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THE VICINITY OF OIIjOMWAM BRIEF

\ « i **-Birth*, Deaths, Marrlajges, Movements

•••u-»'»pOf Yeop Acquaintances ag Chronicled •Vjrcjby Courier's Staff of Correspondents

."•Who Know Whereof iiThey Spealu

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Charlton Sept. 9.—|Prank Wilkens rime'down from Norwood Sunday in tompapy with his two'.sons. The lat­ter will attend the Bhpskburn college |ust east of town.

' Wm. Fight and dau ghter of Derby were in the city yesterday for a brief Visit with relatives. !

( Miss Theo Edwards is reported as being otj the sick list this week.

Dow Blue and familyjare moving to­day onto the Evans fatfm just west of RUssell aiul will managje the same for McOiillough and Bowejn, who have leased it for a term of years.

Mrs. F." M. Richards of Lucas was * In the city yesterday in the interest of

the Lucas Ledger. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Holt of Jay were

among the out of town guests in the city Monday.

Mrs. H. Wilson and daughter, Miss : Peco, expect to leave in a few days for

Alliance, Neb., where they will spend the winter, *

Miss Fern .Garten win leave In a few days for a visit with relatives in Kan­sas.

Mted Smjna Brewer came up from iVm! Wlert last evening for a Visit with hex h^thers, Walter and Charley.

Mjsfc ft&el Oarliahan. left today for Towa fUls, w^ere afce will resume her

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tumwa, were in town on Friday on business.

Keb was well represented at the show in Ottumwa on Saturday night.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lilly, of Phil­lips' mines, were in town on Tuesday visiting their daughter, Mrs. Thomas Hyde. Mr. Lilly evidently knows a good thing when he sees it as he in­forms us he has-read the Daily Courier a very day for ten years.

J. H. Thomas, one of the Courier readers here has had erected a nice home for the Courier during the ab­sence of himself and Mrs. Thomas. On the corner of his building he has erect­ed a neat littTe church with a spire reaching up, underneath this a door where the Courier is left.

James Shevlin, superintendent of the mine, took in the show in Ottum­wa on Saturday night.

Mrs. Qus Donaldson returned home on Saturday from a week's visit with friends at Cleveland.

Martin Wood returned home Wednesday from Davenport where he attended the socialist convention. He reports an interesting time while there.

Benjamin Cassidy of Grinnell, was a business caller in town on Saturday.

Thomas Howells, of Pekay, spent Sunday in town at the home of his uncle Morgan Howells.

Richard Price and wife spent Sun­day in Ottumwa with friends.

David Howells is very sick at this writing. He was stricken with a par­alytic stroke some time ago. For a week past he has been speechless.

John Jenkins one of the enterprising^ young miners of this place, spent last week in Des Moines with friends.

Mr. Arthur, formerly salesman fon the coal company, was a business calip­er in town on Thursday.

6 college. , formejly of this city,

old rrfends here yes-

studies at to wftifMs

wagjffeettr " te .

M£ an4 Mr?. $aprael McKlveen ar­rived noche yesterday from a months •tdmrn In Cgjoradp,

7<4r«V &td Mrs. Sanderson fcame yes-" "* frptn Lengx for a visit with

" "jdergon's parents, Mr, and roha TCaufeb.

SV Pyurier returned to her Otjpcn,*a. after a few days'

l*K MJhpds here. {lot Hatejier and Eddie

[WiyMnnab of RusstfU were In the city Yesterday.

fclgourney. "T/> SHgourney, Sept, 9,—Richard Burke,

dmopCMtic candidate tor secretary of (Urt4 visited at tj>» plrental Burke atajt over Sunday .Mr; Burke formerly coodtftad tne What Cheer Reporter In tan county and is now editor of the jDskaloosa TbneB.

fon. Jo]}n Burke has been visiting ital BurKe home here.

__obdy, of the St. Louis Re-Malt, returns to his work this ; after a pleasant vacation 8d«oa»a«y. :

|)Mi' .BaMBUr >jM»d , Attorney Hugo Goilaner nuf a drive to Ollie and p*gkijpod yewMday. ,

• H. D. Todd, the fprmer county su-peMntendent tor nin^e years, started for bis home in Oklahoma this morn; loir a^el^a pleasant visit here.

C^nreU will return to his itfuctoi In the Texas state fife deaf, next week.

this city, was visiting i Ktlpfyllfe recently. MAllM; Tom Widner and

^ fet*W, who have been attend-^ telr at O-rinnell, returned home remftfe They report a fine time, pty 'Auditor Ross Wheeler is

stel»<Ws iiW)roving from his long ill-(ess.. His abends over the county ex-preps gWjjulne, pleasure in his recovery and Ideations are that the genial aurfltbf will be able to resume his of-ftcial duties In {he near future.

" - Mt. Pleasant. Mt. Pleasant, Sept. 9.—School is op­

ening at the Iowa Wesleyan today with prospects for the largest attend ance ever had. Every train brings in scores of students and they will prob­ably continue to come in during the entire week. The ladies' hall is full and many of the young ladies are' com­pelled to find rooms at private houses.

Professor .'Handy, who - has been elected to take charge of the normal department and also of elocution, ar­rived yesterday.

Miss Alice Haw, who is to All the position of director of puysical culture, arrived yesterday from Ottumwa and is beginning to arrange her work.

The students coming from Ottumwa were Misses Joy Haw, Porter, Messrs.

Surton Peck, James Haw, and Frank aw. Miss Blanche Thoburn, of Des

Mpln«s, Is the new preceptress of the Elizabeth' Hershey hall.

.•tffcty.1 > < • • f\CD« •"« -M* i Keb, Sept. 9.—George Wilson, book­

keeper at the company store, has ac-cejfted a position as bookkeeper for the Wliitebreast company at Denver, Colorado. He entered upon his new work jkst Week. *

Qeoige Holt, of Ottumwa, the ef­ficient salestinMi for the Iowa and Illi­nois Coal company, spent Saturday in town on business.

W. K. Miller, sf Newion, was a busi­ness caller in town Friday..

Morgan Howells visited friends in Given last week.

James McCauley, of Albla, spent several days In town last week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hills. He was accompanied by his little daugh terJ

The mines are running nearly full time, ne'w; men finding work.

The Brown brothers are mining their lofcal mine full time at present. They are opening up their mi&es extensive­ly for the united trade. ,

f Moses Johnson, of Colfax, was a bus­iness caller In town on Saturday. I Elmer Walker, the helper in the blacksmith shop, is making arrange­ments to move on a farm near Eddy iyille.

Mrs. William Gillasple, of Ottumwa, spsnt Friday in town, the guest of. Mr.

Snd Mrs. John Bennett: • Mr, and Mrs I. William's also acknowledge a call. Mr. and Mrs. Edwar<i Kowler.'ol' 01-

yes' Eldon.

Eldoy, Sept. 9.—School began terday with a good attendance.

Mrs. J. W. Hall leaves tonight for Kansas City, where she will visit with Mrs. Charles Martin.

Dr. Hearst is quite seriously ill with tonsilitls.

Mrs. Frank Harlan went to Ottumwa today.

y Stockport. Stockport, Sept. 9.—W. S. Whitaker,

of Hillsboro, visited at Stockport last week.

John Dill had a valuable mare kill­ed by lightning EViday night.

C. O. Swan and Mr. Hlatt were In Ottumwa Friday night.

A. C. Mills, who has been suffering with tonsilitis, is reported better.

Tnomas Fleming met with a pain­ful accident Saturday evening. He was cutting a stick when the kriife slipped and cut a gash three inches long on his wrist.

The new opera house will be opened Wednesday, Sept. 17, with the beauti­ful southern play by John Crittinde Webb, "The Land o' Cotton."

A. C. Eatinger, of Orient, the for­mer agent, visited his many friends here Monday and Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Silvers have boy at their home, b"orn last Sunday morning.

The grand opening ball given last Saturday night at the opera house was largely attended and' the very best of order prevailed. A grand good time was had. The music was of the very best. The SrchestrS. was assisted by Frank Rowley, of Keosauqua.

Joseph Douglas. F. H. Tinsley and wife and Miss Yankin started for Min­neapolis Saturday night.

A large delegation of the citizens went to North D^Jtota Tuesday, some for pleasure, others to get work and some of them with a view of buying land.

Mark. Mark, Sept. 9.—The threshing is

about over in this vicinity. Wm. Acton and Rosa .Talbert were

married in Bloomfield September 4. Walter Quigley spent Saturday

night and Sunday in Lancaster. Fred McMalns and felmer Hopkins

spent Sunday in Moulton. MiBB Martha Ramsy, who has been

staying in Bloomfield, has returned. School commenced September 1

with a good attendance, Miss Stella Rader being the teacher.

D. T. Edwards, Arthur Wood and I. M. Andrews made a flying trip to Mis­souri Sunday.

by having filled the position of night operator here the past month.

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Skinner and son, Jesse, of Ottumwa; Mrs. Nancy Gar-side, of Cass county, asd Miss Rose Skinner, of Adel, visited here Sunday with Charley Skinner and wife.

Oscar Bandel and Miss Lovie 'Kin-singer, of Bloomfield, called on A. W. Martin and wife Sunday evening.

The following named persons were entertained Sunday at the J. M^ Mc-Cormlck home: John Herrlck, wife and two children, Wm. Caharn and wife, and Grover Parks, from Ottum­wa, and Mrs. Phillips, from Green Cas­tle, Indiana. Several more visitors were expected but missed the train / and were unable to be present. /

W. T. Denpree, of Bloomfield, had a#

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car of timothy seed loaded here last? week. , '

mer's J father, James Brown, departed for tlieir home at Independence, Okla­homa Saturday.

An I it Caroline Pickard is visiting rela* fives at Ft. Madison. '

S:/.turday Joe Turner arrived home froi/i an extended trip through the norj.hera and western states.

i the hear future Miss Pearl Welp-tcffl) and will go. west and be listed with t'*l army of school teachers.

B. Lester was a county seat busl-i lefts caller Tuesday.

Wednesday of this week Miss Beat-Ufce Arnold will return to Kansas City where she has a position in the city

/schools. Miss Rae Ingrim came home from

Bell Plalne Wednesday. Miss Grace Cramer and Arthur J. In-

Pack wood. . f Packwood, Sept 9.—Miss MaWd

Gardner and Emmet Myers were m'a r-ried Sunday evening.

Jones Johnson and wife have left (for Portland, Oregon. They will maket' an extended visit with relatives.

J. S. Laughary has sold his subur ban property to C. W. Goodrich for 800. Mr. Goodrich will occupy the pre® erty and Mr. Laughary will purchase other property here.

Lee T. Gobble and wife of F*l rfield were guests of Dr. and Mrs. frj. T. Moorman Sunday.

Rev. J. W. Harvey and MrFi, F. B. Trammel of Arbella, Mo., are; visit­ing their sister, Mrs. J. A. MJborman.

Miss Kate Stephenson has returned from Des Moines, where she v#as a stu­dent at Highland PaTlc collerj ?.

Mrs. Nellie Smith and Mdrs. Polk Goodman went to North Di| *ota last week for a visit with relative >8.

Miss Lawson of the Otta mwa hos­pital is caring for a typhoid fever pa­tient in this vicinity.

Miss Bertha Moorman is (spending a few days with relatives r» ear BroOk-ville.

Miss Lulu Murphy Is enji lying a well earned vacation this weels.

Belknap. Belknap, Sept. 9.—Miss Maud Grant

of Perry township spent Saturday night and Sunday here with Miss Ruth Combs.

Miss Gracie McCormick, of Drake-ville, visited here Friday night with her cousins, Merna and Sylvia Myers.

Miss Alice Morris returned Sunday evening to Ottumwa ' from a two weeks' visit here with her mother,Mrs. Elmyra Morris.

Henry Thomas, of Niwot, Colorado, left Tuesday evening via the Wabash for his home.

Frank Pettet is running the Drakes-ville section during the absence of the foreman, Mr. Brunk.

W. L. Dunlavy and family after a short visit here with relatives and friends departed Wednesday morning for their home at Attica.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Simmons, of Lin-neus, Missouri, visited here last week with the latter's sister, Mrs. T. B. Cameron.

Mrs. Fred Eberline returned horae last week from a visit with her half sister, EJallie Pence, of Spirit Lake.

T. C. Cree and family moved Thurs­day to their new home at Blootafleld, and Orla Burns and wife moved to the old home place.

Mrs. Wm. Spohr and daughter Reva attended the fair at Eldon Wednesday and Thursday.

Henry Zigler and Miss Etta Robb, of Marion township, called on Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Martin, Saturday evening.

Carl A. Guile has been given a job of braking on a freight on the Rock j Island. Mrs. Guile expects to leave j soon for a two or three weeks' visit in ij Bloomfield at the parental T. C. Cree | home. ;

Mrs. Eliza Middleton, of Drakesvillf 'i, visited here Saturday night and Sut i»-day with her son Herman and famil If.

Mrs. Amanda Hix, of Selnia, is a vi ip-itor here at the V. D. Bell home. '•

There is an ice cream supper • An­nounced for Saturday evening. Se pf. 13, at the A. D. Munn home for ' |he benefit of the Sherman Chapel Chui 'fch.

S. C. Sharon returned home W fed-nesday evening from Des Moines a f.er enloying a month's outing.

S. A. I.uBby. wife and little son,. re­turned to their home at Wentzv j lip. Missouri, Thursday morning. Mr. ! u*-

Seymour. ' Seymour, Sept. 9.—Mr, aud Mrs. C.

A. Conger spent Sunday in Corydon. They were accompany d by their daughter, Miss Olive, oI; Washington, D. C., who has been vial .ting them for the past two weeks.

Mrs. Dave Clemens it nd children, of Kansas City, spent ftanday in Sey­mour with relatives. ,

The Seymour racer, will be held Sept. 18, 19, 20.

Hollie Tennant. ol| 'Trenton, Mo., is visiting his parents |a Seymour for a few days. '

Dr. John Orth an*1! Henry L. Gaffdis were Ottumwa visitors last Saturday.

Prof. Will Speers, and wife, of Cen-terville, spent Sunt1 jay in the city with relatives.

R. J. W. Carson "<sft Monday for Col­orado where he g«es for his health.

Miss Alice Stic |; left Monday for Moravia, where :#he will whistle for the Harvest Hoir i- exercises.

Rev. P. C. Stifls preached his fare­well sermon Sunday evening at the M. E. church. He/ .i;ill leave this week for conference.'

Mr. and M'A J. w. Armstrong re­turned Saturflav> .from Trenton, Mo., where they fimte' been attending the funeral of tfilair ^arother-ln-law, James Spiers, who • Kansas City.

(fe Skilled In the wreck at usl, week

OVER HALF WAY TO s EUROPE BY RAIL

A. W. Lee in St. John's, Newfound­land, Which He Deslgnatea the

- Norway of America.

SPENDS ONE WEEK IN THAT PLACE

Salem, ggpt.' 9.—Prof. Parisho Is taking a deep % aterest in the work for Whittler collef e.

The Salem 1 /omans club had a call­ed meeting at the home of Mrs. Mary Shrlner Saturf lay afternoon.

Mrs. Anna f irady Is enjoying a visit with her gri nddaughter. Miss Clara Runyon from' Scranton.

John Oldt i from Missouri was an over Sunday, guest of Salem relatives.

Wednesda: r Mrs. Ora Harson and children wof it to their home at Keo­kuk. ;

Miss Claj a Cooper is home from Quincy, Illli iois.

Miss Ma* y Almond is quite sick. , John Cd Uatt has purchased the

building oc cupied by Grant Corsbie. Mrs. Ma; rcock of Chicago is a guest

of her sis ter, Mrs. Rebekah Donald­son and ol .her relatives.

Miss M« try Maris spent last week at Mt. Pleas* int.

Rev. S| larpless transacted business at the col anty seat Thursday.

Rev. B| irton came from Mt. Pleasant Friday a nd remained until Saturday.

A band I of Pentacost people arrived last weel t and are conducting meetings at Salen/ i.

MIbb Nellie Sinclair went to Mt. PleaBan) ; today. She will enter the I. W. 1} . as a student for the ensuing year.

Miss Maud Hawkins, who spent the summd r with relatives in Illinois and at Keq kuk returned Saturday. Her lit­tle ne) >hew, Merrill Hawkins of Keo­kuk, a ccompanied her home.

Tua ad ay night an unknown person enter* d Grant Corsble's meat market and g enerously supplied himself with cured hams and dried beef.

W'i dnesday Mrs. Stancer and chil­dren! after a short visit with Mr. and MrsJ John Carlisle, departed for their honjj ) at Ottumwa.

AJ( bert Cammack has returned to Ami) s where he is attending college.

?rs. Frank Bennett departed Wed-lay for her home at Colorado ings, Colo. rank Foster Is seriously 111. liss Cliffle Windland came home

fr o m Ft.-Madison Thursday. j friends' missionary meeting was

h e Id at the home of Mrs. Rachel Kel-1 if m Friday afternoon.

Miss .Carre Friend spent part of last • f.eek at Keokuk.

Monday, Mary Collins, aged 6 years, Klied at the home of her parents, Mr.

/land Mrs. D. Colling, north of town. Funeral services were conducted at Wesley Chapel church by Rev. Sin­clair.

Mr. and Mrs. Quick of Burlington were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair last week.

Sunday morning Rev. Henderson de­livered a fine discourse. Subject, "Education and the Relation of the Community to the Schools.'

W. K. Bunker.and wife are visiting relatives at Indiauola.

Joseph Denney came home from Ft. Madison Saturday.

Mrs. T. E. Johnson and Harry John­son returned Saturday from several weeks' visit with relatives in Missouri.

A Miles of Blackwell. Oklahoma, is a guest of Salem friends. - Arthur Browu and little daughter,

, ViCcr two weelp' visit with the for-

gt-im were united In marriage at 7:30 o'clock last Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrt. J. T. Ingrim. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Sharpless. The wedding was very quiet, only a few of the relatives and intimate friends of the contracting parties being present.

Rev, Robt. Pool and family of Ox­ford will arrive at Salem this week. After a few days' visit here they will go to Keokuk to attend the Iowa con­ference of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Rev. Sinclair drove to Mt. Pleasant yesterday morning.

William Spurrier and wife returned to their home at Lamoni today. Daniel Davis accompanied them. After a visit at Lamoni he will visit his son, James Davis, and family at Fall River, after which he will go to his home at North Platte, Neb.

Birmingham. Birmingham, Sept. 9.—Mrs. R. W.

Pleasants returned last week from an extended visit at Denver and Cripple Creek, Col.

Miss Fannie Smith visited at the home of Prof. C. E. Alters at Eldon last Thursday and Friday and attended the Eldon fair.

Mrs. D. K. Taylor, of Hastings, Neb., visited Mrs. J. S, Ragsdale and other relatives last week.

The public schools opened Monday with a good attendance and the fol­lowing corps of teachers: Principal. Prof. Barton; assistant principal, Miss Cook; room 4, 'Etta Miser; room 3, Nellie Dorrow; room 2, Lola Smitz; room 1, Lib McMillan.

Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Sheward are vis­iting in Des Moines, the guest of Mr. Sheward's sister. ,

Rev. Geo. Ainslee and family left last week for Cedar Itaplds. Mrs. Alnslle will remain to keep house for her sone who will attend school dur­ing the winter and Mr. Ainslee will rev turn here and continue as paster of the Presbyterian church.

Drs. Pitt Norris and Jay Calhoun left this week for Minnesota on a fishing and hunting excursion and to visit Miss Ivy Norris who is teaching, there.

Saturday evening A. A. Fry met with an accident which will disable htm for some little time on account of his ad­vanced years. While milking a cow she in some manner struck him, throw­ing him on his head and shoulders, breaking his collar bone.

B. E. Skinner left.Monday, for. Chica­go. Mrs. Skinner and son will vjsit Mrs. Thos. Wells in Burlington duritag his absence.

Miss Annie Boies .• Vvisited • eft the home of- her uncle, Ed Boles, in Yar­mouth last, week.

Mrs .Riley Byers returned from her visit to Valley Junction Tuesday.

R. W. Pleasants returns this week trom California where he went on the Pythian excursion.

Mrs. Belle Torrance returned last week from Denver where she visited during the summer at the home of her son.

Parties are here looking over the E. T. Spraker place with a view of buy­ing, Mr. Spraker's health making it impossible to continue in business.'

Says it Was Well Worth the Effort and Regrets That the Absence of His Family Permitted a Visit No Longer.

Special Correspondence, Letter No. 3. Halifax. Nova Scotia, Sept. 1.—Re-'

turning from Newfoundland, the jour­ney is one of fifty-one hours from St. John's to Halifax. Leaving St. John's Thursday evening at 5:30 o'clock the traveler rides all night and all day on the Reid-Newfoundland railway till 9 p. nj. Friday, when he reaches Port-aux-Basques, at the extreme south­western point of the island. IJe Im­mediately transfers to the splendid steamship Bruce and arrives at North Sydney at 5 a. m. Saturday. Here there is a wait of a few hours and at 10 o'clock the traveler takes the fast express on the Intercolonial railway which brings him into Halifax at' 8:05 p. m. After this fifty-one hour trip, Halifax seems a long way toward home from St. John's. Newfoundland, though to the mind of the Iowan Hali­fax Is a very great distance from the Mississippi river.

It was with genuine regret that I left Newfoun'L-A-N-D, with the accent on the land, as they pronounce it here. Had my family been with me, two or three weeks could, and probably would have been spent in the island with the greatest enjoyment. But my family remained in Halifax, and hence my trip to Newfoundland ocoupied just one week from the time I left Halifax till my return to that city. Hurried as it necessarily was, the trip was well worth the expense and effort, and I shall not feel satisfied until I spend a much longer period enjoying its mag-

reached boom figures, the hotels are crowded all the time,'and there is a distinct air of hustle here that is not seen at other eastern Canadian points. The , Canadian government is paying t£e Dominion company a bounty on every pound of pig iron which it pro­duces, so that this, the greatest indus­try in Canada today, is a protected one. But in this case the amount of the bounty diminishes from year to year until It ceases entirely, thus giv­ing needed protection to the strug­gling infant industry, but removing the protection when the business has reached a point where it no longer needs it. In this respect it would seem as if the Canadian government was more wise than lias been the uni­ted States in some Instances at least.

A Great Summer Resort. The summer climate of Nova Scotia

is a most delightful one and all Nova Scotia is a great summer resort which offers enjoyment' to the visitor not ex­celled in any other part of Apierica. Cape Breton Island, the extreme east­ern portion of Nova Scotia, is separat­ed from the main land by the strait of Canso which floats the largest ves­sels, but which Is less than one mile wide in many places. The trains of the Intercolonial railway are ferried across the strait, so the trip from Hal­ifax to Sydney is made without any change of cars. In addition to having the ocean on all sides, this portion of Nova Scotia has a series of large and beautiful lakes in the interior known as the Bras d'Or lake region. Of the beauties and attractions of this de­lightful region it is impossible to speak at length in newspaper correspond­ence. During the summer season it is visited by thousands of visitors, prin­cipally from the eastern states, though each year sees more and more tourists from the west visiting this charming section of the country. The general passenger department of the Intercolo­nial railway of Canadia has prepared and will send on application, illustrat­ed printed matter descriptive of all points in the provinces and along the Lower St. Lawrence river, that are reached by its nearly 2,000 miles of well built and equipped railway. Ap­plications should be addressed to John M. Lyons, general passenger agent, Moncton, New Brunswick, who will forward free to all persons making ap­plication for the same a well' written

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. - S 3 M S. MoOlungr, Tells of Visit in

{ , Mining Town.

DESCRIBES TRIP DOWN IN GOLD MINE

Wapello County Resident Pens De­scriptive Letter of Sight Seeing Tour in West—Meets Old Iowa Friends at Vulcan,

J. S. McClung. who resides northeast of the city, has written a letter io the Courier from Vulcan, Col., where he and Mrs. McClung are making a visit. Mr. McClung writes a very interesting letter descriptive of the couptry In which he is sight-seeing, and telj among other things of a trip down Int a gold mine. The letter Is given in r. full herewith: J-.Jf

Vulcan, Colo., September 5,190?. "Editor Ottumwa Courier:

"Will you allow me a few brief lines ' from this mountainous country?

"Mrs. McClung and I are spending a few weks here enjoying the wonder­ful scenery of Colorado and visiting our daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Knopp, at this place. Vul- . can is a mining camp located in Camp Creek Gulch on the western slope of the Rocky mountains, some 200 miles southwest of Denver and fourteen miles from Iola, the nearest railroad station. The mail is carried by stag* each day, which also accommodates passengers coming and going. The camp Is surrounded on all sides by lofty mountains, some of which are covered with pine trees, while others have only rude rocks and sand, cov­ered with a liberal supply of sage brush to attract the sight-seer. Only seven years ago the first tent was pitched here and prospecting and de­veloping began. Now there are 200 inhabitants, the major portion being

, men. a great number of whom came and finely illustrated book of 175 pages j west when young and have grown gray entitled "Forest,1 Stream and Sea in mining camps. Shore." The western terminus of the Intercolonial railway is Montreal, the commercial metropolis of Canada.

nificent summer climate and grand furom

uthere ^xtends^eastward along

and imposing scenery. It is the Nor­way of America, and its pure air borne by the winds across thousands of miles of salt water, north, east and south, is laden with health and rejuvenation.

It is a matter of surprise to the tour­ist to learn that the winter climate in Newfoundland is much more salubri­ous than that of the main land. It does not have the intense cold which prevails at Quebec or even at Mon­treal. It is, on the southeast coast es­pecially, subject to heavy fogs, but it is by no means the land of perpetual fog that many have erroneously sup­posed. During my week's excursion I experienced but one day of fog. The balance of the time the weather was almost pferfect. ! '

Even St. John's is not the limit to Which the tourist can go in Newfound­land. Labrador is a part of New­foundland, so far as1 government is concerned. From St. John's .the Reid-Newfoundland company not only run a line of splendidly equipped steamers

the shore of the St. Lawrence river, and then southeasterly to Halifax, a distance of 837 miles. From Halifax it traverses Nova Scotia to Sydney an additional distance of 276 miles. An excellent passenger service is main­tained and at this season of the year especially the trains are crowded all the time. An interesting feature of this, road .to the visitor from the States particularly is that it is.a gov­ernment railway, being owned and op­erated by the people. I am told that it has never paid any dividends, but that it has been an immense factor in open­ing up and developing the country. Aside from giving the people a two cent passenger fare, its management under government direction is not ma­terially different from other lines in the hands of private corporations..

Halifax. :

Halifax is one of the most interest­ing cities in America to the tourist from the United States, principally from the fact that Halifax is so entire-

Have an Ax to Grind. "Almost every state in the Union is

represented here in this little taoun-tain town, and I find a very Intelligent class of people who read the daily ; papers, magazines, late books and sucfui-literature as is read by the people c Iowa. '

The one great striking difference being they all are in favor of free sil­ver, but in conversing with them. I find they have an ax to grind and I am willing they should grind It. The buildings are of pine logs brought down from the mountains and present a very rough exterior with their dirt roofs, but the interior is usually very neat and cosy, all together they remind me of the cabins which were built by the early settlers in Wapello county.

Meet Old Residents. I have met Mark Swope, formerly

of Chilicothe,' Iowa-, who is mining here, also is Mrs. W. C.'Winick, nee Clara M. Miller, who was raised in . and near Ottiimwa. and is a cousin to John Miller, who now lives in Belknap. Mr. Winick is conducting the company store.

"The business portion of the camp to points along the entire coast line of | b" un-American. It is an English citv Newfoundland, but to the coast of Lab- through and through, with a garrison j ™Xr^hop the^ropriefor of the

' •&:<•n Laddsdale. Laddsdale, Sept. 9.—Mose Davis and

wife left Monday on No. 15 for a two weeks' visit in Oklahoma.

Mrs. AH Hart is very sick at this time.

Frank Deforde and wife were visit­ing Sunday at the', parental Deforde heme.

Tom Sconce returned home Monday,, after a very pleasant visit with rela tlves.

Mrs. Amy Drake is evlsiting friends in Moravia this week.

Sherm Hollenbeck was a business vlstlor here Monday.

Mrs. Dale of Keb, Is visiting her son. Will, this week.

HarVe' Price of Ottumwa moved his family here this week.

Allie Hlnkle and Gertie Fosdlck were visiting in Ottumwa at the home of Charles Matthews and other friends Sunday, jtfrg. Matthews is improving; slowly. ?

Mrs. Trent returned home Sunday, afer a few days' visit with her daugh­ter at Eldon.

Mrs. -Stella Hammersley of Ottum­wa, Is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ross.

Mrs. Christy is very sick. Miss Lib Yoader of Ottumwa was

calling OJk (friends at this place Mon­day.

Tom Miller was here today buying calves oi A. Seaman.'

Will Post attended the fair at El­don.

Mrs. Will Davis spent Sunday in Ot­tumwa visiting her children.

Mr. .Johnson of Ottumwa was call­ing on fitWiids here recently.

Mr. and Mrs. D. C: Drake and daugh­ter, Mamie, were visiting Sunday at the Hlnkle and FosdlcK homes.

H. Post was visiting his brother, George, Saturday.

Nellie ' Grant of Newtown, Mo., Is visiting, her father. Dan Sumner.

Miss Lambert of Foster is visiting her sister, Mrs. Davis, this week.

rador as well. This latter is a journey of about one thousand miles and is one that is replete with Interest and enjoy­ment. Again reminding the interested reader that full information In regard to Newfoundland and the many enjoy­ments which it offers to the summer tourist can be freely obtained by ad­dressing H. A. Morine, G. P. A. of the Reid-Newfoundland company, St.

of genuine red-coated English troops I stationed here all the time. With one ' exception, (Esquimault. on the Pacific coast.) it is the only point in America where the imperial government of England, maintains a permanent gar­rison. As the average number, of men in this garrison numbers 2,000 men, the soldiers are very .very much in evi-

latter being the only colored person in camp and is one of those jolly good natured fellows, and is always ready to give one a shave for twenty-flv^ , cents. , - • *#>

Down in the Mine. -• "There are two paying mines, the

Vulcan, which is closed for repairs, and the Good Hope, which employs — company, or. dence, as much so as in any European i .

John's, Newfoundland I will leave the clty' Last Sunday I attended-services | m°£e tn®n fifty men. •««' ' 1 *' leave me . ,. q , rhi'rch wherf thp 1 visited the latter and through the tne great island province to turn my i u t „ lK°n cm-rcn wnerc tne sol-!, f _ n w„rv.v _« attention for the time to the Maritime ; dler8, offloers and men attend. in a t Haivey. formerly or j»e time to tne Maritime. body> marchlng t0 and from the ser.: Bloomfield. Iowa, now shift boss hero,

vices in companv organization. As 111 was allowed to visit the various tfarts sat in the presence of several hundred j of the mine an(1 see the actual mining of the British rcd-ooats. I asked my- i done- An elevator carried us down a self whether or not I was really in I shaft 500 feet and after being initiated America. j into the mysteries there, we passed up

Halifax is not as old as some other1 through the slopes to -the 400 foot points on the coast of Nova Scotia and level. In these slopes they are now New Brunswick, but still its history working, and as we walked or crawled goes back a century and a half to the upward we passed the men busy at time when Colonel Cornwallis first set work with hammer and drill taking out England's standard here, marking the the valuable minerals. The mipers are

provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and body" marching to and from the ser New Brunswick.

City of Sydney.

Landing from the steamship Bruce at North Sydney, a city of four or five thousand Inhabitants, a ferry carries one across the- bay five miles to the city of Sydney, which has a population of twelve to thirteen thousand people.

Sydney is situated but a few miles from the ruins of the old historic fort , , ,, . „ , . . , * of Louisburg the capture of which bv : country irrevocably for Great Britain, never too busy to stop and pass a.few the New Eneland forces iinrt^r pm. i The harbor is one of the finest in: words with visitors or sight-seers, perell aided by Warren and its snh 1 America and from the character of the This work Is very different from any sequent capture a second time by the fortifications erected and maintained, thing one can imagine. I know of English forces cost so much in blood i hero by ,he Imperial government it is; only one way to get an idea of how and treasure-' Desolate enough are : evident that Great Britain proposes : gold mining is done and that is to visit the fortifications of Louishurg today *llat Halifax shall be its base for naval the mines. This alone is worth most For twenty-five years the French la-! and millthry operations in the new, anyone's time for a few weeks. In bored upon it. expending 'nearly six ! w°rld. With the exception of the cit-i my daily ramblings oVer the mountains millions of dollars in completing-the - adel- which occupies a great hill that: and through the valleys, I find muchjof defences. The capture by Pepperell' ri8es in the very, center of the city,; interest which nq pen or artist can in 1745, was the first but not the final I visitors are not permitted within the j describe. 1

precincts of any of the forts, so that I A Wonderful Work. very little can be known of them by i "Dame nature has certainly done one not connected with the British ar-i some wonderful work in Colorado,chls-my or navy, but millions; ellng out great cliffs and piling the of dollars have been and -'are; rocks in such unthought of manner, being expended here in • forti-; making them grand beyond anything fications, and military buildings of' conceived by the mind of man. • We

It was a permanent character. Should the j see the Elk range of mountains, fifty United States get into trouble wlthi-miles in the distance whose peaks England, which we hope may never tower above timber line and seem-to come about, Halifax would be ^practlc-: pierce the sky. Deer are often seen ally impregnable and while a fleet' ]'9aming near the. camp and jackrab: might possibly destroy the city, It is bl^L.?re P , impossible to see how any attacking! 'will visit Gunnison and Pitkin force could tnke it | anrt probably other places of interest

Halifax has much of Interest In ad-! H«*0,rf returning home in October We dltlon to the military establishment1 w0" d be, ml,lph ^ ,with°ut ^ and a week .or more has been spent j here with much pleasure,.

From here wo will go to the "Evan­geline" country, made famous for all time to come by the immortal poem of Longfellow. A. W. Lee.

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Extreme* Meet. John Mitchell, who resides on North

Jefferson street is in receipt of a pa­per published at Mound City. Mo., in which there is an extensive report of the Mound City Harvest Carnival, an annual event given at that thriving little Missouri town; Mention is made

conquest. Louisburg was restored to France by the pease of Aix-ia-Chapelle, but the brief truce was soon broken, and then came the armies of England, and the immortal Wolfe here sought and won his first laurols in the new world. Louisburg fell once and the knell of Its glory was rung. ordered that the fortification should be destroyed and the work of demoli­tion was begun. It took two years to complete the destruction, and then the once proud fortress was a shape­less ruin.

What mighty changes have been brought about In 150 years. When every resource of human ingenuity was then being used to capture and destroy, now is heard the hum of hu­man industry.

At Sydney la located the great plant of the Dominion Iron and Steel comr pany In which over $1G,000,000 have

' already been invested and which is now working to the full capacity. The ore used by this establishment comes from Bell Island near St. John's, New­foundland, and the coal is mined al­most on the spot, all the eastern por­tion of Cape .Breton Island being un-, derlaid with immense deposits of the j"

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regular appearance at our cabin. Respectfully, J. S. McClung.".Ajr?

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BOIES TO FACE HENDERSON.

Ex-Governor Will be Nominated for Congress by Democrats.

Waterloo, Sept. 6.—The members of Young Polk Township Boy Seriously the congressional committee announce'

Burned at lola, Kansas. jthat former Governor Horace Boles H'-rom Tnosiiiiy» nutir-l >• ; j will be nominated for congress against

A telegram received in Blalcesblirg • Speaker Henderson at the best grades of soft coal It is an m. i yesterday conveyed the intelligence j J-''ict democratic convention

, terestiug and , somewhat significant I that Alfred S. Burton, the 17-year-o.d ! bu«ue next rhursday. " ~ of the presence on the qaioe day of! fact that nearly all the projluc't ofiSH" of s- A- Bul'ton. who resides in W. J. Bryan and J. P. Dolllver, both of; these big Canadian "steel works is now} Polk township, was seriously injured whom delivered speeohes as features, being shipped to Pittsburg for sale pre-1 lu il gasoline explosion at lola, KaUsas. of th* carnival. Mr. Mitchell's broth- sumably to-the American Steel trust, i Sunday. I lis brothers. Karris, and Epi-er, F. Q, Mitchell, of MQund City.'wrU- notwithstanding the heavy duty which | niett, have 'gone• to lola to-care "for WtaiD&d Mr. Bryaij while he was in; has to ba paid before it can enter the' him. Young Burton in company with j lumber yarj at Gilmore was totallv '-de-th? city. Miss Elgle prown",'of Mun-, United1" States. & yoting boy tnend. -it is said, recently j stroye'd

third dis-in Du-

His son. Louis, declined because of professional en­gagements^ . t <

Disastrous Fire at Gilmore. DeB Moines, Sept. 8.—The Willis

tervllle, is given a highly compliment- j Sydney iB much like a boom town ary not it: e in the same article, on j in the United States. It has Increased account ,of recitations she rendered on i in population with great rapidity dur-differepv days durijjg t.he carnival. . ] Ins.the past two vears. esratp has

by fire today with a loss of run away from home with a patent: jzo.oyu. Couuselman'B elevator. Rol-mediciue show and uothlng was heard' nus general store, the poBtofflce and

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