Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-27

and maintain it with flood gates WhlcH
it offers to keep open during the -FOUR
months of freshet season, 1t offers
river front farm owners all the pro-
lection they can reasonably ask. Wheh
LaPlant asks an eXhorbitant price LOT
a water right under the name OIL
dam site, his offer will be looked
upon, whether rightly or wrongly, as
an attempt either to extort from the
city or to make natural ice field so
expensive as to be prohibitive. When
he or his attorneys ask for the flood
gates to be kept open at all times, even
outside the freshet season, they invite
the public to suspect that there is q
desire on their part to interfere with
an ice business; therefore, IL LaPlant
and all of elose associated with him,
have been unjustly suspected IN this
regard, and the T.-R. hopes that they
have, it behooves them to offer the
city a settlement SO fair as to free
themselves from the suspicion.
Another chapter on "the boy with the
gun" and the needed legislation
against shooting within the city limits,
might be written from the First ward.
Misses Julia and Susie Sewer have had
for years a number of fine pigeons.
The birds have multiplied to such an
extent that their tiedglings now anoru
a nice little revenue for their owners.
Last Sunday afternoon shot was
heard in the direction of the barn, only
a few feet distant from the house, but
no one thought of such bold work as
III axyanjnU MiS3
Sewer, in feeding the birds, found one,
favorite Dragon male, mated with
one of her best Homers, lying mortally
wounded near the barn. The little thing
looked up piteously at Its mistress, as
if to say, Wont you please put me out
of my misery?' Shot high upsin the
thigh, with an innocent 90" the bird
was nearly dead, and its sufferings
were soon put to an end
This Is not all the story. A male
pigeon is a provident creature and is
never a drone. No sooner are the
squads Matched till the father Is skir-
mishing for food, not only for the
babies, but the mother. The latter has
other work to do. She has two more
eggs to incubate, and trusts the well
fare OF her little ones to her mate.
Now this little Homer mother has her
eggs, which nature forbids her leaving.
and no one to either feed her or her
young. This, of course, Is being done
by the kind hearted mistresses of the
place, but to a disadvantage. Such
bold work with rifle, no doubt boys
work. in the very heart of thickly
populated residence district, Is nothing
more than criminal carelessness. to say
nothing Of its viciousness.
y
The terrible crossing accident this
week at Lowden whereby father,
mother and one of their children were
killed, cannot help but force upon ones
mind the effects of railroads effort
to cut down expenses at the risk Of
public life. The Chicago & North
western Railroad Company did not
consider that 1t could afford a night
gatekeeper at Lowden, yet the salary
Of man for lifetime will be spent
in settling with an administrator for
the damage done in this one instance.
The accident happened just twenty
minutes after the gatekeeper went off
duty.
y
An editorial writer on the Burling-
ton Hawk-Eye believes in sport for the
sportsmen and not the game hog. In
referring to the local efforts to get the
Iowa river at this point stocked with
game fish, recent issue Of the Hawk
Eye says "Marshalltown has an OPP
portunity to get her river stocked with
fine fish, if she pays the freight. No
doubt enthusiastic sportsmen will be
willing to pay the freight several times
over again. And yet they will hesitate
to make any payments, or to go out Of
their way, simply to benefit the fish
hogs. If Marshalltown gets the stream
restocked, she ought to get good, re-
liable, vigilant man to protect her fish
There will be the best kind of sport
for everybody, if the fish-hog is only
kept out Of the trough"