Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-05
. TOPICS OF THE TIMES
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Many people get a larger appreciation
of the meaning of comradeship In wit
Messing the reunion of the old ciy4l war
heroes of the Second Iowa cavalry.
Congressman Boutelle, on leaving the
white house recently. stated from what
the president said, the keynote of the
administrations policy is to establish
in the Philippines proper government
and leave it entirely in the hands of
congress. This merely confirms what
has been said before, and in this re-
spect the president is acting in the best
interest of the people there as we'll az
mere.
Chicago's great fall festival opened
yesterday, and warm time is expected
in the great western capital of COM
merce.
BY the time that the achievements
for Gen. Otis have arrived at Manila
he will be able to turn over a large part
.of the endless details that have taken
so much of his time to the able assist
ants who will leave for Manila in a few
days Brig. Gen. Schwan has been as.
signed as chief of staff for the depart
ment and principal assistant to the
military governor, and five additional
assistant adjutants general have also
been sent TO the islands in accordance
with Gen. Otis request These assist
ants will be able to relieve him of the
burdensome routine of his office, and
enable him to devote his attention to
and of military strategy. Gen. OTIS has
been advised in diplomatic way that
the department expects him to place re-
lance upon these assistants and leave
70 them the detail work which he has
| hitherto insisted on looking after him
self. The confidence of the administra-
| ton in Gen. Otis appears to be in no
wise diminished.
Genial Col Horton has a big job in
managing the Iowa Soldiers Home and
that gold headed cane he received last
might at the Second Iowa reunion ought
to help him out.
| From his talk last night at the re-
union of the Second Iowa Cavalry it is
levident that the people of the state did
iEot make a mistake in selecting Col.
Welcome Mowry as railroad commits
sioner. AS Seventh Kansas jay
hawker he learned 10 fight fot. the pri-
Yates, and in civil life that means the
common people.
The rubber trust has just been scored
in a decision by the United States cour,
the dent VIII hardly make an impress
sion.
Here's hoping that Fort Dodge ma,
succeed in getting beet sugar prcjec,
upon its feet and factory in operation
With magnificent field for improve
ment in this direction. Iowa is a little
lame in its movement TO make sugar
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isouri, Kansas and Texas Railway flew
open the other night in Missouri Will,
the train was going east at about thirty
five miles an hour, and cattle wer,
spilled out all along the right of wa,
from Madison to Paris, in Monroe
a County, says an exchange. Only one o
the COWS was killed. The rest wer,
found the next morning contentedl.
browsing Oh the grass.
The average age of veterans of tn
civil war attending a reunion in Mar
ion. Kansas, was so years.
Here is another complaint lodge,
against prosperity: The superintendent
that prosperity does not have the effec
of increasing the number of childrel
IN the educational institutions "Th
fact is he says. that prosperity de
creases the number of pupils-in tn
thigh schools particularly Their
is work to be had, and boys from twelv
years UP turn their backs on school an
take the jobs offered
New York and adjacent cities paid i
! over s9,oOO,OOo in taxes Monday, break
ing previous records.
E Reports from Peoria and the Gales
burg district in Illinois show yield c
twenty to twenty-five tons of suga
4 beets per acre, when the farmers wer
8 only assured of fourteen by the intro
! ducers of sugar beets in that part of tn
middle west.
: The New York Sun thinks the 'wor
derful demonstration of the nations
t pride in Dewey. and of the nations
d gratitude to him. must make the knee
of the anti-expansionists sag. TIL
people celebrate in him not merely {
most the winner Of sea fight, but til
winner of new and necessary domai
: for the development Of American indu,
try and commerce and the spread {
q American civilization and infiuenc