Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-02
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Having lost free silver and Mr.
Cleveland by elimination Mr.. Bryan
had best come home and ride herd on
the issues he has remaining.
| An Illinois man left $215 in his bee
at Mhscatine hotel and has not been
called back to reclaim it. Which goes
| to show how careless OF ordinary sums
a man grows when he gets into a really
rich country like Iowa.
The Oskaloosa Heral complains of q
lack of city pride. Oskaloosa mer-
chants dump debris of varied vileness
upon sill sides of their business places
| to be carried by the winds and tracked
all over town, making drab of "Oska-
loosa the Beautiful" as the city is
sometimes designated-in Oskaioosa.
Perhaps the Herald has failed to
reach the root of the matter in attrib-
uting Oskalocsa's uncleanliness to lack
of civil pride. Cleanliness Is very
near neighbor of godliness. Perhaps
little kindly cultivation OF the latter
| might help some.
The Oskaloosa Herald prints long
Hist of the prices that obtain about rare
animals, but makes no mention of the
bird known to previous generations az
the turkey,
No. <,,n trnv1 orf
service Is q costly luxury-a charge
possibly fostered by the transportation
companies-is riddled by an exhaustive
comparison between government and
private transport service made by
Quartermaster General Humphrey. He
shows by comprehensive statistics that
the government carried its troous last
year for S2.24S.439 less than 1t would
have had to pay II the work had been
done by private concerns. Moreover,
the government transports. being es-
pecially arranged for the service. have
comfortsfi and conveniences that would
be wanting on private vessels.
We deduce from the pigskin post
morten1
The fact. plain. explicit and clear:
II the team In the rear had been
stronger
1t wouldn't have been in the rear.
North American.
Boone newspapers have learned OF a
plot made supposedly by the Chicago
car barn robbers to rob g Northwest
ern passenger train near that city sew
eral months ago.. The men succeeded
in getting all the money in the possess
sion OF one of the porters and was
making ready to rob the passengers.
but their plans were frustrated and
they made their escape. This looks
amateurish on the part Of the hold UP
men. Any well informed robber knows
the futility Of following Pullman por-
ter thru train. AS only ordinarily
rapacious the men were probably sat
isfied with the fortune they got from
the porter, and hurried away to enjoy
his III gotten spoil.
Butler, Pennsylvania town of less
than 1900 has over 1900 cases of ty-
phoid fever. All business Is at stand
still and the death roll is growing. The
situation parallels the yellow fever
epidemic once prevalent in some of the
southern states. Pollution OF the water
supply by the drainage from houses
along the bed of the stream whence the
city draws its supply is the alleged
cause of the scourge.
| The adoption of electric power by
railroads on large scale would be
generally accepted as an indication that
the problem of Its application to heavy
traction has been solved. Experiments
have been making for a long time. by
the Baltimore and Ohio in Baitimore
and by the Hartford and New Haven