Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-08
INSPECTION LAX
Is NOW ENFORCED
Labor Commissioner Brigham
Much Encouraged by Re- %
sponse of Factory Men
BUT SIX PROSECUTIONS
Jr six PROSECUTIONS
3 UT
Nearly All the Manufacturers Have
Complied With the Law Where
Their Attention Has Been Called to
violations-some interesting Cases
In Supreme court-capitai Gossip.
Special 10 Times-Republican.


Special TO Times Republican.
Des Moines, June S.-State Labor
Commissioner e. D. Brigham is great
ly pleased with the manner in Whlcn
the enforcement of the state factory
inspection law is being met by the
factory men over the state. There are
about 900 factories in the state and In
the year from June /, 1904 to June l.,
1905, there have been made 1.50O re-
Communications from the office of the
state labor commissioner to the fac
tory owners and ninety-five per cent
of these have been acted OH and
adopted without the necessity of re-
sorting to the courts. There have been
but six prosecutions under the state
law and of these five agreed soon af-
ter the information was filed against
them to comply with the law and the
cases were dismissed. Only one fac
tory owner thus far has been made to
pay fine. In many of the older states
the prosecutions have become ehorm-
Gus. In New York there are thirty
five factory inspectors where there
are but two in this state. tho of course
the number of factories there are also
more numerous.
The decision of the supreme court
in the case Of Margaret Woolf, of Wa
terloo, against the Namann Company,
was in a way a victory for the factory
inspection law, which requires danger
Gus machinery to be covered and pro-
tected. The son of Mrs. Woolf lost
his life, He was operating circular
saw and a piece of wood fell upon the
back of the saw and was thrown over
against the boy striking him in the
chest and later causing his death. The
law requires that all dangerous ma
chinery shall be covered. 1t was held
and argued that if the saw had been
covered the board never could have
fallen upon it, and the boys death
would never have resulted.
An incident reported in trial in
Omaha, wherein Attorney j. N. Bald
win, of the Union Pacific, was named
as lobbyist, may be of some interest
to Iowa railroad men and politicians.
Testimony was being taken before
special examiner Charles w. Pear
sail in the tax injunction matter of
the Union Pacific against the treasur-
er of Douglas county. Editor Harry
I. Dobbins, Of Lincoln, Neb News.
was on the stand as a witness. He
said that an editorial he had written
was inspired by the active interest
that railroad lobbyists had in the pas
sage of the revenue law.
The report of the incident is thus
reported in the Omaha Bee:
Who were those railroad LOBBYISTS
who you say influenced legislation. !
would like to know their names?" excit
edly inquired John N. Baldwin, pilot of
the Union Pacific ship of state. of
Harry T. Dobbins, managing editor of
the Lincoln News. yesterday afternoon
in the hearing of the federal court.
where Mr.. Baldwin is attempting to
prove his railroad is being overtaxed.
Two Of them are John N. Baldwin
and ]. H. Ager.' was the prompt an
swer OF Mr.. Dobbins, made in a low,
calm voice.
1t was almost more than Mr.. Bald
win could do to control his feelings;
indeed, he did let them slip away once
long enough to declare that "despicable
wretches" had given Mr. Dobbins his
informa tion and intimating that such
thing as a railroad lobbyist seeking
to influence legislation was unheard OF
in the annals of Nebraska politics.
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Professor Sherman Kirk, of Drake
University, who is we'll known to school
men and others over the state, has
been given an offer from Bethany Col
lege of Kentucky, the parent college OF
the Christian church, and itself found
ed by Alexander Campbell the founder
of the denomination. Professor Kirk
it is understood, will not accept the Of
fer. He is professor of Greek at
at Bethany. At the Kentucky school
Greek and the dead languages are CIV
en- greater Importance than in the west
The salaries of the two positions are
about the same but the Des Moines
school is considered at the opening Of
its career, while the Kentucky. school
!! it is claimed has grown as about as
! large as it ever will be.
| The supreme court will be called up
on to determine whether or not the
Western Union Telegraph Company
!. was negligent and careless in deliver
ing a telegram addressed to e. e
Bauyer at Algona, to E. G. Bowyer, OF
that city, July II, 1902, Bowyer claims
he got telegram saying his brother
/ was dangerously sick in South Dako-
ta The telegram was addressed te
E. E. Bauyer and man of that name
| it seems lived at Algona, but as Bow
yer had brother-in-law in Soutf
! Dakota he thought it might be him. He
asked the agent of the Western Unior
to ascertain certainly whether the
telegram was for him or not. but al
leges that the agent neglected to dt
so, and he went to South Dakota on
ly to find it was another mans broth
er that was sick Now he wants $50
damages.