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tended article by Tacitus Hussey, OF
Des Moines, on the food Of 1851. Com
paratively, the high water of that year
did more damage than the water of
this year, although the gauge in the
Des Moines river here showed that
the high water mark of that year
was slightly surpassed. Then dykes,
OF course, We're unknown. This year
the levees saved millions of dollars of
property. Nevertheless, the damage
by the high water this year was enor-
nous. Fully half of the state is
drained by the Des Moines river. It's
capacity for damage in time of high
water is quite apparent The water
in 1851 went to 90 feet and four inches
above low water mark; this year it
went to % feet and six inches.
Noted Men VIII Attend.
Many of the most prominent men
of the nation have signified their in
tention of accepting invitations to at
tend the third annual session of the
Society of the Army of the Philippines,
which will be held in Council Bluffs
the middle of next month. Among
those who have decided to attend are:
Maj. Gen. Macarthur, Brig. Gen. r.
wing c. Hale, of Denver; Brig. Gen.
Frederick Funston, Maj. Gen. Lloyd c.
Wheaton, Brig. Gen. Charles King,
Gen. James Rush Lincoln, of Iowa, and
the governors and their stats from
the states of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas,
Missouri, South Dakota, Colorado and
Minnesota.
Iowa mt st. Louis.
The St. Louis commission for Iowa
has--decided to eXpend about 100000
in a building at st. Louis in 1904. 1t
has been decided that the administra-
ton of the affairs of the state in con-
nection with the exposition will take
about $4,000. The remaining $1,000
of the appropriation will go to the
gathering of exhibits. Already propo-
sitions have been submitted to the
commission relative to unique ex-
hibits. One of these is of steamship.
1t Iowa claims any distinction it is
on account of her agricultural devel-
Opment, and she has been inclined to
be touchy about her want of manufac-
lures. But 1t never occurred to the
commission nor the people of the
state that she would have an oppor-
tunity to exhibit in 1904 steamship
model as one of the possible products
of Iowa soil. A ST. Louis inventor has
been in Iowa for about two weeks Or
ganizing company with considerable
capital to build $500, 900 vessel at the
Dubuque shipyards. This vessel is
known as the river-ocean going steam
skip.
The Army Post.
Maj. Turner, in charge of construc.
tion of the army post in Des Moines,
has received orders from the war de.
partment to proceed with the con-
tracing for is additional buildings;
nine had been contracted for. The to.
tai expenditure involved will be about
100000. The congress has appropri-
ated close to 100000 for the post al
ready. When the 81 buildings now in
course of contracting are finished the
post will accommodate squadron of
cavalry. The plan is to erect a post
that will accommodate three squad
rons, or regiment, which will require
about 81, 100000.
Must Drop Signatures.
1t has been necessary for the au-
thorities at the state prison at Ana
mosa to prohibit convicts the priv.
lege of adding their numbers as sigma
lures to the articles they write for
the Prison Press, creditable publ.
cation gotten out by the convicts
every week. This has been decided on
because one of the conyicts contrib.
uted poetry of merit to the paper; It
was reprinted in newspapers, women
read it and, the governor was flooded
with petitions for the conyict's par.
don. He turned out to be murderer
under sentence of death, Albert G.
Phillips, who was convicted in Buena
Vista county of having killed two
men in posse which was pursuing
him and three companions who had
robbed a bank at Greenville. He has
been sentenced to hang next De.
cember. Phillips is mulatto, aged
81, and the poems he produced are of
the jingle variety, but indicate mental
strength.
LEON BROWN.
Saw sold Ironsides..