Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-25
BEARDSHEAR IS VERY ILL
Present Indications Are that He May Die
at Any Moment
SUFFERING FROM NERVOUS COLLAPSE
Iowa Executive Council OverIOOka
Railroad Entirely In Making
the Assessment
Year.
(From a Stan Correspondent.)

gram.)-Dr. w. NJ. Beardshear. president
Of the Iowa State college, is critically i'll
at his home In Ames and may not survive
until morning. Oxygen Is being constantly
administered to prolong life, IL possible,
until the return Of his daughters, Mrs.
1. N. Chambers and Miss Meta Beard
shear. from Denver.
DR.. Beardshear has been sick since July
Z, when he was attacked with nervous
prostration while IN Minneapolis in attend
sDce at the National Educational associa-
tion convention. His condition became
such es to warrant his being brought home.
DR.. Hartman. college physician, accom-
panied him in a special car from Eagle
Grove, reaching Ames Monday.
Since then his condition has become
more serious, heart trouble and dropsical
tendencies rendering the case more COM
pllcated. Every internal organ is CON
gested with blood. due to weak heart ac-
ton, and DR.. Hartman and a trained
nurse are constantly kept at his bedside.
His daughters will arrive in the morn
ing. At 10 o'clock he is lower than in
the early evening.
Saturday is Governors Day.
Governor Cummins has designated Sat-
urday as the day for review of the Fifty
uIbl ISblmSul al lamp OdNlubOut AllhuNiCs
and he and members Of his oficial stan
will attend. The camp is reported in
good condition. Three members of the
company from Des Moines, falling to go
to camp after having received their or
ders, IN ofAcer arrived here and placed
them under arrest and took them to the
camp this morning. The work Of the
camp was hard on several OF the new men
In the guard, and on the first day there
were several OF the boys who dropped out
OF the march and had to be cared for by
the hospital corps.
Develop Rubber Business.
An Iowa company has been formed at
Davenport for the purpose of developing
the rubber industry in Mexico. This is
the Iowa Rubber company, with a capital
of $500 900, which is organized at Daven-
port, c.. p. Wiley president and s. H. Noel
secretary. Articles Of incorporation were
filed today. Rubber trees will be planted
and a rubber industry established in Mex
leo.
The Pocahontas Savings bank has given
notice OF abandonment Of its charter In
order that 1t may become the First Ma
tional bank of Pocahontas.
The Grinnell Water company has nled
articles Of Incorporation; capital, 25,0o0i
H. w. spaulding, president; H. F. n
phere, secretary.
The K. OF p. Lumber company of Gin
cinnati this afternoon filed amended ar
ticles OF incorporation. increasing its cap
ital stock from S15, 900 to $4,000. The In
corporators are: s. E. Prouty of this city,
Max Kosse of Kansas City and J. N. PEN
rod OF Cincinnati
Helping the Des Moines Strikers.
Organizer Van Camp of the electrical
workers returned today from Davenport and
Clinton, where he has been at work among
the employees Of telephone companies. Sew
eral OF the unions Of Davenport have taken
up the cause of the telephone operators and
electrical workers In Des Moines and have
given moral and financial support, the latest
to do so being the union Of leather workers
In Davenport. The electrical workers and
telephone operators are reported we'll or
ganized in Clinton. The carpenters and
~joiners of Creston have formally Endorsed
the strike OF operators in Des Moines
Letters of inquiry come from all Of the
cities of the state and the strikers claim
their cause is receiving great support from
many persons. The low company here has
repaired one OF the cables which were
cut and is at work on the other one. The
damage done will soon be remedied and
telephone connections resumed as usual.
Overlooked One RAILROAD.
The executive council, which is engaged
In making the assessment OF railroad prop
erty, has made the discovery that one
railroad company doing business in Iowa
was entirely overlooked and no report has
been received from that company. This
is the Manchester & Oneida, which is only
eight miles long, but 1t is 30 located that
1t gets a great deal OF business. Judge
A. s. Blair OF Manchester, district court
Judge, is president of the company, and
H. e. Hoyt Of Manchester is the general
passenger agent. The road was built from
Manchester, which had only the Illinois
Central railroad, to Oneida, the junction
Of the Great Western and Milwaukee, so
as to secure freight and passenger con-
n~ections for Manchester with these two
roads. 1t is owned by capitalists in a
chester and is operated by them as an in
dependent line. AS a connecting line It
has been profitable from the first month
and It has been published in the news
papers Of the state that 1t Is one OF the
most profitable short lines in Iowa. Its
time card, showing FIVE trains a day each
way. is in all the railroad guides.
The report will be required Immediately
and the road assessed, if that is possible.
Close of sherins' Meeting.
The sherins Of Iowa concluded their an
nual meeting this afternoon and elected
officers as follows: President, L. +. An
derson. Audubon; vice president, L. b.
Cousins, Dubuque; secretary and treas
urer, ]. H. Kelley, Des Moines. The next
meeting will be held in Dubuque in July
next.
TOWN is WITHOUT CEMETERY