Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-28

downed few OF our golf players, Eng.
land may be less grouchy over Roose.
velt's discovery Of that river in Brazil.
Quincy Herald: In the rush OF Mex.
lean events General Felix DiaZ seems
to have been mislaid.
Cedar Rapids Gazette:- Now why
didn't Doc Cook think of Col. Roose-
yelt's way of proving his case. When
critics declared he had not reached
the North Pole he should have said,
You're maps are ali wrong and the
result of guesses. How do you know
where the North Pole is? I've been
there"
Burlington Gazette: An agitation
has commenced to close the Panama.
Pacific exposition on Sunday. The
same agitation was waged at the time
of the worlds Columbian exposition
and the Louisiana Purchase exposi.
ton, but the fair gates opened on Sun.
day Just the same. And 1t Is safe to
predict that Sunday will be the big day
at the San Francisco fair.
Keokuk Gate City: Prevent the fly
and you won't have to swat him later
The time to fight him is before he be-
comes a fly 1t is problem Of the
elimination of filth where flies play
eat and breed. Do away with the
breeding places and there will be no
flies. Especial attention should be
paid to stable and kitchen wastes,
Clean up thoroughly around the stables
and under the stable floors with the
liberal use of chloride of lime.
Waterloo Courier Reporter: II JUS
tice were absolute and the four gun
men who were executed by the state
of New York got what they deserved
then Police Lieutenant Becker, con
victed the second time OF murder, de-
serves two deaths.
The gunner were half innocent vic.
tins OF an education in the alleys and
saloons of New York's lower east side.
And as murderers they worked fol
hire, concealing their crime but carry.
ing no responsibility save that Of their
own souls. Becker was not only q
murderer but traitor to his uniform
He was paid by the city OF New York
to protect It's people. He took the
pay, he accepted graft and murdered
one placed in his trust
AS mere public policy, to say nothing
of personal guilt, Becker deserves the
limit of the law.
st. Louis Times: When Richard
Harding Davis hasn't anything else
to write about, he manifests surpris
ing ability to write about column.
Cedar Rapids Republican,: The Jap
anese premier says that America has
no enemy. Now will Mr.. Hobson &C
cept his final Quietus?
Des Moines Capital: Speaker
Champ Clark predicts that congress
will be in session all summer. Champ
should now try and think up some
think cheerful to say.
Marshalltown Times Republican:
Americans and Mexicans are playing
baseball against each other at Vers
game down.
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Muscatine journal: One Of tn,
worst horrors of each recurring wal
and war scare is the opportunity i
offers to the paragraphers to work that
old Missouri mule follows the flag
safer to follow the flag than the mule
joke.
Sioux City Tribune: A seat In the
New York stock exchange has JUS
changed hands for $4,000, which Wal
street tearfully announces is $4,000
less than last year. Still, it must be
gay old funeral that Wall street IL
anticipating that would induce. one t.
put up $4,000 In order to be one 81
the professional mourners.
Keokuk Constitution Democrat: The
nation owes another debt Of gratitude
to Colonel Goethals because he has
cut red tape and opened the Panama
canal to meet an emergency created
by the Mexican revolution. Beginning
Of traffic now, months before the time
originally intended, has caused some
inconvenience to the forces at work
flushing the big ditch, hut 1t will he
the means of saving heavy losses t
American and other shippers.
Burlington Gazette: Judging from
the appearance of the Peoria boost
ers, they never have any hard times
in that mans town. It Is said the in
formation gained throughout Iowa thai
there was evidence Of an abundant
corn crop made the boosters feel par