Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1905 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Governor John H. Mickey of Nebraeka, who has returned all his railroad passes, saying that in the future

he will pay for his transpor t a t i o n, has been prominently identified with the Republican party in his State for the last twenty-five years. He served through the last two years of the Civil war as a private in the Eighth lowa cavalry, and in 1867

moved to Nebraska. He helped to lay out the town of Osceola, and was treasurer of Polk county for ten years. In 1880 he was elected to the state legislature, and was an active supporter of the bill for the regulation of the liquor traffic. Since 1893 he has been president of the trustees of the Nebraska Wesleyan university.

Mayor Patrick A. Collins of Boston, who died suddenly at Hot Springs, Va., had a remarkable career. During the

sixty-one years of his eventful existence Mayor Collins crowded more into life than the majority of public men. In turn he was an office boy in Boston, a farmer’s boy in the West, a coal miner, also engineer in llnin 1 n xtr i <-1 /-»•-» 4-

Ohio, law student, rATKICK A> collins legislator, judge • advocate general on the governor’s staff, congressman, chairman of the city and State committees, delegate to State and national conventions, chairman of the same, a political leader of national prominence, leading land leaguer, consul general to London, a director in banking institutions, and vastly mayor Jf’Boston. _

John A. McCall baa been president since 1892 of the. New York Life Insnronoo Cornrmnv, which is being In-

vestigated by the Joint legislative committee. He was born at Albany in 1848 and began life as a clerk in the State currency assorting house. After serving a few years in this position he entered the service of the Connecticut Mutual

Life Insurance Company, but in 1869 he became a clerk in the State insurance department. After a few years he was made deputy superintendent, and„from 1870 until 1883 he was superintendent of Insurance of the State of New York. Mr. McCall is a member of the American Social Science Association.

Hailed as the luckiest young man i.« the United States, Ray Daniels, aged 23, of Provo, Utah, was announced as

the winner of the first choice in the government’s land drawing for the Uinta reservation. This means that Daniels has come Into a fortune of anywhere from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO, for such is estimated the value of the first pick of the homesteads in the

reservation. It means that he will have the first selection of 160 acres from the over 1,000,000 of acres in the res ervation, and the thousands of others who won entries must wait until he has selected his land. It is said he has been offered fabulous prices for his claim as soon as he can legally transfer It. The claim will cost him only $1.25 an acre and sl6 entry fee.

Corporal James L. Tanner, elected commander-ln-chief of the Grand Army • f the Republic. has been prominent

in public life since he Civil War. He was a gallant solder and lost both i'gs by injuries reel ved on the batlelleld. He has orig bbon the veterans’ Ideal of n rue comrade, having aided them in securing pensions and much legl.da-

u.,.u .1 t.. ... ( | t)n o p n beneficial character. The new commander Is an eloquent speaker and is regarded as being well lifted for the position lie h culled upon to till.

John Muir, discoverer of the Alaskan glacier that bears his name, is ill iu Arizona. He Ims international repute as a naturalist and geologist. Dr. Eugene Oswald, the secretary of the Goethe Society, has written a book on the legend of Helen as treated by Homer and others. . The late C. J. Hamlin of Buffalo, N. Y., the veteran trotting horseman, left an estate of 11,543,000, mostly iu giltedged bonds, to his wife and three sou.

JOHN H. MICKEY.

JOHN A. M. CALL.

RAY DANIELS.