Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-04


the treaty Of Paris expressly stipulated
that no claims of the United States
against Spain on account of the war
should be made. Such claims are still
being filed, but it is probable that they
had been prepared before the attorney
general had been heard from, and that
attorneys are filing them SO as to be in
position to take advantage of the pos
sibility of the opinion not being upheld
by the courts. altho so far as known,
no steps have been taken toward its
legality passed upon.
The employees of the Southern Pacific
railway have been forbidden by the
president to become officers or directors
in oil corporations or to engage in any
other business. This is rather severe,
but the aim is to concentrate their ener-
sies upon the work in hand. AS much
of this oil business is of a speculative
nature it is disturbing element.
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In the absence of news at the national
capital the Washington correspondents
as plausible an appearance as possible.
John d. Rockefeller is hailed as a ben
lefactor by representative physicians in
Chicago. III recognition of his purpose to
found an institution for original medical
lesearch which shall be national in its
scope. The announcement from New
York that Mr.. Rockefeller had provided
100000 for preliminary work on the
project, and that an endowment Of ST.
100000 was expected to follow the adop-
ton of plans, has aroused great inter-
est among the members of the profess
sion. and evoked the warmest praise for
The scheme outlined
What howl there was when Polk
county suppressed the voice of a Foster
minority and selected solid Cummins
delegation and how quickly those same
howl'rs suppressed the Voice OF Marion
\ townships Cummins delegates. 1t was
real mean of Tom Way 10 make Cy-
1 renus. Boyd, ct al. eat their own words
discern.
According to one OF the shrewd and
accomplished speakers of the mothers
congress, Home is the tang men fight
! for. No man would go to war to defend
d boarding house.
Speaking of the late convention the
] 6 'dar Rapids Republican says: THE
Eenu blican threw itself INTO the fight"
f -Nevsrtheless there is a suspicion in
N'ell-inforlned circles tha, it was
thrown in.
PLY sprchard, postmaster at Gid
3een and ee.ltor of the Graphic. one of
the brightest newspapers in Iowa. bold
4 ~ declares that we want TO say ia
these who have first cajoled and then
Threatened 10 politically decapitate us
that there are not enough postotiices
\ and railway mileage in Iowa 10 cause us
ito eeser, men like Warren Garst.
/ billy is one Of the original Cunmins
men Multiply his kind by 700. as will
be cone at the state convention, and II
Will be hard to defeat the tribe.
i w I'm the invention of a new explosive
! Of very powerful penetrating force the
builders of hattie ships Will have 10 de-
pend more largely upon the ceilu.ose
packing made from Iowa cornstaiks.
The ministers of the town OF Louisi-
ana, Mo. Will hold services on the
Il streets his summer in the hone q,
reaching those who do not attene
church services and in imitation of the
first grea, preacher.
Congressman Lacey is the first Of tn,
congressman 10 yield to .he dema nds o
railway machine bosses and enter the
fight against Cummins. The next ,urr
WIN be Poweshek,s appearance with 8
very formidable candidate for Lacey:
seat in congress and Maj John Will bt
sorry he yielded
j, AIgora goats are used as land clear
ers In Illinois A flock Of 100 have ius
cleared 1880 acres near Decatur The,
eat anything in the way of leaves, bud
ard small shoots. and when a goa
comes TO a sapling he cannot breal
!. down alone, four or five others join him
: throw. their weights on the trunk an
I bend it over. while others climb on tn
branches. Any one can see from thi
description the CHARACTERISTICS of Judg
: Hubbard's political goats at Cedar Rap
y ids.
i AS noticed elsewhere Andrew Carne
Z gle is building in New York substan
: tial new home of eighty rooms. one hal
V of which are under ground. The man
sion is TO be plain on the outside bu
deliberately finished and furnished i
r the interior.
Corn cobs." says the St Louis Globe
i Democrat, ARE to be utilized as spe
i cha! kind of kindling, and it has bee
demonstrated that fire engines can b
fired To the point of steam with thel
) in less time than by anything els
: Their process is unique. The cobs al
d first crushed and then saturated with
d highly intlanamable material compose
!. partly of rosin. Then they are CON
= pressed and afterward sawed int
r blocks. They lose the appearance Of tn
= despised cob. While the process was ii