Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-24
TEMPLE IN TIE RAGE
Clark County Candidate For the
Speakership Has Many Pledged
To His Support.
Expected That the Contest Will
lake More Definite Shape
Within Few Days.
Consul Hanna Gets a Good Thing
In the Service-Marion County
Contest.
Special to Times-Republican.

Contest.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Nov 24.-M l.. Temple
of Clarke county, was in the city yes
terday and his friends say that he will
have the solid EiaAth district behind
him in his race for the speakership-
that Mr.. Prentis, of Ringgold, is al
ready out Of the way. and that Mr..
Temple has more than twenty votes
pledged to mis- support, and he has
hardly begun his canvass. The speak
ership contest may be expected to
show pronounced developments during
the next few days.
Consul Phil c. Hanna received a fine
compliment from the state department
in the offer of the best thing open at
this time in the consular service, that
of supervising consul general in Mex
lco His location at Monterey,
great commercial center is very de-
sirable one, for there is a fine American
colony there. His duties, however, will
take him all over Mexico, having about
thirty consulates under his jurisdiction
Mr.. Hanna was offered a place in the
war department that would have kept
him in Porto Rico. but he preferred to
remain in the department where he
had made his record and his acauain-
tance. and where he is known as one
of the very best men in the service
The work he did in the Spanish-Ameri-
raj N hoS
the background Its value depended
upon its remaining unknown to the
public. But when the permanent his
tory Of the war is written the name of
Hanna will occupy much more promi-
nent and important place than that of
some of the men who did the dress pa
rade work. and whose names got into
the newspapers in big type during the
excitement
Maj. Omstead of this city, who was
placed on the retired list last year and
lis now doing duty as the representative
of the war department in Iowa without
regular pay, was captain in the Ninth
| Cavalry. which has been acquiring no.
toriety of late on the Mexican border
| This is a colored regiment and it has
had trouble before for reasons very
lmuch the same, that is. objecting to be-
ing shot by "nigger haters" I'm 1892
we We're sent up into northern Wyo-
ming said Maj. Olmstead, and or
Gered to march to the place where the
r. & NJ. railroad crosses the Powder
river. and camp there The rustlers'
had gone there and erected fort and
declared that no cattle should be
shipped from that point The chutes
We're located there and thousands of
cattle We're shipped from that point
every season. We were told to make
onr camp there. and do nothing more
lit was enough: the 'rustlers' aban-
doned their fort and went away The
lcattle men and other friends of the
rustlers' did not like the idea of hav-
Hing colored troops there and they gave
| i out that if the blank niggers came TO
town they would be shot One night a
| few of the soldiers went over to the
| town and Went around to different
| places, behaving themselves all the
| time. when two of them We're shot dead
| by the cattle men, it was supposed.
/ The soldiers did not enter into a fight
There. but they came back to camp and
getting two companies together went
back to have it OUT. The first the Off
GERS knew of it was the awfullest fusi-
lade and yelling we ever heard In a
short time we got the rest of the COM
mand together and went after them.
4 The people We're terrorized. The col-
ldiers We're shooting in every direction
land had driven the people out onto the
plain in all stages of undress. The only
\ ~, I,
ere was the fact that the people had
made temporary houses out of tents,
placed over holes in the ground three
or four feet deep. They We're sleeping
below the surface of the ground, so the
bullets went through the tents above
them and did not hurt the people in
side. Very few We're wounded, but il
was understood that the colored soldier
had to be respected. We had a hard
i time in getting the people back into the
town, they We're so much afraid of the
shooting negroes.
\ The smallpox epidemic in Storm Lake
| is believed to have originated in a gang
of laborers on the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railway. These laborers
living in filth and moving about from,
state to state, are good carriers and
communications of disease and they
fought to be watched very closely
Storm Lake is now in the position OF
the man who wished after fire hac
burned up everything he owned that he
had carried fire insurance. The ex-
Ipense of having taken every precautior
against the disease would hardly have
been one ten-thousandth part of the
cost of this epidemic to Storm Lake
Secretary Kennedy, of the state boarc
of health, says that smallpox is preva.
llent all over the country now. suggest
ling extra precautions wherever migra
tory gangs of workmen are employed
1 w. w. Morrow, of Union county. ha:
been spending day or two in town
keeping up his acquaintance and get
ting ready to start his campaign fol
state treasurer He was defeated IL
1894 by John Herriott on account of {
peculiar combination of circumstance
for which he was in no wise to blam
and in which he had no part. He ha
not been doing any whining since, bu
has bided his time, which his friend
think will surely be next year. Other
must think so,-in fact, it must be
pretty general idea,-for no other nam
has been mentioned for the nomination