Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-24
TIE PEOPLE REGRET /
Roosevelt's Change Of Plans
Great Disappointment to the
People OF Iowa
GREAT PREPARATIONS DROPPED
GREAT PREPARATIONS DROPPED
pes Moines Would Have Entertained
Record Breaking crowd-RepubIiean
Committee Secures Some Excellent
campaisners - Foraker, Hopkins,
Lundis and Payne.

Lundis and Payne.
Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 24.-The abandon
n1ent Of the trip of President Roosevelt
into Iowa causes the greatest regret
among all the people, and today many
expressions were heard from citizens of
all political parties. Great preparations
had been made for the reception to the
president here, and it is doubtful If any
reception to a president would have
been the equal of the one awaiting
President Roosevelt. He was to speak
from raised platform in front of the
Iowa soldiers monument facing the
south front of the Iowa capitol, and
thousands might have congregated on
the slope of the capitol lawn to have
listened to the president. What was
troubling the Des Moines people as
much as anything was the fear that
some accident might happen either to
the president or those OF his party or
others by reason of the great crowds
that were sure to be on hand. Speclal
committees We're at work to provlde
safeguards for the president and the
spectators. Governor Cummins was to
have taken special car on Ihy sday
evening for Sioux City, where hs you'd
meet the president on his first trance
into the state. The governor and
party of friends and newspaper men
were to have accompanied the presl-
dent to Arion and Denison. Later they
were to meet him again at Clarinda and
accompany him to Des Moines, Oska-
loosa, Ottumwa and on to keokuk and
the governor would probably have gone
on to ST. Louis to be one Of the party
of distinguished guests from the states
OF the Louisiana territory at the Mer-
chants Club banquet in st. Louis in
honor of the president. Governor Cum
minis had received a pressing invitation
to be one of the speakers at this BAN
quet. All these plans have been upset
by the change of purpose on the part
OF the president.
y;tforney Genera! Mullan has not yet
commenced proceedings TO condemn the
right OF way over the famous Bona
parte dam for fishway. BY a law
which went into force July last he is
required to commence proceedings in
court and establish the right of the
state to provide a way for fish to get
up the Des Moines river If that is pos
sible. The state legislature again has
asserted the sovereignty of the state in
this matter, and altho the state has
been defeated before in litigation in
volving this dam another effort will be
made. 1t is known certainly that the
owners of the dam will make another
hard fight in court to prevent even the
establishment of fishway over the
dam they have tried to sell to the state.
One of the owners of the sdan1, Mr..
Meek, is candidate for the nomination
for member of the legislature. which in
dicates that the owners are not yet
done with legislation on the subject.
The attorney general will begin pro-
ceedings as soon as the coming term of
the supreme court is out of the way to
test the right of the state to build
fishway. At the same time there is
project receiving encouragement in
southeastern Iowa to have the dam vir-
tight and to form a big company for
using the water power in operating
electric trolley lines in that part of the
state. One line is projected from Bur-
lington to Bonaparte and on to Keosau-
qua and possibly up the Des Moines
valley to Ottumwa.
One George b. McAlister, Of Balti-
more, represented to be "a close stu
dent of postal problems, and who is re-
sponsible for the use of city postal
cars is being featured in Washington
dispatches as the originator of the very
novel idea of having mail boxes on all
street cars. He is quoted as saying
that he thinks it feasible, etc., and
hopes trial will be made. This makes
sDes Moines people smile, for all the
street cars in use in Des Moines, more
than hundred, have been equipped
with mail boxes in daily use for four or
five years with perfect satisfaction to
all. Des Moines claims to be the first
city in the world to establish this sys-
TEN.
Some surprise is expressed that the
late Winfield S. Stratton. the Colorado
millionaire. left no bequests to anything
or anybody in Iowa. 1t is true that he
lived but few months in this state.
but he made many friends, and with
some of them he had kept up an ac-
quaintance thru life. He was carpen-
ter by trade and left Indiana to seek his
fortune in the west. He stopped at
Eddyville, Iowa, and among other
things worked in a drug STORE as n clerk
for time. But he tarried only a few
months and went on to Colorado,
where he found a gold mine, which was
afterwards sold to English persons for
$10,000,0O0. In his will he made many
bequests. He had also given away a
great deal of his easily secured wealth
to good purpose during his lifetime.
1t transpires that the chief reason
the Iowa delegation to the national G.
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