The Courier from Waterloo, Iowa • 1

ft iModated Press Wire Service. Daily Courier Established 1890. Weekly Courier Established 1858. WEATHER INDICATIONS. Chicago.

111., April U. Indira-tlons for Iowa: Fair tonight and Thursday; warmer In the east on Thursday. TENTI1 YEAR. WATERLOO, IOWA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, ArRIL 11 1000 WHOLE NO. 2922 fTl will operate to a considerable advan- tairn tfi tha nallnnal Imnlia r.f aurh for consideration.

this afternoon, and a vote to be taken at five. The question pipifl fl l'f LLr4 Wff DISCREDIT AGED WOMAN THE GRAND COUNCIL Franklin county district court and attracts much attention in this section. One Is brought by a man named Griffin, of Geneva, Iowa, who boarded the defendant's train a year or so ago while Intoxicated, undertook to purchase liquor on the train, was refused and proceeded to clean out the train crew, but was overpowered, arrested and committed to Jail. Later he was tried and freed, but now brings a counter charge against the company, In the Visiting Members Entertained at tha K. of P.

Hall. An Interesting Program of Music and Addresses. Work of Session of Grand Council Yesterday Afternoon. The genial good spirit of the city was evident last evening at the K. of P.

hall where an Informal reception was given In honor of the visiting members of the Royal Arcanum. The ninth annual convention had been In session at the hall yesterday until six o'clock In the afternoon when their final adjournment occurred. The members of the Grand Council, however, were not to leave Waterloo with so little knowledge of the city's social world, and, from the large number at the reception, very few did. From eight o'clock to nine, pleasing measures of music set sail from the orchestra in the main hall. The guests us they arrived were met by a social committee which, several declared, seemed to be composed of all present.

At nine o'clock guests and friends gathered In the main hall to listen to the program as announced on the Invitation. After a song by the Pythian quartette, F. J. SeKBlons, In his usual pleasingly humorous manner, delivered a short address of welcome to the visiting Grand Councilors present. A silver tongue, Mr.

8eBslons maintained, was necessary to do honor to the city's best wishes on the occasion, a city, he suggested Incidentally, one of the best of the great commonwealth. "We," he snld, "members of the Golden Council, feel a golden welcome due." A. T. Fllcklnger in a few brief sentences cleverly responded to Mr. Ses sion's theme.

The Royal Arcanum la founded on three things, he said, vir tue, mercy and and that with these three to build from, the Grand Council of the Royal Arcanum had gathered during the day to deliberate together and devise ways and means to push forward to the better. All dif ferences In the order, he continued, have been deBolved and all have gone hand in hand for the good to be derived. K. B. Belden, deputy supreme regent of Racine, then delivered an address on the "Royal Arcanum." With very pretty emphasis he extended a hearty greeting to the friends of the order and then In fuller detail than had been suggested during the even ing he explained the beautiful why and wherefore of the order's existence, After Mr.

Helden's speech the aud ience was favored with a vocal duet by Paul Davis and Miss Elizabeth Sarvay who kindly responded to an encore. Mr. W. W. Ames of New York, manager of the Dudley Buck entertainment hat will be here May 16, then sang to the delight of the audience.

Miss Sarvay closed the program by a vocal solo 'Spring Is Coming," the music of which has certainly become a part of II who heard lt. After the music chords were struck up by the orchestra and the evening was divided between dancing and so cial talks. The dining room tables about which many gathered throughout the evening were things of floral beauty. The tables were built over by pyramids of foliage, long vines of vinea trailing to the floor. The two tables were artistically alike, and each above its profusion of lilies and palms carried an Immense vase of American Beauty roses.

Light refreshments were served and the event closed a success. SESSION YESTERDAY AFTERNOON Yesterday afternoon, after an exem plary Initiation Into the mysteries of the Grand Council by the Golden Coun cil No. 380 of this city, the council proceeded to the election of officers. Lo cally, H. A.

Snyder was re-elected grand secretary without any opposition, this making Mr. Snyder's ninth year in this office. C. O. Balllett was re-elected a member of the finance comrait- (Continued on Page Five.) Carpenters' Chisels Plain Back, Beveled Back, Beveled Edge.

Apple Handles or Leather Capped. The Finest To be had. was the adoption and the rule ordered and this gave twenty minutes for debate. The discussion which followed was quite animated. At the end of the debate Representative Richardson, the minority leader, made a motion to recommit the rule with instructions to report a new rule and substitute a bill providing for free trade between the United States and Porto Rico.

The motion was ruled out of order and a vote on the adoption of the rule ordered. The Vote resulted: Ayes, 158; 124. This is regarded as a test vote, presaging tfle passage of the bill. The remainder of the atfernoon was devoted to the debate on the bill. THE SENATE.

Soon after the senate convened today a resolution relating to the Quay case was laid before the senate and Senator Burrows of Michigan arose to address himself to it, but upon re quest of Senator Allison of Iowa, yield ed to the latter In order that the senate might take up the District of Columbia appropriation bill. The bill reported to the senate carries about $7,500,000, The senate passed the Pacific cable bill which was Introduced by Senator Hale. The cable will be under the con trol of the navy department. Three hundred thousand dollars were appro- pnatea to Degin work. SRORT STORIES FMM TIE WIRES.

Items of Interest From Many Parti of the World. Associated Presa.l KELLOGG SENTENCED. New York, April 11. James B. Kel logg, head of the E.

S. Dean Company. was today sentenced to seven years and six month in the state prison. STRIKE SETTLED. Springfield, April 11.

The strike among the miners at the Fair mount and Catlin mines, in the Dan ville district, owing to the operators refusing to allow the miners to clear ud the falling rock work, which has been done by extra men, has been Bettled and the mines have resumed operations. CHICAGO MINISTER DEAD. Chicago, Apr. 11. Rev.

Walter Dela- fleld, rector of the Church of Transflg uration for many years and a promin ent ngure the Episcopal church, died today of heart disease, aged 62. DEWEY MAY VISIT IOWA. Congressman Lane Endeavors to Secure tha Admiral's Presence. Davenport, April 11. Congressman Joe R.

Lane Bent word to the Daven port Business Men's association that he called upon Admiral Dewey and pre sented the invitation to him to visit the three cities of Iowa and the Rock Island arsenal during his western trip early the coming month. He says the admiral expressed great appreciation. but fears it will be impossible to arrange to accept it on this trip, his route from Chicago to St. Louis having been made up for some time past. The admiral, however, sayef he has accepted an invitation to go to Detroit in June and is contemplating accepting Invi tations to visit Milwaukee and St.

Paul also and if he goes to the latter place thinks it probable that he can accept the invitation to come here at that time. FARMER SERIOUSLY INJURED. hrown in Front of Disk Harrow and Badly Mangled. Ruthven. Apr.

11. Yesterday while William Simington, a farmer living north of town, was operating a disk was thrown in front of it and had one leg broken, the other badly cut and Beveral gajshes were made upon his body. He is in a very critical condi tion and the attending physicians say they have' small hopes of his recover ing. Farmers have generally begun seed ing. The ground is in excellent con dition and if the weather is good the bulk of the crop will be in this week.

TO TEST DOG TAX. Owners Will Test Dog Ordinance at Eldora. Iowa Falls, Iowa, April 11. The celebrated dog ordinance of the city of Eldora is to have its validity tested in the courts, H. E.

Llnnell, a well known sportsman of this section, being named as the defendant in an action brought by the city to enforce the collection of a tax on dogs. This ordinance attracted much attention at the time of Its adoption by the city and Its enforcement up to this time has met with no opposition so that the adjustment of the case will attract more than local Interest. Messrs. Morton and Pierson, local representatives of the Stevens Threshing machine company have received a sample lot of machinery from the eonK pany which is now on display at the Waterloo Transfer and Storage Mrs. W.

C. Munger cordially invites the ladies to call and see her line of Easter hata and bonnets at 226 Commercial street. 22-4t HOME MADE CANDIES FOR EASTER. The ladles of the Congregational church are to have a sale of candies and cakea at Henderson' drug store Wednesday and Thursday, April 11 and 12. n-tf cities, In that It will enable them to se cure deposits from the outlying banks of the state.

The preBcnt law provides that all national banks must have reserve of 15 per cent In cash or other funds. Such money as they have In deposit In banks of reserve cities, they are allowed to count as reserve. Conse quently they will place their deposits mainly In banks of reserve cities and this fact operates against banks of non reserve cities securing national bank deposits, for these banks naturally wish to run accounts where their funds will be counted as reserve funds. It will operate to make the banks of this city still stronger than they are As a matter of course this will be op posed by Des Moines, which Is the only reserve city In the state, the present law requiring that cHIcb of 50,000 pop ulation can be reserve cities. CONTESTS THE WILL Brother of Late Archbishop Hen nessy Begins Sensational Legal Action.

Special to the Dally Courier. Dubuque, Apr. 11. A petition haa been filed In the district court this aft ernoon by Michael Henneiwy, brother or the lato Archbishop Hennotwy, which has created considerable of a sensation. The petition asks for an or der of the court declaring the lost will and testament of the deceased arch bishop null and void and asking for the substitution in Its place of two other wills which were made and dat ed the day after the contested one and which have JiiHt come to light.

A lengthy legal contest may result from this. END MISSING Were Busy With Suit During Last Night's Play. Everyone who went to the Ma- hara minstrel show last night knows that he went to a very ragged affair. A cause of at least part of the ragged-ness is explainable this morning. During the afternoon a dispute arose at the troupe's car and one of the end men who was big, slapped the other end man, who was little, and then more slaps followed and the neckties and collars were torn.

The little man, who did most of the receiving In the deal had a warrant sworn out for the arrest of tlio big man but the big man could not be found until Bhow time came. The police were on hand then and the end men were taken before 'Squire Kern, the big man coming out short $10.45. As these men were said to be the best of the troupe, their absence Is a partial apology for the performance given last night. HIS CAREER SOON ENDED. Toung Han Cut Adrift by Wealthy Fa ther Commit yutrldr.

Snrlnc-flcld. April 11. The de plorable ending of the life of Tinffley C. Wood Sunday night at ttie Mentono hotel in Chicago came as a great shock to the many friends of the young man Snrlnefield. where since early man hood he has Ix-en a prominent leader in society.

Being cast upon om own resources after an early life of ease and luxury, together with an unfortunate lnve affair, is In the main E8- sponslhle for the death of Wood. Wood had Imh-u in the army ana on Jan. 1 ended his service there and his father, who is wealthy gave him a sum of money and told him to make his own way henceforth. Young Wood blew In' the money in nijrn nving vitt nulcklv. Then his father ob tained hltn a job on a railway, but this did not produce enough to keep young Wood In pocket money.

He appealed to his father In vain. One evenlnir when latoxlcated he tried to get a talk with a young woman in good society here over the long distance telephone. He failed to get the girl, but got her father, who flnd- ng that ne was drunk demanded that hnli1 nn fiirthercommunlcation With his daughter. This practically ended the young man's career and resulted In hla AfHth. Neither his father.

Tlncr- ley 8. Wood, who now resides In Colo rado, nor bis mother, who with her ree daughters Is residing In Cali-rnla. was present at the funeral here. fo A GREAT NERVE MEDICINE. Celery King cleanses the system and builds lt up.

It makes the blood pure. It beautifies the complexion. It cures constipation and liver dis orders. It cures headache and most other aches. Celery King cures nerve, stomach, liver and kidney diseases.

George P. Turner, foreman in the paint department at the Illinois Central shops, suffered a stroke of paralysis hortly after noon today white attend- ng to his duties about the shop. He was carried to his home at 226 Fremont street and a physician summoned. The stroke was serious, but whether the result will prove fatal or not cannot now be told. I had a sore eye and $2.17.

I went to Dr. Mack, oculist. 181 Bridge street. Waterloo, Iowa, and he relieved me of lt at a single treatment. R.

P. RATTZ. O. D. Omstead is reported quite sick at his home.

VICTORIES British War Offlci Skeptical Re gardlng Ravirsit. Think thi Boar Raporta Too Con flietlng for Truth. Tha Battla at Wepener Still Con tinuaa With Vigor. Associated Preu.1 London, April 11. Lord Roberta wires the war office from Bloemfonteln under date of Tuesday, April 10, as fol lows: "The enemy have been very active during the past few days.

A commando la now on the north bank of the Orange river, not far from Allwal North, while another is attacking Wepener. The gar rlson there are holding out bravely and have inflicted serious loss to the Boers Major Springe of the Cape Mounted Rifles, was killed. A patrol of six men of the Seventh Dragoon Guards, under Lieutenant Wetherly, which was re ported missing since April 7th, has re' turned safely." As the foregoing dispatch does not mention the alleged British reverse on Saturday at Meerkatsfontein, the Boer telegrams are not credited at the war office, and they are funuer discredited on account of discrepancies in the dis patches as Meerkatsfontein, In one message, is located near Brantfort, and in another southeast of Bloemfonteln It is a distance of one hundred miles between these places. STILL FIGHTING AT WEPENER. Allwal North, April 10.

The British loss in the fighting at Wepener yesterday was eleven killed and forty-two wounded. The fighting was resumed today. The British are holding their own BOERS OPEN FIRE. Ladysmith, April 10. The Boers poened fire this morning early, send ing their shells in to the British camp at Elandslaagte from three positions widely separated.

The shells did no damage. The troops moved out to re connoiter and found the Boers in a strong force, well fortified. A naval 4.7 inch gun replied to the Boers who again placed their long Toms in position. One private and two gunners were killed. After three hours bombardment the British fire slackened and the burghers were cleared from the kopje on the right.

The British advance picket was continuously sniped, but few casualties are reported. It is rumored that a body of Boers gathered southwest of Elandslaagte with the evident Intention of cutting the British line of communication. CANADIAN HORSE ARRIVES. Montreal, April 11. A cablegram received this morning announces the arrival at Capetown of the transport Monterey with the Strathcona Horse.

All on board well. One hundred and sixty-three horses died on the voyage. GATACRE TO GO TO ENGLAND. Bloemfontein, Tuesday, April 10. General Gatacre, commander of the Third division, Is about to return to England.

General Pole-Carew has been appointed to the command of the Eleventh division! Several changes are likely to be made in the brigade commands. TOTAL BRITISH LOSS. London, April 11. To the war office returns of casualties must be added the losses last-week and wounded, aggregating ten thousand, making a grand total of upwards of twenty-three thousand officers and men put out of action. BOERS TO ST.

HELENA. Simonstown, April 11. Owing to unfavorable conditions for keeping the Boer prisoners here, the authorities have decided to ship them all to St. Helena without delay. Sickness among the captive burghers Is abating.

HEAVY RAIN STORMS. Frost Una Tonight to Extend to tha Ohio River. Associated Press. Chicago, April 11. The whole west and southwest, including the states of Colorado, Wyoming, Nebras- ka, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio are experiencing a series of rain and snow storms, accompanied by temperatures ranging from 15 to 30 degrees below the normal with heavy frosts over a large section of the wheat belt.

At Denver this morning the thermometers registered eight degrees above zero and at Dodge City, Kansas, eighteen above. The weather bureau officials say the frost line will extend tonight as far south as the Ohio river, at least. B0IX8S IN WASK1XQTSN. iota af tha Ratlin's Representative In Cengrosst Associated Presa. THE HOUSE.

Washington. D. April 11. The closing struggle over the Porto Rican tariff bill attracted, great crowds to the galleries of the house today. As soon as the reading of tte journal was Representative Dalzel! of Pennsylvania, presented a specia order under which the Porto Rican bill, with the senate amendments, was to be taken up IN THE LAW Defect In the Blanchard Taxation Bill Is Discovered.

Will Confuse Closing of the Tax Books In Counties. New Election for Lt. Colonel In the Forty-ninth. Des Moines, Apr. 11.

What appears to be a considerable defect in the Blanchard bills for the assessment and taxation of telephone and telegraph companies has been discovered by some of the state officials. Careful consideration leaves the matter doubtful as to whether the defect will Interfere with the assessment and the collection of taxes meant to be provided for in the measures. The defect exists in this: The present law requires the auditors of the counties of the state to certify to the state auditor their assessment on all classes of property before the third Monday in June. The Blanchard bills do not require the telephone and telegraph assessments to be certified out by the executive council of the state to the county auditors until July. Therefore, it is manifestly Impossible for the county auditors to close their books and report to the auditor of state as to the assessment of property in their counties when a part of the property has not yet been assessed by the state.

The railroad assessment law provides that the executive council shall certify to the county auditors the railroad assessment before March 25 of each year, this provision being made mandatory to permit of the observance of the law by the county auditors in reporting to the auditor of state the value of the property on their assess ment rolls. It Is not believed that the defect will seriously interfere with the levy and collection of the taxes pro vided for. VALUED POLICY LAW. A hearing has been granted by the gbvernor to those opposed to the val ued policy law enacted by the recent general assembly. This is in addition to the hearing granted to the building and loan companies of the state.

The building and loan hearing comes off Thursday morning at 9 o'clock, and the hearing on the valued policy law in the afternoon. Iowa Is the twentieth state to adopt this law. No state has repealed such a law. NEW BANK. The articles of incorporation of the State Savings Bank of Knierim have been filed at Rockwell City and will be filed with the secretary of state soon.

The affairs of the corporation will be managed by a board of directors consisting of the following persons: W. S. Richards, C. F. Duncombe, J.

C. Cheney, F. E. Seymour and C. E.

Rich ards. The capital stock of the new bank will be $10,000, and the following persons will act as its officers until Its first annual election: President, J. C. Cheney; vice president, C. F.

Duncombe; cashier, C. E. Richards. The incorporators and stockholders are as follows: C. E.

Richards, J. C. Cheney. H. G.

Ristine, F. E. Seymour, J. T. Cheney, C.

F. Duncombe and W. S. Kenyon. BOARD OF CONTROL.

The board of control will leave this morning for a visit to the Institutions in the southern and eastern part of the state to be gone all of next week. They will follow the following sched ule: Wednesday and Thursday, April 11 and 12, at Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Davenport. Friday, April 13, at the penitentiary at Fort Madison. Saturday and Sunday, April 14 and 15, at the Mt. Pleasant hospital.

Monday and Tuesday, April 16 and 17, at the Clarlnda hospital. Wednesday and Thursday, April 18 and 19, at Glenwood institution. Friday, April 20, at Council Bluffs Deaf and Dumb Institution. NEW CORPORATIONS. The Interstate Drainage and Invest ment company has filed articles of In corporation with the secretary of state.

Its location is Brltt. Its capital Is E. O. Rood, C. W.

Rood. James Mackln, D. C. Brinley, and Clinton Wooland are the incorporators. The John II.

Mason company of Waterloo has filed articles of incor poration with the secretary of state. ts capital Is $4,000. John II. Mason, J. G.

Wyth, M. M. Mason are the incorporators. ARMY ELECTION. The election for lieutenant colonel of the Forty-ninth regiment, held March 26, 1900, in compliance with special order resulted as follows: C.

D. Ham received 157 votes; William H. Thrift received 151 votes; George A. Evans received 96 votes. No candidate having received a majority of the votes cast for lieutenant colonel the office has been declared vacant and a new election has been ordered.

The election ill be held in company armories on Thursday, April 19, 1900, between the hours of six and nine o'clock p. tn. Company commanders will at once Issue their orders for the election in accordance with section 2180 code. Field and staff officers will vote with companies at their stations. SUE THE IOWA CENTRAL.

Mrs. Dillon Asks Damages for Husband's Death. Griffin Case. Iowa Falls, Iowa, April 11. The cases in which the Iowa Central Railroad company is defendant appears on the docket of the April term of the CREMATED Clothing Catches Fire and She Is Burned to Death.

Attempted to Burn Some Rubbish and Her Clothing Ignites. Plan to Change Boundaries of Iowa M. E. Conference. Marshalltown, Iowa, April 11.

An extremely shocking accident waB the burning to death at about 5 o'clock on Monday evening of Mrs. Harriet Crumm, the aged mother of Mrs. John Woy and O. B. Crumm.

of thin city. Mrs. Crumm has been blind for about twelve or fifteen years and whs more or less chlldlah owing to her extreme age, 73 years. Mrs. Crumm has always made her home with Mrs.

Woy, No. 11 North Ninth street, and It was there that the futallty occurred. Mrs. Woy left home shortly after 4 o'clock to call upon one of her neighbors. The last thing she said to her mother, who was just starting upstairs, was to tell her not to meddle with the fire, as it was all right.

Mrs. Woy returned home shortly before 5 o'clock and the sight that met her eyes could hardly be real Ized. The first thing Bhe noticed wrong was the presence of a large quantity of water on the floor, and upon haBlenlng to the kitchen found her mother lying on the floor in a pool of water, with her body burned to a crisp from head to foot. A physician wus called at once, but the woman was beyond medical aid and died at 11 o'clock six hours after the accident. Mrs.

Crumm ex plained that she had attempted to place In the stove some bits of cloth that she had brought down stairs. She thought that she had probably put her apron in the stove also and her clothes caught In that manner. As soon as she realized her condition she fi It for the water faucet and commenced putting out the blaze. METHODISTS CONCERNED. Plan to Change Boundaries of Iowa Conferences.

MarBhalltown, Iowa, April 11. The Methodists of Iowa have a problem before them which means nothing less than a big fight at the time of the meeting of the next general conference In Chicago next May. The cauHe of the impending trouble Is a notice that has just been served upon the presiding elders of the Upper Iowa conference by the presiding' elders of the Iowa conference, notifying them that an attempt will be made at the conference to change the present boundary lines between the two conferences. The present boundary runs from the southwest corner of Marshall county, east to the Iowa river, or the southeast corner of Tama county, thence down the river to Iowa City and east on the R. I.

P. railroad to Davenport. I he proposed change, if perfected. will make the limits beginning at the southwest corner of this county and extending on a straight line east to Clinton county, then north to the northern line of Clinton county and east to the Mississippi river. As can be readily Been this will take considerable territory from the Upper Iowa conference, a fact that the pre siding elders and those interested will not relish In the least.

This means that the contest for the loss of territory will be bitterly fought to the finish. PAYING BACK MONEY. State Returning Funds Advanced for Return of Fifty-first. Des Moines, Iowa, April 11. Yester day the state began paying back the parties who advanced $40,000 for the return of the Fifty-first Iowa regi ment from San Francisco to Council Bluffs last fall.

By an act of the legis lature, with a publication clause attach ed which makes the money now availa ble, this entire sum was appropriated by the state to reimburse the 133 banks of the state which donated the sum. There Is a small part of the $10,000 which goes to members of the regiment. sick and wounded, who returned ahead of the regiment and were discharged in San Francisco. There were thirty-six of these who will receive $37.50, their transportation from San Francisco to Iowa, making $1,350 out of the $10,000. All the warrants must have the approv al of the adjutant general and the governor.

FOR RESERVE CITIES. Congressman Lane Introduces a Bill of Importance. Davenport, Iowa, April 11. A lead ing banker of this city received a letter from Hon. Joe R.

Lane to the effect that the bill had been Introduced in the house making all cities with a population of 25,000 or over "reserve cities." That Is, that the national banks of such cities with a capital of $100,000 or over, be reserve batiks, and that the deposits of other national banks from the surrounding country, be counted as reserve for the depositing banks. The bill will make Davenport, and such other cities of Iowa as have a population of 25,000, reserve cities, and adjustment of which this suit Is brought. The other case Is brought by Mrs Herbert E. Dillon In settlement with the company on account of her hus band's death while In the company's einploye as engineer. The case was taken to the above court on a change of venue from this county.

Mr. Dillon was formerly a resident of this place and at the time of his death resided at Marshalltown and was killed at El dora. Mrs. Dillon resides at Mason City. DEMOCRATS' NEW PLAN Organize on a Fraternal Basis With Yearly Membership Fee.

Order Is to be Known as "Iowa State United Democracy." Expect to Raise Big Campaign Fund in This Mannar. The meeting of the democrats held yesterday afternoon at the law office of Burns Stewart, as noted in the Daily Courier of last evening, was not largely attended, but it is said there waB enthusiasm to make up for the lacking of numerical strength. E. W. Hillweg of Des Moines, representing the state central committee, was present and explained to the faithful few the method adopted by the committee for a thorough reorganization of the party throughout the state.

The scheme as outlined by Mr. Hillweg, Is unique and the party leaders believe It will bear much good fruit. The committee has established what It terms the "Iowa State United Democracy." Like a fraternal or labor organization cards of membership are Issued" to those who Join the organization, at testing to the fact that they are demo crats, true In the faith and Intereateu in the success of their party at the polls. These cards are Bigned by Chairman Huffman of the state central com mittee and the organizer. The annual membership fee which each member agrees to pay into the central organization is $2.

This amount Is guaranteed for a term of five years. It is figured by those who are fostering the Bcheme that the new organiza tion will create a renewed interest in the party, and also that it will inci dentally lend a little bunch of the much needed currency of the realm to the campaign fund of the party in the state. The intention is to organize every county in the state, and Mr. Hillweg says he is meeting with good success wherever he goes. He sayB so far he has organized forty or more counties and has calls from a dozen others where some of the committee -literature has been spread and the plan has been canvassed.

He thinks he will complete the circuit of the state and have all of the ninety-nine counties in Iowa in the list of the "State United Democracy" before the national convention Is held In Kansas City, July 4th. The plan is to have in each county a minimum membership of fifty, but In many counties Mr. Hillweg says that number has been doubled several times. In others he thinks it may not be reached, but, estimating the average as fifty, it can be seen that the party has, for five years to come, at least, a nucleus of $10,000 annually for Its campaign funds. A few members were obtained here yesterday and others will be secured so the local committee says.

At the meeting yesterday the approaching presidential campaign was not mentioned except In a general wav When asked if there was any sentiment in the gathering favorable to Admiral Dewey, one of those who attended the meeting, and who takes an active Inter-est in Blackhawk county political affairs, declared that no name was mentioned, not even Bryan's. CLAIM ACCRETION LAND. Lake's Meandering Leaves 1,500 Acres of Onawa, Iowa, April 11. A few weeks ago a Des Moines man was here claiming to represent James Callahan, who claims title to the accretions on the shores of Blue Lake, amounting to about 1,500 acrps of land, considerable of which has been1, in cultivation for some time by the farmers who own the land along the lake. The same man was here last week and tried to dispose of his alleged title to a number of farmers, who refused to have anything to do with him.

The following "ad," which appeared In an Omaha newspaper, has created considerable excitement among the itterested parties: "One thousand five hundred acres of swamp land and lake bed in Monona county, Iowa, 6f0 acres under cultivation, to trade for Omata property." Blue Lake Is meandered and the adjacent owners claim they have perfect titles to the accretions..