Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-01
CAVALRY COMES HOME SOON

CAVALRY COMES HOME SOON
Union Electric Construction Company
of Des Moines NcRotiates with
the Navy Department..
DEs MONIES, Dec. s1.--(special Tele-
gram )-Governor Shaw today received a
telegram announcing that the Eleventh
| cavalry will soon be ordered home from
the Philippines. This will be OF special in
terest in Iowa, as nearly all Of the Iowa
| boys who are in the cavalry service over
| there are in the Eleventh. The Iowa boys
| who re-enlisted for service in the Philip
pines went into either Colonel Bells regi-
| ment Of infantry or into the Eleventh
cavalry. They are all expected home by
the close of the winter. as they will be
among the very first to be returned to the
states on the government transports.
The Union Electric Construction company
Of this city is negotiating with the Navy
department in Washing on for placing in the
navy yards an electric system of tram
ways with a veiw to demonstrating the
economy and convenience OF that kind of
system over the use Of steam. The COM
pany claims to have the cheapest system
and one that overcomes all the objections
which have been urged against the use OF
wires for carrying electricity to the cars.
IL Is likely the system will be installed In
Washington, as an experiment In the navy
yard there.
New Insurance Company.
Another has been added to the insuran nee
companies with headquarters In Des Moines.
The articles OF incorporation were placed
on fle this morning for the Security Life
and Savings Insurance company. with $780,
600 capital. This is the company which Is
headed by State Auditor Merriam as presi-
dent. The other incorporators are: n.
Hodgson, vice president c. H. Martin.
treasurer w. w. woodard, secretary: w.
II. Bailey, counsel X. A. Patchen, medi-
cal director; II. T.. Teachout and George
| MacCartney. The state auditor, who has
| charge of the insurance business for the
state, has been severely censured for as
sociating himself with an insurance com
| pany, while still remaining In office, but he
says he can see no impropriety in so doing
In fact. large number of the state off,
GERS OF Iowa have retired to become con
nected with the insurance business. and this
has given rise to a feeling that they make
use OF their official positions to secure
| favored places or concessions The new
company begins business with the New
Year.
| Funeral of Prominent Men.
| The funeral Of two prominent Iowans
took place today. The funeral OF the lat,
Dr. A. Y. Hull of Kiowa, Kan., was held
in this city this afternoon, the body havin,
been brought here for burial beside his
wife. who died about eight years ago. TIL,
funeral Of the late Prof. b. +. McClellant
took place at Toledo, Ia. Prof McCleliant
was vice president OF Western college a
Toledo. which position he had held for
number OF years. He had been a teacher al
his life, chiefly in Illinois, but since cominl
to Iowa had taken high rank In colieg,
| work.
| VIII Chase. owner of the Des Moines bas,
| ball franchise, recently suffered a sever,
less in the burning of the grandstand ant
good part of the buildings used by hin
for base ball purposes. The base ball pari
is just back Of the Auditorium and in tn,
business part of the city. AS other build
ings were endangered by the fire, an effor
was made to have the Board Of Publ,
Works refuse to permit him to rebuild tn,
stand Today the city council met and de-
cided that 1t could not interfere with tn,
work. as 1t was In the nature of repair.
and is already we'll under way II he couli
not have built the grandstand his frapchs,
would have been practically useless.
] Pocahontns Discsrds stage Coach.
The town of Pocahontas the last count,
seat Of Iowa to be connected with the out
side world by rail, has only the past wee,
discarded stage coach mails and begun q
receive the daily papers direct from tn,
cars. But in making the change from
/ nj,
partment got orders so mixed as to caus,
much annoyance to the people for a few
days. The contractor who had been carry
| ing the mail across country from Have
lock, on the Northwestern railroad, re
ceived his orders to discontinue at Ger
tain date, but the mail clerks had not ye
received corresponding orders so that tn,
mail clerks insisted on putting the Poca
hontas mail off at Havelock. The postmis
tress at sPo ahontas had to hire the mai
| carried over for a week before the posta
clerks got their orders and there was lout
| complainings. The mail Is now carried I,
| Pocahontas over the Rock Island Shelly ex
tension, and the town of Pocahontas, afte
an existence of nearly third Of a century
is in touch with the rest of the world
The authorities of the Iowa State colleg
have had put to them a hard question b.
n farmer near Lake Mills. who has cap
tured a strange animal which he wishe
the college scientists to name. The anima
looks like half cat and half rabbit. TIL
head and shoulders exa tly resemble cat
but II has the long hind legs and short cot
ton tail o, jackrabbit and in travelling 1
takes the gait Of a rabbit. The animal eat
meat and drinks milk and also loves vege
tables and roots and corn. The farmer
William McLeun, captured the animal a
1t was running wild.
The Best Salve in the World
is Banner Salve. 1t Ia made from a pre
scription by a widely known skin specials