Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-12-12
IOWA MINE owners
Operators Convention Decides Not
to Ask For Admission to Ma
tional Association.
Coal Industry Of Iowa on Good
Basis satisfactory Wage
Scale.
Work Of the Horticultural and State
Farmers Institutes Capital
News.


Farmers Institutes@C Capital
4 News.
Special to Times Republican.
| Des Moines, Dec. l2The convention
LOT the Iowa mine operators in Dss
Ndoines Demonstrated that this orgari-
1 zation, altho young, is vigorous ard
y aggressive and that the Iowa operators
feel that they have coal field and a
market such as to make them indepenel-
ent of the coal operators Of the Other
fields. The Iowa operators We're shut out
of the national association OF operators
last year on the protest Of the Illinois
operators, and this matter was one Of
The first to come up when the operators
Il got toge ther today, altho it was dis
:, ,cussed informally aid not brought BE-
fore the convention for action. 1t was
decided that the Iowa operators would
i NOT go TO the national meeting at
Columbus at all, but if asked TO send
delegates would do 50. Ihe Iowa peo-l
pie will affect Indifference to the 9TH:
Ilers. They do not care now whether
they are recognized or not, since they
have shown their ability to care for
stha mselves and maintain good wages
land good business. The following Off
icers Of the Iowa association We're
.ielected:
President-c H. Morris. Des Moines
i Vice Presldent-L. r. Rosebrook, Os-
lkaloosa.
secretary-L L. Lodwiok. Willard
Treasurer-W. 7. Phillips. Oskaloosa.
4 State executive board:
4 First District Alexander Dargover,
nterville; alternate David Lodwick,
Mystic
second Distriet-H. L. Waterman, Of
ltumwa: alternate 7. j. Philips, OF
.Itumwa.
Third District-L. r. Rosebrook os-
/ aioosa; alternate. j. NJ Timbrell Os-
kaloosa.
Fourth District. NJ. Topper. colfax;
slalternate. %. Il. Fleming, Des Afoines.
\ Fifth District Frank Wilson, Le-
4 high; alternate, III. ~. Garfield. Boone.
i This board will also constitute the
4 scale COMMITTEES and a grievance COM
4 mittee 70 settle by arbitration whatever
lidi ifsrerces may arise between operators
land miners in Iowa The board viii also
.Iact as a delegation to the Ottumwa
state meeting of miners in February to
tx th:. scale for the next year. This
4 meeting IS to be held in February Ii, :
i tead of January to await the actjan.
Etaken at Columbus by the national as
sIsociation and at Springfield By the Ili-
4 nois operators.
The meeting of the Iowa Horticultt,.al
! Society which commenced yesterday,
was the thirty third annual meeting.
and 1t was fairly We'll attended by rep
Preventative fruit growers Of the state
i The president. G. f. Gardner, of Usage
made his annual report in which he
suggested change in the rules relat-
ing 70 the director of the horticultural
experimeRt station at Ames by having
the work done separately from The chair
4 of horticulture in the college The sec-
| retary. Wesley Greene, of Davenport
reported that while the fruit crop has
not been a large one the pest season the
i prices are good and that the outlook for
next years crop is now excellent. Dur
J ing the past year the society has moved
i 10 good rooms on the first floor Of the
capitol. A fine collection of specimens
OF the fora of Iowa has been presented
/ the society by Professor Panlmel Tie
secretary has caused to be distributed
among 500 school libraries of Iowa 1.6UO
I volumes of the sooiery's reports. There
are now AGO members of the society Tie.
/ receipts last year We're s5is.ls. A fine
display of fruit is being shown special
4 iy some specimens from Missouri Rep-
resentatives are here from Missouri,
1 Wisconsin and Kansas. John Cownie
I brought over from the rooms of the state
/ board of control n fine buch of bananas
10 show what Iowa can produce They
\ We're grown and ripened III the green
/ house Of the penitentlary at Fort Madi-
son under the care OF convict COM
mittses were named as foll5vvs:
! on Presidents Address l. Wat
| rous, Eugene Sscors and DIR. f. NJ Pow
4 ell
on secretary's Report-silas wilson,
lsT. c. Pease and n. *. Fluke.
/ On Treasurer's Report Elmer Reeves,
NJ. j. Wraggs and NJ. f. Hinkley
| on AwardsA j. Edwards Wiscon
sin: G. w. Canoe Missouri, and Frank
! HaIsinger. Kansas.
The state farmers institute was pro-
ilific in good papers and interesting dis
cussons yesterday and last night Per-
/ haps the most interesting and valuable
paper of all was one read by S. b. Pack
lard. OF Marshall county, on Hereford.
cattle. Governor Packard referred Is.
/ The fact that in 1894 he had read before
I this society a paper on this same sub
lject in which he had given very good
4 history of the origin of the Hereford
ibreed and its advancement to the front,
and this was published in the soclety's
report for that year. II was While he
was United States consul at Liverpool
| from 1878 to 1885 that the greatest ac-
iuvity in the Importation of Hereford
lcattle tolthe United States took place.
| Nearly all the strains which are now so
much sought after in this country were
brought from England at that time. He
read free hand description of the typi-
cal Hereford animal as given him by
member of parliament who was re-
garded as an authority on that breed of
cattle. He named the various excellent
Strains and dilated at length upon their
Virtues. The prices paid for pure bred
Herefords has steadily increased until