Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-11

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The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad will today receive a draft for
$1,000 from the secretary of the state
agricultural society, being the amount
agreed upon as the price at which the
society should purchase the Burlington
building on the state fair grounds. 1t
cost about twice that sum. but yester-
day the railroad officials accepted the
offer made by the society, and the
building will hereafter be used as the
secretary's office at the grounds. The
total amount of premiums paid by the
agricultural society, on this years fair,
was SIS, S,56IS4. All premiums have been
paid in full and there are no accounts
unsettled or in controversy.
Mr. Cummins is to speak in Denison
next Monday evening and will open the
campaign for that part of the state. Ca
to Sells has been assigned by the demo-
Gratis to do the talking act in Denison a
little later.
Judge Kline, of the board of control,
has been at the institutions in the
southwestern part of the state. The
number of pupils at the state school for
the deaf is this year exactly the same as
last year at opening, but there are
about thirty-five new ones taking the
place of others who have finished. There
is still a scarcity of teachers at the in
atitutions. Iowa has been fortunate in
the past in keeping a number of teach
ers at this school who have more re-
Gently been offered higher wages and
have gone elsewhere. The supply is
now a little short. There are exactly
500 inmates of the institution for feeble
minded at Glenwood.
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The decision of the supreme court in
the case of the Marshalltown Stone
Company Va the Des Moines Brick
Manufacturing Company, was an em-
phatic rebuke to some business practic-
es which can hardly pe said to be fair.
The Des Moines company had entered
into an agreement with the Marshall-
town company to keep the latter from
furnishing crushed stone to the city OF
Des Moines or to any other company
than one, for limited time, SO that the
securing of a certain paving contract
could be easier. Then, after the Mar
ahalltown comany had furnished the
crushed stone for the paving. the Des
Moines company refused to pay the bill
of S641.50. basing refusal on the ground
that the Marshalltown company had en-
tered into an agreement in restraint of
trade and contrary to public policy and
ought not to be paid for the stone fur
nished. The lower court here held to
this view, but the supreme court de-
cides that the contract lacked several
elements of making it one in restraint
OF trade. But the publication of the
methods of the brick combine in pre-
the city of Des Moines under its COM
plete control may cause the brick people
some trouble in tie future. The brick
combine is about as relentless and un-
acrupulouss as was the old cedar block
trust which was so hard for Des Moines
to shake off, The brick interests get
into politics. control newspapers and
run things with a high hand-but in this
case the supreme court has decided it
would best pay the bills
The rain hid the shame of Des Moines
last night There was no carnival But
this was the only reason why there was
less of rowdyism and brutality and in
decency on the streets. The police have
adopted the policy of using their clubs
freely on the boisterous carnivalists. but
having invited the people here with as
surances that "the town is yours this
treatment is resented by not a few OF
the visitors.