Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-05
Topics Of the Times

else. except Webster City, but Charlie S
friends should advise him to save his
money. If he really wants to prosper
| let him come over to the republicans,
| consolidate the Journal with the Free
man Tribune, and give Webster City a
"crackerjack" newspaper.
Unless the United States pure food
| commission changes its mind the peo-
| pie of the United States will soon be
using granulated and other sugars that
have a distinctly yellowish tinge. The
commission has decreed that no min
eral blueing substance be used IN
bleaching sugar, and the refiners and
their chemists are much disturbed.
Sugar chemists say that they use four
pounds of mineral blueing substance
to every one million pounds of sugar
for bleaching purposes. This, the
sugar chemist say, is not adulteration;
that it is merely publication by a
thoroughly healthful process. The
pure food commission cannot see it in
that light, and insists that the whiten-
ing process be abandoned. If that is
refined under the commissions new
directions will be of a distinctly yell
lowish shade.
Let doctor taste millions and -.
It is reported from Paris that DR.. Bill
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attending the late Marshall Field dur
ing his last illness, is going to marry
the widow.
The Japanese naval department has
decided upon naval program for the
the expansion to cover a period Of
eight years. The Diet is asked to vote
$135,0o0,0O0 for the purpose, of which
$12,000,000 will be used to repair pres
ent vessels, among them the former
Russian vessels captured and raised.
"Ah," said the enthusiastic friend,
your father-in-law gave you check
for $4,000, I understand"
YES" responded the young man who
had married thu daughter of trust
magnate, but confound him, he made
ton Chronicle.
The people of Arizona may reject the
proposition of joint statehood, but they
should be compelled to wait until their
territory contains a sufficient amount
Of population to justify statehood.
Secretary Taft is not Offering to
buy the arms of the revolutionsts this
time. He has simply telegraphed for
several thousand Of American make
with the necessary men to carry
them.
William j. Corners, "Fingey" Con-
ners, of Buffalo, former sandwich cut
ter. former saloonkeeper, former long,
shoreman and present political boss Of
Erie county, has been elected chair
man of the democratic state commit
tee. 1t is understood that he was the
choice of William r. Hearst. There
was no opposition to him. Other can
didates, learning that Mr.. Hearst
wanted Corners, stepped one side, and
his election was made unanimous. Con-
ners went to Mr.. Hearst's house and
received congratulations from the cam
didate personally. Tom Taggart will
not be so lonesome now.
Candidate Porter's so-called breach
of etiquette in making personal at
tack upon his leading opponent is not
without precedent. Mr.. Hearst's news
papers have already turned their bat
teries upon Mr.. Hughes.
Race suicide seems to have taken
hold on Dubuque. According to the
figures in the county recorders office
there were fifty-five deaths during
September and only thirty-three births,
or nearly twice as many deaths as
births.
The land lottery in South Dakota
seems to have been a pretty good thing
for those who were lucky enough to
draw u winning ticket Carl Ryder, of
Manson, who drew quarter section
near Bonesteel, has just sold his claim
for a little less than $4,000.
Charles E. Hughes, the republican
candidate for governor in New York,
hit the nail on the head when he de-
scribed the opposition as masquerade,
spurious reformers parading in the
livery of virtue.
There was once a man who was
robbed of one hundred dollars. A
long time afterward he received this
letter:
Dear Sir: Five years ago robbed
you of one hundred dollars. l am fill
ed with remorse that could have done
such thing. l send you dollar and