Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-07

trunk from the river landing to q
boarding house uptowl. Two hours
| later he started out to look for job
and applied for work ait the first black
smith shop he found. The boss hired
him offhanti he remained In the shop
four years. and in the meantime
/ studied law evenings with man whose
! scduainta he had made. A year and
| . half later he went To Madison, Wis,
| and took a year of law lectures at the
UNIVERSITY his first schooling since h.
was IA years old. He Went back to
| Winona. was admitted to the bar, COM
mencei practice, took up politics. and
! Is now about to enter upon his twelfth
| year In congress.
Probably with an eye to business ana
in the hope of enlivening Cedar Rapids
the Gazette suggests an advertised dog
fight as an attraction to Graw voters to
the polling places on election day.
The news of real pirates probably
plying their vocation along the Iowa
border is exciting. A Winona, Mimi
paper however declares that there are
at least 100 log PIRATES along the upper
Mississippi who are daily robbing luln-
her firms of hundreds Of dollars worth
% logs. Some of the gangs are thought
TO be well organized and the lumber
companies have employed detectives
who are now endeavoling to break
them up An instance where raft
tied up near MinneisGSa was robbed OF
one OF her brails on Lass Monday night
is cited. The thieves are supposed to
be towing the section down the river
now.
Hereafter officers in Porto Rico Will
send their trunks home by express. as
the franking privilege has been with
drawn The officials in Porto Rico ran
Billy" Mason a close second in the
abuse of the franking privilege and the
articles franked honle' by them We're
many and peculiar
Governor Cummins go: in a speech at
Fort Dodge yesterday. He WAS adver-
tised 10 speak at length on state af-
fairs He referred TO Iowa interests
briefly, but he was silent about the
state auditors office ana the fat fees
ii has been holding UP the insurance
companies Davenport Democrat.
The insnuation is unworthy Of a
rev spaper usually as fair as the Demo-
GRAFT The issue TO which the. Democrat
alFudes is nearly two years old. The
Democrat will not claim there is any
such Issue in regard to the state audi
tors office as it has been conducted
Under the Cumnlins administration
Sioux City Journal.
The Democrat has suggested and the
Journal has promptly pointed to a con-
di.ion in republican affairs today for
which Governor Cummins and the men
who rally around his standard in state
politics deserve more than passing
credit. The auditors office under the
Hubbard machine that landed
in the di tch at Cedar Rapids two years
ago was u stencil in the political at
fnosphere. Even the secretary of state
vas made to retire in Disgrace There
has been cleaning of the republican
house and the party difficulties in this
are vastly simplitied thereby.
rs Bunkins as good as his word?
asked one business man.
Il think he IS" replied the other His
word isn't good for ANYTHING.
New York Press.
A mistake has been discovered In one
Of the scriptions on the Mckinley
unveiled at Toledo on Sept
H. Referring to the presidents last
hour. the Inscription reads. He whis-
pered freely. Nearer, My God, to
Thee" Freely should read "feebly"
and the inscription Will be altered ac-
cordingly.
Lady vistor 0o little girD-What |
became of the little kitten you had here
once?
Little Girl--Why. have MT you heard? |
No Was he drowned?"
mol"
LOST"
MOI
Poisoned? ~
Not"
Then whatever became OF it?'