Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-18
TIE |N1[RURBAN line
The Eldora Electric and Des
Moines Union Right Of
Way Fight.
Depot Fight at Arion..captain
Kings Sentence Sur.
prisine Light.
County Attorneys State Conven.
tion..cedar Rapids May Lose
the Convention.

| Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June 1S.-Judge Porter, of
Eldora, is in the city looking after the
interests of the electric railroad COM
pany of which he is one of the incor-
porators-the company which is to build
the trolley line thru Nevada and to Ell
cora and possibly on to Waterloo and
/ Charles City. The company is going
! ahead with condemnation proceedings
for right-of-way in Des Moines, beyond
| the place where clash with the Des
| proceedings to dispose of legal questions
| viii not come up for some time, but the
| company is preparing to make a fight
and 1t is generai:,f believed mere that the
lnterurban will win out against the Des
| MONIES Union. The real trouble is that
at one point along the Des Moines river
there is room for but one railroad track
between the bluff and the river, and
| both want it. But Judge Porter ex-
Presses himself as highly pleased with
| the encouragement he has received from
all along the line. The route will be a
fine one, he says. and there need be no
grade OF more than l per cent, wlti.. the
line goes as straight as one could wish
1here are no engineering difficulties in
the way An outcropping of the fight
| between the two companies appeared,
| yesterday in the fight in the Dss Moines
city council over the viaduct matter Ii
| appears that the street railway interests
| and the Union railway interests arc a,
outs on the viaduct nlatter largely "a
4 cause they can NOT aerae. ~, son,a c,tha-
| matters.
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The COMPLAINT of Arion o,.;zsre ,o;d
before the railroad o,es,nnnrs ,,.;,,
/ reference 10 danot facilitias IN tbsir oit,.
| is somewhat amusinr Tbav corrn,ai,
| that on account az co many tr,i,,s
.passing and re-passiner,,a an the Nortb-
western ana Illinois Central tracks Il is
waukee depot pla torn. and thew ask for
| relief or o new depot or something of The
! sort. There are three depots in the city.
II appears from the complaint that but
few of the trains are in the habit of
stopping in the town-hcnee the great
suppress a smile at the complaint.
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The news that Can't. c. W. King. for
mrely of Webster City, has been scn-
tenced 10 a year and a half in the peni-
Tertiary by the United states court in
Alabama caused surprise onl,, as To the
short sentence. 1t was expected he
would get a longer sentence. He did
not deny having. received money from
the contractors on government work at
a time when. as an army officer. it was
his duty TO pass on the work. bu. he
claimed. at least to his friends in Iowa
that ile did not accent the money as a
hrihe How much he received is not
known but short time ago he was
Rome locking after a farm which he has
time connected with the Iowa National
Guard in Iowa and was an enthusiastic
military man.
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The Madison county democrats have
called their county convention for next
Saturday. while the democrats of Wa
pello county will not name their dele
gates until the Saturday before the
democratic state convention.
...
The county attorneys are In De.
Moines today holding a state convention
and devising how they can get better
:esults out of their profession. A Polk
county grand jury yesterday gave them
an Illustration of one Of the difficulties
in the way of success in prosecuting
criminals. The city detectives had un
of resident of the city. and had found
.itro-glyoerine, fuse. skeleton keys
and other tools of the burglars trade in
his pantry. and yet the obstinate Jury
declared the man was innocent and let
him go. Others believed it was a dead
sure case of finding bad criminal. but
the jury could not be got to agree to
that
The story that Cedar Rapids is likely
TO lose the republican state convention
en- account of having smallpox in the
city doesn't interest Des Moines hotel
keepers at all. They have lost all in
terest in that subject They never think
about that state convention without re-
calling how the state committee asked
committee of Des Moines citizens to
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