Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-14

as compared with Duluth. Mimi, and
Des Moines, Iowa, which, with much
smaller populations in each case, cover
respectively 40,960 and 1850 acres.
The second table in the Bulletin deals
with saloons, police force and the num-.
Der of arrests from drunkenness. Judg
ing from the arrests made, Davenport,
Ia, is the most sober city in the United
States, while San Francisco and Boston
suffer most from drunkards. Several
papers tried to find in this table some
light that that would help to elucidate
temperance problems, but found the
figures so confusing as to be of very lit.
tie practical use. The New York Eve
ming Post, for example, commenting on
this report, says:
1T casts darkness rather than light
upon the question. For example.
Springfield, Mass, Manchester. n. H,
and Utica. n. ", have each about Co.,
000 inhabitants Utica is under the
Raines law, Springfield under the high
license system of Massachusetts, and
Manchester under nominal prohibition.
The New Hampshire city has no legal
saloons. while Springfield has forty
seven and Utica 252. But Manchester
has has had Lass arrests for drunken
ness during the past year, while SPRING
field had 1,431. Still more remarkable is
/ the record OF only 765 arrests in Utica
or only about half as many as in.
Springfield, although there are more
than five times as many saloons. AL
most as anomalous is the showing of
+ only 3S3 arrests in Dayton, Ohio, with
400 saloons and $1,000 people, while
Hartford, Conn, with IT,000 people and
but 2t9 saloons, reported 2.460. There
! is no possible way of reconciling such
extraordinary differences, except upon
the theory that the police in some cities
enforce the laws much more strictly
than those of others, and run in
tirunks when men in the same condi-
ton elsewhere would be passed by
The health statistics show that Nc
Keesport, Pa. is perhaps the healthiest
lefty in this country. Its rate IF deaths
from consumption is only 100 per 1000
as compared whit II in Boston and New
York. and 26 in Denver, colo.-due, of
course. to the fact that consumptives
raso,.t 10 Denver from an parts of the
country. The rate of 1s. so per 1000 from
old age considerably the highest on the
llisD is accredited to Salt Lake City, a
condition 10 account for which no theo-
rv has vet been brought forward. In
| Pittsbllrg and Chicago deaths from old
age are only p per 1000.
AL time when the extension of nu-
nieipal functions is occupying public
attention. ii is interesting to note the
figures which relate to city ownership
Ninety-six cities own their water sup
Div, among the exceptions being Indi-
ananolis. New Haven, New orleans and
sam Francisco Four have municipal
ar,, ,,y,,,+,, 1,iehnana To,edo
80 :. -s9.'''S''
ana Wheshils-aha thirteen Owl ana
Operate electric light plants.
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marvellous mental feats of baby prod
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4 Council Bluifs school board, VINO de-
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