Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-11
AMES NAY HAVE PRESIDENT
Meeting Of Trustees Called at Which
Question Will Be Taken Up,
ROOSEVELT is TO VISIT DIES MONIES
Miners and Coal Operators Take Cd
the Question of Scale for Year,
but VIII Require Several
Days to settle IL.
ROOSEVELT is TO VISIT DIES MONIES
From a star correspondent.l

NfTom n stan COrrespondentD
DES MONIES, March 1O.-(special. "A
meeting Of the board Of trustees Of the
Iowa State college has been called to meet
March 26. The board is expected to take
some action Immediately with reference to
the presidency Of the college. 1t has been
going along smoothly the last winter with
Prof. e. W. Stanton, acting president, at
the head. Prof. Stanton has been with the
college from the beginning and was OF the
first class graduated and has been on the
faculty ever since. He has acted as Sec
rotary of the board many years and is re-
garded as one of the men on whom the
board has relied at all times. II is under
stood that he is being favorably consid-
cred as a possible candidate for president
OF the college. Several Of the older mem
bers Of the board favor him. Prof. Curtiss
Of the agricultural department also has
many followers. Aside from Profs. Cur
tiss and Stanton, the board has considered
seriously many other names, including
President Cruikshank Of the California
School of Technology. President ]. w. Hes
ton Of the South Dakota Agricultural col
lege. President Shelton Of Simpson college
and Secretary Of Agriculture James Wilson.
Roosevelt to Visit Des MOine
Governor Cummins had an interview with
President Roosevelt when he was in Wash
ington with special reference to the visit
OF the president to the west in the spring.
He was assured by the president that II is
his intention to go to the far west as soon
after the close OF the senate session as
possible and engage in hunting, and he
pledged himself to stop off at Des Moines
on the way west and deliver an address.
The date for the trip west and his meeting
in Des Moines cannot be known until near
the close of the senate special session.
Coal Operators and Miners.
The Joint conference of operators and
miners was commenced this morning.
Charles H. Morris of this city, president
Of the operators association, presided, and
Secretary White Of the miners union, acted
as secretary. TIL rules of last year gov
erning the conference we're agreed to. A
feature of the convention was a speech by
John p. Reese, until recently president Of
the Mine Workers union, but now in the
employ Of the operators. The operators
started out with expressions of an earnest
desire to reach an agreement at once, but
insist that IL they are to grant ar increase
in wages they must have some concessions
in other matters. The conference will last
several days before anything definite is
done.
Saw in Omaha.
Another man has seen ex-Marshal w. A..
Richards and knows that he is not In Mex
leo now. A few days ago J. w. Reininger
OF Shenandoah, who Is well acquainted with
Richards, was riding on a train from Lin
coin to Omaha, when he came face to face
with Richards on the train. The ex-mar-
shall saw that he was recognized but
quickly turned his face and did not show
himself to Mr.. R%eininger. The latter
watched him and saw that n woman met
him at the union depot in Omaha and the
two took a Tenth street car for the south
part OF the city, hurrying away from the
depot as rapidly as possible.
To Build Industrial school.
The Stuart Improvement company OF
Stuart. Guthrie county, was incorporated
today with $40, 900 capitll by p. L. Sever,
John Herrlott, ]. r. Dosh and other resi-
dents Of Stuart. The company is TO engage
in all work for the upbuilding Of the city
Of Stuart, but the primary purpose Of the
association is to secure the land for the
proposed state industrial school for the
Seventh Day Adventists, which has been
located at Stuart. The people Of the city
are to donate the land necessary for the
school and the Adventists will do the rest.
Prosecuting ItinerRnt Doctors.
Secretary Kennedy of the State Board Of
Medical Examiners was called to Boone 10
testify in a suit brought there against G. H.
Heath. an itinerant doctor, who had been
arrested accused OF practicing in Iowa with
out having been properly certified as a
physician. DR.. Heath has been travelling
in the state claiming to heal everything
by magnetism. his wife being a clairvoy-
ant and another member OF the family
making a speciality OF compilations. Sec
rotary Kennedy testified that Heath is not
entitled to practice. He was released on
bonds and will he tried tomorrow for vlo-
Iation NJ the atate law