Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-27
NAMES OIL INSPECTORS
Gov. Cummins Names Eleven
Oil Inspectors...Three Not
Yet Decided.
Morgan, OF Marshalltown, Gets
Place...Governor Unloads a
Mighty Burden.
The Des Moines Telephone Girls
Stood Together Dispute All
Tricks and Temptations.
pecial to Times-Renuhlican.

Special to Times Republican.
4 Des Moines, June 27.-Gov. Cum
! Minis has been wrestling with mighty
Iproblem for some days and has nearly
freed his mind This is the matter OF
the state oil inspectors. Last evening
| he announced appointment of all but
three of them, as follows:
Hugh NJ. Pickel, Des Moines.
Charles S. Rogers, Mt. Pleasant.
Edwin ]. Cameron, Davenport.
! Leroy Burch, Cedar Rapids.
Robert A. Santee, Cedar Falls.
/ S. w. Morgan, Marshalltown.
Frank B. Rogers, Britt.
William j. Scott, Ida Grove.
/ E. c. Brown, Council Bluffs.
| John B. Currie, Mount Ayre.
/ p. G. Sewers, Oskaloosa.
This leaves the places at Fort Dodge,
Sioux City and Dubuque yet to be filed.
| The governor had gone over the entire
| correspondence in reference to these
| places yesterday, but is taking up the
matter carefully. He has had a great
deal of trouble with these places. At
/ Cedar Falls there was a fierce fight on
I and good friends offered conflicting ad-
1 vice to the governor. Marshalltown was
comparatively easily disposed of as was
the places at Oskaloosa and Ida Grove.
/ 1t had been known a long time that
! Hugh Pickel, of this city would be re-
| appointed, for he was given this as
surance last winter There is no chief
| inspector or head to the force but Capt.
| Pickel has acted as a sort of chief ad-
wiser and manager of the business be-
cause of his location here. During the
| last term he was senior vice commander
of the department of Iowa G. A. r.
| There has been some criticism of the Oil
inspectors the past few years on ac-
count of their large expenses and be-
cause of failure to inspect in many
cases.. 1t is understood that Gov.
ECunmins VIII exact of the inspectors
rigid economy and good work and insist
upon such accurate accounts that there
can be no doubt of what is being done.
The new men go into office the first of
next month in their respective disc
tricts.
The state of Iowa has been engaging
in the sale of real estate and has done
very well. This week deed was signed
by the members of the state executive
council selling to persons in Davenport
a small bit of ground which is an island
in the Mississippi rver near Davenport,
the sale being made for $3.50 cash in
- a :,I. IA l,,St ~
state anything, hence the deal is re-
garded as a good one. The sale was
made by authority of the legislature.
Appraisers were appointed some time
ago and the sale made in accordance
with law. The purchasers expect to
make use of the island as a sort of sum-
mer garden in the river, for which it is
admirably adapted.
Representative Mahlon Head, of JEFF
ferson, is in the city and states that the
people of jefferson are not in the least
disturbed over the recent terrible affair
in Jefferson. The people, he says, re-
gretted very much the occasion which
calld for such an incident, but having
determined upon capturing the desper-
ate man they finished the job in the on
ly way that it was possible. The JEFF
ferson people do not feel that the affair
could have been avoided and there is
no local criticism of the work of the
men who shot down the murderer.
Attorney General Mullan will in the
reXt three or four weeks prepare papers
and commence proceedings against the
celebrated Bonaparte dam in the Des
Moines river to have fishway erected
thereon. The legislature passed Il bill
which makes it mandatory on the at
torney general to take this step. and the
executive council will pay the bills 1t
was argued in the legislature that a
fshway over the dam would ruin it but
the bill was passed. 1t is likely, how
ever that the proceedings will be re-
sisted by the owners of the dam who
have thus far failed to sell it to the |
state.
A great deal of surprise is manifested |
here that Letson Balliett, the convicted |
should still be able to con-
tinue advertising himself as wonder
full mining engineer and Napoleon of |
finance but he has a fulsome article in
Weekly which contains so
much that is supremely ridiculous that
those who followed the case in court are
covered with smiles. Baliett has not
yet been sentenced. The sentence for
his offense will be light. tho he was con-
victed on five counts of an Indictment.
1t was the principle of the thing more
than anything else that the government
sought to establish. He has gone back
west and is evidently preparing to do
some business, tho it is hard to see how
he can since the postoffice has stopped
the mail he was receiving for his big
mining concern. If Balliett appears in
court any more he will have to get still
another attorney. When he was indicted
ne had A. b. Cummins to defend, but
Iummins dropped it when he became
governor. Then he got Charles A. Bish-
DO and now he has gone on the supreme
bench and will have to drop the case.
The people of Des Moines have had
demonstration of the fact that young
women can stand steadfaSt and resist
The striking telephone op
srators have been beset with many
The other day their friends i.