The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-19
IOWA
ARMoRY FOR DIES MONIES


6uldIng Is Assured After Many Years Of
Effort.
DIES MONIES, IOWA-After years of
effort, the Des Moines companies of the
Iowa national guard are at last assured
of an armory. 1t will be provided by the
erection Of a third story on store property
owned by l.. II. Bush on West Walnut
street. The building will be designed es-
pecially for armory purposes and will
afford commodious quarters and a drill
hall Of ample size. The companies in Des
Moines are A Of the Fifty-fifth regiment
and the First Signal company It is prob
able the providing of suitable armory
quarters will lead to the organization OF
a third company There is one company
missing out of the Fifty-ffth regiment.
This is, Company H., until recently at
Stuart, now mustered out.
Judge S. F. Prouty whose term on the
Polk county district bench will end Dec.
81, Is planning on a thorough tour of
Europe next summer. He will then re-
turn to Des Moines and engage in the
practice of law. He wasa candidate for
congress1in the seventh district against
Ca ptai!A Gull last spring and he will be
a candidate in 1904. He, and his lieuten-
ants are laying plans to that end and the
organization Of the recent Polk County
Republican club is supposedly in his in
terest. He is anxious to enter the con-
test again and is confident he can defeat
Captain Hull or any man whom the cap
tain may name as his legatee. The chief
difficulty in Prouty's road appears to be
in the counties of the district outside OF
Polk, as an effort to unite on candidate
in the outside counties is probable.
Professor L. Fl. Pammel of the Iowa
state college has submitted, to the Iowa
Louisiana Purchase Exposition commits
sion a Unique project for the world S
"a in ic f0 1ov ont NV =
feet planted SO. as to show the natural
characters of the vegetation in the differ
ent parts of the state. He proposes to
have the tract laid cut in the exact form
of the state. with cinder paths represent
ing the principal rivers, such as the Des
Moines, Cedar. Big Sioux and Iowa. He
has asked the commission to allow the
Iowa State Park and Forestry association
take up the plan and plant the ground.
1t is probable that John P. White, sec
rotary of the United Mine Workers 81
America, District No. Is, comprising Iowa
and Missouri, will be elected president OF
the district to succeed Pohn P. Reese OF
Abba. Mr.. Reese has withdrawn from the
miners and is now commissioner for the
Iowa coal operators. Mr.. Reese's actor
is due not only to the fact that they madt
him a f1attering business propositions but
also to the fact that he is resentful OF
the disaffection displayed toward him II
| the sixth district last November, wher
| Congressman Lacey was elected to con
gress over him because the miners, as
usual. did not hang together. The nex1
president will be chosen at distric
meeting in February. There will be 6
| joint meeting of the operators and miners
| in March. when the scale for the year will
be adjusted. There is little indication o.
| friction.
Superintendent Voldeng of Cherokee
hospital said to-day the state of Iowa wa:
| literally up against the proposition of ex
pending 100000 to 100000 at the mex
session of the legislature for suitable
| home for inebriates. He says it is gu
of the question to attempt to carry the
inebriates along at the insane hospital:
and a separate institution must be pro
vided. -.