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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-09

Ell Paso, Texas, July 6.-Only $500
men are estimated as comprising the
remnant of the rebel Mexican army
today. Desertions because Of lack Of
food and money, and federal triumphs.
have greatly reduced the insurecto
columns within the last week.
General Pascuel Oroxco today was
expected at the new rebel capital
Juarez--to launch further plans for 2
continuation OF the revolution. Though
the plan of guerilla warfare original
ly called for division Of the rebel
forces into detachments Of fifty men,
General Orozco now has ordered that
each column shall contain 500 men to
dominate the region detailed 1t.
Already the rebel invasion OF the
state Of Sonora has begun. Nearly
1000 men under General Emilio
Campo are marching from Casas
Grandes on the Mexican Northwestern
railroad toward Bapolibampo, one Of
the mountain passes leading into
Sonora. En- route from Aqua Prieta.
opposite Douglas. Ariz.. to check them
is the federal column Of 5000 men I'M
der General Sanjinez, who will make
his headquarters at Colonia Morelos.
near the Sonora state line and fifty
miles south OF the international
border.
General Huerta has established
headquarters at Horicasiast, twenty
miles south OF the city Of Chihuahua.
Railroad and telegraph communities
ton with the city Of Chihuahua prob
ably will be restored in five days.
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these doctrines and they did not save
thavn Wa diacuaa tho recall IA soma.

these doctrines and they did not save
them. We discuss the recall as some
thing new. but the Romans had the
recall and the men who we're recalled
under her system Of Jurisprudence
were banished. The truth Is that all
these things that we discover" have
been tried before us.
And that is why we have used the
word "churnine. That describes us
and cur mental and political states.
And because the process Of churning
,upsets great many things and makes
great deal of noise, we think we
are going forward at a rapid rate.
When we come again to stand still TOR
while, or fall exhausted, as we will
we will And that we are not SO very
far removed from the original place
the sun will rise in the same place,
traverse the same path In the sky and
man will 60 to his work in the same
way and the same kind Of sweat Will
roll down his face. y.
oh, God, but we are lot Of chill
dren and, probably. the best thing
about us is that we are so easily
amused, and so easily deceivedI espec-
tally by our politicians.
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BIDWELL.

Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Byrum Of Blakes-
burg and Fred Berkey and Luther
Lathrop of South Ottumwa were guests
at the H. T. Lathrop home last week
Rolla Lewis and family were enter
tanned recently at the Frank Upp home
in South Ottumwa.
Alfred Perry departed Friday even
ing from Ottumwa in his launch for
Davenport.
Homer Johnston and Elmer were
business callers in Blakesburg Mon
day.
Mrs John Gessley Of South Ottum
wa visited a few days last week at the
Michael Oswald home.
Mrs. Catherine Johnston and son
Frank were entertained Sunday at the
Willard Van Fossan home at High
Point.
Mr. and Mrs. T. c. Garfield Of South
Ottumwa visited few days last week
at the James Johnston home.
Mrs H. T. Lathrop is still slowly i'm
proving. They have a nurse helping
take care of her.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Johnston in COM
pany with Mr.. and Mrs. T. c.. Garfield
visited Thursday at the David Grooms
home near Chillicothe.
Mrs. Rolla Lewis visited at the par
entail NJ. +. Upp home near Blakesburg.
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ELKS REFUSE TO
REINSTATE GOAT
Popular Initiation Functionary Down
and Out When Crusader For
Revision Falls.

Portland, Ore, July efforts OF
the Elks to recover their banished
goat" have failed. Representatives OF
delegates, smaller lodges to the grand
lodge session of the Benevolent and
Protective Order OF Elks, which will
assemble here Monday, filled the air
with laments last night and attempted
to start movement to have the
goat" re-established as a functionary
in the initiation ceremonies. When the
effort failed it was finally admitted
that the goat" had passed.
The fight has begun among cities
for the national home, the construc-
ton Of which will be discussed at the
grand lodge session. Western cities
will attempt to have the site Of the
present home transferred from Bed
ford, Va, to some western state. Both
the Colorado Springs, Colo, and Salt
Lake City, Utah, delegations will wage
vigorous campaigns for the new home.
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FARM GToN.

Miss Bertha Ware Of Bonaparte was
recent guest at the home Of Mrs.
Minnie Mcdaniel while enroute to
Burlington to visit her sister Mrs.
John Donnelly.
Miss Edna Gallagher Of Burlington
is the guest OF Miss Dorothy Kelsey.
Mrs E. M. Clark and Mrs. Ida stat
ford Of Bonaparte were recent Farm
ington visitors.
Mrs P. o. Peterson pleasantly enter
tanned the Kensington club Monday
evening. Mrs. S. D. Boiler Of Green
Bay, Wis, was an out Of town guest.
Mrs. Herman Walther and little son
Of Davenport have returned home aft
er visit with the formers brother H.
F. Smith and family.
Miss Esther Knehans Of Cape Cir
ardeau, Mo-, Is visiting her aunt Mrs.
Will ~Hartrfck.
Misses Jennie and Mary McGreer
have returned to their home nea:
Primrose after spending the past seven
months in Pasadena, Calf.
Miss Ida Kerr Of Mt. Sterling was a
recent guest Of Miss Leila Kerr.
Master Dinsmore Taylor of Denver,
Colo, arrived Friday for a visit with
his grandparents w. H. Coulter and
wife.
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FLYNN PROVED
EASY FOR BLACK
PUEBLO FIREMAN WAS LIKE
PUTTY IN THE HANDS OF JACK
JOHNSON YESTERDAY.

Las Vegas, N. NJ, July 5.-Jim
Fynn's white hope expired yesterday
in the ninth round of his scheduled 49,
round bout with Champion Jack John
son. Flynn's face was chopped and cut
frightfully by the champions deliber-
ate blows and in the 9Th round Cap
tain Cowles Of the New Mexico state
police pushed his way into the ring and
declared the contest ended as brutal
and improper exhibition. For three
rounds Flynn had realized his inability
to defend himself and frantically tried
to butt his way to victory. At times
he leaped q foot from the ground en-
deayoring to crush his skull against
the champions jaw. Time after time
referee Smith warned him to stop 1t
and Flynn made no defense.
Hes holding me; He's holding
me" he would declare to Smith, and in
the next clinch he would try 1t again.
When the police interfered Referee
Smith through the announcer awarded
johnson the fight.
johnson made no serious effort to
hurt Flynn at any time during the
nine rounds.
Apparently he held himself in check
when Flynn's butting tactics were at
their worst. Johnson bore not sim
gle mark of the fight beyond a slight
cut inside his lower lip.
The officials Of the Johnson-F1yn
bout as announced at the ringside fol-
low:
Ed w. Smith OF Chicago, referee;
time keepers, for the club, Otto S.
Floto OF Denver; for Flynn, Al. Tear
ney OF Chicago (also stakeholder); for
Johnson, Tom Flanagan. A telegram
addressed Referee Ringside" was read
Just before the fight It was signed by
McMahon Brothers New York and was
q $4,000 offer for Joe Jeanette
johnson match in that city.
Another message from New York
asked that Johnson be challenged
from the ringside for jeanette.
It added that Victor Breyer Of Paris
offered to Johnson, 100000 for 30
round contest there with Jeanette
Al Palzer wired q challenge to the
winner, saying he had posted $4,000
forfeit in Cincinnati. Luther Mccarthy
wired Flynn q win or lose challenge,
the fight to be in New York II ar
ranged.
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SI0OUNREY.

Hon. D. w. Hamilton arrived home
from the Baltimore convention Sunday
Mr.. Hamilton is an enthusiastic Wilson
man and since the news came OF Will
sons nomination he Is highly elated.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wagner left on
Tuesday for Mason City to spend the
Fourth and after that they will spend
a few days at the lakes.
Newt Haldeman, president Of the
Savings bank at Thornburg was Sig
Quincy visitor Tuesday.
The Sigourney school board met on
Monday evening for the purpose of
making their annual settlement with
the treasurer and secretary. The Ans
ancials condition OF the district was
found to be in good condition, there be-
ing a balance on hand in each Of the
funds. After the treasurer's books were
audited the bond OF A. G. Jacobs was
approved, and he will be the new
treasurer of the district for the coming
two years The secretary's report
showed from the census returns that
the district has twenty eight people
more than it had last year who are Of
a school age,
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WHAT WE CALL PROGRESS.

Cedar Rapids Republican,: We hear
a great deal said nowadays about the
progress that we have made and about
the national conscience that has been
aroused. We really think that won
ders have been wrought in our midst,
nationally, as the result OF great agi-
atoms that have perturbed us.
But let us give ourselves no false
assurances; let us not fatter our
selves too much. When we come to
be viewed historically, the verdict
may not be 50 clear. 1t may be the
verdict OF the historian that while we
churned about great deal, as they
say OF butter or of herd of cattle,
we did not really advance as rapidly
as the commotion seemed to indicate.
We have had ten or twelve years OF
this excitement, but after each cleo
ton men find that the sun rises in
the same place and in the same way
and that men still have to earn their
living in the sweat Of their faces. In
each campaign, and before the pas
sage Of each new law, we are told
that conditions will be entirely
changed, and everything will be easier
and better. We wonder why the man
and his measure did not come sooner.
But he is in Office and aftcr the law
is on the statute b0ok-why, life 1s
just about the same. 1t still takes
the same amount OF muscles for Jack
and Jill to carry their load uphill and
the laws Of gravity remain the same,
when they lose their footiLgs and be-
gin to roll down the hill.
The world does not change much.
at least not In obedience to the mach
nations of the politicians We shout
progress, as the young man cried Eek
celsior," but the world Is not remade
and men are not reborn. Let us be-
lieve there is an unceasing purpose,
but from generation to generation, we
find the progress we make is not SO
LARGE. We point to the dark ages.
ders ourselves and we are easily de-
moralized and easily thrown into
panic. We pity those who have lived
before us, but they also were meas
urably prosperous and happy, and
that is all we can say Of ourselves.
We discover new things and we cry
eureka" which means 1--WE have
found It," But after while some in.
vestigatcr finds that some one had
found 1t before us. We call this the
age OF cement, but the Romans have
left in the wrecked pathway OF their
history the remains OF concrete con-
gtruction In a degree OF perfection
that we have not vet attained We
speal. OF the initiative and referen-
dunn, without really knowing what
they irsnN. but the Romans had both
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DIE
IN WRECK ON AN
EASTERN ROAD.
Picnic Train Crushed b. a
Freight on Ligonier Val
ley Line Near Latrobe,
Pa, Last Night.

Ligonier, Pa, July 6.-Twepty-one
persons were killed. according to tho
ofacial list. In the railroad crash on the
Wilpen branch Of the Lisonier Valley
railroad last night whom Va passenger
coach on the little coal road was
crushed between two locomotives on q
steep grade.
With the Latrobe and Ligonier hos.
pitals overtaxed, nearly score OF In.
1ured APE In Pittsburgh hospitals where
they were taken in special trains last
night.
OF tho missing that were thought to
have been In the wreckAge all but
two were found among the list Of In
5ured. OF these. Mrs. Nettie Grey OF
WNpen and Roy Grey, foster son.
were found in the wrechage this morn
Ing. ,clasped in each Others arms.
The collision occurred at the fair
grounds at Wilpen. one and half
miles from Ligonier, summer resort.
The coaches contained q large num-
Der of children, who were being taken
by Miss Matthews. q nurse at the home
OF George SENT. president OF the Ligo-
nier Valley railroad, for days out
Ing. All the children were either
killed or sustained severe injuries.
M Engine Pushes Coach.
Tho passenger train had started
from Ligonier. It consisted OF an en-
|gine and coach, the engine pushing the
coach. The freight train was made UP
|of many coal cars and was being
pulled BY two heavy locomotives.
The impact was terrific. The pas
senger coach was practically laid open
and the passengers either crushed or
thrown like shot through the air.
It was tho first fatal accident, II 10
said, In the history OF the LiSonier
road for the past forty years.
Every asat Occupied.
A majority OF the injured were resi-
dents along the Wilpen branch. They
were brought to q hospital here or
sent to hospitals at Pittsburgh when It
was found they were In critical con-
dition. Among them were DR.. j. B.
Johnson OF Ligonier, hurt internally.
He probably will die.
The train was crowded every seat
In the lone coach being occupied with
persons returning from a Fourth Of
July holiday. The freight engines
plowed through the wooden coach,
crushing 1t a. 1t would paper.
Eight cornihg Dead Unidentified.
Corning, N. Y. July 8.-Two more
of the forty-one persons killed in the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
wreck near here were identified today.
They are John Kennedy, Harrison, N.
j.; Jules Sampson, 392 Central avenue,
Jersey City. This leaves eight bodies
to be identified.
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VILLAGE CREEK.

Born. to Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Dexter,
Saturday June 90. a daughter.
: Mr.. and Mrs. James Courtney and
little son James, Jr., were over Sunday
visitors at the D. A. Rater home.
MI. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Arnold. Mr.. and
Mrs. B. F. Harsch and ramlly and
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Harseh and family
attended the reception at Matt Huber's
Sunday in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Mar
tin Huber.
Miss Ella Aired came home from OF
tuniwa last week to spend the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rouch returned
home one day last week after visiting
near Pleasant Plain and in Floris.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Myers We're call
ers at the J. NJ. Arnold home.
John BOSNIAN of near Blakesburg
spent Monday night at the home Of his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
1ouch.
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CONGRESSMAN FOUND
DEAD IN NEW YORK
George r. MaI5y Of 26th District Of
Empire State Succumbs In
Hotel Room In Gotham.

New York, July George r. Malby
of Ogdensburg, N. Y, representative
in congress from the twenty-sixth New
York district, was found dead on a
couch in his room at the Murray Hill
hotel here last night. The coroner
was notified and an inquiry into the
cause OF death was instituted While
the exact cause OF death was not Inn
mediately determined, 1t was under
stood to be from natural causes.
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sIeouRNEY COUPLE WED.
Henry c. Diekey and Mrs. Emma
Zetta Bales Married by Justice

!. Henry c. Dickey and Mrs. Emma
Zetta Bales were married yesterday
by Justice of the Peace H. c.. Nosler.
The couple reside In Sigourney, and
will make their home in that place.
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MEXICAN REBEL
FORCES REDUCED
ONLY $500 MEN COMPRISE REM
NANT OF ARMY; FEDERALs
PUSH CAMPAIGN

orozco's Headquarters, sauz,
Mex, July e.-oeneral Pascuai
orozco today ordered tho bulk OF
the rebeI army westward from
here toward the state OF Sonora
and Pacific coast towns whore It
ls hoped to get ammunition from
the Japanese and continue the
revolution.
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lMPASSABLE BOUNDS-By George Eaves D. D.

ing a certain world disaster, which set two nations draping their capitals in crape. To the careless eye 1t seemed sort of wonder, unique in the annals of men. In truth it is the world-old story, once more told by the sea, the story of the august agony of Prometheus, beaten but unconquered Answering to the rage Of the sea and the iron obduracy of the fl ozen north, man, naked and slain, rages more masterfully and opposes a patience mightier than all the inert mass of material universe.
 We have been permitted In these late years. since science began to weigh the earth in a balance, to share In the passing of some barrisrs. As time Is measured by the history of mankind, -t is but yes- terday that steam travel began and the commerce and investigations of mankind conquered the barrier of the winds and the calms. But before that day what voyagingi was done, I think of those bleak ages when to civilized man the earth was a fiat patch ribbed by impose sible mountains. guided by mysterious and demon haunted oceans, whose isles and further shores were tenanted by monsters gaunt and grotesque and dread full Yet against those tremendous hor-. rcrs primitive man found courage to gird himself and even those barriers of doom
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had favured evvery thing under the Sun, rum Resserprossity to Insan- nerty. He seys that he furnished Taft a Meel ticket, and that Taft bit him; and that this was base ingrati- tude- third base ingratitude. He seys that no man in the country was as much interested in having Taft succeed as he, and he adds no uther man with his principles and convict sions has supported him so long-as suppliment he here furnishes a list of his principles and Convictsions in 197 volyums compleet, of five thous- and pages each, at two fifty plunks per volyum, payabul one bean per month in advance Subscribe for the Outlook-and Lookout.
 So far as Third Turns is concerned he seys that there is no danger in them--and we agree with him fully there is not, because there ant going to be enny. He seys that Taft, out side of being so crooked that in com paryson a cork-screw would look like straight-edge, and that he is not as much of gentleman as Mayor Wilsun of Hunnewell, Kansas-and that he is Bigger hippocrit than Mistur Iscar-
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riott, and that he has no moor grati- tude than a Cast Iron Billiken, and that he is as incompitint and Ivory heded as Cigar Sign, and as Feeblul as a Sick Kitten-besides that he's all Rite. He seys that he meens well. Good, this is sumthing to fall back on in case Taft does get the Nommyna- sion.
 But what does Mistur Taft Say? He opens up on Teddy sum stout and takes a few shots at the Crate Try bume. He sed if he could consult his own wishes he would keep silent under Mistur Roosefelt's attack, and keep rite on playing Golf, and trust to the future to vindieate him. But he sed it begins to look like the future would not Cum Cleen with him and it was about to hand all the Delegates to Teddy, and that he could not get enny vindicasion wurth speaking of without sum Delegates, so he could not rust it. He sed he had his back to the wall, and that he proposed to hand them a correct immitasion of a lively little scrap.
 He sed what Sung him was that Teddy called him an Oligark. He
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is a Crook-thats going sum, and shows that Ted is warming up; then he Navely adds, that the Issue is Not Persunal.
 Teddy don't like it because Taft called him Nurottick; he sed Taft spoke of him obleekly as a Nurottick, and then was hipprocrit enuff to say that it gave him pain. Taft must have been sum rought up to have spoken obleekly about Mistur Roose- felt as a Nurottick-it was rong; no one would appresiate reference of that kind. I wouldn't evven speek about the Umpire in such an offen- sive manner.
 Down south when man calls an- uther a Nurottick, it means Polise in terfeerence, and that's all there is to it. MT. Roosefelt seys, that he has watched Taft for sum time with the hope that he would emit a spark of intelligence, but, that it is evident that his sparkling plug is not wurk- ing. He claims with Modest Dignity, that he has frum the beginning told Mistur Taft exactly how to run the Guvermint, down to the most minute
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detail. He instructed him carefully to stand in with all the Peepul, includ- ing the Polytisians,l otherwise Cam pain contributions mite be Slim when most needed He went to the Last Word, in showing him how to keep up Big Fuss, about prosecusions of the Trusts, and Jailing the Humbugs of Commerce, and explained to him how these matters could be held in the courts and Limelite for go yeers with out a convictsion if property handled, but it was of no avail. Taft was not an apt Scholer-he could not fool enny body at all, but went Blunderring along like a Cross between a Goose in the Rain and Baylem's Ass, and did nuthing at all, but play Golf, and put Tacks in the chairs of all the Roose- felt Bunch that went with the furni- ture, when he moved into the White House.
 This sort of thing gave Teddy grate Sorrow and grately discouraged him. He seys, that he has, eagerly sought opportunities to praise Taft, and when he could not praise him, he sed, Eof not favurring Resserprossity, when evvery body can bare witness that he
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BILL VINES ON THE TAFT-TEDDY BOUT

claimed that he was an American cit izen and could prove it, and that he was no Oligark, and that nun of his Ancestors weer Oligarks, and that no 0ligark had evver married into the Famerly. He sed that if there was enny thing that he prided himself in, it was that he was an American citi- zen, and part of the guvvernmint. Mistur Taft is correct in this too; let us give justice where it belongs, we submit that Mistur Taft has rite to pride himself in being a part of the governmint, and a considerabul part about 400 pounds of it. Where is there anuther man who can claim moor than Mistur Taft along this line? No where's, nor no-wheres else.
 Mistur Taft sed Teddy had not given him square Deel. This is not the first time Teddy has been accused of being a croocked Deeler. The Pres idint is rite, he ought to be watched on his deels, or he'll turn up with the best hand Mistur Taft sees much danger in the third Turn; he reluctint- ly admits that he was forsed into this exchange of Courtesies with Mistur Roosefelt, purely thro' his Cents of
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he passed and snatched the Golden Fleece from the charmed. mysterious shores and forests. Our discoveries and victories amid storm and terror by the power of applied steam are nothing in compar- son with those early victories which Homer sings and the myths recall. And yet they are of the same stuff as the journeys of Ulysses and the adventures of Samson and the agonies of Dionysus; Peary, with his negro servant and his crew of heroes; Amundsen, with his viz orous and most purposefu and dogged re- lentlessness; Scott, outstripped but daunt- less. use steam to reach the ice and then fall back on the sheer human tenacity which was first in Ulysses and the old Phoenician explorers. Not by might nor by power but by the subtle thing called manhood, which the Hebrews have testified is the innate Spirit of God in man., man realizes himself His mastery of nature by the breaking of bounds is forever mocking the pessmist who tells Of bounds impossible.
 What has man not conquered? What old fences has he not leaped? He has laid his ear to the earth and caught a thousand whisperings. He has arisen to shape instruments which turn those whis- perings to mighty thunderings in the ears of all the race.