Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-27
DECIDE N DECEMBER
Appointments by Governor Cum.
Minis Will Be Determined
Upon Then.
Pharmacy Commissioners a Pay.
ing NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Board to Be Reelected.
Remarkable Increase in Number
Of Independent Telephone
Lines..Queer Names.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. 27.-It is expected
that Governor Elect Cummins will not
ttake up the serious consideration Of the
applications for offices until in Decem-
ber. He will be busy some time in the
federal court, closing up some of the
business in which he has been engaged
for several years, after which he will
receive the petitions and listen to argu-
ments. There is good deal of uneasi-
ness at the state house among the sub
ordinates Nearly all of those who hold
places under the present administration
ARE candidates to continue their place.
Some of Mr.. Cummins'' friends express
surprise that so many Of them should
wish to continue in places, even tho they
were among those who openly or quietly
fought Cummins' nomination. Ex-Aud-
! itor Mccarthy in speaking of this yes
terday said:
II am surprised at the number OF
those who hope to hold on when every
body knows they were against Cum
Minis. I should think that men who
were In office and who opposed the NOM
! ination of the successful man would not
expect any favors. take 1t that Mr..
Cummins Will take care Of his friends
| first He will be loyal to those who
have been loyal to him. That is the
way OF politics in these days
Mr.. Cummins is saying nothing as to
his plans but says, all will be heard re-
spectfully and considerably and he will
take his own time to decide on the ap-
pointees.
| The pharmacy commission shows that
lit was the most profitable to the state
! OF any of the departments in proportion
| to the expense. The pharmacy commits
| sion collects big fees from the peddlers
| Of medicine who travel about the coun-
| try. A system of watching all these
men and securing regular reports from
| them has been inaugurated, so that they
know where they are at all times. In
lthis way It is practically impossible for
DIE to go to pedd1ing medicine about
the country without having procured a
state license. Secretary Phillips tells OF
a case which came under his observa-
| tion He went out into Guthrie county
and compelled man to pay a license
for peddling medicines. The fellow be-
came mad and wouldn't pay. He was
| so poor that he couldn't pay. But he
| fixed 1t up and went to work on higher
l3plane Now he has five or six teams out
and is getting rieh-and all because the
pharmacy commission made him pay a
license and do business on business
principles.
| The telephone business is on the in
crease in Iowa, and it is stated by those
who are in position to know that one
good reason for the haste of the small
companies in covering all the highways
of the state with their wires is due to a
| fear that at the session of the legisla-
jture soon to open there will be legisla-
| tion looking to requiring telephone COM
panies to secure franchises from the
county boards There is some discomfort
among the farmers on account Of the
freedom with which the telephone COM
panies make use OF the highways and
go wherever they please. The law gives
| them absolute freedom now. The fact
| that this year there was assessed 27s
| telephone and telegraph companies
against 137 last year, indicates the ex-
pansion Of this business. In fact the 27s
are not all, for the auditor of state is
still getting reports from companies
| that had not been discovered before, and
| they are being assessed. The total will
| be considerably above 278. The names
of some of these companies are peculiar
| There Is a Wild Cat company, and an
Air Tight company, a Crow company
| and Barbed Wire company engaged in
1.-THE telephone business. The Madrid Ice
and Telephone Company is queer COM
| bination The Jordan's Grove company
and the Scotch Grove company are as
sessed; also Jack Oak and a White
Oak company, and the Young American
/ Telephone Company. All ! inds of tele-
phone companies are assessed, whether
| they have wires on poles or use the
barbed wire fences for their talking.
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| There has been no opposition devel-
oped as yet to either Secretary Var
Houten or Treasurer Ellyson, OF the
state department of agriculture, for re-
election, and it is expected both will be
reelected There has been some talk OF
bringing out at the last moment can
didate for secretary, but this has not
yet developed. j. c. Frasier will be
elected president, and w. W. Morrow
will be elected vice president. All the
six directors whose trems expire will be
reelected Thy are C. Z. Cameron, AL.
| ta; NJ. Mcdonald, Bayard; M. j. Wragg
Waukee; S. b. Packard, Marshalltown;
1 w. C. Brown, Clarion, and j. p. Mana
try Fairfield. The report of the secre-
tary will be ready for publication
COON.
The Wilcox case, which finally got be.
fore Judge Given, of the supreme court
presents some queer phases. Andrew
| Wilcox is clearly insane, or of such pc.
culiar mental bent as to make him dan.
gerous His father and brother are no,
greatly different. They have become
possessed of the idea that Andrew has
been sent to the insane hospital to pre-.
vent him bringing suit against the
Milwaukee railroad for ejecting him
from train at Adel when he would moi
! pay his fare In short they are seized
] with the foolish notion that there Is 9
4 great conspiracy against the whole fam.
lily. Judge Given was appealed to t.
lget the young man out Of the hospital