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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-12
E CORPORATION
] FILES FIRST PAPERS

A new coal mining company, to be
known as the Bidwell Coal Co., filed
articles Of incorporation this morning.
The new corporation Is established at
3idweN, Iowa, and will do q general
mining business. Fifty thousand dol
lars Is the amount OF the capital stock
81 the organisation.
Business will be started at once by
he new company. John Ramsey,
president; John Shuler, vice president,
and Homer H. Harris, secretary and
'reasureY, are the oincerS named.
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III TO
RACE AT KEOKUk

n Chica4o Aug. 11.-Comm0dOre James
Pugh OF the Columbia Yacht club
sill take Disturber III, his famous 700
horse power racing machine, to Eng
md for the Harmsworth international
trophy race Sept. Is, II the owner OF
Ankle Deep fulfills his promise to race
Ankle Deep at the Keokuk and Chicago
regattas this month.
At the recent Perry centennial rscess
Commodore Pugh was one Of q party
LOT western sportsmen who saw Kitty
eAawk v lead the world champion
baby Reliance by 100 yards and cross
Sthe finish line a winner at forty-eight
miles IN hour when Baby Reliance
twisted OF her shaft.
Commodore Pugh's boat is said to
Ybe ten miles an hour faster this year
than last and II she is she'll be a for
3midable challenger to cross the big
lpond in quest Of the Harmsworth
trophy. which was held in America
Tor 20 many years by the Dixie" family
OF champions. Disturber III met with
many mlsfortunss last. year but she Is
without question the greatest boat in
many respects ever built In America.
Her power plant is composed Of
twenty.four cylinders, banked inside
the hull like books on shelves. No
other boat has such power. While
spastuYber IL heavy, she has q couple
of hundred horse power to spare over
her next most powerful rival to get her
extra weight out OF water.
Nsturber III has been o6icially en-
tered IN the Mississippi valley races
1T Keokuk, Ia, Aug. rs, ~ and 20.
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Omaha Livs Stock.

south, Omaha, Neb., Aug. Ii The
live stock market follows:
Cattle-Market 10c to 16c higher;
receipts, 5000; native steers, $7.25@
$50; cows and heifers, $5.75@S.10:
stockers and feeders, $6@7.s5; calves.
$t.50@9.60.
Hoes-Market steady; receipts, $500:
heavy. s7.s5@8.25; light, s.25@s.35;
pigs, 37@s.00; bulk, $s.o5@s.25.
S~heep-Market steady to easier; re-
ceipts, $4,000; yearlings, $4.75@5.25;
wezhers, $4.2OQ4.65; lambs. $6.50@7.0O.
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st, Louis Live Stock.

St, Louis, Mo-, Aug. LITTLE live
stock market follows:
Cattle-Market steady. receipts. s.
900; native beef steers. $4,000; cows
and heifers. -34.75@s,50; stockers and
feeders, $5.25Q7.50; calves, $5@6.
Hogs-Market 10c higher; receipts.
$500; pigs and lights. 9s@s.s5: mixed
and butchers. ss.S5@s.So; good heavy.
$S.95@9.05.
sheep-Market steady; receipts, g.
900; native muttons, $3.25@4.76; lambs
35,7507.36,
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able to drop shells with accuracy close
behind Taboga island. making that
place untenable for an enemy. Bo-
sides that. there II nothing OF the
island that q hostile feet would want
The United States might have ~
Quired Taboga, but We didn't need t."
How strong . land force 10 to b
kept IN the one BY the United States
I believe has not yet bsen determined.
It IL generally admitted that the great
est danger to the canal In time Of Wal
Hes In attacks by forces that might
have succeeded In landing IN the 18th.
mus. As q defense against this II may
be that q small army must b. main
tanned in the Sone. and It has been sue
gested that the towns OF Empire and
Culebra, instead Of being destroyed
because they are on the wrong side
OF the canal. be utilised ~ quarters for
the soldiers. This would necessitats
connecting them with the other sido Of
the canal, where the Panama railroad
has been relocated. by ferry. bridge or
tunnel. No decision on this matter has
been reached yet by the authorities.
Meanwhile the army has not been
n~eglecting its part of the defensive
work. For some time the Tenth u
fantry has been encamped In the zone
and its men, In small detachments,
have been hiking" all W that part
of the isthmus. The possibilities OF
landing q hostile force on the shores
Of both Lne Atlantic and the Pacific
have been investigated, and also the
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g.. Louis Grain.

st. Louis, Mo-. Aug. 1.-THE closing
grain market follows:
Wheat-No. 2 red. SIX @s7hc; No. 2
hard. SAN @90c; Sept, S5xc; May,
S4%c.
Corn-No, 2, 75h @7sc: No. : white
Oats-No. 2. H@42c; No. 2 white, AZ
@41Ac; Sept, ~ @41&s; May, 46hc.
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Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago. Aug. 1.-THE live STOCK
market follows:
Hogs-Market strong, &c higher; re-
CENTS. 10000: bulk Of sales, $S.30@S.95;
light. $500 @9.37h: mixed, $500
9.32h; heavy, $7.85@9.QO; rough, $7's5
@S.ob; pigs, $5.l0@8.6o. -
Cattle-Market strong, mostly loc
higher: beeves, S7.20@9.20; western
steers, 18.35@7.75; stockcrs and feed
ers, 35.4o@7.75; COWS and heifers, $3ESS
@S.60; calves, $S.l1.25; receipts To-
coo.
SheepAMarket weak, 10c to 25c
lower; native, $3.9o@5.00; western
94.10@4.90; y%earlings, $5.1b@b.S0;
lambs, native, $5.2o@7.30; western
$3.50 7.30; receipts, $1,000.
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chances that such . force would have
Of finding sustenance. Then little
groups Of soldiers have been started
from various possible landing places
with instructions to make their way
as swiftly as possible to given points
along the canal, mapping the country
they traverse. In order to determine
what m enemy could do.
The result Of this work Of invostiga-
ton so far, briefly and wholly unom-
cially stated. 10 that the shores Of the
Atlantic ocean, within Z good many
miles Of the zone. are impracticablo
for = landing force because Of the ma
ture OF the country; that . landing
could be made easily ON the Pacific
side some distance west OF the zona.
but between there and the canal the
jungle ID 10 dense a. to be virtually
impassable; that the dangerous dis
tr1ct ID that lying Immediately east OF
the zone on the Pacific side. On the
last mentioned shores an enemy could
we'll land an army, and the semi-open,
rolling savannas between there and
the canal would give easy access to
the zone
The army officers on the isthmus
mako no secret Of tho fact that their
Investigations are being carried on
mainly with the Japanese in mind.
How those islanders could land there
and what they could do II they did
land are the problems engaging the
attention OF Colonel Greene and his
men Of tho Tenth.
Ono defensive measure that hao
been adopted II the clearing out Of
practically al inhabitants from the
zone, except at the ends Of the canal
and in several OF the larger towns.
which, % / have said, may be kept 10
quarters for the soldiers. All holdings
Of land are being valued BY . mixed
commission and the residents moved
away. When the canal ID completed
the Jungle. much OF which has been
cleared out, will be allowed to grow W
again, for tho experience Of centuries
has shown that that Jungle itself II
powerful defense against an invading
army. The practicable roads through
1t are few and far between. the
streams not navisable, and tho growth.
Of trees. brush and great vines %
dense that 1t 10 virtually impossible
for q body Of men, to say nothing Of
cannon and supply wagons. A rapid
dash through the Jungle would be en-
tirely out Of the question. and when
the zone II deserted all food supplies
will have disappeared.
Some fear has been expressed that
q few men could land. make their way
quietly to the canal and blow up the
locks. But 1t seems unlikely that thsy
could get ashore and transport to the
canal, undetected, enough sxplosivee
to do any great damage.
On the whole. the canal win be quits
adequately protected-provtds4 + II
not attacked too soon.
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New York. Aug. 11-Butter-steady;
receipts, 1868 tubs; creamery extras,
TEX @17hc; state dairy finest. 36h@
&c: process extras, 2Ah Case; factory
juno make frsts. 2ah@24c; factory
current make 1rsts. 22c.
Cheese-Tirm; receipts, 1888 boxes;
state whole milk fresh, under grades.
,llh @llxc; skims, 3@l1c. j
Errs-Frm; receipts, 11.312 cases;
sfresh sathared extras, 8 case; western
gathered whites. 22017c.
A Poultry-Dressed steady; fresh kill
Ad western chickens, 17@23c; fowls,
sA6hWleNc: turkeys. 1S@19c.
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TRADING IS LIGHT
IN STOCK MARKET
oAlRS ARE VERY iRRe0uLAH
WITH EXCEPTION OF SOUTH
ERN PACIFIC.

New York, Aug. 1.-The one fea.
H,ra az interest In toGay's early markes
session was the announcement py tne
Iinion pacific directors Of the subecrip-
tion price for it, Southern PACING nola-
lneo-o1. with accumulated divioenos'
Southern Pocihc which, IN comIno.'
with other active issues Q snowa
some initial hsaytness. fell over 9 pom pom
rom last saturdays price as the sup
scrintion terms became known, AFTER
which Il moved feverishly. elsewhere
the market reflected continued irre9u
iarity. advances being conhned 70 Is
re Of minor speculative Importance,
except Canadian Pacific when foss
over Z point. Trading was light ana
Hetlsss and bonds were irregular.
Gains and losses were Qulte even.y
divided at the opening OF today's s.ocH
market, although most Of the acslve
issnea. particularly Union Paciftc,
XmAigamated Copper and Steel Were
under last weeks final quotations.
Gains included . point for Canadian
Pacific and two points Tor Texas COM
panies.
roborated reports Of improvement ~
crops from yesterdays rain, The sraln
carriers moved up sharply n there
wa . better tone generally to the en-
tire mAYket-
The market closed strong. 6pecula-
ton became lively In the closing nour
and prices rose substantially. Shorts
took alarm at thu appearance OF some
large purchasing orders for steel n
thew covered hastily in all directions.
Belated recognition Of the Dement'S
ar1sinr from the extensive rainfall was
= notent factor In the general advance.
steel. Union Pacific and Reading vol
two points over Saturday and Can
adam Pacific gained four.
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the public generally assumed an apa.
thetic attitude.
Prepare to Attack.

SHWsS = . ~
Eagle Pass, Tex, Aug. IL The
concentration Of constitutionalist
forces, preparatory to an attack on
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Is under way,
according to information obtained
here today. One detachment, 1t Is
stated, is enroute from Piedras Ne
gras, revolutionary headquarters, and
two hundred men who reached Pied
ras Negras early today from Her.
mar and Saltillao are awaiting or
ders to move toward Laredo. It Is
rumored that the federal troops have
started from Nuevo Laredo to engage
the rebels outside the city.
England Comments.
London, Aug. lin an editorial
this morning the Daily Graphic says:
1.-THE mission of John Lind to Mexico
has all the disadvantages Of meddle-
someness without the advantages OF
Intervention. 1t can have no terrors
for President Huerta' because no force
is behind 1t, and prudent men will be
thankful II 1t only fails decently."
The Times editorially says that
President Wilson is acting within his
rights and says that it would be good
policy on the part Of the Mexican gov.
eminent to listen to Mr.. Lind's repre-.
sensations in the spirit In which they
are made and not irritate American
opinion by sticking about punctilio.
president Wilson," the editorial
continues, has shown great modera'
ton and earnest desire to refrain as
much as possible from Intervention
and Americans for the most part would
be delighted to Q Mexico settle her
own quarrels in an amicable manner
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Kansas City Cash Grain.

Kansas City. Mo-, Aug. 1.-THE cash
grain market follows:
Wheat-No. 2 hard, 81@S5hc; No. g.
s0h@S4c; No. 2 red, 82k@S4c; No. 8
SIN @s2hc.
Corn-No. 2 white, 77@77hc; No. g.
rs n @77c.
Oats-No. 2 white, 42hc: No. 2 mix
ed. Az @42c.
Rye-72c.
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LIQUOR LAW EFFECTIVE.

San Francisco, Cal, Aug. 11.-San
Francisco's saloons were closed for
four hours early today, marking the
first time retail liquor traffic has been
interferred with by the statute. A
new state law which became effective
at midnight makes it illegal to sell.
give or deliver liquor between 2 and 6
a. m.
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q. Joseph Live Stock.

st. Joseph. Mo-, Aug. 1.-THE live
stock market follows:
Cattle-Market steady; receipts. l.
900; steers. $5.60@s.S5; cows and heif-
ers, }4@S.5O; & calves, $4@9.
Hogs-Market steady; receipts, 81
800; top, $3.50; bulk Of sales, $3.50
$40.
Sheep-Market steady receipts, L.
500; lambs, $5.50@7.25.
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omaha Cash Grain.

Omaha, Nebr., Aug. 11.vThe cash
grain market follows: =
Wheat-No. 2 hard, 79h@S1c; No.
hard, 79@s0c.
Corn-No. 2 white, 7sc; No. 3 white
73c; No. 2 yellow, 73c; No. 3 yellow,
73c; No. O., Tx @73c; No. 5, 72Kc.
Oats-No. 8 white, 39h@40c.
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q. LsA,s Wool.

1t. Louis. No, Aug. 11.--Wool-
Quiet: northern and western mediums.
slight hurry. 15@16c; heavy
finA bury, 11Q12c.
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DEMAND FOR HOGS
Grows SLIGHTLY
pACkERo SLOW TO BUY HOW
EVER, AND PRICE DOES NOT
ADVANCE VERY MUCH.

Chicago, Aug. i1,--Demand for hogs
showed a little improvement today.
Packers were slow to take hold.
Cattle advanced because Of a railing
off in the number Of dry weather Of
ferings at Kansas City.
Sheep and lambs weakened owing to
q big run here.
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New York Sugar.

New York, Aug. 11.,--Raw sugar
Raw susar-steady; muscovado S.2Sc;
centrifugal. 3.78c; rnolasses 2ssc.
rranuiatsd, 34.7o; powdered. $3.50.
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SAVED BY
HEAVY RAINFALL
CONTINUED From Page H.

fore unusually dry, corn had fired to
some extent. It will not now fill out,
but the rain will prevent Its being a
total loss. In most parts OF the state
the rain comes in time to prevent
firing Of the corn and will push 1t
toward rapid development.
Because Of the unusually good stand
which was obtained in the Iowa corn
fields this year It can suffer more in
jury from other sources than in other
years and still be q bumper crop. Mr..
Wells estimate, however, places this
crop considerably below the 432,000,-
900 bushels of last year.
Kansas Still Suffers.
Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. Ii Light
local showers which brought little
benefit to thirsty vegetation. fell in
widely separated sections Of Missouri,
Kansas and Oklahoma, early today.
Kansas got scarcely any rain, save In
the northeast and southwest and
In those places only local falls Of from
.O1 to .89 inches.
cloudburst In Colorado.
Colorado Springs, Colo, Aug. II. -
early morning lHVeSIldIlOu VI LuS
damage done by the lectrical storm
and cloudburst here last evening, indi-
Gated that first reports we're consider
ably exaggerated. While the severity
OF the storm exceeded anything ever
recorded in this region there were no
killed or injured, 70 far as can be
'ascertained. The loss appears to have
been confined to the drowning Of live
stock in the bottoms, to partial wreck
ing of three or four houses by fire or
water and to damage to roads from
washouts. It Is not thought that the
total loss will exceed $4,000.
PEOPLE PRAY FOR RAIN.
Chicago, Aug. 11.-Prayers for rain
in the parched regions OF the west
were offered yesterday in several Chi
cago churches. During the service the
tattoo OF showers on the roofs testi-
ned to the bounty OF nature in north
ern Illinois. Many of the ministers
discussed experiences of droughts of
other years to show the efficacy of
prayer, some Of them giving authentic
instances where prayers for rain were
answered within q few hours.
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Death on the oalIows
Electric D,..ers for quick relief. soc.
Frank b. Clark.
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No change is quoted in any of the
local wholesale or retail prices today.
The quotations follow:
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.Spoiin-

A round 10000 building workers
have been locked out in Madrid, after
futile attempts at reconciliation and
Intervention by the Government.
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a proposition to abolish radius agree
ments which hamper the free move
ments of employees was rejected by
the Reichstags Commission by ten to
eight votes. Only the six Social.
Democrats and the 2tmembers of other
parties voted in favor : Last the
membership of the Union of Bakers
rose from 25,218 to 1885, the Sculp-
tors to 1888, Painters assistants to
Is, 49,. Carpenters to 1892, Transport
Workers to 226,7OO, Building Workers
to 348,413, and the Glaciers to 1855.
The Bakers Union was able to de-
crease the working time of 1,7O6 mem
bers by 10,493 hours per week during
the past, year. and raise wages for
1851 comrades by about 1888 pounds.
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Canada

| Canada.
Following the action of the Trades
Councils in Prince Albert, the employ
ment of white women in Chinese res
taurants has been forbidden.
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ship of Socialist party still carries
the danger of punishment with hard
labor.
Germany

GERMANY
The Special tariff negotiations in
the wood trade have been resumed.
The employers had decided to lockout
$4,000 workers in the middle of Janu-
airy. - The tariff negotiations in which
$4,000 members of the Transport
Workers, section of the Longshore-
mems, and of the Engineers Unions
were engaged in, have fallen through
on the question of night work. - In
Hamburg the whole of the employees
of the elevated railway who were for
hidden to organize by the directors,
struck because deputation from the
men regarding readjustment of griev-
ances was dismissed. The strike end
ed in favorNof the men. The directors
have now recognized the Transport
Workers Union. = A conference of
presidents of the National Unions has
decided to do the best to help the
unions OF Bulgaria and Servia, which
have been brought to the verge of
ruin by the war, by obtaining volun-
tary contributions from the German
Trades Unions. - The various unions
Of employees which generally believe
in the similarity of the interests of
master and man, increased their mem
bership from 428,0O0 to 531, 900 in the
past year. On an average each mem
Der was unemployed Al days last year.
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time and is published by the "Vor-
yarts", Berlin. The so-called Chris
tian Socialists, who in Austria main
tain the principles of the church and
the medieval ages (abroad they are
COMPOUNDED with the Socialists on &C.
count of. their name) have been ex.
posed; it has been discovered that
they have made an agreement with
the Dutch tobacco dealers by which
they should receive 100000 florins
when the tobacco for the Austrian
Monopoly was bought from Holland.
The Vienna joiners have renewed
their tariff agreement with the en-
ployers' organization. Hours of work
ing have been reduced to SAN per
week and all wages have been raised
about y d. per hour. This affects
15, 900 workers.
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Holland
The united movement of the Cigar
Makers Union is being carried on with
energy. Work is almost at a stand
still in the more important cigar man
ufacturing centres. - The three
weeks strike Of 1900 glassworkers
against night work has ended with
an understanding that a committee
shall inquire il it be possible to abol-
ish night work without affecting pro-
duction. The agreement is consider
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RMSsiin

According to as yet incomplete
statistics six4Socialist daily and week
ly papers, Of which only few issues
have appeared, have lately suffered 81
confiscations, 1850 roubles fines,
and the editors 81 years months i'm
prisonment, in one case life long de-
portation, and in another one year
administrative arrest" Workers at
the Putilow works, st. Petersburg, to
the number of 10000 have gone on
strike. - In Russia simple member
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Sweden-

SaUeden- =.
The Swedish Ironmill Owners un.
ion held its general meeting last week
IN Orebro The committee reported a
splendid state of trade in 1912 which
, is expected to continue and the de-
mand for products remain lively. In
particular there was a great demand
for raw iron of better quality on &C
count of the naval and artillery in
creases of the great powers. The ex-
port OF. raw iron rose almost So per
cent. The production of the works
rose from 1,247,000 tons in 1911 to
1,358,300 tons in 1912, and exports DUR
ing the same period from 418,300 to
49,, 400 TONS, The average export for
the last ten years was 1881, 300 tons.
Among other things it was decided to
put forward another rise in prices. -
At the end of this the national tariff
agreement which was settled in the
year 1905 between the Swedish Iron
and Metal Workers Union and the
mechanical workshops, runs out. The
workers will demand an increase of
the minimum wage for the new agree
ment In the press a discussion is
being carried on over the question of
piece work which needs to be solved.
In many large workshops of the metal
industry the rates for piece work are
being established by the employers,
but now the workers demand a voice
In the matter. At this moment a
strike has broken out in large con-
Germ in Stockholm because a worker
was discharged who refused to recog-
nize the rates of piece work thus
established.
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N0rW0v-


The Norwegian Typographical IN
lon has just handed the employers a
scheme for national tariff agree
ment. In Norway, up to the present.
there have been only local tariff agree
ments in AZ places, that is, in almost
all places where the Typographical
trades are of any importance. The
new scheme includes a reduction of
working time to eight hours per day,
one weeks holiday in the year, the
raising of the mininal wage I'D to "a
and 30 kronen per week, Improvement
In wages and working conditions for
assistants and new regulations regard
ing the scale of rates for apprentices
In the year 1912 the Painters Union
increased its membership from S35 to
98S, and the number of their branches
from 20 to %. The union obtained
seven new tariff agreements for 455
workers. The income amounted to
30,356 kronen, and expenditure to
N,721 kronen, of which 1000 kronen
was for strike benefits. - The Norwe-
gian Union of Sawunill Workers total
ed, at the end of last year, 2,27O mem
bers as against 1867 at the close of
the previous year. The income
amounted to 1876 kr. and expenditure
to 26,263 kr. 1887 for strikes).
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Denmark

In the coming spring tariff agree
ments terminate which cover 1896
workers who belong to 80 different
trades unions. Five of these unions
do not belong to the National Centre.
In the painting trades notice has been
given in regard to all agreements,
while of the unskilled workers about
5000, and of the masons over 1000
members are involved in the tariff
movement.