Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-21
TOPICS OF THE TINES.

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number nearly 100000 men, with about
| 10000 900 people dependent upon them.
The increase of smallpox among the
| Tama county Indians furnishes fresh
reason for all immediate points to guard
against it.
1t is understood in Des Moines tina,
Deliver will open senatorial headquar-
tiers in the Slavery during the first week
| in January.
The cold weather has greatly in
creased the number of cases of small
pox in Vienna, Austria, which appeared
to be decreasing lately. Tuesday thir-
ty- five cases were reported, the largest
number of any day so far.
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Senator Mason, of Illinois, has an
nounced that he favors extending the
Chinese exclusion act Sin order to keep
up high standard of civilization in the
United States" and to protect Ameri-
can workingmen from cheap foreign la
Dor.
Strong efforts for legislation admit
ting Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
and Indian Territory as states of the
American union Will be made at this
session of congress" said Representa-
tive Curtis, OF Kansas, in Washington,
the other day My ideas may rot be
generally indorsed, but Oklahoma and
Indian Territory should be admitted as
a single state They would make one
OF the grandest states OF the union, hut
to divide them and endeavor to make
two states would. in my judgment. be
mistake, and the efforts would meet
with failure They are composed of
magnificent territory, are rich in min
eral deposits, as we'll as in oil and gas,
while their agricultural future is second
to no section OF the entire country"
Six western markets received 100000
sheep the past week, being the largest
November receipts on record, and $1,000
more than arrived year ago, for a
similar period.
Forty thousand acres of land near
Navajo. Greer county, Okla. have been
sold to representative Of a colony of
Germans, OF whom 1000 families are
coming from Germany to locate, each
getting forty acres. That Is very sta
bIe nopulation for the new territory.
LYMAN D. Goff, wealthy manufac-
turer Of Pawtucket. r. l., will build
fine clubhcSse for boys. between the
ages of 5 and 10, who are in the habit
of making the streets their homes.
49,
Under the proposed new Virginia con-
stitution, a poll tax. payable six months
In advance OF election. is to be condi-
ton of suffrage, as has been the case Tor
many years in Georgia, in which state
the number Of actual voters has peen
kept down to less than orfe-han the
number otherwise qualified. 1t is not,
however, only in the south that a poll
tax Is a condition of suffrage, for II pre-
walls in Pennsylvania and Minnesota, as
well as in Florida. Mississippi, North
Carolina. Louisiana. South Dakota and
Tennessee. A poll tax requirement for
suffrage was abolished short time ago
il. Rhode Island, and for many years in
New York property was q condition of
voting.
Lord Roseberry in a political address
intimates that business men Of the type
of Mr.. Carnegie and Sir Thomas Upton
are needed in the government of Great
Britain. men of exceptional administra-
tive ability, men who look ahead and
count the cost of everything they go
into.
Richard Croker. the boss of Tam
many, has scored the ministers for their
attacks upon him. He declared he never
made a dollar in politics by dishonest
methods.
President Roosevelt has issued an or
der placing several offices in the war
department under the civil service
rules. He may be counted upon at all
times as a friend of civil service tenure.
Spain is not satisfied with the per-
Torrance of her navy during the late
war; and signifies disposition to pass
laws creating civil controllers over naval
affairs and credits. Admiral Vulcarel
the senior officer has just had special
audience with the queen regent to pro-
test against this, saying that the naval
officers, himself included, object to it,
and that it would demoralize the service.
1t is not easy to see what Spain now
wants with navy, anyway, but IL she
must have one, the wider her departure
in methods of management from those
she employed with the old one the
better.
While our state appears to be handi-
capped in the matter of insuring state
buildings, it is noteworthy that the
board of control has placed
$3.50 900 insurance on state institutions
under it's control.
The editor of the ottumwa Courier
denies the report that he is to buy a
Des Moines newspaper and denies II
with a vehemence which indicates that
he deems such a suggestion an Insulting
on his business sagacity, as
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil reads it,
end as some others size it up.