Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-12
70 Buy birthplace
Organization Formed to Buy House
in Which Republican Party
Was Born
It is Located at Ripon, Wis, and
is Where the Party Was
Named.
Decision in the Bonaparte Dam Case
a Great Disappointment to
sportsmen.

Sportsmen.
Special to Times-Republican.
Des AIoines, Nov. 12.-An organiZa-
tion has been formed in Wisconsin to
purchase the house at Ripon, Wis, in
which Maj. Bovay on the goth of
March, 1854, gave name and life to-
the republican party. Ex-Governor
w. H. Uphan of Marshfield, Hon. j. b.
Dow of Beioit, Hon. w. j. Starr of
Eau Claire and many other prominent
men are on the committee which has
the enterprise in charge. A. e. Schaub
motion at Ripon. The purpose is to buy
the old house and fit it up as historic
relic, a museum Of history, a landmark
! of republicanism. The circular of in
\ formation concerning it says:
Few citizens who took part inl the
mass meetings that led up to this
have gone with John Sherman, into
the other world. We think, therefore,
THAT the duty is incumbent on the re-
and perpetually preserve the spot that
4 marks the beginning of all things re-
publican. 1t is our Judgment that right
now when the organization is com
plete this can best be done We ex-
pect the state of Wisconsin to raise
$1,000 and We ned $1,000 more in order
fit it for the temporary comfort of
I visitors
The State University library has
been considerably strengthened lately
and several thousand new books are
being added. The Talbot library,
which was partly destroyed by fire
when the building burned. has been re-
bound and $500 of the $500 volumes are
, now on the shelves. The United States
government supplied about 1900 vol
: umes of public documents which near
iy complete the university files. Ex-
:. President Pickard recently gave the
Z library the bulk OF his fine library
which is now being cataloged. Presi-
Z dent MacLean, as q member of the
i state b5ard of sduca tipnal examiners
J has turned over to the library the col
Election OF 642 volumes listed in. the new
/ <
: tricts of Iowa." published by the de-
/. partment of public instruction at Des
J Moines. This is a splendid model libra
q Try for young people. and as it is being
I arranged on a graded system to CORE
. spond with the printed list, will be OF
! great value to teachers.
, The decision of the supreme court
;nI,s do
: stand and estops the state from prose
Z cutting the owners Of that dam crimi-
. nally for maintaining a nuisance, has
been a great disappointment to the
/ sportsmen of the state. but it is no,
i believed to be the end of the effort t.
get rid of the dam. w. i. Read. of Des
Aioines, attorney for the sportsmen':
association. who carried the case t.
!, supreme court, believes there is still /;
: chance for further civil action on tht
Ipart of some citizen landowner alont
! the river above the dam who ma.
claim damages from the owners there
: of because the dam prevents fish from
coming UP the river. But this is no
!. the only recourse or hope for thos
: who hope to be rid of this nuisance
!. : The dam can not last very long with
III
8 sand dollars in repairs, and this, it i
: said, the owners Will not do. The,
$ have no use for the dam except to sci
: their rights to the state. An effort vii
= doubtless be made to get the legisla
:, ture to appropriate a large sum to bu
:. the dam and have 81 it removed, bu
: : those who are convelsant with til
. facts are opposed to doing anything Q
j az "A oSsf
: of money The decision of the cour
:. was based solely upon the claim tha
some years ago the hearing before
Z justice of the peace was a final adju
dication of the criminal action. 1t wa
= !, claimed that all the criminal point
:. were raised in that action and that tn
: Justice of the peace found for the de
= PENDANTS and that the state did n.
- further action The court sustained a
its of the case.
s. Joseph Meek, of Bonapatre. one {
= the Meek brothers, owners of the dal
la and WOODEN mill. died the other da.
IN He was one of the earliest Iowa pic
le neers. He came to the state frol
ie Michigan with his parents in 1885 whe
- he was only years old. iHey stFtllr
n at Bonaparte on the Des Moines rive
~ which was then in the wilderness, an
became Indian traders. BY honesty an
le Industry they became successful an
le popular. They built a water pow'
re mill and secured concession from II
- Legislature permitting them to build
~ dam. This was the basis for their r,
= sistance to all Attempts to comp
'ie them to put in a fishway.
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