Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-05-14
viii Give Law Fair Trial.

DeS MOines.-The programme oi
the railroads relative to the 2-cent
passenger fare laws passed by thir
teen or fourteen states last winter,
it is said, does not include hght
against the Iowa law.
1t does include fight against the
2-cent fare laws of Arkansas, Mis-
souri, and Nebraska.
But as to Iowa. it has been decided
to give the law fair trial. No Ell
fort will be made to reduce the ac-
commodation of the people in the mat
ter of service and an honest endeayor
will be made to find out if the oper-
alton of the law, which goes into Ell
feet July 4, is detrimental to the
passenger business of the roads OF
not.
There is a theory among the peo-
pie that the low fare will Increase
travel sufficiently to more than make
up for the reduction, especially IN
view of the fact that the passes have
been abolished, and they coupled
with the mileage proposition, nave
reduced the average fare to practl-
cally cents during many years.
Railroad men in Des Moines pro-
fess not to be authorized to. state
| the fact as to the purpose OF the rail-
road arrangements relative to the z
cent fare law, but it is very defin-
| itely believed that the roads will give
| the law fair trial in Iowa and will
not proceed in the courts to have II
set aside, as they will do in Missouri,
Arkansas and Nebraska.
| p1anc aro now hnino made in the
offices in Chicago to issue the new
passenger schedules for Iowa based
on the new law.
Gentlemen DRINKS Not Known.
| The governor has not yet signed
the bill to change the rule in regard
to admissions to the inebriate asylum
at Knoxville.
"If sign that bill and it is inter
preted strictly to the letter by tht
courts there will never be anothel
man sent to the Knoxville instltu
tion," he said recently in discussin.
it. "The bill provides that he sinai
not be sent there unless he is in al
respects a good moral character saw
as to his drug or liquor mania.
is very seldom indeed that mai
gets to the point of having need TO,
such an institution whose moral fibre
has not been broken down in respec
to matters other than drink. Tha
bill is unfortunate in it's wording"
AS matter of fact reliance mus
be placed on the courts to interpre
the law so that it will not completel.
nullify the original act. The bill wa
| intended to shut out the "bum ele
ment' from Knoxville. 1t would hav'
the effect of shutting everybody OH
il the courts choose to do so. Prob
ably it will be signed with this il
view. The governor has held it TO
consideration.
cockIeburs in the Courts.
II The cocklebur pest has worked 1t
way into the supreme court of tn
| state of Iowa. Papers are now on fl
in an appeal case that will come t
| trial before that body about May
The Brown Land company of Rhod
Island brought suit in the Fifth il
dicial district for $4,000 damages the
claimed to be due them from j. ,
| Lehman of Adair, who had rented
farm of them and who, they alleged
had damaged the farm to the exten
of $40 an acre by allowing cocklebur
to fill the fields.
The case was decided in Judg
Applegate's court in favor of the d.
PENDANT, the Rhode Island compan
promptly taking an appeal to the S,
preme court. Weeks and Hughes {
Guthrie Center are attorneys for tn
land company, and 3. R. Sayles
the same place will present Lehman
case to the supreme court.