Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-11
MAJOR LACEY AND PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT ATTEND UNIQUE
CLUBS BANQUET.
Senator Perkins OF California Wants
Allison to Remove TO the Pacific
slope-Van SAINT Will Re-enter Tow.
ing Business on Missisisslppi River.
[BY HAROLD j. MAHTN.l
washington Bureau OF the Courier
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Feb. 40.

Washington, D. c., Feb. 10,
Major Lacey and President Roose-
welt were the two speakers at nota-
BILE banquet given in Washington last
Saturday night 1t was the annual
meeting of the Boone and Crockett
club, a sporting organization organized
by the President. The club Is unique
one with membership limited to 100
members. Major Lacey is one Of the
honorary members, elected by the club
a year or two ago. The late Speaker
Reed was elected at the same time.
The annual meetings of this club are
the one occasion when the President
relaxes himself absolutely from his ex-
ecutive dignity and becomes zone of
the, boys" The purpose of the or
ganization is the discussion and fos-
tering of the good of sport and num-
! bers among it's members many of the
famous sportsmen of the day and the
well known writer's of serious articles
or fiction dealing with hunting, fish
ing, etc. The primary cause of Major
Laceys election as an honorary mem
Der was his valuable service to the
government in introducing and get
ting through congress various laws
for the protection Of birds and game.
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The Washington Post says that Sem
ator Perkins, of California. wants SEN
ator Allison to come out to that state
to live. He says that II tho famous
Iowa statesman would do SO California
would elect him senator for life. The
remark was the result of discus
sion the two senators had over the
severity of the weather. Senator ALL
son was critically regarding the great
weather map in the senate corridor
and noted with a shiver that it was In
the neighborhood of twenty-five de-
grees below zero at his home, Du-
bnque. Senator Perkins expressed
his horror of such weather and then In
a burst of enthusiasm made the above
proposition.
!, The recent announcement that Gov
ernor Van SAINT of Minnesota was GO
ing to return to the active direction
of his towing business on the Misss-
tsippi forms a striking contrast to other
recent announcements of the final
closing down of various famous saw
1 mills along the Father of Waters.
/ When Governor Van SAINT was In
A Washington not long ago he remarked
A With regret on the announcement that
5, the Musser sawmill at Muscatine
would not be. running again next sum-
! mer. He said that the Mussers had
been among his best customers, pay.
ling him during the years that lie towed
logs for them more than $1000,000.
4 Secretary Wilson and several mem
bers of the Iowa delegation who were
4 acquainted with Edward a. Goodnow,
4 of Worchester, Mass, were grieved to
hear this week of the death Of that
we'll known philanthropist! This news
lis of interest to Iowa because while
Mi. GoodrW lived in the east his hene-
factions rad extended almost over the
entire country. He gave $4,000 for a
library and observatory at Grinnell,
and $4,000 for the Mary Grinnell
Mears cottages at Iowa college. Mr..
Goodnow was "a years old when he
died.