Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-17

LAW DIFFERENT SINCE FILING
Articles of incorporation Stated That
Company Was Capitalized For Only
100000, Whereas Now Its Growth
Has Been Such That the Capital.
zation $15,ooo,ooo.
Special to Times-Republican


Des Moines, Feb. 17.-According to
the testimony of George b. Robbins,
president of the Armour Car Lines be-
fore the subcommittee of the house on
interstate commerce the Armour car
line company owes the state of Iowa
something like $15,015 and an effort
may be made to collect it. According
to the reports of the testimony the
company is capitalized at $15.000,000.
According to the records of the Secre-
tary of state offices the company is
capitalized for only 100000 The arti-
ces of incorporation We're filed here in
1901 and AT that time the state could
not charge more than $4,000 in any
event but the law is now different.
According to President Robbins testi-
mony the company is adding l1,0OO,OOO
to its capitalization each year. And
the fee is 81 per thousand for all in
crease in the capitalization. With a
capitalization of S15,O00,000 the COM
pany should have paid the state of
Iowa S15,015 but instead they have
paid the state only on the capitaliza-
ton of 100000 or about $115. Henry
Saverson of the office of the secretary
of state is about 20 take the matter up
and see if the rest of the money can
not be collected.
There is to be considerable increase
in the total amount Of the premiums
given as prizes for the finer breed cat
tie at the state fair next year. Secre-
tary John Simpson has letters from the
secretaries of the associations of Here
ford, Shorthorn and Angus,
eaci If which has increased the
amount of the appropriation for the
prizes for this years fair. The Ameri-
can Hereford Cattle Breeders Asso-
citation through Secretary c.. r.
Thomas of Karsas City, has written
that this year it will give $500 where
last year it gave but $500. The state
fair gives something over $1,000 for
each of the three breeds. John w.
Gross, secretary of the American
Short Horn Breeders Association of
Chicago has written that this year his
association will give $500 and fifty per
that sum up to $1,000. This will cause
them to give $500. Thomas McFarlane
of Chicago. secretary of the American
Aberdeen-A Breeders Association
has written that that association will
give $500 this year There is an in
crease all along the line but the Short
Horn breeders have given the largest
amount These premiums are the best
that have ever been given by the state
fair.
Senator j. P Dolliver will be given
another opportunity to express himself
before the people of the state at the
forthcoming annual meeting of thu
Grant Club. The annual meeting Of
club is held on Grants birthday and is
always a big occasion for the club, the
biggest in fact of the entire year. 1t is
understood that an invitation has been
extended to Sc enator Dolliver to be ore
of the speakers at that time. 1t Is UNI
derstood that an effort is being made
to secure prominent eastern man to
make one of the addresses of the eve
ming on that occasion. The matter is
not fully decided yet. +. II. Gaines OF
Omaha, prominent attorney of that
city, and a member of the firm of Gill
ton, Gaines & Story, is to make the
principal address on Washington's
birthday at the monthly meeting of the
club.
The Iowa library commission bull
letin for the first quarter of this year
was issued and circulated today. Four
teen hundred copies are printed and
circulated principally among the Ii
braries of the state and hereafter and
to circulate free to all the library CEN
ters of the state where sections of fifty
books from the travelling library have
been sent The object is to encourage
the people interested in the centers tC
state library associations. 1t fire.
quently happens that a number of peo-
pie who are interested in forming ar
association 10 secure Il section of fifty
books will in time with encouragement
go further and form an association un-
der the law to secure free library fol
the city A new feature of the bulletir
this quarter is a book exchange de-
partment. l frequently happens thai
a library by accident buys two copies
of the same book or after buying one
has another copy given to it. Thru
the exchange conducted by the Bulle-
tin these duplicate copies can be solo
or exchanged with other libraries OF
the state The principal article in the
Bulletin this; quarter is an article by
State Librarian Johnson Brigham OF
Iowa in the Worlds Literature which
has been revised for this special pub
lication
Adjutant General w. II. Thrift has
cleaned house. All the documents ant
papers and books in the adjutant's Of
flee have been gone over carefully anG
sorted out A vast amount have beer
discarded as being useless and the bal
ance have been placed in such shape
that they are readily accessible. Re-
ports of the adjutant generals once
Of the state Of Kentucky and Soutf