The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-30
VISIT IOWA CITY.
LEGISLATURE AND STATE oFFI-
GERS VISIT UNIVERSITY.
Governor cumnins Dedicates New

lature and others left Des Moines ON
the a. m. Rock Island train for Iowa
City. Ninety per cent of the members
OF the legislature took advantage of
the excursion. Among the passengers
were Gov. A. B. Cummins, Senator
Jonathan T.. Dolliver, Lieutenant Gov
John Herriott Speaker Eaton. Chan
cellor William Bayard Craig of Drake
university and others.
Upon the arrival of the train Gov
ernor Cummins, members of the legis-
lature and guests were escorted to the
opera house headed by the battalion.
half way from the depot the march
ing party met the students of the uni
versity, with regents and members of
OF the legislature were seated on the
ents formed a double line reaching
to the opera house, the law and medi-
cal departments leading.
The opera house seats only 100 peo-
pie and hundreds who desired admis-
sion were turned away. The members
o the legislature were seated on the
stage, other guests on the main floor
and the battalion and as many as pos
sible of the students in the balcony.
On the stage, in addition to Governor
Cummins, We're President Mclean and
members of the faculty, Senator Dol
liver, Chancellor Craig of Drake uni.
versity and President William F. King
of Cornell college.
During the exercises large banner
hung suspended from the balcony star
| ing the legislators in tue face and bear
ing the words. "s25O,OOO for New
Medical Building"
| The mood for a nav h,1i1dipo tn ro.
place the structure used by the medi-
cal college destroyed by fire March 10,
1901, was emphasized by w. l. Babb,
| president of the board of regents, in
a brief address reviewing the history
Of the building.
President Mclean called the elev-
enth convention of the State university
to order, after which S. A. Swisher
presented Gov. Cummins with a gavel
made from wood taken from the first
capitol of the state
Governor Cummins made a brief
speech, talking less than zen minutes,
and then Introducing Senator Dolliver.
Dolliver also spoke briefly and in
happy vein. He said: 81 have labored
with the president of this institution
to get the president of the United
States to come mere. He has other
engagements. l also labored with him
in trying to get the greatest unofficial
man in the United States-Grover
Cleveland-to come here. He had an
engagement in South Carolina hap
pened to dedicate this new building of
yours two years ago, and now after
all this unseltish devotion | find N.Y.
self basely betrayed and the work of
making a speech again thrust upon
me.
Il know you do not want long
speech. With that banner staring me
in the face l realize that you do not
want to hear from me but want a
chance to get at the men who sit be-
hind me-members of the legilature. y
Dolliver then spoke OF dedicating the
building not to Iowa, but to the world.
Speaker Eaton, Senators Garst and
Junkin, Representatives Temple and
Chancellor Craig spoke briefly con-
graduating the university on the sue
cessful completion of the building.
At the conclusion of the xercises
the procession formed and marcehd
to the liberal arts building. Here oc-
Cured the formal opening of the
building, after which luncheon was
served at the Kirkwood hotel. Dur
ing the afternoon a reception was held
in the new building and the guests
visited the buildings of the university
and other points of interest in the city.
During the afternoon, also. President
Mclean held a reception at his resi-
4ence in honor of Governor Cummins
and memDers of the legislature,
Returning the train left Iowa City
at 5:17 p. m.
Railway circles are considerably in.
terested in the late proposition of the
Rock Island to extend it's line from
Fraser to Marengo. 1t is understood
the plan is complete, and that the work
of constructing the new line will be-
gin at once. A new line has been
completed from Rockwell City to Fra.
ser, Boone county. From there the
road will take an eastern route, pass.
ing through Story county at or near
Nevada, and cross the Northwestern
at this point. The Great Western will
probably be crossed at Baxter, and
from there the line will be laid direct.
ly east through Jasper and Poweshiek
counties and connecting with the main
line of the Rock Island at Marengo
The distance from Rockwell City to
4.4arengo is about $50 miles. Il is the
purpose of the Rock Island to cut off
about fifty miles in their line from
rockwell City, as it is now. east. The
freight traffic and especially the con-
signments of coal from northern and
central Iowa points is growing to such
an extent as to justify close connec-
lions for east bound freight. The pro-
ject has been under consideration in
the general headquarters of the Rock
Island for some llme, but until recently
has not been made known among rail-
way men.
Victor Fish and George Norman, for
whom the detectives have been look
ing since January 1, when they are
supposed to have burglarized Brown &
Co.'S general store at De Solo, and
carried off goods valued at $4,000,
were captured at Sioux Falls, S. w., by
Detective Loom Smith of Des Moines,
and Sheriff j. N. Haines of Dallas
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