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"It's a silly goose that comes to a
fox's sermon." There Is more craft
:han skill in untrustworthy Footwear.
We are not skilled in deception, but
make it a point t.o sell nothing but Re
liable Shoes and Rubbers. Good Foot
wear may cost a trifle more at the
start, but they're much Cheaper in
the end. If you like Honest Business
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TOUCHING STORY OF PARENTAL
DEVOTION IN MURDER CASE
AT MARENGO
Erie von Kutzleben, Accused of
Wrecking Rock Island Train, Is Be
Ing Strengthened In His Defense by
His Mother, a German Baroness.
Marengo, Nov. 7.—Having sacrificed
her last right to occupy a castle at
Brandenberg, Germany, and sold every
vestige of property belonging to a fam
ily of noble blood which had given
many lives to the cause of liberty,
Baroness von Kutzleben occupies a
rickety chair today In the little court
house In this city endeavoring to se
cure the liberty of her favorite son,
Eric, from the charge of murder In the
first degree. Eric is accused of having
wrecked the Rock Island train at
Homestead last spring, resulting in the
death of Engineer A. C. Hotchkiss.
A glance at the face of this woman
of noble birth who has come across
the sea to save her boy leaves no
doubt as to her determination to ac
complish her purpose.
"Tha boy will be free if it lies in
my power to free him," said Baroness
von Kutzleben to a reporter In the
court room today.
"But they say he has confessed,"
suggested the reporter.
The baroness' face was livid.
"Nein," she said between her teeth.
"These American detectiveB would
confess anybody—they would confess
to anybody—I mean that would any
body confess—ap.d then the strong
woman, realizing her Inability to
cope with the language used by the
1udge who- was trying her son, looked
Imploringly toward the judge In his
seat and between sobs said: "If It was
only the dear German they were speak
ing here."
"In mine own language I could tell
you how awful it is for my son to be
accused of this terrible murder," said
the baroness. "Why do they not let
him go? He Is but a child. He does
not know what he is saying."
America Owes the Kutzleben®.
"America owes a great debt to the
Kutzlebens," continued the baroness,
afte a while.
"The Kutzlebens have something
coming to them from this country. The
debt of the United States to the family
Is not small at all by no means. When
I sell my house at Wommen in Brand
enburg and come to America with all
they money I can scrape about me I
am doing my part for the1 knabe."
"For the what?" asked the reporter.
"Ach, so funny, yes," said Baron
ess Klutzleben, forgetting her troubles
tor the minute. You see the knabe Is
the boy. Eric Is the knabe, the boy I
have come to the states of the union
to save."
"But how do you figure out that
tlncle Sam owes you the liberty of
pour boy?" Baroness Kutzleben was
nsked.
"Oh, that is so easy," said the moth
er, fondly looking at her boy. "You
Been
the great General von Steuben,
tie is in the Revolutionary war fighting
Cor the country
and
the flag."
"You mean he was in the war," sug
gested the reporter.
"Sure he is," said the mother. "And
lie was one of the best generals that
the great General George Washington
had. George Washington loved Yon
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Steuben and Von Steuben tried to help
save the country."
"Was Von Steuben a near relative
of your family?" the reporter asked.
"Very close," said the baroness, mo
tioning with her hands. "The general
was an uncle of my husband, a big—
one of those what you call It, great
uncles of my husband, and there is the
family connection. Then later when the
city of Philadelphia, in New Jersey—"
"Pennsylvania," suggested the re
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A MOTHER'S LOVE
more correct," said the bar-
apologetically, "When they held
this great fair in Philadelphia they
send for all General von Steuben's rel
atives that were left and they came
back to be honored. Now I come back
and I want my son Eric saved."
Baroness Clementine von Kutzleben
of Germany who stands today in Mar
engo, pleading for the life of her son
Eric, In the courts of a land that owes
her family a debt of gratitude and as
a final resort she may choose to re
mind tho Americans in Iowa that it
was a member of her family, General
von Steuben, who fought side by side
with Washington, coming to the aid of
the colonies then struggling for inde
pendence, and it was her cousins who
came with Prince Heinrich at the in
vitation of the President to visit the
Centennial exposition and make a tour
of the United States in 1876.
Looks the Saxon.
There Is no questioning the true
and blue Saxon blood that courses
through her veins and the authenticity
of her Teutonic ancestry is attested
by her grandfather, Baron Freidrich
August Heinrich von Kutzleben, whose
last act was to sign and affix his seal
to a document describing the lineage
of this old German family. This doc
ument will.be filed as part of the evi
dence in the trial of Eric von Kutzle
ben for the murder of Engineer A. C.
Hotchkiss in wrecking a Rock Island
passenger train near Homestead on the
morning of March 21.
The first nobleman of the family of
Baroness von Kutzleben was Hans von
Zieten, who was knighted on the field
of battle by Frederick Barbarossa, the
oldest of the leaders of the German
people known to history. The lineal
descendant of von Zieten is now plead
ing insanity as a defense in the mur
der trial now on at the county seat of
Iowa county.
Marriage of Her Daughter.
That the marriage of her youngest
daughter to an officer of the German
army Is conditional to the outcome of
this trial and its publicity is a story
which has been rumored about the
court room. This story is denied by
the baroness, who says that the mar
riage of her daughter to the officer In
question occurred on June 24, though
it was not generally known that it
would occur so soon. She is indignant
at the suggestion that this marriage
was hastened because of the fear that
the news of her son's arrest should
travel abroad. "The officer was ordered
to the frontier at South Africa near
Zanzibar," she said, "and he wanted
the marriage to occur so that his wife
could be with him. I am shocked that
this other story
Bhould
Her husband who fled from Ger
many more than twelve years ago be
cause he could not bear the disgrace
when the once large estate became
practically bankrupt is
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have been made
public, for it is not true."
It is a great sacrifice which Bar
oness von Klutzleben has made in sell
ing all of her interests in the once
great but now dissipated estate to come
to the aid of her son. She has realized
what amounts to a fey thousand dol
lars which she is giving for his de
fense in the courts of a strange land.
Every day she sits at the trial and
watches every move of the lawyers
with intense interest. Educated in her
own land to read English she Is fast
learning to read, and understand it. She
has been In Marengo less than two
weeks but can tell of her life and work
without much difficulty. She is with
her son all the time he is in the court
room and walks to and from the jail
with him as he Is taken,' handcuffed,
by the sheriff.
"The people are all kind to me,and
I have already many friends, but I
hope they will spare my boy," she
said. "I cannot believe that he would
do such a thing and if he did he must
have been insane.
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coming. reconciled again to his wife,
and they have bought a modest home
in Oklahoma where they will live after
the trial is over. They hope to have
Erio with them together with the
younger son who came with his moth
er.
First Member of the Family.
Hans Wyprecht, the first member
of the von Zienten family from which
the baroness descended, was born in
1139 and as Frederick Barbarossa laid
the sword on his shoulders he was
made the first Marquis of Branden
burg the province in which Berlin Is
now located.
Bernd von Zieten, born In 1345, Is
the next name that appears on the
family tree in the records to be filed
with the courts at Marengo. The rec
ords are Incomplete because of the de
struction of the churches during the
troublous times that followed In cen
tral Europe centuries later. The same
estates were held, however, and this
man was the ruler of the cities of
Berlin «id Cologne lying close togeth
er in the province. Hans von Zieten
born In 1449, came from Wiedburg and
was made count of Russln.
Joachim von Zieten. who was born
In 1686, held practically the same es
tates as a feudal lord and married
Catherine von Rothen thus adding an
other large estate. From this time
down to the present the lineage of the
family Is traced without a break. Jao
ob Friedrich is the next son and suc
ceeding him is Levin Friedrich, who
was the author of the German military
laws then written. He married AU'
guste von Schulte. Then succeeded
Gottfried Christopher von Lieten of
Wurtenburg, Carl Hartung and Char
lotte von Kutzleben, joining the Kutz
leben family with the older one of
Zieten.
Dates Back to 1657.
The Kutzleben family dates back to
Christian von Kutzleben, who was
born in 1657 and who became posses
sor of the estate of Freyen Bessin
gen. The descendants who succeeded
to this estate were Christian Melchior.
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Albrecht Adolph. The estate was
changed here b^ the marriage of Car
oline von Buttlar to Erich Wilhelm
von Kutzleben and the seat was mov
ed to Willershausen including the
Kammerjunker estate. Next in line
is Friedrich August von Kutzleben,
who married Louise von Rendell.They
have two children, Ferdinand and
Carl. The latter married Charlotte
von Zieten. A son and a daughter In
each of the families is married to the
other family, making a double mar
riage of first cousins. Two of these,
Ferdinand II and Clementine are the
two now in America, the parents of
Eric von Kutzleben on trial in the
Iowa county court for murder in the
first degree.
The division of the estates among
many heirs had dissipated it until a
small tract known as Wommen was
all that was left to the baroness who
is now in America. It now belong to
her sister Emile von Kutzleben with
whom she has been living since her
husband fled to America.
Many Famous Soldiers,
Many of these ancestors of the Bar
oness von Kutzleben were famous
soldiers. Two of her brothers are
now officers in the German army, the
one, Gunther is major and the other is
first adjutant to the Duke of Manning,
Louis von Kutzleben was a general inj
the German army and was afterward!
in Holland. General von Lengerenke
is a brother-in-law of the baroness.
I have spoken to the lawyers
about the services of General von
Steuben to .the Americans. I first ask
ed my husban4 if we should mention
it. He is our great uncle and he left!
the estates to. come to the aid of the
Americans in 1778. His sons and
grandsons afterward visited America
when invited by the president. Surely
the people of America will remember
this because I want the people to
know that we came from a family of
good people."
She has told this story to her son's
attorneys, R. G. Popham and H. M.
Hayner, but they have relied thus far
on the strength of their defense and
believe that no appeal for. sympathy
will bfe necessary.
GET FIFTEEN YEARS.
Des Moines Mold-up Men Are Sen
tenced for Brutal Crime.
Des Moines, Nov. 7.—(Special.)—
Judge McVey today sentenced Tom
Powell and Pat O Brien, who recently
held up and almost murdered a cob
bler named Sam McConkey, to fifteen
years each in the penitentiary.
BlDWELL.
Bidwell, Nov.. 7.—J. F. Warriner, of
Bloomfleld, was a business visitor in
this vicinity last week.
Ross Bachman, of Pleasant Home,
was a g-uest at the Everett Johnston
home Monday night.
.Mrs. Charles Harlan and sister-in
law, Miss Grace Harlan of Pleasant
Home, were guests at the Charles
Lewis home Saturday.
The rain Sunday has made the
ground so wet that the farmers have
abandoned corn husking for a few
days.
A. A. Beagle returned Sunday on No.
3, after a brief visit with friends in
Ottumwa.
James Martz, of South Ottumwa, is
assisting his son Harvey Martz, erect
a new barn. One of Mr. Martz's fine
western driving horses which he drove
out to his son's place last week, died
from exhaustion as the result of get
ting one hind foot caught in the halter.
A social will be given Friday even
ing, Nov. 17, at the Christiansburg
school house. A fine program and
supper is being prepared.
Miss Effle Wlllard, who is teaching
the school at Christiansburg, is hav
ing vacation this week.
The revival meetings are still in
progress at Christiansburg.
Burk Williams, Elmer Williams, and
Misses Molile Odenbaueh and Fannie
Williams attended the social at Bear
Creek Frida- evening.
Miss Lelah Canfield, of Ottumwa.,
arrived 'Monday on No. 3 to make a
visit at the parental Frank Canfleld
home.
Mr. and Mrs. James Johnston, Mr.
and Mrs. Victor Wilson, Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. H. Chisman and Misses Eunice
and Romolo Shisman were in Ottum
wa Saturday shopping.
STOCKPORT.
Stockport. Nov. 7.—A fine monu
ment was last week erected in the
West brick cemeterv to the memory
of Mrs. Oliver Rowe.
The Carolinian Jubilee singers will
apear at the opera.house Nov. 8.
J. B. Fox celebrated his 68th birth
day last week. Thirty of his friends
surprised him with well filled baskets
loaded with all of the delicious fruits
of the season, and "spent a most en
joyable day.
The foundry is kept busy and is
compelled to, work overtime to keep
up with their output.
Stockport had a heavy trade Satur
day. The merchants were compelled
to employ extra help in order to wait
on their customers. Farmers cannot
get help at any price to help gather
corn.
Mr. Penny, of Burlington, and a
man from Galesburg, were here Sat
urday looking for a farm. They left
Sunday morninsr for Fairfield.
Three men from Davenport visited
here with O. W. Allen last week, and
spent the time hunting quail. They
bagged 100 quail and one prairie chick
en. They left Saturday for their
home.
M. L. Shelman shipped Thursday
two car loads of hogs to Ottumwa.
John Crawford shipped two cars of
sheep to Chicago.
The Progressive
Features of a
BUSINESS
are the ones that make it excel
its competitors. This studio is
always taking advantage of
every progressive feature of the
photographic business.
The new Aristo Electric Light,
by which photographs can be
made in the evening as well as
at noon, is an innovation in pho
tography.
Come in now for your Holi
day Photographs. This studie is
open Saturday evening.
The Pierce Studio
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Another shipment of those pretty New style Plaids, so stylish for
Waists, in 4% yard patterns, excellent quality of Silk, no two patterns
alike. See these new creations, -f AA
at $1.25 and
$1.25 Yard Wide Taffeta, Soft Finish $1
This rich black Taffeta Is the same quality that was on sale two
weeks ago and lasted only a few hours. Be on hand this time, it is
the greatest Black Silk value ever offered, 1 AA
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75c Colored Taffeta Silks, 55c
This is the regular width of Taffeta and comes in a full line of
shades. An opportunity to save on your Christmas
presents, a yard ...
27 inch Habuati Silk, 50c
This beautiful Wash Silk comes in a full line of colors and consider
ing width and quality is an exceptional A
value at
Ladies' 12 oz. Fleece lined Vests and Pants, sizes
4, 5 and 6. Extra sizes, 7, 8 and 9. All sizes..
Extra heavy Fleeced Vests and Pants for Ladles
wishing extra warm garments ..
Misses' Fleeced lined Ribbed Vests and Pants for Girls,
from 12 to 16 years. Price each ...
Children's Black Fleece Tights.... 50c
Ladies' Black Wool Tights, $1.50 and $1.00
Infants' Shirts and Bands, 98c, 50c and '.. .. .. 25c
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ExclusiveThings in Women's Apparel
J. E. SCASB CO. ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE FAMOUS IN THIS SECTION OF IOWA FOR THE VALUES
THEY OFFER IN THE NEWEST STYLES OF RELIABLE MERCHANDISE. NO MATTER WHAT YOU BUY AT
THIS STORE THE PRICES AND THE QUALITY ARE THE BEST.
Large Assortment of Excluive Novelties in Plain and Novelty Mixtures to sell at
$10.00, $15.00, $20.00 and $25.00. All these Nobby Garments are the very
Latest Efforts of many Renowned Manufacturers and at the prices marked are from
$2.00 to $5.00 under priced.
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Coats from Every Noted Maker in this Coat Sale at the Leader, $5.00 to $250.00
A Handsome Fine Kersey Coat, Fur Lined in Black and Brown at $18.50.
Tourist and Automobile Coats in Rare Mixtures at $10.00, $12.50 to 25.00
Loose Coats in Plain and Empire Styles, all colors, $7.50, 9.90, 12.50 to 40.00.
Newest Style Rain Coats, Handsomely Tailored, at $8.75, 12.50, 14.75 to 25.00.
Children's New Style Cloaks, all Sizes and Colors, from $2.50 up to $7.50.
Ladies'Seal SkinyOtter, Beaver, Squirrel, Electric Seal, Astrachan Fur Jackets, 25 to $250
Ladies* and Misses'Tailor Made Suits—Special
Vi77E have about 35 New Fall Suits to close out and offer these special inducements for the next three days.
Here's a chance to save Big Money
Ladies' $18.50 and $20.00 Black, Blue or Gray Tailor Made Suits for $14.75.
Ladies' $25.00 and $28.00 Black, Blue and Novelty Mixtures Suits for $21.75.
We have one Handsome $43i50 Black Suit, first here, first served, 33.00.
Misses' $13.50 and $15.00 Pretty Box Coat Suits in Gray and Mixtures, for $9.90
See Our Beautiful Line of Dress Trimmings
Underwear and Sleeping Gowns
We make a specialty of Large Sizes.
Gown^ with feet, (can't kick out)pricejUC Gowns, for .. ... «3Vv
Just received a case of Ladles' 50c fine ribbed Fleeced Vests and Pants whicji should have been here September 1. We have made a
claim on the Factory for this late delivery and will offer these 50c garments,for 37%c or 75c the Suit. All sizes. Don't miss this Bargain.
Children's warm fleece lined Sleeping C/V/» Children's Tennis Flannel Sleeping ftA. Ladies' all white, solid colors
Ladles' Short Tennis Petticoats Lace or Embroidery trimmed, 75c, 50c, and 35c.
Union Suits.
Separate Garments.
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Special Dress Goods Values 1
Dress Goods selling is at itp best, the spWhdid values offered at
this department have kept everybody busy. Now comes the advance
styles In Waistings and Suiting'for the Holiday selling. See these
beautiful goods.
40 Inch Armure Cloth For 50c
This handsome All Wool Cloth comes in a full line of staple and
New shades. The wear is unequalled for the price. Also lots of new
Serges," Cheviots, Nuns Veilings and Henriettas, POf
at the price
54 inch Venetian Broadcloth, $1.00
This rich finished material comes in a full line of staple shades, and
sells for $1.25 everywhere. Lots of new black 1 00
goods at this price vvr
Beautiful Embroidery Waistings, 50c.
These pretty Wool Waistings are imported from France. Neat designs
and. non-shrinkabie are the features of this splendid C0f
offering, all colors ..
fancy
Ladles' Fleece lined Union Suits, button down
frbnt, ankle length in Ecru and gray, oil sizes.
Ladies' heavier weight Fleeced Union Suits, with
hand crocheted Silk edge and Pearl buttons
Children
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Ladies' Silk and Linen Lisle Thread, half Wool and all Wool Union
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