Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-15

StdIe TecOSnlIlOn.
Important Railway Bill.
The house of representatives has
passed very important railroad meas
ure. Wright, of Webster county, intro
duced it. 1t provides that all of the rail-
roads which handle shipment of freight
may be joined in lawsuit in the coun-
ty where the shipment originated. Thus,
if shipment originates at Sioux City
and travels to Burlington over three
lines of railroad, two of which are not in
Woodbury. county at all, and the freight
is injured or the consignor feels ag-
grieved, he may sue all three Of the
roads in Woodbury. county. The roads
are bitterly opposed to the measure. as
it will force them to defend litigation
all over the state instead of limiting it
to the counties through which their
lines run, as at present.
To Protect Hen Roosts.
Farmers hen roosts are to have some
protection If the bill by Buchanan,
which the house passed last week, is
passed by the senate also. This meas
ure makes it penitentiary offense to
steal chickens from yard or enclosure.
At present chicken thieves are immune
from punishment, except for petit lar
ceny, with 80 days in jail as the maxi
mum. That has no terror for the orig
inal chicken thief. The Buchanan law
will put it on different basis, and the
thief who goes about at night robbing
hen roosts will be subject to term of
two years In the penitentiary.
No Marriage Reform.
1t took the house committee on public
health about Is minutes to decapitate
the Bayer bill to reform marriages in
Iowa. 1t voted the indefinite postpone
ment of the measure which appeared
later in the senate in slightly different
form, but without hope of passage
there, either. The bill provided for the
appointment of marriage reform d.
rector by the governor, to issue instruc-
lions to candidates for marriage through
the physicians of the state, and it
compelled persons wishing to marry
to take this instruction and pay fees for
1t to the doctors, marriage licenses to is
sue on presentation of certificates that
the instructions had been taken.
A Humane Measure.
The legislature has passed bill pre-
venting the use of live pigeons or other
birds in trap or target shooting in this
state. The measure had no opposition.
1t was one of three which were backed
by the National Humane society. The
other two proposed humane instruction
in the public schools of the state, and II
also passed. The other has not yet
passed. 1t prohibits the docking Of
horses tails in Iowa. It has been rec
commended for passage by the commit
tee of the upper house OF the legislature.
At first this committee killed the bill,
but afterwards revivedit.
Nine-Hoar Day.
Representative Christensen, of Clin-
ton, has proposed measure
which it is believed that the leg.
islature will pass promptly. It pro.
vides that employees on street cars and
interurban lines shall not be forced t.
| work more than nine hours day. Il
also provides that these companies shall
| furnish vestibules for their employees al
the ends Of the cars. It also. provides
that these companies shall equip thsil
cars with tenders. Mr.. Christensen act
for the Federation of Labor In the mat
ter, because Of abuses existing in Gin
ton, Des Moines and other cities.
| LEON BROWN.
Will Repent at Leisure.
In the district court Of Chickasav
county Annie Drew, convicted Of big
amy. was sentenced to is months i'm
prisonment at Anamosa. and Franz
Garfield, for adultery, got Is month
at the same place. On September 2e
1898, Annie Moody was married to ]
w. Drew. Some six months ago the.
parted and Mrs. Drew took up wit
Frank Garfield. They went to Charlie
City and were married on February !
without going to the trouble OF get
ting a divorce from Drew.
| Franchise Granted.
| At a special election in Council Bluff
the Council Bluffs, Tabor & Southern
Railway company was granted q fran
chise to build its lines into Counc,
Bluffs by vote Of LATE for to u
against. This line will be built fror
Council Bluffs to Rockport, Mo-, an
passes through the grounds of the low
school for the deaf, just south Of tn
city. Work will be commenced on tn
road in few days, and it is expected t
have cars running as far as Glenwoo
or Tabor by the LIST of next October.
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