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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-02-15
GAMBLER KILLS
DAUGHTER IN A
FAMILY F|GH1 |
"Kimmie" Purcell, Who I'm
plicated Police in Graft
Confession Recently, Sur
renders as Murderer.

New York, Feb. 14.--James Purcell,
the veteran gambler, who testified be.
fore the aldermanic committee last
week that he had paid police graft
over period OF seventeen years, quar-.
relied early today with his wife In their
apartment and then began shooting
Mrs. Purcell tainted but wild, bullets
Struck thirteen year old daughter
lAgnes, who lay in bed and killed her
almost instantly. Thinking that he
had murdered both women, Purcell
surrendered himself to the police.
The gambler was so hysterical when
he staggered into q police station that
he was unable to give coherent &C
count Of the affair. He and his wife
had quarreled nearly all night, he
said, until he at last lost control of
himself and rushed at her with a
revolver. Four shots were fired, two
Of which struck the girl. One pierced
Eher breast and right arm; another
ploughed through her left arm. Her
body was taken to the morgue.
The tragedy may have an important
bearing on the graft Investigation now
being pushed by District Attorney
Whitman. Purcells testimony given
last Friday, resulted in the suspension
of two police captains and his story
was being counted on as the basis of
indictments. With him in a cell,
charged with homicide, his testimony
may be invalidated.
Mr.. Whitman was apprised of the sit
uation this morning and will hold a
conference with the prisoner with q
view to determining whether there is
back Of the tragedy anything that
does not appear on the surface.
"Kimmie" Purcell was at one time
a partner in gambling of Herman Ros-
enthal, for whose murder ex-Police
Lieutenant Charles Becker and four
gunner are in the death house at Sing
Sing.
Wife Ashamed Of Him.
Since his testimony against the sys.
tenn, Purcell told the police today, he
had been Stunned by his friends as
a "squealer" and "hounded by the
COPS" Even his wife was ashamed Of
him. he became morose and sullen.
Early last night they quarreled They
were still at 1t at dawn, then came
the shooting.
II guess you want me- said the
gambler little later as he slouched
UP to the desk at a station house near
his apartment
For what?' demanded the lieuten-
ant
For murder" said Purcell Then he
told his story.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-02-15
MEMBERSHIPS ARE
COMING IN

Five committees are busily engaged
today signing up new members and
renewing old ones in the Ottumwa
Comm ercial association. The cam.
paign will continue tomorrow. Some
arguments have already been faced
by the solicitors, but a majority of
the citizens have their pens ready
and sign the membership cards with
out much persuasion. The committee
hopes to complete the task of secur-
ing a great number of memberships
by tomorrow night.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-02-15
President Taft Determined
to Take No Steps Until
One Faction Wantonly
Attacks Americans.
WILL BE READY FOR
ANY EMERGENCY
Tells Callers Attitude TAX
en- in Chinese Boxer and
Nicaragua Troubles Will
be Followed.

washington, d. c., Feb. 14.--Presi.
dent Taft declared to close advisers
today that only one thing could force
him to ask congress to intervene IN
Mexico. II the Madero or Diaz forces
should turn upon Americans merely
because they are Americans or for
eigners, Mr.. Taft let 1t be known that
he would rush special message to
congress in thirty minutes time. He
does not regard the killing Of few
Americans in the course Of the battle
as q cause for war, but looks upon such
casualties as unavoidable and believes
that the proper authorities should be
held liable for damages.
II, however, the president were to
hear, that Americans we're wantonly
killed and found congress taking its
weekend recess, his confidants today
declared he would not hesitate to send
an expeditionary force from the battle.
ships at Vera Cruz and Tampico. Five
thousand sailors and marines could be
landed from them in few hours and
started for. Mexico City. Internation'
al law releases the right Of a govern
ment to send such an expeditiOnary
force to guard it's own citizens when
they need protection. The sailors and
marines would be sent to Mexico City
"as the legation guard" This was the
method employed during the boxer up
rising in China and more recently in
Nicaragua.
Disturbed by Reports.
It such step were forced on Presl.
dent Taft while congress was not In
session the president plans to follow
It Immediately with message setting
forth conditions, showing what he had
done and asking authority to send
United States troops across the border.
The president was disturbed today
when he heard reports that communi-
cation between Mexico City and the
United States might be cut of. He
condition would resemble that In
China when the foreigners penned up
in Peking could not communicate with
the outside world.
Cabinet Holds Meeting.
President Taft met the cabinet at
the usual semi-weekly session and the
Mexican situation was generally dis
cussed. 1t was understood that the
cabinet is in complete accord with the
presidents attitude as it was ex.
pressed in his talks with callers to-
day. Secretary Knox upon entering
the conference declared that there was
nothing specific to be considered and
that he had received no important dis.
patches since last night.
VIII be Ready II Needed.
The president referred some of the
callers to letter which he wrote from
Augusta, Ga, nearly two years ago
to Maj. General Leonard Wood, chief
of staff of the army, explaining his
reasons for the order Of mobilizing
troops then on the. Texas border. In
that letter the president said:
my determined purpose is to be in
a position SO that when danger to
American lives and property in Mexico
threatens and the existing government
is rendered helpless by the insured
tion, can promptly execute congress
sional orders to protect them, with
effect"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-02-15
OTTUMWA YOUNG MAN
OUT ON $1,000 BOND

Ed G. Wilkins, formerly Of West
Ottumwa, is out on bond in Des
Moines pending the appeal of his
case to the supreme court. John w.
Gray of Ottumwa is in Des Moines in
behalf Of the young man, whom he
says has been given unjust punish.
ment. Wilkins was mixed up in some
altercations during the recent team
sters' strike, and he was sentenced to
a year In Anamosa for assault with
intent to inflict great bodily injury.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-02-15
LABOR LEADERS
TO BE RELEASED
HouIlhan, 6hupe and Morrln Have
Bonds Approved and Leave Fort
leavenWorth Tomorrow.

Chicago, Feb. 14.-Bonds for the
release Of Richard H. Houlihan and
William Shupe Of Chicago and Paul ].
Morrin Of st. Louis labor leaders, re-
Gently convicted at indianapolis Of
conspiracy and the illegal Transports
ton of explosives were approved to-
day by Judge Francis E. Baker OF
the United States circuit court of ap-
peals. Morrin's bonds were for $780,.
600, Houlihan $4,000, and Shupe's
$4,000.
The three will be released from the
Leayenworth penitentiary tomorrow.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-02-15
TODAY IN CONGRESS

SENATE-Resumed debate on army
appropriation bill.
District of Columbia appropriation
bill reported.
Interstate commerce commission
considered railroad valuation bill.
River and harbor appropriation bill
reported.
HOUS..--Considered private pension
bills.
Southwestern traffic subject of ship.
ping trust investigation.
Territories committee heard Alask.
an plea for legislation permitting
entrymen to prove coal claims in
court.
Passed diplomatic and consular ap-
preparation bill carrying $3,764,642.
Began debate on annual pension ap-
preparation bill carrying s1SO,300, 900.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-02-15
DEMOCRATS CONFER
ON SENATORSHIP

Chicago, Feb. 14.Urey Woodson,
secretary of the democratic national
committee, Charles Boeschenstein, w.
"A. Charles. Roger Sullivan and Geo. e.
Brennan, prominent In Illinois demo-
cratic politics had an extended con-
ference last night. The senatorship Is
thought to have been the subject Of the
conference.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-02-15
ETHEL ROOSEVELT
ENGAGED TO WE'D

New York, Feb. 14.-The Times this
morning makes announcement Of the
engagement Of Ethel Roosevelt to DR..
Richard Derby DR.. Derby is a gradu-
ate OF Harvard, class Of 1903. Miss
Roosevelt has the distinction OF hav-
ing spent more years in the white
house than any other young woman.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-02-15
Woman Dies Of Burns.

Belle Plaine, Feb. 14.-Mrs j. G..
Myrs Of Koszta Is dead, the result Of
burns. Her apron ignited while she
was starting the kitchen fre.
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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-03-21

lonial militia, and an appointment as
Acknowledgement of the military dis
trict in which his lands lay; but he
meant that for the future his duties
should be civil rather than military in
the life he set himself to live, and
turned very quietly to the business
and the social duty Of proprietor
among his neighbors in Fairfax coun-
ty, upon the broad estates to which he
gave the name Mount Vernon, in COM
pliment to the brave sailor whose
friend he had become in the far, I'M
happy south.
Lawrence Marries and Settles.
Marriage was, of course, his first
step towards domestication. and the
woman he chose brought him into new
connections which suited both his
tastes and his training. Three months
after his fathers death he married
Anne Fairfax, daughter of William
Fairfax, his neighbor. Twas William
Fairfax's granduncle Thomas, third
Lord Fairfax, who had in that revolu-
tionary year 1916 summoned Colonel
Henry Washington to give into his
hands the city of Worcester, and who
had got so sharp an answer from the
Kings stout soldier. But the Fairfaxes
had soon enough turned royalists
again when they saw whittier the
Parliament men would carry them. A
hundred healing years had gone by
since those unhappy days when the
nation was arrayed against the king.
Anne Fairfax brought no alien ira
ditions to the household of her young
husband Her father had served the
king, as her lover had-with more
hardship than reward, as bebOoved a
soldier-in Spain and in the Bahamas;
and was now, when turned of fifty,
agent here in Virginia to his cousin
Thomas, sixth Baron Fairfax, in the
management of his great estates, "
ing upon the Northern Neck, and in
the fruitful valleys beyond. William
Fairfax had been but nine years in
the colony, but he was already a Vir-
ginian like his neighbors, and, as col
lectOr of his Majesty's customs for the
South Potomac and president of the
Kings Council, no small figure in
their affairs-a man who had seen the
world and knew how to bear himself
in this part of it.
Lord Fairfax Arrives.
In 1746 Thomas Lord Fairfax, him
self came to Virginia. man strayed
out of the world of fashion at fifty-five
into the forests of a wild frontier
The better part of his ancestral es-
tates in Yorkshire had been sold to
satisfy the creditors of his spend.
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Washington saw. This was Lord
Fairfax. who had been almost two
years in Virginia when the boy quit
school, and who was now determined,
as soon as might be, to take up MS
residence at his forest lodge within
the Blue Ridge. George greatly
struck his lordship's fancy, as he did
that of all capable men, as a daring
lad in the hunt and a sober lad in
counsel: and drawn into such COM
partnership, he learned a great deal
that no one else in Virginia could
have taught him so well-the scrupu-
lous department of high-bred and
honorable man of the world; the use
of books by those who preferred af-
fairs the way in which strength may
be rendered gracious. and indepen-
dence made generous. A touch of old
world address was to be learned at
Belvoir.
His association with Lord Fairfax.
moreover, put him in the way of maxi
ing his first earnings as a surveyor.
Fairfax had not come 10 America
merely to get away from the world OF
fashion in London and bury himself
in the wilderness. His chief motive
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thrift father These untitled stretches
of land in the Old Dominion were
now become the chief part of his
patrimony. Twas said, too, that he
had suffered a cruel misadventure in
love at the hands of fair jilt in Lon
don, and so had become the austere,
eccentric bachelor he showed himself
to be in the free and quiet colony.
A man of taste and culture, he had
written with Addison and Steele for
the Spectator; man of the world, he
had acquired. for all his reserve, that
easy touch and intimate mastery in
dealing with men which come with
the long practice Of such men of fash.
ion as are also men of sense. He
brought with him to Virginia, though
past fifty, the fresh vigor of a young
man eager for the free pioneer life OF
such a province.
Lord Fairfax Builds a Lodge.
He tarried but two years with his
cousin, where the colony had settled
to an ordered way of living. Then
he built himself roomy lodge, sha.
dowed by spreading piazzas, and fit.
ted with such simple appointments as
sufficed for comfort at the depths of
the forest, close upon seventy miles
away, within the valley of the Shen-
andoah, where a hardy frontier peo-
pie had but begun to gather. The
great manor-house he had meant to
build was never begun. The plain
comforts of "Greenway Court" salts
fed him more and more easily as the
years passed, and the habits of a sim.
pie life grew increasingly pleasant
and familiar, till thirty years and
more had slipped away and he was
dead. at ne-broken-hearted,
men said, because the kings govern
ment had fallen upon final defeat and
was done with in. America.
Bred In Good Company.
1t was in the company of these men.
and of those who naturally gathered
about them in that hospitable country,
that George Washington was bred. "A
stranger had no more to do SAYS
Beverley, but to inquire upon the
road where any gentleman or good
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WASHINGTON was cast
= for his career by very scant
- and homely training.

Augustine Washington, his father,
lacked neither the will nor the means
to set him handsomely afoot, with as
good a schooling, both in books and in
affairs, as was to be had he would
have done all that liberal and provi-
dent man should do to advance his boy
In the world, had he lived to go with
him through his youth.
He owned land in four counties,
more than five thousand acres all told,
and lying upon both the rivers that
refresh the fruitful Northern Neck;
besides several plots of ground in the
promising village of Fredericksburg,
which lay opposite his lands upon the
Rappahannock: and one-twelfth part
of the stock of the Principle Iron Com
pany. whose mines and furnaces in
Maryland and Virginia yielded bet
ter profit than any others in the two
colonies.
His Father Once a Sailor.
He had commanded a ship In his
time, as so many of his neighbors
had in that maritime province, carry
Ing iron from the mines to England,
and no doubt bringing convict labor
ers back upon his voyage home again.
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into his confidence as if he had been
his own son. Not only upon his vaca-
lions now, but almost when he would,
and as if he were already himself a
man with the rest, he could live in
the comradeship that obtained at Bel
voir and Mount Vernon. Men of all
sorts, it seemed. took pleasure in his
company.
Lads could be the companions of
men in Virginia. Their outdoor life of
journeyings, sport, adventure. put
them, as 1t were, upon equal terms
with their elders, where spirit, auda.
city, invention, prudence, manliness.
resource, told for success and COM
radeship. Young men and old can be
companions In arms, in sports. in
woodcraft, and ON the trail of the
fox. Twas not an indoor life of con.
ference, but an outdoor life of affair.
In this rural colony.
One man. indeed, gave at least n
touch Of another quality to the life
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A MESSAGE TO WOMEN
Who are Gust Ready to Drop"

JA@N ANN41I " LAAN
When you are "iuss ready % drop"
When you feel so weak that you cla
hardly drag yourself about-and b.
cause you have not slept vel. yoa
get up as tired-out next morning a.
%hen you went TO bed. then you ned
help right away.
MISS Lea Dumas writes from Va,
lone, \. u, saying: u was IN a badig
rundown condition for several weeks,
put TWO bottles OF Vinol put me o.
my feet again and made ma rfrong
and well. Vinol has done me more
good than all the other medicine
ever took"
IL the careworn. hagFard men ant
women, the pale. sickly children ard
feeble old folks around here would
!oiiow Miss Dumas example they.
TOO would soon be able 90 say that
Nlnoi, our delicious cod liver and iron
remedy. had built them up and mads
them strong.
IL is wonderfully strengthening
sna inVigorating body-bullder. and 40
sell II under an ironclad guarantees
OF satisfaction. You get your monsy
back II Yinol does not help Yea.
J. J. Gsris. Druggist ocala. ia.
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was one which did him much more
true colonist 1t was his purpose, he
declared, to open up, settle and cult
vate the vast tracts of beautiful and
fertile land he had inherited in Vir-
ginia and he proved his sincerity by
Immediately setting about the bust
ness.
1t was necessary as a first step that
he should have surveys made, in or
der that he might know how his lands
lay, how bounded and disposed
through the glades and upon the
streams of the untrodden forests.
Surveys Fairfax Estate.
In Washington he (Fairfax) had a
surveyor ready to his hand. The
lad was but sixteen. indeed, was
largely self-taught in surveying; and
had had no business yet that made
test of his quality. But surveyors were
scarce, and boys were not tender at
sixteen in that robust, out-of-dOor col
ony. Fairfax had an eye for capacity
He knew the athletic boy to be a fear
less woodsman, with that odd, calm
Judgment looking forth at his steady
gray eyes; perceived how seriously he
took himself in all that he did. and
how thorough he was at succeeding:
and had no doubt he could run his
lines through the thicketed forests as
we'll as any man. At any rate, he
commissioned him to undertake the
task, and was not disappointed in the
way he performed it.
Within a very few weeks Washing
ton cOnclusively showed his capacity
In March, 174S, with George Fairfax.
William Fairfax's son, for company,
he rode forth with his little band OF
assistants through the mountains to
the wild country where his work lay,
and within the month almost he was
back again, with maps and figures
which showed his lordship very clear
ly what lands he had upon the spark
ling Shenandoah and the swollen up
per waters of the Potomac. Twas
all he wanted before making his home
where his estate lay in the wilder.
ness. Before the year was out he had
established himself at "Greenwav
Court; huntsmen and tenants and
guests had found their way thither,
and life was fairly begun upon the
rough rural barony.
Likes His Work.
1t had been wild and even neriIops
work for the young surveyor, but Just
out of school, to go in the wet spring-
time into that wilderness, when the
rivers were swollen and ugly with the
rains and melting SHOWS from off the
mountains. where there was scarcely
a lodging to be had except in the
stray, comfortless cabins of the scat
tered settlers, or on the ground about
a ire in the open woods, and where a
Woodman's wits were needed to come
even tolerably off. But there was a
strong relish in such an experience
for Washington, which did not wear
on with the novelty OF 1t. There Is
an unmistakable note of boyish salts
faction in the tone in which he
speaks of 1t.
Since you received my letter in |
October last" he writes to a young
comrade, u have not sleep'd above |
three nights or four in a bed. but,
after walking a good deal all the day
lay down before the fire upon a lit |
Tie hay, straw. fodder, or bearskin.
whichever Is to be had, with man.
wire and children. like q parcel of
dogs and cats. and happy is he who !
gets the horfh nooro~x A. g.
have never had my clothes
on. but lay and sleep In them. except !
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He himself raised the ore from the
mines that lay upon his own land,
close to the Potomac, and had it car
ried the easy six miles to the river.
Matters were very well managed
there, Colonel Byrd said, and no pains
were spared to make the business
profitable
Captain Washington had represent
ed his home parish of Truro, too, in
the House of Burgesses, where his
athletic figure, his rudy skin, and
frank gray eyes must have made him
as conspicuous as his constituents
could have wished. He was a man Of
the world, every inch, generous, hardy,
independent. He lived long enough,
too. to see how stalwart and capable
and of how noble a spirit his young
son was to be, with how manly a bear
ing he was to carry himself in the
world; and had loved him and made
him his companion accordingly.
He lnherits a Farm.
But the end came for him before he
could see the lad out of boyhood. He
died April IL, 1743, when he was but
forty-nine years of age. and before
George was twelve; and in his will
there was. of course. for George only
q younger sons portion. The active
gentleman had been twice married.
and there were seven children to be
provided for. Two sons of the first
marriage survived. The bulk of the
estate went. as Virginian custom die
eated. to Lawrence. the eldest son. To
Augustine. the second son, fell most
% the rich lands In Westmoreland.
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Continued next week.
The Springfield herald., 1913-03-14
DAINTY DISHES.

When one likes change in serving
cheese the following may be one
which will be pleasing. Mix cream
cheese with little cream, enough to
make of the right consistency; season
highly with salt and cayenne. onion
juice. Worcestershire sauce and
minced parsley. Form in roll, lay on a
paper dolly on pretty plate with a
small cheese knife, and pass, allow
ing each person to slice of as he de-
sires. This cheese may be sliced for
sandwich filling.
1t may be spread on waters and
served with lettuce salad, or may be
served on lettuce as a salad. with any
salad dressing preferred.
Frozen custard.-A delicious frozen
dish may be prepared as follows: To
q quart of milk add three well beaten
eggs and a cup OF sugar; cook until
smooth. and freeze until like mush.
then add fourth OF pound each of
walnut meats and steamed and
chopped figs. Finish freezing. and
serve.
Apple and Maple sirup.-Cut eight
apples in quarters. after peeling them;
put into a saucepan with cup Of ma
pie sirup. two tablespoonfuls of but.
ter and one and half cups of water.
Bake until the sirup is thick. Serve
cold. with whipped cream.