Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-13
TAXATION TROUBLES
Three Injunction Proceedings
Against State Executive
Council Commenced
NOT LIKELY TO BE EFFECTIVE
The C. M. G. ST. p, Waterloo and Cedar
Falls Rapid Transit Company, and
Western Union Telegraph Company
Are the Respective PIaintiffs-Gang
of Swindlers Abroad in Iowa.

Des Moines. Aug 13.-Injunction
proceedings against the state executive
council is not likely to prove very
| effective way of testing some assess
ment and taxation matters about which
there is some controversy. Three sep
arate suits of that kind have been
/ commenced as the result of this year s
assessment. The officers Of the Chi
Icago. Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad
| company filed papers asking for an IN
| junction to prevent the council from
terrifying to the county auditors tn.
assessment on the new cutoff in
| southeastern Iowa, some 76 miles,
which 1t is claimed was not railroad
property properly at the beginning of
| the year, and is not now in fact in oper-
alton. But the papers were served too
late and the assessment had already
been made and the certificates had
! gone out to the county officials. Such
move was fully anticipated. So also
in the case of the Waterloo and Cedar
4 has sought to prevent assessment OF all
| its property as interurban property,
the certificates went out before the IN
| junction was secured. In the case OIL
the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany which seeks to prevent assess
ment against it along the Burlington
lin southern Iowa the certificates would
not be issued until month elapses:
but it is learned that the council had
before it at the time the assessment
was made a copy of the contract be-
tween the Burlington railroad company
and the telegraph company In which
the telegraph company agrees to be re
sponsible for the taxes The Waterlo
Iinterurban has since the assessment
| filed an amended and completed report
on It's business 1t was assessed at
| 100000 by the council. The report val
| ues the track alone at S269,64O, but
there is protest against assessment
of that portion which is within COS
porated towns The company paid taxes
amounting to s24S last year. Its gross
receipts We're SS5,636.14. and expenses,
including taxes $46,069.60. The rail-
road assessment certificates have gone
out. but the other certificates involve
a great deal Of computation and much
clerical labor and it will be some time
before they are sent to the county Of
ticials
Iowa buys vegetables in large guam
tity from Texas market gardeners. Tha
representative Of one of the large re-
frigerator car lines doing business re-
ports the destination of cars of toma-
toes and other vegetables shipped from
Texas as six cars each to Des Moines
and Sioux City. two to Ottumwa and
one to Waterloo and one to Davenport.
This is out of total of over 1000 cars
by this company alone. 1t does not
include strawberries.
Secretary Greene of the state horti-
cultural society has received a report
on the profit from strawberries in
southwestern Iowa. f. j. Coleman re-
siding in the northern part of Mills
county, has three acres planted to
Strawberries and he has kept a careful
record of the results this year. He got
$500 quarts of berries for which he
received S707.35. He paid for boxes,
cases. picking and shipping. s2SO.S1.
This left him a net profit of S426.54.
This profit was made when it was nee
essary to ship a considerable distance
to market, and the profit would have
been larger near good city.
Despite sundry evasive contradic-
tions, the fact remains that before his
nomination for governor Jerry Sulli-
van stated his purpose to remove to
Des Moines and he bought hous.
with that in view. For campaign pur-
poses it will be best for him to remain
resident of Creston and it will not be
made known that he purposes coming
here to live. But he will come here
after the campaign and enter the prac-
uce or law in this city, where he al
ready has many warm personal
friends.
w. e. Hamilton. of the Odebolt
Chronicle. is trying to get his witness
fees from Polk county on account of the
trouble he got the Des Moines Leader
into over the Cherry sisters. He has
written to the county clerk a letter
which the latter promptly made public,
knowing that Billy" likes publicity in
all matters, in which he makes in
quiries about his fees. 1t was over an
article he wrote and published which
was copied in the Leader that the trou-
bic arose with the sisters Hamilton
was sent for on the damage case as
witness to tell what he saw or thought
he saw. when he visited the Cherry sis
ters' show as it was given in Odebolt
and to testify as to whether or not
the description of the play which he
published was fairly truthful. He has
never been paid for his trouble.
The colored people of Des Moines are
raising a purse by subscription tc as
sist Henry Toliver a well known color
ed man, to go to Leavenworth, Kan,
on a visit to his aged father. Toliver
was soldier. of Company ID, 6Oth
United States colored volunteers and
has fine record. He has lived here
many years but is very poor. His
father was sold as a slave and taken
away when Henry was only nine years
old. and although that was nearly fifty