Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-23
LO|HDOP' 5 GOOD WORK
Dug Up an Old War Claim That
Will Net Iowa Half a
Million.
Supreme Court Passes on One
Lawyers Gross Ignorance of
His Profession.
Members OF Legislature Oppose
an Extra Session.-Rifie Prac.
tice May Be Postponed.
Special to Times-RenubIican.


Des Moires, May 23.-Ex- Senator
Lothrop, of Sioux City, attended the
grand army encampment in Des
Moines this week and greeted many
of his old friends. The captain is
greatly pleased with the situation in
regard to the Iowa war claims. He
has reason to believe that within sixty
days the entire amount of nearly $780,
600 will be in the state treasury of
Iowa, as refund from the government.
If this is true it will be one of the
greatest victories for the captain which
he ever engineered. When he started
in on the matter nobody believed there
was anything to the claim. Governor
Shaw, credited with marvellous
shrewdness, failed to discern any merit
in the claim and not until Captain
Lothrop had presented the proofs pos
litive and made repeated arguments on
| the question was the governor and
other members of the state executive
tcouncil convinced that 1T was worth
while presenting such claim. Now
/ it seems certain that at last part
of the claim will be paid promptly.
The evidence Captain Lothrop pre-
sented appears to have been without
q flaw. During the week there haa
Ebeen some discussion as to how much
lCaptain Lothrop ought to receive as
compensation for having dug UP and
lpressed to a conclusion this forgotten
claim of the state. The matter has
ibeen left by the legislature entirely
to the executive council, and if Captain
! Lothrop should be able to get for the
/ state nearly half million dollars 1t
would puzzle the members of the ex-
| eeutive council to know just how much
to pay him for his labors,
| There appears. to be some uncer-
tainty as to where the next G. a. r.
will go. In fact there seems to be no
great desire to secure it. The matter
was left with the council of admins
| tration and it will be settled in good
| time. An effort will be made to in
duce Cedar Rapids to wake UP and
make q good offer Tor the encampment,
but Mason City and several other cities
are being considered. Mason City is
not ready for the encampment as yet,
but wants to wait until the new Ma
tional Memorial University is more
nearly completed, when the veterans
will be invited to go there. There has
been a well defined movement to in
duce the council to locate the next en-
campment in Des Moines, but in truth
the Des Moines soldiers are not want
ing it very badly. They are willing
some other city shall do the entertain
ing next year.
The last of the railroad companies to
executive council was the Marshalltown
& Dakota which has just filed it's an
nual report of business done This was
filed after the table had been made up
showing at glance the business of all
the lines in Iowa, and it was ready for
the printer. The tabular work is being
done now and soon the executive coun-
ell will be in possession of statistical
showings by which it can be seen at a |
glance what is the condition of the Iowa |
companies But the reports show, on |
the whole, that the business done has
been more profitable the past year than
ever before in the history of Iowa rail- |
roading.
That the standard for admission to
the bar in Iowa is not now too high |
came near being made plain by the SUI
preme court in a decision prepared by
Judge McClain in a case from ALBANIA
kee county. 1t was a case involving /
title to some lots in Postville. The low
er court was affirmed because the law
yer who had the case in hand for the
defeated and aggrieved party failed to
how to make an appeal to
the Iowa supreme court. The opinion
mentions the fact that the abstract is
not in accordance with the plain rules
of the court for it consists of 134 pages
of pleadings set out in extenso, with
long abstracts from rulings and great
quantities of the evidence verbatim
with questions and answers, which is
not an abstract of the case as contem-
plated by the court. The argument for
the appellant is also declared to be not
an argument at all and it makes no ci-
tation of authorities or presents any
proper plea. Under the circumstances
the appealing lawyer lost his case.
Edward A. Temple, head of the Bank
ars' Life Association, of this city. was
one Of those who plated the original
town Of Mt. Ayr. and he has just sold
the last lot he owned of the original
plat. He owned land a part of which
was where the town was located when
he county seat was established there
n 1855. He sold a lot the other day for
$50 which he had owned for forty seven
years. He doesn't own any more of the
own This was the first transfer of
hat lot since the government patent
vas issued to Mr.. Temple
Members of the state board of control .
estimate that by the delay of two years
n making the purchase of land for the
state farms in connection with the state
the state is compelled TO ,
Day just about twice as much as 1t ,
would have had to pay for the land
needed. The prices which the board is
paying for farm land indicates that
owa farms are regarded as yeritable
sold mines.
Quite a number of the members OF
he legislature have been in Des Moines j
he past few days attending one or the |