Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-01
DIDN'T LIKE XAs.

kendrick, idaho.
DIDN'T LIKE TEXAS.
Waterloo Business Men Visit the OH
Regions and Return Satisfied With
d lown.
Waterloo. March -. i, W. Kendall
the gulf q week ago last Tuesday, re-
turned home yesterday While absent
they visited several day 8 at Mena. Ark
then proceeded to Beaumont and Pors
Arthur, Texas. Going down they lsft
the snow line at Joplin. Mo. but there
afterwards came severe storm and
sncw fell as far south assnorthern Tex
as, but Was a light fall and lasted only
Ia few hours.
The gentlemen SAN +. Y. Hayden a
Beaumont ard report him to be pros
rering in the real estate business. He
recently sold a small property which he
aadsossned but thirty days and cleared
up $1,000 on the deal. Of cours the
plums can not be picked up every day 4
and set the Interest in the oil PROSPECTS
OF that section has attracted numbers OF
Iaaventtrers and others, which has had
the effect, recesssai.lly Of creating an
interest and activity III real estate ciis-
clts The Waterloo people did NOT stay
long enough in the city Of recent tame
TO become thoroughly acquainted With
all the interests of that section but Mr..
slNenGall says that there is a class Of
spectators who are making inones, tho
he thinks the ordinary stranger locating
there viii not be amy better off than. in
many other places The rice inieres at y
an extensive and profitable one and this
sphere of INDUSTRY seems more s,teaails
iprotitable and Safer than prospecting
for oil. lsice Iandslie only a few inchss
above the high tisis level aud wind
storms agitating the gulf waters, causes
linundation. Rice land can be bought
for $50 an acre and is, rented usually for
4 two sacks of rice.
Smallpox has been prevalen; in mild
form in Beaumont for two az three
years mostly among the negro class
! Al present il is estimated that there are
/ 200 case of the diseasa in the city But
as stated before the disease ia light and
lin the two or three years The dissast. has
been prevalent there, there have been
ISbut few fatalities
Iowa Capitol Improvement.
pes Moines, March IL One OF tlie
most important things that Viii be rec
/ commended TO the Legislature by the
ltcapitol Improvement commission, nosv
/ IN session here. Will be an electric light
liant Mr. Peter \. Dey, one OF the
I rnpiia hsrs said .l-s-. -1irrlv
apubt but that a lighting plant woulu
ilbe recommended
Something VIII be done toward "a
pairing the tunnel connecting the heat
ling plant With the capitol. Since it was
Guilt the street has been cut down SO
that the tunnel is now close 10 the sur
/ face of the ground and has repeatedly
4 filled With water.
Other outside improvei aents VIII be in
i ths coping walks and fountains Much
cl the cement walk will haAe 70 be re-
/ placed. The sewerage system is defect
i've aud is often almost closed up. 1t is
/ probable that modern system Of clos
lets viii be recommended
Something Will be done toward repsai,I-
4 ing the tunnel connecting the heating
i plant With the capitol. Since ii was.
i built the street has been cut down so
that the tunnelSis now close To the sur
face of the ground and mas repeatedly
4;t'lled up With water.
i Other outside improvements will BIZ ia
# the coping. walks and fountains. Much
4 oil the cement walk will have TO be re-
] placed The sewerage system is dcfec-
i TIVE and is often almost closed up. Ii is
lrrobable that a modern system Of clos
cts Will be recommended
4 Considerable work Will have to be
done about the doors and windows
I.%here the Wear has been great.
Probably the dome Will be regil,led.
Little Will be recommended in the way
4 G. present mural decorations .sWs
found on our trip east that any exters-
iisiye that the Legislature would hardly
4 consider it, said Mr.. Dey All the IN
terror decorations in the eastern build
a .sEgs are work Of artists and cost thou
sands of dollars. We hase therefore d
cided TO recommend little along this
8 line
Two or three days will BE- spent by this
i eommission looking over the building
d and then the work viii be tabulated
4 and referred to contractors for esti-
mates.
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