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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
THERE IS GOING
TO Be A SP|LL|NG
BERRY ORDERS WAGON
LOAD OF LIQUOR TO BE
DESTROYED EY CHIEF

There is going to be an awful big
splitting, costly splitting, within the
next few days. Justice Of Peace w. ].
Berry has decreed that the six barrels
of beer and the four cases OF bonded
whiskey seized by Chief Alva Fielder
and Night Captain Jack Smith on East
Main street, shall be smashed to
smithereens. This morning at o'clock
was the time set for the owners Of
the liquor to appear and lay claim to
it. Nobody seems to own 1t SO the
order has to come to kill it as pro-
yided by law. Chief of Police Alva
Fielder has been ordered by the
court to break up every bottle and
pour it's contents on the ground or into
a sewer. Realizing that the 10S gal
Ions Of beer and the nine gallons Of
whiskey will produce considerable Of
a flood, the chief has just about de-
cided that Central addition will be
about the best place. He doesn't want
to drown anyone.
There is about SITE worth Of booze
that is going to destruction because no
one will claim 1t. 1t represents the
largest haul the police have made for
some time. Chief Fielder Is now await
ing for time to perform the laborious
splitting Each bottle has to be cracked
and there are over 500 bottles.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
RAILROAD BLAMED
FOR GIRLS DEATHS

Perry, July 26.-The coroner's jury
which has been investigating the acct
dent in which three young girls were
killed when the automobile in which
they were riding was struck by Mil
waukee train near Cambridge last
Thursday places the blame for the &C.
cident upon the railroad company.
After finding that the girls were killed
by the train, the verdict declares:
1--WE further find and believe that
the said Chicago, Milwaukee and SC.
Paul railroad companys is guilty of
great neglect in making a temporary
crossing at said Vine street. This Is
both unsafe and dangerous and not
safeguarded by signal or flagman. We
further believe that the train crew on
said train No. rs was careless and ne
glectful in giving no signal In ap-
proach11S said crossing"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
WHEAT MARKET
DECLINES TODAY
COMMISSION SELLING PULLED
DOWN CORN-RAINS FURNISH
Ed INCREASE.

Chicago, July 26.-Unfavorable Rus
sian weather, and the smallness of
shipments from Argentina and Aus
tralia made the wheat market today in
cline to the bull side. Prices opened "
off to 1aGgFs higher. September started
at SO to 93A, rise of n qi3s to " q as.
reacted to rs ana then advanced to
9SA W93as.
Outbreaks of rust in North Dakota
and Saskatchewan resulted in further
hardening the market. There were also
large export sales. The close was firm.
LIS @1Ac net higher for sept. at SO NC.
Commission selling pulled down corn.
Rains southwest and promise of
more furnished the incentive. Septem-
Der sales began u @ rs lower to shade
UP at 651s to 65B, touched 66B and
later dropped OF $3.50.
Later tine market was steadied by
the strength of wheat. Closing price S
were firm, with Sept. a @ssc net lower
at 65Ac.
Although oats remained compare
lively steady, the market inclined to
sag with corn. September opened I'M
changed to a sixteenth higher at 331s
to 1914 @335s, and sold at " and fell
to $3.50.
An advance at the yards brought
about covering on the part Of provis-
ion shorts. Initial transactions ranged
from 21a to i71a higher with Sept. de-
livery $1s.021a to $3.50 for pork.
$10.72h for lard and $1,000 for ribs.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
COPPER SHARES
SCORE GAINS
AMALGAMATED AND UTAH AD'
VANCE A POINT AT OPENlNG;
MARKET IRREGULAR.

New York, July 26.-(Wal StretlL
Copper shares were the teature a. La. .ne
onening Of today's stock Hlarhe'.
Amalramated and Utah showed one
point gains. Canadian Pacific rose as
much and there was two point advance
IN Iackawana steele. Electrical stock
and biscuit inclined to heaviness, Gen
eral electric soon falling over point;
trading was quite active during the
f,rst hour and prices showed genera a.
Improvement until reanzlns s1aes
tric made partial recovery from its ex-
IRENE decline. ;aday
Dullness increased during ,mhaaas
when standard stocks moved "l.nlii
the narrowest limits. The pest Tyr
continued to be shown by great no ~.
ern preferred with a point gain IN
1inia Chemical
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
EIGHT ARE TAKING
THE EXAMS TODAY
One Applicant is Trying for State
Certificate-75 Attending the
School,

One applicant 10 bFyIn9 TOT u 0t&e0
Certificate-75 Attending the
School.
Eight teachers Of Wapello county
are today taking the examinations re-
CURED for first grade teaching GER
tificates. in the office Of County Super
intendent Elizabeth Burgess, at the
court house. The tests today close the
regular July examinations and Mrs.
Burgess states the attendance and in
terest of the instructors have been bet
ter than usual. One applicant is trying
for state certificate which, although
it does not vary particularly from the
regular county diplomas, carries fur
Their qualifications. 1t is effective for
five years, while the others are good
for one year Besides the regular first
grade branches, this teacher must take
exam nations in about ten other sub
jects.
In all, about seventy-f1ve have tried
for certificates Of the three grades in
the past three days. The papers will be
sent to the state board Of education
Immediately and will probably be re-
ceived here in the course Of two weeks.
All who took the tests this month will
not receive certificates for the reason
that they took up only one branch of
the course.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
SMITH GETS 10
YEARS AT ANAMOSA

Abba, July 26.-Chas. Smith, who
was brought from Kirkville. Mo-, on
the charge OF breaking into and enter
ing the Paulos Candy kitchen and the
Armstrong Drug store, was yesterday
sentenced by Judge D. M. Anderson
to ten years at Anamosa. Smith claims
Rochester, New York, as his home and
says he has brother In q reforma-
tory In that state. He Is the first to
be sentenced under the new law, that
a prisoner may plead guilty and be
sentenced without an indictment BY
the grand jury.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
HUMPHREY IN HOT
REPLY TO NORRIS
CONTINUED From Page 1.)

Continued From Page -
!, his cause or in the enthusiasm OF
hysteria
He scathingly arraigned "the great
and good man" whose Identity Mr.. Nor
ris declined to reveal, for refusing to
let his name be known because he was
a candidate for office.
MAY ask the gentleman from Ne
braska what rule he uses in measur-
ing the honesty and creditability OF
the candidate for office?" demanded
Mr.. Humphrey. He insisted that a
man of such character as the unknown
informant was entitled to no credit.
"The gentleman from Nebraska Is
himself candidate for high office"
continued Mr.. Humphrey, and II he
lis to subscribe to the doctrine that he
witness, that when he is candidate
for office he is excusable for acting
with party that he knows Is corrupt
that he is excusable for supporting a
candidate dishonesty nominated, for
the highest office in the civilized
world; that he is excusable for not
giving facts in regard to dishonesty
and graft in his own party, does not
the gentleman impeach himself and
place himself in a position where his
own motives may be Justly ques-
tioned?,
Hits Professional Reformers.
In vehement language Mr.. Humph-
rev condemned those who charged po-
|litical corruption and political rotten
ness in the camp of their opponents
while concealing the truth about their
own party and their own candidates.
"This seems to be the logic OF the
position of the gentleman from Ne
braska," he said. II regret to say
that this does seem today to be the
approved method of large class OF
professional reformers who are seek
ing by the volume Of their vocabulary
to make the public believe that with
them rests the salvation Of the repub.
lie and that with them virtue shall
perish from the earth"
In conclusion, Mr. Humphrey re-
ferred to the statement OF Mr.. Norris
that those who had supported Mr.. Taft
had destroyed the republican party.
He retorted with heat that If anyone
! had done more to destroy the party
than Mr.. Norris, "the democratic party
should erect costly monuments to his
memory and sing his praise in song
and story down to the last syllable OF
recorded time"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
Omaha Live Stock.

south Omaha, Nebr., July 26-The
i've stock market follows:
Cattle-Market steady; receipts 500;
native steers, $5.s5@S.75; western
steers 356S; Texas steers, $3.50 @6.25;
range cows and heifers. 1906; stockers
and feeders, s3.75@6.75; calves, $4.25@
7.75: bulls, stays, etc, $3.75@5.5o.
Hogs-Market loo higher; receipts,
$500: heavy, $7.20@7.55; mixed, $40
0755; lights, $7.25@7.75: pigs, $6@7;
bulk OF sales, $7.4O@7.65.
sheep-Market 10 to 15c higher; re-
,eints. $500; yearlings, $4.5o@5.25:
wethers, $375@475; ewes, $40 Ais;
lambs, $6.25@7.35.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
RlTON.

D. B. Cowles, conductor on the Ind
ianola branch. has received word OF
his appointment as de-de-camp to J.
d. Brown. state commander Of the g.
niger Post No. Is and his appointment
gives pleasure to his many friends.
w. II. Dewey, /. A. Fain, w. E,
Hanks, l.. S. Clothier and other at
tended the state democratic convention
at Cedar Rapids yesterday.
Gladys and Clay Chichester and Mar
ion Hollingshead OF Albia. have been
spending few days In Charlton with
Miss Theo Buzard.
Margaret and Anna McAlOon OF Ak
ron. Colo. have returned home after a
visit with their uncle Thos. McAloon
and family.
Miss Laura McIntire is enjoying q
weeks vacation from her duties ~
saleslady In one OF the local stores and
is spending the time with friends In
Corydon
Mrs. c. B. Coles and children OF
Kansas City, who had been visiting at
the home Of her husbands parents Mr..
and Mrs. w. Coles. returned homo yes
terday.
Levi Fluke left few days ago for
Allegheny City, Pa, and other points In
the east on an extended visit with rel
atives.
]. C. Williamson, Don e. Lewis and
J. H. Andrew returned yesterday from
Des Moines where they attended the
Roosevelt convention.
James Kurtz. wife and little dauRh-
ter Of Superior, Wis, returned home
yesterday after visit with his grand
parents Mr. and Mrs. M. r. Kurtz and
other relatives and old friends.
Miss Laura Fitch returned yesterday
from Steamboat Springs. Colo. where
she had been for several weeks looking
after her ranch.
Miss Beulah Crane OF Omaha. has
returned home after q weeks visit with
her grandmother Mrs. Eli Barger and
aunt Mrs. Will McMains.
Miss Della Courtleyow departed yes
terdav for visit with relatives and
friends In Duluth, Mimi. and Superior,
Wis.
Mrs. John oldfeld OF Des Moines 10
visiting in this city. q guest Of her sis
ter Mrs. j. r. Merrill.
Mrs. Chas. Maxwell and daughter
visit with her mother Mrs. Amanda
Edwards and other relatives.
Miss Maggie Wood OF Glenwood re-
turned home yesterday after q month's
visit with her brother r. G. Wood and
family.
The school board has elected Ivor
Reese Of Pittsburg. Kans, manual
training director and Miss Anna
Bunderson Of Elk Point, 8. D., domestic
science teacher.
The members Of the Baptist congre-
CATION have extended to call to Rev. L.
B. Parker OF Pawnee City. Nebr.. but It
is not known as yet whether or not he
will accept.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
May Buckley.

Its nine-tenths OF mile across the
river from Illinois by September Is.
when It will join the power house on
the Iowa side. Its advance parts have
already met the Iowa division works,
and the river Is practically spanned.
What amazes visitors most Is the
speed of construction. A year ago
this month the water was pumped out
of the great cofferdam In which the
power-house, lock and other things arc
located.
. The date ofcompletion has been ad.
vanced and is now May /, 1913.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
Chicago Produce.

Chicago, July -Butter-Steady
creameries, 23@25c; dairies, 21@24c.
at market, cases included, 15h @16hc:
ordinary f1rsts, 161sc; f1rsts, 1sc.
Cheese-Steady: dairies 15A @15bc:
Twins, lax @15c; Young Americas.
15A@15hc: Long Horns, 15A@15hc,
Potatoes-Steady; receipts, AZ cars;
Minnesotas. 72@75c: Illinois, 7O@75c;
Kansas and Missouri 1906 soc.
Poultry-Steady; turkeys, live, 12c:
hens, live, 13hc; springs, live, tic.
Veal-Steady, s@11c.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27

l.J
come tax on all persons and co-part-
nership doing business of more than
$4,000 a year and to reject the Borah
income tax bill offered as an amend
ment. There was some opposition to
this course.
The caucus endorsed in general
terms sugar bill which Senator Will
liams later presented to the senate as
substitute to be voted on tomorrow.
It would make a reduction of 1914 per
cent on refined and unrefined sugar,
reduction of 40 per cent on molasses
and abolish the duties standard and
the differentials in duty now existing.
Little sentiment was shown in the
caucus In favor of free sugar as lead
ers urged it would not be acceptable
to western states having beet sugar
industries.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
kan.as City Live Stock:

Kansas City Mo-. July 2e.-lile iiNo
stock market follows: ,..
Cattle-Market strong; rece'p.s, +,re
900. including 100 southerns' ha sA@
steers, $6@9.55; southern sse a. ssm
e 20: I nativs cows and heifers, $3.50
go so: stockers and feeders, SagS. 70
s S,0H. ss5o@550; calves, $3.50 a SO:
western steers, $3.50 @s.6o; Western
Hogs-Market 10 to 15c higher: re.
ceipts, 5000; bulk Of sales, sLsV ,e s.vo'
heavy, $7.75@7.so; PACK, packers sna
ers. $7.s0@s.o5; lights sf'SoV 0'Ao'
p's sheepVMarket steady; receipts. l. u
mo. nnuttons, s35o@4.4o; lambs, $o.o9
~: range wethers and yearings, S5.zo
gk. ranRe ewes, $2.50@415.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
a. Iani. Iixa Stock.

81. Louis, July 2e.-Cattle-Recei ~,
!, 5o5 including 400 Texans; market
strong s native beef steers, s5.eog a,asS
cows and heifers: ss.5o@s; Tsx,s sto snd
ers and feeders. $3.50 o.; Iesas ana ana
Indian steers $3.50 q go, =, cows s,., any
heifers, $3.25@7.6o: caves IN caiioao
lo1 Hs,oss@Receipts, 5000; market to
,oc bssher; pigs and lights, $3.50 @s.s5;
mixed and butchers, $S.15@S.sS' good
n shsap-Receipts, 700; market strong;
native muttons, $5.25@7.s5; lambs
$3.75@4.75.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
LOCAL PRICES
CHANCE TODAY
FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND EGGS
SHOW CHANGE IN LOCAL
PRICES.

A change in the retail prices of
fruits, eggs and vegetables are shown
in today's local prices. The wholesale
price for choice hogs advanced five
cents on all grades. The quotations
are:
Hogs-12o@15O. $3.50; 15o@1so,
s1.65; 1909 200, 1855; 20o@24O, $685.;
24o@so0, $3.50; 800 and over s7.35;
good packers. 81; choice packers, $500
Ca;,:S---Choice corn led helfers. s4.75
0S.25: good heifers, s4QDs.!0; common
TO fair light heifels, $3.50; choice corn
led cows, $4.50W5: good cows. $404.50:
common TO fair cows. s3@3.50: Gamers
er bulls. S4.50@5: choice light calves.
Sc; good light calves. IS: choice heavy
talves, 1904: common to fair heavy
calves. IS.
Sheep Choice lambs, ss@625; good
lambs. $4@5; yearlings. $3.75@4.25:
ewes. s3.50@4: fair lambs. $5@5 $50.
Grain and Hay.
Grain and hay-Street prices -New
oats. Csc: straw, ton, $500: corn, $50
roc; hay, -s12@15; wheat, bu., SOC.
Hides. Wool and Tsiievs.
Hides-No. cured. lie: No. cursd
ioc: sreen No. ]. &c: green No. I. &c.
Medium. unwauhed. 220aa.;
coarse unwashed. 21@2ac.
4SESOWA$ uuU 1AlkC" -SS63W62s
!. ETC: No-~9 :2c: taiioR' No. E1bc:
No. :. &c.
Butter fat-No. 1, Csc; No. 2, &c.
Suttsr, Eggs and Poultry
Creamery butter. soc: country
butter. grocers pay. 20@22c.
Eggs-Grocers pay, 16c.
9onltry--( These prices are sale e
teathered. TO-: ducks. dark feathered.
loc; turkeys. 13c; geese. h., 7c: gutneas
each. 2oc: springs. zoe: DID rooste:1. 81 !.
lOc; old ROSTERS, &c.
Rsta!s pricss
Flour and FseA
Flour and feed flour, psT
sack: SOC: corn chops, psr cwt.. s1.s6;
,wt., s1.e5; ear corn, per bu.. s1.1o: sf,eii
ed corn. per bu.. $40; hay. per cwt !.
!l.le: straw. per c~t- Soc: oats. 81.
Coo: chicken. feed. ground. 20 h., 4oc;
clam shell, per cwt.. 60c; meal, PEI
sack, 2sc: corn and cat chop. 10 IL
sack. Csc; corn and oat chop, per cwt.
s sda; straw. per cwt.. SOC: oats. bu..
sl.oo; oil meal per cwt., Sa.lo.
Butter. Esss and Poultry.
butter. 25@soc; Sept creamery,
butter; so@3sc; eggs, per doz, 22hc.
80 poui Try. H.. ~ a l5c: tar-
no!OS 4oCs i've springs, 5UCs OlQ 0enA
dressed. zoe: ducks, dressed. zoe. q
Fish.
Sat- nsh Mackerel 1oQ3sc;
white flsh. pan. 60c: herring. 90;
Goldfish, 1o@1sc: lake fisk. pail s0e;
dnnan hsddie, It,. lSo.
Fresh fish-Catflsh. h.. zoe; trout,
nc. halibut. 2Oc.
Frulea
Fruits-Bananss. 20@25c: lemons. 30c
oranges, 20@60c; apples, PIX, 25635c;
cranberries quart, l2hc; strawberries
RED raspberries. zoe; black raspberriss.
Watermelons, 25@30c; tomotoes, basket
2o@Soc; peaches, basket, zoe; apricots
doz, 10@15c; currants, at, 1Oc; peaches
$3.50; plums,5 for 25c.
vsasta niOo.
observation-disclosures 5@10c. cucun.
bers, each 15c; onions, lb, &c: parsley,
punch. &c: cauliflower. hear, io@15c:
potatoes, 81: garlic, 1Oc; turnips, peck,
loc: peppers doz 15c; endive, bch, 1Oc;
saislty. hunch. for 1E+ CARROTS buncs
for &c; beets. two punches for 5c.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
Kansas City Cash Grain.

Kansas City, Mo-, July 26.-The cash
grain market follows:
Wheat-Unchanged to lsc lower; No.
2 hard, 861a @92c; No. 3, 851s @90c; No
2 red, 95h@961kc; No. 3, 92@93ke.
Corn-Unchanged No. 2 mixed. 741a
@75kc; No. 3, 1871 @74c; No. white,
S2@83hc; No. 8, S1@S1Bc.
aOats-Unchanged: No. 2 white, 40
4Sc; No. 2 mixed, 3S@40c.
Rye-61@ &c.
Hay-steady; choice timothy, $3.50
16: choice prairie, $9@9.25.
Receipts-Wheat, 429 cars.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
Chicago Cash Grain.

Chicago. July 26.-The cash grain
market follows:
Wheat-No. red, 97k@$1.oo; No. 8
red, 5h@9Sc; No. hard. 97@9sc; No.
hard, 95@971zc: No. northern, $1.O6
Oil; No. northern. s1.o4@1.os; No.
northern, s1.o3@1.O6; No. 2 spring, 81
@1.07: No. 3 spring, 9s@$1.o6; No. 1
spring, 94@sl.05; velvet chaff, $1@l.oS;
durum, 81 a LOG.
Corn-No. 2. 7sA @74c: No. 2 white
77@7Sc; No. 2 yellow, 75@75Ac; No. 8
TN @73c; No white, 76@77c; No. 8
yellow, 74@74hc; No. 4. 6S@71c: No.
white, 74@75c; No. yellow, 72@ 7Sc.
Oats-No. 2 new, 46@4sc; No. 2
white, old. 55@5sc; new, soc; No,
white. old, 4s@55c: new, 47@4sc; No.
white, DID, 47@ SIC; new, 46@4Sc;
standard, 52@56c, old; new, 49@50c.
Rye-No. 2, lac.
Barley--5O@90c.
Timothy-S550@7.
Clover-$10M15.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
chicaoo Live Stock; Opening' !,

Chicago, Jully26.-The opening llVe
stock market follows ;n.,
Cattle-Market steady; recelpts =.
Zoo: beeves, s5.70@S.70; Texas s1ee sE.
s4.so@7; western steers, so.eo y LOS TO-.
stockers and feeders. $466.So; c s"@
and heifers. S2.7o@S; calves so'0oW
~ G:Hoo.-Market strong, generally SC
hirher: receipts. $4,000; light, s sa6g
s.so. mixed, $7.5o@s.25; heavy ssseg
.Sioh rough, s7sO@7.55; pigs, $e.1oW
SO: bulk Of sales, s7.so@s. 10. ~
: 2 81 steady; receipts, "
900: natives, sS.15@5; westerns ss. t,',a
Ats; yearlings s4@5.5e; a 1am1s n o'
SA.25@7.50; westerns, $4'zoQ .oo.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27

st. Louis, Mo. July 36.-The cash
grain market follows:
Wheat-Firm; track No. 2 red
$1.01h q 1903; No. 2 hard, 921t @94c.
Corn-New, firm: track No. 2, 73c;
No. white, 7s1s @S0Ac.
Oats-Lower; track No. 2, new, AZ
645c; old. 45c; No. white, new, 47@
ACC: old, 53c.
Unchanged, 74c.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
Foreign Grain; cIosino.

Liverpool, July 26-The closing grain
market follows:
Wheat-Spot steady: No. 2 red west
ern winter, no stocks; No. Manitoba
IS; futures. steady; July, 7ssAd; Oct.
7s3d; Dec, 7s1Ad.
Corn-Spot, steady: old American
mixed, Is; new American kiln dried.
6s10d; futures, firm; July, 4s11Md:
Sept, 4s9Bd.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
sio Steel Contract Awarded.

Athens. Greece, July 26.-The Beth
1ehem Steel Co., of America, was to-
day awarded the contract to supply the
armor and guns of the new armored
cruiser Greece. which is to have dis
placement of 14,500 tons. The hull of
the vessel is to be built in the Vulkan
ship building yards at stettin, Ger
many.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
COMPLETION OF
BIC Dam NEAR
lGREATEsT WATER-PoWER WORKS
ARE A GREAT SPECTACLE
IN RIVER.
TITANIC TURBINES
Tye Walls Of the superlative Lock
Stand Up In tho Mississippi
Like Great Stone Cliffs In
the Scenery.

Keokuk, July 26.-Two thousand
men with million dollars worth Of
the largest machinery ever used In
construction work are pushing the
worlds wonder Of water-poWer to-
ward completion at rate that amazes
all beholders, including tens Of thou
sands of train and steamboat passen-
gers who skirt the works in the Mis-
sissippi river.
One Of the most prominent, and al
together the queerist, features OF the
day Is the twin cliffs that rise, high,
long, cold gray and eternal out of the
very river bed only a few feet from
the steamboat channel into the govern.
ment canal These are the walls OF
the lock In the greatest dam on earth,
a lock that has the same width and
much higher lift than any one at
Panama The west wall is nearly com.
pleted, and the east wall is well under
way. The culverts which will lead the
water into and out of this superlative
lock are now practically all covered in
the concrete of the walls-the main
one is large enough to drive an auto
mobile through.
Colossal Works In the River.
Farther out in the wide river-thirty-
five acres OF It's blue limestone bottom
Is made as dry as city pavement in
July-is deep, wide chasm being
blasted out Of the bed rock In the bot
tom Of the trough OF the continent.
This is the tail race, large enough to
float an ocean liner and to extend far
down the river. 4
A mass Of concrete third OF mile
long and half city block wide stands
up in the bottom of the river seventy
feet high with fine, massive arches in
its west facade forming the entrance
for the water to the turbines. Over a
dozen Of these arches are now COM
pleted. The entire upper half OF the
basement Of the power house Is nearly
completed-it is being done first to
send electricity to st. Louis and other
cities while the other half OF this
largest power house on earth ID being
built. Above the basement, itself as
high as most city business buildings
in this part Of the country, the walls
OF the power house are being built
their hundred feet OF height.
Titanic Turbines Going Into Place.
The steel structures surrounding the
turbines are rapidly going into place,
and two of them are completed. These
immense masses of steel-some of the
rings weigh 100000 pounds each
presage the titanic size OF the tur-
bines, over three times as large In
dimensions as any ever built before,
and moreover with higher efficiency
as to power than any ever designed
before.
The greatest power dam ever con-
ceived before Hugh L. Cooper, the
engineer, planned this colossus CT
,water-powers, will have progressed
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-27
Nav York Produce.

Dressed, easier: western broilers,
fresh killed. 2s@2sci fowls, 15@17c;
Kansas City Butter and Egos.
Kansas City, Mo-, July 26.-Butter-
Creamery, 24c; firsts, 22c; seconds,
zoe; packing stock, 20hc.
Eggs-Extras, 19c: f1rsts, tic; sec
onds, 13c.
Butter-steady, unchanged; receipts
S,105.
Cheese Steady, unchanged; receipts
1886.
Eggs Steady; receipts. 1851; state
Pennsylvania and nearby hennery,
white fancy large new laid, $50
Poultry, alive, western broilers, zoe;
fowls, 15hc; turkeys, 14c