Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-07-17
The Chinese of Brooklyn hav

Baptist church q man ,rial vim
dow for Mrs G .orgiana Mitchell
Sszar, wife Of Dr.. Nelson d Sizar
because OF her 9 nod work for the
many years i'm which she wac sup
rintendent of the Sunday school
for Chinese. The subject IF the
window ia "ti,e good Samaritan, :"
and beneath the picture are two
tablets, one in English, the other
in Chinese. A Chinese physlcian
started the matter and the COM
mittee i'm charge would not accept
a cent except from their conntry-
men.
a colored republican from Ala
bona says that Senator Fairbauks
of Indiana ls doing the rubber
shoe &C" in the southern states,
particularly among those who are
likely to be delegates to the next
national republican convention.
He ia said to have secured the aid
of some of the cleverest workers
in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia
and South Carolina. A lotof pa
triots who have been turned out
of office have formed an anti
neutrality-suspicious. aud declared
themselves for Fairbanks. "But
they may melt away from him as
they did from John Sherman"
says the Alabama man.
One of the richest farmers in
1.-THE Kansas wheat belt is John T.
Stewart, who came to the state
five years ago. He borrowed $50
from a friend, rented quarter
section of land in Sumner coun-
ty and began work. Today he is
worth S2,OO0,O00 and had an in
come from wheat in 1901 Of
SG4, 600 He is known as the wheat
king of Kansas. There are twen-
ty-three milliouaires in Kansas,
fifteen Of whom are farmers liy-
ing on farms and running them
AS an investment. Perhaps they
have not all Of their fortunes IN
vested in land, bnt n gooaly por-
ton of it is.
Lunar Ell. Holmes of SPRING
field, Mo, has refused to adopt
the name of Frisbie, though for
doing SO he would have received
$4,000. Louise Ffisbie, his aunt,
left him that sum ON condition
that he make the change, but he
refuses to do 80. He had a year
to consider the matter.
Reform school lads make good
fighting material, as England has
discovered recently. Lord Leigh
says that in in the south African
war soldiers who graduated from
reform schools won three Victoria
crosses, ten distinguished service
medals Cd. s. o. J, two promo
tions to commercial rank an -four
mentions in dispatches.
| Professor Ira Remson, who has
been elected to preside over mex,
winters meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science, has worldwide rep-
utation for his chemical research
es. Some Of his books on this
|subject have been translated into
German, Italian and the Russian.
He is a resident of New York and
was educated both in the College
of the City of New York and the
College Of Physicians and Sur
geons, but he subsequently
studied under Leibig at Munich
and Wohler at Gottinburg. It
was at the latter university that
he received his PHI ID. in 1870.
In the session just closed Sen
ator Spooner frequently acted as
mediator between contending fac
tions, coming to the front with a
substitute or amendment in the
nature of compromise. This near
ly always meant leaving the mat
ter to the president. 1t was
|Spooner who ran between Bailey
and Beveridge when they ''came
together. After that disturbance
was all over some one suggested
to him that he might offer one of
his usual substitutes, as "they say
the president is great at deciding
matters of that kind"
i W H Berry returned from Council
Il BlutTs tOday where he had been visit