Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-03

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Ruthven, Sept. 2.-Along the Mil
| waukee railroad from Mason City to
this place. personal observation alic
other means of information, makes the
statement true, that corn needs nearly
all of September without frost to in
sure a good crop in this northern tiei
of counties Travelling men report that
east of Mason City, the corn crop Is
more mature, but along here it is cas-
| lily two weeks late Oats have turne3
out we'll, altho some discolored lots are
rot being marketed this caused b.
| farmers waiting for the machine.
Meanwhile heavy rains soaking the
| unstocked oats, and costing the own
ers from one to two cents per bushel,
this being the reduction from top pric-
es for bright oats. In quite mum
Der of localities along here, wheat has
turned out we'll, farmers wishing nov
they had put in more of it.
If the dedication of Soule, the Saw
ings bank frenzied financier of Iowa
Falls, caused a sensation, his plea of
guilty and a sentence of only eighteen
months has caused more of one. There
Hardin county where the crime was
committed that Judge Evans must
have had some personal know
ledge of extenuating circumstances,
not known to the general public to
warrant this light sentence. A common
remark is who wouldn't steal 100000
if it only requires eighteen months res
idence in the penitentiary, free board,
clothes and washing?" Besides our laws
are such that his good time allowance
will materially reduce this eighteen
months seclusion from the busy activ-
ty of banking circles. All along, dur
ing the time since the crime was dis
covered the general public would have
it "Soule would never be sent to the
pen" and this outcome goes far to re-
establish a quite general opinion that
the public has never been "onto the in
side history of the Soule defalcation.' .
And with all due respect to Judge
the Bussey case, the present proposed
parole of Novak, the outcome of the
bank robbers case at Albert City,
and the dozen more celebrate
cases in the last ten years in
Iowa, each and all, go far to give our
citizens less respect for justice as ex-
emplified in the courts of law in the
state of Iowa. These opinions
are not alone those of the
writer One hears them every
where. There was once in Hardin
county case where the best of it's
citizens took the law and execution of
if into their own hands. OF course cit
was disgraceful.' "a blot on the fair
fame of Iowa. But what was the
cause? What led up to it?
A staff correspondent of the T.-R.
mentioned the other day the numerous
failures of the creanaeries Of Iowa, this
in the localities where he was travel
ing. State wide observation shows that
more and more farmers are shipping
their cream to the larger towns,
where they get more for it than by
selling to the near by creamery, run
by individuals or on the cooperative
plan. In other words q combine is at
work. which makes the small cream
ary a hard business proposition. The
farmers of Iowa nearly all of whom milk
INV considerable number of cows, own
baby sepa rators" This enables them
10 keep the SKINNED milk at home for
The calves and pigs, and to take the
,rean to the nearest railroad station.
where the express companies take IT