Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-15
!. LOCAL COMMENT.

LOCAL COMMENT. 4.
Some Of Marshalltown's citizens are
becoming as fractions az 3-year-oldt
GOTTA. ~Pugi listic tendencies seem to be
floating in the air, and q large dose OF |
police court Justice Will probably have
to be administered before even a par
tial cure 10 effected Clubs, canes and
fists have been used Unfortunately
during the past week, in a manner that
ls no credit to either the wielders or the
city.
The grand jury for the present term
OF court has Just concluded the longest.l
session on record In Marshall county.
The session lasted two weeks lacking a
day, and In that time a large number
of cases have come before the jury for
and for the discrimination
OF the merits of charges lodged against
certain individuals. Alleged murderers,
safe crackers. embezzlers and those
charged with almost every other degree
of crime have been under. the eyes OF
tn grand jurors, and more than 100 Wit
nesses have been compelled to appear
and tell what they know OF certain
The members had reason
to believe they would never conclude
their deliberations unless the citizens
ceased their helligerent tactics.
The city funds are low and the street
sweepers have not been worked vigor-
ously OF late. consequently the paved
streets are not as clean as the average
citizen would like to see them. A good,
soaking rain would help matters by
giving the pavement a thorough wash
ing.
A close observer can frequently APP
ipreciate how false reports are started
other day two men met at point
where the street has been roped off in
front of a home where lady is dan
gerously III with fever. They stopped
to conjecture and reason why the
street was closed to teams. One of
Ifered. as the probable reason. that the.
earth had washed from under the paw
ing and had gone down the sewer and
therefore the paving was unsafe. The
other insisted that there was smallpox
in the adjoining house So If any one
has heard Of team falling thru the
rhvement into a sewer or that there is a
smallpox case in Marshalltown he will
know how the report gained currency.
Marshalltown people should respond
with all the liberality at their COM
mand to the appeal for help coming
from Galveston and every one should
contribute their mite. There are many
former 1owans in the stricken territory
and probably many among the dead
and those who have met with the loss
LOT their property The dplngs Of the
elements are terrible and sudden, and
our friends and relatives may be the
next to suffer from similar catastro-
pie:
Marshall county, like many others In
the state, has employed so-called tax
ferrets to assist in the work of uncov-
ering personal property not listed for
taxation. It is becoming big problem
| IN Iowa at the present time as to just
the best method to pursue, and while
the tax laws should be enforced II is be-
coming a debatable question whether
1.-THE supervisors have power to employ
men to carry on these investiga rions
and enforce the collections. On the
strength OF Minnesota supreme court
decision to the effect that the board is
not delegated with this power the SUI
spervisors of Woodbury. county, of
(which Sioux City is the seat. have can
Iceled their contract with one Powell.
and now must defend in lawsuit
brought by the ferret to force the
board to fulfill its part of the contract,
Therefore there seems to be trouble II
1.-The supervisors proceed and trouble II
I they don't. If the Minnesota decision Is
Isus.ained 1t will drive the ferrets out OF
business and, at the same time leave an
| open gate for those disposed to evade
| the payment of their just portion OF
/ taxes If the present tax laws are not
4 enforceable, they should be substituted
1 by statutes that are
1 Pedestrians who are Obligedito walk,
\ by day and by night, over places where
4 sidewalks have been torn up and sexca-
syations or fills made. have a Just reason
i TO register kick with some one. Every
| one Ia pleased to zee improvements In
progress, but when walks are torn gu,
and an unreasonable length OF time
selapses before they are replaced. pa
tience ceases TO be virtue. There are
several such places In the city at the
present time some. in fact where side
|swalks have been torn up for months. Il
the council wishes its ordinances obeyed
HIT should be the Last to shut lite eyes e
violations, and after property owner
is given thirty days notice TO make 9
street improvement and fails to comply
the city should do the work at once
Failure to do this Is equivalent to an in-
vltation to the property owner to do as
he pleases.
Editors AwfulsPlight.
r. NJ Higgins. editor Of the Seneca
(1ll.) News, was afflicted for years with
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stuntil he tried Bucklen's Arnica Salye
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