Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-10
Topics Of the Times

A deaf resident of Algona has been
having himself wired and Is now
equipped with personal telephone con-
nections. TIe has battery in his in
side pocket. wires strung over his
| shoulder and carries the receiver on the
lapel OF his coat Now he hears politi-
cal speeches, sermons. and ordinary
conversations. which have been denied
! him for years. The best part of the
contrivance is that he can ring off
whenever he gets enough.
The Newton Herald, democratic, has
been purchased by NJ. Bilderback I'M
| til recently editor and owner Of the
Hampton Globe. Mr. Bilderback made
the Globe one of the newsiest county
papers in the state and will be an ac-
| QUESTION to the Jasper county news
| paper field.
| A $4,000 bill was found some time
| ago between A. b. Larson's residence
and Main street Owner may have i.
| by calling on Sever Halvorson and de-
scribing the money-Thompson Cour-
ier
Looks like cinch. doesn't It?
He knows 1t now If not before,
He feels 1t when he sorrows mos:
IT'S better to have run bluff
Than to have bet and lost.
Election is over. winter and the coal
man are upon US.
1t now appears that the Hearst cir
culation managers furnished the esti-
mates of Hearsts majority published
by the Hearst papers.
When the governor Of Nebraska sold
his bath tub he was probably bidding
for the votes of the "unwashed and
unterrffled."
"Pottawattamie saved the patron
age" is the sneer given by the Des
Moines Capital to the only anti-Cum-
Minis county which supported the tick
ct as agreed upon.
Governor elect Hughes split the denl-
ocratic party of his state in the same
style that he parts his whiskers.
II all the applications for remedial
stimulants received by drug stores las;
Tuesday could be counted. the totals
would lead us to wonder how we man
aged to get out even a light vote In
the face of such widespread sickness
and indisposItion.
They have sent a New York man to
prison because he allowed his wife to
support him. If Anna could coax Boni
py yet.
Go, take your little note books out,
And scan them one by one:
And count the lost plurality bets.
Against the ones you won.
1t is highly significant that in Tues
days election McCleary of Minnesota
was beaten; Watson of Indiana badly
cut; Dalzell's majority reduced two
thirds, and Grosvenor succeeded by a
tariff revision republican. These are
four of the most pronounced standpa.
members of the house ways and means
committee, and such blow at the
standpat element on the ways and
means committee is certain to force the
house leaders to give tariff revision a
fairer consideration than they have
hitherto given 1t.
When Governor Head was in office
in New Hampshire, Colonel Barrett, OF
the governors staff, died, and there
was an unseemly scramble for the Of
flee even while his body was awaiting
burial with military honors.
One candidate venteured to call up
on Governor Head.
governor he asked. do you think
you would have any objections II
were to get into Colonel Barretts
placer"
The answer came promptly: NO,
I don't think l should have any OBJ
iections, if the undertaken is willing"
It is expected that the introduction
of dredges will greatly increase the
output of gold in the Klondike, which
for some years has been petering out
In 1905 the yield of Klondike gold was
about $7,5OO,OO0 as against s10,35O006
in 1904, s1s,ooo,ooo in 1901, and s22,-
275,OO0 in 1900.
luWA OPINIONS AND NOTES
"Will there be any politics during the