Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-07
.P[AN The CAMPAIGN
Chairman Spence Will Arrange
Program for Republican
Speakers This Week.
Society to Make the Coming
Horse Show Signal for
Great Gayety.
Beird Case Appealed to Supreme
Court-Poor Work on the
Capitol.
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Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. g Chairman
spence will be in the city the latter
nart of the week and will attend to
some matters relative to the opening
OF the campaign headquarters for the
rep,1blicans. 1t is expected that Mr.
Dawson, private secretary to senator
Allison. will also be here at the tune
and the two will go over the program OF
arranging speakers for the campaign.
This is the time for volunteers who de-
sire TO sneak in behalf of the repub-
lican party to come to the front. Ihere
will be room for all this year. The be-
lief prevails that the democrats Will
make a great effort this year to elect a
and they WILDE plentlfuily
supplied with speakers. 1t is planned 10
throw into the Iowa campaign all the
republican speakers possible, and thefe
may be call from outside for help
from Iowa speakers. The republican
committee will soon for
ward to state headquarters 500 copies
OF the campaign book of the year and
place in the hand of each congressman
100 copies of the book. Republicans
will, therefore. be plentifully supplied
with literature this year.
The annual horse show for Des
Moines and Iowa is to be held in the
new stock pavilion at the state fair
ground and on that occasion the pa
vilion will be scene of the greatest
gayety ever known here. The horse
shows are social functions in Des
Moines and are largely attended. This
one will be held on Sept. Is and the
week following and for this reason will
be more largely attended than others.
The list of prizes has just been an
and other preliminaries.
The prizes at the horse show cover
almost every kind of horse and pony
that may be hitched to anything or do
% ride. There are prizes for harness
,orses. coaching horses, roadsters, sad
lie horses and ponies. Most of the
1rizes run at $50, $50 aad $50. The
,lize for q harness pair, fifteen hands or
)ver, suitable for park use, is S1OO. a
special prize will be given for the best
-in-hand road team in coaching
parade. shown before a coach or drag
i, appointed for picnics or races, each
each to take ten or more passengers
1t the Savery Hotel and participate in
he parade to the fair grounds. The
hampion gated horse will get S1oO
lat prize. There are classes for trick
,orses and for jumping and for polo
ponies. A special prize is offered for the
oca ladies' turnout There are classes
or boys and girls and prizes in various
,ther races and side amusements. The
managers have been assured that Aurel
oatonyi. the famous New York whip
Who holds the worlds champion four |
n-hand obstacle driving and who is
onsidered the highest authority in
america on appointments of the boule-
articipate. A number of entries have
lready been made, altho it is more
Kan month before the show opens.
nd assurance has been given that some !
t the best exhibitors of horsemen in |
he country are to have animals here
'he st. Louis and Kansas City horse
zen will be here in large numbers and
everal from Chicago and the east.
The Beird case from Keokuk has been
ppealed to the supreme court. c. c.
;eird is printer long employed in
.eokull and last fall during the street
air and carnival he became engaged in
n alteration in saloon at late hour
night With one Captain w. A. Dundy
{ Nauvoo. Ill. Captain Dundy was
HE'D After a second trial Beird was
onvicted of manslaughter and SEN
enced by Judge Bank to six and six
,onths in prison. Public sentiment in
.eolluk appeared 60 be already with
eird and there was a feeling that the
entence was too severe. The supreme
ourt gets Il chance to guess on the
ase,
Recently workmen have been engaged
nder the direction of the custodian of
ne state capitol to make some repairs
e the stone steps leading thereto. Steps
ave been taken up on the west ano
orth sides and the supports have been
uilt up so that the steps will be level.
has been found that the work was
erv badly done and that the cement
sed in laying the brick foundation was
, poor that the mortar now all crum-
les to pieces. In fact it looks Very
,uch like the brick had been laid up
18th nothing but loose sand and gravel
the cracks When the capitol COM I
iission gets to this part of the work it
i'll be found necessary to take out all
le approaches and have the work done
yer again. 1t is expected that instead
the Sandstone steps which lead up
lere will be granite steps. as the sand
one has broken up by the action of the
Gather.
The latest figures on the fruit crop in
swa as furnished by the secretary OF
lie State horticultural Society. show
at pears have stood the unfavorable
ason better than any other tree fruit.
he percentages for Aug. | are as fol-
ws: Pears 81, summer and fall APP
es SIS. winter apples SIS. American
unis AZ. grapes So. European or do 5
estic plums 26 and Japanese plums 80.
There are not many pears In Iowa, G
lid Secretary Greene, but they have
,me out we'll. They are mostly in the
sach halt We have some reports from