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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11
6. 6. GILMAN IS DEAD
Prominent Marshalltown Man
Passes Away at Chicago
Thursday Night.
Death Results After Illness of
Only Few Days..An Interest,".
ing Career.
Well Known as Railway Con.
tractor %. His Principal
Achievements.

The worst anticipations. as a result
of the illness of Mr.. C. C. Gilman, of
this city, We're realized this morning
when friends received kilograms an
nouncing his death. Mr.. Gilman died
at 1925 o'clock Thursday evening at the
Briggs House, Chicago, after an illness
eating since last Monday. The cause
of his death was cirrhosis of the liver.
The news of the death produced a
great shock to the many friends of the
family here. While great many were
prepared to hear the worst. having en-
pccted from the developments of the
past few days that Mr.. Gilman was
critically ill, the word announcing that
the end had come could not help but
cast a gloom over many households.
At his bedside when death came
We're the loving wife and son. Mr.. Wal
ter r. Gilman, Mr.. George V. Watson,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. NJ. Rogers and Mr..
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11
LeGrand Record Sold.

DIR. Mark NJ. Evans and Mr.. j. G
Richter. owners, editors and publishers
CT the LeGrand Record. have closed .
deal whereby they dispose of THEN
property to w. Il. Shade, II. T.. Condos
and ID. Shade. of Belle PLANE. Mr. w
T.. Shade, who has been in the employ
of the Belle Plaine Union for some time
is to be the editor and publisher of the
paper. and the recent owners deliver
their editorial farewell in todaNs issue
DIR. Evans and Mr. Richter purchased
the Record when the plant had been al
lowed to run down. They succeeded in
building it up and for the past year
have made the paper more than pay eX-
penses. Mr.. Richter is interested in
school work and has been elected prin-
cipal of the schools ut Agency. At
present he is pursuing u course IN the
summer session of the Iowa State Nor
NAL School. Cedar Falls.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11
cLEMoNs MAN MISSING.
orris Spence, of Clemens, Comes to
This City July 4 and Has Not Been

This City July 4 and Has Not Been
| Heard from Since.
| The parents and wife of Mr.. Orris
Spence barber, aged 2e, residing
! in Ciemons are much concerned over
the disappearance of their son and
husband who came to this city to spend
the Fourth and has since not been
seen or heard from since. Young
Spence, until recently conducted q
barber shop in Clemens, but a day or
two prior to the Fourth sold out his
business and with the proceeds of the
sale. amounting to about $3.50, came
to this city. The last time. so far
as is known, that the missing man wa;
seen, was on the depot platform the
evening of the Fourth. MIR. q. w
Spence the young mans father becom-
ing worried over his failure 10 re-
turn came to this city Thursday after
noon and reported the matter to both
the police and the sheriff's office. Mr.
Spence said that his sons wife was
almost frantic over the absence of her
husband, and fears are entertained
that he has met With foul play. Mr.
Spence also said that he had advised
his son TO deposit his money in the
bank before he came to the city but he
replied that he wished to take 1T with
him, rs he was looking for an invest
ment in which to place it. Mr.. Spence
admitted that his son drank accession
ally, but never to excess. and said that
he feared perhaps he had been drink
ing while here and had been enticed
away by some OF the rough characters
who infested the town on that day
He fears that he has been robbed and
perhaps murdered. There is no reason,
so the elder Spence states, why he
should leave home, as family relations
We're of the best.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11
DIRE DISTRESS.
Il is Near at Hand to Hundreds Of
MarshalItown Readers.


Marshalltown Readers.
Don't neglect an aching back.
Backache is the kidneys cry for
help.
Neglect hurrying to their aid
Means that urinary troubles follow
quickly.
Dire disaster, diabetes, Bright's dis
ease.
Profit by a citizens experience.
Mrs. Z. N. Solomon, of sol South
Third avenue, says: 1.-TWO years ago !
had serious attack of kidney trouble
and placed myself under treatment by
a physician and was cured at a cost of
sic. / had another severe attack in the
neck of the bladder. 1t seemed as if
a swelling of considerable size had OBJ
structed the secretions of the kidneys
and it caused me great pain. We heard
about Doan's Kidney Pills and Mr.
Solomon got box at Mcbride & Wills
drug store. l used them and relief was
obtained almost at once. The use of
two boxes affected an absolute cure
The difference between 81 and $40 is an
item worth saving, to say nothing o.
the suffering. My nephew. living in La
Porte, Ind. also used Doan's Kidney
Pills and Deans Ointment with won.
derful results"
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. Foster Milburn Company, Buff
falo, N. Y, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name, Doan's, and
take no substitute.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11
STRUCK By A TRAIN
Thomas Carroll. Of Gilman, Run
Down While on Hand Carr.
Is Badly Hurt.
Thrown Twenty feet and sus.
tains Fracture Of Arm and
Leg...0thers Escape.
Accident Occurs on a Curve Near
Gilman.-.Brought to a Hos
pital Here.

Thrown twenty feet by the force
Of q passenger engine colliding witt
a hand car on which he was riding
alighting in a bank of clay to the west
of the right of way, escaping with
a broken arm and leg, is the expert
ence shat befell Thomas Carroll, an
Iowa Central section hand, at o:SV
O'Clock Thursday evening.
Carroll is a man 40 years of age and
| has been making his home at Gilman
While working on the section in charge
Of Foreman Ole Sem, between GlllnaN
and Dillon, Carroll. Carl Jorgenson an'
Mark Adams, also of Gilman, had peen
in the vicinity of the first curve nofeh
OF Gilman all day, engaged IN raising
the track. At $3.50 they were just
getting ready to return to Gilman ant1
had placed the hand car on the track
and loaded their tools and belongings
No sooner had they got started thal,
they saw, rounding the curve, the
north bound passenger tram, NO. o.
The train was running about 20 nllles
an hour, but as soon as he saw tne
hand car on the track Engineer NC
Mains began applying the air. and
slowing up. The men on the track
instead of trying to save themselves
began to get the hand car out of the
way. Naturally they We're excited, ant
before it could be removed the en-
CINE, at speed Of about fifteen miles
an hour struck the corner of the hand
car. knocking it several feet away.
Jorgenson and Adams escaped injury.
but Carroll was not so fortunate. Tho
corner of the hand car hit him in the
side, causing a compound fracture of
the left radius and ulna, just below
the elbow The fibula of the RICH,
leg was also broken, and the man was
badly bruised about the shoulders ant
legs. He was picked UP by Conductor
N. A. Williams and the other members
of the train crew, from where he lay,
twenty feet distant from the track
in bank of clay, and placed in the
baggage car and brought to this city
From the station he was removed in an
ambulance to the Singleton hospital
While Carroll is badly hurt, and will
be confined in the hospital some time
his injuries are not necessarily dam
serous unless internal complications
now unknown, develop. Carroll is a
married man and has large family
of children living IN Ireland.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11
TO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LeGrand to Maintain Central Station
and Operators After Aug. I.

The LeGrand Mutual Telephone
Company, which has connections with
four or five rural lines and party lines
in the eastern half of the county, which
are centralized with the central eX-
change of the Marshall Telephone Com
pany, of this city, is going to improve
it's service and after Aug. / will main
tain central office at LeGrand with
both day and night operators.
The company has ordered a new
switch board with facilities for 101
drops and into the central office will
be run all of the rural and party lines
row having connection with LeGrand
also all of the phones in the town.
Marshalltown, in talking to LeGrand
people after the first of the month viii;
call Legrand central. and from that Of
fee will be given the desired patron.
Heretofore people here wanting Lee
Grand homes or telephone numbers in
the vicinity have been accommodated
thru the Marshalltown central office.
The new arrangement will do away
with great deal of the ringing, as diff
different people, so that it has been
Very much of a Chinese puzzle for pat
rons to keep track of the longs and
shorts when the telephone bell rang. 1t
will hereafter be one ring for every
body, and Tom Jones will not know
what Bill Smith says about him if
Smith is talking to some other sub
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11

Iowa River railroad, now the Iowa Gen.
trail, and continued to act in that ca
pacity until the road was completed in
to this city, He was then appointed
assistant chief engineer of the Central
Railroad of Iowa, and took charge OF
its construction from Ackley to Mason
City. The work was completed in 1870,
and in the following year he was APP
pointed chief engineer of the same
property, holding that responsible posi-
ton until the winter of 1SSl-2, when he
was made chief engineer of the Wis
consin. Iowa & Nebraska railroad. now
the Chicago Great Western. The con-
struction of the latter property he had
charge of from Des Moines to Water
loo and Cedar Falls.
In October, 1884, Mr.. Gilman resigned
his position and commenced the work
of railroad contracting. in which he
realized a large and lucrative field.
In this work Mr. Gilman has been
very successful. and has had charge OF
many large contracts. He has been as
sociated largely With the McNeills. his
former partner having been the late
Mai. Edwin Mcneil. of New York. at
one time general manager OF the Iowa
Central. OF later years, however, he
has been associated with George Nc
Neill. of New York. brother of Maj.
the incorporated name of the
being The Gilman Mcneil
Company. general contractors. With
offices at 80 Metropolitan Block, Chi
cago.
Besides his early work on the old
Central and Great Western railways. in
this locality. Mr.. Gilman has had charge
OF many very heavy pieces of work.
One that brought him into prominence
IN the contracting world was his work
on the celebrated Chicago drainage
canal, which was let to Edwin McNeill
and c. c. Gilman. Two sections of the
canal, in the vicinity of I2ckport, We're
N charge of Mr.. Gilman, and We're built
ia 1894 and 1895. The portion was thru
some of the toughest country over
which the canal was built, and required
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11
RIVER CUTS NEW CHANNEL.
he Iowa's High Water Does Immense
Amount of Nap,,ne AZ llnion Mill

| The Union Roller Mills, until recently
owned by Mr.. II. j. Benson, of this city,
l,ut sold early last spring to Frank
| Lockwood and Charles Lawrence, of
Union, is threatened with AN immense
amount of damage as the result of the
high water in the Iowa river
The river at Union has commenced
to cut new channel to the south of
the mill dam, and as a consequence the
water, instead of flowing over the dam,
is coursing off to the south thru the
new channel. The channel runs 100 feet
away from the abutment on the west
side of the bridge, and the water is
twenty feet deep. 1t will be necessary
to either build AN extension to the
bridge, or else construct a new stone
abutment. Immense cottonwood trees
that formerly stood on dry ground, but
when the water took its new course
We're directly in its path, We're COM
pletely uprooted and carried down the
river.
1t is estimated that the damage will
reach several thousand dollars, which
will fall on Hardin county and the
owners of the mill. The board of SUI
refvisors held q meeting today to dis
cuss the situation and try and reach a
pairing the damage done.
Mr.. II. j. Benson went to Union this
morning to confer with the board re-
garding the damage done. as he still
retains an interest in the property.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11

the greatest difficulty in the first two
waves. which. for the moment, came
near turning and upsetting the craft.
The men We're watching the boat. how
ever, and instantly turned with her
nose down stream. so that they escaped
without a wetting. The boat shipped
only three or four inches of water.
The river still continues to fall slow
~, at the rate of about half an inch an
hour, being now in the neighborhood OF
some eighteen inches lower than when
at its highest stage. Linn creek has
fallen more rapidly and is now confined
within its banks. The Marietta bridge
over the Iowa river, which has been
considered unsafe. WAS repaired this
morning, and is now in condition to
he ncad
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11
MARsHALLTowN MAN HoNoRED.
Mr.. John w. Wells Elected to High
Position Among Knights Templar of

AT Templar park, Spirit Lake,
Thursday afternoon. where has been
held this week the thirty ninth annual
encampment of the grand command
cry knights Templar of Iowa, Mr.
John W. Wells, of this city, was elected
right eminent deputy grand command
er of Iowa. Mr.. Wells has been promi-
nent in the Masonic circles of both this
city and the state for a number of
years. having. for some time, occupied
the highest chair in st. Aldemar Com
mandery, No. so. The honor that has
been conferred upon him came ulso-
licited, and is largely responsible to the
efforts of his friends. who have been
quietly at work for several weeks lay
ing the wires that could be pulled at
the proper time.
DR. T.. w. Parsons and Mr. I. T.
Forbes. who have been in attendance
at the grand commandery meeting. an
rived home this morning. Mr.. Wells
Will be home tomorrow morning, hav-
ing remained to be installed i'm his new
office this morning. and to be present
at the closing ceremonies at noon to-
Inv
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11

an immense amount of blasting thru
solid rock. The late John I. Blair, who
was one of the greatest railway con-
tractors of the country, and the builder
of the Chicago & Northwestern railway
was warm personal friend of Mr.. Gill
man, and was largely instrumental in
his getting the Chicago contract.
| Another heavy piece of railroad
work that Mr. Gilman was interested in
was the building of the Port Townsend
Southern railway from Seattle to Port
Townsend. He also built great many
miles of railroad in Missouri, sublet to
him by Mr.. Blair.
! AT the time of his death the Gilman
Mcneil Company had a great many
heavy undertakings under way. Work
that has been in progress on the Balti-
more & Ohio, near Hicksville, o., for
tie past two years. is almost completed,
and another big Ohio contract for the
IS. 4 O. was recently sublet to other
contractors. Mr.. Walter r. Gilman, son
of the deceased, was in complete charge
for the company of the building of a
railroad to the st. Louis worlds fair
grounds. Other work being done by the
company was the construction of a big
reservoir for the city of Philadelphia,
and the building of a belt line for the
TLlgin. Joliet & Eastern railway, to
Streator, Ill.
Charley Gilman was man of re-
markable personality, and in many
ways very peculiar fellow. His pc
culiarities, however, ran in the right
direction and if he ever had a friend
there wasn't anything that friend would
not do for him. He was the same way
with those to whom he became attach
ed, and would share his last dollar
with a man whom he called friend, if
he We're in trouble He was the soul of
honor in every particular. and he held
this one quality to be the foundation
stone of true manhood. While of a
rough exterior a softer heart could not
have been contained in human walls
than Charley Gilman's. HE was a dia-
mond in the rough" as one friend ex-
presses it.
An example of the esteem in which
Mr.. Gilman was held may be shown
perhaps better by the fact that it was
not the friends of his own equal, So
cially and intellectually, who cared for
him, but even the lowest of his EN-
hobo element. On the
drainage canal work. and in every other
piece of contracting, Mr.. Gilman en-
ployed large gangs of tramp laborers.
TrampS they We're because they had no
homes and worked from hand TO mouth
Mr. Gilman made it a point to know ev-
cry one by name, to talk with them at
their work and listen to their troubles. |
There wasn't a mothers son of them
but who would go thru fire and water to
assist him in any way, and many a time
has this same liking, on the part of his
laborers, been of great benefit to him.
Mr.. Gilman was prominent in
the Masonic fraternity of Iowa. !
being a member of Marshall Lodge |
No. los, a. +. and a. NJ: Signet Chap
ter, No. SO, r. A. NJ, and ST. Aldema |
Commandery, No. 80. X. T., of this
city El Kahr Temple, A. a. O. N. NJ |
s., Cedar Rapids. and De Molay Con-
sistory. of Clinton. He was also II
member of Marshalltown Lodge, No. |
3l2, B. p. O. f., of this city.
Mr.. Gilman has been very successful
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11
GO OVER THE DAM.
James Dudicker and Frank Nacomer
Shoot Mill Dam and Rapids in a
Boat-Water Still EalIino.

James Dudicker and Frank Nacomer
two young men of the city, on a wager
of SO, shot the mill dam and rapids
Thursday evening. and landed below
without scarcely getting wet. 1t was a
thrilling sight. but owing to the fact
that but few knew that the settling of
the wager was to take place Thursday
night. only small crowd was present
as witnesses. Dudicker and his partner
entered the boat about $50 at the
White boat house and rowed slowly to-
ward the dam. AS they neared the
bridge they struck up merry clip and
went Swimming over the dam and into
the big waves below. They experienced
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Continued on Eighth Page.)
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11
Mother ALWAYS Keeps 1t Handy.

"My mother suffered from distressing
pains and general ill health due to indi-
gestion.'' says L. w. Spalding, Verona.
Mo- 1.-TWO years ago / got her to try
Kodol. She grew better at once ana
now eats anything she wants, remark
ing that she fears no bad effects as she
has her bottle of Kodol handy" 1t is
natures own tonic.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11
For Over Sixty Year,

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for children while teethIng.
1t soothes the child, softens the gums.
allays all pain. cures wind collie and is
the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty
five cents bottle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11

The electric spark goes thru every
vein and every nerve. A pleasant feel
ing creeps over the soul after taking
Rocky Mountain Tea, making young
the aged and feeble. Mcbride & Will
Drug Company
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-18
SPITE MOI ~ SOLD.
Two Real Estate Men Take Chance on
Richardson's Queer Dwriling.

The famous Richardson spite house,
at Eighty-second street and Lexington
avenue. was sold Yesterday bv the heirs
of Joseph Richardson. including Della
Richardson. the daughter. TO James '.
Graham aud Charles RoCkiing. both real
estate dealers
In 1852 Joseph Richardson bought the
lot on which the house stands, expecting
10 secure the next house in Eightvsecond
street He qIarrelled with the owner
of the adjoining property and failing TO
get them built a structure 100 feet long,
with depth of only five feet. The building
is -four stories in height. 1t is divided
into two residences the areas of which
We're increased by bay windows The build
ing il numbered 1918 and i?ls Lexington
aYenGe
The real estate dealers who bought the
property refused 10 disclose The price they
paid for il but say they value il AT SIS 1000.
They will convert the Lexington avenue
front into little stores aud thus make the
property payits way unilit Is again sold
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-18
LIrrT.IiN sen tUk'S iRMStVID


WAsnINGroS, oct, II. An operation was
performed to-day al the army hospital
n, tho Washington barracks on First Lieut..
Louis j. Van Setback of he Twent y-sevcnth
Infantry, who was seriously wounded in
the Philippines early this year, TIL" opera
ton, which was entirely successful, was
the amputation Of finger, and was the
La, in a series of three necessary 10 give
Lieut.. Van Setback the usc of his arm,
Major William Borden, Surgeon, L. :. A,
performed the operation, assisted by two
local physicians,
When Lieut. Van Schaick arrived here
last spriug for treatment IL was though,
that IL would be necessary to amputate his
wounded arm, which had been horribly
laccratcd by bolo-. Two operations were
then performed, but II was discovered re-
Gently that the amputation OF finger was
Necessary to preserve the arm.
The successful treatment of this officer l.
regarded a. a remarkable surgical triumph.
Lieut. Van Schaick's arm was praCti cally
severed II has now been fastened on, the
nerves Joined, and sensation and motion
restored II will not be necessary for him
to retire, a. would have been the case had
his arm been ampuated or the surgeons
failed in their attempts to prevent stiffening
of the muscles Lieut. Van Setback was
born in New York and appointed To the Mill
tary Academy from that State in 1896
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-18
GE\. OTIS mas no ray DUTIES.
Held IN on TcNas Border b, Customs
Oricials-IIc Makes a Protest.

Ell PASo, Ten. Oct. l7.-Gen. Harrison
Gray Otis of Los Angeles. warrior and
publisher, was held M at the border here
by customs guards and forced to pay SIS
duties on drawn work and silk goods which
he was bringing into the country from
Mexico.
Gen. Otis made strenuous object ion TO
the payment Of the duty, saying that the
goods were intended a. gifts for hi r grand
children and exempt under tho recent
Treasury Department ruling, permitting
heads OF families to bring in free of duty
goods to the value of 500 intended as gifts
to wives or offspring
pat" Garrett, the CowpOy Collector
and slayer Of Billy the Kid" was appealed
10 and asked To refund the money. He
declined to do so, saving that he would
s,is ain the customs guards, but reminding
the General that he had recourse TO the
Secretary Of the Treasury. II not satisfied
The General was very angry after leav-
ing the Collectors office and proceeded To
file written protest To the Treasury
Department
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-18
cor Mrs. UOODRl rF'S JEWELS.
Thief Jumped Into Her carriage and seized
Package -Eootman Nabbed Him.

4 hief very nearly got away with several
pieces of lewelrv belonging to Mrs Timothy
L. Woodruff, the wife of the Lieutenant
Governor Yesterday afternoon while she
was shopping in Twen y-ihird stree,
store When Mrs Woodruff left her car
rage the driver started To exercise the
horses Nt Sixth avenue man, who
aftcrvard said he was John Connors.
jumped into the carriage from one side,
seized a small package that lay on the
seat and jumped out on tho other,
The foo,mau jumped after the thief
and after short run caught him. The
man put up a hard fight. but The footman
chung 20 him until Policemen krittel and
Cobaugh came up and took him.
The package The man seized cont aimed
small diamond waich-bracelot and a
small pendant bearing the initials &C W,
which stand for Cora Woodrllfi Connors
was locked mp in the West Twentieth street
police - alton on the complaint of the coach
man, GcOrg" ta0au.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-18

After Turner's retirement the Climax
company moved its Office 20 ~ Murray
~ rect. where 1t il at the present time. Mr..
Hamilton was elected president and treas
urer of the company and MIR Mallard,
secretary Tho board of directors was
made up of Hamilton, Mallard and Cable.
Mr. Hamilton Wasn't long in discovering
that there was shortage, and in having a
complete examination Of the books made,
with view TO fixing responsibility for il.