Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-13

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Property under the head of Other
Personal Property" consists of dia-
monds, pianos, watches and jewelry.
According to the assessors figures
this class of property Is three times
that in vehicles. nearly six times that
in household furniture, which includes
hotel and boarding house furniture.
nearly nine times the capital employed
in manufactures, Is three million more
than half as much as the money in
corporation stock, and more than a
quarter of that in merchandise. 1t
consists of the luxures of life, and the
increase over that reported last year
is $3,372,171, or nearly half of the to-
tai increase in personal property other
than live stock.
The figures with those on live stock,
will be delivered to the executive coun-
Gil inside of a day or two for the pur-
poses of equalization
Criminals in the Illinois penitentiar-
les who are serving under the inde-
terminate sentence law of that state do
not like the law and are very much
against it, Everyone else in the state
who has anything to do with the law
and its enforcement think it is fine
thing, This is the information brought
back by the Iowa board of parole that
has been there to get pointers on the
enforcement of the Iowa law.
In spite of the fact that the terms of
new offenders is shortened the aver
age term of the prisoners of the Illinois
penitentiaries is longer by one year
than before the indeterminate sentence
law an1 under the law whereby the
judge passing sentence fixed the length
of the term. The fact that the old Of
beyond hope of reform stay in the pen
the average term.
The experience in Illinois is that the
board of parole has much better facili-
ties for getting information of GRIM
inals than any county attorney or court
has. In the first place the board of
parole before considering a criminals
petition for parole makes an effort to
get all the information possible con-
corning his past career. 1t has money
with which to ferret out the inforn,a
ton and Is in touch with the police
forces Of the various cities. If a man
ever did a criminal thing and was con-
victed for it they find it out and the
criminal stays in the prison longer. In
the trials in the district court many old
timers are sent up for short terms sim
ply because 1t is the first conviction in
that court and the court has no knoWl-
edge Of the records of other courts.
The Iowa parole board will have TWO
sets of rules for its guidance for some
years because of the fact that it will
have two sets Of criminals to deal with.
Those in the pentitentiary now serving
definite terms under the old law viii
be governed by one set of rules. The
board has not the authority over them
that it will have over those hereafter
convicted
Barlow Granger, editor of the first
newspaper that was ever started in
Des Moines. has given to the state his
torical department a one-horse wagon
load of valuable historical articles in
Guiding his desk and ink stand files
Of newspapers, scrap books and any
number Of other articles that will be
added to the collections at the histori- |
cal building. Among the list is a shot
gun and powder horn given him by u.
S. soldiers quartered at Webster City in
the early days
In addition to this collection the de-
partment has received from Robert n.
Dahlberg of Keosauqua a wooden tur-
bine water wheel used in the old Clayton
mill on Sequest Creek in Van Buren,
county When the mill was erected 1t |
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