Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-19
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

If we properly gather the drift of SEN
timent in the Burlington Hawkeye. 1T
feels hurt by the suspension of the duty
on coal. vet it admits action in congress
was taken in response to a popular de-
mand.
In noticing that DR.. John LIE Pinto of
New York city was found guilty Of neg
lect to report a case of infectious dis
ease and of making out a false death
certificate, and was fined $3.50 therefor
Dr. Kennedy, in the Iowa Health Bulle-
tin. exclairrs: Good! Iowa needs a
good deal of enforcement along that
line"
Tom L. johnson denies that he is a
candidate for the democratic nomina-
ton for governor of Ohio this Year. He
knows When he has had enough.
Census returns give 1854 children
under 1G years of age who are employed
in making shirts for men in the United
States More than 5000 of these are
employed i'm factories. There are 1,145
employed in making women's skirts
and similar garments. Nearly 5000 are
in the stocking factories, and over o.
600 in the miscellaneous employments
connected with the production of ready
made attire.
When the coal gives out we might as
We'll move to Alaska. where an English
man reports s5oO,Ooo,oOo of gold in
sight.
Should Earth Become Fla't.-A scien-
fist says that IF the earth was flat
tened the sea would be two miles deep
all over the world And an Oklahoma
editor gives out the following: If any
man is caught fattening out the earth,
shoot him on the spot, and don't be too
blamed particular what spot. There's
a whole blamed lot of us in Oklahoma
that can't SWIM
The thirty or more coal conspirators
who have been indicted by the special
grand jury of Chicago may have made
little money, but they will find it nee
essary to spend some.
Trouble.-"If you had eight pennies
and Billy had four, and you took his |
and put them to yours, what would that
make?"
Make trouble, I 'spect, COS I'd have
to fight him bout it!"-London Punch |
A tract OF 10000 acres In western |
Kansas has been bought by Indiana and |
Ohio capitalists for raising Polled An
gus cattle.
The end of the foot and mouth cpl
zootic in New England seems to be
near. Rhode Island is thought to have
been cleaned up. and it is believed that I
the quarantine in the other states need |
hardly be continued beyond the present
month The question of compensation |
to owners is now prominent. The u. S. /
government has been paying what Is |
roughly estimated as 20 per cent of the |
value of the beasts killed, and in Mas /
sachusetts at least there is general |
demand from owners that the state |
shall pay the other 80 per cent. The
latest figures from the state last named |
are: Herds quarantined, 1914, including I
3,554 animals; herds released. Al, in
Guiding 730 animals; herds killed. 81,
1.s4S animals; sound value,
sS9,072; 40 per cent paid, s63,s03. This
leaves 56 herds of 976 animals still In
quarantine. Also quarantined S15
swine, 122 sheep, goats, one horse.
Total of all, 4,496.
The Minnesota State Good Roads AS
sociation urges upon the legislature
the appointment of a highway commits
sion for that state. Such an official
could find much to do.
1t is now rumored that the Chicago
Great Western may be absorbed by the
Gould Securities Company. All previous
stories have failed of
An Omaha letter in the st. Louis
Globe Democrat says that energetic
action on the part of Washington Off
cials will be necessary to carry out
President Roosevelt's demand for re-
moval of fences on public lands in Ne
braska. The state is checkerboard of
egally-inclosed grazing lands, yet
cattlemen do not seem to fear injury
from the presence of Col. Mosby, agent
of the interior department. They have I
ignored his orders to take the fences
down within sixty days, which have
about expired, relying on alleged prom
ises of the president that they should
have up to next July to adjust them
selves to the new conditions. According
to the Nebraska understanding, legal
notices must describe the land unaw-
fully fenced, and such have not been
served.
The British debt was increased $780,
100000 by the Boer war. but John Bull
was apparently glad to get off at that
price.
Nearly 5000 motor cars are now in
use In Paris, France, and the neighbour
hood, $500 of the cars having a regis
tered speed of over eighteen miles an
hour.
Postmaster General Payne reiterates
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