Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-01
CAPITOL N DAD SHAPE
Commission Laboring Over Re.
pairs That Are Needed-New
Roof Lacking.
Frank Kerriott Has Published a
Book on lowa's Taxation
Laws.
John Wallace in More Trouble
Over the Deserted Wife in
Cornwall.
pecial to Times Republican.

! II.
Des Moines Aug. 1.-Messrs Cum
minss. Schoentgen and Funk, of the
capitol commission. have been in the
iclty all Week. and the commission has
gone over the preliminary work care
fully. The members are finding that ii
is hard to get a start, or rather to find
| out just where the start should be made
in completing aud repairing the apitol.
OF one thing they are certain. the capi-
tol needs great deal of repairing be-
fore any decorative work can be en-
tered upon. The first place they will
/! tackle is the roof. They find that the
slate roof has not Worn We'll and that
it already leaks in several places. 1t is
| probable that Il tile roof will be substi-
tuted and the tiles will be wired down
! firmly SO they will never blow off. The
/ roof of the capitol will be a big contract
OF itself. The members of the commits
lsion have been going over the building
! and making measurements to arrive at
on the warehouse which they We're au-
| thoriZed and directed to build for the
state. This will have to be built before
they can Very we'll go on With the worl:
of repairing the rooms, for so many of
the rooms are filled with unused ma
terial that it will have to be moved out.
| The warehouse will be built as near the
capitol as possible, for it will hold the
old documents and papers and station
cry for the state officers. The COM
mission does not yet know how large
this will need to be and the members
are securing evidence on that point. 1t
is probable that none of the decorative
work will be done this year or next.
The executive council has recently
been spending some money in decora-
ton of the interior of rooms in the
basement and securing new carpets and
furniture.
The printed journal of the twenty
eighth annual eneampment of the de-
partment of Iowa. G. a. r., being the
ihirtysecoHd annual encampnent un-
der the old organization. has just been
delivered to the assistant adjutant gem
eral for distribution. and will go out to
the posts very soon. 1t is a pamphlet
of 110 pages and contains the entire
proceedings. There is, aside from the
reports of the various department Off
GERS, much that did not at the time of
the encampment get into the newspa-
perS. Among other things a resolution
was adopted for a committee of three
To be appointed to arrange for and take
care OF a camp fire at Des MoineS on
the soldiers day at the state fair
grounds. This committee has been al
work the present week making the nee
essary arrangements, and has conclud- |
ed arrangements for a camp fire to be
by Governor Cummins and
Senator Dolliver. The journal also con-
tains a portrait and biography of the
late Judge Conrad. of Des Moines, a |
past department commander, and the !
names of all comrades reported to have
died during the previous year in Iowa. |
The address of Gen. G.. NJ. Dodge at the |
open meeting of the department during
the encampment on his personal recol-
lecticns of Gen. Sherman is printed in
full in the journal.
Frank I. Herrott, former deputy
state treasurer. has just published a
pamphlet on the taxation question. be- I
ing a study of the laws relating to tax
alton of corporations. Mr. Herriott has
made a thorough study of that ques-
ton and has gathered together great
deal of new information on this subject
as it relates to the taxation question in
Iowa.
The papers have just been filed in
the supreme court appealing the some
vhat remarked BILE case of Susanna Cas-
ey vs. r. F. Mitchell, involving title to
and sold the latter by one John Wal
ace during his lifetime Susanna Cas-
ey succeeded in establishing in the
.ourts of Calhoun county that she was
he wife of Wallace and that as John
.asley he had deserted her in Corn
vail twenty years ago. Wallace had
ived in Calhoun county a dozen years
n more and had acquired some prop
'rty He WAS q miner in early life. He
vas Well respected and Mrs. Wallace
prominent in the Presbyterian church
II Rockwell City After his death a
laim WAS made to certain property by
Susanna Casley who came all the way
rom Cornwall. England. and Who de-
Jared that Wallace was her husband
Ohm Casley. The news came as Il shock
o the people of Rockwell City. Mrs.
Wallace testified she had been known
o Wallace in Germany. that they came ,
o America together, that they worked
ide by side in the mines of Pennsyl-
slnia for several years, that they came
o Pieasanton, Iowa. in SO, then Went
o Bald Mountain. Colorado, where {
Wallace worked in the mines. later re-
urned to Iowa. and that she had known
linn since 1872 and had been With him c
II the time since he came To America. {
'he plaintiff i'm the case Susanna Cas- L
~ testified She was married to John 7
'asley in ST. Just. Cornwall in 1868. a
hat he deserted her and came to u
.merica. and that she had no doubt $
hat Wallace was CasleN under an as I
umed name. Testimony was taken all II
o of various miners who worked at a
;ald Mountain, where there are 200 4
ersons from the little town of ST. Just. !,
'o,wall. One Henry TreiZise testified t
hat he has known Casley in Cornwall 4
nd knew he was married to Susanna n
'homas. that he had known them both ] t