Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-04
FLETCHER HOVARDN[S
Demise at Colorado Springs, of
Member of State Pharmacy
Commission
DATE OF FUNERAL NOT SET
Arrangements Will Bo Made BY Mrs.
Howard Upon Her Arrival in Dos
Moines Observation-Disclosures Fav.
orabIe For Press Bureau at the
State Fair Grounds Next Year.
Special to Trmes-Republlcan.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, March 4.-Word OF the
death of Fletcher Howard, state phar-
macy commissioner, at Colorado
Springs. reached Secretary Phillips o!
the commission yesterday afternoon ir
a telegram from Colorado Springs
1t was known when Mrs. Howard was
| in Drs Moines few days ago thai
turned to him she made all arrange
ments for the funeral service. MIR
| Howard was n thirty three degree Ma
son, one of the few in the state ant
the Masonic order will have full charge
| of the funeral. The funeral service
will be held In the First Baptist church
of this cIty and DIR. John A. Writ
pastor OF the st. Paul's Lutheran
| church, Will deliver the funeral SER
mon. The party accompanying the
| remains will leave Colorado Springs
| today at 11:45 a. m., according to the
| teleBraphic information and the trip
takes about twenty-six hours. THE
| remains Will therefore arrive in Des
Moines tomorrow afternoon. The date
Of the funeral service will be deter
mined upon by Mrs. Howard on her
arrival here.
The committee of the state fair asso-
citation which has been meeting here
for, the past few days, has about de-
ri1nH mako az no n
press bureau at the fair grounds next
year. This bureau would gather the
decisions of the Judges in all the a.
wards and thus assist the newspapers.
Heretofore the newspapers have been
forced to gather this information on
their own accord and have done so
with great difficulty and have been
unable to set it accurate. This is one
reason for the fair association taking
the matter in hand to secure accurate
reports. These reports will be fur
nished to any newspaper in the state
that wishes them. =
State house officials are victims Of
omnipresent solicitors and canvassers.
All the religious organizations that
exist thru small contributions gather
ed here and there and everywhere ex-
cept from their own members make
the state >hohse regularly. Some of
them sell publications. Some of them
have little glass globes with slot to
put the money in thru and they beg
outright State house officials vary
in the attitude they maintain towards
these interests. The solicitors, or beg
gars, as the less particular call them
rarely see the governor as he Is usual
Gly busy every minute of the time he is
at the state house and his conferences
being of the nature they are the door
to his private office is usually closed.
But to the other offices they enter
without ceremony. John Briar. the
sionally buys a copy of the publication
that is offered, especially if he is talk
ing with some one, and buying a copy
is the easiest way to get rid, sof the
agent. Il. w. Garrett, the pardon clerk
in the governors office, buys a copy If
he happens to have a nickle in change
handy and doesn't want to be bothered.
The only person We know of VITO
regularly buys a copy is Col. Bousquet
deputy clerk of the supreme court.
Very frequently however, he pays the
nickle and refuses to accept the copy
on the plea that he Is too busy to read
it. Tom Grubb in the clerks office,
tells them the clerk is out, and thus
avoids the main issue. Secretary Dav-
idson of the executive council grumbles
a little but frequently buys a copy
rather than be bothered. Superinten-
dent Riggs does the same. The rail-
road commissioners office is a poor
place for solicitors They neither buy
to get rid of solicitors not get inter-
ested enough in religious publications
to buy for that reason. The easiest
marks for these people soliciting
the members Of the executive council.
Most of them will buy copy of a re-
ligious paper or tract when the agent
once reaches them, but the pocketbooks
of their deputies are not so easily
touched. A number about the state
house refuse to buy "for principle"
They claim it only encourages beg
ging. Occasionally there is talk Of
starting a movement to shut such
people out of the state house, but that's
as far as it ever goes.
One organization calling itself a
church exists in Des Moines and regu-
larly sends children and others to the
state house.. 1t is known that the or
ganization gives 60 per cent of all that,
is collected to the solicitor and gets
but 40 per ceent itself.
. .
The first case on the supreme court
docket to be argued orally Tuesday at
the opening of the third period is the
famous Louis Busse murder case from
Butler county which was tried on a
of venue in Bremen county.
Busse was convicted of numbering his
wife, Lena Busse on June Is, 1901. The
trial was held at the March, 1902, term
in Bremen county, The principal wit
ness at the trial was a young boy of
is, who had lived with Busse for sew
EN- years. He testified that Busse had
quarreled with his wife within a few
weeks after their marriage and. on the
day of the murder had sent him and
Buses two little children down the
road to shoot robins. When the boy
came back Busse was in the barn and
theere was blood on his shirt The boy
was sent away two or three times dur
ing the day while Busse is supposed to
have completed his work. He was in
dicted for numbering his wife and burn
ing the body by pouring kerosene oil
over it, and igniting it. Busse was
sentenced to be hanged and the SUI