Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-28
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Iowans Going Across the Line
For Real Estate Invest.
ments.
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Walt Butler Will speak..some
Disreputable Farmers In
Eastern Iowa.
Another Ballot Middle In Billy
Hamilton's County..Town.
ship Ticket Omitted.
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Special TO oTimes-Repubiican.
Des Moines. Oct. 2S.-Not all OF the
Iowa money which is just now seeking
investment in other states is going into
the Dakotas; some of 1t goes farther and
is finding lodgment in Canada, where
opportunities are said to be excellent. a
party of Iowans recently made jour-
prairies near Regina looking at land.
AS IA result of their visit and the VEN
tures of a number of others, Iowa people
own about seventy-tiNe sections of land
all in a bunch near the town of Arcola.
forty miles north of the international
boundary in the finest wheat-growtng
part of the werld. Among those who
have invested in this land within the
past month are State Superintendent
Barrett. OF Mitchell county; Messrs.
Fillmore and Towner, of Peterson, Clay
county; Messrs. Myers and Docks, of
Audubon; Messrs. Chandler and Hay
ward, of Spirit Lake. Another group OF
lowans have been investing in wheat
land nearer Winnipeg, where they have
to pay better prices. Among those who
have done this are L. d. Chassell, of
-LeMars; A. b. and George Funk. of
Spirit Lake, and MIR. Sisson. of Storm
Lake. The number of lard buyers from
Polk and Dallas counties who have in
vested in North Dakota north and
northwest of Bismarck the past six
months would make a long list. They
have bought by sections and whole
Townships Quite an amount of land in
the Red river valley near Pembina, and
over in Minnesota near the north line.
has been purchased by landseekers from
here. The land fever is catching, and
already has taken in most of the OIL
ciels at the state house and many of the
younger business men of Des Moines.
Notwithstanding that the democratic
candidate for governor is making a
campaign on the Issue ofrepudiating the
free silver tendencies of the party the
issue is creeping in. The expected has
happened and Walt Butler is going to
take the stump. He has been invited to
open up in Jasper county late this week.
1t is believed that his speeches can do
no great amount of harm, because the
news that he is on the stump for Phil
lips is not likely to get very far away
before election day. The republican COM
mittee offered to pay Buffers expenses
IL he would go into Clinton county and
make his little speech a few times. but
the offer was not accepted. The Jasper
county democrats are running a cam
paign all by themselves. Bryan is also
10 get back into the state for speech or
two.
Not all the votes that are for sale on
election day are to be found In the SUM
wards of the city. A politician who
has had considerable experience in man
aging county politics. relates that In a
county 90 eastern Iowa there IS loose
organization of farmers over in one end
of the county. sometimes called Gid
cons band,' and they make merehan-
disc of their votes. There are between
thirty and forty of them. They send
man down to the county seat every year
and he bargains for the delivery of the
vote of the entire band. Somtimes one
party buys them and sometimes the
other. The prices varies from $40 to
$1OO.
Another ballot muddle is reported. In
Sac county the ticket for the township
in which Odebolt is located is not on the
official ballot. Billy Hamilton swears
he. as secretary of the caucus, got the
papers all signed up and mailed them
to the county auditor in an envelope
properly addressed and stamped. But 1t
Is said they never reached their desttna-
,tion. Hence the township ticket is not
on the ballots.
The movement started last spring to
have the legislature establish another
school for the deaf in eastern or north
eastern Iowa, petered out completely,
and now the Iowa Association for the
Advancement of the Deaf is engaged In
setting itself right before the people by
repudiating the movement. A large
number of petitions were signed for the
esta ablishment of the school, chiefly IN
northern Iowa counties, prohapiy Dy
persons entirely unfamiliar with the
facts regarding the present Iowa school
for the deaf, which is admirably man
aged and is capable of accommodating
all the deaf students in the state.
A compilation has recently been made
in regard to the political complexion of
the boards of supervisors of the state.
There are forty-four or the counties in
which there are both democrats and re
.publicans on the board. The total num-
Der of democrats on boards is ninety
six. They control only eight OF the
counties thru the boards.
THE oELwElN STRIKE.