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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-01
.C0LFAX BANKER A
MURDER VICTIM?
CORONER LEE PROCEEDING ON
THE ASSUMPTION THAT DEAD
MAN NET WITH FOUL PLAY. @

Des Moines, Dec. 31.-The result Of
yesterdays experiment by the coro-
ner's jury at the spot where Whee-
locks body was recovered dissipated
every trace Of doubt from. tile minds
Of the Investigators concerning the
means by which the Colfax banker
came to his death.
The theory OF suicide has been prac-
tically abandoned and the future in.
.vestigation Of the case will be based
on the presumption that Wheelock was
murdered. The test yesterday was for
the purpose Of determining whether a
man Of the bankers physique could
walk through the bottom Of the river
carrying the load or rock found with
Wheelock's body.
A. l.. Bradley, somewhat taller but
built along similar lines to the dead
banker in most respects, was secured
.Ly the coroner for the experiment
Some difficulty was met with in carry
ing out the test. When the party ar.
rived at the river bank it was found
that foot of ice covered the water.
A half hour was spent with an ak
cutting q trench through the ice to a
distance twelve feet from shore. When
this was finished, Bradley, with rub
Der boots which extended to his hips,
stepped in. A sack containing fifty
pounds of rock was then placed on
his shoulder and he started walking.
He sank to his knees in mud at the
first step and at the end Of the trench
less than half the distance to the spot
where the body was recovered went in
to his hips. The mud was so deep and
sticky here that he was extracted
from his position only after hard work
by members OF the party
After being helped out, Bradley
stated that he could have gone no
farther, and expressed the opinion that
Wheeloclz could not possibly have
reached the spot where his body was
found. unaided. Soundings made
through the ice out farther than Brad
ley reached showed mud to depth OF
between three and four feet.
Coroner Lee has not decided def
nite1y yet when the hearing will be
resumed but stated that it probably
would be called for the latter part OF
this week.
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.|NCE ND|ARY FIRE
COSTS EIGHT LIVES
NEW YORK TENEMENT is BURN.
ED WHILE THE INMATES ARE
SLEEPING souNDLY.

New York, Dec. Slight persons,
five men and three women, were
killed in a tenement house fire at 96
Monroe street, in the crowded east
side district today . Fifteen persons
We're injured, four seriously, by jump
ing from fire escapes.
The fire started on the ground
floor, cutting off escape by the stair
way.
An hour before dawn the tenants
In the house were aroused by the
cries Of persons in the street. Finding
escape by way of the stairway shut
off, they crowded on the fire escape
platform. Many jumped, but the
calmer ones waited for the firemen
to raise ladders. A few made their
escape over the roofs Of adjoining
tenement houses.
The dead
MRS. BECKY KAPLAN, 55; a
widow.
BARNEY KAPLAN. 1S; her son.
LOUIS KAPLAN, 16; another son.
SAMUEL COHEN, aged ga.
ISAAC WEISBERG, aged so.
MRS. PEARL WEIsBERG aged go;
wife.
GUSSIE MAZZIN, aged 10.
ISRAEL GOLDEN, aged 35.
The Mazzin girl, after assisting her
father and mother and five brothers
to the fire escape, lost her head and
returned to her room where she was
found dead. The bodies Of Mrs. Kap-
Ian, her sons. and Samuel Cohen, a
tailor, who occupied a room with them
were found on the fifth floor. Israel
Golden was found dead in his bed on
the fifth floor. The Weisbergs were
in their apartment on the third floor
All indications were that the fire
was started by an incendiary and an
investigation was begun.
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Washington, D. c., Dec. 31.-What
probably will prove to be the largest
aud most important ruin discovered in
South America since the days Of the
Spanish conquest-the discovery of
the ruins of the city of Machu Picchu,
the cradle Of the Inca empire on the
top Of the Peruvian Andes--was
brought about by the chance meeting
of an expedition under the auspices
OF the national geographical society
and Yale university, with a Peruvian
Indian.
Details of the discovery became
known today when the society made
public the preliminary report Of Prof.
-If,ram Bingham of Yale, director Of
the expeditionsTh The expedition came
across the Indian who was selling
food and pasturage for horses to trav-
lelers, on the mountain trail six days
out from Cuzco. Prof. bingham says
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-01
Writes Maxims
to Inspire Illinois
Feminine Voters

Chicago, Dec. 31.-Designed to
inspire and help Illinois suffrag-
lists in their work Of the coming
new year, these maximums were
set forth today by Mrs. Grace Viii
bur Trout, president Of Illinois
Equal Suffrage association:
"Let all women vote, even 1t
they vote wrong"
"Do not condemn even foolish
activity. Anything is preferable
to inane apathy"
"It is more cheerful to be
voter than a mere woman"
Don't grumbIe over corrupt
politics. Just vote"
"Don't worry because the con-
stitutionaIity Of the Illinois suf-
fraqe law has been attacked. Have
faith in the supreme court
Equal suffrage will not shake
the foundations Of illinois. politics,
not Immediately. Women are
near, relatives Of men,"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-01
TWELVE HOUR men
ARE NE RE SLAVES
SUCH is srATikENr MADE BY
FEDERAL EpkERT WHO HAS
STUDIED LAsAR CONDITIONS.

Washington, d. NJ Dec. 31.-Labor-
ers compelled to wSkk twelve hours a
day are worn out Hore rapidly than
were the slaves on I Ye southern plan
tations and are mol, effectually de.
barred from the COM Non pleasures of
life than many of the prisoners in our
penal Institutions WINS the declara.
ton made by DR.. Ba;eA M. Manly, to.
day before the Ameir@n association
for labor legislation joint session
here with the Anne ian Political
Science association.
Dr. Manly who rece..,Ay investigat-
ed for the federal burea" Pf labor con
aitions of employment ilyJha iron and
steel industries, asserted thit the num-
Der of 12 hour men was( enormous in
the manufacture of iro1n land steel
gas, cement, paper and ptlp, starch
beet sugar. glass bottles', in many
branches of the chemical inAnstry and
in bakeries and, .he added. chat they
form the labor forces i'm a lone
list of minor industries. These men
he said, s.are little better Than slaves
to the machines they Operate. The
twelve hour worker has np time for
his children. to whom he is ia dull
stranger. who comes and go,s and
whom they see less frequently and
know less intimately than their}school
teacher"
Austin B. Garretson, presid ,nt of the
order of railway conductors, con-
demned long hours in railroadins.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-01
STUDENTS HEAR
MISSION NEEDS
Five Thousand Collegians
Gather in the Greatest
Convention of Kind
REPRESENTING 800
DIFFERENT SCHOOLS
Are Told That Whole World
Is Their Field in Which
to Spread Religion

Kansas City, Mo-, Dec. 31.-"We are
here to further the purpose OF this
movement to Christianize the entire
world and it can be done with your
help said John r. Mott of New York
City, in opening the quadrennial con-
vention of the student volunteer move
ment for foreign missions in conven-
ton hall
veathousand college students rep
resenting eight hundred universities
and colleges in the United States and
Canada were in their seats when the
convention was called to order. DR..
Mott devoted most of his address to
an explanation of the movement, the
possibilities of the gathering and the
attitude students should assume to the
ideas to be unfolded in the convention.
"To the man that feels the necessity
for the evangelization of the world"
said DR.. Mott, there is no home field
and no foreign field. Social barriers
are battered down. We are baptized
into sense Of our oneness with all
common humanity and we are quickly
responsive to the needs and sufferings
and sorrows of the human race"
The great audience of students, said
to be the largest ever gathered togeth.
or in America listened to DR.. Motifs
words in impressive silence.
Robert E. Horton Of London, known
internationally as an expert on mis-
sions urged the students to enter the
spirit Of the convention; to forget self
and to think of the needs of the world.
We are engaged here in a fevolu-
ton, general change from self to
God,' said he. DR.. Robert E. Speer of
New York, secretary Of the Presbyter-
ian board of foreign missions spoke in
a similar vein.
The students will begin to hear to.
night the messages from the foreign
lands that are in need of missionaries.
The first address of the evening ses-
sion will be delivered by DR.. Samuel
+. Zwemer of Cairo, Egypt. 1t will
cover the need of the Moslem world
for Christianity.
Most of the students arrived this
morning. Special trains came in
punches from all sections of the coun.
try. At the union depot three hun
dred boy scouts were stationed to lead
the way to street cars and to take the
delegates to registration headquarters
and thence to the home at which they
will be entertained.
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FRUSTRATE PLOT TO
MURDER PRESIDENT

Mexico City, Mex. Dec. 81 An al
legged plot to assassinate PROVISIONS
President Huerta during the New
Years reception was frustrated by the
arrest today of two Mexicans In 2.
house of the suburban town of Campo
Florido.
The secret police are said to have
discovered that the plotters had plas,
ned to enter the home Of Genera
Huerta at the same time the officials
and others had arranged to come and
scffer their New Years greetings.
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Typhoid FeDer in Arn1D is
Wiped Out bD Use Vaccine
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Washington, D. c.. Dec 3The got through the year
1913
Of than 10000 officers that who
with believed
to have
the in China immunized In
1911, the history of the is in doubt
which
not make its use at compulsory had its $4,000 ackes
authentic typhoid
Four Of treated tropical station where the
vaccine had deteriorated.
Such is the wonderful record Of the pophyactic treatment
which wiped
tuberculosis 4
direction
sailors
with the
mmunzaton N
three
neighborhood of $50 @lsloos o,np,
++ ~ + ~ wrH ele,S !,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-01
MORTGAGE .
FOR LARG[lsU|NI.
Bill Involving $316, ,428, 200
Is Brought to County
Recorders Office
COST FOR FILING OF
DOCUMENT IS $40
Milwaukee Railroad and the
Guaranty Trust Co. Are
Interested Parties

The largest instrument In point Of
dollars and In volume OF words as
we'll, that ever came to the county re-
|corder's Office in Wapeiio county for
recording, has just been fled for rec
ord with l.. Il. Cawley. The amount
represented In the mortgage is $316-
42S200, It Is titled a general and re-
funding mortgage by the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railway Co. to the
Guaranty Trust Co. Of New York and
Alexander J. Hemphill as trustee. Itt
bears the date Of November 1, 1918. #
This Is much the largest instru-i
ment that has ever been recorded in
Wapello county, said Recorder Law.
renee Cawley today. THE next in
size was fled year ago last summer
by the M. & st. Il. railroad for $75,-'
900 900"
Some idea Of the magnitude or tne
instrument may be cleaned from the
fact that the charge for recording will
reach the sum OF $40. This Is based
on the rate of fifty cents for the first
400 words and ten cents per 100 words
or, fraction thereof for the balance.
One book will be required to record
this document because of its great
volume Of words and figures. The
book used however is not one OF the
large volumes in use in that Office,
but specially bound book with an
individual number In keeping with
other books Of record in the Office.
The bonds that are to be retired by
this mortgage range from less than
$4,000, ,aP to more than $a7. coo. Gee.
The mortgage as 1t was delivered to
Recorder Cawley was d bound docu-
ment six by ten inches in size and
full of solid printed matter.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-01

PRICES COME DOWN
ON ALL GOLF BALLS

New York. Dec 31.--At last the
long threatened cut in the price Of
golf halls has become reality on
this side of the water. On the other
side the cut came earlier and balls at
one shilling (25c) and upward are nro-
fusely advertised in the golfing
journals.
Robert C. Watson, president OF the
United States Golf association after
a conference with a leading manu-
facturer said the retail price would be
reduced from SO to $3.50 dozen.
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sljFFs DEMAND RlGHTS|

New York, Dec. 31.-The littlaNsI
frage army under command of "Get
eral,' Rosalie Jones today will mS.ki
final preparations for it's march to aAl
hany to demand votes for womenA %
the legislature. The marchers WI
take to the road early tomorrow morn
ing. The pilgrims carry message
which General" Jones will deliver tx
the speaker of the assembly which
asks, mot a new privilege but al
ancient right" in legalizing womai
atchers at the polls when their en-
ranchisement is at issue.
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P[O77ERs ARE EXECUTED
'otmosans Who Planned Revolt
a Against the Japanese Are Put to
At Death Before Public.

Tdkio, Dec. 31.-The public execu-
tioIpf thirteen Formosan conspirators
wat carried out at Taihoku, Formosa,
today according to dispatches received
by The government here.
Tnay were sentenced to death in
conLaetion with plot discovered in
Octobkr to overthrow Japanese rule in
t'ornosa The plotters had planned
to raise an army of 100000 Formosans
and sol massacre the Japanese garri-
son, ;fterward handing the island over
to China
Besides the thirteen plotters SEN
tencei to death, 123 others were con-
denned to long terms of imprison-
ment
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HEAVY SNOW IN GERMANY
Berlin Covered to Depth of Fourteen
Inches and Railroad Traffic is
Seriously Impeded.

Berlin, Dec. 31.-The German capital
was covered with fourteen inches of
snovlat noon today and the fall still
r. 4linued A heavier snow storm has
teen recorded only once in thirty
years.
Near Halle, passenger train crowd
ed with people proceeding to their
homes to spend the New Year holiday
was blocked by snow at midnight and
the people were still prisoners at noon
today. a
Reports from other parts of the en-
pire show that the snow fan is general.
The gale on the north coast has sub
sided.
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/ VETERAN MINISTER
RESIGNS HIS POST

Columbus, O., Dec 31.-Rev. DR..
Washington GLADDEN. resigned here
last night as pastor OF the First Con-
gregational church after pastorate
4 Of 81 years. He will remain as pastor
emeritus at salary Of $4,000. Rev.
DR.. Carl s. Patton, associate pastor of
the church will succeed Dr., GLADDEN..
DR.. GLADDEN. is 78 years old. His resig-
nation was due to a desire to be free
of responsibility froIn the leadership
Of the church because of his advanced
age. s
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IHave Alternative Of Dying
at Hands Of Enemies or
Jumping Into River
|HUERTA,S TROOPS IN
A STATE OF TERROR
Besiegers Closing in With
Announced Intention
Of Executing All

Vera Cruz. Dec. 31.-A federal
Nroop train was blown up, witt,
dynamite today II miles southeast
81 Mexico City on the main line.
81 THE Inter-oceanie railway con-
meeting the federal capital with
tho coast,
The telegraph lines also were
torn down, according to advices
received at federal! headquarters
here. No further details were
available except that traffic had
not been resumed.
Presidio, Texas, Dec Sit was the
opinion of military experts here toaay
that the battle of Ojinaga, Mexico
would be decided within twenty-fouI
hours. Likewise 1t was believed tnat
the only chance Of the federals TO
escape nerciless determination,
should the rebels pour in on them, was
"a precipitate fight across the United
States border.aS
The federals were reported short OF
ammunition while the rebels by the
frequency Of their fire appeared to
have an ample supply said to have
Keen taken with the occupation OF Chi
Guahua City. The tactics Of narrow.
Ng their semicircle around the feder'
hs was continued by General Ortega' s
9rces.
y Today's fighting was expected to de-
Mde definitely whether the Huerta
Hovernment is to retain a foothold IN
Yi1e north Whatever the outcome is
Ut was certain that no surrender would
kbe considered for General Villa at Chi
fhuahua had said that he would execute
Tail federal volunteers whether they
Surrendered or not.
Problem For v. S.
United States cavalry patroling the
border considered what they would do
slf the 1000 federals commanded by
ALMOST a dozen generals should start
"a disorderly rush across the river
Major McName, commanding the pa.
hrol, had less than 1000 men stationed
At points along the river where 1t was
likely refugee soldiers would cross.
q The sudden visitation of whole
Eiiyision of foreign army on United
Estates soil In the capacity of refugees
1would be an incident without many
1precedents as to what form of welcome
tthe visitors should receive. 1t is un,
sderstood that the possible attitude OF
1.-THE United States has been considered
1by many officials. On the plea that
hheir lives were in danger the refugees
probably would be afforded an asylum
las usual In such cases. On the other
Hhand army officers were not unmind-
fkul OF the possibility that should events
lnecessitate retreat by either federals
dor rebels. it might be made into the
Yinterior OF Mexico, probably toward
fNhe state Of Coahuilla. This state con.
thajns vast areas of desert without wa
pfer or food which a retreating army
would find uninviting. Working south
east, however, the federals might make
their way to Monterey and Neuvo
Leon.
Defenders DESERVING.
Estimates of the probable number
Of dead and wounded were based mere
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CAMP ON BORDER is
IN BEST OF HEALTH

Washington, y. G., Dec. II. ftea II,
of the officers and men encamped near
Teas City, Tex despite widespread
reports of unsanitary conditions there
continues to be nearly per cent bet
ter than that of troops in their home
station. This statement was made to-
day by high army officer who
thought this record justified Major
General Carter in continuing to main
tain the camp in it's present location
General Carter has instructions from
the war department to move the camp
when in his Judgment conditions VIZ :.
rants such action
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PILES OF MAIL
HELD FOR ADDRESS

Chicago, Dec. 31.Because Of illeg
ible and incorrect addresses 10000
pieces of mail are piled up in the post.
office waiting delivery. According to
postoffice officials, the packages con.
tain most everything from skunk
bides to diamond rings and other arti
cle.s intended for Christmas gifts
Forty clerks are engaged night and
day in trying to decipher the addresses
and get the mail to its proper destina
ton.
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DRILLS INTO SAFE
TO OBTAIN LIQUOR

Il Portland, Me-, Dec. 31.-A safe ex-
II pert was called in by the sheriff today
81 10 assist him in gaining entrance to a
= hotel strong box in search for liquor.
ss When one hole, had been drilled, the
81 hotel management decided to open
II the safe. One quart bottle, which the
" sheriff said contained whisky was dis
"a closed.
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SCHMIDT JURY D|sAGR[Es
First Trial Of Confessed Murderer OF
Anna Aumuller Comes to Naught;
Sanity in Question.

New York, Dec. 31.--After delGbel at-
ing thirty-six hours the jury trying ne
case of Hans Schmidt, the HorHer
priest Of St. Joseph's church, aocufd
of the murder Of Anna AumN Ar, fe-
ported about 10 O'Clock last nil IL t!Pt
it could not reach an agreemah aN
was discharged. ~
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- ------
ICWAN ELECTED.

Chicago, Dec. 31,-W. F. McGregor
of Racine, Wis, was elected president
III the American society Of agriculture
engineers here today ait the close of
d three day meeting. j.. u. Mowry Of
ST. Paul. was chosen first vice presi-
dent. j. A. King, Otranto Station, Ia,
second ;y,sce president, and +. NJ. White
Of Madison g'is., secretary and treas
urer.
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glINcoLN GUARD DEAD.

Sf. Paul, Mimi. Dec. 31.-Col. Henry
4, fBevans, civil war veteran and
member of the secret service detail
which was guarding President LincolI
on the night Of his assassination, died
at his home here late yesterday.
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CORPSE IDENTIFIED.

New York, Dec. 31The body Of
the man found in a trunk on the east
side Monday has been positively iden-
titled hs that Of John Kremen, a Polish
laborar, who has recently beeSl en-
ployed on road work near Garrison,
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: THAW HEARING soon.

Concord, N. H., Dec. 81 The COM
missioners appointed by the federal
court to determine whethSr + public
safety would be endangered by, the
liberation on bail Of Harry *. Thaw,
notified counsel today that4tthe public
hearing on the matter wom be held
January Il +.
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PARALYSIS is FATAL.

Waterloo. Dec. 31.--Edmund e. Man
hard. secretary and manager Of the
Waterloo Canning corporation. and
closely identified with other industrial
institutions here suffered stroke OF
karalysis this morning while at the
breakfast table and died forty min
sutes later.
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BRYAN BACK HOME.

Washington, D. c.. Dec. 31.-Secre-
tary Bryan and Mrs. Bryan returned
today from Miami, Fla, where they
spent Christmas
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Continued on page 8
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-05-21
OUIMET LOSES
TO BRITISHER
AMERICAN CHAMPION is DE.
FEATED BY BOY PLAYER in
BRITISH TOURNAMENT.

Sandwich, Observation-Disclosures Oui-
met, open golf champion of the
United States, was eliminated today
as a contender for the British anna
teur championship. He was defeat
ed with apparent ease by Young
Tubbs, boy player from Little
Stone on the Sea. There was a huge
crowd of spectators on hand,
Ouimet's tabsmen including large
de legation of Americans. Ouimet got
into difficulties on the fourth hole,
taking seven strokes, while Tubbs
made it clean in folr. The English
man never was in danger there after.
although Oaimet made a sensation
al three 20 "ubbs five on til i, eighth
hole and fought all the way in.
Cards: Out. Ouimet, 5. 5, 4. Z, a.
4. 5, 8, 5; total, AZ.
Tubs, S, 8, 4. 4. 4, 3, S, s, 5;
total. 40.
In. ouimet, 5. 5, 4, 4, 5. S, 3. ., 5.
Al; total out and in, SO.
Tubbs, 4, 5, 3, 5. 4, S, 4, 6. 4-40;
to tal, out and in, 80.