Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-13
VETERANS FROM THE ORIENT
Soldiers Who Served in the Philippines
Having Reunion This Week.
RAISING THE RATES ON FsA1tRsAls
state Pure Food Commission is
to start In on an Analysis of
the so-CaIled Health
Foods.
CFrom a stan correspondent.l

DEs MONIES, Aug. 12.-(special.)-D
Moines will tomorrow he the gathering
! place of the soldiers who fought in the
| Philippines The seventh annual reunion
| OF the Army Of the Philippines will be held
| in this city tomorrow and Tuesday, termi-
! mating in campfire Wednesday evening
Every effort has been made to make the
| reunion the biggest and most successful
| yet held. The leading officers Of the army
and navy who participated in the engage
ments in the Philippines will be here, in
| cluding Lieutenant General s. M. b. Young
| and General Bates. There are many early
arrivals in the city tonight. Tomorrow
| morning there will be a reception to the
| delegates and visitors at the Savery hotel
| and in the afternoon at o'clock there will
be the first meeting Of the orga MIA ton
| of the Army of the Philippines. II will
he held In Knights of Pythias hall at the
corner Of Sixth and Locust and Com
| mander-in-Chief Alfred s. Frost of Evans
| ton, ILL.,, will preside. The invocation will
| be given by Chaplain Beebe and the vet
erens will be welcomed to the city by
| Mayor George w. Mattern and TO the state
| by Governor A. 3. Cummns. There will
be numerous responses, and In the evening
there will be a smoker in the same hall.
Tuesday forenoon there will be a recep-
tion at Fort Des Moines, rendered by
2 O'Clock a business meeting in Knights
of Pythias hall, to be followed by addresses
by Secretary l.. NJ. Shaw and Congressman
J. A. T. Hull. In the evening an athletic
entertainment at the Iowa Athletic club
rooms.
Wednesday the soldiers will meet at the
hall in the morning, and there will be
parade of the principle streets of the city
In the afternoon at 2 o'clock a business
| In l..
for the coming year. While this business
meeting is in progress the women attending
will be given an automobile drive over the
city. starting at 1:3o from the Chamberlain
, hotel. The reunion will close with a camp
fire Wednesday evening.
In addition to this regular program It
: has been arranged to give the women at
tending a theater party at Ingersoll park
Monday evening. They will witness the
drill of the Eleventh cavalry at Fort Des
Moines Tuesday morning. Tuesday even
ing the visiting women will be entertained
at the home of Mrs. w. s. ConklinR, 1908
Pennsylvania avenue, while the men wit
ness the wrestling match at the athletic
club.
High Rates for lFraternals.
Rates based on the American experience
table of mortality are to be recommended
by the insurance commission as the mimi
mum rates for fraternal insurance COM
/ panies. Though the recommendations of
the legislative commission have not been
| prepared, 1t Is understood to have been
practically agreed upon by the commission
that this accommodation will be made to
the legislature The. Recommendation will
revolutionize the fraternal Insurance busi-
ness, as the rates at present charged are
| far less that the American experience table
of mortality. The rates are now not even
UP to the American fraternal congress
tables. The same American experience
table rates will be recommended as the
minimum rates for assessment companies.
Health Foods a Target.
, The laboratory equipment for the chem
; ical laboratory for the Food and Dairy
| Commissioners department, which was
lost in shipment from Denmark to Des
Mones, has been found. and it is promised
! that the laboratory will soon be set UP
and ready for use. Pending its compile
r tion the Nchemist for the department is
: making analyses at the laboratory OF High
land Park college. but only in a small way
The new food law provides that the food
and dairy commissioner shall analyze all
foods coming into the state, and one of
J the first things to be looked after by the
department will be the prepared health
foods. 1t is asserted by some that these
: foods more susceptible to deception
; than any other and more easily adulterated
: than most other foods the market, be
cause they are made by secret formulas
and their contents ingredients are Sc
: crets. 1t is asserted that some such foods
. are made of nothing more0 nor less than
corn cobs properly treated to make them
savory and then shaved into thin chips
, It is said that ground cocoanut shells
] treated to make them soft, and mixed with
! ! toasted bread crumbs, are palmed OF as
I health-giving foods. With the completion
OF the laboratory so that work on an ex-
tensive scale can be done an effort will be
made to ascertain to what extent this is
true. Under the pure food law It is Illegal
to in any way deceive the public to
! foods II a food is advertised and labeled
: as a health-giving food that Is in fact
manufactured out of corn cobs. 1t is illegal,
and the commissioner will at once take
8 steps to put a stop to IT,
Enormous Grain Shipments.
Railroads are preparing to move from
, Iowa this year the biggest grain shipments
in the history Of the state. Last year the
yield of corn was S46 100000 bushels, an
: increase of about 250O0.000. This year there
= is every indication that the increase will
be much greater The oats and wheat
crops have been good and up to the aver
age, though not record breakers. but the
quality of the grain is much above the
average, and for this reason will sell more
4 readily and bring a better price. and hence
the shipments will be heavier. Because of
: the small elevator capacity in the northern
two-thirds OF the state, the railroads an
! ticipate trouble in handling the crop. The
first shipments are ready now, and 1t is
\ confidently expected that in a few weeks
!. the shipments will tax the railroads to the
limit to furnish cars.
No Opposition 10 Hubbard.
Congressman Hubbard Of the Eleventh
district win be renominated to congress
: without opposition. and the three candi-
3 dates who have been announced and dis
n cussed in that connection will no longer
a be candidates. meeting was held few
Q days ago in Storm Lake in the ONCE of
: F. f. Faville. which was attended by all
e the leading cummins men Of the district.
and after considerable discussion IL was de-
cided to not oppose the denomination OF
Mr.. Hubbard for a second term. Mr.. ,Fa-
: willie himself was one OF the candidates
a that had been announced TO oppose Hub
| bar ~ he aIa a. -.