Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-31
Former Marshalltown Boy,
Mourned as Dead for Two
Years, is Living
RECEIVES A LETTER
Earl Stubs, Son of Mr.. and Mrs. e. w.
stubbs, Formerly of This City, But
Now Of Emporia, Kan, is AIive-Is
POLITICALLY Dead,D According to Re.
cords Of War Department.

Mr.. Elwood w. Stubs, formerly SUI
perintendent of the Marshall county
farm, and at one time resident of
this city, received the good news
Thursday, at Cedar Rapids, that his
son, Earl p. Stubs, was alive, tho
officially dead according to the records
OF the war department. The young
man was reported killed two years ago
in the Philippines. and he has been
mourned as dead since that time. The
tidings that overjoyed the parents, ana
which will be received with delight
by the family's friends here. came In
letter from the son himself.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette Of Thurs
day evening has the following to say
concerning the receipt Of the word by
Mr.. Stubbs:
when e. w. Stubs opened a for
|eign postmarked letter and read 1t at
the Clifton hotel this morning he re-
ceived not only the greatest but the
most pleasurable surprise OF his life
time. It contained the information that
his son. E. E. Stubs, whom he and
his wife had mourned for dead for two
years. was still alive and the letter In
his hand had been written by him. Mr..
Stubs has the contract for boarding
the men employed In CONSTRUCTION work
on the Milwaukee railway and his bus
mess duties frequently require his pres
ence in Cedar Rapids. His home is In
Emporia, Kan. Several years ago his
son, who had been educated at the Up
per Iowa University in this state, and
who had also qualified as civil engineer,
enlisted In the regular army, and as
fortune or misfortune had it, he was
among the American soldiers in the
allied army that went to the relief of
the imprisoned and besieged diplomats
in Pekin, China. He was one Of four
of the American regiments who were
the first to scale the walls and was
awarded gold medal, which the de-
partment Forwarded to his parents,
Stubs fills appearing upon the army
records as dead The information
which Mr.. and Mrs. Stubs received
was that upon the return Of the Amer
lean regiment to the Philippines that
their son had been massacred on the
island of Samar This is the present
record of the war department. Mr..
Stubs is officially dead.
I'm the letter received by the father
here at Cedar Rapids he explains that
he had written number of times to his
parents, but all OF these communica-
tons were lost some way In transmits
sion. Having been reported dead by
the department the parents of
course had ceased their efforts to reach
their son in the far east. Mrs. Stubbs
could not be reconciled to the thought
that her boy was dead and never fully
accepted the departments history of
the case and Of which record the son Is
wholly ignorant. In the letter he ex-
planned that after leaving the service
that he had worked upon the Russian
railway in Siberia and in Russia in the
capacity of civil engineer and further
that he had visited Australia and that
he sailed from there for Ina, South
America, where he is at present located
and following his profession. He states
that he is doing finely in a financial
way and that when he returns to the
United States in couple Of years that
he will be almost Independent II his
good fortune continues Mr.. Stubs is
beside himself with joy and irnme diate-
" advised the wife and mother that her
son was living. The record of the war
department will have to be amended.
Young Stubbs is only "a years old"