Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-17
1902

pany gave away s1,5O0,0OO in bonuses
and prizes sold it's tobacco cents be-
! low cost of production and manufac-
ture and spent millions in advertising.
The Independent company declares that
! it is still prospecting.
A recently published pamphlet re-
calls the old dispute of two friends as
to whether the word news" was singu-
lar or plural. They autographed to Mr..
Greeley the question: Are there any
news" and he promptly flashed back
the answer: Not new
Crop reporters are still puzzling over
the extent of damage done by the two
severe frodsts The government sum
mary indicates that more than half the
corn crop of Iowa was too far adj
vanced TO be seriously hurt.
The Hartford Courant says that the
announcement in the Courant that a
caretaker was to be appointed for the
John Brown farm, rent free, has
brought an increase of correspondence
to the postoffice that has given the inn
preston that the Rev. L. C. Richards
had started a chain letter. One apple
cant claims to have been fighter with
john Brown. Others have various rec
concentrations, and they hail from all
parts of the country. One veteran di-
rected his letter to John Brown evil
IDENTIFY supposing that as long as Ibis
soul was still marching on" John was
still doing business at the old stand.
Some of the letters, it is said, are mod
els of quaintness, and will be cher
ished in the archives of the John Brown
Association.
George w. Cullison has accepted the
democratic nomination for congress in
the ninth district, but there is a long,
dreary road between acceptance and
capturing the prize.
The American exodus from Europe
as the season advances is SO great that
sengers and state rooms command big
prices. The total number for the week
aggregated 5000 people.
Alexander r. Shepherd, whose death
was recently announced in Mexico,
when governor of the District of Col
unbia, did much for the Improvement
of the city of Washington. He changed
it fro m a municipality of narrow and
muddy streets to one of broad and we'll
paved boulevards. but the enormous
expenditures involved aroused so much
opposition that he was forced out of
Office. But in little more than two years
the national capital had been changed
from one of the most unhealthy cities
in the country to the most wholesome,
and it was beautifled in every way.
Charges of corruption against Boss
Shepherd, as he was called, were pre-
sented, and q congressional investiga-
ton followed. with many allegations of
corruption, none of which We're sus-
tanned.
$50 you regard trusts as positively
beneficial?"
Il do" answered Senator Sorghum,
II speak with positive knowledge on
the subject. They have benefited me
.''--Washingto Star.
After his retirement from the post of
at Berlin Andrew D. White
will settle in Ithaca, N. Y. He is now
at work on book of "reminiscences at
Berlin in 1S79-S1, as minister at st. Pc
tersburg in 1924 and as ambassador
t oGermany from 1897 to his retire
ment in November next. He is also at
work on a volume describing the new
Germany of the last decade, which has
grown from an agricultural to a big
power. His personal remin-
iscences will also contain much inter-
esting biographical and anecdotal ma
terial relating to Mr.. Whites personal
relations with Emperor William.
DR.. Harold w. Fairbanks, geological
expert, has just finished five months
trip along the ridge of the Rocky Noun
tains from British Columbia to Next
co, photographic all noticeable por-
tons. He rode on a bicycle where it
was possible, and tramped the remain
der of the way. In the Virgin Canyon,
Colorado he nearly lost his life, as he
all day without water on a
high mesa trying to find the trail that |!
led to the river, $500 feet below. He
took over 1000 photographs of the great
canyons, and now has a collection sec
ond only to that of the United States
geological bureau. He took the first
pictures of the Virgin Canyon, which,
he says, is far more impressive than the
Grand Canyon of Colorado.
The new 13-cent stamp which the
postoffice department is about to issue
will bear the likeness of the late Presi-
ient Harrison. The new stamp is de-
handed by the enormous increase in
foreign registered letters and will sat 4
sfy a long-felt want. The engravers
nj the government printing bureau who
are at work on the new stamp pro- +
lounce it the neatest piece of engraving
done by the government on stamp
work.
Down in Kansas Leavenworth coun-
" is disgruntled to discover thatgDonl-
,han county has the more apple trees
rhe latter has 454,o1S. while Leaven- :
worth has 451,697. The two are among
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