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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
SPOKE FOR GOOD ROADS.

At a meeting of the Newton Business
which Governor Cummins was present
and, spoke, j. p Newell, president of
the association, in his annual address
paid his respects to the slovenly meth
DDS of road work under the system at
present obtaining generally thru Iowa.
He said:
"The business of this whole country
has been sadly handicapped, a large
part of each year on account of the
miserable condition of our country
roads and while this question can not
be solved in day or a year. yet am
firmly of the opinion that a partial SOL
ution will be found in the bill now be-
fore our state legislature to make road
taxes payable in cash, instead of the
method at present in vogue, of allowing
every man to work out his tax In such
way, and at such time. as best suits his
/ believe that the sooner
our county board can do away with the
old system and require all road taxes to
be paid in cash, the sooner will we all
feel the good effects of better roads
Mr.. Newells remarks have had an
additional emphasis given them by re-
ports from the great markets during the
past week, where bad roads were given
as the cause of market disturbances.
His view of the matter is the view of
most business men and of many pro-
farmers. Good road making is
y science and needs trained supervision
if the best results are obtained. Coun-
try road making up to date has been an
incident and not business.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
ALL EYES ON The HOUSE.

In the language of the street, at il
now UP to the house" to take final &C.
ton on two measures of most impor'
tant legislation. The senate has passed
a bill giving the executive council more
definite instructions as to the assessing
of railway properties The bill is moi
a radical measure, it leaves the exact
amount of the assessment to the dis
erection of careful men on the executive
| council, but it declares that certain
| conditions must be taken into conSid-
GRAFTON in determining the value of 9
railroad. Nevertheless it is said that a
powerful railroad lobby is fighting the
control the house. 1T is up to the
house" to prove it's mettle, to go on rec
ord in favor of either the interests OF
the public which it is supposed to rep
resent, or of the railroad lobby, which
offers the members so many courtesies.
The senate has passed another rail-
road bill, which will probably go to the
house and should receive very different
treatment. Known as the Molsberry bill,
it very innocently removes all limit to
the indebtedness that a railway corpor-
alton may incur for the purpose of buy
ing extensions to its line or lettering
it's property. 1t seems that when the
Burlington road was swallowed up by
the Great Northern, new c., b. & O..
Railway Company was incorporated
under the laws of Iowa for the purpose
of leasing and operating the Burlington
lines of the merged system Since the
laws of all other states prevent such
company, when it owns no actual prop
erty, from expanding its Indebtedness,
it is sought to change the Iowa laws,
and when done it will be an easy mat
ter for this stool-Digeon company to
borrow by the millions for the purpose
of buying the Great Northern, North
ern Pacific and Burlington systems,
making it possible for the much mooted
thus to be brought about with
out meeting any of the legal obstacles
that have thus far,blocked its progress.
1T is up to the house" to go on record
for or against the grand consolidation
of competing railway lines. Again
must it make a choice between the in
terests of the public and the interests
served by the railway lobby. All eyes
are on the house at present.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP IN ENGLAND.

1 The incorporation of the Great Brit
| ain Development Corporation at Tren-
ton, N. j. is announced, and, according
! to a director of the company, will build
and purchase electric lines in England
| in those places where the transit ia
cilities are inadequate to the demand
and the equipment behind the age. We
may expect another outcry from our
British cousins against this latest
| Yankee invasion. Yet they have only
| themselves to blame. A writer familia.
with the situation there says the past
policy of the British parliament in ty-
ing the great modern enterprises of
apron-strings of local political boards
has so resulted that England is today
behind even Italy in electrical industry,
in which she should by right of priority
of practical application have led Europe
and been side by side with the United
states. The testimony taken by the
Joint select committee of the British
parliament on municipal trading clear,
Nv demonstrated that the backward
condition of the electrical industry in
England is in very large measure due
to the operation of the tramway act of
1870, which enabled municipalities to
come in at the end of twenty-one years
Of operation by private enterprise and
expert witness before this committee
in speaking of London alone, said: II
maintain that If the tramway act was
not there to block the way, or If the
manipulating of all those undertake
ipgs was not dominating the situation,
there would be room for 500 miles of
profitable tramways today worked by
electricity" A superficial glance at
the situation in England shows that the
electrical tramway mileage for the
whole of the United Kingdom should be
at least ten times greater than it is at
the present time.
The Royal Statistical Society has
rowed capital used in municipal enter
prises of an industrial character there
has been profit balance of less than
half of / per cent. The question has
been taken UP by the London Times,
which shows that there are at present
200 local authorities in the British Isles
holding provisional orders for electric
lighting which have not been put in
force. These local authorities can stop
every one else from doing the business,
yet they are not obliged to do it them
selves. Said Mr.. Robert Porter at
dinner of the municipal trading COM
mittee of the London chamber of COM
merce: "There was a demand for
cheap producers, gas for use in the gas
engine the latest and cheapest inven-
ton for motor power, and you were
held up by municipalities whose BUSH
ness interests prompted them to oppose
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
KETcHuM FOR COMMISSIONER.

1t is with pleasure that the Times
nouncement that Mr.. n. S. Ketchum
of this city, will be candidate for
the republican nomination for rail-
road commissioner at the state con-
vention to be held this summer. For
twenty five years Mr. ketchum has
been engaged in the wholesale and
retail implement business in Mar
shalltown. Part of that time he was
manufacturing the celebrated ketchum
wagon at the head of large and
strong company. Mr. Ketchum has
been a lifelong republican and always
manufacturing and wholesale lines has
given him a thorough acquaintance
with the needs. trials and troubles of
Iowa shippers which gives him pecul-
iarly strong qualifications for n desir-
able commissioner, and yet Mr.. ket-
chum is no crank and railroad man
ayers need have no tear OF him. lie
is an experienced, careful, conserva-
tive business man of unimpeachable
integrity. A man who makes friends
everywhere and man who has quail
fications above the average for the
office of railroad commissioner.
Mr.. Ketchum entered last sum-
mer's convention with the pledges of
a large number of counties support,
but owing to the fact that the interests
of some of his best friends would have
been jeopardized by his candidacy he
positively refused to allow his name
to be used He had been talked of two
years before, but this year Mr. ket-
chum feels that there is need for
man on the board to sue
coed Mr. Dawson, who retires, and
his large acquaintanceship over the
state with the cordial support offered
him before ought to insure him the
nomination by the conven-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14

cheap power. So 1t was with light
electric and gas-and with the exten.
sion of tramways and light railways
Then 1t was that you discovered that
these towns and cities, with their reti-
nue. of officials, had been merely nib
bling at the electrical industry
Whatever affection the American in
vasion may have brought upon Great
Britain, it must plead not guilty in this
case. Municipal trading, as understood
in England is not Yankee notion. In
the United States capital in these
quasi-public industries has had freer
Roadway with beneficial results to pri-
vate enterprise and the public alike.
In the course of his address, above re-
ferred to, Mr.. Porter showed how in
the United States private enterprise,
with it's greater experience, it's scien-
tific experts and its holder operation,
had brought better results, in the
transportation and lighting fields, and
while yielding a profit for its own capt.
tai and a reward for it's own enterprise
end experience, had paid greater sums
into the city treasures and at the same
time served the public more cheaply
and more efficiently than the munici-
palized street railway and lighting sys-
TENS of Great Britain. There is, for
example," he said, "the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit system paying over s1,OO0,000
annually as taxes. 1t pays the city
nearly 100000 annually for the privi-
lege of carrying passengers from New
York free across the Brooklyn bride,
and will carry you twenty-five miles
for 8 cents. Then we have the Metro
politan street railway of New York
carrying nearly 20O,O0O,O00 passengers
on transfers, free of cost. This same
company last year paid nearly $1,000
600 in taxes without counting the cost
of paving and street cleaning, and re-
moval of snow, which is done for the
city and charged In with the operating
expenses of the company. The Union
Traction Company of Philadelphia
made me an estimate of their taxes and
including the cost of the maintenance
of paving, removal of snow and ice and
the interest on the original $4,000 900
the cost of improvements laid by the
company at the time the franchise was
granted--this aggregates over $4,000
900 annually"
Freedom of enterprise in the United
States has resulted in a cheap and
rapid means of transportation second
to none in the world In England, on
the other hand, municipal enterprise"
has been content with the slow, ineffi- |
cient and costly horse traction whilst
such electric lines as have been In
stalled have been the result of Ameri-
can energy and enterprise.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
AN IOWA cENTEN ARIAN.

To live thru three centuries is n gift
nature allots to few, but woman died
in this city yesterday whose birth oc-
Cured in the ninety-ninth year of the
eighteenth century. She had lived
nearly 103 years. She had out-lived all
that was born with her, even the GUS
toms of her early time. There was
nothing of her youth left upon the earth
and memory was the only cord con-
Meeting her with the past of which she
had been a part. There is loneliness
in length of years.
The long life of this Iowa centenarian
would seem are crudescence of the days
of the patriarchs, when If the correct
ness of biblical history is to be ad-
mitted, existence continued thru cen
turtles and length of years was counted
by hundreds instead of scores. But her
life was more than renaissance of
longevity. She lived duringa century
when Time was in travail and every fe-
cund hour bore q new blessing in art,
invention, science and literature. Me-
thuselah vegetated for nearly ten CEN
turtles. Our centenarian lived for 100
years. Better twenty years of Europe
than a cycle of Catfay.'
When this women sat alone with
Memory, as she often must, the spirit of
a mighty past kept her company. She
was born in June of the same year that
Washington died at Mt Vernon in De-
cember The elder Adams. the second
incumbent of the presidential chair of
the new experiment in self-govern-
ment" was still in office. Iowa was a
wilderness and she was in her first year
when the first United States land Of
flee was opened in Ohio. She was four
years old when Jefferson stretched the
presidential authority until 1T cracked
in the Louisiana purchase, and made
the Mississippi valley an integral part
of the United States. Jefferson had
evolved but Monroe had not promul-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
NIGHT Was Her Terror.

Il would cough nearly all night :ong,'
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
5natrh IA. 1907

| the case on the basis of information
given to the public and not denied by
Mr.. Tate previous to the publication
of the editorial.
| Professor Kent, of the Yale divinity
school, where he is the head of the
department of Biblical literature, has
come out fatty in favor of hazing at
colleges. He cites the scriptural ex-
ample of Joseph, whose hazing at the
hands of his brethren resulted in an
excellent job down in Egypt. The
professor processes to believe hazing
in this country is practiced moderately
and of value to the student afflicted.
1t is said that the French have dis
covered a perfect pavement for streets
in glass with which street in Paris
has already been paved and which is
giving perfect satisfaction. All kinds
of glass waste is used in the manu-
facture of the material and the cost
is low. 1t was argued that the sur
face would be too slippery for usa
and that it would be brittle and dan
gerous. In practice the pavement il
found to afford an excellent foothold
and it neither becomes dirty nor abb
serbs filth.
At Newton Governor Cummins spoke
of a condition that should receive the
attention of Iowans. He could not un-
derstand the need or economic advan-
tage in shipping live stock on the hoof
to Chicago and reshipping the meat to
Iowa. He believed that the railroads
were responsible for this sort of thing
and declared that if the opportunity
ever arose before him he would strike
with all his might for change. Dis
eliminating railroad rates are I'M
doubtedly retarding the growth of
Iowa's manufacturing industries Who
can suggest a remedy?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
Special Low Rate to California.

During March and April the Iowa
Central road will sell one-way excur-
sion tickets to points In California from
all it's stations in Iowa and Illinois at a
special low rate, affording a splendid
opportunity to visit the Pacific coast.
Elegantly equipped tourist cars, with
all the modern conveniences of travel,
leave for the coast every Tuesday in
March and April, carrying the tourist
thru without change and free from
many of the discomforts and annoy
ances of winter travel. For full infor-
nation, reservations in tourist car.
rates and circulars, call on your local
Iowa Central agent or address George
s. Batty. G. P. & T. A, Marshalltown,
iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
Low Rates.

Every day during March and April
1902 to points in Montana, Idaho,
Washington. Oregon and British COL
umbia via Chicago Great Western Rail-
way. Tourist sleepers and free chair
cars to st. Paul. For information apply
to j. A. Ellis, ticket agent MARSHALL
town Ia
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
Reduced Rates.

To points In Utah and Colorado via
Chicago Great Western Railway Free
chair cars. Tourist sleepers twice a
week. Berths about half the price of
the standard sleepers. For full fnfor-
nation apply to j. A. Ellis, ticket agent,
Marshalltown, Ia.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14

This is the time to use Rocky Noun
tain Tea. Keeps you well all the year
Great blood life renewer; 35 cents. Nc
Bride & Will Drug Comany.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
One Way Settlers, Rates.

Will be in effect from all points on the
Iowa Central road to points in Mime
sofa and North and South Dakota on
March 4, IL, Is and 25 and April 1 and
8, 1902, at very low rates. If you con-
template making trip it will pay you
to consult the nearest local agent of
the Iowa Central road, or address Geo.
S. Batty, G. p. and T. A., Marshall. I.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
Chronic Constipation Cured.

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14

Sixteen passengers slightly and Au-
gust Geiges severely hurt in Missouri
Pacific wreck due to broken rail near
Sedalia Mo
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Full information cheerfully furnished
on application to ]. w. TUTTLE,
T. p. A.. 401 Walnut street,
Des Moines, Iowa.
Cheap-Rate
Excursions
California

April % to 81, on account of the
national convention of the
Federation of Women's Clubs,
Los Angeles. Anybody may goat
$50 for the round trip from Chica-
go, $47.5o from st. Louis, and S45
from Kansas. Corresponding rates
from all points east.
Choice of direct routes return
ing; final limit, June rs. Also one
fare plus 50, for the round trip on
the first and third Tuesdays OF
March, April and May, as we'll as
special one-way rates daily in
March and April.
On the way visit Indian Pueblos,
Grand Canyon of Arizona, Yosem-
lite and San Juan Valley.
The Santa Fe is the comfortable
way to go-superb service of
The California Limited;
personally tourist-car
excursions; Harvey meals, best in
the world. Write for our books.
enclosing 10 cents in stamps.
Santa Fe.
E, L. PALMER, P. A.,
Des Moincs, Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

!
drawing party lines in municipal cleo
lions for the reason that when "a mar
| is regularly nominated by a caucus, OF
either party, then that party becomes
responsible for his conduct and will use
| its best endeavors to have him fill the
office honestly and creditably to the
party A councilman is thus sur
| rounded with better influences to hold
him in line for good municipal govern
ment than when he is responsible to no.
body
The Cedar Rapids Republican thinks
the junior board of control one of the
"idiosyncracies of the present legisla-
ture," and sensib1y says: 1.-The idea of
turning three educational institutions
like the state university, the college at
Ames and the normal school at Cedar
Falls over to baby board of control,
composed of three members drawing
$1,000 each, is more or less rdiculous.a'
1t thinks board of control "all right
for institutions like penitentiaries and
asylums, but not for three educational
institutions, each one of which must be
developed according to it's own genius
and it's own field
"The primary election gives the float
er a chance to sell his vote twice, and
should have his hearty endorsement"
Cedar Rapids Gazette.
The State Register thinks "All the
educational institutions are now under
the board of control to as great an ex-
tent as they should be. Any greater
serious injury to those institutions, for
they can not be successfully Jointly
managed and placed on level of so
much per head like wards of the
state"
The Eldora Herald says Henderson
will be renominated by reclamation.
The dissatisfaction with him is not
widespread at ALL And what is more,
it is not deep-rooted except in a single
spot"
Notwithstanding the position of the
press or the state in general, the Ce-
dar Rapids Gazette adheres to the no.
sition that control for state educational
is badly needed and that
the politicians should be compelled to
leave the schools alone"
In the opinion of the Capital, "Elec-
ton of United States senators by popu-
lar vote may come in time. 1t may be
necessary to abolish the United States
senate, however, for awhile before the
matter can be brought about"
When the Iowa City Republican saws
Senator Trewin is doing more for the
shipper and other patrons of the rail-
ways than any of the men who last
fought his candidacy as one in
spired by the railways. Iowa will yet
have a governor named JamesNH.
Trewin." it leaves the reader in doubt
as to whether it refers to Jim or his
grandson on the gubernatorial predic-
ton.
Ladies and Traitors.
London, March 14.-Cabling from
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14
Ladies' and Traitors.

London, March 14.-Cabling from
Vienna the correspondent of the Daily
Mail says sensation has been caused
by story to the effct that court
martial at Warsaw condemned to
death Russian colonel named Grimm
for the systematic revelation of mill
tary secrets to a foreign power, and
that several aristocratic Polish ladies
have been arrested as accomplices of
Col. Grimm.
There is an unconfirmed rumor.
concludes the correspondent, that Col.
Grimm was shot within two hours of
the passing Of the sentence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Summer,
Pana, ILL.,, celebrated their sixtieth
wedding anniversary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14

In the opinion of the Capital. "Elec-
ton of United States senators by popu-
lar vote may come in time. 1t may be
necessary to abolish the United States
senate, however, for awhile before the
matter can be brought about"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14

"The primary election gives the float
er a chance to sell his vote twice, and
should have his hearty endorsement"
Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14

notwithstanding the position of the
press or the state in general, the Ce-
dar Rapids Gazette adheres to the po-
sition that control for state educational
institutions is badly needed and that
the politicians should be compelled to
leave the schools alone"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14

The State Register is to be called
upon to defend a libel suit instituted
by Mr.. John C. Tate as q result of an
editorial published last Tuesday. The
editorial referred to and which is made
the basis of Mr.. Tate's suit was headed
IAN Atrocious Crime" and dealt with
charges against the Hull Prouty
campaign managers made in the affi-
davits of one L. L. Gray and published
in Des Moines morning newspapers
The Register claims to have treated
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-14

The Eldora Herald says Henderson
will be renominated by reclamation
The dissatisfaction with him is not
widespread at all. And what is more,
it is not deep-rooted except in a single