Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-10
Miss Lavina Steele, Who Saved
University Students Life,
Tells OF Incident
NOT DEs,RIous OF PUBLICITY
Efforts to Secure Her Picture For
Publication Arc Without Success
Bears Honors Of Being Recipient of
Carnegie Medal, ModestIy-Lisht-
er Assessments For Candidates.
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Special to oTimes-Republicar.
Des Moines, April 10.-Miss Lavinia
Steele the young lady in tle state IL
brary who recently received Car
negie medal for saving the life Of Har-
ry Hill at Iowa City, is Of very re-
tir1ng disposition. Practically every
reporter in the city of loes Moines
has made an effort to secure her pic
ture for publicat ton but without sue
cess. Miss Steele is a graduate of the
Nebraska State University, and was
in Iowa City in the university library
at the time of her heroic d aed. Nearly
every year there are number who fall
thru the ice at Iowa City and not infre-
quently someone is drowned. One was
drowned last year. Miss Steele shrinks
from publicity and bears her honors
of being the recipient of Carnegie
medal with modest grace, but politely
refuses to discuss the matter. She did
explain, however, how it happened that
SO many of the students fall in there.
1t seems that for sire tch of about
five miles for some unexpla lainable reas-
on there are air holes in the ice even
In the most severe wea her. In the
moonlight the students fiild it practice
ally Impossible to discern these air
holes as they are skating and never
know where they are till they have
skated into one. 1t was in this man
ner that Mr.. Hill slzatetl into a hole
as he was skating in company with
Miss Steele. Quick to realize his dan
ger and with rare presence Of mind
Miss Steele was soon as near the hole
as she dared to go without breaking in
and was able to reach M. Hill In time
to save aim from dro wing. Miss
Steele has been at the STATE library in
Des Moines but short time. Her sis
ter, Miss Alice NJ. Steele is employed
at the historical building. Their home
is at Coon Rapids.
Walter Irish, chairman Of the Polk
county central committee, believes that
candidates under the primary cleo
ton law will not pay as heavy assess
method the central committee fixed the
assessment at whatever it thought was
needed. Under the present law, which
applies only to Polk county, any cam
didate can get his name on the ballot
by paying moderate fee. Under the
old method unless they paid the fee
the committee would not put their
names ON the ticket. The new law
fixes the size of the fee and the COM
mittee is powerless ..f a candidate
wishes to he can make no contribution
other than the fee required by law. 1t
is my belief that under this arrange
ment candidates will not pay as much
as they used to and the party at large
will have to contribute more.
sss
The gossip about the state house has
been rather to indicate doubt that the
interview with Governor Cummins in
Washington concerning his being a
candidate against Dolliyer was authen-
tic. The interview was telegraphed
Friday from Washington to an even
ing paper in Des Moines and the gov
ernor is quoted as saying:
81 reserve the right to keep my own
counsel as to what I will or will not
do a year or more hence. have
friends are making none. All the
stories that I propose to enter the
field against Senator Oolnver emanate
from those who are opposed to me and
who are Delivers friends With this
sort of talk it is possible they may
convince me that. the things they say
/ am going to do are The things real-s
ly ought to do"
Hon. John Cownie has concluded his
test of the seed corr. which has been
saved and will be Used this year at
the state institutions The test shows
Clarinda and Indeper dence as the only
institutions that sec ured as high as
one hundred per cent in field corn. The
other percentages ranged down to
ninety-two Mr.. Cov'nie believes when
the corn comes to be selected for
planting that it will Ill grow and make
loo per cent. The method used was
to secure one hundred grains Of corn
from one hundred ears from each in
.stitution; these were planted In cigar
boxes, one box for each institution.
The sweet corn showed "a to 100 per
cent termination. 1t is never SO high
as the field corn. Mr.. Cownie be-
lieves that it is imE ossible to get seed
corn, but that ears will now and then
mold while being kept over winter.
The grains for test ng were taken in
discriminatory without selection. When
the ears of corn come to be selected
for planting he thinks every institu-
ton should have 100 per cent of a
stand. A circular with instructions
has been sent to the institutions.
There are about twenty-eight per-
sons now working on the census work
at the state house There are but
seven working now on making correc-
tions of cards, AMI this number will
be lessened still more soon as the
work will grow he avier in the tabula-
ton. There are II great many more
applications on hand than there are
positions or than there ever will bs.