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Wholesale Meat Prices Higher.

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Wholesale Meat Prices Higher.
The meat situation in Des Moines 80
Tar has interested the local butchers
more than it has the consumers. The
butchers have been obliged to pay
from IL to Is per cent more for their
meat supplies from packing houses
than they did before the packing house
strikes No advance has been made in
the retail price Of meat except that Of
pork chops and pork steak, which has
been advanced from 12N to Is cents
for chops and 10 to 121z for pork
steak. Very few butchers in Des
Moines kill their own meat, as they
get 1t from the packers cheaper than
they can afford to prepare 1t them
selves. The sensational reports In the
newspapers alleging . large increase In
the price Of meat have frightened
many people away from the meat mar.
kets, SO that the consumption Of meat
and the business Of retail dealers has
fallen OF very heavily. The demand
for poultry has increased and the
prices have gone up somewhat
Indians Air Grievances.
The delegation Of Indians from the
Sac and Fox tribe came down from the
reservation at Tama last week to lay
their grievances before Gov. Cummins.
1t seems there is dispute among the
Indians as to who should be the chief
Of the reservation. Tho Winnebagos
are now in control, and one Of their
number named Pushetonsek is the
chief. The Sacs and Foxes claim that
Ketaposh, descendant Of Memewon-
XII, one Of their noted chiefs Of an
early day, should now be the head Of
the reservation. The government has
approved the choice Of the Winneba-
gos, who receives $500 per year. The
governor promised to do what he
could to see that they received JUS
tice, but the government of the reser-
walton is in the hands of the United
States. The Indians have q habit of
coming across the country almost
every summer to make some COM
plant to the governor. For the most
part they are lazy and without suffi-
cient ambition to fight or make much
trouble.
Amendment Question Up.
Discussion Of the constitutional
amendment for biennial elections will
soon become quite general in the
state, because the question is to be
voted upon this fall. It was submit
fol tn tho nnNY,1a
adopted, but was thrown out because
OF a technicality in passing the reso-
luton authorizing Its submission
through the legislature. It did not
exactly agree in both sessions of the
general assembly. The present reso-
luton is believed to be proof against
all local attack. II adopted it will
have the effect Of extending the term
of the present legislature and the gov
ernor one year. The legislature would
convene in 1905 and make provision
for carrying the constitutional amend
ment into effect, extending the terms
OF various state and county officers.
and there would be no election in the
year 1905, or in any odd-numbered
year thereafter.
Iowa Butter Has Fine Record
Iowa butter in the July tests at the
St Louis exposition made fine rec
ord, scoring above Minnesota, her
chief competitor. All but small
number of the samples shown scored
above 995. The samples that scored
below were marked down for over
sailing or for what is called "flshy"
odor or taste, due to carelessness in
the cleaning Of cans, unclean separat-
ors, overripe cream, unclean condi-
tons on the farm, carelessness Of
mixers, etc.