Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-11
Nebraska Officials Visit State to
Gather Material For Fight
at Lincoln
COMMISSION ON THE DEFENSIVE
Jurisdiction to Fix Rates Has Beer
Attacked--visitors Do Not Like
lowa's Distance Tariff-Pleased al:
Attitude of State Regarding Cream
Rates.
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Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 11.-State Rall'
road Commissioner Winnett and Rate
Expert Powell of Nebraska, who have
heen in Dies Moines for two or three
DAYS, have just returned to Lincoln
after going thru all of the Information
to he secured here with respect te
grain rates in Iowa.
There, is a controversy in Nebraska
as to the power Of the commission &c
fix new grain rates. A nearing mas
been fixed at Lincoln to consider the
schedule OF new rates which the COM
mission proposes to establish.
A demurrer questioning the juris-
diction of the board to hold such a
hearing has been filed in Lincoln and
an nteresting legal question will de-
yelop there. In the meantime the
commissioners of Nebraska have been
loading up on information with Which
to meet the claims advanced by the
grain men on one side and the rail
roads on the other.
That was the mission of Commits
sioner Winnett and Mr.. Powell to Des
Moines. They found that under the
new tariff on grain which 1T is pro-
posed to establish, the rate in Ne
braska on corn will be IA per cent
higher than the Iowa distance tariff
on the same commodity while the
rate on wheat will be 9 per cent higher.
The Iowa reports of the Northwest
IN railroad show that it shipped 1885,
topS of grain, while in Nebraska 1t
sped s7s3,025 tons of grain. In live
K the Iowa Northwestern carried
.,0l4 tons and the Nebraska North
stern 284,T65 tons.
THE more see of the Iowa dis
lance tariff, the less think of it for
adoption by u.s. said DR.. Winnett. 1T
is interesting to find that the Iowa
authorities are firm on the cream
proposition. They want their rate to
stand where it is. Their rates are be-
tween the present rate in Nebraska
and the proposed rate of the railroads
which we have turned down"
= el . 4 b i q r b !.
The September term of the supreme
court will convene Tuesday of next
week. In the assignment of the cases
for oral argument. cases from Lee and
Henry county have been assigned for
Tuesday. Cases from Monroe, Wapel-
10 and Van Buren, county for Wednes-
day: cases from Jefferson, Davis. APP
panoose, Decatur, Wayne, Union, Tay-
Tor and Adams for Thursday; cases
from Woodbury., Sioux, Monona, Dali
las, Marion. Guthrie, Adair and War
rem for Friday; cases from Jasper,
PoWeshiek, Keokuk Scott, Johnson
and Iowa for Monday, September %;
cases from Iowa on Tuesday, Septem-
Der "a. The cases Of the state VS..
Erich Won Kutzelben, convicted of
by causing the wreck of the
Rock Island train a year or two ago,
will be argued on Monday. September
90. Aside from this none of the cases
on the docket have attracted any wide
spread attention over the state.
Major Frank r. Fisher and his son,
Sergt Earl w. Fisher, both of Water,
loo, tied in the shoot at the national
contest at Camp Perry in Ohio. Both
were members of the Iowa team. The
score was 262 and they occupied po-
sition in the middle Of the team. There
were five, scores better than theirs and
Ave scores poorer. Lieut.. James L.
Carlson of Waukon, was the high man
and made a score of 2S2. The rank in
the team following him was Capt. Fred
S. Hird, Of Des Moines, 2S1: Lieut.. Ed
win s.; Geist Waterloo, 276; Sergt. Ell
mer Il. Hildebrand, Sioux City, 272;
Capt. Ivan r. EllWood, Red Oak, 269;
the two Fishers Of Waterloo, 262;
sergt. Ross E. Kenyon. Corning, 26o;
Sergt. Frank A. Bonebright, Webster
City, 253; Lieut.. George Bever, Jr.,
Centerville, 242; Corporal John L.
Hennessy, Waukon, PIP; Sergt. August
r. Ruehle, Emmetsburg, 211.
The geological maps printed from
furnished by the geological
department and authorized by the
legislature have been printed and are
ready for distribution. The depart
ment has prepared the maps so that
they show the geological formation of
the earth's crust where the state of
Iowa is located.
This year the oats weigh scarcely
anything and then 1t is mostly chaff
but the price is way up and likely to
hover around 40 cents a bushel. The
same thing is true of corn. Last year
it sold for 40 cents or less. Now it is
selling for above 50 cents.
A man in position to know said
today that at the time when one of
the telegraph companies raised the
price OF sending messages by about 10
cents per message it gave the en-
ployes 10 per cent increase. An
employe Of a big city office said he
sent out about sixty messages a day.
His wage was raised from $50 to $66
a month. In one day the increase In
price Of messages paid for his in
crease of month.
FREMoNT-Ll LINCOLN COMBINE.