Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-01-19
BREvITIEy,

whom Drake University, of Des Moines,
is named, has increased his donations
to that institution S3o.5OO, which will
be used in making immediate necessary
Improvements. He says he hopes to
see the university have an endowment
of 81 900, 900, and expects to furnish at
least one-fourth of that sum.
It is announced that Andrew Car.
negie will probably .endow Ottumwa
with q $780, 900 library. The only re-
stricting proviso is that the city shall
vote q S., 900 tax to maintain the in
stitution. This has been brought
about through the fundamentally of
The Ottumwa Morning Press and Col
onel Robert II. Moore, editor of the
Saturday Herald.
+ Des Moines dispatch: The Iowa
Anti-Saloon League convention adopt
ed q resolution favoring "the passage
of a law at the present session of the
Legislature which shall prohibit the
sale or manufacture of Intoxicating
liquors within five miles of any of the
state institutions of learning, us law
of vital value to these institutions and
a safeguard which the people of the
state demand for their children sent
ont from the care Of home. And we
further favor such other temperance
legil,ation as can be secured, pressing
the deihSnd frcm year to year, until
] Iowa is restored to that happy state in
which the saloon shall be-. again an
outlaw" A committee on legislation
was appointed, headed by H. H.
Abrams, state superintendent of the
league. Rev. Mott R. Sawyers, of Gen.
terville, was elected secretary to sue
coed Rev. C. F. Williams, of Des
Moines. The other officers were re-
elected.
Des Moines dispatch: The state his
torical department has moved into its
handsome new building across the
street diagonally northeast from the
state house. The building is not fin
ished and will not be entirely ready
for occupancy for several weeks but
room enough is ready to accommodate
the department in a rough way. In
the basement q large room will be
used for the newspaper files. The de-
partment has at least two papers from
every county, and they are bound in
volumes, containing from one to three
years The current issues ore also
kept, so they are valuable references.
! On the first floor there is q general
reading room and ladies' reception
room, the curator's Office and the gen.
;efai offices Of the department, where
, books and papers are given out, ard
the large library room. On the second
floor is the a1useum and autograph
room, where the l:<ge cases contain.
ing the relics and chronological and
anthfupologcal materials are stored
In this room may be found an inter.
esting and unique collection of auto
.gr,phs and biographical matter, which
formed the Foundation of the depart
ment. rg,-}
The Iowa National Guard associa-
ton ii annual meeting at Des Moihes
recently voted that the legislature
shall be asked for no bounties for the
Spanish war soldiers A PROPOSAL from
the legislative COMMITTEES, that the
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty second
regiments be each given a bounty
equal to the amount which the state
appropriated to pay for transporting
the Fifty-first regiment home from
San Francisco, brought up the matter.
There was lively discussion and it
was unanimously voted tSask no such
bounty, but to ask thst'the money be
used for the better Equipment of the
| guard. The guard association was re-
organized, officers elected and plan
Of action adopted, Of which the most
essentiab feature is to secure a more
perfect Equipment for the guard than
| it had'in the past. Considerable dis.
cussion was had on this point. and il
was agreed that when the militia OF
tile United States was called into ser.
! vice il ought to be armed with some
| thing better than old fashioned Spring
fields with which to fight semi-savages
armed with the best modern weapons.
The association will assert al its in.
huence to secure better equipment.
Officers were elected as follows: Pres
ident, James Rush Lincoln, Ames:
vice president, MAJOR A. @. Norris,
Griunell; recording secretary. Lieut..
II. II. Jones, Des Moines; correspond
ing secretary and treasurer, M j0r
John =. Hume, Dies AoineA
f55 ;.st ss, VS. r.