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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
Is FLOODED WITH GOLD
Amount Of Gold in United States
States Treasury Greatest
In History.
Increase Has been Marvellous
Since July 1901, and Still
Continues.
Strong Evidence Of Prosperity
and Confidence Of Nations
Financial Success.

Washington, Sept. s.The sum Of
gold now in the United States treasury
exceeds that Of any previous time In
the history of the country and with
one possible exception exceeds that Of
any country at any time in the history
of the world. About eight years ago
Russia is said to have had in Its treas-
Iury s59s,000.o0O in gold. Last Satur-
day the vaults of the United States
treasury contained $573, 936, 1914, an In
crease since July 1. 1901. Of 379,0S7. .Ss7.
This stock of gold is now being added
to at the rate from 100000 to 100000
per day with no immediate prospect Of
cessation in the rate of deposits. This
condition Of affairs is eminently yatfs-
factory to the treasury officials who re-
gard it as the best possible evidence
of prosperity and confidence in the a.
nancial stability of this country.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
REGARDED AS PIRATES
Haytian Government Regards It's In.
terests as Untouched by the Sinking
Of the crete-a-Periot, and So Notifies
Berlin.

Berlin. Sept. S.-The German foreign
the Haytian government has coihmuni-
Gated to Germany that Hayti regarded
the Firminst gunboat Crete-a- Pierrot
as pirate and the interests OF Hayti
untouched by the action of the German
gunboat in sinking the Crete-a- Pie
rott.
The marine ministry has given out
the following official report Of the sink
ing of the Crete-a- Rierrot:
Capt. Eckermann, of, the Panther,
had received orders to capture the pi-
ratical gunboat te-a-Pierott. The
Panther went to Port au Prince to
Gonaives. where it completely surprised
the Crete-a Pierrot. The German COM
mandant sent the following ultimatum:
Strike your colors within fifteen min
utes and disembark from your ship
without undertaking any defensive
ate attack will follow The Panther
5Crete-a- -Pierrot hauled down her flag
within the aliOleQ lllHe ana lHe crew
disemharked. The Panther then inteiid-
ed to take the Crete-a Pierrot in tow.
but an explosion of her after powder
magazine occurred, which was evident
ly effected by the Crete Pierrots
crew The explosion destroyed her
stern and set the vessel on fire. render
ing taking her in tow impossible. espe
cially as further explosions followed.
AS this was regarded as a hostile act,
and as the guns afore We're still in con-
dition. the Fanther's captain caused the
forward magazine to be exploded thru
cannonade. After this was exploded the
Crete-a- Pierrot broke upand sank The
admiral was on board with the rebels.
Gonaives is in the hands of the rebels"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08

something that stands as far above IN
tellect as intellect does above mere
brute Observation-Disclosures that Is COM
posed of honesty, courage and hard
common sense"
The president told Of his trip over the
battlefield of Chickamauga yesterday
and drew the lesson of heroism shown
by the armies of the north and the
south. The men who composed these
armies, he said, possessed requirements
of which good citizens are made. He
referred to the Inscription on the mon
ument raised by Kentucky to the union
and confederate soldiers from that
state who fell on the ba.tlefeld He
read the inscription as foeows:
LAS we are united in life and they
ore united in death, let one monument
perpetuate their deeds and one people.
forgetful of all asperities, forever hold
in grateful remembrance all the
glories of that terrible conflict which
made all men free and retained every
star on the nations flag
"That is a good sentiment, that IS q
sentiment by which we can all stand.
"And. my friends. that sentiment has
in it the underlying spirit of brothers
hood.
I firmly believe in my countrymen
and therefore. believe that the chief
thing necessary in order that they
should work together is that they
should know one another; that men
north should know the southerner; that
men of one occupation should know
men of another occupation; so we may
all realize that things that divide w
are superficial. are unimportant and
we are and ever must be knit together
into one indissoluble mass by common
American manhood rs the president
concluded he was roundly cheered.
After the auditorium meeting the
presidential party took carriages and
led magnificent parade thru the
principal streets of the city. Compos-
ing the parade We're citizens in car
liages, representatives of the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Firemen and tho
entire Seventh Cavalry regimen.
mounted details of police and local
of the state guard. The
procession stopped at the country
court house. where, from an improvised
platform, President Roosevelt delivered
short adress to 10000 people.
The exercises were cut short by rain
and the presidential party fastened to
the Central depot, taking the train at
1880 over the South railway for Knox
vile, Tenn.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
MAY BE FILIRusTER.
Vessel Said to Carry War Stores Sails
From Baltimore,

y
Baltimore. Sept s. With every
member OF her crew armed with a ri
file and wearing a belt loaded with
cartridges the little steamer Maid of
Patuca left Baltimore yesterday. The
agents OF the steamer announced that
she was to be used in building ietty
at the mouth of the River Patuca in
Honduras, but 1t is understood along
the water front that the steamer is a
genuine filibuster and that she is carry
ing ammunition to the insurgents i'll
Colombia. In her hold are cases of
dynamite and boxes of rifles, with a
large quantity of ammunition and SIM
liar warlike stores.
In charge of the outfit is John Toole.
who was engineer on the famous fill
ibuster Three Friends. which carried
arms to tia GAhasssis
The Maid of Patnca is owned i'll
Cleveland. Preparations for her voy-
age We're made under the direction of
q man giving his name as w. NJ. Dill
hoefer. Mysterious boxes put aboard
the vessel bore the mark Maid of Pa
.tuca, SINNERS snipyard. Notify Mr..
Dillhoefer at the Carrollton."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
cHURcHMEN RAID A JOINT.
One Man Wounded in War Wagcd al
Kansas City, Kan.

Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. s.-'rhe raid
on a joint in Kansas City, kan. last
night by dozen churchmen, durins
which one man was shot and another
seriously hurt, has aroused a bitter
war between the churches and the
joints.
A mass meeting OF 500 church peo.
pie was held in the Washington Street
Methodist church today. at which q
fund of $500 was raised with which
to begin crusade against the joints
The churchmen who were arrested by
the police last night We're refused bali
until committee from the mass meet
ing today waited upon County Attor-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
BEEF TRUST PLAN GIVEN UP.
Packers Said to Have Become Alarmed
NJ Stockmen,s Ihreate. Ms

Packers Said to Have Become Alarmed
at Stockmen's Threats.
Denver. Sept. S.-President John W..
Springer, of the National Live Stock
Association, has arrived at the con-s
clusion that there will be no beef trust
in the immediate future.
"The beef trust" said Mr.. Springer.
"has gone where the woodbine twineth.
We sent letters to the packers which
stated in plain terms what they could
expect If they went into a combine to;
control the price of beef.
Coming from an organization COM
posed Of men who have paid their debti
and are In financial condition to p,lt
up redhot fight, this notice caused
the packers to reach the conclusion
that it would be the part of wisdom to
go very slow. They quit talking about
organizing trust, and this is probably
the end of it,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
STRIFE OVER DULUTH MINISTER.
Congregation Of Chaplain of Minneso.
ia LeusIature Divided.

Duluth, Sept. S.-A sensation in
church circles has been caused here by
the news that the directors OF Grace
Methodist church, prominent west
end congregation. have ousted their
pastor, Rev. Harry Knowles. The
question OF requesting him to resign
was put to vote and carried. Rev.
Mr.. Knowles friends on the board and
in the congregation have succeeded in
getting him reinstated, temporarily at
least.
Rev. Mr.. Knowles is chaplain of the
Minnesota legislature, active in repub-
lican politics and radical and strenu-
Gus reformer. He is at the head of an
organization which aims to suppress
gambling, disorderly houses and abolish
slot machines in northern Wisconsin
and Minnesota.
The congregation Of Grace church is
divided into two factions. one opposed
to and the other supporting the pastor.
Rev. Mr.. Knowles says he will resign
If the hostility Is not removed. He
preached as usual Sunday
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
SENATOR ROACH DEAD.
Former North Dakota Statesman Dies
In New York City.


New York. Sept. S.-Ex-united
States Senator William Nathaniel
Roach died yesterday rom cancer at
his residence, is West One Hundred
and Twelfth street. He had been i'll
since last November. Senator Roach
was born in Washington, ID. c., Sept. %,
1870. He was educated at Georgetown
University and during the civil War
held position in the quar,erinasters
department.. While in Washington he
was employed for time rs cashier OF
the Citizens National Bank. He left
the bank in 1879 and at the time it was
charged that he had embezzled 1000
of the banks money.
He was not prosecuted and went to
North Dakota, where he settled at
Larimore. There he prospered and was
three times elected mayor of the city.
He also served one term in the terri
torial legislature. He ran twice for
governor on the democratic ticket, hut
was defeated. He was elected to the
United States senate after thirty-three
days balloting on Feb. 20, 1893.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
INVITATION ON SCALP.
Arizona Indian Fighter Sends Unique
Commute alton to President.

Arizona Indian Fighter Sends Unique
Communication to President.
Los Angeles. Cal, Sept. S.-Charles
Pt!Gsuows, better known as Arizona
Charley has forwarded to President
Roosevelt unique invitation to join
his expedition to Tiburon Island, that
land off the coast of Mex
leo in the Gulf OF Lower California, into
the interior of which ii is said no white.
man has ever penetrated. 1t consisted
of the scalp of an Apache Indian. the
text of the invitation being inscribed
on a small metal shield which was
riveted to the scalp.
With a band of forty or more adj
venturers who have had experience up
on the cattle ranges of Arizona, Mea
doMs will leave Los Angeles about
Oct. for Guaymas and, procuring
IL small sioop. will proceed to the is
land.
The scalp is that of an Apache chief
tan named Juan Dazen, who, with
sixty of his redskin raiders, was killed
at Canyon Creek, adjoining Crescent
Valley. in 1854 by a party of thirty
men, composed of the Tewksbury
brothers and number OF COW punch
erS.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
JOHNSON TOOK sTRYcHNINE.
Son Of Deputy Sheriff of Pottawatta
mic Suicides Over Woman.

Council Bluffs, Sept. s.-Robert A.
johnson, son of \. Johnson. deputy
sheriff and court bailiff at Avoca, Ia.
committed suicide by swallowing
strychnine yesterday in the apartment
of Il woman Eamed Cora Lehigh. ut 6o2
Broadway The young man was in
fatuated with the woman, and killed
himself when she refused 10 promise
TO marry him as soon as he had Sc
cured a divorce from his wife. from
whom he had been separated several
months.
No inquest will be held. This makes
two tragedies within few week in
the same family. An elder brother.
Fred. was few weeks ago Knocked
down and killed by man named Hec-
tor on the streets in Avoca during an
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08

lis lent to this from the fact that the
road is to go into ST. Louis over the
new line of the Rock Island and use the
Rock Island terminals. There are in
timations also that the company has
a deal with the Santa Fe company
and that the Santa Fee trains from KAN
sas City will go into st. Louis over the
new road. What appears most likely
is that the road is to be independ :
but will afford an entrance into q
Louis for the Rock Island from !.
points, for the Santa Fe frot 4e
southwest, for the Iowa Cent = nd
Minneapolis and st. Louis rof - rom
the north. The right of way been
secured in Missouri the entif stance
from the Iowa line to a. nection
With the Rock Island near oC Missouri
river in ST. Charles coup 2 che right
of way goes thru the cou. of Mont
somery, Lincoln, Audrians;nA onroe. Ma
cor, Adair and Putnam. These are
nearly all good coal counties. The route
in Iowa leads direct into the largest
coal field of the state as yet but partly
developed-.that in northern Appanoose,
Monroe and Marion counties. 1t is be-
lieved here the line will continue north
dianola and come into Des Moines over
the Rock Island tracks, also affording
an opportunity for the Rock Island to
run a train from Oskaloosa over a new
route into Des Moines. 1t is certain
that the line is being built also for the
exposition traffic two years hence.
The big Portland mine suit has at
last come up from Council Bluffs and
case of John Doyle VS. James +. Burns
let al. The abstract of evidence in the
case just filled makes book of 427
pages. 1t appears from this that Burns
and Doyle entered into a contract In
regard to locating mines, or that Doyle
grub staked" Burns The latter 10
Gated several mines OF what is now
called the Portland group but failed
TO divide with Doyle. The company
to operate the mines was organized in
Council Bluffs tho all the parties live
in Colorado. Doyle sues for $1S6,0o0
on account Of his alleged share in tl1..
Bobtail No. and $434,000 on the
Devils Own and Tidal Wave. He got
judgment by default at one time for
S717, 900. but this was set aside and on
trial got verdict for $446,522.73. Burns
and his associates appeal. Burns is the
owner of the Colorado Springs base ball
club. Among the lawyers in the case
are Wright & Baldwin, Carroll Wright,
Walter l. Smith. Charles Saunders. ex-
Gov. c. S. Thomas, and Senator T. NJ
PatterSOE
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
T.-R BULLETIN.
NOTICEABLE NEWS OF TO-DAY
Weather.

Weather. So
Sun rises 5:34; sets 6:21.
Iowa-Fair tonight and Tuesday,
preceded by showers in the south
east this afternoon; cooler tonight and
In the southeast Tuesday.
Illinois-Showers this afternoon and
tonight; cooler tonight; Tuesday, fair
and cooler.
South Dakota-Fair tonight and
Tuesday; cooler tonight, with light
frost.
PAGE ONE.
Teiegraphic News.
Roosevelt Addresses Firemen.
President Made Member of Brother
hood.
Much Gold in the Treasury.
A School Boy Suicides.
Cholera in the Philippines.
Chicago Papers Unfair to Iowa.
PAGE TWO.
iowa News in Brief.
Bartholi11's Body Identified.
Fatal Accident at Stratford.
From All Over Iowa.
PAGE THREE.
Iowa News Specials.
Gang of Robbers Caught.
Democrats Continue to Desert.
Drake Wins His Case.
News Of the State.
PAGE FOUR.
Editorial.
Growth of An Iowa City.
Iowa, Ohio and Johnson.
The Bartholin Scoop.
Business Features.
Topics and Iowa Opinions.
PAGE FIVE.
General News.
Had Mania for Clothes.
The G. A. r. Encampment.
Miscellaneous News.
PAGES six AND SEVEN
City News.
Thieves Make Good Haul.
DR.. Black Resigns.
Wild West Show May Quarter Here.
Mrs Minnie Stone Weds.
Hard Coal Scarce.
A Marietta Musical.
The City Field.
PAGE EIGHT.
tewa and comncrcia!.
Condition of the Markets.
Mondays Market Quotations.
Serious Explosion at Boston.
Haytian Gunboat Sunk by German.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
METEOR SPLITS MOUNTAIN.
Aerial Visitor Commits Depredations

Aerial Visitor Commits Oepreoatlons
and Then Continues It's Journey.
Buena Vista. Col. Sept. S.-Beaver
Peaks was torn asunder early Saturday
morning by meteor that descended on
the twin mountains with a roar that
awo,e everybody in this place and pre-
tcipitated shower of meteorites over
the surrounding country. The visitor
crossed the sky at 2:s0 o'clock, vavel-
ing in sout.,erly direction and disap-
peared down the horizon with shrill
screeching resembling a steamboat
whistle. Apparently the aerial missile
was not over two feet in diameter. but
reports from the peaks this afternoon
say a new canyon has been opened up
between the peaks. a phenomenon that
can only be ascribed to the impact of
the meteor. Searching parties will so
out in the morning and important sci-
entific developments are expected. AT
the time of the contact the city was
subjected to a severe vibration, resem-
bling a seismic shock.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
BOLD ROBBERY IN MILwAukEE,
Delivery Clerk Forced to Surrende,
$100 in Broad Daylight.

Milwaukee, Sept. s.--A daring hold
up by three highwaynien. in which
delivery clerk for the Steinmeyer Com
pany lost 500. has Just become public.
Yesterday afternoon Walter r. Lau-
der. delivery clerk. was driving along
on the Blue Mound road, when NE was
halted by three men. who climbed into
the wagon and thrust a revolver in
LADDERS face. With the command to.
keep silent or his head would be blown
off. They took the money he had Sc
cured from his collections.
Mrs. Ferdinand Taddey. living near
by, and her son Paul We're watching
cows in an adjoining field, and hearing
the noise ran forward to see what was
the matter. This startled the highway
men. and they disappeared in the ST
Paul yards. They We're later followed
across the valley. but there all traces
wara 1oSt
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
FIGHT WITH OUTLAWS
Four Men Killed in Desperate Battle
Between Outlaws and Sheriff's Posse
in Tennessee Mountains.

Rogersyille. Tenn, Sept. Slim
Wright and John Templeton. two noted
Hancock county desperadoes. were
killed and Wright's son captured by o
posse of twenty-five near here last
evening. In the engagement Wright
shot and probably fatally wounded
George Wolf and Jack Rogers, both
members of the posse. Wright was an
escaped convict from the penitentiary
where he was serving sentence for
murder. Wright and Templeton are
said to have killed six men each.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
FARMER DROPPED DEAD.
Prominent Scott County Farmer Dies
Suddenly at Davenport.

Davenport. Sept. s.-John n. Claus
sen, a well-llnown Scott county farmer,
died suddenly from heart disease SAT-
urday While sitting in a chair in the
barn in the rear of the Schleswig- Hol-
stein hotel. He had arrived in the city
but a short time before death with a
load of potatoes, having come with
them from his home two and cne-half
miles northeast of Mt. Joy on the lie
Claire road, and did not complain of
feeling badly until he had disposed of
his load and unhtched his team in the
barn in the rear of the hotel. of which
his brother-in-law. Fritz Reimer, is the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
choctaws to Move West.

New Orleans, La, Sept. S.-The
Choetaw Indians of Mississippi. who
renamed behind when the rest of the
tribe moved to Indian territory seven
ty-two years ago. after the treaty of
Dancing Rabbit Creek. have finally de-
cided to take advantage of the offer
made them of allotments in the Indian
territory and will move there this fall.
each getting 800 acres of land. The
senatorial committee which visited
Mississippi a year ago TO make list
of the choclaw clsimants in that state.
found over 1000 OF them, Of whom only
two could remember the Dancing Creek
treaty
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
Mitchell, Denies Story.

Wilkasbarre, Sept. 5. = President
Mitchell stated today the report sent
out from Scranton to the effect that
he told friend the strike would be
over September is and the strikers
would have to go back to work to save
the miners union was pure fabrica-
lion.' It is stated here that the Par
sons. Pa, local United Mine Workers
passed resolution to return to work
September is.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
Iowa Notes.

A total of seventy-one cases were
tried in the Burlington police court
during the month of August.
A. X Clifford Of Davenport has been
nominated by the socialists of the Sec
ond district for congress
About 1sO priests are in attendance
at tla annual retreat being conducted
at Dubuque by Archbishop Keane.
The Sioux Valley Baptist Association
is in session at Sibley this week, with
about sixty delegates in attendance.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08

closed. The new mayor says that a
rock pile awaits tramps and lawbreak-
ers aud other radical reforms will be
added 1t was considered that the
liquor men were responsible for the
election of the new mayor, hence the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
BEDFORD HAS DRY SUNDAY.
Indiana Towns First Closed Sabbath
Is Result of New Mayor.

Bedford Ind, Sept S.-Bedford was a
dry" town yesterday for the first time
in its history. Mayor Hickson Smith,
who has just entered office, declared
that all saloons should obey the law to
the letter, and that not even pacK en-
trance should be open on Sunday. Ihere
was a great commotion among the
faithful" when they found every sa-
loon shut. When they tried the drug
stores they found them shut also, and
restaurants and Ice cream parlors were
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
DIES REFUSING MEDICAL A.D..
Denver Man While Singing suceusnhs
in Christian Science Church.

Denver, Sept. William Neuroth
expired suddenly last night in Chris;
tian church. refusing medical attend-s
ance while the congregation sang and
prayed over the dying man. Neuroth.
was consumptive. and for awhile be-
fore becoming subject to the "healingr
was rapidly improving. Mr. and Mrs.
Neuroth occupied their pews in Ne
church daily. 1t was while they were
singing that Neuroth had the hennorr-
hage which carried him away It is
said he often declared medicine and
doctors to be a curse. Three others OF
his family are said to have been taken
off the same way
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08

Federal Judge w. H. Clayton has 60
MED bond to Charles Collard. poea-S
master at Kiowa. Ind. T., and Ge0rkes;
S. Beatty, young physician, whosNeresl
indicted for the killing Of Gyp Raileys|
the Cincinnati, O.. clothing sA)e1
ct Kiowa last May. sssa ss9
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
BEAT MINERS FATALLY
Pickets Attack and Beat to Death In
nocent Italian Miners at Wilkes
barre, Pa.

wi!kesbarre, Pa, Sept. s.-Two
striking italian miners left their homes
in Swoyersville. near here. this morning
to go on hunting trip. AS they ap-
preached the Harry E. colliery they
were held up by pickets who mistook
the mfor armed non-union men going
to work. One Italian was beaten to
death and the other so badly injured
that he will probably die. Friends of
the Italians threaten to Kill the men
who committed the assault.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
~ Enrisht and prevailed upon him

ney Enrisht and prevailed upon him
to arraign the men,
Andrew Mathey, proprietor of the
joint fearing more trouble. has gore
to the Missouri side of the line. The
county attorney has assured the church
people that he will close the joint
tomorrow.
Paul w. Radamacker who was shot
and stabbed, is in a precarious condi-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-08
Pharmacists in Convention.

Philadelphia. Sept. s.-The fiftieth
annual convention of the American
Pharmaceutical Association began here
today. More than 700 representative
chemists and druggists from every sec
ton in the country are in attendance