Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-16

the dedication Of the Carnegie library
which blacked one of her eyes. She
slipped and fell against the step OF the
carriage and because of the accident
was unable to fill the appointment at
West Liberty. She Is now considerably
recovered.
State Labor Commissioner r.. D.
statistics from the factories and labor
unions of the state. He is finding some
difficulty in the work as the factories
fail to fill in the blanks property. The
desire for gathering the statistics is
to ascertain the amount OF wages
paid In the various cities and thus to
show the condition OF labor in the
state. Some OF the factory owners
make their reports but fail to fill In
what the factory Is or It's name or
location which makes all other statis-
tics worthless. In other cases where
the factory is given the other statistics
arc deficient. Lack Of accuracy en-
tails vast amount OF extra work on
the labor commissioners office.
Three candidates for certificates of
eligibility as mine foremen and three
as hosting engineers passed the ex-
animation of the board of examiners
last week. c. J. Stewart and Thomas
Lansdale Of Des Moines and w. Fl.
Fentz of Centerville passed the exam
sination for engineers and w. e. Cor
don, of Marqulsville, Benjamin Bose
lev. of Des Moines and James Lowden
OF Busey, passed the examination for
mine foremen. The next examination
will he held at the Continental hotel in
Centerville, February 2S and March l,
the first day being for registration and
the second day for the examination.
The railroad commissioners will make
an investigation this week at DeSoto
of the application for an overhead
crossing over the c., r. I. & p. Thurs
day. January 26, they will investigate
drainage question at Sidney. This
comes under the new law passed at the
last session of the legislature giving
the board authority wnere the county
wishes to run a ditch across railroad
property and an agreement can not be
reached as to the proper pace for the
crossing. The board has had two calls
already under this law one In Poca-
fonlas and one in Buena Vista county
but both were settled before the board
reported it's findings
At a meeting Of the executive coun-
Gil Saturday the matter of the census
was very carefully canvassed Win
Professor W. r. Patterson of the state
university The council spent the en-
tire afternoon going over the matter
of gathering the statistics outside OF
that reported by the numerators. Sucn
statistics as that Of factories, banks,
colleges, ETC. This information Will be
gathered thru correspondence with the
institutions.
The executive council will probably
have considerable trouble before the
census has gone much furtner with tie
matter of securing enumerators. BY
the cheese pairing policy of the super
yisors in some counties no extra allow
ance Is made for compensation for the
extra work of taking the census. The
law allows the supervisors to fix
maximum of time in which the assess
ments can be taken. The compensa-
ton Is TO De IlOL oiidii ~ q N@tNS .
This is to prevent the assessors from
dragging out the work indefinitely TO
make their jobs last longer. If they do
not finish the work in the prescribed
time they are out for all the time that
1t requires over that allowed. But some
Of the boards Of supervisors failed TO
recognize that the taking OF the CEN
sus will require five or six times as
much work as that of making the as
sessment and that a longer time should
be allowed for taking 1t. AS is natural
the assessors are refusing to do the
work The law has been construed by
the attorney general to say that In
such cases the auditor must at once
appoint some one to take the census
and that they shall be paid fair COM
pensation