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teots are inclined to favor two small
er structures. They believe that the
agricultural department should have
Its own building. Prof. Charles e.
Curtiss is now making tour of the
colleges of the country with view
to determining what should be done.
To Wait Another Year.
The trustees of the Agricultural col
lege have tacitly agreed that no selec-
ton of president for the institution
will be made until next year. Prof.
Stanton will remain as nominal presi-
dent until the vacancy caused by the
death of President Beardshear is filled.
Henry Wallace, of Des Moines; Profs.
Cnrtiss and Stanton. of the college,
and number of other educators and
prominent Iowa men have been men.
toned in connection with the place.
1t is the general belief that the trus-
tees will go outside of the state for
a man.
Dcs Moines Man n Candidate.
Z. c. Kenyon, of Des Moines, will
be candidate for member of the
executive committee of the United w.
pothetae of America at the convention
OF the master printers in Pittsburg,
Pa, September s. He is now n vice
president of the organization. He will
get the support of Kansas City, st.
Louis, Des Moines, st. Paul and other
large western cities, including. posi-
bly,, Chicago, in his contest for the
executive committeeship.
Iowa Man Appointed.
Frederick d. Cloud, of Des Moines,
has been appointed student inter-
prefer to China. He is one of ten of
these officials authorized by an act
of the last congress. He will go to
China next month and will be connect
ed with the American legation in
Picking, where he will be under the
direct orders of Minister L. II. Con-
ger, of Iowa. The ten student inter-
prefers are sent out by the government
at $1,000 a year for two years to learn
the Chinese language. When they
have mastered it at the end of two
years they will be assigned to work
in the legation or at some consulate.
Their business will be to act as in
terpreters between this government
and the Chinese in official and COM
mercal negotiations. All of the APP
pointees are to be young men, it be-
ing the purpose to make the work
profession and the interpreter a life
official of the government. The young
men took examination at Washington
recently, the examination being con-
Quoted by Interpreter Cheshire, who
was with the Congers during the siege
of Picking.
Three Candidates.
There are three candidates to sue
coed Z. w. Poerterfield as grand chan
cellor of the Knights of Pythias of
Iowa at the meeting of the grand
lodge in Des Moines, October s. They
are: O. NJ. Gillett, of Independence;
Z. B. Hawkins, of Morning Sun, and
John Springer, of Iowa City.
Republican Nominations Closed.
The nomination of William Hoffman,
of Muscatine, for congressman in the
Second district, by the republicans last
week, closes the republican nomina-
tions for this year. Mr.. Hoffman is
the only new nominee. Congressman
j. n. w. Rumple declined to stand for
denomination. which was conceded to
him, because he was i'll. All of the
other members of the delegation have
been renominated. Mr.. Hoffman is
a lawyer. He was born in Germany
in 1915. The family lived for time
in Philadelphia, after emigrating to
this country, and settled in Muscatine
county in 1852. At II William Hoff-
man enlisted in the army. After the
war he was educated at the state uni
varsity In 1872 he went into the prac-
tice of law at Muscatine. He married
Miss Irene Hutchinson, of Ohio, and
Gratis have begun to make their con-
gressional nominations by naming
John +. Craig in the First district TO
run against Congressman Thomas L.
Hedge. He resides at Keokuk. He
is silver democrat, but the congress
sional convention did not reatlirm the
Chicago and Kansas City platforms.
10 HONOR KOOScNe1t. 2.
Ia.Ga-Iig temple of the Mystic
Shrine will meet in Des Moines Sep
TENDER 30, to do honor to President
Roosevelt, who will be here at that
time, and to enjoy special reunion
and banquet in addition to parade,
in which the imperial officers of the
order will participate. These include
Imperial Potentate Akin, of Omaha,
and Deputy Imperial Potentate
Greene, of Texas. Il is expected that
fully 900 shriners will attend the
meeting and march in uniform from
their temple TO the train which brings
President Roosevelt here.
iowa Men Start n Bank
Iowa men have organized a new
bank. to be opened at once in Mime
apolis. MINI. 1t is to be known aus the
Clarke national. A. d. Clarke, of AL
gona, Ia. Is the president; F. L. Will
liams, mis- son-in-law and resident of
Minneapolis. is vice president, and S.
p. Barr, of Swea City, is the cashier.
Judge c. I. Granger, formerly of the
supreme bench of Iowa, and Homer A.
Miller, cashier of the Des Moines saw
ings bank, of this city, are heavy
stockholders. \. d. Clarke formerly
was in the banking business at. AL
gona, in this state. Recently he bought
100000 acres of land in North Dakota.
LEON BROWN.