Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-22
FOR BIG ENGAAPN[N1
Elaborate Preparations Being
Made for the Annual Re.
union OF the 6. A. R.
Des Moines Expects the Largest
Attendance Of Veterans in
Many Years.
Unusual Increase in the Mem.
bership Of the 0rder-Cap.
ital Comment.

are Oe1ng MADE for the annual Depart
ment of the G. A. r. in this city next
month, and 1t is confidently believed
any meeting in recent years. The local
committees are at work Zealously or
the program and 1t will be good one.
Some special features will be attempt-
| ed for the benefit of the encampment
and number of distinguished persons
will be present feature of the en-
campment promised by Commander
George Metzgar that will be pleasing
to all the old soldiers will be the COM
pleteness of the reports and the show
! ing of prosperity in the order. The
reports will show a total membership
last June of 1929 against 10.999 of the
year before This extraordinary in
crease is more apparent than real, be-
cause reports were not received at all
from about eighty posts last year,
while this year every post has report
ed without exception. There were
losses of posts in What Cheer, DeSoto.
Birmingham. Tracy, Dows, Albion, Ja-
maica and Lovilia, and new posts or
ganized in Prairie City, Conway and
Rockwell. The reports will show also
that the posts are generally In better
/ financial condition than heretofore,
having $3.094.69 in their relief funds
and having expended S1,764.5S for relief
| OF the $50 posts in the state Crocker
post, of Des Moines. is the largest, hav-
ing 263 members. The number of camps
of Sons of Veterans has increased from
twenty eight to forty-five in a year.
George A. Lincoln, state fish and
game warden, states that by reason Of
the wide publicity given in the news
papers to the fact that the legislature
failed to make an appropriation for
the support of the fish and game COM
mission, some embarrassment has fol-
lowed, as many persons thruout the
state got the notion that the whole
game laws are therefore OF no avail and
Ky can go ahead and shoot indiserim=
inately. "The first letter got from a
deputy warden" said Mr. Lincoln. "in
which he mentioned that the sportsmen
were assuming that they have a right
to violate the law now, / treated as a
joke. Then got some more letters of
the same kind. and have had about 100
of them, all stating that sportsmen are
assuming that there Is no law against
hunting and fishing. This is unfortu-
nate. as it will take time to get the in
formation around again and convince
the hunters that we intend to see to it
that the law is obeyed, appropriation or
no appropriation. We will take care
| y I,
Mr.. Lincoln appeared before the exec
utive council yesterday afternoon and
presented the matter to secure what aid
he could from the council. There is
about $4,000 unexpended in the general
fund of the special appropriation in re-
gard to stocking the streams with fish
about $1,000, part of which will be
used. The council will do something
and thus the fish and game laws will be
upheld regardless Of the legislative
blunders.
It is good news that comes from
Cherokee In regard to the well which
the board of control had bored at the
state hospital. The members of the
board greatly feared that one we'll
would not be sufficient and that an
other would have to be put down. They
got big pumping engine and pumped
two days at the we'll at the rate of co.
600 gallons day and then run the
machine up to 100000 gallons day and
the we'll was as full Of water as ever.
This is convincing that the state has
all the water that can be used at Cher
okee and the one we'll will serve the
purpose.
1t has been decided that the Odd Fell
lows will hold their supreme grand
lodge in the Des Moines auditorium.
Nobody seriously thought of taking the
state capitol for this purpose, but the
talk about 1T served we'll as an adver-
tising topic for outside consumption.
The Auditorium will hold all who be-
long to the supreme lodge and 1t will be
one of the greatest of lodge meetings
ever held In the state.
An important meeting of the state
railroad commissioners is being held
this afternoon, being a rate hearing of
miscellaneous character Some time
ago new complete schedule was got
out, embodying all the new rates estab-
years. Since then several supplement-
al schedules have been got out, on
things which have come up since the
last publication. The meeting today Is
to consider quite number of new mat
ters in which both shippers and the
railroad men are interested. At the
same time the state executive council
is in session to listen to the suggestions
of railroad men as to the best way to
carry out the new law in regard to uni
formity of railroad accounts to the end
that the executive council may have
the best possible information on which
to base the assessments of railroad
property The law reads in regard to
this matter:
.The executive council shall have the
power to prescribe such rules and reg
ulations with respect to the keeping of
accounts by the railway companies
doing business in this state as will in
sure the accurate division of earnings
as aforesaid, and uniformity in report
ing the same to the executive council.
"The executive council shall have the
power to prescribe method for all
railway companies doing business in
this state, together with rules and reg