Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-03

4 purchase. The first of these letters are.
dated at New Orleans in May, 1905. AMI
cover a period of two years. They con-
tain the views OF Governor Claiborne
on the questions of government of the
new territory. They detail at length the
way that the French and the Spanish
| in New Orleans liked the transfer from
the French TO the Americans. He re-
| cites in some of his letters the difficult
| ties ahead of the American govern
ment. 1t is probable that this book will
he given a place in the Mississippi eN-
hibit at the worlds fair.
1T seem to me-" objected the shaggy
| haired member of the committee on
resolutions, there amt 40 need of lug
gin in the names OF jefferson and
| Jackson
Darn it," exclaimed the chairman,
We've got to have something demo-
cratic in a democratic platform, haven't
we?" Chicago Tribune.
| Thus far the rains have done no seri-
Gus damage to Nebraska's winter wheat
crop.
| What are the social rights of a host
| ess whose guests. besides consuming
| quantities of festal daintes, make
away with her best umbrella? A Wich-
ita woman wrestled with that question
recently, and decided to have the law
on EN- She suspected certain
woman of appropriating the umbrella,
| lut the court refused to cause her ar
| rest on mere suspicion Not TO be baf-
fled in this way she took out a search
warrant for each and every guest, and
q constable served it on the entire list.
The umbrella was not found.
This is what you get for anneNing
the Philippines and their rainy season!
| A Chicago paper reports that during
June more marriage licenses We're is
| sued than in any other month in the
| history of Cook county, and the mar
riage license clerk said Tuesday that
this record would only remain for a
year. During the month just past
| a.525 licenses were issued, breaking the
record of last June by 275. Iowa statis-
| tics in this line were also record break
I ers.
| A Wilkesbarre Pa, husband named
George Sangfoss, who eloped with his
mother-in-law leaving his wife and
two children, evidently felt that he had
properly provided for the family he was
asserting. His farewell epistle to his
| wife reads:
Dearest Wife: I am gone, enclosed
plese you will find 80 eggs and 16 onions
ten dollars to feed Geniya and Badly
and you; don't forget the hog.
Your ma is my wife; she is all
wright, when she dies see if me and
you can fix things up again. When
the yitels is all bust the ten. Plese
don't get marrit because when your ma
dies come back to you maybe.
Your Husband, Once George"
His touching thoughtfulness of the
| hog and rec!lessness as to the integ-
rity of the ten" are evidences of
Georges tenderness and generosity.
No paper will be issued from the
Times Republican office on the 4th of
July.
Two opinions are held in London re-
speeding the next coronation: one as
sumes repetition of this years pro-
gram on the same scale of magnificence
q year hence if the king be lifting, or
the following year if there be new
Reign; the other presupposes a shrink
! age of the court functions at every
point, and an abridgement of the ritual
IL the abbey next October in the event
I Of the kings recovery.
The organization of the first perma-
nent census bureau of the United
States was effected in Washington on
the first. All the clerks who reported,
| $50 in number, Were regularly assigned,
! took new oaths of office and received
rev commissions.
The hard coal operators report that a
large number of the striking mine ems
| p,oyes have applied for work. The en-
| ployers are now confident that, with
one days notice, they can begin opera
| lions in most OF the mines.
David McMahon, a wealthy contrac-
tor of Philadelphia, has sailed for Ire
land, his intention being. it is said, to
1 buy Il historic castle near Limerick.
which he will turn into summer resi-
| dence, or perhaps q permanent abode.
Mr.. Mcmahon in times past has pur-
chased large pieces of real estate in
| Ireland.
The genuine test of aristocracy
among the Kansas weeklies is to be
| able to run Il department of items that
we're published twenty-five years ago
from their own files.
Down in Missouri Il Springfield po
| liceman found Il hotel guest roaming
ABOUT the streets in his sleep a few
| nights ago. He started TO lead the man
to Jail when the stranger protested. Il
am a somnambulist." 1T don't make no