Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-28
.A CLERKS CONVENTION
State Association Of County
Clerks Will Convene on
July IL.
Strife Continues Over the Des
Moines Assessments..Fav-
criticism Shown.
Cummins People All Smiles Over
Rinssold..Military Reports
Of Iowa Colleges.
Special TO Times- Republlcan.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Mones, June 2s.-The State Asso-
citation of County Clerks is to hold
meeting in Des Moines on July IL. The
county auditors, county attorneys,
members of boards Of supervisors and
others have state associations and the
clerks of courts have now almost per-
fected their organization. Several of
the more progressive clerks of the state
have been working on the scheme for
some years. Clerk John H. Merkens, OF
Jefferson county, is at the head of the
4 association and reports that the pro-
gram for this year will be good one
and that the prospect is good for q
larger and better attendance than ever
before. j. H. McQuiston, deputy treas
urer of state, has been invited to adj
| dress the convention on the collateral
| inheritance tax law. He has made
special study of this law not only when
| he was in the office of county auditor in
Des Moines, but since he has gone into
! the state treasurers office. He read
iraper before the convention of county
attorneys in which he discussed the law
and gave them some valuable informa-
ton as to the law and will do so with
county clerks. No law on the statute
books has been so much misunderstood
/ and has proved so hard to apply fairly
as that of collecting taxes on collateral
/ inheritances, but it is source of great
4 profit to the state
The excessive heat of the present
+ week has not been good for fruit in
4 Iowa The best fruit in Iowa is that
\ " hich is of the northern varieties and
4 which do not stand excessive heat very
s well. Wesley Greene. secretary of the
State Horticultural Society. says that
the hot weather is not good for apples
and similar fruit When the tempera-
\ ture goes above s5 apples do not grow
we'll. The small fruit is not SO much af-
Il iected by the heat. The moisture has
been good for the growing of the trees
and shrubs, but cool weather is pre-
ferred for making fine fruit.
The assessment matter in Des Moines
+ is likely 10 be matter of contention
and strife for many days. 1t is so plain
TO every one that the assessors have
shown the most fragrant favoritism that
Il everybody, except the favored few are
J mad about it. Investigation shows that
some of the richest persons in Des
Moines have returned either no moneys
and credits or only such small amounts
as to be insignificant. Valuable tracts
Y of land have been assessed very low
while others of much less value have
been assessed higher. These llustra-
4 tons are being pointed out by the indig-
A nant taxpayers and the whole town is
stirred up over the showing made. The
Il board of equalization met yesterday and
4 added per cent to the assessment but
this is small matter compared with
the immense loss Indicated by the bad
job of assessing in the city. The census
h.unders We're not worse than those of
4 the assessors.
The executive committee of the State
Agricultural Society has made arrange
ments to have a large tent on the fair
grounds for the exhibits of cattle. This
tent will be about 200 feet long and half
as wide and Will have seats all around,
with an exhibition ring inside. This will
be much appreciated by the exhibitors.
who have heretofore been compelled to
bring their cattle out into the open air
for inspection of the judges. Now that
the fair association is flush of money
many permanent Improvements are be-
ing made.
The Tama county election contest case
involving the county superntendency.
which has just been decided in favor of
Brown after the office had been held by
DeLong for year and a half recalls
the decision of the supreme court with
regard to the manner of keeping ballots
in the county offices until after the pc
iiod for contests. The court held that
where ballots are merely dumped into
the vault or safe where they are in
reach of the persons who usually fire.
/ quent the vaults, the courts are not JUS
titled in assuming that they have not
Teen tampered with. This hits a good
many county officials who have been
careless in the matter OF caring for the
ballots.
! The reports from Ringgold county in
dicate that the weather was found to
be too hot on convention day for plow-
ing and the whole population turned out
to attend the conventions. It was a mass
convention. Word had come here at the
time the convention was called to the
effect that it was made mass conven-
tion so that the machine could have its
own way. A mass convention down on
the Missouri border was supposed to be
Just the thing to be easily managed by
the bosses. The vote indicates that
more came than were invited With 565
for Cummins to 456 against him it ap-
pears reasonable that the machine mis-
calculated. 1t didn't expect the whole
. country to come in and attend the con-
vention. The victory is, therefore, the
more significant Representative Prem
It's is credited with having managed the
thing in the interest of Cummins and he
did good job. The Cummins people
here are enjoying laugh over the stu
ation
Simpson College, Indianola. has re-
ported by Daniel Robinson, captain in
the United States army and military In