Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-28
Stock IS All Healthy
No Diseased stock Gets Into State
Fair Now.a.days-Good
Market for Stock.
.Dolliver swamped With Letters
1000 Behind and steDograph-
ers Working Over Time.
Executive Council Will Meet Thurs
day and Another Herriott Pro.
test is Expected.
to Times-R Republican.

SPECIAL to Times Republican.
Dies Moines, Aug. 28.--'..We have not
had occasion to reject a single animal
/ that has been sent here for the fair, =
tsaid State Veterinary Surgeon +. L.
Gibson, of Denison, to your corresponds
lent this morning. Exhibitors are
learning that it is useless to send in
fected animals to the fairs, because too
close a watch is kept on the stock that
comes in to permit of the entrance of
diseased animals. have reason to be-
|lieve, however, that formerly diseased
lanimals. hogs and cattle, We're taken
| from sick herds and sent here in order
Ito offer them for sale and get rid of
lthem This fair is the best market in
1.-THE United States. for it is practically
the only convenient chance that the
Farmers of Iowa set to buy blooded
Istock; / mean fused to be. Scrub
ststock is a curiosity in Iowa these days.
The stock Shipped to the state fair this
fysar is all free from every symptom OF
5Idisease and no farmer who buys stock
8I1his year need fear that he will inocu-
Hate his herds with tuberculosis or cllol-
aiera ! think we should test the cattle
Tier tuberculosis more strictly, but the
last legislature decided that there was
mo need of legislation To protect iowa
iron having tuhercuiin cattle dumped
upon US, SO / suppose it is all right.
j Senator j. p. Dolliver is just now en-
lij0yifg the delights of Keeping a force
tof stenographers at work. Advices
from Fort Dodge friends of his say. that
4 he is something less than 1000 letters
behind his mail. This thing of being a
a senatori is no snap. When Dolliver bade
4 Ciovernor Shaw good bye the day after
4 the appointment was made he eX-
fpressed his thanks and remarked that
this was the biggest thing that had
q happened, I" and there hesitated, when
1.-THE governor added: Since the baby
{ was born. Dolliver's face beamed and
he said: Well, say, that was a great
: sfevent. don't know whether this real-
J. ly comes up to it, but pretty near"
:, Senator Deliver. expects to soon begin
s This campaign work. He has agreed un-
= der the circumstances to spend much of
: his time in Iowa.
The friends of a. 3. Cummins believe
lthst the congressional fight in the
! Tenth district Will not be made a test
81 sIbetween the strength of aCummlns and
: .siDollirer8 in the legislature in the winter
tof 1902. Not because they are afraid
,iof the fight, but they see no necessity
:. Tor the Tenth embrpiiins itself at this
,ftime over a congressman when the Sc
ssilection of man IL fill Dolliver's shoes
fIx.
done MIR Cummins friends believe
I that the members Of the state iegisla-
] fture from the Tenth district wiz break
: even as between DoniverS and Cuinmins
i in 1902 They are satisfied with this and
/ itdo not care TO try to8nominate a man
! fcr congress, especiaiiy. that is they
4 lido not want to make a fight on those
& Hines There are several men who are
). ICunmips men that are running for the
f nomination: Garst Stevens. Way
ofChase on the other hand are Kamrar
( bingham, Cennor. The impression pre-
azjvails in political circles around here
l. I.that Iugham has. been determined upor
4 as the next congressman. He has al
i lways been g. Cummins man, but has
s tbeen a iDoiliver man first on account 0:
: the district.
8 A meeting of the state executive
G council has been fixed for Tuesda,
% morning AZ this session It Is expected
5, ;fat Treasurer of state Her7iotl vii
= subni. his protest. against the assess
10 Enlent recently made Of the property o
Il The express companies. Its TOO Low. ii
+ his opinion. II would raise the Anleri
a can Gonpany,s about SAT-. And als'
i the Great Northern. ADAMS arr
It;nited states companies. Th
+ American IS on the Northwestern rail
d lroad and the United States is on tn,
Rock Island. This IS but another cyl
u dence. in the opinion Of Mr.. Herriott
ai that the council majority is determined
+ 10 give Judge Hubbard the best of i
5. in the matter of every assessment TO
81 taxation it has TO perform. The sol
p pIuuestioI in the controversy is whethe
~ stor net $2S.oo0.000 Of securities reporte'
= by the companies are actually uset
lel outside their business. Mr. Herriot
iciaims that the companies property
all used in their business and the sur
,.Iplus can no- be used outside the pnsl
!, ness The osher members take the com
! lpanies' word for i t.
- "All this talk about the Belgian har
sd being ininlcal to the interests OF III
in farmers is all nonsense" said j. +
= Long. Of the Prospect Park rabbitr.
IN land who has an exhibition of hares a
,e the state fair. The hare is a delicat
le, animal. Growers have one dread con
in stantly before them pneumonia. Th
IL hare and the monkey resemble eac
in other the monkey is subject to con
1e sumption, and most of them die wit
Id lit hares are as susceptible to pneumo
ru mia. Suppose that the, hares should es
X cape, as the farmers say, and breet
in The first cold rain would kill them.
is venture to say that if there We're 1890
~ hares in the woods here on the IA
as grounds today and cold rain sloul
come up there would not be a live or
left tomorrow. SO all this talk abol
the hare becoming a menace to crops
he all moonshine. / can not nnderstan
to the reason for the craze against tt
m hares. I suppose it8sstarted .becaus
en- there was one for them. Why, even no
I'd I've do not grow hares for meat, we U.
a. them exclusively for breeding purpoi
land 20 sell them. We dress hart