Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-20
Iowa
BUSY DAY IN IOWA CAPITAL
Elaborate Preparations for Reception
of President Today.
MILITARY TOURNAMENT FEATURE
Report that DIR. Kirsehner Of Oak
dale sanitarium May Not Remain
Of His Poor
Health.
lFrom a SAD Correapondent.l

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DIES MONIES. Sept. 19.-(Special.)-Every
preparation is completed for the big Taft
reception and review OF the troops and
opening of the six days tournament to-
morrow President Taft will become the
guest OF Des Moines at 6;S tomorrow
morning and from this Qme till 11.E,
when he leaves the city ff a continual
ton of his trip through the west, he will
be in the hands Of the local committee
First he goes to the home Of Senator
Cummins, accompanied by the regular
troops. and after breakfast there with a
few public officials he will proceed to the
state house. A stand has been erected
south Of the state house and just in front
Of the soldiers monument. facing the
state house on Walnut street. From this
stand President Taft will review the troops.
which will march past the stand after
parading the business streets Of West
Des Moines.
After the 500 troops have marched past
the president will deliver an address from
the reviewing stand and will then be es-
corted. by the troops to the Rock Island
depot, where he will take the train at
11:23 for the west. The troops will then
go to Camp Corse, south of the fair
grounds, and the tournament will open
at the fair grounds Monday afternoon. No
admission win eb charged to the fair
grounds. but reserved seats will be sold
to the amphitheater. The tournament will
be held in front Of the amphitheater.
Employees to See Ceremonies.
TIN south galley Of the state house has
been reserved by the members Of the
executive council for employees of the
state house and a few personal friends OF
the state officers. Seats for about sixty
persons will be provided on that galley
and standing room for about as many
more. The rooms of the lieutenant gov.
ernor and the rooms above the state SD
perintendent's office will be open for the
first persons who reach them. These
rooms are all In the south end of the
capitol building and furnish a capital po-
sition from which to see the parade. The
entire south end Of the state house grounds
slope towards the street and many thou
sands of people will be able to see the
parade from there and the review Of the
troops.
The custodian Saturday completed the
decoration OF the state house. Flags wave
from every advantage point and furnish
the sole article of decoration.
The program for the tournament has
been SO arranged that there will be variety
leach day and a change each day from
the day before. For each evening the
business men have arranged a downtown
attraction for the benefit Of the people.
Monday night it will be a run of the fire
department and Tuesday night the
Shriners' parade, on which $500 has been
expended for costumes. On other nights
there will be band concerts and more runs
by the fire department.
- Drake, Opens Doors.
Drake University "opens its doors tomor-
row and already there are hundreds of
students in the city ready for the open
ing. Painters, and decorators have been
working night and day to finish the work
OF making the changes in the main build
Ing. The girls gymnasium will occupy the
part formerly occupied by the library and
the rooms below that are fitted for bthes
and rest rooms. The apparatus for the
gymnasium was installed last week. The
mems gymnasium which is under course
Of erection is expected to be under cover
by the last OF next month. There have
been a number of additions to the facul-
ties of the various schools of the unlver-
sity.
VIII Kirschner StayF
From physicians acquainted with DR..
Kirschner who is superintendent Of the
tuberculosis hospital at Oakdale it is
learned that DIR. Kirschner may have tub
erculosis himself. II is claimed that he is
not a strong man and hence not able to
stand the hard labors of looking after the
patients. Dr. Kirschner was in charge of
a tuberculosis sanitarium of his own In
the east before he came to Iowa and at
that time was seemingly in better health
than at present. Those familiar with the
situa zion are confident that before long
there will be a change in the manage
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Reports are that the board after asking
DR.. Kirschner to resign has reconsidered
the matter and that If Kirschner will fol-
low the instructions of the board he may
stay. 1t is not believed that he will re-
main. The claim that he bought supplies
unauthorized by the board Of control while
true it is claimed is not the most serious
difficulty in the matter and a change is
anticipated as soon as the board can find
a man to take his place.
To D~isRpBrOve Brown.
1t is learned that the relatives OF Miss
Maude stone for whose murder DR.. ]. w.
Crofford of Lamont is serving a term in
the penitentiary will attempt to prove that
the testimony OF DR.. Artemus Brown be.
fore the state board of parole, and on
which that board recommended a pardon
for Crofford is in contradiction to the
weight Of testimony offered at the trials
OF Crofford and hence not to be considered
in connection with a pardon. Evidence is
being prepared TO be presented to Governor
Carroll before he decides the matter.
Brown testified before the Board Of
Parole that the girl came to him on a day
before she went to Crofford and said the
criminal operation had already been per
formed. Crofford's testimony and other
testimony In his behalf at the trial was
that the girl got off the train at Lamont
very sick and came to his sanitaHum.
January p. 1901. Brown testified at the
trial that a woman as healthy as Maude
Stone would not have died from an op-
Grafton inside Of less than about fifteen
days. The girl died January 20, seven days
after she entered the santarium. The
testimony Of both them at the trial and OF
Brown since would attempt 20 show that
she was suffering when she entered the
sanitarium. January p. Against this there
was fully a score OF witnesses at the trial
who saw the girl on January %, saw her
on the train and on the streets Of Lamont
and before she left her home at Leon to
go TO Lamont and the testimony of each
o fthem was that the girl was the picture
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