Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-16
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Nemaha, Sept. 15.-This cabinet Of
sficer'- Wellman interview is hard on
"us newspaper fellers." Just as our
general reputation for veracity was re-
covering from the Conser fake inter-
view,s out comes Wellman with this now
celebrated interview with a cabinet
officer" which contained so many
statements right in line with Secretary
Shaw's well-known position on the tar
iff revision question that the general
public at once assumed that the cabi-
ret officer was Ex-Governor Shaw.
And the same general public, when they
read Governor Cummins' few remarks
on the cabinet officials statements had
an idea that the governor was talking
at, the ex-governor. Then came Frank
Stillman's (the Washington corre-
spondent of, the Iowa dailies) statement
that Secretary Shaw was not the cabi-
net official, and had not given Mr.. Well
man any interview on the tariff revis-
ion question. That settled ii. But now
only last week Wellman was in Des
Moines. The interviewer was inter-
viewed, and stated positively to Des
Moines correspondents that the inter
view with the cabinet official was with
Mr.. Shaw And as one close reader of
the daily papers remarked to the wri
ter, ..It's sure thing somebody has
led"
Threshing machines are having a
hard time this year. TIE other day the
writer was in town where he was told
that four machines were in the ditch,
rot any of them three miles from town.
One OF them, SO the veracious inform
ant said, was clean out of sight ex-
cept her smpkestack Last winter the
writer saw & threshing machine outfit
that had remained in slough hole for
over two months and the owner thereof
was waiting for it to freeze up before
he tried to move it, AS a result of
these stuck-in- the-mud machines,
many farmers could not get their oats
threshed till they had been rafned ON
many times, all of It cntailing much
loss on all interested, And yet good.
roads article in any daily or weekly
has little interest for an owner of a
threshing machine. Perhaps, tho. he
IL. as much interested in good roads as
the average Iowa farmer.
Upsnear Bancroft is IN Iowa farmer
having holding of $40 acres. On his
farm are several pond holes, where the
wild ducks have stayed all summer and
raised many young ones, now ready for
the hunter. And somehow Mr.. Farmer
got an idea into his head that they were
his ducks, and one day last month took
his gun and went out and shot some of
his own wild ducks. Information was
fled before justice of the peace and
the one dead duck found in his posses
sion cost him $40. This he cheer
fully (?) paid after he acquired a GER
tain amount of legal knowledge. But
the game club members who got good
Joke financial joke) on Mr.. Farmer
now find notices stuck up all over that
$40 acres that any trespassers on that
farm will be prosecuted to the full eN-
tent of the law. And Mr.. Farmer means
business. Hereafter not a quail. prairie
chicken or duck in season or out OF sea-
son will be shot on that farm. Not
even will he allow a bullhead to be
caught in one of the pond holes.
The reported remarks of Speaker
Henderson. at the late republican con-
ference in Des Moines;, in which he
scored certain republican papers in
Iowa for their attacks on the platform
adopted at the state convention, are
we'll received in this neck of the woods.
Northwest Iowa is full OF republicans
who strongly endorse every plank in
the platform, and consider the action OF
a republican editor of az. Iowa daily
oriticising their united action as the
height of impudence. One Pocahontas
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