Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-11
ALL WANT THE PRESIDENT
Scramble Among Iowa Cities fer Honor, Of
Entertaining Roosevelt
TO Be GIVEN A DINNER At DIES MONIES
Large Number from Des Mofnes and
Surrounding Town Preparing
TO Attend Reunion a.
Council BIuas.
(From a star Correspondent.)

NhTOm a STAN correspondent
DIES MONIES. Aug. lO.-(specIaI .l-Prep-
aratioDs are being made in several cities
Of Iowa for the entertainment OF President
Roosevelt the last few days Of September.
The exact date Of his coming 70 Iowa has
not been announced. but II is known he will
be here the last Of next month. He Is to
remain an entire day in Des Molnes and will
visit OskaIoosa. ottumwa and a number OF
other cities. making only short stops In
each place. The entertainment OF the
president IN Des Moines will largely fall
upon Governor Cummins and ne has been
busy making some plans for this entertain
ment. It Is expected that there will be
a public meeting at which the president
will make a short address and where the
people can see him and hear him. 1t is
also planned that instead of a public recep-
ton and Handwriting affair, the president
be given a select dinner. to which leading
men Of the state are to be Invited. Cover
nor Cummins will personally have charge
OF this event. In other cities It is planned
to have the meetings where the president
can speak. Nov that It is know Roosevelt
is to be In Iowa there is q great scramble
among the cities to secure his presence and
pressure Is being used to induce him to
go to about a dozen different cities OF the
state at once.
Many Go to Reunion.
It is planned that a coach load Of the
veterans Of the war In the Philippines
will so from Des Molnes to the reunion Of
the national society at Council Bluffs. A
strong local organization has been effected
and there are q large number Of the vet
Grams who desire to go from Des Moines.
Besides, it has been arranged that the
member Of local organizations at Knox
willie and Oskaloosa will come to Des
MoInes and go on to Council Bluffs with
the Des Moinss contingent, so that It Is
certain there will be a carload OF the
boys.
Had Brother in Council BIusKs.
James Walker, the negro who is under
arrest In connection with the Finkelstein
murder, has a brother. Rev. John Walker.
living In Council Bluffs, and this brother
has already forwarded to the man IN trouble
considerable sum Of money to pay for an
attorney and to see that he gets a fair
trial. A good attorney has been employed
who is quite conndent that there will be-
nothing on which to hold Walker for the
murder OF FinkeIstein. Walker came here
about two months ago and nothing is
known OF him to make II reasonable to
suppose he was one likely to engage in
murder as q business. II IL claimed that
he had no acquaintance at all with Finkel-
stein. Levieh. wit IL now out on bsil,
has announced his intention Of suing the
mayor and the city for a large amount. and
to Offset this the city ofncials now announce
that the arrest Of Lsvich was by mistake
and 1t was not intended be should be ar
rested until further evidence was secured.
Trouble Among the strikers.
There Il trouble between the Electrical
Workers and the Telephone Operators
unions in connection with the strike in
Des Moines. One Charles Van Camp,
claiming to be authorised by the Electrical
Workers to take full control Of the strike,
came here from Minneapolis and assumed
charge over the local union He also com
menced tho organization OF a strike in
other cities. Investigation showed that he
was not empowered to act for the Elec-
trical workers. He was repudiated here
and went to Davenport, where later he
issued a card. questioning the name in
which the local Trades assembly leaders
had conducted the strike. As the result
of this q card has been issued by the
Trades and Labor assembly. denouncing
Van Camp, The latter undertook 10 call
of the strike Of the Electrical Workers
in lowe. but this has not yet been ac-
complished. The Iowa company continues
to do business. despite the strike, and is
apparently not interfered with at ali.
Use Union Labor Only. /,
Secretary J. H. strict Of the lows State
Federation Of Labor has received notice
from W. T.. Shepherd Of Harlan. secretary
pro tenn Of the Louisiana Purchase expo
sition commission for Iowa. that the reso-
buttons adopted by the state Federation
asking the Iowa commission TO employ only
organised labor in the erection Of the Iowa
building. has been placed on nie fer future
consideration. Letters have also been re-
ceived from all the members Of the COM
mission. except Chairman Larrabee, that
they are favorable to the proposition ana
that the question viii be settled by the
COMMITTEES before the contracts FOR the erec-
tion Of the Iowa building are let