Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-15
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
Uncle Sam is paying the freight in.
tho big freight handlers strike.

Uncle Sam is paying the freight In
tho big freight handlers strike.
\ In retiring from the premiership Lord
Salisbury leaves the British empire IN
a hopeful condition, with the most NeX-
atious problem it has confronted for
many Il decade we'll settled. With the
Doe. war out of the way the aged prime
minister justly felt that he could retire
with honor. Arthur Balfour, who sue
ceeds him. will have fairly clear field
for the inauguration of his duties.
The first load of new wheat mar
keted at Richmond, Missouri. tested
sixty pounds to the bushel and brought
65 cents.
While the undertaken was preparing
the body of VIM. Fenstermacher, a
farmer living near Findlay, Ohio, for
burial, the corpse" sat up and de-
manded the reasons for the proceedings.
He has greatly improved since he dis
|
| 1t is expected that President Roose-
Welt will be Emporia, kas., the last
week in September and dig the first
! spadeful of dirt for the new federal
building.
The small number of men to be seen
| in a modern large machine works or
steel mill, as compared with an old
time shop of similar Importance, is
matter which has been q frequent occa-
sion for comment, and this doubtless is
due to the very general use of labor
saving machinery. The cost OF produc-
ton in industrial establishments is
made up of the costs of raw material,
wages, toolagc, taxes, and interest, OF
| which the largest single item usually is
| the wages cost. one way by which this
/ item may be reduced is by the INSTALL
ment of mechanical stokers. In the
great majority of steel plants. the coal
is wheeled to the boiler room by nand.
Lit is fired by hand, and the ashes are
removed by hand. making, i'll plants of
| 9, 900 boiler horse power or over, Il
wages cost of some considerable
iamount. The mechanical stoker may be
defined as a system of CRATE bars,
dumping bars, coal feeders, and auto
matte devices to feed fuel and control
its combustion, and subsequently to
drop the ashes and unburnt coal
Democrats must gain at least forty
seats to win the next house under the
new apportionment. The outlook is not
at all hopeful.
Oklahoma authorities are eXerting
themselves to draw in as settlers for
their territory the greater part of $4,000
Finlanders said to be headed for Amer
lea to follow agricultural pursuits here.
1t is possible, however, that the climate
may not be such as to suit Finlanders.
The new battleship Maine, the most
powerful yet built by the Cramps for
the United States, and expected to be
the fastest, will leave Philadelphia for a
trial trip today.
Frank @. Stuart shows sublime con-
tidence or audacity in trying to rally the
Iowa democracy in an effort to establish
a new democratic daily in Des Mcines
Will the large plan he outlines for a
well-equipped and self-sustaining rarty
organ eventuate in u scrub journal. as
weak at the vitals as is the party in
issues? If Mr.. Stuart is no better as IA
business man than the plan he outlines
for democratic daily at Des Moines is
slim.
Complaint is made in Nebraska that
the supply of school teachers turnout
the state does not meet the demand.
1t is learned from authoritative
sources that the crown prince of Siam
will come to the United States in the
same simple manned that he has visited
King Edward and the various continental
rulers, accompanied only by his broth
ers the next in succession to the CROWN
prince, and two aides de camp. officers
in the Siamese army. The crown prince
is in his 22d year, and for more than
eight years has lived in England,
speaking and writing the language. He
has been educated at oxford, is presi
dent of the Cosmopolitan Club of that
university, and is most SIMPLE and UNI