The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-14
IOWA
EARNINGS INCREASE
In View Of Them the Executive
Council Will Have to Boost
Railway Assessments.
Governor Cummills Said to Favor It,
Also an Advance in the Gen
eral Realty.
special to Tho Journal. 3

Des MONIES, Iowa, April Alt begins to
look as if the executive council could not
escape making another increase in the
railroad assessment this year. The as
sessment will not be made until July, but
already reports Of the roads for 1902 are
in the hands of the secretary Of the coun
Gill; Most important Of these, are the re-
ports of the Rock Island and the North
Western systems, both OF which show In
creased earnings as compared with the re-
ports of 1901. OH which the assessment of
last year was based.
The gross earnings on Iowa mileage for
the: Rock Island increased from $780,
sos. SO in 1901 to 1870, 022.93 in 1902; the
net earnings also increased from $5,0O5,-
$50. SO in 1901 to $3.50, GALLO in 1902. On
the Iowa division, the main part of the
Rock Island system In Iowa, comprising
31s ~ miles, there was an astonishing in
crease in gross and net earnings, as shown
| by the fact that the net earnings mile
! in 1901 were $4,665.19, while in 1902 they
were Sc, OSO12 mile. The gross earnings
! of the North Western system in 1901 were
81 926 S21 So and in 1902 $11, 1856, 965. so; the
net earnings increased from So. 2S2 1851
in 1901 to 1878, sol. SO in 1902. These are
the earnings on the entire Northwestern
system in the state. The main line of the
North Western. consisting of a little over
$50 miles, shows slight diminution in
! gross and net earnings, but this is more
| A slight decrease in earnings Is shown
by the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & North
ern which is now controlled by the Rock
IIsland, but which makes a distinct report.
The Iowa Central which reported some
days ago, shows increased earnings.
II the showings made thus far are an
index to the reports of the roads as a
whole in the state, and they probably are,
the earnings wiz. reach figure much
above that Of last year. when the. gross
earnings totaled $56.079.943. That was
the high water mark of reported gross
earnings OH Iowa mileage. The council
raised the assessment over $4,00O,000
bringing it up to s51,507,950.
1t is said by those best able to speak
with knowledge that Governor Cummins
will do what he can to get both the rail-
lroad assessment and the aggregate realty
assessment Of the state up to an approx
nation of what every one knows it ought
to be. ...
No Help for loot. D..
The supreme court has handed down an
, opinion confirming the judgment of the
, district court of Black Hawk county ir
!, the case of the state VS.. Jerome w. Hoot
AS the result Hoot will have to serve out
!, his ten-year sentence. He was convicted
,, of the crime Of assault with intent tc
y, commit murder in sending to his wife il
Waterloo, Mrs. Nettie Hoot, an inferna
ma chine evidently: calculated to blow ~hel
. to atoms. 80,
Governor Cummirls has been assured by
, the interior department at Washington
, that the claim Of the state for $1,000
which the state appropriated and eXpend
ed last winter in renoNati the Tama In
dian reservation, has been allowed ant
:. Twill soon: be paid. The state was forcet
! to the expenditure in order to protect thu
surrounding whites from smallpox.
: Representatives Of mutual ASSESSING II
i,,c,< ~,}ofs ~ 1,Ar
5 adopted a resolution in favor Of a stat
department Of insurance. At present. tn
I insurance dc partment is merely an adjunc
l of the auditor Of states office. 80
= VIII Have the krass.
The Fifty-fourth regiment of the Iows
Z National guard will go to st. Louis TO
the dedication ceremonies April 80
2 equipped with Krag-Jorgenson magazin
. ! rifles. A message from the secretary o
" war was received at the governors offic
last evening advising the governor to thi
effect.
1t is expected the Pike siegel incident
= in which F. Wallace Pike, barytone, wa
- charged by Siegel, g. retired paWnbroker
r with attempting to extort money from hin
= as a bonus for not marrying his daughter
~ Miss Minnie Siegel will be closed to-day
The young people have married despit
| parental objections and are now happ1l
y. established in Mr.. Pixies conservatory. ]
u is thought the suit will be dropped. I
II was to have been tried yesterday after
y noon in local justice court, but was con
Il tinued. The case has excited all sort
II Of sentiment, and Pike is being over
Is whelmed with congratulations for carryin
:. the matter through and getting married
- One Of the shermans.
X Major Hoyt Sherman, brother Of job
= Sherman and General w. 7. Sherman ha
te presented fine oil painting of himse
u to the state historical department. 1t wa
N painted by 6. d. M. Peixotto, a New Yor
r. artist. .r