Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-23
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A VALUABLE COLLECTION.
TChelsea Independent


IChelsea INDEPENDENT
There is on display at the Shugart
drug store collection Of firearms the
property of George Shugart and d. D.
Wilcox. An examination of them is
very interesting. ranging as they do
from the very identical pistol with
which Cain killed Abel down to the
other very Identical rapid fire revolver
with which George threatened the life
of John Stewart if he didn't stop ex-
pectorating on the floor.
AN INTERESTING COMPLICATION.
Register and Leader.l
Strange things happen in politics.
All thru their recent campaign III this
state the standpatters insisted that
Iowa must not get out of line with ma
tional republicanism on the tariff ques-
ton nor place itself at variance with
| the national platform of the party. Yet
Il standpat majority in the committee
on resolutions in Wednesdays state
convention turned down tariff plank
that probably represented more nearly
than anything else proposed the tariff
sentiments that will be adopted by the
| national convention In June.
| This particular plank was presented
| by George d. Perkins, of Sioux City. 1t
| was understood that it had the indorse-
ment of Senators Allison and Dolliver
and Secretary Shaw, and inasmuch as
they had recently come from the coun-
| ellis of the party at Washington, 1t was
generally accepted that Mr. Perkins,
statement expressed the sentiments of
those councils and. further, represented
as nearly as possible at this time the
declarations that will likely be adopted
| IN the national convention next month.
I In the face of this general understand
| ing the Perkins statement was voted
down by eight votes to three. If the
national convention shall adopt plank
similar to that defeated in Iowa, the
situation will be most interesting, in
ldeed.
A GAMBLERS LIFE.
| Manson Democrat
Tom Fisher has cashed in. He
passed away at the humble home OF his
good old Irish mother in Fort Dodge
last Monday afternoon. Tom was only
,hirty-six years old, but he had always
gone "the limit and his death was
due to well-exhaustion, as the Sioux
! City Journal puts it, He trotted a fear
full pace and went the limit in every
thing. Time was when he was worth
/ $50. 600, but he died broke. 1t was pit
iful to see him in his last days. The
once erect form was bent and twisted
with disease. His features were pinchet
land drawn with the fearful pain M
| nf hn
left but his steel-gray eyes with theil
4 old time glitter. Those eyes were ;
study. They expressed the inner natur,
Of the man like an open book. The.
knew no pity, no COMPASSIONATE
hard, cold business that told the suck
er" he could expect no mercy. But Ton
was man among his friends. H
spent money like a prince and reall.
had a kind heart for his friends. Blu
he lived on suckers" and showed then
no quarter He was well known Il
Manson in the palmy days of the pow
der house." of which he was master. HI
is the last of the Fisher trio. Martin
Tom and Johnny. Martin died In Min
neapolis after a protracted spree las
summer. Johnny was shot to death IL
q restaurant in Ell Reno, Oklahoma
four years ago, when he was q fugitive
!. from Justice for the crime of robbery
Now Tom is gone and the principa
factors in the upbuilding of Coyington
that literal hell across the river iron
. Sioux City, have been wiped out b.
!; death. Covington is but n memory ant
dozens of the men who helped to max
II Infamous have drifted one after an
other. human derelicts. upon the shor
of Death. What did they gain by thei
life? Nothing. We feel sorrow TO
their death. but it is because we regre
that they did not turn their talents il
a legitimate direction and become use
full men. They are better off dead--an
so Is the world. 1.-THE sooner It's oven
the sooner to sleep" But all who kneS
Tom Fisher cannot help feeling pan
of sorrow at his untimely end.
~
"OH RATS!"
Huntington Hawkeye.1
Rats everywhere! Like the bishop I
the rhyme of old who fled to his toWe
on the Rhine only to be devoured b
) the angry pests which swan the wave
of the turbulent river, this section c
the country seems to be under siege b
the rats.
I'VE are having a regular epidemi
4 az rats-a plague of them" remarke
= one of the clerks at Boeck's packin
Il house. Nov. at our place, for instance
: we are keeping them down by simpl
i keeping at them all the time, with traT