Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-04

army, and taught himself law. He IL
slim. bony and muscular, being type
OF the Tenhesseeans whom writer's Of
fiction have made familiar. Although
cold and not one who makes friends
easily. he is popular with the older
members.
Just because Admiral Dewey was a
bad boy in school is no reason why
Young America Of today should make a
special effort to be mischievous with
the idea that that is the first step
towards future greatness.
A New York item states that Mrs.
Phyllis Dodge. from whom Deputy Sur
veyor bowling seized jewels worth $40
600 when she landed from the American
liner st. Paul on June "a, will not be
prosecuted criminally by the federal.
authorities. Action against the jewels
themselves, however, will be taken, that
the government may recover the duty
as well as all expenses. This action con-
templates sconfiscation of the jewels and
payment into the United States treas
ury of the sum realized at public sale.
The duty on the Dodge jewelry is esti-a
mated at S24, 049 on customs appraisal
of $64l32.
Germany sold Japan more than ST.
100000 worth of sugar last year. Yet
Japan is more natural market for
American goods.
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| Wisconsin boasts of a state board of
| immigration, engaged in the laudable
work of inducing people to move from
one part of the state to the other. 1t
ought also TO provide a way of making
them stick after they are located
] The first cotton mill in Kansas will
soon commence operations in Independ-
ence The mill building is 200 by sixty
Independence. Cloth factories are ex-
pected to follow. The erection of this
mill means an impetus to cotton rails
II ing in Kansas, and the cotton acreage
next year will be increased several
times.
/ Admiral Dewey will not be candi-
date for the presidency in 1900,' said a
lcabinet officer Monday. Il am assured
Inc will give the president such support
las Will forever dispose of all talk re-
sarding his ambitions to the presi-
deney.''
/ The year 1899 has beaten the record
n the shipment of California fruit to
the eastern market. The Southern Pa
! cific Company is shipping from ten to
/ fifteen car loads a day. and UP to the
end Of September Superintendent Fill
Imore estimated that the seasons ship
4 nent of fruit will amount to $4,000 cars,
against $4,000 for the best previous year.
/ Not freight car is idle on the South
ern Pacific system. and it will be all
the railroad company can do to handle
this great California fruit crop. which
means many million dollars 10 be d.
Il vided among several thousand small
lfruit growers.
A curious craft will soon be seen il
the yacht races on San Francisco bay
This is a flying proa, built by 7. j
Clavering. who formerly lived in Cey-
lon and who knows what the proa car
do The main boat is fifty feet long
with five feet beam and eighteen inches
draft. The second boat, thirty feet
from the first has length of twenty
two feet. with three feet beam. The
sail is sateen and works on shears.
Race declared off, is a good way tt
whet interest in the later trials in TN
international yacht race
burglar arrested in Knoxville
Tenn, has offered, in exchange for hi
, freedom, to reveal the spot near Akron
o. where ex-President Harrison's ia
mous stolen watch has been buried,