duty
is than to do 1t" All the mod
ern philosophers have built up
incomplete systems OF ethics be-
cause they have overlooked this
fundamental point. We have to
go back to the ancient Greeks
before we find problems Of ethics
attacked in their entirety. The
Greeks did have in their way
complete system of ethics, but
this is Of no advantage to US, be
cause their social world and their
outlook on life were entirely diff
ferent from ours. Their civiliza-
ton did not present the problems
we have to consider. They had
no conception of a duty toward
other nations, for one thing.
Their own state was ali they
recognized, and even within that
their view was limited.-Henri
Bergson, Famous Modern French
Philosopher.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-07-11
A Monument b crooked Roads.

One day through the primeval wood
A CALF walked home as good calves should.
But MADE trail all bent askew,
a crooked trail, as all calves do.
Since then three hundred years have fed,
And ! infer Che calf is dead,
But still he left behind his trail,
And thereby hangs my moral tale.
The trail was taken up next day
BY a lone dog that passed that way
And then a wise bell weather sheep
Pursued the trail Ger vale and steep
AnG drew the fioa2 behind him too.
AS good bellweathers always do.
And from that Gay DER hill and glade
Through those old woods path was made
And many men wound in and out
And lodged and turned and bent about
And uttered words Of righteous wrath
Because twas such crooked path
Bat still they followed--do not Laugh
Tie Grst vibrations Of that calf
And through tifis hiding woodway Etaikea
Because be wabbled when he walked
IS w Toss Ia Better Hoads