Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-10
||ONA L[AGU[RS PLANS
Preparations of Iowa Epworth
League to Attend San Fran.
cisco Meeting.
Des Moines Army Post Troubles
1.-The Smooth Capture ola
Runaway Husband.
Resume Of the Madison County
Fieht...lowa Guards Prac-
tice Shoot.
,eeial to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June 10.-The Iowa Ep-
worth Leaguers are making elaborate
preparations for the journey to Califor
MIA next month to attend the interna-
tional meeting of the Epworth League.
The transportation committee of the
iowa league held a meeting in Des
Moines Saturday evening and decided
train will go over the Rock Island rail-
.oad and its western connections. 1t
will start on July s. making a daylight
trip across the state and picking up the
delegations on the way. AT Council
Bluffs the train will start in solid
| train sufficient to accommodate about
500 eaguers, and it will so thru to San
| Francisco with as few stops as possible.
1t will go over the mountains ON the
most beautiful route possible and will
occupy about four days The inteina-
| tional league meets on July is in san
| Francisco. Secretary Roberts, of the
| Iowa league. will soon issue a booklet
giving all the information necessary on
/ the trip The place for the Iowa state
meeting has been fixed at Hampton and
1 the league will meet in November. the
exact date to be fixed later. The League
/ has shown a considerable increase IN
membership the past year.
A new and interesting phase of the
army post matter has come up. The
army commission when here to inspect
| the site made all evident blunder in re-
gard to water. They secured from the
| local army post committee promise
| that the city water mains would be ex-
tended TO the site of the post and also
| that the water pressure should be 100
| pounds to the inch and in case of neces-
| sity could be increased 10 135 pounds to
the inch. Now the army post site is
! nearly four miles from the water plant
and the ground is 1s5 feet above the
pumps. To put mains 10 the post and
to provide pumping apparatus that
would give 135 pounds TO the inc, pres
l sure at a height of 1856 feet above the
pumps is an engineering problem not
easily solved. In fact, there is not a
| particle of use for any such pressure at
| the army post. There will be no build
| ings over TWO stories high. 1t has been
/ figured out that a water plant can be
| erected near the army post site cheaper
than city water mains San be extended
J there Abudance of good water can be
lad in wells near the site Contrary 10
4 the general belief a good deal of water
/ is used by the soldiers a, an army post
1t is estimated that about l0. oo0.Ooo GAL
| Ions would be needed each month, and at
the rate paid elsewhere this would be
1 rental of $500 month This would be
| sufficient of Itself to support a water
| plant and this may yet be the solution
feel like asking the secretary of war 10
! modify the conditions ana not require
/ such heavy pressure of water at the
| post.
$50
/ The capture of runaway husband in
\ Des Moines was accomplished by clev-
| er little woman from Illinois. She ar
rived at o'clock a. m. and made known
| 10 the police her mission. She was seek
| ing a recreant husband They lived
near Cabery. Ill. and were farmers.
| Last February the husband. Sam j. Kei-
! ley went to town, put UP his team, got
| $500 from bank and departed. The wife
| had not heard from him until last
Wednesday,, when she got letter from
\ him asking that she send his clothes to
him at Des Moines. Instead of shipping
his clothes, the wife came herself. She
lsplanted herself in the postoHice and
waited for the husband. After waiting
nearly all day she had the pleasure of
seeing him walk up 10 the general de-
i3hely winS.5a ard cal. fer q letter
| Right there she nabbed him. Her recep-
! ton was decidedly cool, but the two
walked off together to settle their fam
| lily troubles.
's.
The information which comes here.
! from Madison county is to the effect
that the last week of the recent primary
contest was about the most exciting
ever held in the county There was
much feeling manifest on both sides.
! The Conger people We're organized first
and had the county well in hand before
! gun work But the last week was one
| long to be remembered in political an
nails in the county. Such was the feel
ing that trouble might have broken out