25 Aug 1898
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1898
Page
1
The Times notes cross party support in the 8th Alabama district for re nominating Fighting Joe Wheeler. It cites California Democrats praising McKinley and predicts Ames will supply the next Story County clerk with candidates all residing in Ames and little opposition.
Story county fellows recount a judicial convention in Iowa Falls and complain about chilly reception, joking that the city would make a fine summer resort if hospitality matched the scenery.
A Wisconsin Republican convention adopted a resolution banning railroad passes to public officials and patterned it after Nebraska and Kansas phrases. Democrat county nominating for clerk of the courts was R. T. Sisson of this city, with rival Soper from the Republicans. The race faces a large 2000 vote majority hurdle for Sisson.
A traveler details a cross country ride from Chicago to Los Angeles in 1870s fashion. The route includes Missouri Kansas Nebraska New Mexico Arizona and California with stops at La Junta Albuquerque Holbrook Williams Flagstaff and Los Angeles. He notes soldiers heading to Manila, frontier towns, vast wheat fields, coal ore scenes and a climb up to a coastal range summit. He describes heat drought cattle desert flora and the surprise of orange orchards irrigation and Chinatown in Los Angeles. The narrative ends mid page after a long mountain ascent and notes a plan to wire electric lights in Montecito.
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