Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-04-16
FIND MORE B|.UNDERS
County Auditors Unable TO Re.
port Valuation Of Telephone
and Telegraph Companies.
Assessments Made in July and
Auditors Blanks Are
Due in June.
Title to Meanderine Lake Beds.
Twenty-four County Fairs
in September.
Title to Meandering Lake Beds.

in September.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. April 16.-In preparing
the blanks to be sent out to county au7
nitors on which they are to make re-
turns of the total property valuation OIL
which the state executive council makes
Its state levy for the following year the
state auditor came across another of
those legislative bIunders which cause
so much trouble to state officers. and Il
was necessary to refer the matter to the
Executive council as a whole. The blanks
call for report on the total valuation
of all property in the county as equal
lied by the county boards of review, in
|cluding the valuation on railroads. ex-
PRESS companies telegraph and tele-
Phone companies. Now 1t so happens
that the assessment on express cosnpa-
lies has not yet been certified out to the
rot he possible to send out the assess
ment on telegraph and telephone COM
|panies until in July because the assess
ment is not made until that month. But
the blanks must be filed out in June.
Manifestly it is Impossible for the coun-
ty auditors to Include the valuation on
Telegraph and telephone companies and
the executive council will have TO take
the figures from the original assess
ments. Another matter which shows
how careless Legislators are is found i'll
THAT section of the code which provides
lspecifically that the county auditors
shall report to the state auditor the real
estate valuation after IL is equalized.
and the personal property as it is re-
turned by the assessors But inasrnuch
as the county auditors do what the law
makers contemplated rather than What
they said this causes no trouble.
Some thing of a sensation was created
| in political circles here by the announce
mcnt that Capt. wilkins. one of the
Ncardidates for the republican nominn-
/ ltion for representative, had Withdrawn
from the race and will use his influence
1 in aid of DR.. w. n. Heaton. one of the
east side candidates This seems to
make it reasonably sure that the canii-
dates Will be Heaton and English. In
other respects the local contest has lit
i'tie in ii of general interest. A quieter
preliminary contest has not been known
for number of years.
/ The purpose Of the state executive
council is to compel action which will
result in the settlement by the courts
cf the title to the land in the dry lakes
which are shown on the government
surveys as meandered lakes The coun-
eil authorized advertising for bids for
rent of this land There is a large
amount of it--as much as 10000 acres.
land some Of it is vaiuable When the
state undertakes to take possession a
contest viii ensue and then Iowa will.
| know whether the bottom of the lakes
belongs TO the state or to the general
government. 1t is a matter which
should have been settled long ago.
Much interest was shown here among
the politicians in the. Times Republic
lan's symposium on political conditions
/ and prospects in different parts Of the
Estate the first and only attempt of9the
kind made this year Everywhere ii
Twas rsDarded as of value on account Of
the fairness and lberality with which
| the statements were made. There MAS
some surprise here at the avowing of
interest in the possible candidacy of
| Conger. for there is really little interest
in this manifest here.
| The secretary OF the state Department
| of agriculture reports that the first
| week Of September is the most popular
week for county and district fairs.
I There are to be twenty-six of them IN
Iowa that week. Bnt one local fair date
| has been fixed for October and thirteen
fare TO be in August The following
shows the distribution of the fairs:
August fairs-Nevada, Harlan. Sac
l8City, Malcolm, Shenandoah. Wilton
Junction, Knoxville New Sharon, Far
fax, Monticello. Mount Pleasant, Win
Ifeld and Alta.
September. first week -Waukon, At
lantic Upton, Nashua, Strawberry
Point. Perry, West Union. Eidora.
Humboldt. Maauoketa, Iowa City. What
Cheer. Central City. Malvern. Mapieton.
Winterset. Sutherland. Emmetsburg.
Grinnell, LeMars, Mount Ayr, Traer,
Eldon and Seymour
September. second week-Greendeld.
ogden, MeShanicsVille, Marcus. Elkader.
Clinton Bloomfield Cascade. Hampton.
Grundy Center, Newton, Fairfield West
Point, Marion, Oskaloosa, Usage. REQ
Ioak. West Liberty, Avoca. Orange City
and Clarion.
September, third week yinton. De-
Witt Arlington. Victor, Rhodes and In
dianola
September. fourth week-Cornng, La
Porte City Baskerville. Manchester
Guthrie Center, Pella, Toledo and AZ
lton.
october-Independence.
Work has actually commenced on the
new court house for Dallas county at
Adel. The questions raised about the le-
gality of the bond issue have all been
settled. A case was made up and taken
to the district court and Judge Apple
cate ruled in favor OF the legality OF The
bonds on every point, so that financiers
have taken them and the contractors
nave gone to work. The only thing the
people of Dallas county regret now is
that they did not ask for a larger sum
OF money than was voted. AS 1t was the
Architects estimates were too high and