Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-17
TOPICS OF THE TINES

Cold waves will have few terrors for
Iowans now that they have been sea-
/ soned to the worst,
The Omaha Bee remarks that from
the quiet that prevails in Iowa no one
would suspect that the legislature VIII
| be called on only next mouth to elect a
United States senator to represent the
| Hawkeye state at Washington. VI
course the Bee was thinking of Nebras-
/ ka. not Iowa, when it talked as II much
noise and great stir would be expected
| It is not the Iowa way, this year at
| least.
1t was a flood and not frost that did
| the most damage in New York and other
| eastern states.
The senate having ratified the Hay
| Pauncefote canal treaty Monday by
vote of 70 to 6, the way is finally cleared
for building the Nicaragua canal with
out foreign interference. Best OF all 1t
removes the old and Objectionable fea-
lures of the Clayton Bulwer treaty.
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4 Iowa stands in the front rank as an
agricultural state and its live stock in
terests are of great magnitude. As
| shown by the advance census figures at
the late meeting in Chicago, and pub
| l!shed in the T.-R. in full on Dec. ., the
| state ranks first in the number OF
horses, having l,401,427; first in the num-
/ Der of hogs, with the great aggregate of
with 5,366,S49, Texas (Which is more
| than four times larger in area) being
| first; and seventeenth in the number OF
sheep, having 1.056,715. AS sheep raising
| is a growing industry in Iowa. it is
hoped that the state will reach the top
after awhile.
| The estate of the late Clement Stude-
baker, wagon-maker of Indiana, foots
| up $4,000. O00 He put good brakes on his
| expenditures.
Ex-Mayor Samuel A. Green, of Bos-
| ton, has given to the Harvard art nlu-
scum some gorgeous articles of wearing
apparel worn by Harvard students of
his ancestors upon their graduation in
| the eighteenth century. DR.. Green's
grandfather graduated in 1884.
| Wilbur F. Wakeman, appraiser for the
port of New York. whose resignation
/ has been requested by Secretary Gage,
of the treasury department, will not re-
| sign. He realizes that he has to go, but,
| ii is said, he will insist on being forced
/ out. Mr.. Wakeman declines to discuss
the matter, but some of his friends are
more communicative. One of these is
| Cornelius N. Bliss, ex-secretary of the
suited, and their unanimous decision
was that Mr.. Wakeman should not as
sist in his own decapitation. To all out
ward appearances Mr.. Wakeman is in
excellent good humor and purposes re-
1 firing from his office with colors flying.
"A cattle ranch near Tilden, Neb.,
which was bought for $4,000 few years
ago sold for s46,sOO the other day.
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Work on the ST. Louis exposition will
be begun on next Friday, the anniversa-
ry OF the Louisiana purchase. A great
many are skeptical about the probabili-
ty OF having it in complete form for ex-
| hibition in 1903.
| Kansas City is preparing to accord a
hospitable reception to Minister WI
| Ting-fang on Dec. 10. when he will at
tend the annual banquet Of the Kansas
City Commercial Club. A public func-
| ton will be held at the club house In the
I chance to meet the Chinese diplomat.
and committee has been appointed to
show him the town.
In the old game OF cracking the whip
the boy at the end usually got the worst
| OF it. In the late cold snap beautiful,
tropical, balmy Florida was tumbled
oyer into frost
| With the thermometer registering Is
degrees below zero, the failure of natu-
/ raj gas caused considerable suffering at
Lafayette, Ind. Several manufacturing
interests were compelled to shut down.
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| Public interest has revived in James
B. Eads, the engineer OF the st. Louis
bridge, the Mississippi jetties and spon-
gor for a trans Nicaraguan project of
large proportions. That Eads had a
powerful grasp on the transcontinental
situation is shown by fugitive CONVEX
| sation recorded by one of his friends,
and which occurred some years ago.
| Eads at the time was standing on the
| deck of construction boat, and there
| lad just been a cessation of labor
| caused by the carrying away of some
supports Of the temporary work by the
| powerful stream. The friend of the en-
! gineer waxed poetical and pictured the
/ Father of Waters as living thing,
| proud of its freedom and struggling
| against the bonds which were being
| thrown across it. "Eads," says the
friend, stood for few minutes in ST.
| lence, and then answered in approx
| mately this language: Frank, this is a
runy conflict in comparison with that
| which is to come. One of these days this
will be the passing point of two enor-
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