The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-31
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BOOM FOR GUARDS Gu 5
Government Will Make Big Issue
y IA SIS; F Eli Il 85$te 80
Of Krags and Improved Spring
field Rifles.
Two Regiments From Iowa to Par
ticipate III the Maneuvers i
at Fort Riley.
i6peeial to Tho Journal,

| 1mpOEIdnLN tISlIl$ mas =DSeu EeApeCteu, Will
be the effect on the Iowa national guard
Of the new Dick bill passed recently by
congress. Adjutant General Byers, who
has just returned from Washington, has
shed new and interesting light ON this
subject. II expectations are realized, the
guard of this state, and of others as we'll,
will be strengthened in a wonderful de-
gres. Already 10000 Krag-J orgenson
magazine rifles have been ordered to, the
arsenal at Rock Island for distribution
to the guard Of Iowa, Minnesota and sur
rounding states. The ordnance depart
ment has also sent rifles to other points of
distribution through the countrys Adj
jutant General Byers expects the rifles
for the Iowa guard to reach Des Moines
in two or three weeks. tE
Assurances have also been given the ad-
jutant general, who is the vice president
Of the National Guard ASSOCIATE on,< that
when the regular army Is equipped with
the new and improved Springfield rifle.
the guard will get the same weapon. This
rifle Is being manufactured by the govern-
ment with view to eduipping the regular
army with it as soon as a sufficient supply
of weapons is on hand, 1t Is a magazine
gun of the very highest type and probably
superior to the best rifles used by the
armies Of Europe. In some respects it ex-
GELS the Krag. ...-..' rs. f..
Two regiments of the Iowa guard will
be sent to the maneuvers at Fort Riley
next fall. This is the program Of Secre-
tary Root The expenses Of transporta-
ton and subsistence for each regiment
will be borne by the general government.
The troops will also receive, regularly,
wages from the government for the time
they are away from the state. The only
expense to the state will be the per diem
allowed the guard by statute. The regi-
ments that go to Fort Riley will receive
a strenuous training In real campaigning.
These regiments will not attend state
encampment, the trip to the maneuvers
being In lieu of the usual state camp
Then, too, it is practically settled that
one regiment of the guard will be sent
| to the dedication at St. Louis, April 80 Of
this year The regiment that takes the
| ST. Louis trip will also be shut off from
camp in 1903. Thus there will be left
| about one regiment out of the four to go
| into camp this year. The Des Moines
army post reservation, General Byers
says, will probably be the location of the
encampment. =.
| For the trip to st. Louis, provisional
regiment may be organized, embracing the
twelve companies that had the highest
average on inspection and Workmanship
in 1902. - a.s. f&s&
Judge A. H. Mcvey Of the Polk county
| district bencf, will render a decision to-
day in a test case Involving the consti-
tutionality Of the inebriacy or dipso-
! maniac law passed by the last general
assembly. The law will be declared I'M
| constitutional, according to reliable fore
| casts Of the opinion. -. 80.
l. SIOUX CITY, IoWA-Jofn A. sChantry
tof Mount Vernon. s. D., asscattleman,! re.
ported serious conditions on the ranges
| west of Chamberlain. He said that from
nearly every house from twenty to seventy
dead cattle could be counted. These have
starved to death because of the length O.
time the grass country has been covered
| with a hard crust Of snow and ice. HI
says the situation is the worst in years.
The dead body of Mrs. Sarah E.sOwan, {
Syrian -ped1er, was found.ein the Esloyt
I river yesterday afternoon. ~ ,, >>z3-. " {
:; DAVENPORT, IoWA-Rey., George Gig
Il linget, secretary to Bishop Cosgrove, re
+ ceived letter threatening death to thu
bishop and promising that the homes q
all the priests in Davenport and Of AL
dernon Lunger and George W. Cabl
would be blown up. The bishop ordere,
all Davenport priests to preach agains
winerooms, gambling and all-night sa
looms, creating a. sensation, and as a re
suit Davenport has been cleaned up.
oskALOoSA, ioWA-A bloody stab
bling ARRAY took place in the public high
way near the little town OF Rose Hin
Farmer Sarvis and William Armstrong
had dispute over a settlement for labo
a performed by Sarvis. Armstrong drew
+ a knife and plunged it into Sarvis' throat
a 1t narrowly missed the jugular vein an
Sarvis almost bled to death before he'll
;. was secured. Armstrong Is under ar
4 rest. ~--, =
OTTO, lOWA-For the first time credit
ors of the Otto bank, bankrupt, kno'
: something Of what they will receive upo
their claims. An inventory of the as
/ sets, just filed, places their value at S.
l 6s7.1s, which will not pay more than ]
cents on the dollar. The total claims al
s5o,57s.s3. unsecured, and $166,4S4, pa,
TALLY secured.
s MT. VERNON, IoWA-At Bertram,
/ few miles west, the Colorado special o
5 the North Western last night ran into
u freight standing on the track. The en-
| ,iuee1. and card11ctcr Injured II,