Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-12
ME SUPREME COURT
Consideration Of the Titus
Amendment Has Not Yet
Been Taken Up.
Will Come Up in the Regular
Way at the February
Term.
Cheap But Good Living at State
Institutions-=The Capital
News.

News.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Jan. 12.-The supreme
court has not yet taken up the consider
alton of the Titus amendment case. 1t
VIII not do so until it comes up in regu
lar form. but this VIII be a an early
date for the attorneys are prepared to
push matters. State Printer Murphy Is
at work on the briefs in the case They
are longer than usual. but not so long
hut that they can be read by the court
before decision is reached. The news
of the decisoin in Cherokee county by
Judge Hutchinson entirely dsffereas
from the decision rendered ny ouuss
Dewey. in Washington county, rather
erave the opponents of the Titus amend
mcnt a et-baok during the Week alt''o
ii is evident Hutchinson has not con-
s,dered the case as thoroughly as Dew
CIV Judge I4add is first of the supreme
court Judges to arrive in the city fas-
oanes Yesterday, but the others Mil hol
h,. here before tomorrow or MonaaS.S
The men who make and unmake candt-s
dates for state Office in the corrldors
and dark alleys have been busy as mo
the court had already declared the
amendment invalid. In connection win
the office of governor the names most
talked about at the start are those OF
shaw Herriott. Young, Hartman, Bald
win and Perkins. Their especial friends
are not permitting their several candi-
iGacies TO break out of the lines as yet
and nobody can be found who will talk
with authority about candidates.
The banner of the Tippecanoe Club,
which goes to the county showing the
Fest gain in the republican majority.
goes again this year TO Monona county.
which is the first county to get 1T two
years in succession. A new banner is
being prepared and on 1t will be the
counties which have held it, as follows: !:
Winnebago, Clay, Dubuque, Scott Ply
mouth. Howard, Decatur ard Monona.
scott county had it four times, but no
two yesrs in succession.
The proposed demonstration by Chi
cago University of how to live on 10
cents day or less is as nothing COM
pared to the practical demonstration in
come of the state institutIons The re-
Fort Of the kitchen department of the in
sitition at Fort Madison shows that the
state is feeding AL men who labor hard
every day at a cost of little more than
I Is cents n day. The report for one week
gives the bill of fare each meal and it
is shown TO be excellent-n fact, better
II an many Of the inmates ever had in
their own homes. For one week it cost
s;i25 to buy the material for the table.
There We're All persons fed The aver
age cost per day to each person was
therefore 15:92i cents. a similar report
ii ON the School for the Deaf at Council
Bluffs shows still better, for the cost is
l2.4s4 cents a day
Des Moines officers of the Jefferson
County Rice Company owning rice
lands in Texas. received q telegram yes
tsrday announcing that well borers had
struck q vein of petroleum at a great
depth and that it was flowing out of an
eight-ineh pipe and throwing the oil
high above the opening. The work was
teing done by Cleveland oil prospsctors,
and the Des Moines people are antici-
rating that Des Moinss will be become a
second Cleveland in the matter of oil
rnagnates.
The smallpox epidemic is becoming
interesting to Dss Moines people. The
discovery that a chambermaid in the
Iowt hotel had the disease caused con-
L. A .;.r
anime was ordered al once. In the
Iearly hoursof the morning ar. effort was
made BY the manager of the stock
company playing at one of the thea
ters to get Miss Hosiner, the leading
lady. out of the hotel by a subtsrfuge.
but it failed. The travelling men Who
were caught in the hotel We're iii great
distress. The city council sitting as a
board of health, had 10 consider the
matter at two meetings yesterday, and
lat was finally arranged that most of the
persons in the hotel would be allowed
to go. The chambermaid was al work
on one floor only. ana all who were on
that floor will have to remain in the
tclosed hotel There are now fifteen
cases in the city. and in all probability
ia hospital will be secured for all future
cases.
The Iowa members of the A. o. u. w
sent nearly $500 TO Texas on account Of
the storm last year, and the total
amount contributed by Workmen thru
out the country was about $500 for
each Workman who suffered losses in
Galveston.
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