Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-07

press companies under the ola law /
may be received without interfering
with the enforcement Of the new law,
payments will be promptly made. All
the companies except the Wells Fargo
have filed their reports Of business
done in Iowa, upon which the tax is
based. The old law required the COM
panies to pay 2 per cent on theiE gross
receipts on business done within the
state and it had to be reported for
each county. The. four companies re-
porting are as follows:
Business Taxes to
Company. Done. be Paid.
United States ..s1s2,Si9.07 sS.6669s
American ). !. 15l,7S5.45 S,OS570
Adams =. :. .... 75,49s.75 1.5o9s3
Pacific S.512.9l 1fO25
s4ls,644.ls ss.s7e.s6
The Wells Fargo company, which has
not yet reported. will be somewhat less
/ sthan8t the Adams.
Adjt. Gen. Byers. with the approval
iof Governor Shaw as the commander
! lin-clief of the Iowa National Guard,
| has mustered out the company at Fort
| Madison, In the Fiftieth regiment, and
| has authorized the organization OF a
company at Burlington. AT the last IN
spection the Fort Madison company
made total failure. While the other
| companies ranked from 64 up to 1913 on
/ this inspection the Fort Madison com
1 pany was ranked 0. Ma. j. A. Olmsted,
I u. s. A. who is the inspector, says that
1.-The company showed that it had had no
Y drilling and there was no interest
4 whatever in the work among the off1-
GERS or men. There was nothing to DO
i but to take the company away from
1.-THE town and give it to some other
4 city that would take an interest in IT.
4 Burlington has long wanted a company
i and the interest in military affairs IN
sisthat city is intense. 1t is desirable for
military reasons to have company at
4 burlington, because 1t is much more
|conyenient to be called into service;
|eThere were two companies IN Lee
4 county. one at Fort Madison and the
4 other at Keokuk. The keokuk com
4 pany has the lowest standing IN the
Iiregiment outside the Fort Madison
4 company. This action may be taken IS
a warning TO osother companies that are
gI5not attending to business. II they 90
sl5not keep up their work they Will be
4 mustered out and other towns that are
sl3cager for companies will be given
4 chance
4 The state fair management is max
ing a big effort to get some very strong
81 attractions that will make this fair
4 tiifferen, from any other state fair ever
a held in Iowa. They are in correspond =
4 ence with a number of attractions ana
4 bureaus thru which they expect to get
something that can't be beaten. Just
4 What it is is hard to saysas yet. because
z they are unwilling TO put up with any
Y thing that is offered The fair will have
Il two competing attractions this year.
The Sells-Ferepaugh circus will be
a here for three days during fair time
and one of the Payne fire spectacles
I will be given at the base ball park.
: The fair people were trying to get the
( Halter attraction, but local speeulatot
got control of it and undertook to bleed
! the fair management and they would
Il not be ,bled With no competing fan
anywhere near Iowa this year and
lwith the prosperous times prevailing
: lthruout the state Secretary Van Hou-
! fen saws that all indications point &c
4 the greatest attendance and the mos,
I widespread interest that the fair mas
ever known. The correspondence of The
|. secretary's Office is already heavy.
$50
, The Herriott-Jones controversy was
! referred by the executive council TO tn,
!, governor, where it properly belongs
. The governor had already instituted az
investigation of the matter, and mas
! much as the law gives him authority
: 10 examine into state offices and he wa
/ doing his duty in that respect. th'
& other members of the council. with tn
. .lexception of Treasurer Herriott
! thought he should be permitted to FIN
! ish the Job No one in all this discus
> sion has accused Chris Jones, the clerl
! Isof the supreme court whose acts ar
called in question, of doing anything
|dishonest The question is a purely lie
i gal one, involving simply the Question
: Iof whether or not he performed certain
v acts in, a personal or official capacity
S and If in an official capacity, to wha
d extent. and whether or not he Is to b
! allowed what it has cost him to per
= form the work for which the fees wer
j. maid. The proposition to hold MI
y Jones responsible for uncollected fee
S will probably not be seriously enter
s tanned.
The Des NIoines Chautauqua open
next Tuesday. July 10. with the strong
est program that has ever been offere
} by a similar enterprise in the stat'
Y The management of the institution thl
le year is in the hands of some enterprit
N ing young business men, who are tai
le ing personal pride in making 1t
y success. which it has not been hereto
u fore. The old management bequeathe
heavy debt to their successors, VII
have been trying to pay It of, an
e. ,pr,ng the institution Into tctte. s.e;,st
s Last year the management issued ovt
id 600 complimentary season tickets, I
IS that the whole thing was cheapene
al But this year II has been brought to.
business basis and every one has I