The Minneapolis journal., 1902-10-27
IOWA
BOTH SIDES ARE CONFIDENT
Iowa Democrats Expect to Gain Several
Seats In Conqress.

0SJ olD6S fAnE
Iowa Democrats Expect to Gain Several
Seats In Congress.
DES MONIES, IOWA-A sanguine view
as to the results of the election In Iowa
is taken at the democratic campaign
headquarters. State Chairman Jackson
says he regards the election Of Judge
Wade in the second district assured and
that the prospects are in favor of Reese
and against Lacey in the sixth district.
He says the tide in the first district is
running strongly in favor of the defeat of
Congressman Hedge and the election OF
John e. Craig Of Keokuk, the democratic
candidate. He also feels the general in
difference Of the republicans and the Vigor
of the democrats in the third and fourth
districts are likely to accomplish surpris-
ing results and elect Boies and Sorter
over Birdsan and Haugen. He has thus
far given no figures on majorlties
State Chairman Spence Of the repub-
lican majority in the state, says the re-
publican committee, while making no es-
Inmates on the republican majority In the
state, says the republicans will carry
every congressional district.
Chairman Malcolm Smith of the prohi-
bitionists says his party will be able to
a year ago, when over Is, 900 votes were
cast.
The republican speaking campaign this
week will be one of remarkable energy.
There will be a strong line Of stump ora
tors In the field. Secretaries Shaw and
Wilson will both speak, and also Gov
ernor Cummins, Senators Allison and DOL
liver all but two Of the congressional del
egation and a host Of other good speakers
Boost for Municipal Ownership.
The supreme court, in an opinion writ
116pa Waa in the OttunWa
waterworks case, has greatly strength
ened the cause Of municipal ownership in
Iowa. The city entered into contract
for the erection Of a municipal water
works plant costing 100000. Private per-
sons endeavored to enjoin the carrying out
Of the contract on the ground that 1t
would carry the city beyond the constitu-
tional limit Of indebtedness Of 8 per cent
Of the taxable value of the property. The
supreme court reverses the lower court,
which granted the injunction, and holds
g. debt of this kind is not such a debt as
is referred to in the constitutional pro-
hibition as to mourning indebtedness.
The case of the state against w. M.
Mcfarland, ex-secretary of state. in
which the state IS suing for recovery on
the bond Of Mcfarland for funds ne is
alleged to have wrongfully appropriated
in managing the census department of the
state In 1895, is on the docket for submls-
sion this week, but will probably be set
tied out Of court.
C. F. Wennerstrum, ex-labor commits
sioner, who has returned from Sweden,
Norway and Denmark, where he has been
for the last six months as special COM
missioner for the st. Louis exposition,
says there will be extensive exhibits from
those countries at the exposition in CO.
ramics and jewelry and that the iron and
steel industries will be we'll represented.
State SuffrasIsts.
The state convention of the equal suf-
fragists will be held in Des Moines Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday Of this
week. Several delegates have already
arrived. Mrs. Adelaide Ballard of Hull,
the state president, is here looking after
the preliminary arrangements. Mrs. Car
rie Chapman Gait will give an address
Wednesday evening and, president Of
the National Woman Suffrage association,
will be accorded. an enthusiastic recep-
ton. Mrs. Evelyn Belden, formerly of
Sioux City, now of Washington, ex-state
president and long at the head OF the
legislative committee Of the state associa-
tion,= Is expected to attend the conven-
ton.
Congressman Conner Of the tenth dis
trict, in an interview here, expressed the
opinion that Congressman Cannon Of llli-
nois would win in the contest over the
SpCdhC1 Ill llAo 4lONoO'
GRINNELL, IOWA-The thirteenth an
nual meeting Of the Iowa Library associ-
alton will convene in this city Tuesday and
continue until Thursday evening. The
local committee, composed OF people from
both town and college, has made great
preparations to entertain the visitors, and
meeting of m ore than usual interest is
expected. Some Of the prominent men of
the state will have parts on the program,
among them Judge II. E. Deemer OF the
Iowa supreme court, Johnson Brigham IL
brarian of the Iowa state library; Judge
H. M. Towner of Corning, DR.. E. M. Wit
tum Of Grinnell, F. F. Dawley Of Cedar
Rapids and President Dan F. Bradley of
Iowa college. The first session will be
held Tuesday, evening, at which President
Bradley will give the address Of well
come. This will be responded to by F. F,
Dawley, president of the association
Music will be furnished by the Iowa Col
the address will be delivered by Rabbi
Emil G. Hirsch Of Chicago, on the sub
ject, Libraries and Education" This will
also be the first number of the college lee
ture course, and a large audience is ex-
pected. The last session, on Thursday
evening, will be addressed by Melvil
Dewey, director of the New York state Ii
III OIL dAN VI Il AA1oSOA VI SAA0 DS"SJ oJSSSAA
Of cataloging. About one hundred dele
gates are expected. The meeting Of the
Iowa library commission will be held
here at the same time. The officers OF
the library association are: President B
F. Dawley, Cedar Rapids; vice president
Philip M. Crapo, Burlington; secretary
Mrs Margaret w. Brown, Charlton; treas
urer, M. H. Douglass, Grinnell.
SIOUX CITY, IoWA-Bishop J. p Gar
rigan has been donated twenty acres OF
land upon which to erect an. orphanage,
parochial schools and a. chapel. The dona-
tion is made by a. syndicate owning the
surrounding land, and the property is
worth $1O,OOO.-Tom Martin and Harry
Lawson, BARRIERS, and Sophia Leckband, a
girl of 20, who has just been released
from the Home of the Good Shepherd at
Omaha, enticed the 15-year-old daughter
Of q prominent family. Officer Lester
caught the girls, but while taking the
| younger girl to the station, the other gir
| skipped the town with the barbers.-
Eleven heirs of the late Senator James G.
Fair will reopen the contest over his s4O,-
600, 900 etstate and each will claim S2,OOO,.
| 600. OF the eleven, eight are the sons
and daughters of William Fair Of Ids
| Grove, Iowa; another IS James Fair OF
| San Jose, CAL, son Of Andrew Fair, form.
| erly Of Ida county, Iowa, and another is
| Wesley Carruthers Of San Jose, whose
mother Mrs Margaret Fair Carrl1thers